World building idea: Jupiter-sized Earth

[Tonguez]

The God-Dragon Gorgoroth ingested the gas-giant planet Shmupiter. This rocky world is what is left after digestion.

Coprolite planets are a bit different to pumicite ones though, They’re a bit crappier even though they may both result from explosive eruptions

 

[Gammadoodler]

Coprolite planets are a bit different to pumicite ones though, They’re a bit crappier even though they may both result from explosive eruptions

TIL what "coprolite" is. Kudos.

 

[aramis erak]

And the Dyson sphere doesn't have to even be solid, does it?

No. In fact, Dyson's sphere isn't a solid, but a cloud of individual satelites, not a single structure, per Isaac Arthur (and a number of others)

It might be more like a cage surrounding the star.

Yep. Isaac Arthur shows these often. Literally a bunch of ringworlds. But you cannot connect the polar ones to the horizontal ones

It could be a great geodesic sphere with some some of the faces filled, each a separate "planet". Each of the these "planetary panels" would likely entirely different from the others.

Not plausibly without artificial gravity. Only the equatorial band would be plausible; the polar faces would lack centrifugal pseudoforce to keep things from falling in. Including the ring itself.

 

[Azuresun]

something something [insert Uranus joke] something something

"I'm sorry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all."

"Oh. What's it called now?"

"Urectum!"

 

[Gammadoodler]

"I'm sorry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all."

"Oh. What's it called now?"

"Urectum!"

I assume the final decision was between that and "Urethra"

 

[Blackrat]

Soo... The Shell World ideas up there gave me two ideas. A Jupiter sized geode... Or a Jupiter sized egg...

Yeah, those two simply defenestrate realism, and go straight into the wildly fantastical, but I love both now.