Unanswered Questions
24 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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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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What would be the environment and ecosystem of an island world that was formerly earth like?
The water level has risen to the extent that only mountains, their ranges, and other extremely high elevation points are left. It has been maybe 7 centuries since the flood event.
Thank you all for ...
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What would the g-force be at the end of a rotating skyhook?
I'm talking about something like this:
With a rotating skyhook similar to this, but slightly more advanced, the kind where the tip "slows" down enough so that it is stationary relative to ...
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Could Coconut Octopuses sustain themselves off of baiting?
In a project I've been working on for a while, sapient Octopuses evolve in the waters of Australia and proceed to affect human history. The way that these sapient octopuses come about is via an ...
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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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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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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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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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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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What would be the size of the outer asteroid belt in this system?
I am following the Artifexia-like system building with the calculator. Per the calculator, my system looks like this:
I am having trouble calculating the inner and outer limits of the second asteroid ...
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How would the polar front move?
I am in the process of working out the climate zones for a custom continent. Two of the defining features are its poleward placement in the Southern Hemisphere and the large mountain range running ...
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