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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Maintain atmosphere on moon using global warming
So, a neat thing, depending on how you look at it, about greenhouse gases is that while it's causing a raise in temperature near the surface it actually makes the upper parts of the atmosphere ...
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Is it possible for a substance to be thermally inert?
Heat is energy. Temperature is an indication of the level of heat in a substance. But the normal way to measure temperature is to observe how the substance interacts with its surroundings - most ...
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How would one determine the upper and lower temperature limits for a race of human-sized reptiles?
It's a fairly well-known fact that reptiles are ecotherms, meaning that they require outside sources of heat to stay warm and metabolize. However, being too hot can cause heat sickness (not fun), and ...
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How might spoken language (vowels) be different for Fire Breathers with fine temperature control?
I'm writing up a conlang for a story wherein there exists a society of foreign creatures who are very physiologically diverse. Some are mammallian, others avian, reptilian, and some more fantastical. ...
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Is it possible to use Magnetic refrigeration to cool down a sun probe, so that it could survive at least a few hours inside the photosphere?
The probe in my mind is unmanned, with a super-reflective surface to deflect most of the energy from the Sun on all wave length, only absorb enough to power its operation.
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How hot can I make the insides of my spaceship before damaging crew too much?
Spaceships are a peculiar thing; as are the things inside them. Humans... Humids... Humies - the colloquial term for those crazy enough to make a living by crewing these hulks of metal. A special ...
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Surface temperature when outside solar system
Suppose Earth has drifted away from solar system for some reason. It has been 320 years since drifting started. For almost 250 years, it is farther away from Neptune.
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Temperature of a habitable Venus?
I'm looking at designing a neo-Old Solar System version of Venus which is habitable. The following conditions hold:
The cloud cover still exists, hiding Venusian civilization from the outside world ...
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What is the range of lava/magma viscosity on exoplanets; what conditions would have the least viscous lava lakes?
On planets of have different temperatures, conditions and chemical makeup of the lava/magma, what would be the least viscous lava around?
(Relevant to an earlier question - What would an efficient ...
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What temperatures could I expect to find on a world with a 9 year day?
I am working on a world where, instead of 24 hours, a day lasts 9 years. On this world the land far exceeds the oceans, to the point where the bodies of water are simply massive lakes (a la the ...
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Properties of fictional material for artificial skin
How would one go about giving a scientific explanation for artificial skin gradually adapting to certain environments? For example, suppose character C has the ability to adapt to changes in ...
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Rocky core, internal ocean, ice crust, external ocean
So I writing a story where we terraform Titan using super heavy green house gases where the lower part of the atmosphere near the surface stays warmer. Because of this, a portion of the moon's icy ...
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Possible thermoregulation temperatures
There are a wide range of environmental temperatures located all around the world, from the low -90° C to high 60° C at the extremes. When looking at the core body temperature however the range is ...
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Polar Heat, Equatorial Cold - Climatic Effects of Inverted Global Temperatures
How does inverting global temperatures affect climate? Here exists a fantasy world similar to earth in all important ways. Except, however, that global temperatures have been flipped; it is coldest ...
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Is there a metal, that is not sticky during freezing weather [closed]
Is there any metal, that your tongue will not stick during winter?
If there are several, please list all metals with such property, that you can remember.
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Using temperature to contain an atmosphere?
So, I was looking at the temperature variations in Earth's atmosphere and noticed that it gets extremely cold in some of the upper portions. So I was wondering, could a low gravity world hold onto an ...
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Switching between poikilothermic and homeothermic metabolism
I am designing a mammal living in a warm environment (like a warm desert) which has developed a switchable metabolism, so that during the day it is cold blooded and during the night (when it is colder)...
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How fast can heat be carried away from a small source?
Someone invents a portable, incredibly high-powered laser or similar energy weapon. The mechanism of energy production can be hand-waved away. In other words, it will heat up. Lots. Gigawatts lots, or ...
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How cold can a planet actually get?
The coldest place in the universe that we have observed is in the Boomerang Nebula. Similarly to a refrigerator, heat is carried away through a fluid, resulting in a space colder than the surrounding ...
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How would temperature variation work on the inside surface of a Dyson sphere?
Let's say I have a Dyson sphere roughly the same size of the earth with a very small "star" in the center. Continents, oceans, and people inside the sphere experience a reverse gravity in the opposite ...
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Alien Biological Temperature Control?
I'll keep this one brief. I have an alien from a planet which has extremely cold nights and extremely hot days (the day and night cycle may be short or long, I haven't decided).
When the alien gets ...
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Where on a tidally locked planet with a 25 °C maximum is the 0 °C isotherm?
I am writing a novel. In that novel, humans have settled a tidally locked planet. That planet is positioned at just such a distance from its sun that the sun heats the planet to an average of 25 °C at ...
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What would weather be like if the entire water on the surface of Earth freezes?
Earth is entering anther ice age and this time there will be no liquid water on the surface of the planet, the water cycle disappear as a result no Coriolis effect. What would the weather be like then?...
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Implications of achieving absolute zero
How might science/humanity make use of the ability to get matter to and maintain it at 0 Kelvins?
The atoms would be cooled normally after being given a finite quantity of "negative heat" (through ...
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Would below freezing level kill all life? [closed]
If Earth had a average below freezing level temperature would all lifeforms on Earth die? Except all the animals in already below freezing places like penguins and some bears.
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Is a world with an average temperature of 34 °C habitable for humans?
In my setting, one of the habitable (?) worlds has a global average temperature of 34 degrees Celsius (93.2 F). Is this within the human habitability range, or is it too hot?
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Is it possible for a forest with a similar climate to a jungle to have a rain cloud over it 24/7?
I have created a map of an island and was wondering if it is possible for a forest with a similar climate to that of a jungle to have a rain cloud above it 24/7 on this island?
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Is it possible for a mountain to be made out of glass?
If there is a lot of sand on a planet and it is incredibly hot for some reason and glass forms with two continental plates colliding into each other, it is possible for the plates to push up the glass ...
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Day/Night temperature variation on tidally locked binary planets
My binary planets are roughly the size of earth and they are tidally locked with one another. Both planets support life. If the day/night cycle is roughly 100 hours (50 hours of day, 50 hours of night)...
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Tempertures below zero degrees Kelvin [closed]
For years I have wondered why Science does not consider temperatures (and their effects) below zero degrees Kelvin..
Would these temperatures help to explain things like dark energy, dark matter, and/...
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Extreme cold protocols
I need to build a world which has incorporated extreme cold (think Iqaluit) into its architecture, daily activity, municipal legislation and culture. This world, although bearing similar temperatures ...
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Animals migrating north from Africa after meteor hit Earth - era of 'ice' [closed]
To eleborate on my question asked here - Light Emitting Animals - What happens to the food chain?
where every animal has evolved / produced a light emitting organ.
Scenario - 200years after my first ...
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Temperature Difficulties of a Fluctuating Orbital Distance [duplicate]
I'm presently working on a setting that involves a planet orbiting a secondary star, a Red Dwarf, (let's call her Star B) which in turn orbits a G/K class star (Star A). I intend for this planet to be ...
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What would the most overpowered abilities be, using a temperature controlling superpower? [closed]
Let's say I have a superpower, Marvel/DC style, where I have the ability to change the temperature of anything at will, from almost Planck temperature down to almost absolute zero. The catch is that I ...
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If Absolute Hot and Absolute Zero, collided what would happen?
If a substance at Absolute Hot and a substance at Absolute Zero collided, what would happen to the resulting mixture??
Assume this was done on Earth in a sort of collision facility.
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What is the most efficient way of reducing the temperature of a planet?
As you might know, most planets that have atmospheres are not the ideal temperature to live on. For example, Venus is a very, very, very hot planet with constant volcanic eruptions and especially the ...
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Temperature on a 14-days day planet
In this question I asked about temperatures on a planet where a day last 30 days. The data are the same:
stellar flux of 1.118
albedo between Earth's and Mars's
atmospheric composition of 18% oxygen, ...
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Temperatures on a planet with long days
I have a planet with a stellar flux of 1.118, an albedo between Earth's and Mars's, an atmosphere composition of 18% oxygen, 13% argon and 69% nitrogen with a sea-land pressure of 0.87 atmospheres and ...
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Can I make a ruler that works at any temperature? [closed]
Slartibartfast has just finished designing the fjords of Norway. He begins work on the volcanoes of Hawaii when he soon realizes that his work isn't matching up with his blueprints.
Finally the ...
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Is it possible for the oceans to freeze solid (at least on the surface)?
Can the oceans freeze (at least several feet below sea level)? I know that the temperature for salt water to freeze is lower/colder than fresh water, and when it does freeze, the ice is mostly salt-...
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Weather and temperature effects on leather armor
What exactly happens to leather armor in different environmental conditions, for example battles or long exposure to rain or desert heat? What can be done to negate or care for it?
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Could human beings evolve to have a higher body temperature in order to survive in cold climates?
Basically I want to create a world in which some of the humans have developed a higher body temperature in order to survive cold, harsh climates, such as the poles or even tall mountains. The reason ...
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Stabilizing the Temperature On a Planet With a (Very) Long Day
Let's say my terrestrial planet has a stable circumbinary orbit around two suns similar to the Kepler-47 system, in the habitable zone, with an orbit similar to Kepler-47c. The challenge here is that ...
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Hot rods into space!
Based on this question about an impossible barbell planet, how hot would the bar be if it extended from halfway in the Earth's mantle to an altitude of 2r of Earth's radius? The diameter of the bar ...
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Use ice to climate control settlement
The heat wave that my area is going through got me looking longingly at the ice in my freezer. I understand that leaving the freezer door open does not help cool the house, but it got me thinking...
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Surface temperature of a icy rogue planet
A certain imaginary stellar system had once a water world. But instead of evaporating away under the stellar wind, this lucky (or unlucky?) water world (made of only water and a gaseous atmosphere) ...
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How could life evolve when exposed to high temperature?
Edit: In the scenario that the temperature of a given area increases constantly over 30 million years (slowly enough for species to adapt) starting at 20°C and ending at 90°C, what are the possible ...
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Is it possible to use Venus' temperature to generate electricity, and how would the electricity be transferred to Earth?
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We have materials that can withstand the temperatures/pressures/acidity of Venus.
We can get to Venus and back reasonably easily (NASA does shuttles every 3 months).
Here is Venus:
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What would be best way to re-melt Mars' mantle and core to revive its magnetosphere
Missing magnetosphere on Mars keeps popping up. Most likely caused by Mars core being cold, mantle not bubbly enough. Mars mantle is dormant, core does not move.
What would be good way to get it ...
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Would a planet with very small temperature variation (between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius) be possible?
Would it be possible for a planet-wide climate be set so that the temperature even at the poles would continually stay within a narrow range between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius?
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