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How would an extremely long winter affect an area?
In my world, a specific area of land has been cursed into an eternal winter. The story takes place in a kingdom that is surrounded by deciduous forests similar to ones in north america, and the ...
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What would our world look like if it only got 160 days of sun in a year?
A while ago, I encountered a YouTube and Spotify playlist called "songs for an empty world" by LAIN. The description was especially interesting to me:
Only 250,000 people left. 160 days of ...
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Feasibility of a moon-planet orbiting an F star [closed]
I'm building an earth-type planet with typically human-like people, but a few differences. The human's particular area won't have much in the way of seasons being a large equatorial island. I'm ...
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How dark would the sky have to be to stunt crops?
So basically in my world solar geoengineering has gotten to the point that (with added smog) it's basically impossible to grow crops like wheat or barley without artificial light. My question is: How ...
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What climate would be ideal for abnormally large trees, with people living among them?
I'm writing a fantasy with trees which are extremely wide, and fairly tall. Their width would be about 40-50 metres.
So I was wondering if the climate needed to be similar to that of a rainforest, or ...
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Precipitation on a world where the entire ocean is covered by plants?
My very fancy planet, has a green blotch approximately the size of Africa on its surface, which looks like a forest from space but is actually the planet's ocean. A sea, which, over millions of years, ...
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Could Long, Dense Walls of "Megamangroves" Deflect The Deadliest of Storms?
This is the world's tallest tree--the coast redwood. It can grow as high up as 115.5 meters. Any taller, and the transportation of water in its vascular tissues would not climb all the way.
But in ...
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How would a world evolve with regular blizzards? [closed]
Imagine there are severe magical blizzards coming from the south pole at regular intervals.
Since they're magical, let's assume they can cross the equator and don't lose strength over time.
They are ...
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How can Mars have life but still be "The Red Planet"
Building on this question "Discovery of life on Mars"
Mars is habitable (40% the mass of Earth, 6.06 m/s² gravity, escape velocity of 7.88 km/s, a satellite big enough to stabilize its axis and has ...
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What happens to plants when the temperature increases a lot in a couple of years?
Consider an area of a fantasy world which experiences the following changes:
Amount on rainfall, and thunderstorms, increases dramatically.
Average temperature increases by 10-20 degrees Celsius over ...
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Creating a dark world - How can I not completely handwave the dark cloudy atmosphere
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What is going on with the atmosphere that the world is so gloomy and dark?
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I have had a low-magic fantasy world I have been wanting to solidify for a while now but ...
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How would large animals and large plants adapt to frequent hurricane weather?
In a large varied environment where strong winds are the norm and every few weeks or so a huge hurricane sweeps through, how would large land animals (horse- to elephant-sized) evolve to cope?
I ...
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A planet with all of its water underground
Question: Could a planet contain all of its (vast) oceans underground?
I imagined a planet with no surface oceans - and no water cycle above ground - but where life was still possible.
My initial ...
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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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How dark can a habitable planet be?
I'm picturing a world with a permanent, dark, overcast sky, but I'm wondering how dark it can be before photosynthesis is no longer an option.
It looks like there are a good number of plants that ...
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