Detcon 1 is the name of this year's North American Science Fiction Convention. Detcon will blossom in my old home town, Detroit, Michigan, from Thursday, 17 July, through Sunday the 20th. I've agreed to participate in a bunch of programming.
Physics, Mechanics, & Logistics of Flying Cars
Fri 10:00 AM -- Mackinac East
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Io is covered with sulfur and sulfur compounds, and its volcanic hotspots are hotter than Sarr. Might be a better spot for a base than the 2014 version of Mercury.
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Wasn’t the alchemist’s dream the transmutation of elements, which would involve the manipulation of sub-atomic particles?
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"When I was young, we were promised the Philosopher's Stone!"
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It's 19th-century physics, I guess.
But the presence of a global fluid, such as an atmosphere, will moderate this effect. If it snows on the nightside, hot fluid will flow in from the dayside.
Anyway. The system I found is very, very close to a dim dwarf star, so it's probably tide-locked.
Clement had Sarr orbiting a much brighter star, an A, so perhaps he would have argued against tidal locking. Indeed, according to him, the planet's rotational period is 13 hours.
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I don't understand the physics of it at all, but researchers this century have assured us that hot planets can have clouds of lithium and sodium sulphide, magnesium silicate and iron, or even perovskite and corundum, raining out in a hot carbon monoxide atmosphere.
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