The CBB

The main difference would be in mythology: Take a look at the various myths from different cultures that explain what the sun is. Now, when writing conmythology, you have to explain why there are two of them. Examples from my own conworld (which is also in a circumbinary orbit): In Tazaric mytholog...

It is not sheer solar wind and UV emission that worries me. As I understand, we are talking about the amount of energy radiated onto the planet. What I am worried about is that we are going to have seasons based on the position of parent stars revolving around the barycentre, not only based on the ...

Seems logical, though I find it difficult to imagine a safe for life, stable world, in which two stars orbit each in a very short orbit, and which would produce a fancy effect of two stars dancing on the sky. More than gravitational perturbations and tidal effects, I'm concerned about pulses of hea...

Thanks for confirming, Micamo. As to the atmosphere, I need it to be Earth-like. If anything, it needs to be more photosynthesis-friendly than ours. (My crazy idea: there will be animals using porphyrins to get a part of their energy through photosynthesis. I know it is really out there, but it has ...

At the moment Hííenununóóoþa has the following vowel inventory: /i y u/ ı ų u /ɛ œ ɔ/ e ǫ o However, when coining new words I find myself using huge numbers of e ı o and hardly touching the other vowels. Shall I reduce the Hííenununóóoþa vowel inventory to /e~ɛ i~ɪ o~ɔ/ e ı o ? Why? Phonemes don't ...

Some good points Keenir. - sun clocks wouldn't be as readily available because of having two shadows, maybe they'd be even more available...except in a few areas. (think about how easy a single sun can get a person lost in the woods) Why do you think sun clocks would be more available? The two stars...

There is no habitable zone for a planet orbiting a twin-star system, of which these two stars orbit their common barycentre, and the planet revolves around them. I found planets, but they were dead, frozen worlds, orbiting very far from both stars, and all of them were gas giants. Another theoretic...

As you can tell from my other thread, I am working on a conworld set in a binary star system, where the planet orbits both Suns which in turn orbit a common barycenter. I would like to open this thread to brainstorm the cultural effects of having two Suns. May it serve as a source of inspiration. My...

Wolfram Alpha says 0.9 solar masses for the big star, and 0.8 solar masses for the smaller star (using the temperature as input). How can I find this calculation on WA? What do I need to type in? So with a 1 AU distance and a summary mass of 1.7 solars, you get an orbital period for the planet of 2...

I would choose stellar masses which will give a nice long main sequence life for the system but also push the habitable zone away from the immediate vicinity of the stars. Spectral types from late G to early K will probably be your best guesses. So, if I am understanding this correctly, having one ...

I like this language. Keep the info coming. For example, if you want to introduce Hana to your friends, you could say “ zi sam ” (She’s a friend), but if she’s not there, you have to say “ Hana sam ” (Hana is a friend). This sounds odd and tedious. So if you have a conversation about someone who is ...

so, if they are different enough to be different colors, one will have more gravity than the other, resulting in: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070319015933/memoryalpha/en/images/d/da/Binary_star_system.jpg http://www.johnrowe.org/images/Cosmos/BinaryStar.JPG That will only happen if at l...

Thanks for your answers, everyone. Assuming a luminosity of 0.42 sols for both stars (the expected average luminosity for stars of this mass BUT actual luminosity can vary with the stellar cycle and with its age and composition), you want an average distance from both stars of about 0.91078 AU to ge...

Individually, I think. I took it from an article that said that a combination of two twin binary stars with 0.8 the mass of Sun lying very close together are especially conducive to life bearing planets. I cannot find the article anymore to double check, though. EDIT: If you guys think the stars sho...

Hi guys. A new and interesting conworld is shaping up in my head. I need a specific cosmological situation for it, though, and I need some help with making the vision coherent and astronomically plausible. So here it goes. The star system is that of a binary star: two twins with about 80% the mass o...

Awesome stuff. I am waiting for more.

I am playing with the idea of an intelligent therocephalian species for my conworld. They would be lacking the secondary palate and have an unusual phonology, as well. Your insect language is a great source of inspiration.

You do state: when building a realistic conworld, so... Some questions to get you started: Laws of nature Are the laws of nature the same as in our world? Or is there magic? How does it work? Or are there some other things (like planes of existence) that our world doesn’t have? Cosmology What is the...

pittmirg wrote:In Polish the -em declension of deadjectival neuter proper nouns.

Isn’t this more of a historical relic than an artificial rule, though?

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Be kopan yutgaratio kaadis be paadrmana e fodisaa be petemanelle.
DEF boss-SG.NOM make/force-PAST.DITR.INFER give-SG-ACC DEF cook-SG.DAT INDF cake-SG-ACC DEF customer-SG-ALL
The boss made the cook give the cake to the customer.

Originally I found them very difficult, because, much like English phrasal verbs or Latin compound verbs, they are often logical enough once you already know what they mean, but they're very hard to guess the meaning of. That’s probably true of any language... BTW, are there any languages that don’...