Timeline for Cities in a world with rapid winds and denser atmosphere?
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 2:26 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @JAMS I'd say anything we could build they could build. The safety margins on wind for stone castles was substantially higher than 50%. I'd feel comfortable with calling it a 400% margin easily. I think the changes in architecture get more interesting once you get to modern cities with modern construction and modern safety margins. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 1:20 | comment | added | JAMS | Well, the atmospheric pressure on these planets is 1.5 atm, but the coriolis effect would be less since the planet completes its rotation every 26 hours. Taking that into account and for the standards of a pre-industrial society, what do you think would be the limit in regard to the size of the largest buildings that could be built (castles or fortresses)? | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 1:04 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |