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Favorite single biome planet trope lacking latitudinal variations:
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You will overcome the attacks of jealous associates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2024, @05:28PM (12 children)
Dune
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2024, @05:53PM (8 children)
AKA Arrakis [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @02:13PM (1 child)
One might wonder if the spice worms of Arrakis might have thrived on Tatooine albeit invasively.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @04:58PM
Or produce a sarlacc-sandworm hybrid.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ese002 on Thursday February 22 2024, @11:21PM (1 child)
As I recall (books are in storage) there is a map in _Dune_ showing that all the action happens near the North pole of Arrakis. This suggests that Arrakis actually does have latitudinal variations but the rest of the planet is considered uninhabitable.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2024, @02:43AM
Most of the action on Dune occurs in the Northern hemisphere. This is because the shield wall and bedrock protected the area from incursion by the sandworms. Fremen inhabit other areas of Arrakis, but only the Northern 75° of the planet have been explored by the imperials because the Fremen use the uninhabitable equatorial area, weather control, their defense forces, extensive camouflage, and bribes from their spice smuggling operations in the southern half to keep their various activities there hidden. However, they do describe the southern half as being very similar to the north, with the major difference being less and smaller shield rocks.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday February 19 2024, @03:11PM (1 child)
Caladan with almost continuous rain might be better.
My New Years resolution for 2025: DON'T MAKE A NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR 2025! That way, I can't break it.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday February 20 2024, @10:19PM
So, choosing between Arizona and Seattle? Tough call.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2024, @08:13PM
The one with all the androids.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 17 2024, @09:29PM (17 children)
To the AC (who all know who it was) who claims that the previous poll was archive early - you are an idiot!
The polls and stories all archive automatically. There isn't, as far as I am aware, a way of archiving one 'early'.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @09:29AM (11 children)
Then why did janrinok close the discussion in the prior poll? Something is not adding up. Could it be, . . . censorship?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Sunday February 18 2024, @09:59AM
I withdrew my participation in a discussion that was off-topic, repetitive and yet another attempt by you to stir up trouble. I was informing you that you would receive no more discussion from me. As is the case in this comment too.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @05:23PM (9 children)
^ that did happen and janrinok wants to deny it, removed previous message stating this fact and reposted this offtopic apology. So he gets to lie about his actions then delete comments pointing out the lie?
Come the fuck on! I understand closing the discussion for spam related reasons, I don't understand lying about it
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 18 2024, @05:39PM (8 children)
I do not know a way of archiving a poll 'early'. It timed out on 31 days.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 18 2024, @05:44PM (7 children)
I have just checked an confirmed. I can see no way of editing a Poll once it has been released. We do not have access to who can post to it, or when it times out. You can make any allegations that you wish but there is no way I can see of doing what you believe happened. I simply close my discussion with another person. I cannot see any way to close or archive a Poll.
I am now closing this discussion with you,
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @06:05PM (1 child)
AlI can tell you is there was a discussion with you. I checked it and comments were disabled and my non-spam comment had been removed. I checked later and comments were enabled again and an AC had replied condemning criticisms. Then comments were turned back off again.
How it happened is up to you to sort out. Funny how "bugs" like this keep happening and no one ever knows why. I consider this matter closed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @09:34PM
My comment was deleted, too. I have a sad.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2024, @02:18AM (2 children)
Emacs is the solution to the problem you didn't know you had.
(/me ducks and runs for cover)
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @02:08PM (2 children)
While there was not much in the way of biome in the description of Trantor [wikipedia.org], I seem to recall a similar lack of latitudinal variation.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 19 2024, @01:47AM
Tractor and all the city-planets: Corsucant, etc.
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(Score: 2) by ese002 on Thursday February 22 2024, @11:32PM
How would you know? Apart from the Imperial Palace, the entire surface is covered in climate controlled domes. Maybe there are hurricanes above the tropical domes and blizzards above the polar domes but nobody goes there.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snospar on Sunday February 18 2024, @05:16PM (1 child)
"I don't know lad, it's like no cheese I ever tasted." Wallace & Grommit
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2024, @11:42PM
Speaking of moons, Pandora [wikipedia.org] should be an option.
Where else would you go for unobtanium? Breathing might be tricky though.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Mykl on Sunday February 18 2024, @09:30PM (7 children)
I suspect that Endor's popularity is not due to its small furry population, but rather because it's the one that would be the most comfortable to live on. At least, that's why I chose it.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by istartedi on Sunday February 18 2024, @10:58PM (2 children)
It was mine too; but it's a bitter-sweet choice. The sweet is that it would indeed be a good place to live. In fact, it was shot on location in NorCal. The bitter is that it was old growth redwood, and it got logged. We're down to 5% now. There's a sustainable 2nd growth redwood industry now, and I've got no problem with that. Even in the 80s, it was hard to justify taking those giants down, and particularly hard in this case: Leaving them in place could have created a fantastic tourist attraction in an area that became depressed due to being logged out, and turned to weed growing. What real fan would not want to visit the actual location? Most of it is gone [sfgate.com]. How did the movie geniuses throw that opportunity away?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 19 2024, @07:17PM (1 child)
Walt learned after Disneyland to buy up all the surrounding real-estate for Disney World.
If Lucas really were a visionary, the Star Wars franchise was obviously a major hit before they started shooting Jedi - he could indeed have predicted the future potential of "Ewoks land" as a quasi-eco-tourism play, not that eco-tourism was much of a thing in 1983 but that's where the visionary bit comes in. He certainly could have afforded the land with the in-tact old growth trees by then, a shrewd land seller would have demanded a cut of the gross earnings for 50 years after release...
Instead we got those two absolute cheeseball movies featuring poor actors in bad wrinkly brown fur costumes. And you can rewatch them endlessly with a D+ streaming subscription.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2024, @09:46AM
You also forgot about the much more forgettable TV show. Some episodes are truly terrible, but others are surprisingly good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2024, @11:44PM (2 children)
Under the canon, Endor isn’t a single biome. It has a wide variety of biomes and climes. And the forests aren’t exactly safe either. They are home to all sorts of dangerous plants and intelligent animals. It might be nice enough to make a home but the constant caution required would probably wear thin.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday February 19 2024, @06:11PM
But... Treehouses!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday February 19 2024, @03:20PM
Arbor. One of the moons of Mongo in the 1980 Flash Gordon movie.
Trees and swamp.
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(Score: 2) by Murdoc on Sunday February 18 2024, @10:49PM (4 children)
...what little of it we see. And being Star Wars, I assume it was single-biome. :p (I know, it sure is now...sigh.)
I like mountains.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 19 2024, @07:21PM (3 children)
Actually, the little pockets of Alderaan life that survived would have been isolated and evolved into highly diverse communities --- of vacuum tolerant microbes if it were our galaxy, but a long time ago in a galaxy far far away apparently they had giant worm things with Mynocs flying around inside them which could live on tiny asteroids with scarce atmosphere and no reliable sources of food.
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(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday February 21 2024, @12:30AM (2 children)
What are you talking about? They obviously fed on the midichlorians that were generated within their systems in a beautiful example of symbiosis.
Psst - Kathleen Kennedy. I'm available if you need new writers. And I'm cool with exploring under-represented minorities in the SWU, such as giant asteroid/sand/aquatic worms, Wampas, Sand People and green-skinned dancers. May I suggest a movie exploring the forbidden love between a Sarlacc and a Sando Aqua Monster? [fandom.com]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday February 21 2024, @01:47AM (1 child)
Aren't midichlorians just magic quantum entangled mitochondria?
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday February 29 2024, @02:43PM
You got the magic part right at least.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by istartedi on Sunday February 18 2024, @11:11PM (1 child)
How about Moclus [fandom.com], ironically perhaps. It sort of gives you hope if you think Earth is going to exterminate all non-human species, and that you'll never get a girl... assuming you want a girl and if you don't, then all the better.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2024, @12:12AM
If you are going to mention Moclus, then you should also mention Sanctuary. It is the opposite of Moclus in almost every way, including the population being almost exclusively women.
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 19 2024, @02:30AM (3 children)
I've always been partial to ice worlds. Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley) was one of the first cold, or ice age worlds I explored. There aren't a lot of major novels, but there have been dozens of short stories on ice worlds and/or ice age worlds.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by The Vocal Minority on Friday March 01 2024, @05:18AM
Icerigger - Alan Dean Foster
A reasonably fun adventure story, not amazing, and definitely not hard scifi.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2024, @07:33PM (7 children)
: “Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday February 21 2024, @07:39PM (5 children)
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday February 21 2024, @09:02PM
It's rather hard to find a single-biome planet in Starfield Universe, most have multiple biomes even if barren, but one such preferable single-biome is Pluto, Sol system.
No annoying fauna crawling around and conditions favorable enough for mining Titanium (Ti) and Wolfram (W*) early in game. And you need these a lot if you want to build big industry elsewhere.
Plenty of abandoned/deserted pre-War facilities to explore and plunder too.
Yes, I know this planet was officially un-planeted by IAU but as self-esteemed sovereign Spacer I do not accept such bureaucratic un-designation.
[*] Some funny people call this metal a Tungsten.
Rust programming language offends both my Intelligence and my Spirit.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Spook brat on Friday February 23 2024, @04:49PM (1 child)
From the movie "interstellar" we have Miller's Planet, orbiting a black hole just outside the Roche limit. High gravity (130% of Earth's), extreme time dilation of 1 hr planet time / 7 years off-planet (with frame dragging as well), and 4,000ft-high tidal waves that sweep the surface about once an hour (local frame of reference).
What's not to love? Grab your surf board and get ready to catch the biggest wave of your life!
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday February 29 2024, @02:47PM
I prefer my planets be much farther than that from a black hole.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday March 01 2024, @08:35PM (1 child)
I'm not sure an entire planet of Tom Hankses counts as a "biome".
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Sunday March 03 2024, @01:08PM
No, "moon" is that action that Forrest is doing.
Which means we get to see a very different biome instead...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2024, @09:19AM
I'd had preferred 12 in the Riddick to Fast&Furious