…in what proximity would you have to be to the sun and how fast would you have to be spinning (like a rotisserie chicken) so that your light side didn’t burn and your dark side didn’t freeze; rotating just enough to keep a relatively stable temperature?
Absolutely absurd, I know but this question somehow popped into my head and won’t leave. 😆🐔🔥🧊
I think part of the unintuitiveness is caused by our knowledge that things quickly freeze in space.
Freezing is produced by a combination of temperature and pressure, but because the former fluctuates a lot more than the latter in our daily experience, the role of pressure isn’t part of our intuition. But in a vacuum, things freeze even at relatively high temperatures.