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Old 08-16-2009, 09:28 AM   #7
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Default Re: Orbital elevators and long, long days

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin View Post
You may also be exaggerating the habitability of planets with extremely long days. It may depend on what you're calling "much, much longer" but there probably are day lengths that will result in too much temperature swing to be viable.
I am inclined to think so (following Stephen Dole), but GURPS Space does not calculate daily temperature variation, and does not take any account of day length when calculating Habitability.

I have been doing a write-up of a planet that the starsystem generation sequence gave me as Affinity 8. Its days are 317.5 hours long. Which has no effect on the Habitability calculation--and neither does the temperature range induced by the absurd orbital eccentricity, nor the obliquity of 37°.
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