@NickAlexeev It looks on topic, though I don't think it will be well received unless the OP can flesh it out a bit more. It seems like there's some excruciatingly contrived scenario involving international political rules, fine physics minutae, a few beers, and a goat.
It might work well if there was a way to widen it from the question asked into the worldbuilding question that surrounds it
How would a second moon affect the length of days?
I read somewhere that having two moons would affect the length of a day. But I'm just wondering by how much.
Tags:science-fiction
This is what I'm thinking of:
Having a second moon half the size of the current one. For arguments sakes, I'll...
Could also have a kind of final exam. You walk into a small room that has a few unknown plants sitting on the table. A voice says "Eat one to pass." And so they have to do the steps needed to determine if a plant is edible or not.
Knowing the flora from your own planet is easy. But it would be useful to be able to identify safe plants on other planets that you've never seen before, just in case.
But having the medical knowledge of plants is also useful
Gotta wonder, the first people to come to North America from Asia, having to identify new species of plants and see if they are safe... Would be kinda nerve wracking
Probably true. I guess I was just thinking about someone coming across holly berries and blue berries, and having to figure out which one was edible, and which was toxic.
I don't know if it'd be helpful in your situation, but there's a rule I was given for determining if something was poisonous in 4 days in a survival setting (which is convenient for foods, since you have about 20 days to play with there)
You could do it in 4 hours too, though if you trust nothing 4 days it better
Day 1: apply some of the herb to your inner arm.
The inner arm is a very sensitive part of the skin, but it's still skin, so it's pretty good at not letting too many bad things in
Wait a day, see if you develop a rash. If no rash, on day 2, you do the same thing to your lips
Lips are far more sensitive
If no rash there, on day three, you take a little juice or shave your teeth across the plant.
There you're looking for not only whether you have issues in your mouth, but your digestive tract as well
On day 4, you actually consume a small bit of the plant.
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@JavaScriptCoder If it doesn't kill you, the hangover will probably make you wish it had... (If I've read correctly, metabolizing methyl is a contributor to hangovers)
Civilisation self-destruction, justifications of.
Imagine if you will a world like ours, with a race of individuals reasonably similar to humans; especially these individuals have a strong drive for personal survival. This world is advancing rapidly in terms of technology and energy use density ...
@Green It's not really about temperature it's about knowing how much methanol to expect and then dumping several times that much off the top of the distillation.
@Green Temperature does play a role, in that the methanol has a lower boiling point and can be relied on to be in the first part of the distillate, otherwise the dumping technique wouldn't work either. The laws about brewing, and growing tobacco, are a bit odd here, you can do it but you have to be consuming it yourself.
Well, she got a plane then sat still for a long time then got off the plane. Someone handed her a bunch of books with instructions "read all these" then she stayed.
There's a world class emergency preparedness college in ChristChurch. She went to study there and ended up staying.
@James I can be. There's a bunch of parameters that you need but cannot know. What are the fault lines in the hill above the cliff face? Do they run parallel to the cliff face or some other angle?
Interestingly, it's easiest to come up with worst case scenarios.
How would a second moon affect the length of days?
I read somewhere that having two moons would affect the length of a day. But I'm just wondering by how much.
Tags:science-fiction
This is what I'm thinking of:
Having a second moon half the size of the current one. For arguments sakes, I'll...
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