Ugh... Disappointed, that I am deleting my Sandboxed question, but it makes sense, since the core of the problem is the sheer amounts of context necessary for somebody to answer it. :/

@SoraTamashii ah, perhaps it's better suited for chat?

If you want to have at it, I can make a chat for it... but it'd be a bit of a novel to post in here.

@Shalvenay Well a decent anvil is 250+ pounds, though you can work with lighter ones...they just move more and make the forging harder. If you have that and a basic set of tools, all of which could easily fit in a wagon, you could certainly have nomadic forgers. Fuel would be the other thing to consider, it takes alot of fuel to keep a forge hot enough for steel. So as long as they have wood around.

@James what are you doing out of bed at this hour??

@James idly wonders if you could run a forge on buffalo chips...

Writing questions is hard. . .

Although I guess I'm also out of practice.

What are you writing a question about?

@Gryphon It's worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/139457/627, essentially about how to undo tidal locking.

@Shalvenay I question if they burn hot enough

@HDE226868 With seven upvotes already, apparently you're still pretty good at it.

@Gryphon Yeah, people seem to like it. Took some editing, though.

Well, to be honest, as an astrophysics noob, the fact hat there can be tidal-locked planets fascinates me, but i never even though of undo tidal locking. great question, so direct upvote

@HDE226868 I came up with a kinda ridiculous answer using a bunch of numbers I made up, but it seems to work out.

@HDE226868 I gave a brief answer which I think is a reasonable approach. I imagine though that you are more interested in a rough calculation involving mass, distance, and time. I don't have the know-how to do that calculation nor the time at the moment to learn so if someone would like to take that idea and write their own answer in which they crunch the numbers they are more than welcome to do so.

@Gryphon I think the two sticking points for me there are a) guaranteeing that only one side of the planet will be hit throughout the entire orbit, and b) ensuring that a substantial amount of energy is transferred, given how wide the pulsar's beam will be at any great distance. Even normal perturbations in the planet's orbit could throw it all off.

@MikeNichols shrug I like the idea, and it's a starting point, at any rate.

I'm still secretly hoping someone finds a real-world example of this phenomenon, to be honest. . .

@HDE226868 It isn't getting hit through the entire orbit. From my answer "If the planet is getting this for, say 1/10000 of its orbit (I'm just pulling numbers out of my [REDACTED] here, but it sounds reasonable), the average power is 4*10^17 Watts."

LOL:

@Gryphon I should have rephrased that to just "guaranteeing that only one side of the planet will be hit", period. :P

But, eh. That can be handwaved

@HDE226868 The planet's orbit does have to stay pretty constant. As does the pulsar's orbit and direction of spin.

@HDE226868 Would it be possible to have the bombardment happen so fast the planet only gets hit on one side, instead of using tidal locking to make it happen?

@Hosch250 Little-known fact: I am terrible at orbital mechanics. I get lost in the effective potentials and all that stuff.

Alternately, could you have a non-uniform planet, so, for example, half the planet has way more iron than the other half, then use the heat differences to transform to movement?

@Hosch250 I mean, I guess, but that should probably be an answer to the other question, not mine. . . I'm specifically looking for ways to make my tidal-locking answer work.

@HDE226868 Then why do you have answers with 20+ upvotes on half the orbital mechanics questions on the site?

@Gryphon Because occasionally I get it right.

@Gryphon Because nobody else around here knows any better :P

Only half? Geez dude, step up your game

I've actually only answered 9.8% of orbital mechanics questions, apparently.

@HDE226868 That is probably one of the highest answer ratios for any user on a popular tag.

shrug Could be, depending on how you define "popular". I'm at 15.4% for astronomy and 24.7% for stars, though, and I'm sure there are higher ratios.

Will has 13.4% for biology and 14.6% for creature-design, which is really impressive.

Quick, somebody who knows how to use the SEDE write up a query for this.

@HDE226868 Yeah, but Will probably has like 5-10% for the site. He answers everything.

And the question's already hit HNQ. That was fast.

18.1% for Thucydides on warfare, 13.7% on space, 15.7% on alternate-history and 20.3% on weapons.

@Gryphon Yes, that helps him. :-)

@Gryphon Because users don't give upvotes to HDE, the upvotes give themselves.

@JohnLocke imgur.com/a/BEKy4Z8

@Gryphon Haha, great. We just need that in gif form :)

@JohnLocke Meh, someone else can do it.

@Gryphon It looks like I'm jumping off a building, closely followed by the aliens from Space Invaders. :-)

@HDE226868 Nope, you're on the ground, and upvotes are acting like lemmings.

Also, I lied about the GIF. Here you are: imgur.com/a/kP6flIu

@Gryphon 2-picture GIF.

@Gryphon That is amazing

@Hosch250 I'm lazy. Sue me.

I should get out my Adobe Photoshop Elements and animate them to actually run and jump off the cliff.

@Hosch250 I'm way too cheap to buy Photoshop. This is MSPaint all the way.

I had to have it for college.

@Hosch250 I see. What did you study?

It was for a class that was a pre-req for another class in my Communications minor.

The semester after I took it, it was removed as a pre-req.

@Hosch250 Also, if you do that, I'm definitely going to find a way to work it into a question.

Don't worry, I'm too lazy to do it too.

Well, probably.

Is there a ‘Realm of Secrets’ in mythology that anyone knows of?

Might see about putting little legs on them later...

@AndyD273 Nice job.

@AndyD273 It's mesmerizing to watch