[Space]: Habitability modifiers for tidelocked and resonant worlds

David Johnston2 · 07-21-2009, 11:41 PM

Well, the resonant world isn't so badly off as all that. While the non-coastal land surface is going to experience radical variations of temperature, the place where I live experiences a range of about 130 degrees fahrenheit and the plants cope just fine simply by waiting for the sun to shine again and taking advantage of long days to grow twice as fast as more southerly plants. As for the tide-locked world, it's not so much that the habitability is lowered, as it is that the carrying capacity is lowered. However since both the west pole and the east pole will probably be concentrations of water, with the sea level lower in the twilight zone it won't be so bad as all that.

07-21-2009, 11:41 PM	#2
David Johnston2 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: [Space]: Habitability modifiers for tidelocked and resonant worlds Well, the resonant world isn't so badly off as all that. While the non-coastal land surface is going to experience radical variations of temperature, the place where I live experiences a range of about 130 degrees fahrenheit and the plants cope just fine simply by waiting for the sun to shine again and taking advantage of long days to grow twice as fast as more southerly plants. As for the tide-locked world, it's not so much that the habitability is lowered, as it is that the carrying capacity is lowered. However since both the west pole and the east pole will probably be concentrations of water, with the sea level lower in the twilight zone it won't be so bad as all that.