Timeline for How to limit sight distance to 1 km
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| Mar 12, 2019 at 6:32 | vote | accept | Ngoc | ||
| Mar 1, 2019 at 1:11 | comment | added | Mazura | I'd assume we can't take away the moon and darken the sun? | |
| S Feb 28, 2019 at 23:01 | history | suggested | kubanczyk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I think OP meant kilometer (km) not the Kelvin Mega (KM) or Koń Mechaniczny (KM)
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 20:44 | comment | added | Lord of the Larks | @EliasRowanAlbatross Ah, makes sense! | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 20:32 | comment | added | Jorgomli | @LordoftheLarks Oh ok, I didn't see that last bit. Depends on if they mind superstitious-ness in the woods as opposed to the actual cause of the vision impairment. Could also have a dangerous tribe/group live in the forest that act violently towards intruders, so they're afraid to cut the trees down. This would only make enough sense if the village they non-tribe people are in is relatively small and completely surrounded by trees. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 20:31 | comment | added | Elias Rowan Albatross | @LordoftheLarks that is true, but perhaps the shift has been happening for years and the terrain has been getting more rugged over the last 500 years. starting as highlands and hills and in the last 10 years has undergone the last of what it will take to totally obscure vision of anything beyond 1 km. beyond this, there are things that could increase tectonic change, such as massive earthquakes or solar events causing the core of the planet to heat up an thus faster convection of the mantle and softer more moveable crust. which also creates massive earthquakes more often. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 20:03 | comment | added | Lord of the Larks | @elias-rowan-albatross the only problem with tectonic shifts is that 10 years is too small a time period for it to occur | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 20:01 | comment | added | Lord of the Larks | @chasly-from-uk Bombings and other acts of war could also impair visibility. They probably don’t want this to be the reason and like Elias mentioned, it also gives us an indication of the time frame. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 19:57 | comment | added | Lord of the Larks | @jorgomli I thought of something similar to that - some kind of dark magic in the woods. But OP mentioned they did not want anything superstitious | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 18:46 | answer | added | Cyn | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 18:36 | history | edited | Cyn |
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 17:11 | comment | added | Elias Rowan Albatross | just an idea probably not worthy of making an answer out of it. I want to expound upon the idea of a physical obstacle like @LordoftheLarks stated. But you said in your question specifically that standing on a tall building helped you see farther but doesnt anymore. so the physical obstacle would have to be taller than buildings around, try sprouting up some mountains all across the continent tearing up the landscape and severing connections. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 17:00 | comment | added | Elias Rowan Albatross | @chaslyfromUK explosives are just a general way to give us a time frame, after googling a bit i found the first explosives were made in china around 900 AD. so by telling us this we know this is a medieval setting. Why or how exactly this affects the possibilities here I'm not sure. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 16:49 | answer | added | Tolure | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 16:19 | comment | added | Jorgomli | @LordoftheLarks If they go with trees, you can also add in a boogeyman into the forest that doesn't allow deforestation. E.g. the forest/Black Man in Scarlet Letter. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 16:04 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 28, 2019 at 15:53 | answer | added | Roger | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 15:18 | comment | added | John | How consistent does the limit need to be? you have regular things like London's famous fog. There is basically nothing that obscures vision all the time. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 14:58 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | Do people care that they can't see far? Will they take action to improve visibility? What do you mean by "can't 'see"? Things are blurred beyond that distance? It is dark beyond a certain point? There is smoke? | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 14:29 | comment | added | dhinson919 | Maybe you should fork a more specific question "Under what climate conditions might natural fog be a permanent occurrence on a continental scale?" | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 14:25 | answer | added | Lord of the Larks | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 14:20 | comment | added | Lord of the Larks | What about physical obstacles like trees? But then again, since it is inhabited, people might just chop them down. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 14:08 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | Is it 1km in all directions or just one direction? Why are explosives relevant? | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 13:25 | answer | added | user43712 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 8:53 | comment | added | user6760 | 1KM top? stand in the centre of a big crater. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 8:38 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 24 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 8:22 | history | asked | Ngoc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |