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Life on a Cube World

06/26/2012 2:08 PM

What would the environment be like if the world was shaped as a cube? Where would clouds be? Or water? Rivers? Weather? How would climate zones be dispersed? What would gravity be like? Would walking to one of the edges be like climbing a mountain? Would the corners be out of the atmosphere in space? How would a perfectly flat face (6 of them) change daily life? Would different civilizations, or species for that matter, develop on each face? Would it take special equipment to get from one face to the other?

I saw a mobile the other day, made of spheres and cubes, and it got me to wondering of a solar system made of orbiting cubes.

Let's completely ignore the fact that cube planets can't form (unless of course there was some kind of crystal thing going on).

Just wondering. I haven't seen our astrophysicists lately Or maybe meteorologists? Sociologists?
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06/28/2012 4:45 PM

This just came in:

Monk Nitram Rehtul in the first face has posted his letter to the Pope on the door of his church for the public to read. These 59 Theses applaud the greed and graft of the religious sect but fundamentally asks the question why monks must take a vow of poverty while they can grant indulgences just as easily as the next guy. King Yrneh asks "What's a DEFCON? I'm already at war with the Holy Roman Emperor. Will the Pope help me?"

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06/29/2012 12:31 AM

Monk Nitram Rehtul is not blind, there is hope.

Wait one second, I just googled Nitram Rehtul..........the CIA...... MLK Jr. AKA The Negro Project.........,this sounds like trouble. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1418324/pg1

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06/29/2012 9:27 AM

You had to Google for that. I thought the reverse world of Htrae would have made my silly tangent obvious. No wonder conspiracy theories abound. Sometimes Hansel and Gretel follow a trail of bread crumbs right into a bakers oven. That was no witch, just the bakers wife!

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06/29/2012 10:37 AM

Yes I had to google it, I'm not from aROUND here and just passing through

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06/29/2012 12:46 AM

living on a Cube world has a strange effect on its citizens.

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06/29/2012 11:39 AM

Rather than circular, the oceans could be (Piet Hein type) supercircles, xa + ya = k, where a > 2.

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07/04/2012 12:19 AM

The "Cube World" can exist and maintain it's shape if the planet has eight large moons in geosynchronous orbit.

The planet would also have six independent Flat Earth Society's (and a small, dwindling group of 'Round Earthers' stubbornly proclaiming the pictures from outer space are faked as part of the Flat Earth Society's conspiracy.)
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07/04/2012 3:51 AM

Your eight moons will all have to be in the the same orbital plane, normal to the 'earth' spin axis - hence a cube-like form will be impossible. Maybe an 'octagon-shaped disk' is possible, more or less.

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