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| Oct 25, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Slarty | @Axion yes there are a number of interesting possibilities. I was thinking that even with a large sea winds blowing across it might pick up moisture, but either not pick up enough or what they did pick up might be widely scattered as rain down wind in desert floods that eventually just evaporate. My civilization will live near a sea to their south east and mountains to their north east. So most of the moisture from the sea ends up as rain in the mountains and flows as rivers back to the sea. But I feel another question coming on... | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 16:17 | comment | added | Axion | @Slarty - There could be one bigger sea on one side of the planet and then a gigantic Mega-Pangea with just a few smaller seas dotted in it. The civilization could be located around one of those but then have 1000s of kms of desert around it before any other large bodies of water are encountered. If they are pre-industrial, they might not be able to cross that large a desert easily. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 15:46 | comment | added | Slarty | @Axion Yes I’m thinking that 10% might be too much, that would be enough for 36 Mediterranean Seas worth dotted around. But with John’s comment about sediment, can’t put it too low, perhaps 5%. Enough for at least 3-4 Med’s worth plus sediment etc. Or maybe 8% giving 5-6 bigger deeper sea areas. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 13:17 | comment | added | John | on the low end I doubt there would even be lakes, sediment holds 3-4% of the water on earth. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 12:49 | history | answered | Axion | CC BY-SA 4.0 |