But in constructingthe first atmospheric model that has the orbital dynamics of a star-planet-moon system fully included, astronomers Duncan Forgan, at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, and David Kipping, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, turn that idea on its head.
It involved moving mountains and eradicating disease and inventing and constructing by far the hugest locks and lock gates ever conceived at the time and even a 1914 General Electric computer system to run it all.