Timeline for Is a desert planet with a small habitable area possible?
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| Jul 7 at 12:25 | answer | added | Nightrider | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 6 at 23:56 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 6 at 5:44 | answer | added | g s | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 6 at 3:41 | comment | added | Jedediah | @JBH Here, watching the shift. | |
| Jul 6 at 3:27 | comment | added | JBH | @Jedediah Recent? Where've you been for the last five years? | |
| Jul 5 at 10:45 | comment | added | Jedediah | @JBH Even in legal theory (in the US and UK, at least), precedent and sometimes common sense have a place alongside the rules. The recent shift to a tighter enforcement on the "let's make stuff up" stack flies in the face of historical precedent... And, um, traffic cops being asked for lenity is pretty normal. | |
| Jul 5 at 8:20 | comment | added | Olorin | Lisan al-Gaib! | |
| Jul 5 at 4:10 | comment | added | Hydrargyrum | @Breadsauce4 it's easy to get sand without water. Technically, not even atmosphere is required. Rocks will fracture from thermal stress from day/night cycles and meteoric bombardment alone - this process creates Moon dust. If you have any amount of atmosphere you also get wind-blown weathering, which turns abrasive dust into smooth, rounded sand such as that found on Mars. | |
| Jul 5 at 3:06 | comment | added | JBH | @Jedediah Do you speak to the police that way when you're pulled over for speeding? The site has rules stated in the tour and help center. The solution isn't to beg the community that's expected to moderate the site to stop moderating the site - the solution is to change the rules. An effort to do that is going on in Worldbuilding Meta. I expect that it will eventually result in a better balance between Stack Exchange's expectations (the people who own the service) and the users' expectations. Until then, there are other places on the Internet that might be more condusive to the rules you want today. | |
| Jul 4 at 23:08 | comment | added | Breadsauce4 | @jcaron it’s supposed to be a sandy desert. I know that getting sand all around the planet without much water would be hard, and the only source of sand would be erosion from rocks, but it’s a sandy desert. | |
| Jul 4 at 22:48 | comment | added | jcaron | Desert as in sand desert? Snow desert? Semi-desert like tundra? Or just not quite hospitable like very mountainous areas or... the open ocean, with a single island in the middle? | |
| Jul 4 at 15:34 | answer | added | André L F S Bacci | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 4 at 12:19 | comment | added | Jedediah | @JBH A handful of contributors have decided to aggressively gatekeep this site, pushing out reasonable and interesting questions on technicalities, and then using their successes as precedent to narrow the window even further... Could you help out with standing against this unfortunate trend, and making the site more welcoming? | |
| Jul 4 at 12:03 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 4 at 11:29 | answer | added | Richard Kirk | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 4 at 3:47 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | It's also worth noting in the question whether the planet has been like that all along, or become that over time. | |
| Jul 4 at 3:22 | answer | added | Mon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 4 at 2:46 | comment | added | JBH | For future reference, "is this possible?" (or any other form such as "is it feasible?") is the wrong question to ask here. This isn't Physics or Astronomy or Earth Science. As stated in the help center, our goal is to help you build an imaginary world. "How can I rationalize?" is the question you should be asking and the expectation you should have concerning answers. | |
| S Jul 4 at 2:37 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 4 at 2:37 | history | asked | Breadsauce4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |