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Pressure The combination of continents and cell boundaries forms the framework for working out the prevailing winds at different times of year. First, you'll need a map of the areas of high and low pressure. High pressure systems can be found: At cell boundaries with falling air Over land in winter...

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Propoably total bollocks, but I tried. What if Blobworld had a more extreme axial tilt, say 45 degrees? Then something a little like this would happen: http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/Conlangery/45deg.gif At midwinter, the cold winter pole, pointed away from the sun, will have been ...

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Atmospheric Cells II Cell Boundaries and Pressure At the boundaries between cells bands of high or low pressure form. Low pressure bands form where air is rising; on Earth, or any comparable three-cell system, at the equator (the ITCZ Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone) and at the Polar Front (boundar...

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Interlude: Introducing Blobworld (GIMPin') Menducia is bloody stupid to use as an example, so I'm putting it on hold for a while. Instead: http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/Conlangery/blobworldclimate01.gif This is Blobworld. It's an Earthlike planet (*cough*) with an axial tilt of a...

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Now, back on topic: What happens when a planet is smaller and has a lighter density? Will that effect the equatorial velosity and rotation speed? Will the planet have less atmospheric cells, more atmospheric cells, or will the cells just be smaller? The connection between planetary density and rota...

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Atmospheric Cells I Note: Here I get out of my depth and probably talk a lot of rubbish. Here goes my credibility... Note: This all highly hypothetical -as far as I'm aware there is no universal theory of atmospheric circulation. Climatologists have a sample size of one for research into Earthlike ...

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Hey, guys, the Church of Exobiology is across the street.

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Salmoneus wrote:I may argue with you later on.

This can only be a good thing.

Also, damn you, you've got me thinking about the atmospheric dynamics of Menducia again.

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@ Sal: Thanks for preempting the next stage and writing it for me :P Want to take over? Where did I say that air moves from hot areas to cold areas on Earth? (I said that they did on Menducia , but that was a fuckup). @ bricka: I badly need to go back and re-do the Non-Earthlike section of heat cycl...

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Working It All Out Next comes the actual process of mapping everything. Before we get started, you will need: * An image editing program that can handle layers: I'll be use the GIMP , which is awesome and, more importantly, free. * A map of your world showing all the land, and the locations of moun...

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Heat Cycles For any climate driven by heat, long term cycles of temperature will be the basis for seasons. Earth has a single, simple cycle: the changes in day length (and therefore time in the sun) caused by the axial tilt as the planet orbits around the sun. This cycle, and any similar one, produ...

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Chuma wrote:- Fertility awareness (either to avoid pregnancy or to increase the chances)

Fertility awareness, especially based on the menstrual cycle, has been around for millenia.

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Case Study: Menducia Ignoring the tricky question of animism (whereby physical "things" have an animating "will" that can manipulate the physical, even against the normal laws of elemental motion), the basics of Menducian physics runs on the elements. Menducian elements are less materials than "the...

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Basic Principles Earthlike and Non-Earthlike Worlds The first thing to get straight are the basic principles that govern climate in your conworld. For an Earthlike planet, Geoff has a handy list: 1] All heating comes from the sun. 2] Water heats and cools much more slowly than land; water thus acts...

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Disclaimer: This is all the work of a complete amateur, following another complete amateur. Hence the thread title. Why Climate? For anyone with a bottom-up approach to conworlding, climates are an essential starting point. Directly or indirectly they affect just about everything, especially plant-...

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boy #12 wrote:Thinking about why I'm not into women, I think of their strangely curved bodies, hairless and gleaming; a body that combines aspects of a baby and a robot.

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I notice that 26 and 13 are duplicates... hrm...

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Nah, there are bizzare leaps and logical errors right the way through. Great fun. Try picking the answers that lead you through and revel in the feeling of your brain making muted meep! noises.

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God exists. Quod erat demonstrandum.

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Mr. Saturday wrote:
bi wrote:Schoolgirls bullied into stripping online.
TITS OR GTFO.

Will you accept two bilabial clicks?

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ils wrote:Most... unfortunate... Jesus... ever.

Whoa. Just... whoa.

I want one.

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You're both wrong. It's:

OTTER + LIEK OMG!

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Salmoneus wrote:Male genitals are ugly, and when flaccid they are also the visual representation of pointlessness.

Brilliant. I'd sigquote it if I did sigquotes.

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All I have to say is: *glee*

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I get the feeling this is very unlikely to sway you, but.... If language is so incommunicable, how do any of us learn it in the first place? And how does anyone become bilingual? If a language is impossible for an "outsider" to learn, how is it possible for me to go and pick up a grammar of, say, Ja...

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