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Could controlling the oceans result in a wide-spread freeze?
My idea is a device that gives its user great power over the ocean, its currents, and presumably temperatures. Could this be used to dramatically (and in relatively short time) effect the climate of a ...
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Could there be strong weather on large space stations?
I'm not talking about the ISS. I'm talking about larger stations such as Bernal Spheres, O'Neil Cylinders, Stanford Tori, good old-fashioned hollowed-out asteroids, and so on.
We have a sci-fi game ...
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What kind of climate would a planet with a 49-day orbit have?
I'm using Kapteyn-b for a story, which orbits its red dwarf star every 49 days. It's almost 5 times larger than Earth, though I've made a couple changes to the observed data to make it more plausible. ...
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How long could someone survive in "Sky cell" like prison?
In the fiction, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, one high castle in the mountains, the Eyrie, has so-called sky cells. Those cells are left open to the cold sky.
The Eyrie is 600 foot/180 ...
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Could a large plateau surrounded by continuous waterfalls form?
Could a structure similar to that shown in the image below inspired by Roger Dean’s “Close to the edge” actually exist in nature? If not could it be constructed artificially and if so how? Assume the ...
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A world where the sun is blotted out?
I have scoured through the archives here and cant exactly find what I am looking for in terms of a specific setting I am trying to render in my novel.
Let's say the world has built up so much smog (...
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Constantly sunlit/shadowed regions and weather
There are craters that are permanently dark at the Moon's poles, since the Moon's axis tilt is so small that the sun never rises above the crater rim. On the Moon these get incredibly cold, since ...
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