As most have said:

Underlying issues, sleep hygiene and doctor are all first port of call to check out. Some herbal remedies/melatonin can also help. For me sometimes taking a bath and having some lavender scent helped just in promoting calmness.

I haven’t seen much mention of mindfulness for sleep, and for me nothing has been as effective other than prescription sleeping pills.

Medito is a FOSS app, backed by meditation guides from universities.

https://medito.app/packs/2adEdsVRJwmU27G8

Body scan is a great first place to start, or try some of their “starting guides”. Meditation is a skill that needs time and practice, and sometimes you won’t be able to, but that just means you need to do something to reset your brain and try again.

They also have some sounds and sleep stories which are nice if you are into that sort of thing

Many books are managed by a publisher, however. To varying degrees of control. The publisher can have significant sway in the process of writing and editorial control, depending on the contract.

I think the indie part is mostly to do with size and influence of the publishing house. As well as if the art comes first or market appeal. I think A24 in film are a good example of that question.

On further thought, I think one possible criteria may be: Was this work completed independently and then subsequently published, or did this work have a publisher prior to completion?

To your question, if the author gets big off of an indie work, then writes another, independently, which gets published again, then it’s still indie. But if that author agrees a contract to write said book with the publisher before it is written, then it is no longer indie.

Basically, has the creator taken it on their own risk to make this thing and then tried to publish it later? Or did a publisher take the risk by funding it and then therefore may have some degree of control?

Dear Esther

That too 😂

The greenhouse effect still has a limit to how much it can trap.

At the end of the day infrared radiation is still basically light.

Even on the cloudiest day, or when there is super dense smoke or ash, it is still not pitch black out. Some light gets through. If you are looking into a mirror, it might seem like it reflects 100% of light. But they only reflect around 95%.

You would require something which can let through 100% of all sunlight, but still trap 99.5% from leaving.

You could have a look at how one-way mirrors work, to understand the percentages of light passed through and reflected.

Data comes from NASA planetary fact sheets (amazing resource btw).

Overall equation structure:

Circular area that can receive sunlight: pi x radius ^ 2

Total incoming power : solar irradiance x circular area

Spherical area : 4 x pi x radius ^ 2

Black body radiation : stefan-boltzmann constant x Area x Temperature ^ 4

You know have incoming power and outgoing power.

Percentage : 100 x (Outgoing - incoming) / outgoing

I don’t think so.

Even out at Mars you already have significantly diminished solar incidence.

I think that past Saturn you probably start to have so little incoming solar energy that it’s almost impossible to retain it.

EDIT:

Saturn receives around 1% of the solar irradiance of earth.

Pluto receives 0.064%. less than 1W/m2.

With a radius of 1188km, the absolute maximum incident solar energy is 3.8E12 W. (Assuming no efficiency loss as the angle of incidence decreases due to curvature)

The radiating surface is the full sphere, and using Earth’s black body temperature of 254K.

Therefore, Pluto would be radiating approximately 5.67E-8 x 254^4 x 4 x pi x 1188000 ^2 = 7.38 E14.

In other words, you would need to retain at least 99.5% of all energy emitted by pluto. Mirrors reflect around 95% of visible light, and infrared is even more difficult to reflect.

Another Earth

50/50

Grave of the fireflies

5 centimetres per second