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> Mercury is literally the only body in the whole solar system in any sort of more complicated "lock". So, no, it really is about word games. How would you eve
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
> Mercury is literally the only body in the whole solar system in any sort of more complicated "lock". So, no, it really is about word games.
How would you even begin to demonstrate this is true? There are so many bodies in the solar system, and we're still fairly frequently discovering new minor planet moon-systems..
- moloch-hai 4y agoFind another. It would not change anything.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoDunno man. It's very hard to draw statistical inferences based on a solar stellar system. It would even require significant motivation to argue that the measurements are independent.
- moloch-hai 4y agoThe topic here is the word game defrost and now you promote. Does "tidal lock", absent further detail, imply 1:1? Yes.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThe meaning of a word is conventional.
- moloch-hai 4y agoAnd of exactly zero interest. The original topic, so cleverly but pointlessly derailed, was the viability of planets we can just barely detect in extremely close orbit around a dim star, in 1:1 tidal lock, with permanently hot and a cold sides, and, likely, no magnetic field. That merited discussion.