Here is a map of an alternate Earth that I've been building and rebuilding for years: [IMG] Map by Mikael Asikainen To make things easier on...
In my last question, I asked on, in an alternate universe, how far either Venus or Mars would have to orbit Earth as a binary planet system to...
This is our closest living relative: [IMG] Often misinterpreted as our ancestor, we actually share a common ancestor with the chimpanzee. Who...
[IMG] The dark browns in this map are the mountains, the light browns the resulting uplifts and the blacks the igneous provinces still visible to...
[IMG] So, in this alternate Europe, there are some obvious differences. First off, the Baltic Sea is no longer a sea, but now the Baltic Plain....
On my alternate Earth, its moon has a diameter of 3,274 miles and orbits the planet from a distance of about 665,000 miles. A five-mile-deep...
Believability of a fantasy creature can go so far. Case in point--the title feature. I have first seen it on a Ringwraith's winged mount... [IMG]...
According to The Modern Farmer, people have been farming deer since the 1970s. The link provided also explains the benefits deer farming has over...
[IMG] All the questions are in this link, because of the "thousand-characters" deal.
As many writers know, some things are harder to describe than others. Case in point--skyscrapers. They are not simple rectangles standing high to...
Back home, Earth's moon is 2159 miles wide, orbits the planet from a distance of 238,900 miles and has 1/81 the planet's mass. It usually takes...
There is talk of a better alternative to steel, and one among the subject is "palladium glass". Manhattan Gold & Silver sums up the backstory of...
The map we'll be using for this question is right here: Basic World Map (V 2.6.) by DinoSpain on DeviantArt This is for an alternate Earth...
Back home, the recipe for the composite bow is as follows: Horn (usually water buffalo, gemsbok, oryx and ibex) Wood (usually...
The boreal forest, or taiga, exists only on subpolar latitudes, where the climate is too extreme for broad-leaved angiosperms to take root, thus...
The alternate scenario is simple--just get rid of the province of Ontario, thus connecting the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. Now let's focus on...
Let us say that, in the future, some scientists have created satellites capable of something that seems science fiction for now – punching the...
Compared to the planets we have discovered in the past decade, our solar system seems...ordinary. It was thought that no planet could get any...
252 million years ago, Earth underwent its worst, most violent chapter in the form of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, or "The Great Dying"....
One of the most enduring and effective weapons of human history is the bow and arrow. The oldest archaeological evidence of this weapon is 10,000...
