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"Tidally locked" There, was that so hard? Extraordinary effort here to coin a neologism for something that's already an established phrase. This is also a blo
by mapt 12y ago
"Tidally locked"
There, was that so hard? Extraordinary effort here to coin a neologism for something that's already an established phrase.
This is also a blogpost promoting a paper about cloud formation in tidally locked planets, which it appears someone forgot to link, inside the phrase "Gory details here".
- qnaal 12y agoat least it manages to link to the wp page for 'glacier'
- s_q_b 12y agoThere's also a thousand variations on the theme of tidally locked planets in science fiction: from Larry Niven's (of Ringworld fame) world Jinx which was tidally locked to a gas giant, right back to Stapledon's Star Maker from 1937, which features a habitable planet tidally locked around a red dwarf.