They address this on Stargate SG1 multiple times. One time part of the team gets stuck in Antarctica, but they think they are on another planet. As one of them climbs out of the cave they are in, they see nothing but ice and concludes it must be an ice planet. Only later they find out they were actually on Earth all along.
In a couple of other episodes they remark on how all the planets look the same. This is because of all the filming locations being in a relatively small area in British Columbia and often the same locations get re-used. It’s sort of a cheeky joke to point it out and have the characters comment on some in-universe reason why it’s the case.
SG1 was often very good with their humor, leaning into tropes and being cheeky without breaking the 4th wall (barely).
Like for example how nobody ever goes to the bathroom in movies and TV series. And some locations like future space ships and such don’t even seem to have any toilets. So in one episode they do a long scene right in front of the bathroom door. With one of the characters fidgeting whilst the other is rambling on about something, as they try and interject they really need to go pee.
Wormhole X-treme being the crown jewel of self mockery here. It was a recurring joke and even plot relevant.
My favorite part of that episode has to be:
“I’m Christian Borcher, portraying the character of Raymond Gunn, who portrays the character of Dr. Levant, which is based on the character Daniel Jackson, portrayed by the actor Michael Shanks, originally portrayed by the actor James Spader, uh in the film.”
Whatever you say ocean planet man
Excuse me, my planet may be mostly water but it’s named after the dirt and you better respect my self identity as a dirt man.
Oooook buddy from a ball made mostly of lava
Lava? That’s just latin for hot dirt.
I am pretty sure all gas giants are just Wind Planets.
I mean, aren’t most planets monobiomic that we know what biome they have?
Although to be fair, 100% of the known planets which have intelligent and evolved life do have diverse biomes…
I mean, aren’t most planets monobiomic that we know what biome they have?
Nope. Look at our own gas giants or Venus. The gas layers create various different environmental conditions. One theory is we could have floating cities on Venus that exist right in the human habitable zones where you could live “normally”, while the other layers are incredibly toxic.
But that’s like, depending on depth or something, right? Not the coordinates around the sphere? I guess I was mostly talking about planets with a solid surface but Venus is one such planet. Does it have different biomes depending on where you would land as well?
I’m not sure about Venus, but Mars has different temperature ranges on different latitudes and even different seasons due to axial tilt.
Mars has polar ice caps, mountains, valleys, etc if you’re looking for coordinates on the spehere.
Ice caps I concede, but I don’t consider mountains and valleys to be different biomes if they consist of the exact same soil type and fauna (none). I don’t know what’s the case on Mars, I’m just saying. That’d be like saying the Moon has different biomes as well. But maybe it does, by some definition.
It’s an interesting topic. 😄 Need a geologist or something to chime in here.
If you applied an atmosphere to mountains and valleys you would see a lot more difference. The thinner air on top the high mountains will cause them to be colder which affects other local weather including rain and snow formation that will erode them at different rates than flat ground and cause erosion products to accumulate in the valleys. The varying temperatures and weather conditions would then cause different flora and fauna to appear in the different zones and given a billion years you would end up with biomes not too dissimilar to the ones on earth
gestures at Venus
Hey it’s like No Man’s Sky planets.
I love this game and jest affectionately.
No man’s sky has gas giants, water planets, metal planets even bubble planets
Indeed. These are kinds of planets in NMS, though they lack diversity on a single planet. The planets mostly appear to be a single biome.
Although it does simplify the writing/creative process, the idea of a single biome planet fits perfectly in “sci-FI” no?
Dune me up baby!
