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[Haunt]

[SPEC] Seasons in Perplex City

[Rob_Riv]

Re: [SPEC] Seasons in Perplex City

[James Lyon]

Think could be the name for a company or a product, as in Think is being made ready for the spring season. Whatever that could mean.

[<PSH>]

Based on this article [OOG] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2233949.stm [/OOG] i'd say the british and american seasons are pretty much the same. Based specificly on the picture caption that says Autumn ( commonly also call Fall in the US but still called Autumn when being formal) now lasts passed Oct. I surmise that UK seasons start 1 month earlier then US seasons ( which are based on equinoxes and solstices ) but they still fall in the same order.


I think what Haunt was tring to say was that he is specing that perplex city seasons are Autumn -> Summer -> Spring -> Winter or something weird like that ... but i think he is over looking the possability that they could be looking at the NEXT spring almost a full year away ... that would make perplexians pretty fashion obssessed but based on the whole shoe email thing i don't find that so far fetched...

[Rob_Riv]

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[theMoo]

[Salkunh]

my theory is that they are in a huge bio-dome and the seasons are generated by a computer

[firefox]

what he means is



if earth was spinning clockwise (in this diagram) and say we start at the summer solstice, our normal earth would go through: summer, autumn, winter, spring

but bizzaro earth would: spring winter autumn summer

eg. reversed. thats about it in a nutshell.

seasons RELATIVE to us would be s,w,a,s .. maybe i didnt make that clear? of course their seasons would be something like: hot coldest cold hotest relative to normal earth spinning at hottest, cold, codest, hot. what happens to plant life and vegetation on the planet as it spins through that different cycle? ask a biological/atmospheric scientist, they would certainly not have the same types of weather. i dont think they were suggesting its going back in time, weatherwise, it just has an opposite seasonal change.

how did this come about again anywho? either way its taken a bit OT. feel free to further discuss tho, planet vegetation models for a planetary equivalent of earth travelling in an opposite orbit is not my area of expertise.

edit: to further clarify, autumn and spring are virtually identical rotational wise. leaves fall off in autumn because its approaching winter eg cold, in this case their spring becomes their autumn, their autumn becomes their spring, winter and summer should remain in same place.

[NovacaineX]

It's impossible for them to be in a different order actually. Thnk of it this way.

Winter
Season that gets warmer (we call spring)
Summer
Season that gets colder (we call autumn)


Now it has to get colder between summer and winter, and warmer between winter and summer. If they are any different it's in name only. spinning an opposite direction (itself, not around the sun) would simply change the times of day that it's light and dark on different places of the planet. Spining oppositely around the sun would essentially have no effect. it'd still be winter when the earth is tilted away from the sun, and still summer when it's tilted towards it.

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