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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 02:15 | Message # 76

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I still think that "Scorching" would make the most sense. To a native English speaker it says "extremely hot" more than any other word without being dramatic or implying anything about physical properties. In the scale it should be written as "Scorched" because of the way "Frozen" is written (if Scorching was used then Frozen would have to be changed to Freezing to keep it grammatically consistent). I'd also say that I've heard "Scorching" used to describe extremely hot ambient temperature more than any other word, so again it fits the criteria of being a common English word with one major definition (extreme heat).

So scale would be:
Scorched
Hot
Warm
Temperate
Cool
Cold
Frozen

If you decide to keep "Hot" at the high end of the scale, then the ONLY way it would be intuitive to a native English speaker would be:
Hot
Very Warm
Warm
Temperate
Cool
Cold
Frozen

The problems with this though are that a) it has a two-word term in a list of single words, and b) 'Hot' and 'Cold' are not opposite each other, which is slightly counter-intuitive since they are antonyms.

So ultimately it depends on whether it is more important to have a list that is elegant and intuitive for English-speakers, or a list that begins with 'Hot'.

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 05:44 | Message # 77

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HarbringerDawn, I like your first group of classifications. While i understand the grammatical significance of "scorched" and "frozen", I think that it would still make more sense as "scorching". When you describe the weather outside, you don't say its "scorched" you say it's "scorching". A Scorched planet seems to connotate that something scorched it, while "scorching" seems to refer to the temperature more, I'd say. I think English users would find "scorching" more fluid even though it doesn't fit with "frozen" grammatically.

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 06:44 | Message # 78

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mustafa2812, you wouldn't say it's "frozen" outside either, you would say it's "freezing" smile

But you're right. I don't mind one way or the other, just as long as it's consistent (scorched/frozen, or scorching/freezing). The only problem I have with scorching/freezing is that it makes it sound like an incomplete process, when in fact each of these planets is millions to billions of years old and has withstood these temperatures for eons. If I look in SpaceEngine and it says "Freezing Gas Giant", it makes me thing that the whole planet is in the process of freezing into a solid, which it isn't.

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A Scorched planet seems to connotate that something scorched it

Also don't forget, that something did scorch it: the heat of the star(s).

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 07:57 | Message # 79

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you wouldn't say it's "frozen" outside either, you would say it's "freezing"

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Also don't forget, that something did scorch it: the heat of the star(s)

Touche!

I guess my point was that it seems more fluid in English to have a frozen planet than a freezing one (like you said) but to me it sounds more fluid as scorching than scorched (scorched would sound weird with a gas giant, ice giant, or oceana or something i think).

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 20:29 | Message # 80

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I believe you found right grammar form guys:) I am not native English and don't understand all niceties. But I thought that "-ing" suffix describe a process, and can't be used here. Just think how that words will be seen in the engine: "Scorched desert", "Frozen ice world". BTW, in Russian localization I use "cryogenic" insted of "frozen" - I think it better desribes temperature range, because "frozen" in Russian is associated with water freezing, but water is frozen already at cool and cold classes. Second note - is "scorched" have good fit for melted lava planets?

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 20:39 | Message # 81

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I think scorching sounds better than scorched. Scorching is the form it usually is used in to describe temperatures (a scorching desert, for example), while scorched sounds more like the planet was once really close to its sun and got scorched really badly, and now you can still see the signs of it. I like the word 'infernal' better than scorched, though. (Though maybe a better place to use it would be if you add magma planets to name their planet type 'Inferno'.)

Frozen sounds much better than cryogenic in English; the word cryogenic is really only used for the practise of freezing in the corpses of people with more money than sense who hope a cure for death will one day be found and want to preserve their bodies for that. Frozen is somewhat associated with freezing water, yes, but also very much gives the impression of an extremely cold world in this case.

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 21:14 | Message # 82

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Frozen sounds much better than cryogenic in English; the word cryogenic is really only used for the practise of freezing in the corpses of people with more money than sense who hope a cure for death will one day be found and want to preserve their bodies for that.

LOL, I never thought about it smile

Maybe its my scientific education taking force - I think of "cryogenic" as a term for cryogenic technologies - liquid nitrogen and helium, superconductors, cooled CCD sensors for telescopes.

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 21:23 | Message # 83

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"Scorched oceania" and "Scorched ice giant" sounds really bad... Such planets really exist. Still bad terminology...

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Date: Saturday, 21.04.2012, 21:46 | Message # 84

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Well, should scorched Oceanias really exist at all? It seems rather odd to me. As for the scorched Ice Giants, yes that does sound weird, but so does hot ice giant and warm ice giant. It's more of a problem with the name ice giant than with scorched.

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Date: Sunday, 22.04.2012, 02:03 | Message # 85

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It's more of a problem with the name ice giant than with scorched

AGREE!
Maybe i need to be informed more about what a "hot" or "very hot" ice giant would be. Cause from my limited understanding, it doesn't make sense for ice to be hot.
I still see scorching as better than scorched.

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Date: Sunday, 22.04.2012, 02:13 | Message # 86

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"Scorched oceania" and "Scorched ice giant" sounds really bad... Such planets really exist.

How could you have liquid surface water at >800K surprised

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I like the word 'infernal' better than scorched,

I prefer to stay away from infernal because it has religious connotations (from the word for Hell) and also has other meanings than just temperature. It would be less appropriate than other terms.

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I think scorching sounds better than scorched. Scorching is the form it usually is used in to describe temperatures (a scorching desert, for example)

True, but as SpaceEngineer and I have pointed out, "-ing" implies and ongoing or incomplete process and may be counter-intuitive to some people, especially those who use English as a second language.

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Frozen sounds much better than cryogenic in English

I agree with this. Cryogenic makes much more sense to describe the temperature, but it also sounds awkward and many people are not familiar with the word. Frozen should remain here.

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Just think how that words will be seen in the engine: "Scorched desert", "Frozen ice world"

That is how I look at it too, and I agree, Scorched/Frozen sounds much more natural than Scorching/Freezing.

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As for the scorched Ice Giants, yes that does sound weird, but so does hot ice giant and warm ice giant. It's more of a problem with the name ice giant than with scorched.

Agreed. With Ice Giants it's just the chemical composition, not the matter phase, that yields the name (methane, water, ammonia, carbon dioxide, etc are all called "ices" in planetary science). So it still makes sense.

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Date: Sunday, 22.04.2012, 02:20 | Message # 87

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I still see scorching as better than scorched.

I somewhat agree with this. My biggest problem is that it sounds weird to have "Scorching" and "Frozen" on the same scale, they are in two different tenses, and is grammatically awkward. But maybe it is better to have "Scorching" than "Scorched"... maybe we should alter some screenshots with -ed and -ing and have some votes?

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Date: Sunday, 22.04.2012, 13:37 | Message # 88

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Maybe i need to be informed more about what a "hot" or "very hot" ice giant would be. Cause from my limited understanding, it doesn't make sense for ice to be hot.

As HarbingerDawn says, this is a scientific term that describes chemical composition of a planet, AND the phase state. Water and ammonia takes 50-80% of the mass of such planet, and has a form of solid crystals in the planetary interior due to giant pressure. The same for oceania planets. They're just an intermediate class between rocky Earth-like planets and ice giants. You can think of them as a small ice giants. Water still takes 50-80% of planetary mass, and has a form of solid ice modification called "ice-VII" deep inside the planet under giant pressure (ocean bottom is located at a 150-200 km depth and composed of ice-VII).

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How could you have liquid surface water at >800K

Hot oceania may not have a sharp surface, it may look like dense vapor atmosphere, it gradually becomes a liquid water and then ice-VII as it sinks deeper and deeper. The same for hydrogen behaviour in gas gaints - it becomes liquid and then solid smoothly.

To avoid weird phrases the "ice giant" can be renamed to "neptune" - another common term for this class of planets. But then "gas giant" should be renamed to "jupiter". I don't like this, however it makes sense - single-word classname, similar to "terra" for Terra-like planets and "selena" for Selena-like planets. But then "desert" should be renamed to "mars" or "ares", "ice world" to "titan" of "ganymede" and so on...

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Date: Sunday, 22.04.2012, 13:53 | Message # 89

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Hmm I'm thinking of that if the problem is to find words because there isn't any words that can be used to describe the state of most of the planets i suggest that we make up new words that do. :P