Questions tagged [temperature]
For questions about heat and temperature. For example, such questions could ask about the temperature of astronomical objects, living beings, or space.
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How do android regulates heat without triggering IR scanner?
Imagine that a robot disguised as a child walks into an airport to board a plane. Because of the pandemic there are many IR scanners stationed at every entrances/exits within the premises.
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How would merfolk insulate an underwater house?
If you tried to insulate your underwater home, making it water tight... wouldn't you suffocate yourself? Water does get stale, and run low on oxygen, creating a dead-zone, so wouldn't you want some ...
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Can a rogue planet have a habitable surface due to geothermal heat?
I am making a rogue planet. Right now it is a super-earth with a lot of radioactive materials in its core. It rotates very quickly as well. However, it needs to be habitable. And not just the deep ...
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Could negative kelvin be achieved?
What the title says I guess. I'm looking into ways to make a plausible exotic matter source for a story with an Alcubierre drive and I think recall that I saw that there was a possibility to use ...
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Why might an area of land be so hot that it smokes?
I'm attempting to design a desert area that could almost constantly be covered in a thin layer of smoke. It does not block out the sun but instead sticks closer to the ground. The land is hot, arid, ...
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Thermoregulation in a Shark-Skinned Canine
I've been toying with biological mechanisms for species in my current work in progress by combining or enhancing features in unusual ways. This question is about a canine design.
Dogs, like all ...
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A single volcano turns a northern island into a tropical jungle: how it is made?
To have a single volcano warm up an island the size of Iceland and located in a northern Europe climate, how hot does a volcano have to be, or what type of volcano does it need to be? I want the ...
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How could a planet with a long day-night cycle naturally regulate its temperatures to allow life?
So, my planet has (around) an Earth year long day-night cycle. How could its temperatures not reach extremes that would disallow life? Assume that everything is Earth like except for multiple moons (...
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How To Approach a Range of Albedo in A Given Latitude Range When Estimating Temperature?
There's a lot of information about figuring in the average albedo of a planet when calculating the base temperature for a planet. What if you want to get more granular, down to each (let's say) 10 ...
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Can a human brain operate at temperatures lower than 36 degrees Celsius?
I have a character who is human but doesn't generate their own body heat, like a cold-blooded animal. Is it unfeasible for a human brain to be operating despite this?
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How to Determine Planetary Extremes of Temperature from Average Global Temperature?
I have determined the average global temperature of my world based on the luminosity of the star, distance to the star, and the bond albedo and greenhouse factor of the world.
What I'm having a devil ...
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If a character were to live in a hot climate for the majority of their life, would their core temperature increase?
I'm making a comic about the apocalypse and I have a character who lives in Australia for most of his life. The thing is, global warming has caused Australia to increase in temperature so much, it's ...
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arctic and antarctic tectonic activity effect?
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Imagine an arctic or antarctic region and here have tectonic plates collide or diverge, or slide on each other , so to have some sort of activity ...
First question is it possible for ...
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How devastating is a weapon that can internally and rapidly cool down a section of a human body?
Let's say in a magical world, there exists a basic cooling spell which slightly cools down an area by reducing the heat energy of everything inside it.
In said world there also exists a particularly ...
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Temperatures and water level during very long eclipse
If we have extreme and short winter caused by 3-day-eclipse, what would be temperatures like?
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Planet is like earth, atmosphere, oceans, ice caps and so, but there is no regular seasons, ...
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How Cold Will Earth's Equator Be at a Martian Distance?
At 93 million miles from the sun, Earth is in a perfect place for liquid water to exist, which is crucial for the evolution of life. Currently, it averages in at 14 degrees Celsius (57 degrees ...
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Habitable planet with extreme hot and cold regions that is not tidally locked
I would like to create a world with a temperate habitable zone as well as very hot and very cold zones. The hotter and the colder the better, but I don’t want it to be tidally locked. How can I do ...
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Why are my caves warm with nobody heating them?
The continent is split apart by a dense area of mountains, covered in glaciers. Any travelers who with to go from one part of the continent to the other would either have to cross the mountains, or go ...
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Superhuman: Extreme Temperatures Pt.2
I have decided I will add my whole question… I’m new give me a bit of grace…
I am creating a superhuman and I am in need of some helpful tips and answers.
To get straight to the point I need to ...
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What would it take to get the temperature of the human body to rise to 3,000 °F?
I am creating a superhuman that can raise her overall body temperature to 3,000 °F (1648.889 °C) but I need to know the exact requirements of how that could happen.
Let's say this superhuman could ...
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Possibility of a "hot Mars"
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Correct me if I'm wrong, or if humans have terraformed the planet by the time you're reading this, but Mars is mostly desert-like. It has large ice caps which contain most of its ...
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How to determine surface temperatures at specific points
I have a planet around 11242 km in diameter. It is very similar to Mars, with most surface water trapped at the poles. For this, I want the polar temperature below 0 C, but the equatorial temperature ...
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How can I expand the definition and some specifics of pyrokinesis?
I'm writing a sci-fi world where, if you put it in simple words, a small percentage of population can manipulate the matter. I'm not going to dive into specifics, because I'm still working on WHY and ...
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How could space life deal with the cold?
I am workin on an ecosystem based on life within the rings of a planet. I will create creatures from single celled organisms, to algae/ lichen, plankton/worms and scales of predators leading to large ...
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Volcanic island generating its own storms
Picture this, a highly volcanic island sitting in the middle of a temperate or sub-arctic sea, the heat generated by the magma beneath the island and the volcano heats the air enough to generate a ...
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Ways to increase temperature and still be habitable by humans
I am designing a planet that humans can live on for a few tens of thousands of years, while they are hiding from some sort of inter-galactic police force (or whatever). Therefore, it's important that ...
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Where do hydrothermal vents form inside icy ocean worlds?
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In a near-future version of our solar system, humans have established multiple underwater colonies on Jupiter's moon Europa. Many of these outposts are situated next to hydrothermal vents ...
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Looking for an existing facility that contains enclosed areas with extreme temperatures
I would like to create a scenario where an unarmed individual leads its victims into a room that can be fully enclosed and then heated up to unsafe temperatures such that the victim would likely ...
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Would the Flamebreaker Armor in “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” work?
The Flamebreaker Armor is a full plate armor present in the videogame The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which protects the wearer from heat. When fully upgraded, it makes the wearer fireproof ...
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Is there any plausible in-between of Endotherms and Ectotherms?
Someone in the comment section of my previous question pointed out the energetic problem of ectotherms with human intelligence (the brain needs a lot of energy). I still want to keep my lizardfolk ...
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How would a creature with a higher body temperature interact with surroundings?
Say I've got a creature with a 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit higher body temperature than a human. (Trying to figure out what a good temperature for this creature would be. Not good with number ...
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Flash-heating spaceships
I'm working on a version of wormhole-based FTL travel, and one of the side effects of passing through the wormhole is going to be instantaneous heating of every molecule of the thing passing through. ...
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Flash-heating humans
I'm working on a version of wormhole-based FTL travel, and one of the side effects of passing through the wormhole is going to be instantaneous heating of every molecule of the thing passing through. ...
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How to calculate the average temperature of the hemispheres of a planet tidally locked to its star?
I have a planet orbiting a red dwarf and, as expected, it is tidally locked to its star. I know that these planets will have a very significant temperature difference between the diurnal and nocturnal ...
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What would the temperatures on a terraformed moon be like?
In the far future the moon is terraformed and maintains earth-like conditions for people to walk around freely. Gravity is a 6th of earth's. We assume the atmosphere is "well-functioning for human ...
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What plasma temperature range to expect from Earth atmosphere common elements?
I intend to write a character that has the ability to turn nearby gasses into plasma for combat and utility purposes. However, I've been studying how plasma works and (as someone who is not as savvy ...
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Using Noether's theorem how does one determine the corresponding conserved quantity given a symmetry [closed]
According to Noether's theorem, various symmetries in natural laws result in conservation laws. What conservation law would arise if temperature were translation symmetric? Note that I really don't ...
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What is the maximum equilibrium temperature that a mammal could evolve to tolerate?
Mammals live in some fairly extreme environments, but the most heat-tolerant ones all seem to cheat: e.g., they dig burrows to stay cool during the day and come out at night, avoiding the heat, or ...
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Could life exist on a planet that is heated mainly by hawking radiation from a super massive black hole that is millions of solar masses? [duplicate]
At a time long after the stelliferous there is a planet in orbit around a super massive black hole with almost all external heating coming from hawking radiation from the black hole it orbits. By ...
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Is a hot or cold environment better for intelligent beings? [closed]
I have always assumed that cold would be better for an intelligent being to work in mainly because of electronics. Electronics work better in the cold than the heat. Heat also makes it harder to work. ...
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Cooling the interior of a spacecraft to below the freezing point
I understand the Apollo 13 CM got down to 39°F after it was powered down following the explosion in the oxygen tank.
Could the interior of the ISS be cooled (for more than 12 hours) to below 32°F ...
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How would thermophilic fish survive?
I'm designing alien creatures for illustrations, and I'm just sketching some that might live in areas with a lot of geothermal activity. So basically, animals that live around geysers and hot steam. I ...
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How might dragon remains be turned into a jewel?
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I have typical dragons: Huge, scaly, winged, and fire-breathing. I also have dragon magic, but I'd prefer answers not to draw on this too much. In my world, a planet similar to earth, ...
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Ice Dome Greenhouse
I have an icy planet with temperatures that average about -100 degrees Fahrenheit (-73,3 °C). The planet also has thousands if not millions of domes scattered across its completely icy surface heated ...
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Geothermal Oasis Alternatives on Ice Planet
I have an Earth analog that is nearly completely covered in ice and glaciers. I want to have oases of warmth scattered across the planet. These oases aren't tropical by any means, having just enough ...
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At what temperature should the earth be cooked to prevent human infection?
Humans are the equivalent of bacteria to planet-eating monsters. And since, as we all know, eating humans is dangerous business, these monsters have decided to cook our great planet Earth before ...
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A planet of ice and fire
I had an idea for a planet which has very hot days, roughly 40 degrees C on average, and very cold nights, average -5 degrees. These figures are subject to change. Of course, there are places which ...
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What would make a groke's metabolism endothermic in the thermodynamic sense?
This recent question got me thinking about a creature concept I've tentatively named after everyone's favourite Moomins character, the Groke. In particular, the creature concept is based on her below-...
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Could a life form evolve an organ for generating temperatures less than a degree Kelvin above absolute zero?
I was thinking of a life form with a similar surface temperature to Earth, as well as a similar temperature variation to that of Earth.
Could such a life form evolve an organ for generating ...
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Alternative Uses of Bottomless Heat Sinks [closed]
Many traditional space settings feature cloaking devices, which, given what is required for them to work indefinitely against detection in space, imply ability to 'dump' waste heat 'into nowhere' (...
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