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For questions that require plausible (better than suspension-of-disbelief) answers based on Real World science that are not necessarily constrained to the known limits of Real World science. Contrast with the hard-science, science-fiction and internal-consistency tags. This tag may not be used alone. This tag may not be used with the science-fiction, hard-science, or internal-consistency tags.

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Could a tower be built in the mid-Atlantic? How?

There's a ridge that runs along the mid Atlantic. In the north it rises up and becomes Iceland. It also rises out of the water at the Azores. There's an area known as the Atlantis Massif where the rid …
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Can a planet have unusual weather changes due to its interaction with other astronomical bod...

It occurred to me that part of the problem is answered by a circumbinary planet. In this configuration, the planet warms up as it approaches the two binary stars, but cools off when one star passes in …
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Can a planet have unusual weather changes due to its interaction with other astronomical bod...

I've wanted to work out a world where summers are extremely hot except for two weeks in the middle of summer. Winters would be extremely cold except in the dead of winter when there would be two weeks …
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What would happen if an earthlike planet is eclipsed by another planet for a few hours or days?

If planet B approached your Earth like planet A to the point that B's apparent diameter was the same as, or larger than the apparent diameter of the primary star, it would be close enough to cause gra …
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In the shadow of a planet (science fiction)

I was thinking about this, and it occurred to me that the only kind of substances one might be willing to mine in an extreme environment would be if they were extremely rare minerals made of stable tr …
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