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Post by Andrew on May 7, 2015 1:11:51 GMT
What is supposed to happen each set? I don’t think you’ve said that.
For us spherical-planet types, a day is the cycle of the planet turning, so on the planet it’s a cycle of getting lighter and darker once. A year is a cycle of the planet going around the sun; because the angle and distance change during this time, the warmth we get from the sun can change too. This causes seasons, and a year is one iteration of the cycle of the seasons. Other than that, we don’t use any intrinsically meaningful times; we divide the day into hours and minutes solely so we can say something like “that happened one minute ago” instead of “that happened one one-hundred-fourty-fourth of a day ago”. We divide the year into months, which approximately correspond to the movement of our moon, but in modern usage they are more for this same convenience of having more manageable units of measurement. We also have weeks, which are groups of seven days, but these again are not a meaningful time metric in and of themselves.
It appears that several of your units of time are more meaningful than that: your days approximately match ours (although your weather is more predictable), your nets are when the planet grows, and you just implied that something happens each set. Does anything happen every week, every shine, or every cycle? Am I correct in assuming that your sub-day measurements are only for convenience, like ours?
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 7, 2015 2:43:40 GMT
Oh, right! Sorry. Every set, the god makes a new species in areas where there is room for them. Some people document what the new ones are like, and collect samples and bring seeds for engineers to tinker with to see if we can make anything useful with them.
Every cycle, some new aesthetic detail is included in the new species. For example, during one recorded cycle, it was common for new plants with a layer of dead material on the outside to have small scales which reflected light in slightly different colors depending on the angle. In another cycle, it was common for new plants to glow in response to some stimuli.
Every shine, the sky events associated with nets still take place, but the sky does not darken. Instead, it cycles backwards through the day's colors and brightnesses in the same amount of time normally associated with a night. There are many associated festivities.
Weeks are not particularly meaningful, but sets are divided into 125 days, and many other meaningful units of time operate based on 5s, so it is convenient to divide it into 5 weeks.
A color is approximately the amount of time it takes the sky to change to a noticeably different color and brightness.
Shades and seconds are not particularly meaningful, except as it is useful to have units of time-measurement of about that length.
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 20:35:54 GMT
My planet, spherical. Down is toward the center of the planet. Planet, -made of eight continents, made of sand, constantly producing, -made of oceans, made of large amounts of salt and water, -third around sun, two planets before, two planets after, -two moons, Santhem, large and blue, Dalial, small and yellow, -has clouds, --make rain, --make lightning, -has an atmosphere, has air, only to a certain height before thinning, -spins, -around self, makes days, -around sun, makes seasons, makes years, -unchanging size.
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Post by Leaf on May 16, 2015 20:37:29 GMT
That sounds mostly very similar to the planets I know about, Lantern.
What do you mean by "eight continents, made of sand, constantly producing"?
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 20:46:34 GMT
Yay, mostly-agreement between worlds!
Eight continents, made of sand, constantly producing: On the planet, large collections of sand, above the water - continents. Sand is grains of (two silicon, one oxygen) many many times over in a large group. Continents, below the top, make more sand. Constantly, causes slow churning movement on top because constant displacement, dangerous to be asleep above, very useful to make glass.
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Post by Leaf on May 16, 2015 20:49:55 GMT
That's very different from the planets I know about. The kind of continents I'm familiar with don't produce anything that way, and only move very, very, very slowly, and are made of soil and rock as well as sand.
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 20:58:32 GMT
, worlds disagreement, but mostly other than that okay? Disagree but still friendly? Oh, continents move, very very slowly, but churning movement is up, down, sideways a little, because displacement of sand from below. Sand fallen to ocean floor, reabsorbed by continent. Ocean floor, has soil, has rock. Also moves very slowly, large pieces of world floor move slowly, bump into each other, shakes ocean and continents, forms raised spikes of floor along collision sides.
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Post by Leaf on May 16, 2015 21:03:07 GMT
Still friendly! I think differences between worlds are interesting, and most differences aren't bad at all.
So that sounds like your continents are more similar to my continents than I thought, except that yours produce sand all the time and mine don't.
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 21:11:15 GMT
Yay! Different but without disagreement, without anger, with curiosity, yes? Your continents, not producing sand, slow movement -> Safe for people to live on surface?
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Post by Leaf on May 16, 2015 21:15:50 GMT
"Different but without disagreement, without anger, with curiosity, yes?" Yes. Exactly.
Yes, it's safe for people to live on the surfaces of continents in my world. (Unless there is something else wrong with the continent or the planet. A lot of planets in my world have air that's not safe to breathe, or water that's not safe to drink or touch, or other things that make them bad places to live.)
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 21:24:11 GMT
Good! Safety of living on continents, less effort for safety, alive -> I have secondhand happiness for your world's people! Bad air, bad water, bad other things, on planets found after leaving original planet, yes? I hope their bad air, bad water, other things, discovered before people moved there?
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Post by Leaf on May 16, 2015 21:29:10 GMT
The bad air and bad water are on other planets, yes. Most of the planets with bad air or bad water or bad other things don't have anyone living on them; some planets like that have some people living on them, but the people built safe places to live there before they moved in.
In your world, where do people live if not on continents?
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 21:39:24 GMT
Glad for safety!
Sky-side people, live in cities, built on large, flat, glazed rectangles, with other materials on top. Cities in sky, above continents, below most clouds. Important that weight down of things in city matches weight up of glass, because if too much either, city could move up or down, dangerous. Water-side people, live in cities, built on floating reeds woven into shapes. Sometimes, if things on top, too heavy and might sink city section, add bits of glass to buildings to push up more.
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 21:48:51 GMT
Lantern, how often do the continents move around in unsafe ways? Are they always doing it, or is it just occasional?
Leaf, have you found a way to prevent earthquakes?
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Post by Leaf on May 16, 2015 21:49:57 GMT
No. We can predict them well but not perfectly.
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