On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >Hang on a minute, statistically planets in the Solar System do not have a > >large moon and yet are "upright"; for example Mars comes very close to the > >conditions required to generate a leapseconds email exploder. > > As far as I know the atmosphere is far to cold for that :-)
Similar to our polar regions where whales scoff krill all summer long! A bit more mass -> bit more atmospheric pressure, and ok maybe a bit closer to the Sun... Of course, life may have flourished on Mars 3 billion years ago and then the Martians introduced the leap hour and the rest is pre-history... Pete.
