Activity for Pedro Gabriel
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Are my deserts accurately positioned? I have asked previously how I could create an earth-like world with as many deserts as possible in it. I have received some useful answers and have tried to draw a realistic map of what I intend for my continent. Unfortunately, I have been having trouble using Geoff's Climate Cookbook... if you ask ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How many giants are needed to pull this sleigh? In my world, there is a race of giants, with an average height of 5 meters. Let's assume that every part of their body is proportional to that of a "normal" human being. I want these giants to pull a sleigh, and on this sleigh to place a block of iron with the following dimensions: 5 meters (width),... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Pangaea-like supercontinent - could it have a temperate climate if it has large seas inside? I have seen from various questions here (and from my research), that a Pangaea-like supercontinent would be very dry, with lots of deserts, since rainclouds couldn't travel a great distance inland. However, I am pondering the possibility of worldbuilding a Pangaea-like supercontinent with a higher l... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Naturally-ocurring Airborne Floating Islands - is it possible? So, on a previous question of mine, someone answered that it would be feasible to build a city on a waterborne floating island using a pumice layer below the ground. That got me thinking about the possibility of having a city built on a floating island, but airborne. Now, I know that there have be... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Beak to teeth reverse evolution - how would the transitional forms be? Acording to current scientific knowledge, birds descend from theropod dinosaurs. This evolution had, as usual, some transitional forms, like Archaeopteryx. Following this evolutionary path, we notice that the birds lost their teeth in favor of a beak. But, from my research, it is not entirely known ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Ferrying an island with mortals on top. Is it possible without killing them? Tolkien wrote on The Silmarillion about Tol Eressea, an island that the vala Ulmo (a god-like figure) used to ferry the elves back and forth across the sea into the Western lands. José Saramago also wrote a novel (The Stone Raft), about the Iberian Peninsula breaking off the rest of Europe. Trouble... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Speed of vehicles built by humanoid giants Let's imagine a race of Giants, with an average height three times that of a normal human being. Let's also imagine that these Giants are completely identical to humans, proportionately speaking... that is, they haven't disproportionately larger or shorter legs, hands, or any other bodypart. Every si... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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How far will rain clouds travel inland? I am writing a story that takes place in a big desert. I've figured that I could make my desert as extensive as possible by building a Pangea-like supercontinent, since I've learned here that, given the distance, eventually the clouds from the surrounding seas will exhaust their water. However, I wa... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Is it possible for divergent plate tectonics to produce mountain ranges? So I posed a question (Calamity breaking a supercontinent in days - Would there be any survivors?) about a calamity that would break a Pangea-like supercontinent in a matter of days. I assume that the only way to do this is through a set of divergent plate tectonics. However, I would like to know if... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Natural underground water distribution in a desertic continent I'm worldbuilding a continent that's mostly desertic (still trying to decide if sand or rocky desert, but definitely a hot desert). All the rain would fall on the edges of it, through a chain of mountain-ranges on all sides. I want said continent to have pockets of population, so I need to know how t... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Would there be monsoons in a planet without axial tilt? From what I've read, a planet without axial tilt wouldn't have seasons, at least the way we experience it today. But from my understanding, monsoons are periodic inversions of the direction of the winds that occur due to the different warming rates between the earth and the sea. Assuming a continen... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |