The Science of Game of Thrones: How to make the perfect royal siege!
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WINTER:
Seasons of Westeros and the 3-body problem: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.0445v1.pdf
Other possible explanations for the seasons: http://io9.com/5906300/5-scien....tific-explanations-f
Why those other reasons are wrong:
http://bit.ly/1hYuRDJ
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/....14/great-moments-in-
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s....cience/article/pii/S
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
NOTE ON MOONS AND STABILIZATION: I'm adding this comment after the video goes up: In retrospect I should have said that a moon doesn't *necessarily* have to be present to stabilize a planet. While our moon does cancel out some tugging from the other planets in the solar system, here's a recent paper shows that moonless planets can orbit with great stability even without the influence of a moon. Basically moons aren't required for stability: http://barnesos.net/publicatio....ns/papers/2012.01.Ic
Even more reasons for the seasons: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/....05/how-seasons-qwork
GEOLOGY:
Generation Anthropocene's AMAZING geologic history of Westeros and Essos: http://www.stanford.edu/group/....anthropocene/cgi-bin
VALYRIAN STEEL:
Damascus steel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel
DRAGON FIRE:
Kyle Hill's explanation for real-life dragon fire: http://blogs.scientificamerica....n.com/but-not-simple
DRAGON FLIGHT:
Dragon-sized birds are biologically impossible: http://wapo.st/1lBV2RE
WILDFIRE:
Greek fire: http://www.sciforums.com/what-....is-greek-fire-t-6854
Trimethyl borate flame by hkparker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrisgbsRmg
MILK OF POPPY:
Opates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
THE WALL:
Compression melting of ice: http://www.reddit.com/r/asksci....ence/comments/1qkdl0
DIRE WOLVES:
Canis dirus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf
REAL-LIFE CHARACTERS:
Abandon all productivity ye who click here: http://history-behind-game-of-thrones.com
Stark/Lannister feud in real life tapestry: http://history-behind-game-of-thrones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/porte_saint_denis170-753x1024.jpg
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