Questions tagged [ocean]
For questions about bodies of salt water large enough to sustain their own internal currents and do not drain to any larger body of water. Covers both currents, navigation, and ecology.
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Natural mechanism behind burning oceans
I have an alternate Earth with no humans where massive patches of the oceans are supposed to be burning. The fires do not come from artificial or man-made causes. The flames themselves:
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Habitable inner planet with large oceans, fast rotation and earth-like atmosphere
According to several articles (such as this post), a habitable inner planet (more than 1.1x Earth’s insolation) could realistically form with liquid water (and avoid turning Venusian) through the ...
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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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Would it be possible to have "Atlantis" right westward from the Strait of Gibraltar, and have the Mediterrean remain the same?
Im imagining an Alternate History with a realistic Atlantis.
In my setting, the world is largely identical to our own, physically, if not historically, but with one major exception:
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Estimating energy of tidal friction in alternative moon scenarios
The moon loses kinetic energy due to tidal friction. I would like to quantitatively explore the energies involved in alternative earths in which the moon is larger or has a different orbit.
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Are my ocean currents acceptable?
I really don't know if this is the right place to post this.
After about 6+ or so months of trial and error (and like, hours re-watching the videos Artifexian made on them), I've managed to come to ...
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What would be the color of this ammonia ocean?
The ocean in question is mostly made ammonia, with some traces of ices (mostly water ice) at the bottom of the ocean. It also does have dissolved alcohols and salts though but these can be ignored if ...
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How could a large continent in the North Atlantic Ocean affect ocean currents? [closed]
This is my first time really using stack exchange so yeah. forgive me if i messed something up or if im not using it right.
Ive been making an alternate earth and i have repeatedly stumbled upon an ...
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How would a toxic halophilic bacteria (vibrio vulnificus) mutate and make all coastlines uninhabitable?
I am writing a speculative fictional story set in the future, where the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus mutates and makes life so dangerous for humans along the coast that everyone has to retreat into the ...
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Is it possible to have very different sea levels?
This image demonstrates what I'm trying to do. Basically the ocean "drops" down to a lower level via a waterfall, with different sea levels, sort of like how we have "locks" on our ...
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Conditions of a piranha solution ocean
My super Earth has oceans of entirely piranha solution, that is, a mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. The planet is very carbon rich and the crust is about 98% diamond and 2% quartz. The ...
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Where should my currents go?
I'm trying to figure out how to place currents in the green area. There doesn't seem to be anywhere for them to come from, and I seem to have backed myself into a corner with the geography of this ...
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What is Plausibility of a Megalodon sized creature attacking a human? [closed]
I have a speculative zoology world with large sea creatures. The astrobiologists don't have a submarine, but they have hi-tech scuba suits. I'm wondering about the reasons for why such large creatures ...
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What conditions would be needed to make it more viable to have offshore workers supported by towns at sea instead of going to shore?
In this world the sea is far more utilized than today. Offshore oil drilling, wind & solar farms, rocket launches, hydrogen production, aquaculture, and mining are all big industries.
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How early technologically could manganese nodules be economically dredged if there was a serious desire to do so?
While the idea of deep sea mining has only started to see significant effort in recent times, there were earlier efforts in the 1960s and 1970s. While they were first discovered in 1868, first ...
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