Unanswered Questions
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Are these ocean currents for my planet plausible?
This is my first attempt at worldbuilding anything at this point. I heavily modelled my first planet after the Earth as my baby steps. I wanted to experiment with how climates on the planet would be ...
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How much air pressure and air flow I would need in order to make a ultra thin and long air jet for a plasma cutter-sword with a ideal de-laval nozzle?
The idea is that specific types of industrial plasma cutters were adapted in a compacted form for mechs in case of melee combat and for bunker-buster missiles (easier to go through meters of ...
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What kind of simple typo would change the course of the history the most?
Obviously the cases where the importance of a message or data is acknowledged, the relevant people would probably triple-check it several times, so something like "wrong latitude/longitude ...
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How much could a star heat up a planet's mesosphere?
So, to set the stage:
I have a star 25% the luminosity of the Sun, a blue dwarf, which hosts a dwarf planet 470km across orbiting 0.06au away. Considering its distance, this planet is very hot, ...
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Appearance of sky and star from the termination zone on a habitable planet?
What might the sky and star would look like to a person standing on the planet surface in the termination zone of my imaginary habitable, tidally-locked planet orbiting an M class star.
If I've done ...
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I may have made an error in calculating my spin-orbit resonance
I have a very warm planet named Phoenix I'm worldbuilding that's 1.2 times the mass of Earth, with a density somewhat smaller at 5.2 g/cm^3, orbiting at a distance of 0.1 AU from it's star in 10.2 ...
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What reason would a military have for large aircraft reasonably co-existance with big rocket powered "flying barges"?
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Having spent a lot of time with Ace-Combat and Highfleet I got to thinking up a table top world a-la Imperial Skies which is set in an alternative 20th century. The setting being developed ...
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How could a character verify they aren't crazy after accidental time travel
A 40-year-old character from today (April 2020) with a good memory is unexpectedly transported back in time 30 years. One instant he is at work, the next he is back in grade school in his 10-year-old ...
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What will be temperature in inland depression deeper than 2 km below sea level (48° southern latitude) and how will temperature gradient work there?
My another question related to already introduced planet Artemis is related to temperature gradient. Whether it will work also in depression deep under sea level and if yes what could be increase of ...
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Weather patterns on a world with a homogenous distribution of land and ocean?
What would the weather patterns be like on an Earth with a more homogenous distribution of land and ocean?
That is, keep the overall amount of water the same, the ratio of water to land the same (...
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Which would be the Koppen-Geiger climate distribution of this map?
The existence of closed seas makes it difficult to me, especially the East one. I have it clear that in the souteast region the climate would be influenced by monzoon, but if the world has only one ...
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Our home is lost, are we too?
A girl had a vision,she's a close friend of my wife and she told everyone that the village will be destroyed. The lands will open and people will fall into the abyss, those surviving will be burned ...
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Frictionless Materials and Survival
Dear Denizens of Worldbuilding:
I have hit upon a method of rendering a surface devoid of the forces of friction at will, then returning it to the normal operations of physics.
As exciting as this ...
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Plants developing Sodium Signaling
Given enough time and evolutionary pressure, what would be the most plausible way for plants to develop sodium based signaling as opposed to their calcium based signaling currently?
I know moving ...
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Religious zealotry as a weak point
I’m writing about a a blue general that exploits religious zealotry as a tool to goad orange general into his trap. Said blue general’s intentionally made a move against orange genral’s territory near ...
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