Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Fri Oct 14 2005 14:27:06

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Mark Nobles wrote:

> Bill Jillians wrote:
 
>> I just thought some of the planets in the Serenity universe might be 
>> further away from the sun and so be colder.  Everywhere they went
>> looked sunny and temperate (like Ca).  I just thought they might be a
>> little more imaginative.  How about a savanna planet for instance? 
>> How often do you see one of those.
 
> Now why is it that people always assume that a terraformed planet
> would be "a savanna planet" or a "desert planet"? Why wouldn't a
> terraformed planet have places that are savanna, places that are
> desert, places that are tropical rainforests, and places that are
> ice-covered, just like the model they are based on? It is just silly
> to think that a planet would have only one environment.

You don't like the George Lucas mono-environments Hoth, Tatooine, 
Endor...

Every planet should have different terrain types, a world may be more 
temperate than others, but each will have swamp, forest, plain, and the 
like. A lot of this depends on how much water they could get to each one 
versus how much water was there when they landed.

Temperature differences could be accounted for with shades, mirrors, and 
greenhouse gasses.

Only those with axial tilt will get pronounced seasons though. 

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

.