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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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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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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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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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How differently would Earth's wind and ocean currents look if it were a shellworld the size of Neptune?
Earth is a quaint little green-and-blue marble 7,917.5 miles wide and 196,941,385 square miles in area. It's just small enough to create a busy, dynamic network of wind and ocean currents.
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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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Would it be biologically possible to have a species that use a photochromic material instead of an iris to control light intensity?
So in real life there is glasses that use photochromic lens to adapt to the light intensity
Would it be biologically possible to have a species that use a photochromic material instead of an iris to ...
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I may have made an error in calculating my spin-orbit resonance
I have a very warm planet named Phoenix I'm worldbuilding that's 1.2 times the mass of Earth, with a density somewhat smaller at 5.2 g/cm^3, orbiting at a distance of 0.1 AU from it's star in 10.2 ...
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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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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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