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Post by Kage2020 on Apr 14, 2004 17:52:00 GMT -5
I'm just intrigued what people think that a world which has broadly the same physical parameters as Earth but with the following temperature range (respectively hex row 1 through 11) would be: Highest Possible Temperature 57, 50, 46, 43, 39, 36, 29, 22, 15, 8, and 1. Lowest Possible Temperature 32, 25, 12, -,1, -14, -27, -34, -41, -48, -55 and -62. As I mentioned elsewhere, it is one of the reasons that I've held off posting information upon Anargo. (And of course there is always the hope that the blasted people at GDP just forgot to put deg-F rather than deg-C...) Anyway, thoughts welcome. I have some of my own, but I'll hold off posting them at the moment. Interesting questions, of course, revolve around agriculture/food production and settlement patterns resulting from the highly variable temperature... Kage
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Post by Sojourner on Apr 15, 2004 5:10:45 GMT -5
That temperature range isn't that much different to Earth's if I'm interpreting the statistics correctly. 57 C is a bit lower than Death Valley IIRC and -62 I'm sure is possible in Siberia.
Overall it looks moderately colder than Earth, but still liveable.
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Post by Kage2020 on Apr 15, 2004 9:25:26 GMT -5
I began to realise this when I remembered the temperatures that I was working in within Borneo... But anyway, perhaps the more valid question is the extreme temperature variation seen over the southern-hemisphere. Over the cycle of the year (365.25 days; same as earth), this is a significant variation which is going to have some rather prominent effects. What would you imagine these would be, then? Kage
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Post by Sojourner on Apr 15, 2004 9:59:36 GMT -5
I was assuming that one end of that scale was the equator and the other end was a pole???
I don't know then. If that's one pole to the other, yes, that's rubbish.
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Post by Kage2020 on Apr 15, 2004 10:15:43 GMT -5
That's just the mapping conventions used and an environment caused by axial tilt, etc. Instead of saying just 'rubbish' perhaps you could offer up some explanations, effects, reasons or whatever? Kage
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Post by Sojourner on Apr 15, 2004 10:21:21 GMT -5
Why would one pole be tropical and the other be Siberian-cold? It doesn't make any sense. Unless the tilt of the world is extremely eccentric, that just couldn't work.
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Post by CELS on Apr 15, 2004 12:07:04 GMT -5
Erm, there are 11 hex rows on each hemisphere. Kage has only given 11 different temperatures, hence this can't be from one pole to the other. In other words, it's quite similar to Earth, no?
By extreme differences in temperature, I assume he meant going from -55 to 8 degrees celsius. Of course, this is pretty much the same differences in temperature that we in the northern parts of Norway. Having spent a year in these parts during my military service, I can say that there won't be any prominent effects.
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Post by Sojourner on Apr 15, 2004 12:40:12 GMT -5
I asked, and I assumed that the reply meant that it represented pole-to-pole.
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Post by CELS on Apr 15, 2004 13:14:45 GMT -5
Well, I gathered as much, Sojourner. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have posted what I did Now, unless anyone objects, I'd say that this world is pretty similar to Earth, but a smidge more on the extreme side. Not a lot of places on Earth get up to 57 degrees (Death Valley is pretty unique, to my understanding), and the same goes for -62... And if I'm wrong.... well, that's not the important thing. The important thing is that with the data given here, this world seems to be very similar to Earth. Agriculture/food production and settlement patterns should be very similar to that on Earth....
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Post by Sojourner on Apr 15, 2004 14:09:26 GMT -5
Which was what I had in mind originally. Full agreement with CELS, here, if a smidge colder.
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Post by Kage2020 on Apr 15, 2004 18:14:53 GMT -5
Now, unless anyone objects, I'd say that this world is pretty similar to Earth, but a smidge more on the extreme side. It's more to do with the fact of my assumptions of Earth-like conditions, but the idea that the majority of the world spends itself in sub-zero conditions is quite... strange... Kage
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Post by Tynesh on Apr 16, 2004 3:51:08 GMT -5
Kage it may be best if you work out the average temp by posting the temp sheet. The temps you have posted are the EXTREMES of possible yearly temperatures, therefore you need an average for them!
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Post by CELS on Apr 16, 2004 3:57:45 GMT -5
Exactly. For example, I'm sure that Italy has seen 39 degrees celsius one hot summer, but it's probably also seen -14 degrees celsius at winter. I know that Spain has seen 43 dergees celsius at summer, and I know that they reach -1 degrees celsius at winter in the very same regions. I spent a year near the city of Bardufoss, which certainly saw more than 22 degrees celsius when I was there, but also -41 degrees celsius at winter. (As it happended, I was sleeping in a tent the night I saw -42 degrees celsius, and when we woke up, we found that our tank's (a Leopard 1A5NO ) heating system didn't work. Joy ) Erm... so, in conclusion, this world is indeed very similar to earth. Don't worry, Kage, your assumptions are all wrong (Tongue in cheek. Don't kill me)
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Post by Kage2020 on Apr 16, 2004 15:00:25 GMT -5
Gotta love playing thick... Hex Row | Summer Day Temp. | Summer Night Temp. | Winter Day Temp. | Winter Night Temp. | 1 | 57 | 37 | 52 | 32 | 2 | 50 | 30 | 45 | 25 | 3 | 46 | 26 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 43 | 23 | 19 | -1 | 5 | 39 | 19 | 6 | -14 | 6 | 36 | 16 | -7 | -27 | 7 | 29 | 9 | -14 | -34 | 8 | 22 | 2 | -24 | -41 | 9 | 15 | -5 | -28 | -48 | 10 | 8 | -12 | -35 | -55 | 11 | 1 | -19 | -42 | -62 |
[/center][/table] Kage
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Post by CELS on Apr 16, 2004 15:05:10 GMT -5
Playing thick? Yes, it's very constructive.
But if you were playing thick, and knew all along that Anargo would be pretty similar to Earth... what's the point of this thread? Why do you think Anargo will have a special food production or settlement patterns?
More importantly, what are your own thoughts that you held off posting at the moment?
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