Recent content by AotrsCommander

My apologies: I have had to do Actual Work, and thus have not had time to look over everything in the last couple of days.The replies from the various places I posted this have ranged from "life would have no cycles at all" to "some sort of circiadian cycle would develop" and "creatures wouldn't...

From the gentleman I spoke to on this forum when I designed thre system (in 2014). That sounds about right. I'm sorry, I don't buy this arguement. Jungles exist as a largely steady environment and they are among the most diverse and competative environments. Deep sea thermophiles might...

Other points noted, but you've lost me here. The light levels are not monotonous, nor is the temperature. At a given point on the globe, yes, the light level is FIXED (well, aside from breaks in the cloud cover because weather still happens), and caves and rifts and firests), but that's not the...

At the end of the day, I'm an engineer more than an anthropoligist, it has to be said. I can identify the problems, but the understanding of culture - especially primitive culture - is simply not something that come naturally. And I don't want to just make stuff up out of the blue without a...

But how do you arrive at an "hour" from which to make a wrist watch? Okay, so assuming you make "hour" from, I dunno, "time it takes to burn a stick two arms long" or something like that... How do you get "day" from that? How many "burn-sticks" to a "sky eyeball" (month)? Pertinently, what is...

The suggestions have been generally "maybe they don't" which on the one hand is a good point, but is raising some difficult mechanical questions, but those are better posed to the places more suited to that. Things like the water clocks I has already conasidered as an obviouis way for a...

This is both a biomechanical and sociological question. There is a planet. It orbits around a large star whose goldilocks zone is significantly far from the star that the orbit is measured in thousands of Earth-years1. The planet is tide-locked2. The planet is otherwise the same size and...

There's already a lot of that in the article this is part of. (Actually, MOST of said article is about the unexplained and unknown of the particular power its looking at.) While I often do use the "we just don't know why, but [some people] think x or y" explanation, like every other tool, it can...

I mean, that worked perfectly for Spacecraft 2000-2100AD. (To the point I follow suite over four decades later, because it went into my hindbrain and never left...)

Okay, then how about this: Vastly simpler (and closer, I think to what the original intention was).

Hrm. As promising as that idea (moving the planet around) was, I am beginning to think it's not working. Okay, change tack entirely. What about a small star; larger than a red dwarf, but smaller than Sol, sufficient that the star has a habitiable range that (at least the far boundary of which)...

Okay. So, scrap the binary idea totally. Instead, then, how about an impact on another stellar body from, say, a captured rogue planet (or perhaps just one with a moon that spiralling in) that shoved said planet further in, and thus eased the habitable world out, as the star came towards the...

The ancient race explanation is one that I didn't want to use; and in this instance wouldn't have worked, since the oldest known civilisation is around ony one or two million years prior*. And "Harbingers did it" is a bit too neat and easy. Otherwise, then, back to the drawing board then...

I am not sure I'm quite following your point (since communications are point-to-point and instantaneous within the extent of the range, whereas FTL transit takes time). I'm not sure what power has to do with it. Basically, FTL communications are not wide broadcasts like STL communicators, so...

Revised attempt. Does this seem a little more credible (or at least consistent.) Split a bit of difference. Treading the line of plausibility a bit, but at least I know I'm doing so and hopefully I'm still in the "extremely unlikely, but at least statistically possible" end of things. Implied...