Actually, the initial sequence of events is this: water seeps into a mechanism that interfaces with drums of methyl isocyanate, resulting in a comparatively small explosion, which does injure or kill a couple dozen people. This explosion also weakens the support structures of several more drums...
I've written a scifi short story for a contest on the theme of environmental disaster, and I want to check the plausibility of the chain of events that occurs in the story.
1. It opens with a spill of massive quantities of methyl and phenyl isocyanate into a bay area on a planet in the...
Thanks for the helpful reply! I made an oopsie- I said the planet had a third Earth's volume, when I meant a third Earth's radius, which would actually make it considerably denser than Mars. I'm not wedded to most of these figures, though.
Hmm. I suppose there could be another planet orbiting...
Aspiring hard-scifi writer here. I try to make sure details in my fiction are consistent with known science or reasonable extrapolations thereof, unless absolutely demanded by the plot (and even then I try to offer some justification). I'm wondering if the solar system I'm setting a short story...
By the way, I'll admit defeat to this guy, but I'm convinced he's still wrong on a related point; he asserts that the inertial effects felt by observers standing on the Earth are caused by those observers' acceleration relative to Earth; but observers resting on the Earth are stationary relative...
I'm confused now. If the Earth's acceleration is different relative to observers traveling at differing velocities, how is it determined which measure of acceleration describes the inertial effects felt by observers on Earth? Why is that observers would feel one gee worth of inertial effects...
Hello, on the forums of the International Flat Earth Society ( www.theflatEarth'society.org ), there are very few people who actually believe the Earth is flat- most of those who appear to represent the Flat Earth cause are actually only either there to hoax people, or to argue as Devil's...