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Re:Mercury found to be tectonically active by dsp1234 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @01:26PM (#12591309)
There is a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson whose plot revolves around a city that moves along tracks that circle mercury. With the heating and cooling of the tracks, due to the sun, being the force the drives the city, rather than electricity.

It also depicts people walking on the dark side staying just shy of the sun side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2312_(novel)

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Re:Mercury found to be tectonically active by astrange on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @02:05PM (#12591603)
That's a very classical approach to scifi, like those Larry Niven stories (Neutron Star etc) where a lone hero man with no friends, but a spaceship, defeats a high school physics class problem. It turns out reading only books about lone men with no friends doesn't prepare you for real life.
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