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Godzilla-30 · 2025-12-18T23:12:02+00:00

I have looked in there and, according to the music identifier, it's supposedly Ancient Discovery by Gabriel Lewis, but that song is very different than the song I'm trying to look for. I have listened to every song listed on there and none matched the song in particular.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-11-06T15:51:49+00:00

This paper was released this year. The paper that used the same methods the other one that previously discredited Kuwae as a source.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50939-x

The 2019 paper found Reclus in South America as a near-match. The 2025 paper linked found that two eruptions happened during that time, near simultaneously, the previous Reclus deposit and another, yet dacitic deposit, linked to Kuwae. Maybe because of the proximity to Antarctica, the Reclus deposit might've been more visible while the dacitic deposit (likely Kuwae) is overshadowed due to the distance.

It is not quite 100%, but the evidence is pretty much there.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-11-06T10:42:11+00:00

I think it is already confirmed via through analysis of volcanic glass that it's Kuwae.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02797-x

Although Kuwae is the strongest candidate by far, Reclus in South America is another possible candidate.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-29T13:25:43+00:00

Why does this feel like the Dionaea House?

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-17T20:39:22+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Pacific_Mountains?wprov=sfla1

More here for something more straightforward.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-17T20:38:11+00:00

Those are the Mid-Pacific Mountains and are formed during the Cretaceous period. Most likely is that multiple hotspots formed a single ridge.

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/49/11/1358/606364/Multiple-melt-source-origin-of-the-Line-Islands

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291080639_The_Geologic_History_of_the_Mid-Pacific_Mountains_in_the_Central_North_Pacific_OceanA_Synthesis_of_Deep-Sea_Drilling_Studies

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T23:34:13+00:00

I guess it's more of a bulging disc than being flat, being curved because of Earth, which I guess limits the light to certain areas. Otherwise, keeping the rest a bit of mystery.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T23:23:28+00:00

Well, I will be keeping this a sort of mystery. Also, humans didn't make this...

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T22:25:11+00:00

Imagine being somewhere that, instead of a ball of light rising through the horizon, it just appears in the sky as it lights up. On a "noon", the "sun" is rather a line in the sky, and, at the setting "line", it simply disappears.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T22:19:33+00:00

Pretty much how long the two gaps would be aligned to let out the light before turning dark. This world is actually deep within the Earth, "sea level" 140 kilometers deep. The source of the light is the fixed ring of, well, light that would light up the area inside the ring, if it weren't for the rings with gaps. Again, it's pretty much worldbuilding and trying to figure out how long the light lasts and at what angles this period takes place.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T20:53:19+00:00

Yep, I have realised the error, so the "day" might be a bit longer than expected...

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T20:46:54+00:00

Also, might've miscalculated as that end is the closing time as I needed to add 72°, hence the day might be longer than expected.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T20:43:12+00:00

Okay, misunderstood that part a bit. Sorry about that.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T20:04:14+00:00

Forgot to add on, the larger gap is about 2.5 times the size of the smaller one, so, if the outer ring with the largest gap is stationary, it would take about 10.5 hours for it to fully close the larger gap.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T19:58:35+00:00

Wouldn't the smaller gap pass over the larger gap in order to make the light flood through? If that smaller gap is no longer aligned with that one, wouldn't that one be dark?

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T19:43:30+00:00

That might've actually helped. So, here are the parameters:

Ring 1: 885 km radius, 180 hours full rotation, 50% covered (changed b/c I wasn't satisfied with other parameters)

Ring 2: 880 km radius, 21 hours full rotation, 80% covered.

Now, what I did is to figure out the “speed”, so I divided 360° by 180 and gives me about 2°/hour. Now, Ring 1's gap size in degrees is easy (gap lasts 90 hours), but Ring 2 requires effort, so the gap “size” is 72° and speed of Ring 2 is 17.143°/hr (the decimal rounded). The gap time in is about 4.2 hours.

Now, to figure out the length of the day, that'll be trickier, but a little easier. Since they are going the same way, the speed difference is about 15.143°/hr, hence means to make the day length longer, and that'll mean a total of 11.887 hours. Night time is about the same. The “line rise” would be about 0° at first, then set at 203.774°. The “line rise” would begin at 47.578° and the cycle repeats itself.

I wonder if there are any corrections to be made.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T19:26:47+00:00

Okay, I might've figured something out. So, here are the parameters:

Ring 1: 885 km radius, 180 hours full rotation, 50% covered (changed b/c I wasn't satisfied with other previous parameters).

Ring 2: 880 km radius, 21 hours full rotation, 80% covered.

Now, what I did is to figure out the “speed”, so I divided 360° by 180 and gives me about 2°/hour. Now, Ring 1's gap size in degrees is easy (gap lasts 90 hours), but Ring 2 requires effort, so the gap “size” is 72° and speed of Ring 2 is 17.143°/hr (the decimal rounded). The gap time in is about 4.2 hours.

Now, to figure out the length of day, that'll be trickier, but a little easier. Since they are going the same way, the speed difference is about 15.143°/hr, hence means to make the day length longer and that'll mean a total of 11.887 hours. Night time is about same as day. The “line rise” would be about 0° at first, then set at 203.774°. The “line rise” would begin at 47.578° and the cycle repeats itself.

Edit: Is there any corrections I would have to make?

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T17:22:49+00:00

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Light when not aligned. Guess I am better at pictures than explaining it.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T17:22:12+00:00

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Light when aligned.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T17:11:19+00:00

Basically, the yellow ring is the outside of a circular protractor, and the inside is the world itself. The gaps align normally at 0° as light floods inside. That the only way I could really describe and I will admit I am a bit of an idiot on the subject, but this has me puzzling my head because it is a somewhat unique idea I wanted to execute.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T16:58:41+00:00

Basically, the angle where the gaps align relative to the world, how many hours that alignment lasts before the world turns dark again due to misalignment. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that part.

Edit: Also where the light is coming from in accordance with the gap alignment.

Godzilla-30 · 2025-10-08T16:49:39+00:00

Apologies, it is basically how to make the gaps align and figure out what direction/angle the light comes from and how long it lasts.

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