Posts by Arkenstein XII
My question is fairly straightforward, but answering it is proving rather difficult. The scenario is on a planet with some water. The surface is dominated by deserts, both hot and cold depending o...
Starting in 541"“542 AD, the Plague of Justinian and a series of subsequent outbreaks killed between 13-26% of the world's population. The plagues were caused by Yersinia pestis, the same microorga...
One of the issues with doing this is that righting the pole is not enough. They're likely working with 11kV or even 33kV lines (depending on the country, but it'll be in this ballpark), which are u...
Ok, so using Rigel as an example: Rigel has a luminosity of 120,000 sols, so for a planet to receive the same insolation as the Earth does around the sun, it would orbit at a distance of 346.4 AU....
If the planet has reached an age where internal heat is no longer sufficient to maintain active tectonics, it will enter what is known as a "Stagnant-lid Regime". One of the first things that happ...
Ok, there are a few mechanisms that could allow your planet to have continents with reasonably uniform climate. Thicker Atmosphere The thicker the atmosphere of your world, the more heat will be ...
My question is in the context of a fictional super-Neptune that lies in the habitable zone of its host star system. Giant planets only form beyond the Frost Line of their protoplanetary disk, and...
Early microbial life on such a world is almost certainly aquatic, so I'll answer this question in those terms. Earthly bacteria move at a rate between 2 and 200 microns per second, with the higher...
One major advantage that octopodes have in colonising the land, is that they can already make short stints out of the water without any specialised equipment. This is very much not true of humans i...
The biggest impediment to metalworking without fire is getting the metal to forging temperature. Even the easiest to work metals, such as lead and tin, require temperatures around 300 C and 200 C ...
The surface of the moon is covered in an exotic lifeform with an exceedingly rapid lifecycle. Colonies of this lifeform grow to cover large portions of the lunar surface in as little as 12 hours, c...
Water cannot remain fluid at the pressures of a terrestrial planet's core. However, it doesn't need to for your setting to be viable. The planet's crust could simply possess large, deep aquifers th...
One possible solution, is that your species have abandoned sexual reproduction entirely in favour of reproducing clonally. They are all derived from a database of genomes that were at some point in...
Earth-like Desert planets are entirely feasible. In fact, models have suggested that such a planet could enjoy a habitable zone that extends much closer to its host star than a more aqueous one cou...
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