Earth, after all, is the only example we have of a life-producing world, so for decades we have sought its mirror image — a rocky world that's neither too hot nor too cold to have liquid water on its surface.
Earth, after all, is the only example we have of a life-producing world, so for decades we have sought its mirror image a rocky world that's neither too hot nor too cold to have liquid water on its surface.
That was a surprise to many scientists who thought the Moon was too small and too cold to have ever possessed a geomagnetic dynamo where electric currents from the convection of molten iron generate a field.
"It ruined the business for the bars because no one wants to go out in the cold to have a cigarette, or if you're having a conversation, instead of you and me having a conversation, we have to get up and excuse ourselves and go outside.
The fact-free example of cable "news" that he cited was utterly nonpolitical: an excerpt from that network's discussion of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in which a laughing anchor expressed shock that such an eruption could have happened in Iceland, which is "too cold to have a volcano".
When Sophia sees the thermometer at 85° Fahrenheit she infers that it is not too cold to have dinner in the garden.
