New Berlin - How do you see it?

[schlurbi]

Actually, why haven't Rheinland enquired to Planetform about helping warm the planet up to make it a more suitable planet? My assumption is that it needs a lot of carbon dioxide (& co) to get it warmed up, then sort out the soil with various things. Planetform boys can fill me in there.

Actually, Rheinland if you pardon this line.
"Y U NO PLANETFORM?"

Hmm, then again, one year of night, one year of daylight. Another problem...

Curse you New Berlin and you enigmatic ways!

Planetform does make Planets habitable, but only habitable. It's not possible to change a dead Wasteland into a Paradise. In the New-Berlin Case they wouldn't be able to do much.

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[Valinor]

Greenhouses to grow your crops. Evergreens could survive there, as could some grasses. The averages would be 1 celcius around the equator (which would make the equator a colder temperate zone) to -70 at the poles on average - completely inhospitable. I would imagine the majority of the New Berlin population originally settled along the equator, and has since branched out further north and south, as thermal insulation technology became more commonplace.

Agreed.

Besides,

Planet Earth, −89.2 °C / 56.7 °C and yet here we are.

Those are only the maximum and minimum temperatures. Living at 0°C or less is perfectly possible. To that, add the fact they have a superior technology to "ours" and living there shoudn't be /that/ bad.

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[r3vange]

[color=#FFFFFF]It has so much ice and frozen water on it that if they warm it up, they can forget about having any landmasses.

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[jammi]

Planetform does make Planets habitable, but only habitable. It's not possible to change a dead Wasteland into a Paradise. In the New-Berlin Case they wouldn't be able to do much.

Actually, the only purpose of Terraforming Gases is to heat planets up, if you read the infocard.

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[Zynth]

So...the Rheinlanders live underground?

With central heating, the planet should be livable.

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[Fletcher]

That's my assumption, in the same sense as a space Metro 2033 or Total Recall. Only without the mutants.

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[Syrus]

The main problem I was pointing at was missing oxygen-producing plants due to the extreme cold. But maybe life on earth isn't just a special thing and life on other planets is much more probable and not dependend on as many factors as we think.

Still, the "living underground" thing explains a lot. Guess the landing area is one of the few "above ground" places then. Actually I like the idea of a lot of stuff being build underground on such planet. Makes sense with the geothermal energy available.

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[Fletcher]

All the building of New Berlin are on a giant set of rails. The entire population moves as the planet rotates so they can stay on the sunny side.

Blindfolds are a must for sleeping.

Wait, where did you get the information about that? Is it even possible on such a large scale?

Planetform does make Planets habitable, but only habitable. It's not possible to change a dead Wasteland into a Paradise. In the New-Berlin Case they wouldn't be able to do much.

Pumping terraforming gases isn't hard, warming the planet up could be a stage, then seeding clouds for rain and such. Converting the soil would be a hard as nails thing to do on such a barren planet.

[color=#FFFFFF]It has so much ice and frozen water on it that if they warm it up, they can forget about having any landmasses.

Yeah true, would turn a veritable New Berlin into a New Tokyo with all that locked up water.

I'd like to knw your graphic mod.

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[Pinko]

Not that I'd want to bring realism into Freelancer, but could people even live on New Berlin? I mean, a temperature of below 0° C during the whole year means life can't exists. Especially as the planet turns that slow, life on one side will almost die out until it's summer again.

Lifeforms only are adapted to the planet we live on. If the conditions are right on another planet, plants adapted to their own climate could thrive there as well.

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