I assume boats float better, though, for what it’s worth.
Larry Niven posited a high gravity planet called Jinx in his ‘Known Space’ series.
Neither better nor worse - the boat’s increase in weight is exactly compensated by the water’s increase in weight.
Well, the obvious thing is the inability of many large dictatorships to arise. If The Chief Dodo of your region becomes a PITA, people would just move into some ungoverned area. In fact, bad government would be a major reason for people in small settlements to even bother to move.
Would there be big cities? More or less of them? Most good stuff comes from large cities with idle rich people who patronize the arts and sciences.
In our world, New Zealand was the land with no mammals. Would a larger planet have more cul-de-sacs? A continent with only insects? Barefoot teenage lesbians?
Would a Pacific Ocean 4.5 larger than ours ever be bested? An super Amazon ever mapped?
Which is more probable on a Super-Earth than a regular earth, is what I’m saying.
Barefoot teenaged lesbians?
That sounds much more interesting than marsupials.
Well it does paint an interesting picture of having oceans so large, a modern transcontinental jet wouldn’t have enough fuel to cross. them.
I’m not sure if a larger surface area would lead to much vaster oceans or simply more numerous, scattered continents.
Certainly more remote regions may have much more unique and exotic independent cultures. Distinct ecosystems probably also result in many many times the ecological diversity. A super-earth zoo would be very interesting to visit…
You’re positing a planet just like Earth, only bigger, but the surface gravity is the same? Ain’t gonna work.
Maybe it’s hollow…
So you get twice the surface area–populate both the inside and the outside. And have tunnels at the poles making the planet a torus with a concave inner surface.
Just watch out for mahars.
If there are any islands they’d just do what propeller-driven aircraft did before the jet era- stop multiple times to refuel.
This kind of touches upon an idea I once had for a fictional world based on the Dyson sphere concept with an interior surface area equal to millions of Earth-size planets. On one spot there’s a quasi-Earth with the familiar continents and oceans. Picture the Earth’s crust peeled and laid flat, with the dividing line through the Bering Strait just west of the Americas so that the Pacific as far as Easter Island and Hawaii is east of Asia. This cluster of continents and islands is isolated from the rest of the Dyson sphere by hundreds of thousands of miles of completely empty ocean. With some tweaking, the history of this “Earth” is nearly identical to our own up to the time of Magellen, and afterward something not too dissimilar to our current civilization emerges. Then, in this quasi-Earth’s equivalent of the latter 20th century the technology is finally developed to cross the expanse of ocean separating “Earth” from other continents in the Sphere.
Sure. But it would create an interesting story-telling dymanic.
How do ships navigate inside a Dyson Sphere since there would be no stars? (Although I suppose they could have artificial beacons.
Among other things, one interesting problem humans might have developing on a super-earth is that they may never develop the technology of flight, since the energy requirements to fly in that gravity would be too great.