Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:41 pm
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Binary sunsets - possible?
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Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:47 pm
Where's Drew when you need him?
Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:17 am
only two? they had three in Pitch Black.
Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:53 am
.....and look what happened when they all set!Killer Wolf wrote:only two? they had three in Pitch Black.
Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:41 pm
Didn't AC Clarke write a short story about a society that collapses into chaos and everybody goes mad because they were in a trinary system where it was never dark so they didn't have electric lighting or anything like that. Their history told of the sky turning black and disaster befalling the world. Then it turns out that there's another planet in they system that on occasion eclipsed all three suns, except this system is near the centre of the galaxy so the sky goes black and then fills with the pinpricks of light from millions of stars...
Can't remember what it's called though.
Can't remember what it's called though.
Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:44 pm
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall.
Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:47 pm
Six suns in that system... Lagash, was it?
Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:49 pm
Smivs wrote:Isaac Asimov - Nightfall.
I read a lot of Clarke and Asimov when I was younger - they were interchangeable in the end - as I have just proved...Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:50 pm
Two of the 'greats'.
Re: Binary sunsets - possible?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:52 pm
Indeed.El Viejo wrote:Two of the 'greats'.