From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-10-05 18:43:14 +0000, J.Pascal said:   
      
   > On Saturday, October 4, 2014 9:58:34 AM UTC-6, John W Kennedy wrote:   
   >> On 2014-10-04 06:33:48 +0000, William Vetter said:   
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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   
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   >>> 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   
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   >> 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 existed.   
      
   Yes. There have even been suggestions that "Snowball Earth" provoked   
   the development of multicellular life.   
      
      
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