Galilean terraformation

--- In spacesettlers@y..., "Dr. Omni" wrote:
> to put enough sunlight to raise
> the temperature just to the melting point in the equator and leave
the rest
> of the world in deep freeze. I don't like this plan, perhaps
because I'm
> Brazilian and anything below 10 C (or 50 F) is unbearably cold for
me. (In
> fact, when I visited the United States during the winter, my hopes
that
> someday Humanity would colonize space were boosted: after all,
there were
> already people living in places that *I* consider uninhabitable! ;-)
>
> Lucio

Leaving the polar caps icy would reduce the effects of tidal waves.
Jupiter's tidal forces are incredible; they cause Io to erupt
continuously.

I live in Calgary, Canada. I just looked at the thermometer
outside: -21C at 6 am, and the sun won't be up for a few hours yet.
I have been outside in temperatures as low as -47C without the wind
chill, and temperatures as low as -86C with the wind chill (by the
way, even minor frostbite sucks). Ten degrees is a pleasant spring
day, I wouldn't even wear a jacket. 35C is unbearably hot.

I guess Einstein was right: everything IS relative.

:) ed