--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
It could be worse. We could be living on the surface of a golf ball. :-)
Actually that would be impossible, as the pits on a golf ball would translate to differences of several hundreds of miles, even rather steep cliffs at the edges.
The weather patterns would be extremely localized, and solar energies would make each pit a virtual cauldron. At the very least, the life generated on such such a planet wouldnt resemble life as its developed here --consisting mostly of extremophiles at the hot low and cold high regions. And thats assuming the process of water/atmosphere creation and maintenance were successful and continuous.
Did I miss anything?
SV ...besides the actual point of the thread?
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