• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Goldilocks space is like “my breath immediately turns solid in the shade and my body is turning to charcoal in the direct sunlight”

    You need a giant buffer of atmosphere to help average the temperature a bit. Maybe some kind of large rock with a dense atmosphere?

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        A strong thaumic field slows down the sunlight too. Doesn’t change the heat but it’s nice to see sunrise pour across the landscape like honey

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        that’s not quite right. see that turtle has its own sun and moon chasing it around. and they did the math the sun and moon are superluminal bodies

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      The other option is a “barbeque roll” a favourite of sci-fi starships, from authors who have done some homework.

      You’re basically trying to balance half way up a waterfall.