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Would subtropical highs form on a discworld with a stationary local sun above its center?
Consider a megastructure consisting of a series of discs 12,600km across, which are tethered to a counterweight and rotate for centrifugal acceleration that mimics Earth gravity. At the rims of the ...
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Question about the flight suit of the air magician and the method of flight in such a suit
The action takes place in the world of the 21st century, where some people at a conscious age periodically acquire one superpower.
I have a human character who is able to summon the wind and control ...
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Weather on a Flat, Infinite Sea
Imagine a vast sea, stretching out to encompass the horizon much like a real sea. But unlike such a sea, this sea sits upon a flat plain, and stretches out over 100 million miles in each direction(...
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Could an electrokinetic superhero use lightning to fly
I have a character in my story with the ability to control and generate electricity . I am trying to make this story somewhat realistic so their ability works by sending a high voltage high current ...
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How could a magic user increase air pressure for jet blast like effects
In my magic system characters possess the ability to control air and wind. They can usually expel 300 mph winds from their body however these winds lack force over distance. I should clarify that the ...
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Maximizing the wind speed of an ionic thruster in atmosphere [closed]
In real life ion thrusters in atmosphere have extremely low thrust with thrusts of 290 millinewtons. This is detrimental to real life ion drives in atmosphere. This problem got me thinking about how ...
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Wind needed to deflect a bullet
In a world with magic, bullets pose a serious threat to magic users. I had an idea for a spell that would use wind to stop/deflect/slow a bullet to make it harmless and thus have magic be more ...
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Fastest way to do damage/kill with wind
Wind powers in fiction are often extremely powerful with the ability to kill or even level objects with a single attack. In real life wind is typically weaker than the wind in fiction and unless the ...
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Ion wind for the ability to fly
Flight is one of the most commonly seen abilities in fiction with flight even being one of the abilities that people primarily say when asked, “If you could have any power what would it be.” Due to ...
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Can I have a planet with 150 kph winds across the entire surface?
Is it possible for the average wind speed to be high enough that even the "calm" areas have 150 kph winds, while still maintaining an atmosphere and breathable air?
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How small can you make a planet or moon and still have dust devils on its surface?
I want a moon for one of my planets to be larger than the Moon, enough to have an appreciable atmosphere, but not quite so massive as Mars. I'd like it to be that if you were to land on it, the thin ...
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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.
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On a TLP, the sub-solar point is ...
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Can wind blow floating objects in predictable cyclical routes?
I'm imagining a world where magic lets massive skyscraper-sized crystals hover in the air. They're not tethered in any way - the wind is free to blow them around. I'm imagining that having specific ...
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Would the atmospheric circulation experienced on my world's high platforms seem to be reversed?
In this world, that rotates in the same direction and at the same rate as Earth, where the land platforms that cover around 10-20% of the world's surface is (magically) suspended at the 1 ATM level, ...
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What geographic features could cause a stable pocket of unmoving air?
As title. What geographic features could cause a stable pocket of unmoving air?
I'm envisioning some kind of shrine, sacred place, or untouched grotto, which due to terrain features or certain aspects ...
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