After taking a short break im back to writing my Internet Battle Royale.

Some recent events:

Dream has killed Peppa Pig.
Gigachad broke Nyan Cat in half.

KYPICKLES SPACE FACT OF THE DAY: DAY 20
THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT SO READ IT ALL


THE ASTEROID THAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS DIDN'T COME ALONE.

This is a very recent study that's going on. Scientists were mapping the ocean floor near Guinea (a country in Africa) and they found a crater from a meteor.

The crater is thought to be 65 million years old, the same age as the Chicxulub Crater, which is the crater that was created by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

So, now we know of two craters from that time period. This can mean many things, but the most popular theory currently was that there was a second asteroid. It was possibly a moon of the larger asteroid, which killed the dinosaurs. This one likely struck right after the impact, sealing the dinosaur's fate.

Another piece of evidence to prove this was a second meteor and not something else is we don't know if one asteroid would be enough to kill the dinosaurs. The if the asteroid, Chicxulub, struck anywhere else on Earth, it might've not killed the dinosaurs at all. But it's because of where it struck, near the gulf of mexico, that it killed the dinosaurs. It hit near a region of large sulfur deposits, which basically poisoned the atmosphere and killed everything off. But we don't know if there was enough sulfur there to kill the dinosaurs, so a second asteroid can confirm how the dinosaurs were killed.

of course, there are some other theories to explain this crater. It could've been a fragment of the original asteroid, or a volcano that happened to erupt at the same time. We also don't know the exact age. The crater could've been made up to a million years after the first asteroid. So there's still a lot of uncertainty about this, since it's a very new study.

So yeah, there may have been two, or possibly even more, asteroids that killed the dinosaurs. We just need to do more research to confirm it.

Guys i’m naming a planet
that’s not a joke
i am actually trying to name a real planet out in the milky way
and the star it orbits
ive made some posts about name exoworlds 2022, an international competition where the public can give official names to 20 real planets people have found
(the competitions over now, names had to be submitted by december 11th)

but i submitted my names
Gadus for the planet
Nephropidae for the star

the names had to be culturally significant, so i chose names relating to Cape Cod, since i’m from new england

Gadus is another word for cod and Nephropidae is the scientific name for lobster
last time this competition was run there were over 700,000 responses so idk what my chances are

but maybe i’ll win

ShhinySilver made a comment on my last wall post about shooting Jupiter into the Sun, and it got my curious as to what would actually happen

So, I loaded up Universe sandbox and shot Jupiter into the Sun, here's what happened.

1. Mercury's orbit was significantly changed.

2. Earth's temperature rose by hundreds of degrees for a little while before cooling back down, since Jupiter hitting the Sun heated it up significantly.

3. Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, was eaten by Jupiter, and Jupiter's other moon Europa was swallowed by the Sun. Out of Jupiter's 4 largest moons, only two, Callisto and Io, survived.

4. Callisto and Io began to orbit the sun in very chaotic orbits, both crossing the orbit of Saturn. Many of Saturn's small moons were destroyed, and some began to orbit Callisto and Io.

5. Callisto and Io entered the asteroid belt, stirring it up and most likely causing several large asteroids to hit Earth.

6. Callisto's orbit becomes more and more elliptical, until it begins crossing the orbit of Uranus. Eventually, Callisto enters the Kuiper belt, stirs some things up there, and is ejected from the solar system entirely.

7. Io's orbit stabilizes, and it becomes a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. Earth is most likely pelted with hundreds of asteroids as Io clears its orbit.



So, Earth is destroyed by asteroids, Mercury's orbit is destablilized, and Saturn loses some moons. Not totally disastrous, but still very, very bad for humans. This, of course, is only one possibility of what would happen, and it all depends on where Jupiter and its moons are when we decide to shoot it into the Sun.

Kypickle's space fact of the day: day 19
Jupiter is personally responsible for the death of at least 4 planets

When the solar system was forming, there were a bunch of planets that aren't around today. There were as many as 25 planets circling the sun, competing for a spot in the solar system.
Jupiter is basically solely responsible for killing all of them

1st death: A smaller rocky planet was eaten by Jupiter.

2nd death: Jupiter's gravity took hold of Planet 9, or the Fifth Giant, kicking it out of the solar system entirely, dooming it to the eternal darkness of space. Planet 9 is still out there today, a planet without a star.

3rd death: This one is only theoretical, but it is possible that after an impact with Mercury, the planet Liber was sent on a collision course with Jupiter and was eaten.

4th(?) death: this one's the most interesting. So today, there is an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. When it was forming, the belt was waaaaay more massive, possibly massive enough to create 3 earth-sized planets. Well, Jupiter, being the jark that it is, basically destroyed the entire asteroid belt and ate all the planets forming there. The asteroid belt we see today has less mass than the moon, and is only a fragment of what it once was.

Not to mention all the other "injuries" Jupiter has caused.
1. Eating all the material Mars was using to expand, stunting its growth.
2. A similar thing happened with the dwarf planets in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.
3. The entire Late Heavy Bombardment, when Jupiter sent millions of asteroids toward the inner solar system, hitting every object in it. During this time, there was basically one asteroid big enough to kill the dinosaurs hitting Earth per week.
4. and possibly, it ate or destroyed MORE planets we don't know about.



So yeah, if you ever hear anyone say "thank Jupiter it saves us from asteroids!" now you know that's completely false and Jupiter is the biggest jerk in the solar system.

Kypickle's space fact of the day: day 18
MERCURY VS LIBER

In the early days of the Solar System, just as the planets were forming, Mercury was not the closest planet to the Sun. It was actually Venus at the time.

Mercury was forming in the same area as three other planets: Earth, Theia, and Liber.

Mercury was much bigger when it formed, maybe even bigger than Mars. But it had a problem.

A bigger planet, Liber, was approaching.

Mercury grazes Liber, in an extremely lucky move. Had Mercury been just a tiny bit closer to Liber, it would've been totally destroyed, and Mercury would not exist today. But Mercury survives the impact.

However, it's crust and most of its mantle was torn off, and any atmosphere it had was lost to space. Liber pushes Mercury toward the Sun, where Mercury settles down in the unusual orbit it has today.

The ultimate fate of Liber is still unknown. In fact, it's unknown if it even existed, and some theories say it was actually Theia, the planet that hit Earth to form the Moon, that hit Mercury too. Other theories say Liber did exist, and it was ejected out of the Solar System as it approached Jupiter.

Either way, this shows that the Solar System was a very chaotic place when it formed. If things went just slightly differently, Mercury wouldn't have existed, and in its place would've been Liber.

The amount of creative freedom I have when writing my Internet Battle Royale is insane

I have never had so much fun writing anything in my life, and this is one of the most uninteresting paragraphs, it's just the one that I just wrote

I can prove to you that Ohio is not a part of Earth at all, and in fact orbits Jupiter

Firstly, Jupiter has a large moon called Io. Io is an extremely volcanic, yellow moon who's ugliness rivals Uranus's moon Miranda. Io is extremely volcanically active and is constantly baked in radiation, making it basically hell.

Then, of course, you have Ohio, which is just hell already. You can't go to Ohio, because you'd be attacked by demonic monsters. Nobody ever goes to Ohio. So how do we know it's actually on Earth?

Then, let's say you're tying to remember the name of one of Jupiter's moons, and you say, "oh, io!"
Oh-io.
Ohio.

Ohio = io.
io = ohio.

Ohio was never even a part of Earth. It's been around Jupiter this whole time, and we never knew it.

I'm designing a poster/cover thing for my Internet Battle Royale.

This is an UNFINISHED version. Don't get mad that I haven't included something on it, because it isn't done yet.

I haven't included 10% of what I want to include on this. I'll have the finished version soon.

https://www.planetminecraft.com/forums/discussions/general/what-if-the-entire-internet-was-put-into-a-battle-royale-664753

Come check out this forum to suggest things to include in the Battle Royale

https://www.planetminecraft.com/forums/discussions/general/what-if-the-entire-internet-was-put-into-a-battle-royale-664753//comment/3784831/#reply_3784831

I need your opinion on this. I have an idea for my Internet Battle Royale.

The Battle of the Internet is coming along well. I'm writing page 20 now, and revising the introduction.
Things are getting crazy.

https://www.planetminecraft.com/forums/discussions/general/what-if-the-entire-internet-was-put-into-a-battle-royale-664753/

I made a wall post about this a few days ago. What if the entire Internet was put into a battle royale?

post your suggestions for what I should include in this forum.

luke the notable 3000 days

I've decided to write something strange for fun
what if the entire internet was put into a battle royale? Every user (including you and me), every video, every meme, every creator, every object, all put into one arena, to battle it out until there's only one left standing. Who would wn?

here are some out of context moments of what I've written so far.

Kypickle's space fact of the day: number 17

you've already seen images from James Webb. Well, people are already designing potential telescopes even better than James Webb. One such telescope is the Carl Sagan Observatory, CSO. It's not currently being built, but it could be launched in 2034. The CSO's goal would be to directly image entire solar systems, and find hundreds (yes, hundreds) of new planets. The image above is what our solar system would look like if the CSO took a picture of it, from 25 light years away.

that is not a real picture. Nothing built by humans could ever travel that far out to take a picture like that. This is just a hypothetical. It’s what the solar system would look like if it was 25 light years away and we took a picture of it with CSO.

I've been thinking about this recently
assuming it has no limits, shapeshifting is objectively the best superpower possible.
So, let's assume you can shapeshift. You can simply create, remove and rearrange atoms that make up you at will, with no pain, and you retain all your senses and the ability to think.
Here are some things you can do now.

1. Flight. Either turn into a bird, or simply add a jetpack to yourself. You can shapeshift, that's totally possible.

2. Invisibility. Just turn all the atoms in your body completely transparent. Done.

3. Teleportation. All you'd have to do to teleport using shapeshifting powers is create a line of atoms to your destination. Since you can only shapeshift yourself in this situation, just make a thin line of atoms to your destination. This would be very lightweight and totally unnoticeable. Then, since that line of atoms is you, simply turn the end of that line into another copy of you, or transport the rest of you on that line. Through shapeshifting, you can basically teleport anywhere in the world.

4. Take over the world. Since you can shapeshift, become world leaders. To make it more convincing, shapeshift a part of you into some secret service members. You know what, while you're at it, transform a part of yourself into a heavy weight, and squish something like the white house for example, then shapeshift into the white house, with all the people and objects inside, as a part of you. There, not only are you now a world leader, but you are now all the people that protect the world leader. Just do this with every country in the world, and now you control the planet.

5. Or, let's say the people figure this out and revolt. Just turn into a meteor and strike Earth, killing all the people rebelling against you. Simple. Or, just become the Earth itself.

if you don't want world domination, you can shapeshift parts of yourself into money for infinite money, or food and water. You could go anywhere, do anything. Shapeshifting literally gives you access to every other imaginable superpower. Yet people say they only want just flight, or just invisibility. Why not have them all, by getting the ability to shapeshift?

thinking about making some more skins
I want to make some space-related stuff, but not just spacesuit skins over and over
i think i may take some space objects and turn them into minecraft skins, like a black hole skin, protoplanetary disk skin, or a TRAPPIST-1 skin
could be interesting

Artemis 1 has been launched, and I don’t think people fully realize how much of a game changer this will be
NASA’s Artemis Program plans to put humans back on the moon.
Permanently.
Seriously, we will have colonies on the moon, with permanent residents, in the next few decades. We’re finally doing it. The future everyone talks about, where humans colonize the galaxy? It’s here. It’s now. And we’re the people who get to watch it unfold. Imagine living in the time christopher columbus “discovered” america. We’re living through that, only this time, there’s no natives to kill.
the artemis program will change everything.
And it’s happening now.

Kypickle's space fact of the day: number 16

This is Miranda, the ugliest moon in the solar system. It looks like our moon, if our moon was in a head-on collision with a semi truck. This thing was formed by a bunch of other moons colliding, and because of that, it looks very messy.

It orbits Uranus, because of course it does.

However, it does have some redeeming qualities, one of them being Verona Rupez. It's the tallest cliff in the entire solar system, and it's located on Miranda. You can see it in this image. Look on the bottom right, right below all those weird mountain features, and you should see it. It's right next to a big crater.