Famous Fictional Planets That Orbit Real Stars

[@LeeTheDM]

Heyo, science fiction nerd here who absolutely loves correcting Ellie both in real life and on the net. She's incorrect about one minor fact in the Dune series. Sandworms did not evolve or originate on Arakkis. In Children of Dune, Leto ii states "The sandtrout(essentially a larval form of the sandworms) ... was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet ... and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase." The crucial secret to understanding the ecosystem of Arrakis is that it isn’t actually a desert planet. It used to have open bodies of standing water, even oceans. When the Sand Trout, the larval form of the Sandworm, was introduced to the planet (they are not indigenous), they multiplied enormously, as there were no natural predators. They encapsulated almost all free water on the planet, forming living cisterns under the sand by interlocking their bodies with the planet’s bedrock. This created the nearly water-free environment that the Sandworms need. However, if you try to start the lifecycle anew on a planet where there is no water at all, the Sandtrout and the Sand Plankton that both the Sandtrout and Sandworms feed on, cannot survive.

[@looseleafellie]

Fine, you can have the pinned comment

[@LeeTheDM]

@@looseleafellie WOOOO!!!

[@AstralGaming99]

you mentioned Vulcan from Star Trek, another interesting one from Star Trek is Wolf 395 which is a star located about 8 light years from Earth, which is a real star but in Star Trek is the site of a massive star battle which is a major plot point in Star Trek the Next Generation and has big repercussions throughout the franchise following.

[@texangalstoymanchesterterr1178]

I was spellbound by the detail and analysis. Good clips and illustrations to support it.

[@chainbear]

Great video! Looking forward to more

[@fabiomorandi3585]

Fun fact: red dwarfs may flare a lot, but apparently they do it mostly from much higher latitudes than sunlike stars, which means their flares are very unlikely to ever hit any planet that might be orbiting them with more than a grazing shot.

[@tony0x48]

Very promising start to your KZbin channel, especially since you managed to mention one of my absolute favourite books (Dune) and authors (C.J. Cherryh) 👍

[@MrChapo101]

Glad i could provide some info for you for this one - really well done! :D

[@looseleafellie]

Thank you so much for pointing me to some Vulcan B-roll! It was a huge help 😄

[@PJFrye]

In one of the silver to bronze age Superman comics, Krypton is initially tidally locked to Rao.... early Kryptonians used giant magnets of sort at the planet's poles to force it to rotate. I thought that neat.

[@sasithinduwara546]

Awesome Video!! and canopus really do sound like arrakis 😁

[@edwardjones7583]

Great outro music I especially love the part about chess

[@edwardjones7583]

oh yeah also my favorite flavor of peanut butter has got to be blue Jello flavor

[@edwardjones7583]

Jokes aside great video very informative

[@brandonloder403]

Awesome video it was fun to learn about all these planets and stars keep up the good work! 😁

[@Peak_fiction_]

This was really cool, can't wait to see what you do next!

[@Aisham0024]

IM SO HAPPY FOR LONGER VIDEOS 💃💃💃🫶🫶

[@Aisham0024]

I was you’re 169th sub, nice 👌

[@looseleafellie]

I will try not to end up making three hour long rambles, but no promises 😉

[@thomasgrey42]

Fantastic video, hope to see loads more soon!

[@looseleafellie]

Thank you so much! I’m really excited to make more

[@yrynoy]

Welcome to youtube! This was very interesting information about a subject I didn't know I cared about lol, looking forward to your next videos!

[@looseleafellie]

Thank you so much!!

[@JoshRazauskas]

I’m a follower on TikTok, so it was great to find you and subscribe to you here. Welcome to KZbin! Your opinions are always awesome and I had no idea that any of this real life stuff could be correlated with the fictional planets really fascinating!

[@looseleafellie]

Thank you so much!!

[@JoshRazauskas]

@@looseleafellie You’re welcome!

[@Aisham0024]

I am okay with 3 hour long vids 👀👀

[@DavRossTheWhovian]

I believe that the existence of other planets and life in the universe out there we can't just be the only ones. I think things like this are more science fiction than fact, I think the real unknown world is here on Earth in our oceans.

[@extraordinarystardust]

Awesome video! I just read To Be Taught if Fortunate and now I’m wondering if the planets in that book were inspired by real ones 👀

[@looseleafellie]

I wonder! I’m hoping to read that book soon, so I’m excited to find out!

[@MUHAMMADAKRAMBINJUSLYMINRAMADH]

Been here since 18 subs

[@c.danielledeaguiar5390]

My sister told me to Follow you, 'cause she love your Tik Tok Page. And now I want to be your best friend. I'm a book lover myself and started Doctor who last year because of a friend. I really like Sci Fi and studies science. I'M ALREADY A HUGE FAN OF YOUR VIDEOS.

[@looseleafellie]

Awwww yayyy!!! I’m so glad to hear from a fellow fan of Doctor Who, books, and science 😄 Tell your sister thanks for me!

[@MUHAMMADAKRAMBINJUSLYMINRAMADH]

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[@jessmohr3811]

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