Activity for Rich Durstâ€
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Designing vehicles for different gravities In my story, humans have colonized both a high-G and a low-G world in the same star system. How would surface vehicles have to be designed differently for practicality and economy on each of those worlds? World A (Yanacocha) is a large carbon planet with surface gravity 2.12 times Earth. Theoretica... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Explaining a Low-Mass Brown Dwarf Considering the well-established relationships between stellar mass, surface temp, and luminosity, how unusual would it be to find a star (or brown dwarf) that possesses about half the mass of an average member of its spectral category? Follow-up questions: If such an anomaly did exist, what sort of... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |