LINESII- Into the Darkness- Part II

[Silver Steak]

Go ahead and do that! I don't have ships to spare. The expedition is bound to fail due to discontented penguins tired of the humans' curiosity and persistence.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Oh, you would think of that... so every day everywhere is 12 hours long?

Yep.

And there is probably a slight offset in the planet's axis, but it's not enough to cause a change of more than a few degrees (in temperature, not angle )

 

[Symphony D.]

Decloak: That does of course mean the world has no seasons at all, too. Measuring circumference is actually pretty easy. All you need to do is send somebody to the equator and have them realize it is the equator. Doing that's the hard part. Earth had Egypt, which made it simple.

 

[Silver Steak]

Decloak: That does of course mean the world has no seasons at all, too. Measuring circumference is actually pretty easy. All you need to do is send somebody to the equator and have them realize it is the equator. Doing that's the hard part. Earth had Egypt, which made it simple.

And the measurements made by ancient Egyps were even better than those made by the French in the 18th century. Anyway, this means one Citadeler sitting somewhere on Terrania only has to pop his head out at noon and see if there are any shadows cast by the walls of the house. If not, he's on the equator. Since there are no axial tilt to force him to measure on solar equinoxes, because all days are equinoxes.

By the fact above Iggy, I would consider that the Citadel already knows the location of the Equator, or at least down to the few odd degrees you mentioned. Now reveal it to us...

 

[Cuivienen]

Decloak: That does of course mean the world has no seasons at all, too. Measuring circumference is actually pretty easy. All you need to do is send somebody to the equator and have them realize it is the equator. Doing that's the hard part. Earth had Egypt, which made it simple.

He mentioned that problem with seasons. Apparently, the solution is to have the planet in an elliptical orbit. Unfortunately, for planets close enough to a star to have approximately the same temperatures as Earth, an elliptical orbit is highly unstable and would degenerate within a matter of millions of years (far too short a time for life to have developed to a multicellular level, if at all).

 

[Symphony D.]

Apparently, the solution is to have the planet in an elliptical orbit.

Decloak: All orbits are elliptical. It's just a measure of eccentricity. Mars is rather eccentric compared to Earth (0.093 vs. 0.016) and experiences great variances depending on its orbital position, so I suppose if you did something like that with a low axial-tilt planet closer in it'd work. Of course, with (virtually) no tilt it'd be summer (perihelion) and winter (aphelion) for the whole planet, but I guess that's better than no seasons at all. Could get pretty nasty though.

 

[Cuivienen]

Decloak: All orbits are elliptical. It's just a measure of eccentricity. Mars is rather eccentric compared to Earth (0.093 vs. 0.016) and experiences great variances depending on its orbital position, so I suppose if you did something like that with a low axial-tilt planet closer in it'd work. Of course, with (virtually) no tilt it'd be summer (perihelion) and winter (aphelion) for the whole planet, but I guess that's better than no seasons at all. Could get pretty nasty though.

The point I was making was that an elliptical orbit eccentric enough to cause season-like variation would be too unstable for an inner planet to maintain.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Okay, I'll draw in roughly where the equator is on the map during this update.

And did I ever say that the seasons were particularly varied? There's not much difference between summer and winter, except in the areas where the variations raise and lower the temperature around 0 C.

 

[Wubba360]

I don't care if there is an equator, or if the revolution of this planet is highly elliptical or not, can we worry about scientific facts later? Lets let Iggy concentrate on updating

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Yeah, I'm nearing completion now. We can resume this conversation once the update's posted.

BTW, something crazy: Sheep, stalin006 and I all have the same postcount right now. 8204

 

[Symphony D.]

The point I was making was that an elliptical orbit eccentric enough to cause season-like variation would be too unstable for an inner planet to maintain.

Decloak: Not true; again, see the example of Mars. If you were to take Mars and reduce it's orbital period to that of Earth's, keeping its eccentricity, it would not randomly become unstable, and would exhibit similarly extreme variances in temperature as it already does. Gravity does not function differently the closer you get to a star unless you are so close that tidal forces come into play. All the planets are basically in free fall in the Sun's gravity well; position has no bearing. Were the planets not there, you could replicate Pluto's orbit farther in and it would be perfect stable, for instance.

Based on what Iggy just said, the eccentricity of this world is closer to Earth's, so it's a moot point anyway. Just a more bland world.

[EDIT] Crosspost... done anyway though.

 

[~Darkening~]

Good- everyone can begin screaming at me soon enough. I was just asking 'cause I need a new capital if this works.......

 

[alex994]

I need no equator! Guangfei is the center of the world! It's obvious! The other "Great Powers" are nothing more then religious barbaric fanatics in the form of the Bladeists, Xenophobic Greek Wannabees in the form of the Valins and etc

Of course, I am looking forward to the update.

 

[~Darkening~]

Bladeists, Xenophobic Greek Wannabees

I resent that! I'm more of a german-greek-turkish mix! And least its better than being a blatant rip off of China!

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Good- everyone can begin screaming at me soon enough. I was just asking 'cause I need a new capital if this works.......

Huh? What do you mean by that?

 

[~Darkening~]

Huh? What do you mean by that?

Stop! Go update! We'll bore you to death after!

Its not funny- I'm really wondering whether or not I collapsed this turn- and here Iggy is teasing me with the hope that he just posted it!

 

[alex994]

I resent that! I'm more of a german-greek-turkish mix! And least its better than being a blatant rip off of China!

You're not Valin And I'm hardly a blatant rip off of China, I mean, do you see us going around saying how much greater we are than everyone else? Isolating ourselves? Crushing all dissenting religions?

 

[~Darkening~]

Eh- the Exodian (by your own words) would be the ocean next to Khermi and Gorin (and Croyodon)- "the western ocean".

 

[TerrisH]

Oh, forgot to send Ordes in.
#$%#%
Rember Iggy, Emoriaans thing New Vertis Is corrupt and Stuc up, Perverting the way of the one to their whims, and have abandoned all the intent of the ones Teachings. so no rebelion by them.

 

[Thlayli]

Oh, forgot to send Ordes in.
#$%#%
Rember Iggy, Emoriaans thing New Vertis Is corrupt and Stuc up, Perverting the way of the one to their whims, and have abandoned all the intent of the ones Teachings. so no rebelion by them.

Don't get me started on the traitorous, heretical, morally prostituted cesspool that is the entire Emorian race.

Speaking entirely IC of course.