Searing Light

[Dannyalcatraz]

A living planet would not need a nose, what would it breathe?

The sparse, but still extant, molecules present in "empty" space.

 

[Shaghayegh]

The sparse, but still extant, molecules present in "empty" space.

Meh. Makes no sense for a creature to develop that way on it own. A megacellular lifeform, essentially a giant amoeba, would just absorb energy and gases through a cellular membrane...

 

[Dandu]

Perhaps the planet feeds on the transluminiferous ether of space, like the planet Earth did in Arthur Conan Doyl's story When the Earth Screamed?

 

[Shaghayegh]

Perhaps the planet feeds on the transluminiferous ether of space, like the planet Earth did in Arthur Conan Doyl's story When the Earth Screamed?

The solar wind and asteroids would be its main diet, until it got powerful enough to start moving through space to eat other nearby planets...

 

[Samloyal23]

A living planet could have incredible mental powers. I am thinking it could communicate with minds on other planets, maybe other crystal spheres...