Writing: Input Wanted Kepler Db & D#: Binary Planets & Moons

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The discussion revolves around the fictional solar system featuring binary planets Kepler Db and Kepler D#, each inhabited by distinct humanoid life forms with unique adaptations. Kepler D#'s humanoids rely on acidic substances and minerals for survival, demonstrating extreme heat resistance. The stability of a proposed figure 8 orbit for a moon around these planets is questioned, particularly regarding its potential to create rings or craters due to gravitational effects. Participants emphasize the lack of scientific plausibility in the proposed system, suggesting a need for the creator to either revise their setting or acknowledge the fantasy elements. The thread highlights the value of the Physics Forums for discussions that blend science and science fiction.
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I was thinking of having the binary planets in my fictional solar system (Kepler Db(Mars like) and Kepler D#(Venus like)) have a moon. Life is on both of these planets in intelligent humanoid forms, but different from the humanoids on the 2 earth-like planets.

For 1 the humanoids on Kepler D# depend more on acid and minerals and they use HCl and HF as their water(With so much pressure, a gas at room temperature can easily become a liquid or even a solid). They also eat lava for their minerals since they can't digest solid rock easily. Because of this they are extremely heat resistant and it would take surface of sun temperatures to significantly burn themselves. They also get their body heat primarily this way so they are sort of between warm and cold blooded.

Now anyway would a figure 8 orbit around the 2 planets be stable or would this eventually lead to rings on 1 of the planets or a big crater(depending on gravity)?

This would lead to these 5 types of eclipses:

Solar eclipse(either from planet or moon)
Double solar(Both blocking the star system from view
Lunar + Solar(most likely a planet blocking the star system and the moon being blocked
Double lunar(Both being blocked by the shadow of the planet)
Lunar(Again, either from planet or moon)

So would this figure 8 orbit be stable as long as the moon stays outside the roche limit of both planets?
 
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Caters, why do you keep asking us? For at least six months you've been told that there is absolutely no scientific plausibility to your Kepler system. You have a choice - change your setting, or admit you are writing fantasy. But getting us to say this is plausible isn't going to happen, because it's not.
 
You guys are best because very few science forums go into all the sciences + science fiction

Sure Mythic Scribes might be good for worldbuilding and brainstorming.

And Scienceforums.net might be good for all sciences.

But no science forum I have found is better for sci fi than Physics Forums.
 
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I know this topic is extremely contraversial and debated, but I'm writing a book where an AI attempts to become as human as possible. Would it, eventually, especially in the far future, be possible for an AI to gain a conscious? To be clear, my definition of a consciousness being the ability to possess self-created morals, thoughts, and views, AKA a whole personality. And if this is possible (and let's just say it is for this question), about how long may it take for something to happen...
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