{"id":6899,"date":"2024-01-09T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T19:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2024-01-09T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T19:57:56","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-post-nine-failaka-tylos-and-dilmun-to-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/09\/twenty-twenty-four-post-nine-failaka-tylos-and-dilmun-to-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four post nine]: failaka, tylos and dilmun to scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/failaka-tylos-dilmun-to-scale-600x338.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6900\" width=\"716\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/failaka-tylos-dilmun-to-scale-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/failaka-tylos-dilmun-to-scale-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/failaka-tylos-dilmun-to-scale-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/failaka-tylos-dilmun-to-scale-1536x867.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/failaka-tylos-dilmun-to-scale-2048x1155.png 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/failaka-tylos-dilmun-to-scale-640x361.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The star Dilmun, its planet Tylos, and the hypothetical exo-Io Failaka, to scale. For comparison, if our Sun, Jupiter, and Earth took those positions, this is what they would look like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/earth-tylos-comparison-600x404.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6901\" width=\"715\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/earth-tylos-comparison-600x404.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/earth-tylos-comparison-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/earth-tylos-comparison-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/earth-tylos-comparison-1536x1034.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/earth-tylos-comparison-2048x1379.png 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/earth-tylos-comparison-640x431.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s funny about the Dilmun system is that normally you have to say &#8220;planetary distances and sizes are not to scale&#8221;. However, Tylos is so close to Dilmun, orbiting only 4 million kilometers away with a year of 1.25 days, that the top diagram IS to scale. And this is in real life, not fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What an amazing universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The star Dilmun, its planet Tylos, and the hypothetical exo-Io Failaka, to scale. For comparison, if our Sun, Jupiter, and Earth took those positions, this is what they would look&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,200],"tags":[274,4,87],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-science-fiction","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-dragon-writers","tag-the-dresanians","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6902,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}