[TML] AWAD: Texaco

[Brad Murray]

On Feb 1, 2008 8:49 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> This reminds me. What happens when you get a gas giant in the life
> zone? It could make for some fun aliens, perhaps.

I'm using Book 2 CT world generation so gas giant location isn't
specified.  If I put a gas giant in the life zone (as with AWAD:
Pander, which will be posted later this month) then the habitable
world there will be a moon of the gas giant.  I'm not sure that being
in the right energy zone for habitable life actually improves a gas
giant's viability much -- the issues of pressure, gravity, radiation,
and heat from all the above seems too hard to overcome.  I think there
has been some clever speculation about life in the upper atmosphere
though, but it might actually be more viable further out from the
habitable zone to balance energy from the sun with energy from the
giant.

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Brad Murray (halfjack)