Unanswered Questions
27 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Geodesic grid creator/editor?
After trying and inevitably failing to find a "perfect" planet generator for sake of setting up a (minimally distorted) global hexcrawl, I decided that I might as well buck up and do the ...
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How much air pressure and air flow I would need in order to make a ultra thin and long air jet for a plasma cutter-sword with a ideal de-laval nozzle?
The idea is that specific types of industrial plasma cutters were adapted in a compacted form for mechs in case of melee combat and for bunker-buster missiles (easier to go through meters of ...
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How to rationalize biased genetic inheritance in my species
I've had an idea for a long time about a biological kingdom that challenges Fisher's Principle in that the species produces more females than males, the offspring inheriting the majority of their ...
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Soil Types Sanity Check
I'm in the process of making a strategy game. I am using the FAO soil classification system for handling soils; the soil in a given tile has four characteristics:
production limit (how much food you ...
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Appearance of sky and star from the termination zone on a habitable planet?
What might the sky and star would look like to a person standing on the planet surface in the termination zone of my imaginary habitable, tidally-locked planet orbiting an M class star.
If I've done ...
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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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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 ...
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What will be temperature in inland depression deeper than 2 km below sea level (48° southern latitude) and how will temperature gradient work there?
My another question related to already introduced planet Artemis is related to temperature gradient. Whether it will work also in depression deep under sea level and if yes what could be increase of ...
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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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Could convection currents bring minerals to the surface of a 40 mile deep ocean?
I’m working on a speculative evolution world on a Europa-like moon. It’s about 2/3rd the mass of earth orbiting a rogue Jovian planet about 5x larger than Jupiter. Around 400 million years after ...
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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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largest reasonable area of a travertine terrace formation?
After recently doing a geological map of my worldbuiding project, I noticed an area that seems to be pretty perfect for travertine terraces, which I just think are some of the coolest things ever. The ...
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Astro-Mechanics: Plausibility check for binary system merge
I have a binary system composed primary about a brown dwarf and a k6.6V star that's the fusion of the system 1 and 2 7.41 billion years ago, I'll tell you the story and I'll ask the question after the ...
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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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