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>TML nightly     Thu Sep 26 20:31:47 PDT 1991    Volume 26 : Issue 5
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>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 11:25:06 EDT
>From: [email removed] (Burton Choinski.)
>Subject: (2919)
>
>Subject: Revision

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>In a related note, for TDR people, I have tweaked my world generating
>system into a blend of 2300ad, traveller and other sources.
>As a result, I had to pitch the spinward marches out the window
>and regenerate it.  Here is a sample world:
>
>Zdazeplipl  (Zh)  B 12k 0.74g Thi/VLo t  57%   6b 78-B <A->  -- (3 )
>
>Cryptic?  Mabye.  But much more real in the way it is generated than
>by using a 2-12 range...
>
>
>Oxygen: Based on the amount of water present, and assuming oxygen
>molecules can't escape the planet, I determine an oxygen
>content.  It is possible now to have worlds with thin atmospheres,
>but require oxygen tanks.  Likewise, you can have very thin pressures
>but enough oxygen pressure to breath without respirators.
>In the info above, the world has a Thin atmosphere and a Very Low
>Oxygen content.

Good.  Splitting up the atmosphere and its contents I like.  I was going to
suggest that you rate the atmosphere in total pressure and partial pressure of
oxygen, but on second reading, I see that you have, just in descriptive instead
of numerical terms.  Theoretically, a human can breathe fine in a pure oxy
atmosphere who's total pressure equals the partial pressure of oxy on Earth,
right? (the figure 3.5 pounds stickss in my head for this)  Leaving out
problems dealing with the low pressure, of course.

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>The "--" notes the number of rings, number of moons.  I determine
>number of sattelites, randomly figure the orbits, and shatter
>any that fall within the roche limit.
>
Ahhh, yes.  The Roche limit.  I read many years ago, that Luna is inside
Terra's Roche Limit, yet Luna doesn't break up from tidal stresses.  Does
anyone know if that question has been settled?  Not being a planetologist type,
I sort of lost track of the question.


Paul.
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"You see me now a veteran,
     Of a thousand psychic wars,
         I've been living on the edge so long,
             Where the winds of Limbo roar.
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