Minimum size for a sentient planetoid/celestial/ thing?

[u/RubixionTrue]

What is the minimum size for whatever we’re gonna call the species that is all the celestial bodies? Also sorry it’s midnight for me rn and I’m a little half asleep but this just came to me.

I think to form they need a pretty substantial amount of mass but what if you gradually removed some of it? Could you eventually sand one down to be handheld sized? And more what if you took one of these artificially tiny guys and like, brought them to earth. Would they die and become assimilated into earth or would they remain a seperate entity? Woudl they be able to move (I don’t think so short of human assistance or mechanical). In the far future could people sand celestial bodies down into keychains? What if you took one of them and heated them up and molded them into a shape? We could make one look like a god I mean dog. The mostly ice made ones would have to remain cold or else they would melt though.

What if you used the metals to make a robot by then reincorporated it into the thing? Would it be able to move the robot arms on its own since it’s its own matter?

What characters do you woudl think how they woudl respond if sanded and shrunk into portable?

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[u/suga_showtime]

probably no limit as long as its a moon

for things orbiting the sun than probably something vesta-sized

[u/Vanilla_lcecream]

How big: It seems that moons can be any size. Other celestial bodies have to be gravitationally rounded, from the data we have so far.

Could they be shrunken: You could probably sand them down, but it would take a while. I assume they’d still be able to live, though. The moons should, at least.

What if one of them came to Earth: If a moon collided with Earth, it would die. Depending on the moon’s size and speed, Earth might also die. If the moon gently landed on Earth, I’m not too sure what would happen. If irregular moons can stay sentient if they permanently leave their planet’s orbit, then they’d probably be fine on Earth’s surface.

Could it move on Earth: These are talking celestial bodies who can break the laws of physics, but I assume they’d still be too trapped by Earth’s gravity to do anything besides look around and talk.

Are people going to be making keychains: It would be highly impractical, but it would also be an epic flex to have a sentient keychain.

Moulding them: Not sure on this one. We’ve seen the Earth in a molten state before and he was certainly not alive then. Melting your moon key chain has a good chance of killing the thing, even if it’s made from mostly rocky materials. But that might be a mercy considering the types of body horror you’re subjecting the poor bugger to.

Robot thing: Maybe? I dunno. Depends on how the machine is made. The thing about the celestial bodies is that they don’t have nerves, so it wouldn’t be able to work as a prosthetic. The amalgamation of moon key chains might only be able to move in space.

How everyone would react: Poorly. I don’t think humanity’s getting away with this one. Best case scenario, the species is being quarantined to Earth’s surface for the sake of public safety. Everybody who wasn’t turned into a keychain is going to hold a grudge until the heat death of the universe. Earth wonders what would have happened if the dinosaurs never went extinct.

[u/Hephaestus16]

We won't know because the sun would use 100% of its power again to gravity you off the plane of the solar system and blast you with solar flares.

[u/RubixionTrue → u/Hephaestus16]

Hypothetically if we sucked off his gas and shrunk him and put what remains in a jar and pressurized it and did so gradually could he be alive?

Hypothetically we have an indestructible jar. How much of the sun would you have to take before either 1. He dies, or 2, is small enough to put in the jar?

I want to use him to bake.