Recent content by hurax

Would be a good excuse, but artistic freedom works just as well.

The map looks better on the original site and they have put a lot of thoughts in it, still the coastline feels weird. I think that this world had no glacial cycles, and a constant sealevel would give smoother coastlines.

I knew of the antipopes, but today I learned there was an exclave of the papal states around Avignon. Almost excuses the modern borders.

Blobby Germany sort of counts since I found it in a university :)

Sounds nice, both the evolution and the geology. Not sure about the forum, perhaps Future History if it will be terraformed by humans? If it was made by intelligent dinosaurs, they probably would get mixed in with the unfairly maligned bats, geological timelines are also there.

Yes, I'm sure they would have been noticed and recorded in any serious astronomy (Egypt, Babylon and later). In Greece geocentrism and heliocentrism were first debated but I think the Martian moons would be a strong argument then so that more philosophers would prefer it, and geocentrism...

Thought I made some calculations first before continuing to speculate... glad I did since it was very far off. Orbiting Mars at half of Lunas orbit gives you a visual size of 12 arcminutes at the closest approach, that's one third of the Moon's visible size. No way you could confuse the system...

I can't tell since I haven't delved deep enough into the divine associations, just extrapolating from my own cultural baggage of Ares and Mars. Apparently the association with a god of war was first with Nergal and the color motive came later. In Egypt it was Horus, associating both the color...

Mars wouldn't be red so it would have less of an association to war, so there's likely a different name for it after another god. You could estimate its brightness to Jupiter, but that wouldn't change so much for the religions down on Earth. Ceres size moons at a closer orbit make far more of a...

Yeah, sorry for that. Both would of course improve their planet's fate of being habitable, and I feel that for both planets if would be enough to tip them over the edge into having native life with some sort of panspermia.

Yeah, but you don't know how much it cost to build earth that way? No one could have paid the mice enough to build Mars and Venus habitable, and it wouldn't even have been redundant, stupid Vodons made a mess of the whole system.

I will try to make something with the long days, and the bright but cold nights there. And since the orbital planes are aligned, you get real darkness each day at noon at the eclipse. Also reread Proxima by Stephen Baxter, the description of life tidally locked to the dwarf sun were great.

I wanted to have my worlds be moons tidally locked to a gas giant, but orbiting a more sun-like star so I can have them more familiar. They are loosely based on the Galilean moons of Jupiter, but there are three of them in the habitable zone, with tidal heating making the main difference. I have...

But we need Megaflorida as a new homeland for the displaced Norwegians and the refugees from Kaliningrad too.

Mathematically correct is the best kind of correct. I really like this map as a semi-intentional work of art. The oceans are the object of today's lesson, so here's an easy on the eye map with a lot of azure in it, clean labels and all the continents in background white. They can play and drift...