[TML] AWAD: Texaco

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 2/1/08 1:00 PM, "Brad Murray" <bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I'm of the school of thought that anything that tried to evolve would
quickly fall to lower parts of the atmosphere and be destroyed.  Thus, I
don't put native life *in* gas giants.

On the moons though is a great place, if the moon is large enough.  It's
even possible to have multiple habitable moons.  Imagine discovering radio,
and hearing alien TV shows!