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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-scientific-explanations-for-game-of-thrones-messed-up-seasons Why those other reasons are wrong:
http://bit.ly/1hYuRDJhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/14/great-moments-in-pedantry-win.html http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103511004064 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/publications/papers/2012.01.Icarus.Barnes.Moonless.Earth.pdfEven more reasons for the seasons:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/how-seasons-qworkq-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire GEOLOGY:
Generation Anthropocene's AMAZING geologic history of Westeros and Essos:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/anthropocene/cgi-bin/wordpress/game-of-thrones-geology/ VALYRIAN STEEL:
Damascus steel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel DRAGON FIRE:
Kyle Hill's explanation for real-life dragon fire:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/2014/01/02/smaug-breathes-fire-like-a-bloated-bombardier-beetle-with-flinted-teeth/ DRAGON FLIGHT:
Dragon-sized birds are biologically impossible:
http://wapo.st/1lBV2RE WILDFIRE:
Greek fire:
http://www.sciforums.com/what-is-greek-fire-t-68540.html 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/askscience/comments/1qkdl0/can_ice_be_compressed_into_water/ DIRE WOLVES:
Canis dirus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf REAL-LIFE CHARACTERS:
Abandon all productivity ye who click here:
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