by Dylan
(Illinois, Wisconsin)
A holiday? But what will I do without your daily diary updates?
You have been hard at it, though. Hopefully a few days does you good.
In the meantime, I too frequently give thought to ignoring the science for the sake of story, although I often come at it from another angle- how much science can I include and still have a the Old Solar System I want?
Saturn is a good example of this. Habitable moons are a must - so it follows that Saturn must provide warmth in this reality I've imagined. But then, I risk destroying the character of Titan, a world with methane clouds, rivers and seas. Seas of methane! With epic names like "the Kraken Mare". What an OSS author would have done had they known of such things! I suspect methane seas would have been irrevocably ingrained in Titan's character, along with Methane-based life. However, if Saturn is providing heat, it could quickly become too warm for liquid methane to exist- ruining the fun a methane ecosystem could provide.
So what does one do? Should one come up with some solution - say, Titan's thick clouds reflect heat - or just ignore the problem altogether and plot a methane atmosphere down where one should not exist? I'm stumped!
{Easy! Just use a converter, as in Simak's "Desertion". You press a switch and hey presto, you're given the body of a methane-blooded Titanian, or Titanic, or whatever they're called.
By the way I hope to keep up the diary on my holiday week. We shall see how good I am at multi-tasking. Since the diary is fun, it ought to be compatible with relaxation. Unless the relaxation turns out to be hard work.}
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