Sunday, August 30, 2026

A list of landmass and ocean at least 1/2 billion km^2.

53 under 56% is 53 m. km^2 land
44 over 43% is 44 m. km^2 ocean, 97 total 
58 over 52% is 58 m. km^2 ocean, 165 total

50 under 50% is 50 m. km^2 land, 215 total
39 over 35% is 39 m. km^2 ocean, 254 total
50 over 39% is 50 m. km^2 ocean, 304 total 

45 under 46% is 45 m. km^2 land, 349 total
41 under 95% is 41 m. km^2 land, 390 total
56 over 38% is 56 m. km^2 ocean, 446 total

43 under 79% is 43 m. km^2 land, 489 total
33 under 100% is 33 m. km^2 land, 522 total

53+50+45+41+43+33
103+86+76
189+76
265 land out of 522, 257 ocean out of 522

This is more than half land; I would like to run a Monte Carlo simulation of this, to see what we are likely have, land and hydrographic ratio.

Saturday, August 29, 2026

I went old school and bought a copy of Mongoose Traveller. I lurked in the back and rolled up a navy engineer, a lieutenant who I had leave service at thirty with 25kCr, two shares in a ship and a TAS membership. He also has a contact in a rival interstellar navy, the Essjoan Star Navy. I really need to roll up a homeworld and the Essjoan HW, Essjoha.

Friday, August 28, 2026

Main character - Two d% rolls of 61 and 36, which is a 36 year old woman. There is a side kick, 46 and 40, a 40 year old female. Are they related? 43 over 38%, no. Are they romantically involved? 46 over 32%, no.

No romance, no family relationship... wait, are they in laws? 43 over 40%, they are nothing to each other! 8-P

The 36 year old woman helped the forty year old with her divorce and keeping her kids.

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Quick and dirty world building...

Is the blob landmass or ocean? We need a reasonable target hydrographic ratio and the land ratio, to use in finding a random world map filling procedure.

One way is to choose a target number, the lesser of two d% rolls. If less than, it's landmass, if greeter, ocean. Landmass is less likely and trends smaller, but we could still see vast continents or tiny oceans 

50 and 41, so a 41% chance of landmass. 36, a 36 m. km^2 continent half again the size of North America.

52 and 39, so 39% chance of land; 46, 46 m  km^2 of ocean adjacent to the continent.

46/82 ocean, HR roughly 56% so far. More than four hundred short of the half billion. On average it takes ten iterations to get to 500 m. km^2.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

I have consistently made world mapping too hard. Quick and dirty world build my land and sea with d% rolls. Each number is the area of each bit of landmass or ocean. It's ocean if the # is greater than 29% or whatever your target land ratio is. Blob zero is at tht north pole, blob one is adjacent. This is quick and dirty, remember? 8-P

43, polar ocean 
65, adjacent ocean, may merge, 108 m. km^2 total, 0% land...
41, more ocean, 149 total
28, landmass!!! 28/177 is 15.82% land

Continue until we have an earth sized world, setting a default of ~500 m. km^2 surface area.

So far we have roughly the northern third of the world, the three ocean blobs would be a little more than down to ~30 degrees north latitude.
How about a situation? 

40, 25, a 25 year old woman rescues... 56, 24, a 24 year old woman. From drowning? 40 under 56%, yes, a flash flood, younger woman drove into deeper water than they expected and the car went floating.

Romantic? 50 over 44%, no, just a little hero worship. 25 gets 24 out of her car and onto dry ground like a wet rat...

Kitty, for Catherine, and Fanny, real name Sarah. Kitty is a paramedic and firefighter. Fanny is a dental hygienist.

Catherine rescues Sarah and Sarah sets out to return to favor as best she can, meddling in her life in well meaning ways...

41 over 30, a 30 year old woman, Sarah's older sister.
29 over 24, a 24 year old woman, Sarah's twin sister.
38 over 26, a 26 year old man, her middle brother.

Fanny/Sarah tries to play match maker, a little confused as to which way Kitty swings. Anna, Bruce and Deborah...
Mass of aliens: 2 d% rolls, 46 and 55, normal range of 46 to 55 kg, or take the higher # and use +/-46%? That's a range of 30 to 80 kg, 66 to 176 #s, average of 121 #s.

Bilateral or radial symmetry? 60% chance bilateral, 44 is a yes. Bilateral evolved from 'fish'. That last is just a judgement call, crawled up into the mud with more that two pairs of legs? 36 under... 36%? Interesting. Yes. More than three pairs? 51 over 44%, so no, three pairs, a centauroid?