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This was my first thought, too, when I saw the article. But our thoughts about the effects of tidal lock on the emergence of life is little more than philosoph
by CWuestefeld 7y ago
This was my first thought, too, when I saw the article.
But our thoughts about the effects of tidal lock on the emergence of life is little more than philosophy, having only one datapoint to extrapolate from, at that one not being tidal locked.
- bmurphy1976 7y agoI think there are other loopholes. Imagine a Jupiter sized planet that had an Earth like moon. The Jupiter size planet would probably be tidally locked with the star, but the moon could be tidally locked with the planet, not the star. Given that, it would have quite a varied and complicated day/night cycle.
- quakeguy 7y agoInterresting setup you mention there, the earth-like planets d/n cycle would indeed be very irregular i imagine, depending which orbital speed it would have.