Questions tagged [water]
For questions that have to do with the liquid form of H2O.
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What would winds and storms be like in a no tilt mostly water planet
I'm making a mostly water planet with just a few islands and no axil tilt. Basically I'm wondering if my guesses are right, would my equator have lots of storms and hot rain due to the large amount of ...
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What would the average temperature for a earth like planet with only islands and no continents (water world) be? how would it affect the atmosphere
I was wondering if having a water world would make a planet more hot or cold? Also would it change the atmosphere and make that warmer or cooler?
The planet is smaller then earth (not by to much), has ...
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Pumping water in a fantasy medieval-equivalent setting?
I've been designing a major city in my campaign setting and want to include water delivery infrastructure. Based on the location of the city, it's likely too far from any mountain springs or sources ...
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Division of Europan Nations
A species of sapient aliens on Europa (how these aliens even exist is irrelevant) evolved and developed civilization alongside humanity, but like humanity they are divided into various nation states (...
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How Far Can A Flower Float?
I am hoping to have a flower float many miles down a river, more than once, without being destroyed. The story is grounded in rough science, being that nothing raises red flags while reading to make ...
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Will water extracted/farmed/distilled from poisonous clouds be (more) potable if 'strong alcohol' was mixed in?
To put this very simply, the clouds are toxic. However, society requires water, and one of the main sources, is cloud-water farming. Another major industry of this society however, is alcohol ...
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If everyone over the Age of 18 disappeared how long would it take for infrastructure to collapse? [duplicate]
If everyone over the age of 18 was thanos snapped out of existence at exactly midnight, how long would it take for our infrastructure, like the internet, electrical grid, water and gas systems and ...
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How long can large bronze water pipes last?
For context, in my world there is a city with a massive underground pipe system designed to divert a river into the ocean if needed. The technology that was used to build this system is long since ...
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How could a tropical saltwater lake, turned to freshwater, become salty again?
I'm looking for information on how feasible it is for a large, freshwater lake to become salty, at least to a level where the people, animals and plants that live around and rely on it can no longer ...
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Viability of wells in a desert world; would it realistically work?
So I have this concept of this corporation capitalizing on the near lack of water available, save for oases here and there, on the surface by renting out (for quite high prices might I add) electric ...
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How to Advance Deep Sea Technology using Metallic, Oxygenating, Geobattery "Flowers"
So it turns out there DO be oxygen in the deep after all!
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"...small metallic nodules found in the north Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) produce oxygen through seawater ...
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Little water worlds
In a solar system, not too dissimilar to our own, there are dozens of little ice moons and water spheres (similar to moons) near the sun. Some slingshot close to the sun (where they boil and kill all ...
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What factors can I use determine if my runaway greenhouse planet will have a thick water vapour atmosphere?
A question related to this question
When Earth’s oceans evaporate, one of two feedback situations could occur:
The "moist greenhouse" where water vapour dominates the troposphere while ...
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Crafting a Water Cycle for a Cube World with State-dependant Gravity
So I have a cube world with the standard 6 sides, with a top and bottom that do not change. We can ignore any rotation of the other side-sides for the sake of this question. I am trying to come up ...
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Practicallity Check of Floating Fish Enclosure
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I would like to start off by saying these are normal fish. The fish are just fish. The fish are not genetically engineered with the exception of say a GloTetra. The fish can be fresh or ...
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