[TML] Alderson disk

[Knapp]

The dark sides of these mountains sounds like the perfect place for
gluttonous cubes to have evolved from. Gives a whole new meaning to
Yin and Yang.
Douglas

On Dec 10, 2007 9:12 PM, Greg <greg at nokes.name> wrote:
> Keep 'em long. Adds to the weirdness factor.
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 12:00 PM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> > Did a rough calculation a bit ago. Looks like if I want the sun to
> > reach 45 degrees above the horizon at 1 AU from the center, the days
> > are going to be *really* long.
> >
> > I get a figure of 48 hours from sunhigh to sunset. Which gives a
> > cycle like this (using A and B to represent the sides of the disk):
> >
> > time A         B
> >   0  sunhigh  midnight
> >  48  sunset   sunrise
> >  96  midnight sunhigh
> > 144  sunset   sunrise
> > 192  sunhigh  midnight
> >
> > That's just a hair extreme.
> >
> > Also, the motion of the sun will be really non-linear. I'll be
> > writing a program to give time and angle at 1 AU later (ignoring
> > atmospheric refraction). Other latitudes can be worked out easily
> > from that.
> >
> > If folks are interested in working on this, I'll stick stuff up on a
> > web page as we nail stuff down.
> >
> > ps. to get 12 hours from sunhigh to sunset gives really low sun
> > angles. So if folks think the long days and nights can be worked
> > with, I'd rather keep them.
> >
> > --
> > Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> > shadow at shadowgard dot com
> >
> >
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