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Feb. 11th, 2011
Via Randy McDonald:
The Steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space
The Steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space
Rogue planets have been ejected from their planetary system. We investigate the possibility that a rogue planet could maintain a liquid ocean under layers of thermally-insulating water ice and frozen atmosphere as a result of geothermal heat flux. We find that a rogue planet of Earth-like composition and age could maintain a subglacial liquid ocean if it were ~3.5 times more massive than Earth. If a rogue planet had about ten times higher water mass fraction or a thick cryo- atmospheric layer, it would need to be only ~0.3 times the mass of Earth to maintain a liquid ocean. Such a planet could be detected from reflected solar radiation and its thermal emission could be characterized in the far-IR if it passed within O(1000) AU of Earth.
Via Randy McDonald:
The Steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space
The Steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space
Rogue planets have been ejected from their planetary system. We investigate the possibility that a rogue planet could maintain a liquid ocean under layers of thermally-insulating water ice and frozen atmosphere as a result of geothermal heat flux. We find that a rogue planet of Earth-like composition and age could maintain a subglacial liquid ocean if it were ~3.5 times more massive than Earth. If a rogue planet had about ten times higher water mass fraction or a thick cryo- atmospheric layer, it would need to be only ~0.3 times the mass of Earth to maintain a liquid ocean. Such a planet could be detected from reflected solar radiation and its thermal emission could be characterized in the far-IR if it passed within O(1000) AU of Earth.
Via Randy McDonald:
The Steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space
The Steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space
Rogue planets have been ejected from their planetary system. We investigate the possibility that a rogue planet could maintain a liquid ocean under layers of thermally-insulating water ice and frozen atmosphere as a result of geothermal heat flux. We find that a rogue planet of Earth-like composition and age could maintain a subglacial liquid ocean if it were ~3.5 times more massive than Earth. If a rogue planet had about ten times higher water mass fraction or a thick cryo- atmospheric layer, it would need to be only ~0.3 times the mass of Earth to maintain a liquid ocean. Such a planet could be detected from reflected solar radiation and its thermal emission could be characterized in the far-IR if it passed within O(1000) AU of Earth.
This was amusing
Feb. 11th, 2011 04:01 pmPosted by Ed Treijs on rasfw:
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
>Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes, in the introduction to her collection
>"Recovering Apollo 8":
>
>"When I attended Clarion Writers Workshop in 1985, my fellow
>workshoppers told me to give up writing science fiction and to only
>write fantasy. According to them, I didn't have the background to
>write true science fiction, and I couldn't get that background without
>going back for an advanced degree in one of the sciences, something I
>didn't want to do."
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
This was amusing
Feb. 11th, 2011 04:01 pmPosted by Ed Treijs on rasfw:
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
>Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes, in the introduction to her collection
>"Recovering Apollo 8":
>
>"When I attended Clarion Writers Workshop in 1985, my fellow
>workshoppers told me to give up writing science fiction and to only
>write fantasy. According to them, I didn't have the background to
>write true science fiction, and I couldn't get that background without
>going back for an advanced degree in one of the sciences, something I
>didn't want to do."
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
This was amusing
Feb. 11th, 2011 04:01 pmPosted by Ed Treijs on rasfw:
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
>Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes, in the introduction to her collection
>"Recovering Apollo 8":
>
>"When I attended Clarion Writers Workshop in 1985, my fellow
>workshoppers told me to give up writing science fiction and to only
>write fantasy. According to them, I didn't have the background to
>write true science fiction, and I couldn't get that background without
>going back for an advanced degree in one of the sciences, something I
>didn't want to do."
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
Then:
Now:
Randy McDonald drew the obvious parallel yesteryday.
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he will stay in office until the scheduled presidential election in September, drawing the outrage of thousands of anti-government protesters demanding he resign after 30 years in power.
Now:
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned on the 18th day of anti-government protests, and handed over power to the military.
Randy McDonald drew the obvious parallel yesteryday.
Then:
Now:
Randy McDonald drew the obvious parallel yesteryday.
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he will stay in office until the scheduled presidential election in September, drawing the outrage of thousands of anti-government protesters demanding he resign after 30 years in power.
Now:
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned on the 18th day of anti-government protests, and handed over power to the military.
Randy McDonald drew the obvious parallel yesteryday.
Then:
Now:
Randy McDonald drew the obvious parallel yesteryday.
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he will stay in office until the scheduled presidential election in September, drawing the outrage of thousands of anti-government protesters demanding he resign after 30 years in power.
Now:
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned on the 18th day of anti-government protests, and handed over power to the military.
Randy McDonald drew the obvious parallel yesteryday.
A touch of prosopagnosia
Feb. 11th, 2011 06:00 pmIs the guy at the back of the line in the jail at 1:06 the same guy who is front and center in the crowd outside the jail at 1:40?
The Region of Waterloo
Feb. 11th, 2011 08:27 pmJust send me a pamphlet entitled "How to Drive, Walk and Bike in a Roundabout".
Apparently we pedestrians are supposed to help drivers aim for us by pointing in the direction we intend to go. Yeah, that'll end well.
Apparently we pedestrians are supposed to help drivers aim for us by pointing in the direction we intend to go. Yeah, that'll end well.