Unanswered Questions
15 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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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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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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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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Plausible altitude for my planet's ring?
The numbers come (relative to Earth and the Sun respectively unless indicated otherwise) as follows:
Planet:
Mass: 1,32
Radius: 1,24
Gravity: 0,86
Density: 0,69
Semi-major axis: 1,24
Escape velocity: ...
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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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How to calculate the tides for lake?
Assuming I have a lake on Earth shaped simply like an oval or circle with a consistent bottom slope and of otherwise arbitrary dimensions, how do I figure out what the resultant tidal range will be?
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Artificial Satellites Orbit Around a Cube with Uniform Surface Gravity
A cube-world with uniform surface gravity has been made using extremely strong materials of varying densities, and is orbiting a star, rotating on a axis between two corners (like spinning a d6). Due ...
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Workshopping a higher dimensions-based "magic" system?
I had this recent idea for a system which would allow for beings to defy our understanding of physics while being based on real theoretical physics, but I'd like some advice on how to make it work in ...
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If you Broke Mars' Perclorates and Benzenes How Much of an Atmosphere Would this Create?
Much of Mars is inimical to human life. While there are many problems I would like to focus on three:
The low density atmosphere does not provide the pressure needed to
sustain humans outside of a ...
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Creating a superhuman medicine
In my story my character David suffers from a genetic disorder which makes his skin burn when exposed to the sun. Throughout his life he tries to look for a way to cure him of his disease. After a ...
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