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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Well, since the Marcuses "couldn't cram a byte more" into their programming, they probably cheated and copy-pasted some of their landform templates. :p Or then the planet indeed is wobbly, perhaps spinning around multiple axes. If it were thrown together from nebular mass, this is actually a reasonable possibility: the Genesis device wasn't supposed to do such things, so it had no provision for simulating the millennia of Newtonian Wienerwaltz that would give a planet its nice and orderly spin. OTOH, if the Genesis planet actually is the Regula asteroid or some other pre-existing rock in the Regula system genesiformed (which is the likelier explanation IMHO), we're speaking of a template that didn't have nice Class M climate to begin with - a potential tumbler or wobbler. OTTH, if we go in the other direction and claim that Genesis not only made the planet but also the star literally out of thin air, then we could see one sun setting and another rising while the planet rotates in an orderly and civilized manner. The "synthetic" star would probably be in fairly close orbit around the planet in order to be effective. Make that orbit retrograde and you're done. An Edosian would throw up his hands at this point. But a T*rellian would still be good for another attempt: OTFH, is that sunrise really a sunrise? Or perhaps just another sunset on that topsy-turvy planet with two-hour days, confusing the audience because of all the cuts? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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