Tag: day-night

66 How would people living in eternal day learn that stars exist? 2016-12-20T16:56:19.477

42 How do you tell time on a world with 9-year days? 2017-02-27T15:49:05.507

27 How does a migratory species farm? 2016-10-17T17:05:41.180

24 On a world where everyone is nomadic, how does civilization start? 2017-09-11T07:18:47.160

19 Terminology for 24 hour wake-sleep cycle on world with longer dark-light cycle? 2018-02-06T23:52:33.557

17 Why would it be unfortunate for a day length to vary in a planet; other than that Java API developers need to work a few hours more? 2018-11-29T04:20:33.830

16 Would a human individual adapt to a change in the day-night cycle? 2014-09-17T11:32:26.310

16 Could it be possible to be near-blind in daylight yet see perfectly at night? 2015-10-26T20:44:37.790

16 How do I calculate the hours of daylight on an arbitrary planet for a given day at a given latitude? 2020-02-08T12:33:37.717

15 Stabilizing the Temperature On a Planet With a (Very) Long Day 2015-10-02T20:47:16.350

12 Day and night temperature on an Earth-like planet with longer rotational period 2014-10-13T12:52:20.380

10 How would humans be affected by a 12-hour day? 2015-07-30T01:43:06.063

10 Would a species that migrates across the globe discover its roundness sooner? 2017-07-08T05:46:13.400

10 Ways other than sleep to restore cells/neurons 2019-02-10T18:24:41.687

9 Is a "sun belt" realistic? 2014-12-07T02:01:35.683

9 World with two suns 2015-07-12T08:00:57.230

9 Tree growth rings without seasons 2018-02-23T11:46:47.277

9 If the Earth was part of an ultimate solar system, what would the sky look like? 2019-01-27T12:33:58.997

8 How would plants be affected by a 48 hour day? 2015-01-06T19:51:28.600

8 Seasons and Day/Night Cycles on Horseshoe Habitable Worlds? 2016-05-31T17:14:34.130

8 What are the effects of constant daylight on plantlife 2016-10-14T17:17:25.720

8 Erratic Day and Night Periods 2016-11-17T04:53:33.870

8 Could I have an earth-like planet from which sun and moon would never be simultaneously visible? 2018-04-10T00:07:12.663

8 How would flora be affected by longer night than day cycle? 2018-08-30T19:14:42.727

8 Effects of 6 hours days on my planet 2018-10-27T03:22:13.847

8 Nocturnal Photosynthesis 2019-08-19T20:51:00.447

7 How could a planet have a 40 hour day cycle with its nights only lasting 3 hours? 2014-12-01T00:40:01.393

7 How to explain it rains only/always when there is no daylight? 2015-11-06T09:39:18.833

7 How long could life survive The Night? 2016-10-04T21:05:26.720

7 A world with only sunlight and a world with no sunlight (Fantasy) 2017-02-13T19:25:33.140

7 Spotlight distribution in a hollow earth? 2017-12-10T21:14:24.453

7 Realistic ways a Planet or Large Moon could have Variable Day/Night periods 2019-10-28T18:41:22.793

6 Effect of longer day/night cycle on human sleeping patterns 2015-07-06T23:55:05.047

6 If the Moon Titan Orbits Earth 2016-01-03T02:46:10.103

6 Season cycle that would occur on a habitable planet that orbits two suns? 2016-11-30T19:58:43.447

6 What would weather look like on a world with a 9-year day? 2017-02-10T01:17:31.887

6 Planet Tidally-Locked to its star having eclipse day/night cycles? 2017-05-15T01:37:37.910

6 How do you achieve the agricultural revolution without agriculture? 2017-06-08T19:08:49.713

6 2 weeks day, 2 weeks night, how would the sleeping pattern of the planet's dominant species work with a 28 'day' Day? 2019-01-17T14:13:42.197

6 A planet of ice and fire 2019-06-04T11:38:13.123

6 Always night in one hemisphere. Is it viable? 2019-08-22T11:56:00.610

5 How would plants survive an extremely long, cold night 2016-06-09T17:44:09.473

5 Is a sudden slowing realistic? 2016-06-18T16:26:30.837

5 I'm building a fantasy world like Earth but it has two moons adjacent to each other in a co-orbital configuration and need help 2016-12-29T20:45:03.547

5 Could I make this dark and eerie world possible? 2017-11-10T01:28:33.650

5 Climate on a world with a Sun of varying luminosity 2017-12-08T23:15:42.360

5 What would the temperature variation be on this planet? (High eccentricity & slow rotation) 2018-01-10T06:27:49.587

5 What sort of setup of a binary star system would allow only one sun to be "up" at a time? 2018-09-28T03:42:54.383

5 What are the day and night fluctuations for a moon orbiting a planet the size of Jupiter? 2019-01-21T20:43:15.360

5 What is the optimal sleep scheduling strategies for a 24h sleep cycle on a 48h day planet? 2019-03-30T05:11:32.883

5 Could a Stanford torus rotate on an additional axis to give it a diurnal cycle? 2019-05-07T21:56:01.553

5 Creating "Sunfall" on the moon of a gas giant 2019-10-29T15:38:46.493

5 Under which circumstances could a planet have two visible suns? 2019-12-09T22:03:03.120

4 How far above the pole would you need to be for constant sunlight? 2015-03-01T14:48:58.567

4 Human colony on distant planet system with very short day-night cycles 2017-05-31T12:00:44.250

4 How does the day/night cycle work on a non-tidally locked moon? 2018-04-09T19:14:16.640

4 A planetary region with no night and no tidal locking? 2018-09-02T21:29:25.593

4 Is it safe to have an earth-like temperature for a 48-hour day-night cycle on a big planet? 2019-03-25T10:49:38.640

4 How could I scientifically explain a world with day/night cycle only on the equator? 2019-07-19T21:30:45.590

4 Sleeping in a world without night 2019-08-29T15:24:31.703

4 Sleep Cycles on very fast and very slow rotating worlds Part 1 2019-10-23T16:07:59.830

4 Days and Seasons via Daily Eclipses in a Flat World 2019-10-26T01:03:17.620

4 Alien Speices with extreme day/night cycle 2019-10-30T00:29:15.937

3 What if Jupiter's rotational period was equal to that of the Earth? 2015-02-10T22:45:28.110

3 Strange night-day planet design 2015-08-26T14:13:46.277

3 Largest stable object in "daily" orbit 2015-10-03T22:33:00.123

3 Consequences of perpetual daytime on plants growth 2015-10-30T18:18:26.653

3 Effect of 32 hour days? 2016-06-20T16:09:10.210

3 What could cause a planets day to lengthen suddenly? 2016-06-20T16:50:06.867

3 Sun/stars orbit and climate 2017-03-16T12:15:32.593

3 Can a planet with a very long day/night harbor life such as Earth? 2017-06-10T19:46:28.383

3 What is the optimal circadian rhythm? 2017-06-24T03:45:21.363

3 How thick does an atmosphere have to be in order to make the sky "light up" during "daytime" human or near human ocular sensitivity? 2018-07-23T06:14:51.910

3 How would a 384 hour day/night cycle on a desert planet affect the weather? 2018-12-31T07:41:16.057

3 Sleep Cycles on very fast and very slow rotating worlds Part 2 2019-10-24T00:07:06.803

2 Is a dayless, moonlit, icy world possible? 2016-01-10T16:44:03.073

2 What are the effects of having a considerably longer day/night cycle? 2017-04-07T16:47:04.353

2 Could a habitable tidally locked planet have a day and night cycle caused by the eccentricity of its orbit? 2017-05-22T00:45:42.497

2 What temperatures could I expect to find on a world with a 9 year day? 2017-05-30T14:43:47.137

2 A K-Type Binary Dawn/Dusk in the Equator 2018-04-28T03:51:08.610

2 How would the length of a day-night cycle affect a planet's climate? 2018-06-25T01:17:05.630

2 How would the people survive in darkness and be affected by the short periods of sunlight? 2018-08-30T22:15:56.047

2 Day/night cycle science help? 2019-01-05T05:30:51.533

2 Would separating people into 2 groups help the economy in any way? 2019-04-03T18:37:39.450

2 Seasons & days with steep axial tilt? 2019-05-02T00:24:47.907

2 Does day length determine metabolism? 2019-10-20T16:12:17.247

2 Could a planet have a week long day and a week long night depending on the season? 2019-11-26T03:47:57.677

1 Effects of latitudinal time zones with multi-step DST 2016-01-25T16:40:25.797

1 The Solar System, Great Lakes Earth 2016-04-05T18:25:03.123

1 How much would we sleep if a day was 36 hours-long? How would eating habits and general work hours change? 2017-02-28T21:54:39.097

1 Planets days and orbital period 2017-03-23T16:36:03.267

1 Feasibility and challenges of a kingdom existing within an eternal night? 2017-07-24T18:20:54.803

1 Night/Day Cycle Magic 2018-02-19T04:28:00.367

1 Earth Orbits a K-Type Star. What Would the Visual Scenery Look Like? 2018-04-17T02:27:56.607

0 How would life on Earth change if Earth unexpectedly entered an eternal never ending night? 2017-06-05T04:08:53.953

0 How would society without a change in day or night form time, or structure to anything? 2017-07-26T22:01:30.420

-4 could a moon be seen during the day 2015-08-07T21:28:03.623