<!>,The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-09-28 20:22:28)
The Worldbuilding Questions Thread
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? Torco Learner of Stuff
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I once did some maths and some research and came out with something like three earth radii, if you push the density and rotation speed as low as you can. I can't remember how i came to that particular number, so don't believe me.
Of course, there are other considerations that worry me about three-earth-radii worlds: for example, wouldn't such a large world be a lot more stratified than our own, thus having a much lower concentration of iron and other heavy stuff on the surface? not enough of a low concentration for it to have biological effects, like no one's getting anemia unless they don't eat properly, but we're still considering civilization-spanning differences when we start considering mining and whatnot. I mean does a world without metal technology look like? We've got *some* inkling of that amongst island peoples, like The Conworlder 1 played with the idea briefly but got distracted from by an episode of Doctor Who.

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1. Yes. This is my religion faith: On a realm infinitely more real than our own a great orange-and-jade goddess has wished us all into existence during her free time, and when we die we go to an even less real realm called The Kitchen Sink, which is what Heidegger had a wisp of an intuition of when he wrote of Das Nichts: this is where all that is forgotten is laid to rest. Also I are high