“Taste the snows of WHAT?”, you might ask. Yes, it sounds like something out of a fantasy, but there is real science behind the idea: all the gas giant planets, Saturn included, have layers within them where the temperature and pressure is suitable for liquid … Continue reading“Taste the Snows of Saturn”
I know I’ve done a lot of elaborate worldbuilding for my “barely breathable” world orbiting Sirius B…but all of a sudden I’ve had an inspiration, which involves flipping the script to something less Martian and decidedly more spectacular…and alien. I began with the basic concept … Continue readingCerberus, Revisited: A Hydrazine World?
I know I’ve been brainstorming it out for literal years, with many contradictory ideas, but it’s been a rough few years, and so help me future Georgia, Decca, and friends (from my stories) have been pleasant (imaginary) companions. Georgia, last we saw of her, was … Continue readingDeseret, Reborn in Water?
If you’re even passingly familiar with apocalyptic conspiracy theories, you’ve probably heard of “pole shift”, the idea that the Earth’s rotational axis will soon flip or suddenly change and cause some sort of catastrophe. This, of course, is not happening in real life…but there is … Continue readingWorldbuilding Pole Shift…only with Real Science
We hear so much about a “labor shortage” — signs of “help wanted” are everywhere — yet it seems employers don’t actually want any help. Oh, they’ll happily take someone who’s already done the same job for 20 years already who’s willing to work for … Continue readingEmbrace the Road?
Take an Earth twin; move it away from its sun so it cools, and cools…and cools some more. Ice sheets grow and then once a tipping point is reached, you end up with the classic “Snowball Earth”: runaway global glaciation, where the entire world is … Continue readingIce Forgives: Some Thoughts on the Extended Habitable Zone
I’ve been giving some thought, once again, to Thalassa, my oceanic planet with a thick oxygen atmosphere orbiting Proxima Centauri, which I’ve featured in some stories…but it’s some stories I might want to revise, because the more I brainstorm the biosphere, the more alien and … Continue readingLeviathans of the Airy Deep?
I haven’t written much about it on here, but lately I’ve been brainstorming about Earth climatology…and in true “me” fashion, this eventually has me wandering back to thinking about how one of my alien planets would behave. In particular, my Earth-like (but very much not … Continue readingOf Georeactors, Katabatics, Twin Suns, and Climatology
I’ve touched on before about greater Los Angeles in my science-fictional alternate timeline, and more I brainstorm it, the more fantastical it gets. Mine is a world where buildings rise a mile high, where automobile and aircraft alike zip at terrific speeds across the landscape…but … Continue readingContour Futurism: Los Angeles as a Canal City?
Young people are just not buying homes nowadays like they used to. junior citizens are well aware of how impossible the mathematics are, but their senior counterparts are not having any of it. We see wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, often with platitudes … Continue readingHousing on Hard Mode: to be a Zoomer…