“Ah, yes, the tropical rainforest planet.”
“By ‘tropical rainforest planet’, do you mean it’s got rainforest around the equator, or that it’s entirely covered in rainforest?“
“The whole thing is rainforest, yes.”
“Huh. Wild! Still, calling it all ‘tropical rainforest’ is misleading, as the tropics refer to the areas around a planet’s equator.”
“Oh, the jungle planet doesn’t have an equator.”
“It—what? Of course it does. It has to! All spheroid planets capable of sustaining life have equators, it just refers to the division between the poles along the axis of rotation.”
“No, no, you see, I know that. But the jungle planet doesn’t have a single axis of rotation. Instead, it wriggles around so that every part of it is equally heated.”
“That sounds fake, but I don’t know enough about planets to tell you how stupid that is.”
“The inhabitants call it Sous-vide.”
fun fact: the tropics are the area around the equator, but how much area around the equator depends on the planet’s axial tilt. a planet with a 90° axial tilt would be entirely tropical. in our solar system, Uranus is 99% tropics by surface
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