Cool Space
Jun05
on 2018-06-05
at 02:27
Columbia is actually planet-born. Her homeworld, Uttu-isten, like most habitable worlds, orbits a red dwarf and is tidally locked with the main continent facing the star. It tends to get pretty warm.
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Carver
Commander, about your lack of attire…
Columbia
My shipsuit is ready and stowed- Oh! Right! I forgot that some Terrans might find nudity offensive. My bad.
Kimi
In the Ace group, no worry for that.
Carver
That would be their problem, anyway. I was just wondering if you’d like the heat turned down.
Commander, about your lack of attire…
Columbia
My shipsuit is ready and stowed- Oh! Right! I forgot that some Terrans might find nudity offensive. My bad.
Kimi
In the Ace group, no worry for that.
Carver
That would be their problem, anyway. I was just wondering if you’d like the heat turned down.
Find a Settlement at the light/dark terminator line of the planet.
Depending the distance from the red dwarf, the terminator line might be kind of cold.
Just thinking out loud. And very interesting idea about Exo-planets.
The big question with a tidally-locked habitable planet is what keeps the atmosphere from freezing out on the dark side?
Nothing, that’s why that side tends to be slightly inhospitable without extra protection (like spending winter at Scott Base)
If the air is settling to the ground as ice on the dark side, then there are issues with habitability everywhere, what with the lack of gaseous atmosphere…
That’s the neat thing about human(oid)s: they can adjust to virtually any environment
They also have this ability to create portable habitats and artificial atmosphere
(not meaning to come across rude or anything)
If the world is small enough, or geologically active enough, natural circulation could keep the air from freezing. But the winds would make the twilight zones interesting.
yeah perpetual storms tend to be interesting
Gas giant in the next orbital position stirring thing up work for you?
Was simply thinking Columbia (see? being good and no nicknames 😛 ) preferred to sleep nekid
Personally hate wearing anything to sleep, even in winter (have to use three hot water bottles: one for chilblained feet, one for knees and one used year round for the chest)
I normally sleep in socks, just socks, because of the damage to my circulation in my foot caused by the wreck. That foot is perpetually cold except when I’m taking a bath or shower and have my feet on not-quite-scalding water. Mrs. the Poet prefers a long nightgown or t-shirt during the winter and somewhat less during the summer.
I had a large blood clot removed, 2 stents, and am on warfarin for life. I tend to get raynaud’s syndrome in my fingers and occasionally my toes. Usually only in the morning and only if it’s fairly cold outside (below around 45). Also, it never affects me until I get up and start moving around more. Pretty annoying since it will cause my fingers to go numb to the extent I actually burnt my finger tip on an overheating bit of electronic garbage and didn’t even notice till an hour later. Gloves do nothing because they are cold from the inside out. Doctors wont treat it either unless it starts causing more serious problems.
No idea what ‘Raynaud’s Syndrome’ is, but kinda sounds like me and frostbite slash chilblains, except can’t sleep with socks (not even when the flesh worms start to wriggle inside. trust me, it’s something you never want to experience if you haven’t already)
It’s pretty clear ppl here don’t have a clue what being on a tidally locked planet would be like. The facing side would be uninhabitable, the opposing side would be uninhabitable. A tiny belt in the twilight zone MIGHT be habitable. If yo ignore the fucking hellaciuos storms from the cold side to the hot side making Cat 5 hurricanes look like a fucking kite flying breeze.
Sorry, didn’t notice your post down here. But yeah, the twilight zones would be interesting. That signpost up ahead might just break off and fly right at you…
Yes. Here’s the thing: they didn’t evolve there, they just live there, like the inhabitants of Beta or Komarr in Bujold’s Vorkosiverse, living in habitats, not exposed to the native air or elements. Or in the Honorverse, the Graysons. They’d likely be better off in orbital habitats, except that the planet affords some level of gravity for Orions with bone or muscular needs and there may be resources more easily gotten there. Free power from wind turbines. REASONS, whatever they may be.
Right, and planets can be “terraformed” if need be. Put a solar shade at Lagrange point 1 if the facing side is too hot and mirrors in orbit to light up the dark side and tidal lock becomes a non-issue.
They could also roof over a planet; http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47bcf1bdc2cef
The Twi-lek’s live on a tidal-locked planet, they live in the middle in a canyon that runs the length of the ‘equator’ between the two sides
Another possibility is that they simply live underground. If the can build space ships and habitats, then dealing with consistent storms would present far less of a problem. With well engineered tunnels, you could manage to under the surface deeply enough to be able to have people living even where it is too hot or too cold. And winds should be easily blocked out by setting up an air lock system air could be kept fresh using scrubbers based on habitats.
They could live in habitats, they could live underground, they could block the sun and use reflectors…
…but he made a point of her being used to high heat because it’s tidal-locked. All of these would reduce / remove the effect of being tidal-locked till the point it wouldn’t be worth noting .
Heat turned down because she’s removed her clothing? Sure you didn’t mean turned up?