Activity for Kilisi
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Venus Transit during huge solar flare If for instance in 2117 when we have the next Venus transit (Venus between the Sun and Earth). There was a huge solar flare or storm right on the line from Venus to Earth. Could this give enough energy to strip some of Venus atmosphere away while partially protecting the Earth. So on this NASA pictu... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How might a stone age agriculturalist who has never experienced significantly cold weather describe such cold? Imagine you were a stone age agriculturalist on an isolated tropical island 1000 years ago with no appreciably high mountains. You want to describe something (the air) in terms of how cold it was, now we would use words like 'icy' or 'frosty' but my protagonist has no idea what ice or frost is. It's... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Using a dense material to strip away some of Venus atmosphere I want to partially terraform Venus, enough to make it feasible to mine minerals etc,. there. To do this I need to do a few things but for this question I'm focusing on stripping away at least some of the atmosphere either by design or by fortuitous accident. Would a large asteroid or manmade object... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |