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For questions that have to do with the liquid form of H2O.
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Is atmospheric composition based on water content?
A planet with a lot of water (H$_2$O) has the potential for a lot of O$_2$ (and O$_3$) in its atmosphere, but that is not a complete picture of the planet's composition. …
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Will water planets have ice caps?
Water planets can be ice-free, have ice caps like Earth's Arctic Ocean, be mostly (a cold "eyeball" planet) or entirely covered in ice (like Ganymede), and, if deep enough, have icy floors below their …
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can a water cycle exist on a planet without oceans?
If this is a farming planet, efficient irrigation can make up for any shortcomings in the water cycle, including drawing up water from subterranean caches. …
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0g pool: can I keep a big ball of water in space?
The ball of water could be kept in place with equally spaced air fans to nudge splashed water back from all directions.
However... … Here is another video, with Mark Wiesgel a zero-G engineer, demonstrating how water behaves in microgravity – and confirming you would be drawn into the water. …
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O'Neill/McKendree Looping River
Reworded: is the Coriolis effect or other innate properties of a spinning habitat up to the task of circulating water, river-like, the length and breadth of the structure? … The river must flow as a river does – making water sit still isn't difficult to figure out – without use of pumps. …
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A way of getting the water to the top of the tall building without electricity?
A standard manually operated high-lift water pump can pump water 45 metres or more (your target building is 42-63 metres). … Assuming a water source at ground level and a vertical pipe 45 metres by 7 cm diameter, that is 173.2 L (or kilograms) of water when the pipe is full. …
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What would an until-recently waterworld look like?
With topsoil and plants you'd almost certainly get the same result, just a few years (maybe a decade) later: the subsurface would be salty as heck, killing most plants, and you'd have no source of fresh water … Those select microclimates would slowly lose water to the ground, wither, and die. …
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Where would a technologically advanced group of people forced into space by a calamity obtai...
"Are there chunks of ice in space that the ships could collect and use for water?" … Saturn and gas giants like it:
With an estimated local thickness of as little as 10 m and as much as 1 km, they are composed of 99.9% pure water ice with a smattering of impurities that may include …
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Lake Makgadikgadi, 21st Century
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Coastal mountain chains do not make the interior greener: they block onshore moisture-laden winds from reaching the interior, dumping their rains on the coast-side. See also: Andes and Patagonia, …
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