Re: Happy New Year's

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
27 Dec 1998 16:38:20 +0100

EvMick@aol.com writes:

> In a message dated 12/26/98 5:50:46 PM Central Standard Time,
> damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:
> > -- *winter* season? Are you mad? It's blazingly hot! 40-odd degrees
> > Celsius most days! This is *December*, the early stretch of summer.
> > February will be a nightmare of heat stroke and UVA.
>
> ahh....if only there were a way to take the best of both hemispheres (summer)
> and experience only that....and avoid the dread and dreary (not to mention
> COLD) winter.

I second that. Right now I'm in Kalix, at the northernmost tip of the Gulf of Bothnia (near the swedish-finnish border). The day is around four hours long, and today it was so cloudy that at noon it was still a blue-tinted dusk. Fortunately it is unseasonally warm, just -10 degrees celsius (last week it was -27).

Of course, this is why I want to live in an O'Neill colony with controlled climate and length of day. That's the way of avoiding the problems of living on a spheroid with uncontrolled axial tilt :-) 

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