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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kemrain" data-source="post: 2484787" data-attributes="member: 12153">Now we have some decent suggestions going. Thanks people, this is great.I think I've sold myself on the high radiation solutin, as I have excuses for why humans are able t survive it. It would also give the aurora effect, which would be smothered in dense cloud cover most of the time. An earth-sized 'moon,' mostly oceanic, around a large brown dwarf, tidally locked so that the inhabited side faces the dwarf and only rarely got sunlight and was eclipsed for much of it's orbit.  If the light levels ara still too high we can throw in some volcanic ash to disperse more ofthe illumination and give the flaura another source of neutrients, right? We'd have a raindorest because the side that got the most sunlight would be mostly water, causing huge ammounts of evaporation and condensation around the globe on the darker parts.Being close to the dwarf could cause the required volcanic activity, ala Io and (so they say) Europa. From what I understand, Jupiter puts out enough high energy radiation to make the surfaces of most of it's moons deadly to earth-type life, which could be mitigated here by the strong magnetic field (which would be warped badly by the dwarf's own field, right?) and thick atmosphere, right? I doubt, though, that it would be brought down to human-safe levels, and that's acceptable as long as it's not enough radiation to cook someone.Any more ideas? Snapdragyn, yoink away, by all means.- Kemrain the Grateful for the Assistance.</blockquote>

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