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Maybe but I like to think there are creatures living in the temperate rim of a tidally locked planet somewhere debating whether life could possibly evolve on a
by gydfi 10y ago
Maybe but I like to think there are creatures living in the temperate rim of a tidally locked planet somewhere debating whether life could possibly evolve on a rotating planet.
"I mean, there'd be temperature fluctuations of tens of degrees every day! It would be dark half the time! How could life survive in such an unstable environment?"
- gwern 10y agoAnd don't forget: there will be long-term cyclical trends of dozens of degrees due to geometric properties of the orbit and hypothesized tilts!