…in what proximity would you have to be to the sun and how fast would you have to be spinning (like a rotisserie chicken) so that your light side didn’t burn and your dark side didn’t freeze; rotating just enough to keep a relatively stable temperature?

Absolutely absurd, I know but this question somehow popped into my head and won’t leave. 😆🐔🔥🧊

  • Jolteon
    6·
    12 hours ago

    Without the atmosphere, UV is going to be among the least dangerous wavelengths for you to have to worry about.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      looks puzzled

      I don’t think that it mostly stops more-energetic stuff.

      Hmm.

      Are you thinking of the magnetosphere rather than the atmosphere? I didn’t mention that, but I guess that’d also be a factor.

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        The atmosphere stops a lot of the high energy stuff. It gets absorbed, and turned into a shower of lower energy particles.

        I remember reading once about an astronaut seeing blue flashes in their eyes. When they realised, they got behind the water tank sharpish. It was high energy particles passing through their eyeballs.