Looking at the above I'm picturing someone took a look at the klemperer rosette of the Puppeteer Fleet of Worlds from Larry Niven's Known Space series and said "Five Worlds? Hold My Beer."
Not sure if this should go here as it's of a fictional world but this is a quick mockup I did of Vezos IV (Planetos) for the Halo : Reach / ASOIAF-GoT Crossover "The Eternal Black Wolf" I've been working on. This was mainly as a visualization tool as well to help me place where the protagonist...
One program which may help out with generating a 'relatively realistic' solar systems, complete with all the data on orbits, mass, atmosphere compositions, etc... even moons to some extent is the Stargen program. It's based on the old ACCRETE program I've used it in the past (grabbed the...
Gas Dwarf or Mega-Earth slightly less 10 Earth Masses but can be similar in size to Neptune or Uranus (up to 3.9 Earth Radii). It would have significant pull on the hot Jupiter (not sure how big you're making this guy) but you'd definitely have heating. Tidal forces would also force volatiles...
The biggest issue I think with Number 7 is the atmosphere and obtaining that atmosphere
Enough mass and you'll have some more internal heating even out to the Snow Line. Problem you end up with is 'How do I get the atmosphere I want?' A hot Neptune will start off as pretty much the same...
At the risk of being labelled the snarky nitpicker who ruins a party, you may wish to check your planet order and distance as far as temperature/environment as far as your seventh.
Your 2nd and 3rd are most likely within the normal habitable range and distant enough not to be tidally locked...
Texas? I thought this was bands, not pop star groups which were a vehicle for one of the members backed by producers. Not sure why they said in the article that it skewed against artists since they seemed to make a stretch of an exception here. Why not ZZ Top ? Or Selena Y Los Dinos, who...
Just a slight nitpick. The photo on the left is actually a still of the actor Sam Riley portraying Ian Curtis in the Joy Division BioPic 'Control' . This is Ian Curtis:
Just my two cents.
A little bit about Switzerland I think folks may be missing; Switzerland's neutrality was (and still is to an extent) less 'We're sitting here passively so it will appear we're not taking sides' and more 'We don't care what you do to each other. We'll help all as much as...
I'm trying to get my head around a Central Islamic Republic which unifies Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan but not Iraq. I'd expect maybe Iran to merge with the Shi'ite areas of Iraq but does Pakistan/Afghanistan somehow unite under some Wahhabist-Taliban flag and miraculously kick Iran's ass for...
Actually I think most folks remember David Naughton as actor who portrayed the protagonist who turned into a wolf (and got some hot Jenny Agutter action ;-) ) from American Werewolf In London.
I missed the sitcom actually although I don't remember it. I'm assuming it was 'spun off' if you...
Outside the issues brought up about a backlash to 'dynasticism' and Congress' different behaviour with a 'President for Life', I'm thinking there would be a lot of events butterflied out mainly due to the differences in policies and mindsets of the current presidential 'lineage' in the OTL...
I'm trying to see where this would be going since it really wouldn't have too drastic an effect in changing how the US Space Program turned out. You'd have to basically change the presidential succession from the founding of NASA until now in order to really change things; the NASA administrator...