Unanswered Questions
50 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Circulation cells and köppen climates of my world
This world’s average surface temperature is 42°c. Has a day length of 12 hours and 5 minutes. Has an obliquity of 87°. And, has a mainly oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere that is 4.76 the pressure of Earth’s ...
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Blood on this ammonia planet
I am currently building a planet that weighs about 4 earth masses and is 2.3 earth radii long. It is an ammonia planet (as the title suggests), and has ammonia oceans with some dissolved water ice, ...
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What are the orbital perturbations needed to destabilize a system to the point of taking some bodies out of resonance and kicking out another?
I have a gas giant with a mass of $1.63314\times10^{27}kg$ and a radius of 66,559.052km and orbiting it are 4 moons.
It orbits a star with 0.86M☉ at a distance of 5.03AU
My question is what ...
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Can a Pterosaur-style wing membrane attach directly to the exoskeleton?
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In my world of arthropod-like creatures (in that most of the creatures have an exoskeleton rather than an endoskeleton), I wished for a group of my aliens to convergely evolve ...
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What is the longest possible (current material science) for a human weight-bearing 3” thick, 5’ wide slab attached to a wall on one end?
For my story, I need a cliff face with a slab sticking out of the middle of it, like an inflexible diving board. I need it to be 5 feet wide (exact) and 3-to-6 inches thick (thinner is better). I need ...
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How would silicon life work with silane compounds instead of silicone?
I've seen all of the silicon based stuff, but those require high temperatures. I am planning on doing something in a cold area, where I wanted a character to be silicon based. I learned that you need ...
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Sun-like star system with less water close to the frost line
Normally in sun-like planetary systems, there are small rocky planets around the habitable zone or closer and gas giants beyond the frost line. Typically these gas giants later migrate inwards due to ...
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Fixing my multi-lunar/planetary System
So I'm working on a fictional system that is based on several habitable moons orbiting a Gas Giant. The Specifics are as follows:
Mass of the central Star (Currently): 3 Solar Masses
Mass of the Gas ...
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Procedural Atmosphere for exoplanet - pseudorealistic composition, pressure etc
I have a programme built in python and rust, procedurally generating stars, planets, etc.
I have come to a point where I have to work on atmospheric characteristics, hopefully managing to get a pseudo-...
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How low into the latitude may ice shelves reach?
I am currently working on the effects of glaciers on my continents. My main source is Madeline James, a bit of Worldbuilding Pasta, and Google.
My question is the title. Would the area circled in red ...
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How magnitude affects angular diameter/resolution
Let's say you look at two relatively dim stars in the night sky. They are close to each other, but they are far away enough that you can distinguish one from the other. But what if one of them is much ...
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What would happen to the overall climate in New England if the warm Jet Stream crossing the United States moved from its course further south?
I'm working on a post-apocalyptic story that will have various climate-related disasters across the United States, significantly contributing to the struggles of the people still managing to survive ...
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Soil Types Sanity Check
I'm in the process of making a strategy game. I am using the FAO soil classification system for handling soils; the soil in a given tile has four characteristics:
production limit (how much food you ...
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Roughly how big could the tidal range be on a human habitable Earth analogue world?
The Gravitational tidal forces can be supplied by any orbiting moon(s)/twin planet(s) of any mass and any orbital radius, inclination or orbital radius, but the system must be stable for at least 10,...
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Crustal composition of an ammonia planet
I am currently building a planet that weighs about 4 earth masses and is 2.3 earth radii long. It is an ammonia planet (as the title suggests), and has ammonia oceans with some dissolved water ice, ...
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