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Why would an artificial planet inhabited by machines have seasons? [closed]
A super advanced civilization has created a machine with superior A.I. that could survive a supernova explosion from a nearby star approximately 3,600 parsecs from the Sun, the machine is programmed ...
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Proxima Centauri and tidally locked planets
Proxima Centauri may have a rocky, earth like planet close to its dim sun. Tidally locked, the sun facing side may have a temperature up to 30 degrees Celsius and a dark side of -30 C. This would make ...
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How much water would remain at the poles of these planets?
My binary terrestrial planets are roughly the size of earth and they are tidally locked with one another. They are 12,000 miles (19,312 km) apart. That distance is based off of this article, http://...
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Mars seed bombardment [closed]
How likely could we successfully manage to grow (germinate) plants on Mars if we developed a mechanism (special seed bombs) that would spread seeds on Mars? Assume the scenario is Mars as we currently ...
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Seasonal progression for an Earth-like planet with wobbly axis tilt?
I'll try to keep this question as concise as I can, but I'm not great with technical jargon, so a simplified answer would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the set up:
I have binary star system with ...
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How could seasons work on satellites?
This is a followup to my previous question concerning the potential orbits. I've decided on a barycenter with each body in its own orbit--the primary planet having the center orbit, the first moon ...
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Temperature on a 14-days day planet
In this question I asked about temperatures on a planet where a day last 30 days. The data are the same:
stellar flux of 1.118
albedo between Earth's and Mars's
atmospheric composition of 18% oxygen, ...
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Temperatures on a planet with long days
I have a planet with a stellar flux of 1.118, an albedo between Earth's and Mars's, an atmosphere composition of 18% oxygen, 13% argon and 69% nitrogen with a sea-land pressure of 0.87 atmospheres and ...
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How would Weather and Regional climate work on a Flat world?
For my WIP's setting I'm using a variation of the Sky World concept.
The cosmos looks very similar to the Astral Sea.
The shape of the cosmos akin to a torus and filled with a silvery ether a thin, ...
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What would be the effects of an Earth-like planet with a longer year and longer lunar orbit?
What would be the effects of an Earth-like planet with a longer year and longer lunar orbit? I have a planet with 432 days in a year and a lunar cycle of 36 days, with 12 months at 36 days each. The ...
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How would winds behave on a tidally locked planet?
If an earth-sized planet were tidally locked to a star, and was in the life zone of its star with an earth-like atmosphere, what would its wind patterns be like?
The planet would have one hot ...
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What complications would arise from a world with an internal atmosphere and environment?
For a long, long, long time I have had a concept of a world that exists on the inside of a hallowed-out sphere.
The basic construction of the world is like this: It is a large world, at the center ...
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