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		waingake on Feb 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Might First Find Life on Tidally Locked Planets I imagine Game of Thrones is set on such a planet :)

lordnacho on Feb 21, 2015 [–]

Surely there are day and night scenes in the same place?

waingake on Feb 21, 2015 | [–]

True. So a little tilt then, enough so the sun sets just below the horizon - a day and night in the habitable zone. But when "winter comes" the tilt gets out of whack for a while.

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