That SHINY job
POSTED BY: zzetta13
UPDATED: Monday, April 3, 2006 17:50
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Now... want to ask me how every planet and moon in the 'verse seems to have a Southern California shirtsleeve climate, regardless of how far it is from the Sun?
You've got a better theory, but I beat you on time. ;)
To answer the weather question, you use Shake & Bake crystals. Sprinkle 'em in the upper atmo. High-albedo crystals reflect sunlight & cool your planet. Reverese the charge, and the shiny side faces down. Traps in the infrered and keeps your outward planets toasty warm.
Edit: Ooh! Ooh! You could control a charge transmitted to them from a central "weather facility" and make fine-tuning adjustments. "The crops are comin' along slow. Could we have a little more sun this season?"
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Quote:Doesn't count -- yours doesn't work.
Originally posted by pastorbadger:
You've got a better theory, but I beat you on time. ;)
You can't significantly change gravity by spinning or unspinning a planet. You can decrease it a little at the equator by spinning it up, but to get a significant effect you'd have to have it going like a top, and it might not hold together if you did that. You'd get no effect at all at the poles.
Do the math - if the Earth magically stopped spinning, you'd weigh almost exactly the same. If that weren't true, your simple diet plan would be to move to Antarctica!
I'll buy your Shake & Bake crystals, though. I would have gone with varying the greenhouse gasses, but whatever works...
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Originally posted by DonCoat:Quote:Doesn't count -- yours doesn't work.
Originally posted by pastorbadger:
You've got a better theory, but I beat you on time. ;)
You can't significantly change gravity by spinning or unspinning a planet. You can decrease it a little at the equator by spinning it up, but to get a significant effect you'd have to have it going like a top, and it might not hold together if you did that. You'd get no effect at all at the poles.
Do the math - if the Earth magically stopped spinning, you'd weigh almost exactly the same. If that weren't true, your simple diet plan would be to move to Antarctica!
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Thaaaat's why I said your theory (though it depends on 'verse physics over known) was better. You're bang-on: you could only make small-percentage adjustments using my method...but at least mine works for too-big planets. (sticks tongue out) lol
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Oops, I just edited my previous post to give credit where due.
Anyhow, this is enough of a hijack. Maybe we could open a new thread if we want to go any further.
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Ok guys,you have my head swelling to the size of Darth Helmet in "Space Balls".
Joss sign both Doncoat and PastorBadger up and put them in the R&D building until my head stops hurting
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Quote:An interesting idea, I'll give you that, but it would take a lot more than that to alter the rotational velocity of an entire planet, and who knows the effects of doing that.
Originally posted by pastorbadger:Quote:Terraformers on heavy planets expell all precessed atmo at high velocity westward. Light planets get it eastward. After a few centuries, centripetal acceleration compensates for high gravity/low gravity. Only drawback is, small planets get long days, & vice versa.
Originally posted by mattcoz:
Doncoat, your first job is explaining how the gravity on all the planets and moons is the same. GO!
(raises hands) TIME!
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OOOhhhh yeah..... and add Mattcoz to that list
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Quote:Now that's some creativity there, nice work.
Originally posted by DonCoat:Quote:The breakthrough technology that allowed the immigrants to get to the new system in the first place was gravity control.
Originally posted by mattcoz:
Doncoat, your first job is explaining how the gravity on all the planets and moons is the same. GO!
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Quote:That's the easy part, there are many scientific theories about heating planets.
Originally posted by DonCoat:
Now... want to ask me how every planet and moon in the 'verse seems to have a Southern California shirtsleeve climate, regardless of how far it is from the Sun?
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Originally posted by mattcoz:
An interesting idea, I'll give you that, but it would take a lot more than that to alter the rotational velocity of an entire planet, and who knows the effects of doing that.
Remember, it's force x time. If you don't think expelled gas is enough to turn a planet, I'll add more terraformers, speed up the gasses and wait centuries. (sigh. critics.) 'Sides, DonCoat is right. I'd get you about .004 grams lighter n a 6G planet. Not enough. I do like that 4 minute workday, though.
Say, I'm a newbie here. How many centuries do we have? Kaylee talked about a vehicle model 8006 being the same as an 8010. Is that the year on the Earth-that-was calendar?
Whoops! Stop. I may be a newbie HERE, but I know thread hijacking when I accidentally do it. Sorry.
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