Do the math and you've got a set of armor worth $88,188,750,000.98. Unfortunately, Mat also determined that the armor would have multiple "cleavage planes," which sounds sexy but actually means that one solid strike at a 90-degree angle would shatter it. So if you've ever wanted to wear and then immediately destroy the GDP of multiple developing countries, you better get crafting.

1 How Do The Seasons In Game Of Thrones Work?

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It can be easy to forget that Game of Thrones isn't set in medieval Europe, given how much George R. R. Martin ripped straight from ye olde headlines. One of the few signs that it's set in another world is that every character keeps reminding us that winter has been coming for the past five years and will last longer than one of George Martin's books.

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Their seasonal disparity is a simple concept, but it's tricky to explain the science behind it. As you know if you paid attention in fifth grade, seasons are caused by a planet's tilt as it orbits the sun. For a planet to have longer seasons, it would simply have to have a longer orbit. But they would still come at regular intervals, so that wouldn't explain why some of Westeros' summers and winters last a couple of years while others can run for a decade or more, or why no one can predict when they're coming (besides the fact that meteorologists in Westeros keep getting flayed alive whenever it rains unexpectedly).

Luckily, a group of graduate students at Johns Hopkins University figured it out: They determined that this planet's solar system must include two suns, with everything orbiting in and around each other like a cosmic gangbang.

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Because peer review can get ridiculous, another scientist suggested that no fewer than three major stars can account for the planet's orbital weirdness, or that it might actually be an exomoon orbiting a gas giant. We're sure we'll get a definitive answer when A Dream of Spring is released in 2047 by the son of Brandon Sanderson.

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