Activity for Nosajimiki - Reinstate Monica
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A: How large would be the habitable area in a tidally locked planet? Tidally Locked and no Axial rotation are not quite the same thing. A planet with no axial rotation would not have a habitable zone. No rotation means that it will experience a day/night cycle as long a year. The tidally locked moons experiences something similar to this. Our moon which has days... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Water & Nutrient Cycle of an upside down forest This is a follow up question to Sky of Earth and Seas of Sky I have a medieval fantasy setting where people live in a vast expanse of giant caves contained in a sort of giant Stanford torus. This is not quite a true Stanford torus though; it was created from a rapidly spinning disk shaped planetoid... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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What would it take to make a scientific second equal exactly one traditional second? A scientist is resetting the clock on his microwave one day as he considers the hopelessness of keeping the time exactly right. Not for the reasons we worry about like power outages and daylight savings times, but because in the back of his head, he knows that Earth's movements through space are not... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Could Comets or Meteors be used to Combat Global Warming? The running theory is that if the Earth is hit by a sufficiently large meteor, that the impact would create an ice age from all the dust it would put into the atmosphere. While this has been historically seen as a bad thing, this has me wondering if people might one day want to intentionally steer a... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Unprepared and Without a Homeworld The Scenerio In the very near future a NASA probe returns to Earth with a soil sample from an asteroid containing a strange substance able to catalyze cold fusion reactions. The economic value of this substance makes space exploration for more of this element promising.Soon, returns are soo high, th... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |