[Space]: Habitability modifiers for tidelocked and resonant worlds

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Originally Posted by nick012000

Once we start genetically engineering humans, I'd imagine that there'd be research into splicing genes from that particular bacteria into humans.

And the research might lead absolutely nowhere. Genes code proteins, not abstract qualities, and there might be no single protein or combination of proteins in Deinococcus radiodurans that would confer the least radiation resistance on a vertebrate.

But I have a feeling that this thread is drifting to windward a bit more rapidly than I'd prefer. Could we address the issue of a Habitability rating modifier for tide-locked and resonant worlds, in quantitative detail, before we wander too much further off topic?