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- | ====== World Dream Bank ====== | + | ====== |
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==== Tilt! ==== | ==== Tilt! ==== | ||
- | This is Earth, if you would tilt it. There are four of them: | + | This is Earth, if its axis were tilted in various alternate configurations. There are four of them: |
- | * Seapole - a world where both poles are in the sea (south Atlantic and west Pacific). Since there is no water locked up in thick ice, as in OTL's Antarctica, sea levels are 90 meters higher. Europe, Scandinavia and Central America are islands, the coastline is very ragged, and the world is generally warmer and wetter than OTL. The biomass may be higher than on Earth. | + | * Seapole - a world in which both poles are in the sea (south Atlantic and west Pacific). Since there is no water locked up in thick ice, as in OTL's Antarctica, sea levels are 90 meters higher. Europe, Scandinavia and Central America are islands, the coastline is very ragged, and the world is generally warmer and wetter than OTL. The biomass may be higher than on Earth. |
- | * Shiveria - a world where both poles are on a continent (South America and East Asia), so even more water is locked up in thick ice. Afro-Eurasia and America form a megacontinent, | + | * Shiveria - a world in which both poles are on a continent (South America and East Asia), so that even more water is locked up in thick ice. Afro-Eurasia and America form a megacontinent, |
- | * Turnovia - a world just like Earth, just turned on its head, with the poles flipped. So, the ocean currents, winds and rainfall patterns are practically backwards. This creates some differences to OTL, albeit smaller than in the other Tilt! planets. There' | + | * Turnovia - a world exactly |
* Jaredia - as you know, Jared Diamond wrote in “Guns, Germs and Steel” about the theory that continents with a big west-east extension are especially favored in the competition for world domination (pigs and wheat do well in both France and China, but Mexican corn took centuries to adapt to Ohio). Jaredia features a wide tropical zone from Java-Sumatra via East Asia and East Siberia to the Americas, so development of civilization should go way faster than IOTL. Jaredia' | * Jaredia - as you know, Jared Diamond wrote in “Guns, Germs and Steel” about the theory that continents with a big west-east extension are especially favored in the competition for world domination (pigs and wheat do well in both France and China, but Mexican corn took centuries to adapt to Ohio). Jaredia features a wide tropical zone from Java-Sumatra via East Asia and East Siberia to the Americas, so development of civilization should go way faster than IOTL. Jaredia' | ||
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Three of the planets in our Solar System, a thousand years in the future: | Three of the planets in our Solar System, a thousand years in the future: | ||
- | * Dubia (named in the doubtable honor of [[offtopic: | + | * Dubia (named in the doubtable honor of [[offtopic: |
- | * Mars has been terraformed | + | * Mars has been terraformed, a "green Mars" scenario. Much of the northern hemisphere's Acidalia basin and the Hellas and Argyre impact craters in the southern hemisphere are now oceans, surrounded by green coasts, while the uplands are rust-coloured deserts. Fossil river and sea basins are refilled. The north and south poles still have their icecaps. |
* Venus has also been terraformed resulting in a mixture of shallow oceans and small-to-medium-sized continents with only a few small deserts and no polar icecaps. Unlike Mars, there' | * Venus has also been terraformed resulting in a mixture of shallow oceans and small-to-medium-sized continents with only a few small deserts and no polar icecaps. Unlike Mars, there' | ||
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* Serrana is a cross between Earth and Mars. This planet' | * Serrana is a cross between Earth and Mars. This planet' | ||
* Lyr is a big planet (five times Earth' | * Lyr is a big planet (five times Earth' | ||
- | * Pegasia is an almost Earth-sized moon of a big gas giant named Zeus. One third of it is covered by land, which is divided | + | * Pegasia is an almost Earth-sized moon of a big gas giant named Zeus. One third of it is covered by land, which is divided |
- | * Tharn is another moon of Zeus. It's a bit bigger than Mars, has a breathable atmosphere, but only 6% are covered by water. Biodiversity would be very high, probable. | + | * Tharn is another moon of Zeus. It's a bit bigger than Mars, has a breathable atmosphere, but only 6% of the world is covered by water. It is an illustration of how little water is necessary to create a living world. Biodiversity would be very high due to the isolated nature of the seas and the radical differences in temperature and atmospheric pressure across Tharn' |
- | * Oisin, as said, is a moon of Lyr. It's about as big as Mercury or Titan, and mostly covered by ice, as the Jupiter | + | * Oisin, as said, is a moon of Lyr. It's about as big as Mercury or Titan, and mostly covered by ice, as the Jovian |
=== Worlds "Under Construction" | === Worlds "Under Construction" | ||
- | * Xanadu is based on Saturn' | + | * Xanadu is based on Saturn' |
- | * Capsica is a world where average temperatures are 50ºC-35ºC (120ºF-60ºF) higher than Earth' | + | * Capsica is a world in which average temperatures are 50ºC-75ºC (122ºF-167ºF) higher than Earth' |
- | * Lateria | + | * Libratia |
==== Caprices ==== | ==== Caprices ==== | ||
Earth with some " | Earth with some " | ||
- | * Siphonia is Earth if you'd remove | + | * Siphonia is Earth if you removed |
- | * Inversia is Earth, if you would turn every height on Earth inside-out - continents become oceans, oceans become land. Well, mostly, you'd want to create | + | * Inversia is Earth, if you turned |
- | * Abyssia is like Inversia, but with the same amount of water as on Earth. As a result, only one eighth of the surface would be covered by land, which would be divided in about a dozen land masses, the biggest one in the former Pacific Ocean. | + | * Abyssia is like Inversia, but with the same amount of water as on Earth. As a result, only one eighth of the surface would be covered by flat, low lying land. |
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