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Word Press is generally easy and looks good, but every so often it does weird things you can't fix without a PhD in Scary Mindbendy Computer-science.

Maybe I should go back to using Mathematica and posting everything as PDFs...

Torco wrote:Also, for higher gravities, I imagine being snakey would work great

Or snail-like. Though I still think, unless the gravity was just bodaciously excessive, some critters would evolve some faster form of locomotion.

finlay wrote:multiplication character is × by the way.

A-tilde or square root of eth?

I assume you're talking about my page. It looks fine to me in UTF-8. As does your multiplication sign, above. I was just messin' witcha.

I have a blog post on the response of human beings, evolved for one gee, to life in various gravities. It has a diagram with one fairly reasonable estimate as to the variation of human morphology. I intended to throw it out really quickly in response to this thread. It took quite awhile to put toget...

The most likely volcanic areas tend to be out of the way of major civilizations. It'd be nice to use something geologic to get rid of Aites (see the 1750 C map), but I think it's too far from the mountains. Maybe a major flood would help. Maybe somewhere upstream a big volcano with an alpine glacie...

If the USA gets rid of all its anti-homosexual feeling, will father-son, mother-daughter, brother-brother, and sister-sister sex, still disgust us? In the parent-child case, there is also an age issue, and a responsibility issue; don't know about other countries, but around here the age of consent ...

Well, things have passed an important threshold: I am now getting honest to goodness temperatures out. http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/Image1.png This shows the theoretical rise in temperature that would caused by the incoming energy for one day around the (NH) winter. You can see ...

Tidal locking is one special case that would probably be worth handling.

Huhh.

You're getting what I'd instinctively expect. At 90º inclination, the whole world gets its day in the Sun.

Considering it further, I think the peak insolation was what I was reading about.

Hopefully my brain will function soon.

I remember reading... somewhere(which I can't find in my current state)... that, on planets with an axial inclination in excess of 45º, the annual mean insolation is greatest at the poles. I have yet to figure out the calculations for annual mean of insolation, so I don't know.

24kg of hydrogen would be roughly 12,000 moles of hydrogen gas. Completely burning this with 6000 moles of oxygen gas results in 12,000 moles of water vapor. Oxygen gas and hydrogen gas both have a free energy of formation of 0 kJ/mol. Water vapor, meanwhile has a free energy of formation of -228.6...

Daistallia. Looking at the power supply on your tank, I'm somewhat confused. It states that your tank has fuel cells generating a total of 1440 kWs. The M-1 tank has a 1500hp(1119kw) gas turbine. Those fuel cells would generate about 1.3 seconds of power for that. Also fuel cells aren't batteries. T...

Sincerity. Learn to fake it and you can do anything.

I've put up a first-draft of the temperatures chapter of my forthcoming(? hahaha, er I hope.) webbook on conworlding.
The link is right here.

Please don't laugh at me too hard. I hope someday to be a n00b!

"My friend Pat says," something that would be offensive if said by a member of the inappropriate gender.

I also tend to call female friends my "lady-friends" to avoid any implication of intimate relationships. "My lady-friend" is someone you have sex with, especially if you are the Old Spice guy in the commercials. You don’t have "man-friends", do you? Just say "my friends". For some purposes. Most, e...

Thanks. I'm aware that high eccentricities are unlikely in strictly realistic conworlds, but I would like this program to (eventually) cover as many crazy possibilities as possible. It looks like the code you linked to should eventually cover everything up to hyperbolic escape. By eventually I mean...

Awww...

Zeroskoate:

How big is a Felsen gun?

EDIT: Never mind, I found it .

If anyone plans on working with highly elliptical orbits (eccentricity over 0.3), they're going to have to find me some C++ code to solve Kepler's equation for those cases. I'm currently running the (C?) code from here , which runs the < .3 case fine but sulks at everything else. It's not because i...

Any chance of your exposing the source code?

But only using the absolute scale do you get an answer that's physically correct.

And that will always come out to the same actual temperature. So... mathematically correct.

Danke schoen, you rock!

The jc.tech one looks to be the best so far. All the images are there and the internal links have been updated to avoid dead links.

Oh well. I won't bother mirroring this on my wordpress page then.

It's a surprisingly hard subject. I suspect a lot of people are looking back at things they've said(at least I have) and said, "Wait, is that right?" There are a lot of complicated feedbacks in climatology and it's not always clear which will dominate in any given situation. For my part, I'd like to...

I can't find it on Knee Quickie. I have, as I think I mentioned earlier, the Climate Cookbook and Creating an Earthlike Planet pages. I don't have his higher level, more personal pages. I thought I remembered there being some linguistic stuff there too. My conlang stuff runs mostly limited toward si...