From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 5, 2014 2:43:16 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
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   > > > On Friday, October 3, 2014 10:33:22 PM UTC-4, bre...@sff.net wrote:   
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   > > >> Weather is also an important part of worldbuilding. What would Hoth be,   
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   > > >> if it were not an ice planet?   
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   > > > I don't quite remember if that book actually had a monolithic worldwide   
   > > > climate.  I don't think that's really plausible for an Earthlike world.   
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   > > Even Earth is believed to have once had such a climate by many   
   > > geologists, and one just like Hoth's at that.   
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   > I think that all the proposed "slush-ball" Earths were before large animals   
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   They are at the end of the Precambrian Period, which is now pretty much called   
   the Neoproteozoic Period.  That is, the break between the era of shadowy   
   frond-like and flat disk critters, and the era of well-defined trilobites and   
   sea scorpions.   
      
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