Activity for Dan Clarkeâ€
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Reality Check: Is This Habitable Long Term for Humans Planet: Xibalba (Mayan Hell) Tidally locked planet around a red dwarf that is very active with solar flares being a daily danger. The habitable zone around the planet is made up almost entirely of mountains, as is a large amount of the surface on the day and night side. There is a large ocean that... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Language Divergence on a Lost Colony I've read several of the questions about language shifting and diffusion here, and it has unfortunately left me more unsure of things than I was before. Situation: Colonists on an arid planet speak two major languages, Hindi and American English, there are also spacers who speak English as well. ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Would Floating Islands Dampen Waves on a Water World? This is a water world with depths ranging from 2-3 kilometers deep up to vast shallows of only a few meters deep usually around volcanic islands, where there are coral islands not bigger than Hawaii's Big Island. The planet has a 23 hour day, gravity is just slightly lower than the Earth, the large... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Reality Check: Are these Honey Mouths and Thorn Shredders realistic? On an hot planet at the wooded poles are two aliens species that coexist in a mutually beneficial relationship. The Honey Mouths use gecko-like feet to hang from the far larger Thorn Shredders, where they are protected from predators. They feed primarily on sap that leaks out from the damaged and up... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Colonizing the galaxy by slow boating reality check Humans like to explore and seem to have an almost instinctual need to expand. After spreading throughout the solar system and even into the Oort Cloud they decided that humanity should follow the robot probes out into the galaxy. Without FTL, but having discovered a form of artificial gravity and h... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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Preparing human colonists for a desert planet with a red giant Assuming humanity found a planet they could travel to and was suitable for colonization, how would scientists re-engineer the human colonists for life on this new world? Planet details: It's slightly smaller than Earth with 21.5 hour days. The gravity is 0.7g's. It circles a red giant, so very... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |