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Published: 2012-09-27 15:37:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 14903; Favourites: 388; Downloads: 843
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The world is in ruins. There is no hope left to start a new life on this planet after what has happened. Those that have the chance depart from this desolate place to populate a different planet. Farewell, cruel world.About two years ago, I took a photo of a plane that was circling at around 10km altitude. The photo itself doesn't look that special at all; but the colors in that shot came out so amazing that they provide a great color-palette. In fact, Calamity is similarly based on that photo.
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Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. There's a movie called 'Elysium' that's coming out this year starring Matt Damon, I think it's plot is similar to what we were talking about.
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Oh, thanks for the info! I'll check it out
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This is just amazing. And you know, I sometimes have visions that this will be our actual fate someday, that we will destroy our own world and will be forced to go somewhere else (if there's any of us left).
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I think so, too! Looking at the potential mankind has to destroy the world makes it the most likely thing to happen. And who knows if we'll then be able to escape at all?
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We may have the technology to escape, but one day it may be too late if our current problems (economic decline, climate change, exploitation) continue to worsen.
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Also, the question is who and how many are able to leave. Looking at the prices to shoot somebody up into space, there wouldn't be too many people able to pay for it. This assumes that the economical system has not altered, though. In a state of anarchy, things would become much more unpredictable. Either way, I assume that, from the whole world population, only a handful ever gets the chance to leave.
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And I bet the people with the most money (the greedy nut jobs) will get first pick. And besides, how are you supposed to move eight or nine billion people off of a planet!
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Precisely. The monetary issue will limit it to probably less than 10000 people being able to financially afford a travel. And even if anybody was able to pay for it, there is no way to shoot them all into space. I read an interesting article about something related: [link] (true, it's not exactly our case but especially the ending gives a rough overview of the problems we face).
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Thank you for the link!
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Yay! Iβm very glad to announce you that your artwork has been chosen to be amongst the best deviations submitted to our in the month of September 2012. You can check it out here: Featured & here: Hall Of Fame ( 29 - September 2012 ) . 
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Thank you so much!
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Lovely colors, as usual. I am a fan of this fire/ice phase of your work.
One question, are there enough shuttles for everyone?
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Under the premise that 99.99999999% of humanity has been wiped out: yes. Else: probably not
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If(me=.true.)Then
Print*,'\rFind me a seat.'
Else
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> ERROR: UNEXPECTED END OF STATEMENT!
> FATAL ERROR: CANNOT COMPILE!
> PROCESS ABORTED!
> SUGGESTED SOLUTION: "Divide by Zero"
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I might as well accept the null hypothesis that 99.99999% of humans will be wiped out and be happy with that. Shuttle is all yours.
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Is that another planet, besides the Earth?
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Fully up to the viewer's imagination
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this looks awesome. the colors are so harmonic
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beautiful colours. the setting sun, the red-bleeding buildings that turn already dead-black and the diffusing clouds make a wonderful atmosphere. thrilling and beautiful
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Wow, if this isn't prophetic, I don't know what is... I would jump at the chance to board a flight off this world...!
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Great, I love the setting! The planet in the background must be huge, wonder how the tidal forces would affect the planet...
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Thank you!
I took the liberty to calculate the effects a planet like this would have to Earth.
One can estimate the planet's coverage of the sky to be around 60Β°. Assuming that it's as far away as the moon, the planet's radius can be calculated to about 222000km, which is over 30 times larger than Earth and 2 times larger than Jupiter. Furthermore, I assume the planet's density to be the same as Moon's which results in a mass of roughly 1.5*1029kg. That's pretty darn high
In its most simple way, the acceleration created by the moon on Earth's surface is around 3.4*10-5m/sΒ². Compared to Earth's acceleration of 9.8m/sΒ², that can almost be neglected.
However, with the data calculated beforehand and with the same formula, the acceleration created by the planet can be estimated to be around 71m/sΒ². Essentially, this will not really cause any tidal waves; in fact, the water will simply take off, fly into space, and hit the planet. An acceleration of over 7G can yield to fractured bones and unconsciousness, it's about the same effect when your car hits a wall at a speed of around 30km/h. So basically, you'd be accelerated with an immense force off Earth and towards the planet; like any other thing on Earth. It'd certainly result in death and destruction, probably not the same way I illustrated it
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Haha, this is the first time I see these words standing together
Thanks, mate!
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You are very welcome.Have a nice day
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Thank you, wish you the same!
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