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For questions related to planets, moons, stars and other celestial objects, and their motion on the sky.
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What locations in a galaxy would be best for stone carvings to remain undamaged or worn down...
Well, if they want giant temple spaceships... why not just go
EXTRRA LARRGE!
Look for rocky, airless moons and carve gigantic symbols into the surface. Imagine a Cerne Abbas Giant hundreds of miles ta …
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At What Point Does a World's Twin Planet Disappear, from the Viewer's Perspective?
This is Yeola~Camay. A double planet orbiting Sharro, an ordinaryish star somewhere in the universe of Far Far Away.
As you can plainly see, Yeola is the planet on the left & Camay is the planet on …
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Navigating under a starless sky: how to determine the position?
Who needs stars to navigate, anyway?
Navigation can be done by means other than stellar wayfinding. Consider the various methods in use by the Polynesians:
They used concept maps that show patterns …
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I come out of hyperdrive as far as possible from any galaxy. How isolated am I and what do I...
The Cosmological Horizon
People, of the superstitious sort, used to think that the world was flattish and that, at the horizon, the world ended, and there was a great waterfall and if you sailed over …
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How could a planet have a sky without stars at night?
One possibility is for the surface of the planet to be covered in highly luminous matter. Perhaps all the surface is an interconnected network of bioluminescent life.
There is no moon (assumed becaus …
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Retrofitting geocentrism - what replaces the star?
The Witenagamot Decrees
...that from the earliest times, natural philosophy has observed the nature of the Earth and all philosophers have calculated and conjured and taught the same doctrine, namely, …
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Would an industrial level society be able to visually identify orbital debris from a destroy...
Of Course!
It's a megastructure! How can anyone miss large numbers of hundred km wide, partially finished NASA QuBEs still attached to their two thousand by one thousand km gantry structures? Not to …
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