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Old 10-24-2009, 04:03 AM   #16
Flyndaran
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Default Re: Beanstalk for a tide locked world?

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Tides - more massive lobes inflict greater tidal forces, and larger lobes multiply the effects of the forces inflicted by their partners, reducing habitability.

Formation - the currently favored impact-formation model is much less likely to produce lobes of close order size in the habitable size range.

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I lost my data with a computer issue, but the first time I determined tide they weren't that huge.
I know the chance is absurdly high, but not impossible to known physics. I wanted my aliens to have an even rarer situation than we do. It also acted to push their rocketry development much further and faster than earth's. because of that blue-green world sticking int the sky.
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