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The topic here is the word game defrost and now you promote. Does "tidal lock", absent further detail, imply 1:1? Yes.
by moloch-hai 4y ago
The 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.