Unanswered Questions
53 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Could an organism breathe SO2 (Sulfur Dioxide) and reuse the sulfur atom for bones made of S8 (Octasulfur) and AlO3 (Aluminium Oxide)?
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I want animals on my fictional planet to use 6 SO2 (Sulfur Dioxide) instead of 6 O2 (Oxygen) to react with C6H12O6 (Glucose), to make 6 CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), ATP, 6 H2O (Water), and ...
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Wind patterns on a tidally locked planets contradict my logic (looking for correction)
My take on the wind patterns on a tidally locked planet (TDL) does not lead to the information given in papers and videos. Please tell me where I went wrong.
My take:
On a TLP, the sub-solar point is ...
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What would be the size of the outer asteroid belt in this system?
I am following the Artifexia-like system building with the calculator. Per the calculator, my system looks like this:
I am having trouble calculating the inner and outer limits of the second asteroid ...
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What would be the effect of a coastal continental mediterrannean climate on flora?
I am thinking about creating a continental climate in southern Australia after the creation of a mountain range which created massive agricultural lands, the continental aspect of climate is caused by ...
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How would the polar front move?
I am in the process of working out the climate zones for a custom continent. Two of the defining features are its poleward placement in the Southern Hemisphere and the large mountain range running ...
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What global warming level would be needed to keep the dew point of some place above the temperature of the lungs for at least 1 month per year?
Title might be a bit hard to understand but let me explain : when the dew point is above humans temperature (37℃) the water condenses in the lungs which are at a lower temperature than the air which ...
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What would happen to clouds that existed in the upper atmosphere?
I am trying to determine, on a planet with extreme weather, the conditions and constraints applied to seeing weather patterns from more than 500 miles away (as a miniscule layer on a flat horizon). I ...
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Weather patterns on a world with a homogenous distribution of land and ocean?
What would the weather patterns be like on an Earth with a more homogenous distribution of land and ocean? That is, keep the overall amount of water the same, the ratio of water to land the same (...
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Which would be the Koppen-Geiger climate distribution of this map?
The existence of closed seas makes it difficult to me, especially the East one. I have it clear that in the souteast region the climate would be influenced by monzoon, but if the world has only one ...
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In this infant (<500 million years) solar system, how far would each orbit be to be stable?
Here's the story: There is a solar system that is still a baby, less than 500 million years old.
There are a total of eight stars clumped into four binaries, each one with its own habitable zone. ...
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How Dangerous Are Evolved Ploppers?
This is the sequel to How Dangerous Are Ploppers?
and covers one vital aspect of Ploppers: evolution.
Sure, Ploppers aren't much of a threat, but they grow up, evolving into a stronger equivalent of a ...
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What would be the equivalence of these feats of a 6 inch tall and 4 ounce android when translated to a 6 foot tall 160 pound android?
Ok, so I have this OC(original character) called Tomoniki(which means 'action figure' in my language/conlang) that is an android that is 6 inchs tall, and weighs 4 ounces. She, to my knowledge is ...
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Searching for Collaboration
im searching quite a while now, for people, who want to join me in my worldbuilding project.
But i dont know where to search for them
Do you guys have any ideas where i could look for them?
I already ...
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'Bulk, high-ish purity carbon' sources in a mostly contemporary-adjacent setting
Basically what it says on the tin. A society mostly like ours as far as it's technological base goes recently discovers a way to synthesise very useful 'crystals' with carbon, with applications in a ...
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Are these ocean currents for my planet plausible?
This is my first attempt at worldbuilding anything at this point. I heavily modelled my first planet after the Earth as my baby steps. I wanted to experiment with how climates on the planet would be ...
