atomfullerene
atomfullerene t1_is6zv9o wrote
Reply to comment by Dokino21 in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator
Well, you'd have month-long days. It wouldn't cause life to be on only one side of the planet though.
atomfullerene t1_is6zq58 wrote
Reply to comment by Brickleberried in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator
>You wouldn't have tides.
You'd still have solar tides, which are about 1/3 of our current tides.
atomfullerene t1_is6zh7o wrote
Reply to comment by Nepeta33 in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator
The angle wouldn't be great for solar collection. You want to be at right angle to incoming sunlight, it drastically increases the amount of energy you collect.
atomfullerene t1_irpgjdg wrote
Other people have given the answer for life in general, but the smallest vertebrate genomes come from pufferfish, which almost completely lack "Junk DNA". Some of the largest come from lungfish. In vertebrates, genome size isn't really associated much with complexity.
atomfullerene t1_irpdlhd wrote
Reply to How fast do bubbles rise in water? by crazunggoy47
> I feel like smaller bubbles rise slower
This intuitively makes sense to me...buoyant forces of a bubble are related to volume, but the amount of water that has to move out of the way for the bubble to rise is related to cross sectional area. It takes force for water to move out of the way.... it's got inertia and viscosity after all (Hi Reynold's Number!) so bigger bubbles should rise faster.
I bet there's all sorts of neat bubble physics on exoplanets, given the variety of pressures, temperatures, gravities, and fluids present.
atomfullerene t1_is7rlm6 wrote
Reply to comment by Gorstag in Does the salinity of ocean water increase as depth increases? by rhinotomus
Heating things does let you dissolve more into it, but the ocean isn't near the maximum amount of salt that could be dissolved in it.