There seems to be much interest in random/procedural planet generators . . .

@punkerplunk I just read your answer. It sounds amazing!

it's not really so amazing

I mean, it's cringe worthy

it's ruby/sdl

The last installment, for now:

@Samuel - I'll probably accept your answer to the fourth one, but I'm going to wait just a bit more. Great research.

@HDE226868 I've got a related map question. Though it's not a single world. I'd like to see a question on solar system formation.

@Samuel I can answer that. What's it about, specifically?

@HDE226868 You said you ran out of topics for maps. This would be an additional question in that format.

@HDE226868 As in, most probable arrangement for gas giants, rocky planets, and asteroid belts.

@Samuel Ah, I see. It would be quite different than the others though - it might be worth starting a new series.

You should definitely ask it.

@HDE226868 Well, it's world as in Worldbuilding, not a planet world.

True.

If it fits your format, then you've got the TimB stamp of approval to continue with it.

@Samuel Thanks, but I'd rather someone else asked it. I'm busy with the others, and I'd rather answer it than ask it - and I'd rather not do both.

Alright. I'll lightly affiliate with your series, but keep it separate.

Okay.

@Samuel Will it be hard-science or lighter?

Would the geography series fall under World-Building Process?

@James Hmm. I'm not sure.

Its a weird tag (and I say that having created it) sometimes I feel like everything falls under it and other times not so much.

I don't think it gets used properly sometimes.

Although I don't entirely understand its boundaries myself, so I shouldn't judge.

From my perspective I have applied it to questions where the question asks for a process, or where an answer to that question provides a process for doing something. This is good for generating names, city types, essentially things that are repeatable and you may not want to just make it all up.

I feel like that could apply to creating a map/geography.

@HDE226868 This comes to mind: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/2838/…

@HDE226868 Hard-science is good. I always prefer it when asking physics-ish questions.

@Samuel I'm looking forward to it.

@James That deserves the tag, I think.

@Samuel What specifically will the question focus on? I need to get some papers ready.

@HDE226868 The expected orientation of a solar system. Can we have large gas giants where the inner rocky planets are and the rocket planets further out? Can we expect stable systems where there is larger planets that are out of the ecliptic plane?

Ooh, planetary migration and orbital inclination. I answered a question about the latter on Astronomy over the weekend. Got it. Excellent question.

@HDE226868 Basically, in the same thread as the map making, I'd like to know within the randomness, what is most likely to shift through.

@Samuel Okay, cool. One last question: Will you ask it today?

@HDE226868 Yeah, working on it during lunch. About now for PST.

Hope it's cooler there than here out East.

Only absolutely, not relatively speaking.

@HDE226868 I edited the tag wiki geography to include you series of questions... worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/tags/geography/info

@bilbo_pingouin Good idea

@James so the next question on the series should also be included there, I think

Is it me, or the OP of that question worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/21409/… ask the same question with a slightly different title like 30 min ago and it was placed on hold?

@bilbo_pingouin Nope, you didn't imagine a thing. They did ask the exact same question.

But I'm very happy to see that everyone appears to be asking questions to help the OP along so that his question doesn't get closed again.

The problem with trying to help the OP to improve their question is that sometimes, it leads to long discussions without actually achieving something. Let's see if that fares better in this case :)

I sure hope so. And your warning was appropriate. Well played. :)

Thanks. Well, I no moderator, so I can't scare them too much, and with 91 rep, it could be an honest mistake.

well reading the two last comments, seems to corroborate the beginner's feel

11 questions, not a single answer...

from him

or her

Does that mean anything or just an interesting tidbit of info? I'm kind of new myself so I don't get some of the nuances.

I'm not much older than you are (if at all)

(on the site, I mean, I wouldn't presume....)

But on WB, we have more than 2 answers per question

so statistically, one would expect to see some answers

but due to the nature of WB, maybe not

so just some info :D

We have 100% answered questions (as of a little while ago today.) That's at least one answer per question.

4.9 answers per question area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/63276/worldbuilding

Hot dang!

I wonder what it would take to get 10 questions per day. There's probably a WB Meta question about that.

@bilbo_pingouin Nice, thanks.

@Green Part of the answer to that question was the tag challenge we have

@Green It rounds to 100; we've got five to go.

@Green I have seen a few questions about those stats on meta, indeed

@Samuel That was a very tough question.

Rather, it took a lot of work to answer.

@HDE226868 Agreed. I could think of at least three different pop-sci articles I've seen in the last couple of months that describe solar system formation. Incorporating all that info and forming a coherent model is a lot of work.

Perhaps just a set of requirements to sanity check a solar system to make sure it's at least plausible?

I didn't think it would take one hour. I hope there are other answers.

We do want thinks to be more rigorous than pop-sci, though.

@HDE226868 There is already one other answer

Oh, good.

@HDE226868 Of course, of course. I would go back and find the original journal articles that the pop-sci articles came from.

@Green Right. I just don't want someone seeing something about something akin to the EM Drive that Harold White is going on about. There was an article today, which kicked off a conversation about worrying about future questions in the hbar.

Not all is family-friendly, be warned.

We did get this question.

All that said, I never thought you would mess up like that. Someone else might, though.

@HDE226868 I'm glad I have an account on Physics SE just so I can +1 the guy's comment about "Momentum conservation is a result of a Noetherian symmetry (spatial invariance) and can't be dismissed because you want it to." So good!

Yep, Kyle Kanos was a bit ticked about the article and probably had a few smart remarks planned.

@HDE226868, I'm not a huge physics nerd. What is h bar?

@Green The main chat room for Physics. It's a pun on the reduced Planck constant.

Nice :) It'll be a long time before I get physics jokes. I've heard that's a measure of mastery when you do get jokes in a particular field.