How do I discover what day/night and seasonal cycles are like on a hypothetical unusual planet? [more inside]
posted by The otter lady on Nov 2, 2009 - 5 answers

Would it be possible to have a planet with significantly more surface area than the earth and similar gravity (at ground level) by decreasing its density? [more inside]
posted by blue_beetle on Jun 18, 2009 - 5 answers

Help me de-code a NYCares Winter Wishes Wish - I have no idea what this kid is asking for [more inside]
posted by nanhey on Nov 17, 2008 - 14 answers

What are some great sci-fi novels that take place on planets with unusual climate/geography? [more inside]
posted by mamessner on Jul 12, 2008 - 42 answers

I would like to find a link for a short video clip of a video game that meets certain criteria. It will go into a presentation to elementary school teachers, as a quick backdrop to a point about interactive games that will be used in school, and that will be fun while challenging kids to think and learn. (It won't itself BE that game; it just has to plausibly look the part.) It needs to have some connection to an outer space theme. [more inside]
posted by daisyace on Jun 2, 2008 - 9 answers

Any ideas on the effects of a prolonged solar eclipse, say 10-30 years? [more inside]
posted by Sevenupcan on Oct 7, 2006 - 43 answers

In English, we have words like mercurial, martial, jovial, and saturnine... [more inside]
posted by wanderingmind on Apr 26, 2006 - 22 answers

I would like to attach my camera to a telescope... [more inside]
posted by Kickstart70 on Nov 30, 2005 - 16 answers

What are the legal implications of re-publishing full-text entries from another site's RSS feed? Planet sites do it for mostly legitimate purposes, and spam-logs do it for, well, spammy purposes. But are there any laws that apply? The US copyright code doesn't assume the information is already freely available on the internet, so it seems like a grey area. [more inside]
posted by Geektronica on Nov 14, 2005 - 13 answers

Severely comicbook-geekish question: Storyboard and film-design artist Mike Ploog used to do comics. He did some breathtaking b&w art on the 1970s Marvel Planet of the Apes Magazine. Does anyone have a Ploog checklist, or know which POTA issues between 16 and 29 Ploog did art for? [more inside]
posted by Shane on May 1, 2004 - 0 answers