Physics of Great Bear

[BareSkin]

I often find myself thinking about properties of TLD world.

I'll use this thread to expose those thoughts, as they come in my head.

[BareSkin]

Fact:

Days and nights have the same duration.

Implication:

The planet of Great Bear has a rotational axis that is orthogonal to its plan of rotation around its sun. Else, you have some kind of sinusoidal position when you don't move on your planet (summer with longer days, winters with shorter days)

Implication:

Supposing Great Bear is on Earth (i.e. Canada didn't conquer another planet), whatever happened shifted its rotational axis. but not its rotation time since a full day is still 24hours.

[BareSkin]

Fact:

humans on Great Bear can't jump.

Implication:

Since gravitation is roughly the same as "before" (species have the same form factor), something must have happened to Northern Canadians legs that prevent them from jumping. Something that don't prevent them from snow-walking (they have functional knees) nor walk crouched (they have functional ankles they can sprain).

[BareSkin]

Fact:

Auroras are brighter.

Implication:

Either the magnetic earth field or the solar wind has changed in intensity. Statistics lead to choice of first option, since we know the rotationnal axis has been aligned and two great changes have a low chance of happening at the same time.

Alternative: There was a great disturbance in the Force solar thermodynamics and its own magnetic field became a lot stronger, aligning the one of earth strongly with him, then the mechanical rotational axis of Earth has been aligned with the magnetic one because of internal friction between liquid and solid Earth. Less likely IMO.

[JErosion]

fact early betas of the game have day night cycles consistent with real life time frames and it turns out having sunlight for only six hours a day was a whole lot of not fun. 

[Pillock]

23 minutes ago, JErosion said:

fact early betas of the game have day night cycles consistent with real life time frames and it turns out having sunlight for only six hours a day was a whole lot of not fun. 

Now we've got custom settings, and if those mechanics, or their remnants, are still present in the game, it might be interesting to be able to turn that on if we want to.

[BESt]

11 hours ago, BareSkin said:

Fact:

humans on Great Bear can't jump.

Implication:

Since gravitation is roughly the same as "before" (species have the same form factor), something must have happened to Northern Canadians legs that prevent them from jumping. Something that don't prevent them from snow-walking (they have functional knees) nor walk crouched (they have functional ankles they can sprain).

Although your theory is funny, I think I have to disagree with you. It's not very awesome to jump with a full backpack of 30 kg in the summer. If you add the snow, it's less funnier

[Ice Hole]

Fact:

Items that are dropped are always perfectly oriented.

Implication:

There must be a static charge effect to influence items like sticks to always point in the same direction.  Consider dropping a bundle of sticks and observe how all of them are pointing the same way.   Going further the sticks will always face the same direction regardless of the direction the person is facing.  All items have this effect and can be used as a crude compass.

 

[Kauffy]

On 9/26/2018 at 6:25 PM, Ice Hole said:

All items have this effect and can be used as a crude compass.

 

They also can be handy to use as markers by dropping them and then rotating them to point the way you want them to.

 

[Kauffy]

On 9/23/2018 at 9:45 PM, BESt said:

Although your theory is funny, I think I have to disagree with you. It's not very awesome to jump with a full backpack of 30 kg in the summer. If you add the snow, it's less funnier

Not only that, but even walking along a slight angle with an overburdened backpack can spontaneously result in a sprained wrist and ankle. No jumping makes sense, though not being able to step over a 6-inch-high piece of wood on the ground feels a little... ehh... incorrect.

[Pillock]

51 minutes ago, Kauffy said:

No jumping makes sense, though not being able to step over a 6-inch-high piece of wood on the ground feels a little... ehh... incorrect.

"Incorrect"? It's downright infuriating sometimes! But having to jump over 6-inch obstacles (while carrying 30kg pack) would feel pretty weird, almost comical.

[romerabr]

10 hours ago, Kauffy said:

No jumping makes sense, though not being able to step over a 6-inch-high piece of wood on the ground feels a little... ehh... incorrect.

Raise your feet, Will, damnit!!!