Timeline for In the Alien series, what is the meaning of the "LV" designation for planets and moons?
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| Aug 14, 2021 at 8:59 | history | protected | Rand al'Thor♦ | ||
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| Mar 14, 2017 at 8:49 | history | unprotected | Aegon | ||
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 10:10 | answer | added | Bishop | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 5:15 | comment | added | Joe L. | I've often seen the L-class designation used to indicate marginally habitable planets in many SF works, usually cold, rocky planets with minimal plant life and little or no animal life. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 8:40 | comment | added | user28716 | The "LV" of satellites, as catalogued by the Weyland-Yutani corporation, was named after one of our chief science officers in our planetary exploration department, (now retired) he was called Lawrence Vandon. | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 11:08 | comment | added | RossC | There's no canon I can find, I always assumed it meant 'Life Viable' planets... But that's just my own assumption. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 19:43 | vote | accept | Chris B. Behrens | ||
| Jun 25, 2012 at 13:44 | comment | added | Chris B. Behrens | @KyleJones - tidal locking to the primary is not a problem. It's tidal locking to the star which would be the problem. But there are other problems, like a potentially extended solar eclipse, vis a vis Pitch Black. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 21:43 | comment | added | Kyle Jones | @Michael Noted, but temperatures that would make an Antarctic winter look like a hot day in the Sahara, plus lakes of antifreeze are a long way from supporting the lifestyle to which Ewoks have become accustomed. To support life beyond prokaryotes, I think you'll need higher surface temperatures, which means being close enough to the sun where the tidal locking starts making daytime temperatures uncomfortable. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 20:36 | answer | added | Thaddeus Howze | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 17:06 | comment | added | KutuluMike | @Kyle except that Saturn's moon Titan is seriously considered one of the most potentially life-supporting places in the solar system due to its Earth-like atmosphere. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 15:59 | answer | added | Jason Rob | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 15:42 | comment | added | Justin C | @gnovice - I understand that, the comment was just already pretty long. My question still remains, did they mention how many planets there were? Planets would most likely be the basis of a naming convention for an extra solar system, and moons would then be subsets in the naming scheme. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 6:54 | comment | added | Kyle Jones | It's surprising how often the "habitable moon of a gas giant" idea has been reused in sf. I don't see how it would work in reality, given the moon would inevitably be tidally locked to the primary and have a kiln-like climate from being rotisseried like our own Moon is. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 5:32 | comment | added | gnovice | @Justin C: LV-426 and LV-223 aren't planets. They are two of the three moons orbiting the gas giant Calpamos. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 4:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/216751325826912256 | ||
| Jun 24, 2012 at 3:38 | comment | added | Justin C | was there any mention in the movie of how many other planets may have been in orbit of the star along with LV-426? Some proposed naming schemes for extra-solar planets have discussed using characters to note the order of a planet along with other planets of the same star. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 2:10 | history | asked | Chris B. Behrens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |