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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 662401" data-attributes="member: 99">Go ahead and bet your life on it.  Isn't that what Mad Scientists do anyway?Yes, Sigil was right the first time about the tides.  High tide occurs on opposite sides of the planet at the same time.  That's what tides are after all:  One side of an object being pulled toward an orbiting mass while the other side is being flung away from it.I'd like to second the books recommended in this thread.  The Larry Niven - Known Space books are very fun.  WayneLigon left out mentioning the planet Canyon which is pretty much the opposite of Mount Lookatthat.  The only habitable area on Canyon is a gigantic canyon that is low enough down to make the atmosphere breathable.  The people live on the walls of the canyon in apartments carved into the rock.Larry Niven is my favorite author and he even has a tie in with WotC.  There's a Magic: The Gathering card called Nevinyrral's Disk named for a magical item from one of his other books.The Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars books are also an interesting read although they spend much more time on character development and less on physics than the Niven books do.</blockquote>