Chapter 26
The Planet of Riches by Gregory Lama, chapter fifteen:
(Professor Gregory Lama is a world renown Ancients’ historian who has won awards such as the Founder’s International Honor, the Best Ancient Historian Award, and the Klempentine Prize. When not teaching at his alma mater of Purple Stone University, he regularly guest hosts the very popular tv shows, The Original Ancients and Aliens amongst the Ancients, on the Ancients channel.)
“Now that we’ve exhausted the subject of where the Planet of Riches is located in the universe, let us turn to what is on this planet and how said riches came to be.
“From contextual clues found in the Ancients’ scrolls, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Planet of Riches is covered in gold. From the very highest mountaintops to the buildings built by man to deepest riverbeds, everything the eyes touches is gold. In fact, there is even more gold than this because of what the eye isn’t able to see, such as in the deepest of the sea beds and miles under the ground, here too is gold.
“Obviously this overabundance of gold indicates that in the past, this planet had been near many supernovas in nearby planetary systems, which enabled the planet to be showered with metal containing dust clouds. These clouds most likely engulfed the planet for millions of years, locked in the sun’s heat, melting the gold. There would be gold lava flowing out of control, touching every inch of land, bubbling and boiling in an unstoppable manner. To the layman, it would appear as if the planet was covered in volcanoes which continuously erupted. To the scientist with an eye for detail, however, one would be able to see that the gold did not come from the few volcanoes on the planet. Instead, the lava, which was liquid gold, came from an outside source, which was obviously a gold dust cloud.
“Once the planet was out of the cloud, the heat which had been captured would finally be able to escape, allowing the gold to gradually cool until it formed sheets and sheets of gold which are everywhere one looks today. The sheets would differ in thickness, depending on how close they were to the epicenter of where the most gold touched down on the planet, with the thickest layers being many many miles thick. (The best guess our scientists could come up with is a maximum depth of a hundred miles, with the average depth being more in the neighborhood of fifty miles thick.)
“And if this cloud wasn’t enough to wet the voracious appetite of this gold eating planet, I believe there was a comet of nothing but gold whipping around the universe. Along its unending path, it collided with the Planet of Riches, adding its bountiful essence to the already flourishing planet.
“All of these events, along with the possibility that it might have had some interactions with a black hole or two, have shaped its landscape and makeup. This planet has seen more in its lifetime, more changes, disasters, and evolutionary events than anyone can imagine. So much so that it is impractical to speculate upon them further until one actually finds the planet in order to study all which has happened to it in its long and varied past.
“(However, one event which is not possible, no matter how many scientists and astronomers bring it up is the idea that this planet is a rogue planet. A rogue planet is a planet which does not orbit a star. These planets have been ruled out as mythological and have no place in modern science.
“To put it even more simply for people who don’t understand large words: Rogue planets do not exist. They are a figment of your overactive imagination and are impossible in every sense of the word. The Planet of Riches is not a rogue planet, has never been a rogue planet, and will never be a rogue planet.)
“Indeed, I don’t believe there is a place on the Planet of Riches which isn’t covered in gold, including its core which is surely made up of liquid gold, even if the inhabitants have removed a layer or two in order to build roads or buildings. If my suppositions are correct, I would also guess that they treat gold as we treat dirt, making it worthless to them.
“If we were only able to find the planet, I have no doubts that we would be able to trade their ‘worthless gold’ for something else they needed, thus making ourselves incredibly wealthy and helping this poor planet get out from under the mountain of gold forced upon them.
“How one planet could be both blessed and cursed is beyond me, but this planet has it all. I would not even be surprised if they gladly let us take all the gold we wanted for no other reason than to take it off their hands.
“Oh, how lucky we’ll all be when that day comes.”
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