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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodside Kid: [QB] When I pointed out the temperature problems with terraforming Mars, I didn't pull those figures out of thin air. I used a formula for computing the temperature of a planet warmed by a star, radiating as a black body, and possessing an atmosphere. That formula, for the math freaks, is: T = 374 G(1 - A) I^1/4, where A = albedo (the amount of energy absorbed) G = greenhouse effect I = total amount of incident light (Sun = 1) I used the same values for Earth's atmosphere in my computations; the [i]only[/i] thing I changed was I, which varies at the square of the distance from the sun. That's how I computed the roughly hundred degree variance each way. The formula comes from the book "World-Building", by Stephen L. Gillett. I recommend it to anyone considering trying to design a solar system from scratch. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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