• mrsemi@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    in Asimov’s Foundation series, there is (was) a galaxy-spanning human civilization, but Earth was lost and mostly considered mythical. One of the arguments against it actually existing was the absurdity of such a double planet system existing. In the wider galaxy only giant planets had such large satellites.

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      In his books were they similarly absurdly tiny, rotating in irregular orbits well outside of their class of planets, and inhabiting an entire solar system of similarly sized unremarkable objects?