Recent content by JQP

I guess the ideal would be software that would let me play with sea and water levels and spit out maps that look like my examples, but a man's got to rein in his expectations. :)

I remember this forum from years back as a good place to ask speculative science questions, so I figured I'd give you guys first dibs. Sorry if I put this thread in the wrong place. I'm doing some fantasy world-building, and I'm curious as to what the Great Lakes would look like at various...

Dune the movie then. Not that the point of my post was anywhere within a light year of sucking all possible imagination and creativity out of the subject by adhering to the jots and tittles of fanboy-ism.

I'm trying to cook up an interesting desert planet. Dune made me wonder if a tool-using species could turn a planet with plenty of water into a desert planet. Say, one nation starts hoarding water via the "catchments" we saw on Arakis (with some plausible mechanism to prevent evaporation)...

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "from an academic point of view"? To whom does this generality apply? People like Venter? The folks who cloned Dolly? When you "write something up" for peer review, what does that mean? You're giving away the farm, so to speak? I guess so, since part...

I'm pretty much a science noob. When some lab discovers a new process for fertility, or a new genetic test, or a new method for making clones or stem cells or whatever, how is this process or method shared? Or is it shared? Do they go out and get patents? Guard their secrets? Share them for...