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Fog and a small "Tsunami", appearing suddenly
For the final act of a story I'm building, I'm planning a scene that involves the sudden appearance of fog, along with a small Tsunami, affecting part of the city.
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Could the differences between day and night on this desert planet allow for strictly nocturnal condensation?
Here's the basic gist of this (debatably) habitable Earth-like desert planet:
Size: Same as Earth
Rotation: 30 hours (three extra hours of daylight followed by three extra hours of night)
Revolution:...
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Water in the interior of a very large continent
Consider a world that is much larger than Earth, but has Earthlike conditions on the surface. (Including gravity = 1g, by some suitable unobtainium.) Clearly, the surface could be covered in a large ...
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Liquid water on both sides of a tidally locked planet. Feasible?
I'm brainstorming for a rocky planet with similar mass to that of Earth's, orbiting a red dwarf star. It is tidally locked with no natural satellites, yet I'm bent on having liquid water on both sun-...
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Lake Makgadikgadi, 21st Century [closed]
First thing first, to get this out of the way, there are two potential sources of the faraway rivers in this scenario:
Lakes Chad and Congo, the result of 30 million years of tropical heat, heavy ...
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