[gurps] TL10 ocean going

[Wyrm]

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> About the weather though.  It all depends if average temperatures on
> this planet are equivalent to Earth.  If the planet orbits around a
> cooler star (and is *gasp* tidelocked say around a red subdwarf
> star), weather will be practically non existant.  In fact in a
> tidelocked world, habitable ranges will be only in the dim 'twilight'
> halo at the edges of the dayside and nightside.  The dayside will
> have a 24/7/365 (assuming an unrealistic identical orbital period
> equal to earths) hurricane that Earth has never seen the likes of,
> making life absolutely impossible there.  Likewise on the side of the
> planet that never sees light, there won't be any photosynthesis, and
> temperatures will be like the depth of antarctic winters... hovering
> around -146 degrees fahrenheit (the lowest temperature recorded at
> Vostok, Antarctica).  In this 'twilight' area of the planet, waves
> will be calm, and you might even see hydrofoils and definitely will
> see WiGE technology.

The habitable zone will never see calm weather, warm water and air will 
continually be circulating toward the night side in the shallower 
currents and at the higher altitude, while cold air and water will be 
rushing in from the cold side... The habitable zone will be were they 
collide. There may be narrow bands on either side of this storm area 
that get enough light for plankton, nutrients carried from the cold 
ocean floor will feed other microbes.


> 
> Certainly with all that underwater topography, much of your life will
> probably go underwater.  Again making small supercavitating subs and
> larger non-SC subs the majority of your craft. ----- Original Message
> ----- From: Captain Joy To: The GURPSnet mailing list Sent: Friday,
> February 29, 2008 3:16 PM Subject: [gurps] TL10 ocean going
> 
> 
> What would TL10 sea-going vessels be like?  Specifically, on 50 year
>  old TL10(11) colony on a world that has 95% hydrographic coverage?
>  This is a Star Trek (30 years before the original series) universe.
>  I've set the Federation tech level at 11^ with medical tech at 9. --
>  Captain Joy captainjoy at mac.com "[Democracy] can only exist until the
> voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the
> public treasury." --Alexander Tytler (author unverified)
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