(urth) Dome, Dome on the Range

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/13/2011 12:21 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
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> From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
>> The moon's axial inclination wrt the sun of 5 degrees is usually held
>> to provide very mild seasonal variation. The poles will still be
>> cooler, and the small overall size is still a puzzler, but the most
>> extreme weather making factor would be the month-long local day. This
>> will tend to make the prevailing winds blow across the terminator from
>> dark to light, with increasing mediation in the direction of rotation
>> nearing the equator. You may get some concentric convection cells,
>> making the overall weather patterns resemble an archery target.
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> Of course, if humans could accelerate the Whorl to relativistic speeds,
> they could also have spun up the Moon to have a shorter day-night cycle,
> more suited to plant growth. If they felt it was necessary.
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> (They could also have replaced the lost heat and light from the Sun, but
> we should probably ignore that.)

Maybe not. Typhon was working with the dregs of a culture that once 
spanned galaxies and may have had to fit the hubristic project to what 
he could salvage; a single surplus engine suitable for pushing along the 
axis of an asteroids couldn't be counterbalanced well for spinning up 
the moon.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >