WSC Practice Challenge - Science & Technology (To Edit a Planet)

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If you took part in a tree-planting event, which of the following concepts is being applied?

1 point

Carbon sequestration

Land use management

Biochar

Biomass

Carbon Dioxide Capture

Clear selection

Pyrolisation is a process used in which of these geoengineering techniques?

1 point

Land use management

Biochar

Carbon Dioxide Capture

Ocean Fertilization

Enhanced Weathering

Clear selection

Someone researching ocean fertilisation would benefit the most from also researching...

1 point

Algae growth

Bicarbonate ion efficiency

Phytoplankton life cycles

GHG removal methods

Carbon scrubbing

Clear selection

Ocean Upwelling aims to achieve the same goal as what other geoengineering concept?

1 point

Ocean fertilisation

GHG removal

High-albedo crops

Marine cloud brightening

Aerosol injection

Clear selection

Which of these methods is the most commonly supported form of solar-geoengineering?

1 point

Marine Cloud Brightening

Albedo Crops

Cloud Thinning

Aerosol Injection

Ocean Mirror

Clear selection

Which type of clouds does cloud thinning mainly intend to target?

1 point

Cirrus

Cumulonimbus

Cirrocumulus

Nimbostratus

Altocumulus

Clear selection

If a geoengineer was travelling to the arctic, what would they most likely be monitoring?

1 point

Aerosol concentrations

Methane levels

Sulfuric Acid particle amount

Solar radiation fluctuations

All of the above

Clear selection

Which of these geoengineering phenomena occurs in a positive feedback loop?

1 point

Ice-albedo feedback

Aerosol injection

Radiative forcing

Desert reflectors

Cool roof

Clear selection

John Latham first proposed what geoengineering method?

1 point

Desert reflectors

Marine Cloud brightening

Sunshield

Stratospheric Aerosols

Space sunshades

Clear selection

Which of these considerations is most important to a geoengineering-reliant society?

1 point

Cost

Timescale

Termination Effect

Reversibility

Encapsulation

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Which of these geoengineering techniques does not involve total encapsulation?

1 point

Aerosol Injection

Cloud Thinning

GHG Removal

High-Albedo Buildings

None of the above

Clear selection

Your friend claims that cloud seeding only creates rain, what would you say in response?

1 point

"It can also create hail"

"Glaciogenic cloud seeding doesn't make rain"

"It doesn't create rain, only alters the amount we receive"

"Cloud seeding creates the cloud first, then the water cycle takes over"

"You're correct"

Clear selection

Which of these techniques of environmental manipulation would farmers not benefit from?

1 point

Cloud Seeding

Fog Harps

Bioprecipitation

Hail Cannons

None of the above

Clear selection

'Orgone energy manipulation' was theorised to have allowed which of the following technologies to work?

1 point

Cloudbusters

Fog Harps

Hail Cannons

Cloud Seeding Phosphates

Aerosol Injection Tubes

Clear selection

Operation Popeye was an attempt to utilise environment manipulation technology during...

1 point

The Vietnam War

Hurricane Katrina

The Malayan Emergency

The First Gulf War

The 2004 tsunami and earthquake

Clear selection

If Tachyons existed, then which of these concepts would be far easier to comprehend?

1 point

FTL

Warp Speed

Wormholes

Hyperspace

All of the above

Clear selection

Hyperspace was popularised by which of these writers?

1 point

Michio Kaku

John Campbell

Arthur C. Clarke

Isaac Asimov

All of the above

Clear selection

“What’s so good about Einstein-Rosen Bridges?” your friend asks. What would you most likely respond with?

1 point

"Solar sails would be far more effective if they existed”

“Warp Speed wouldn’t be so hard to achieve”

“Scientists could ignore special relativity altogether”

“We wouldn’t have to tackle human stasis for space”

“Intergenerational travel would be much easier”

Clear selection

Which of these authors from Literature might be interested in Human Stasis?

1 point

Allen Steele

Joy Harjo

Rauf Pardi

Charles Simic

Darryll Amoako

Clear selection

Doppler Wobble, Gravitational Lensing and the Transit Method are all key considerations in what?

1 point

Defining a Goldilocks zone

Exoplanet identification

Calculating a Lagrange point

Constructing a solar sailor

Placing a planetary magnetosphere

Clear selection

Which of these things do we have yet to discover about Kepler 186-F?

1 point

Whether it's in the Goldilocks zone

How long it takes to orbit its star

The composition of its atmosphere

Its distance from our solar system

All of the above

Clear selection

Which two planets are often used as standards when considering if something is a "Super-Earth?"

1 point

Earth and Uranus

Mercury and Jupiter

Mars and Saturn

Venus and Neptune

The Sun and Pluto

Clear selection

The Kardashev Scale compares what two factors?

1 point

Resource Efficiency vs. Population

Waste production vs. Total industrial output

Space exploration vs. Travel capabilities

Energy used vs. Space occupied

None of the above

Clear selection

Kevlar, dirt and steel are all key material in the construction of...

1 point

Space mirrors

Planetary magnetospheres

Atmosphere thickeners

Shell worlds

All of the above

Clear selection

Constructing which of these structures would require a Lagrange Point?

1 point

Space Mirror

Solar sails

Shell world

Artificial magnetosphere

Dyson sphere

Clear selection

Nitrogen Importation might require us to first develop technology in order to...

1 point

Export large amounts of an unstable gas

Affect the trajectory of asteroids

Encase a section of a planet in nitrogen-rich cellular material

Modify the DNA of bacteria to produce nitrogen

Transport extremophiles to nearby planets

Clear selection

Which of these actions does the Outer Space Treaty not prevent?

1 point

A nation claiming sovereignty over space

Placing nuclear weapons in space

Installing weapons of mass destruction on the moon

A nation being granted the sole right to explore the cosmos

The use of kinetic bombardment on or within celestial bodies

Clear selection

Robert Lanza is credited with developing...

1 point

The theory of biocentrism

A formula for calculating Lagrange Points

MarsOne

The Outer Space Treaty

The Artemis Project

Clear selection

Which of these countries is not involved in the Artemis Project?

1 point

America

India

Japan

France

Canada

Clear selection

Your friend wonders what's so good about a Dyson Sphere, what would you most likely say to them?

1 point

"It'd bring global warming to a complete halt for quite some time"

"It'll allow us to gain the energy for future space travel programs"

"We'll become a Type II Civilization if we would create a working one"

"Intergenerational Travel wouldn't have to be considered if this tech could be made"

"They'd allow us to accurately locate any super-habitable planets

Clear selection

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