Comment on Sun God

• BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  on Mercury and the entire sky is blazing sun

  I’ve never thought about this and holy shit

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s not the case though. Sure the sun would seem bigger on mercury but it’s not godda fill the entire sky.

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• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, nothing on Mercury survives. At night it’s -170 degrees Celsius and +430 degrees at day.

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  • Lyrl@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There was a time people thought Mercury would have some “twilight” acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So we just need movable habitats like in Howl’s Moving Castle or Mortal Engines

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  • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those are some mercurial tempera…tures

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