Unanswered Questions
26 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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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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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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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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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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How would a dyson swarm actually work? -Orbits
SO HOW WOULD A DYSON SWARM'S ORBIT LOOK LIKE?
we are all familiar with the concept of a dyson swarm,
a series of orbital stations' reflective satellites that serve to collect the energy given off by ...
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Help with ocean current details on my terrestrial planet
I'm re-visiting the surface ocean currents on my world and was wondering about a few things. I know Ocean circulation is very complex and hard to say definitively what would happen but I think it's ...
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What would the climate of a Pangaea-Ultima-inspired world be like?
In a sci-fi scenario, human explorers have discovered a binary of G0 stars, each one 105% as wide, 110% as massive and 126% as bright as our sun. Orbiting this binary within its habitable zone is an ...
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Climate types for large volcanic islands on tidally locked planet
My planet is tidally locked to a red dwarf, which itself orbits a yellow sun like our own. It has roughly the same atmospheric conditions as Earth (perhaps a slightly thicker atmosphere, but not ...
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What would the seasonal patterns be like on this world?
Here's the set up on this system I have: The sun is .99 solar mass, .97 luminosity. The world in question has the following orbital parameters:
Dist: 1.253 AU Orbital Period: 1.41 (rel. to Earth)
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Plate Tectonics/Geology on Carbon Planets
After researching on and off for a few months, I thought I had how a Carbon Planet would work down right, up to and including an ammonia-based xenobiology, but a video I saw today got me wondering if ...
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A small planet with earthlike gravity
Is it possible to create an Earthlike planet, that is smaller than the Earth , like for example the size of Mars, by altering the core composition like for example making it:
Iron (Piron ): 75.6%
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