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Because most modern people wear clothes?

Also chicks wearing barely anything are hotter than chicks wearing literally nothing

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Modern people, maybe, but that's just Western modern people. If your conworld follows a different history, who's to say they're "modern" clothing isn't different? (Granted I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here since my imagination for clothing is pretty bad myself)


If you want to look for examples of large-scale civilizations and cultures that had clothing for humid climates, look up, for instance, the MesoAmerican cultures, the Khmer (and other Southeast Asians in general), and some of the Sub-Saharan states, for instance. Here, a few examples for you (btw historically, in old times, Khmer women went outside topless, if I remember correctly - remember not all cultures have a taboo about showing breasts!):





Remember that even in a tropical climate, that doesn't mean that people will wear less or no clothes necessarily. The material used to make the clothes, the typical colors, and the possible variations in climate (for instance, are there many hilly and mountainous areas around? then the climate will get colder there), so plan accordingly.


Hope that helsp.

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So my conworld is a small (Moon-size) desert planet that has white sands, rocks, etc. and I had some questions concerning the reality of the planet:

Would the evolutionary chain of things that happened on Earth be any different (is there a chance that DNA would have produced the same sorts of fauna here or is there a chance that it would have differed in some ways and made the sorts of alien creatures we see in a lot of sci-fi)?

With the star it orbits being A or B in spectral class and blue in color, what color would the plant life, sky, and water be?

Would the planet have naturally-made caves and underground streams?

Would there be clouds with so little plant life and water?

Would there be tectonic activity with no oceans around?

What element(s) would produce the white color of the planet physically? Is such a color for a planet even possible?

The chances are quite slim indeed, though most of your audience would be willing to accept Earth-like life on a non-Earth planet, especially if there was no 'Earth' in the universe.
Such a small planet would have little gravity, so things like muscle and bone mass would likely be lower for equivalent Earth lifeforms. They might be less likely to evolve crawling or walking gait, and more likely to evolve loping gaits, or evolve the ability to glide.
Trees and such would likely grow taller.
Low gravity often means weakly held atmospheres, so temperatures will probably be lower, as would oxygen concentrations.

Water's essentially colourless, except in huge quantites, where it's blue. The surface tends to reflect the light around it, so a blue sky often means blue seas.
Plant life may move away from green and more to yellow for leaf colouration.
Assuming an Earth like atmosphere, the sky would probably still be blue, though it may perhaps be a stronger shade.

Assuming the planet contained liquid water and/or had tectonic activity, it would be very odd indeed if it didn't. Even if the planet was dead and dry, I would still expect such things to exist in any planet with a solid composition.

Your main concern may actually be gravity; water vapour may simply float off into space, assuming it had the atmospheric pressure to remain liquid at all. Assuming these conditions allowed clouds to form, they should still appear in the same places you'd expect from Earth; cold fronts, mountain ranges etc.

Yes, assuming an active core.

There are a laaaaarge number of things; I reccomend just Googling stuff.
Anyway, I'm sure plants could evolve to survive in enough of them to make it plausable, and you don't even need plants really.

A lot of these questions depend more on the position and composition of your planet and quite a lot on eachother. Depending how in depth you want to be, you've got a bit of work ahead of you still, BUT overall, I don't think the idea's impossible. Your main concern is if the planet is dense enough to have the gravity to support life. If you can make it so, you're probably ok, otherwise, you'll just need to make it bigger.

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Such a planet would not have an atmosphere (And i don't think it'd have magnetic field either, since so small planet couldn't really hold a core liquid for a very long time without huge mass of radioactive materials heating it. So, also no plate tectonics.), which you might say limits the options of life there. And without atmosphere and magnetic field protecting it, all water there would vaporise to the space. It would, basically, be a very dead place.

EDIT: Now that i think about it, there could be some water in caves and such. Not much, but still, water means possibility of life.

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Just did some looking around 'cause I was bored.
The closest your star can be to a B is an F5, giving it a ‘surface’ temperature of about 7,600K and mass of about 3.23 x 1038 kg. This should get the colour as close to blue as possible, though I'm afraid it'll only be white at best, and probably yellowish.

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When I was typing that, I forgot about the size of the planet being important, so yeah, I can make it bigger.

If you see it all the time it loses its impact.

In ancient Sparta, it is said, respectable married women never covered up the center strip of their fronts; the idea was that their founder (Laocöon?) figured that if guys could see what other guys got they wouldn't get curious and try to seduce another man's wife.

Prostitutes, OTOH, wore gauzy and filmy and sheer clothes.

I don't know how true that all is. If it comes from Herodotus it might as well be gossip.

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Could a roughly semi-circular mountain range naturally form? I think the Carpathian mountain chain is kinda sorta semi-circular...but I would like the one in my world to be more so. If it were, would it be naturally possible? And how/how not?

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May be as a coincidence of several montains forming one after and next to another in the course of hundeds of millions of years. May be you could make some parts in it much higher and lower than the average and some heights next to the range for some plausibility.

I don't really think that's possible, unless it's volcanoes on a hotspot on a tectonic plate that, for some reason (Possibly neighbouring plates on opposite sides going to opposite directions?), is spinning around rather than moving to some direction.

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language-taster wrote: Could a roughly semi-circular mountain range naturally form? I think the Carpathian mountain chain is kinda sorta semi-circular...but I would like the one in my world to be more so. If it were, would it be naturally possible? And how/how not?

Maybe if the mountain range lies on a corona?Earth does not have them except maybe Iceland.

Thank you very much for that link, Akzali! (I don't know how to properly quote yet, sorry). I think my idea may actually be realistically feasible within my conworld, now. Much appreciated!

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What kinds of materials could a moon of a terrestrial planet reasonably be made of? I know that the moons of Saturn and Jupiter and the other large planets can be pretty crazy, but it seems like all of the ones on the small planets are just plain old rocks.

Theta wrote: What kinds of materials could a moon of a terrestrial planet reasonably be made of? I know that the moons of Saturn and Jupiter and the other large planets can be pretty crazy, but it seems like all of the ones on the small planets are just plain old rocks.

Terrestrial planets are in the inner solar system where there are as you have said,just plain old rocks.
In outer solar system,ice and other materials are more frequent.
Perhaps you could make massively greenhoused planet with Earthlike temperatures that orbits in outer solar system and has two moons like Titan and Europa.

"Plain old rocks" can be of amazing diversity, and it depends largely on the origin of the moon. If it was originally part of the planet, like Earth's Moon, it will be of same kind on chemicals and, consequently, of same kind of rocks than the planet. If it's an asteroid that got caught by the planet's gravity, it will have same kind of composition as asteroids (And there are differences among them, too).

Whatever the case, the processes that modify the rock are very different in a moon with probably no atmosphere or hot, molten core: No erosion, except for meteorite craters, most probably no volcanic activity, at least not very long after the formation of the moon, and no biological factors. This can lead to interestingly different geological landscape when compared to the planet it orbits.

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Do you think a moon with relatively large deposits of ice would be reasonable for an earth-like planet? I know there are several of those farther out in the Solar System.

I'd say it's possible, yes. But you'd have to design how the ice got there in the first place: If it's originally an icy asteroid caught by the planet's gravity, then problem solved.

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just point the ice-rich areas away from sources of heat. (example: our Moon; extreme example: Mercury)

True. One way to accomplish this is having the ice fields covered by some kind of sediment (The question then is, of course, where that ammount of sand etc... could come from in that kind of enviroment).

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