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What technologies would be useful to a society trying to attain elevation?
Let me suggest that you aren't going to get an exact match for "middle ages" technology. You're describing a society of engineers who mine for a living, so I suspect they would develop a ...
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If Earth were located at 1.1 AU from the Sun, would this affect the two zenithal passage days in the Tropics?
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The tropical zone is defined by the tilt of the Earth's axis, not by our distance to the sun. Astronomically speaking, the tropics are the area of Earth where the sun can at some point of ...
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If Earth were located at 1.1 AU from the Sun, would this affect the two zenithal passage days in the Tropics?
Kepler's third law of planetary motion, published in his book Harmonices Mundi, in 1619, four hundred years ago:
The ratio of the square of an object's orbital period with the cube of the semi-major ...
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What technologies would be useful to a society trying to attain elevation?
I would expect the elites to take the highest comfortable zone and just deny it and anything higher to everyone else as sacred ground or out of reach due to expense.
Similar strategies are in place ...
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What technologies would be useful to a society trying to attain elevation?
My thinking would be something along the lines of hot-air balloons. One of the core jobs of the peasants below could be building a maintaining of such devices in order to get goods quickly to the top ...
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