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Review my idea : an endoceres-like tripod scavenger
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It is a squid-like creature that is 10-50 cm in hight, with a pointed cone made of calcium carbonate facing upward taking up around 90% of its hight. It has 3 legs that it uses to walk ...
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What would it be like on a habitable planet tidally locked to its moon?
Let's assume there's a habitable planet with a moon similar to ours. Unlike the Earth-Moon system, where only the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, both objects are locked to each other.
What would ...
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Alternative methods of digestion?
For my worldbuilding project, I was trying to figure out another method of digestion other than “have a big balloon full of acid the food falls into”. Could there be other methods of passive digestion ...
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How exactly do wind patterns work on a polar continent without a circumpolar current?
I've seen many worldbuilding tutorials that gloss over this, but I leave confused. I am aware that a perfect landless planet has wind patterns that look roughly like this:
with high pressure zones on ...
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How would temperature extremes from summer to winter vary from ours if an Earth-like planet had an orbital period 4 times that of Earth?
I am imagining a world orbiting an F2 star, temp 7050K, at 2.87 AU, which I believe would be in the habitable zone and give an orbital period 4 times that of Earth. This is soft science fiction, so ...
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Climate of worlds with polar continents and concentrated equatorial continent
In my fiction, there would be two Earth analog planets (one planet and its rival) with opposite land and sea distribution. The sea-to-land ratio on both planets is the same as Earth, 71%. On Planet A, ...
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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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How would these changes affect the atmosphere of my world?
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I'm new to this site and hope this question fits here. I'm building a fantasy world that's similar to Earth with Earth-like flora and fauna, but with the differences that it has a day length ...
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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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Radius on the Ground of floating Islands
I am having a bit of trouble with the math of figuring out how much of the ground under a flying island would be in complete shadow and what would be in the penumbra.
I know there is some math with ...
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The power plant of the ark ship in the form of a black hole
I would like to warn you right away that I’m new here and not very proficient in English, so there may be some mistakes in my question.
I am developing a science fiction book where I want to move away ...
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What would the climate be like on the continent on my planet?
This planet's climate is the same as Earth's, only the inclination is different (25°) and the global temperature is either the same or 1°c higher. The planet is slightly larger than the Earth, 7092km ...
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Hand structure of a 4D person?
Consider this a long overdue follow-up to Limb structure of a 4D creature.
The ancestors of our 4D people have limbs with a complex hip/shoulder which can rotate in any of six planes (XY, YZ, ZW, XZ, ...
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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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How will the monsoons work in this boomerang-shaped supercontinent?
Back and forth, I have created a fantasy supercontinent shaped in the likeness of an asymmetrical boomerang, with its elbow enlarged to resemble a fish’s head pointing westward, its lifting arm long ...
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