[GURPS Space(/Fantasy??)] Consequences of a Unique Planetary Rotation

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

The post I took those numbers from said "average" and not extreme. The day pole and the night pole (east and west is not quite right)would be more extreme.

A quick google turns up this page and its' little chart right at the bottom of te page.

http://www.planetary.org/explore/top...ml#temperature

It says Earth rates an average 75 F on the day side and 40 on the night.

If you added 100 to the dayside number and subtracted 100 from the night you get 175 and -60.

Those are still averages too of course. The day pole will be hotter and the night pole colder. You'll be lucky to find dayside spots that are as cool as Death Valley.

It just looks very very bad to me. It might not go runaway greenhouse (_might_ not but it probalby could). i'm not sure you can count on oceans to have a cooling effect. It's quite likely that oceans never form in the first place.

The photosynthesis thing still looks like a no-go to me too.

Life in the form of bacteria in the rock many feet below the surface might be possible but that doesn't really help your global ecosystem. It won't produce any oxygen, mostly just more CO2 which you don't really need.