Subject: Re: Between darkness and light...
From: Lari Kuitunen (myrsky@dlc.fi)
Date: Sat Jul 03 1999 - 11:49:01 EEST
> From: Kim Kunnas <beregar@majik.netti.fi> > To: majik-design@majik.netti.fi > McDuff wrote: > > > A thought just struck me <blam> :)) > > > > The sun doesn't just provide light, it provides heat, and if a part of the > > world is in darkness for 6 months, you're either going to have every part of > > the world which ends up completely frozen for about 4 months, unless you can > > think of some way of solving this, like a complex system of underground > > geysers or a highly active tectonic system to release heat. > > That was also one point in my suggestion: No sun = no warmth = winter every > where, except! near the lava lakes (couldn't figure better word:) or in the areas > where appears to be heavy volcanic activity. I think some spells could be use > ful too. In planets which have proper atmosphere, temperature-changes would not be such drastic ones as proposed here. if we would not want "nuclear"winter every 6majik months... (in which case I would be hard pressed to explain _how_ on earth majik ended up with living organisms that actually developed to a higher stage, intelligence and such, given those harsh changes every six months..) .. we could say that majik's atmosphere consists of gases that preserve heat, for example, more carbon dioxide or methane than in our atmosphere, or better yet, some previously unknown, fantasy-gas! ;) so in this case, there would be summer, autumn, winter, spring - cycle, but the changes would not be so radical, even though sun wouldn't shine at all in autumn, it would take some time before the heat would dissipate from the atmosphere, ending up with winter, and in the end of winter, sun would start shining again, taking some time to heat up the atmosphere, and that would be the time for spring. in short, atmosphere would act like a conduit for warmth. - Malekith
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