Posts by AndyD273
A paper I found suggests that the sunlit side might not be a burning desert as long as the planet isn't to close to the star. Basically the difference in heat between the light and dark sides woul...
There is one way that we know of that can make this happen, which is tidal energy. Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa both have a lot of water, as does Saturn's moon Enceladus. As they orbit thei...
Keeping it on mars, one easy reason is flooding. If they are there teraforming, things start to warm up, a lot of permafrost will melt. That water has to go somewhere, and the most likely place is ...
So wind wise, you'd have Hadley cells that extend around the planet. Basically hot dry air on the sunward side would cause the air to heat up, rise, and make a low pressure area. Meanwhile on the f...
So start with a planet that is mostly made of a metal with a low melting point, say lead. It's set close enough to a star that during the day the surface becomes liquid, but it also has a low rotat...
Use the vacuum to help cool the ship. Specifically, have several enclosed/mostly enclosed spaces that are transparent to IR and that is pumped to a vacuum. Use water to absorb the heat, and then sp...
So I think a two prong attack. First prong is to remove all the defenses, and an easy way to do that is with EMP's. Launch nukes on SCUDS from container ships 25 miles up over the continents and...
Learned behaviour. Like staking an elephant or Pavlov's dogs. When the dragon was young and more fragile it had a bad experience with some trappers who thought it would be fun to hurt it with fire...
So in general terms, if the planet was like Earth in size and atmosphere, but had an orbit of .8 AU's instead of 1 AU, then the planet would have an average surface temperature of Kelvin: 322, Cels...
Start with pulsar planet like the ones that formed around the pulsar Lich, but a little further out and tidally locked so that it becomes something like a hot eyeball world: Set the planet at ...
So you set it up like a drug trial. First phase is really small, maybe 10 people to get dosing figured out. Maybe use some underprivileged people who would like a place to sleep and some money. If ...
This interesting planet temperature calculator might help you answer this question. I filled it out with guesses based on your description. 1 solar mass Distance of 1.524 AU (Mars orbit) Bond A...
The gate could be deep in a frozen arctic wilderness, like it is near the north pole, where there is just snow and ice and nothing else. No minerals, no land, no plants or animals. Natives could st...
So you have to look at the different ways that energy is created. Most of the power plants we have boil down to something turning a turbine, which creates electricity. Coal, nuclear, etc all work b...
Honestly, this kinda depends on a lot of factors: Size of the plates, distance from the star, orbital period, to name a very few. The suns surface is 12,000 times bigger than Earths, meaning if e...
Assuming that you are right that a large moon could actually gets Mars tectonic and magnetic system working again... (which is an interesting idea) So after merging Phobos and Deimos and getting th...
So having the toughest skin would allow for reentry. Getting out of the atmosphere and moving through space is another matter, but this is your creature in your world that you are building. If you ...
One thing I can see working is a forced marbling of society. You see it all the time with immigrants; they move to a new country, find people with a shared background, move into the same communiti...
So a very dense/heavy gas like sulfur hexafluoride has the ability to support the weight of objects, like a boat floating on invisible water. So you could have creatures that live on the surface, a...
Maybe it doesn't actually have much to do with light as it does with nutrients. Say the mushrooms are parasitic on other plants and aggressively predatory. Their spores invade a forest, latch onto ...
Direct gravitation energy is a lost cause in freefall. If you're close enough to get gravity, then you're no longer in orbit and will die soon. There is a work around though, which does use gravit...
It could be possible for them to have a duel system (both gills and lungs), like lungfish. Some lungfish are able to run the two systems independently, so when they are breathing through their lu...
I don't think so, considering the distances involved, and the kind of density you'd need, unless a lot of it is "below the surface" embedded in the dark matter or in subspace. Maybe if the whole...
If it has a mane like a lion, this could be your heat shield. If it flaired out like a large umbrella and was made of a thin membrane or possibly fur, then it would block its body heat from whateve...
So the good news is that if you have the capability to construct a Dyson sphere, you have the capability of supplying it with resources. The sheer amount of matter needed is huge, and you'd need t...
