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Re: GURPS Space - "desert planet"
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I like to interpret "Garden World" as meaning "organic life lives here". That doesn't actually mean much. It includes snow ball earth, several alternate biologies, and tidally locked worlds will certainly have issues. but this isn't reflected in habitability score.
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03-07-2013, 01:50 AM | #32 |
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Re: GURPS Space - "desert planet"
I'm counting only worlds with Habitability of 5 or higher as habitable. Also, I am not counting spin:orbit resonant worlds as tide-locked. And finally, I have fiddled with the procedures for initial spin and tidal braking as discussed in the errata thread.
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03-07-2013, 02:38 AM | #34 |
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Re: GURPS Space - "desert planet"
Oceans are actually a big barrier to oxygenation because they contain so much dissolved material that oxidizes. The real question (assuming that initial life can come from offworld) is how you put enough lichen down when most of the world only gets rain as a freakish occurence.
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03-07-2013, 11:42 AM | #36 |
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Re: GURPS Space - "desert planet"
I'm not sure I understand the question. Most of the stuff that could become solutes doesn't because much of the planet rarely experiences rain. Instead it just remains buried underneath the oxidised surface. There's still got to be a minimum amount of surface water to maintain an oxygen atmosphere, but I'm not at all sure what percentage that minimum is.
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03-07-2013, 06:04 PM | #37 | |
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It is very common for people to confuse the Lagrange points, the barycentre, and the equipoise, and especially to give one of those that characterisation of one of the others. It's worth keeping them straight, I think.
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03-07-2013, 06:35 PM | #38 |
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Re: GURPS Space - assistance
Would it be possible for an Earth-mass world to stay in a Lagrange point of a star and a very massive gas giant?
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03-07-2013, 07:04 PM | #39 | |
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In the context of a planet orbiting a star, these trajectories are also called the leading and trailing Trojan points.
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Thanks. Would there be any severe radiation or other habitability complications with a terrestrial planet at L4 or L5 when the gas giant is 4000 earth masses?
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