Could a far-away-from-any-star planet be warm enough for life, and/or have an alternate source of energy?

We get our energy from the sun. And our oxygen from plants and water. But could a dark planet-like body, far, far out in space, have an alternate source of energy -- maybe something in its core -- that keeps an organic-like ecosytem with plant (and possibly animal) life inclimated to thrive in the starry darkness of deep space?

When I was in my mid teens, I was in a Dracula play that was staged in a planetarium -- and I used to imagine or fantasize about such during long rehearsals. A planet with strange forests, weird creatures, something like water, breathable air -- but no sun. Maybe heated by some internal core or furnace or hellish interior.

Just a myriad canopy of jewel-like stars, a celestial sphere that turns and turns eternally. Asked by Yellowdog 29 months ago Similar Questions: far away from any star planet warm life alternate source energy Recent Questions About: far away from any star planet warm life alternate source energy Arts > Books > Books - Science Fiction.

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Theoretically, if the planet were large enough, it could have a gravitational collapse heat or merely residual heat. But something that warm to last that long thru a shot thru space would be a planet so big that life on it would be crushed flat. In other words, no life.

While your imagined hollow, Pellucidar-like planet (see Edgar Rice Burroughs stories) sounds intriguing, the actual requirement to have the crust of the planet maintain a sphere shape on its own without undergirding support is not feasible. At least Brendan Fraser's Journey to the Center of the Earth supposed lava tubes--that molten, then solidified rock supported this system. Crack the rock and the system collapses violently.

And then there's the whole life-nutrients: light, water, plants, etc. That system gets messed with enough on the surface. Take the sun away and you really have problems.

1 Yes. In fact it is entirely possible that Europa has these conditions. Water, plus internal heat generated by tidal forces.

Yes. In fact it is entirely possible that Europa has these conditions. Water, plus internal heat generated by tidal forces.

2 I wonder about water in space. Is there a place where there could be water without a planet? Perhaps for millions of miles?

How big could it be before gravity pulls it into a sphere? Or could stars in a system keep it dispersed? .

I wonder about water in space. Is there a place where there could be water without a planet? Perhaps for millions of miles?

How big could it be before gravity pulls it into a sphere? Or could stars in a system keep it dispersed?

Yellowdog replied to post #2: 3 I used to get dizzy imagining a UNIVERSE full of water -- some alternate dimension with fish and underwater life, occasional planets, bubbles, air pockets the size of the spheres you're describing -- and starlike chrystal whatevers -- trillions of light years underwater.

I used to get dizzy imagining a UNIVERSE full of water -- some alternate dimension with fish and underwater life, occasional planets, bubbles, air pockets the size of the spheres you're describing -- and starlike chrystal whatevers -- trillions of light years underwater.

Yellowdog replied to post #1: 4 Europa sounds like a good model ...I have read the wikipedia article on this moon of Jupiter. With or without life, it's pretty interesting. Oceans and a terrene core .. It would be conceivable that a beautiful and strange underwater world could exist there -- warm seas of fish and strange crustacians and mullusks ---- and a surface of ice planes and North Pole/antarctic scenery.

Now, if we could ONLY have a continent with stange twisted forests ...

Europa sounds like a good model ...I have read the wikipedia article on this moon of Jupiter. With or without life, it's pretty interesting. Oceans and a terrene core .. It would be conceivable that a beautiful and strange underwater world could exist there -- warm seas of fish and strange crustacians and mullusks ---- and a surface of ice planes and North Pole/antarctic scenery.

Now, if we could ONLY have a continent with stange twisted forests ...

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