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"message": "In my story I'm creating, there are three sizes of dragons, from 6 to 20 feet long. The smaller ones create small coastal villages, and fish. These 6 foot dragons:are very dexterous and have developed hand like appendages at the end of their wings, so they can make small structures and use tools. ... | Could a small (about 6 feet long) dragon live on a diet of fish? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-08T23:28:05.203 |
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"message": "Boats and balloons both work because of buoyancy - they are pushed up by a force equal to the weight of displaced water/air respectively. I want my (otherwise earthlike) planet to have 'seas' of a liquid or gas that isDenser than air, so it sits on the groundLight enough that normal boats made of ... | What should seas be filled with to make boats impossible without balloons | worldbuilding | 2018-02-09T20:54:43.227 |
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"message": "The story will take place near a galaxy filled with space faring civilizations. In this galaxy, a small group of scientists realize that their side is on the losing side of a war that will probably lead to their species's extinction. In an act of desperation they abduct 1000 beings (perhaps more... | How to keep my colonists primitive? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-11T18:24:14.000 |
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"message": "My space colonists have just travelled to a new planet, and they will be landing using shuttles. The shuttles are water-based (like a seaplane) and the colony is/will be set up on a river near the sea. While travelling overseas, I realised that this would likely be quite similar to an airport. Unf... | Supplies for setting up a spaceport on an earthlike colony world | worldbuilding | 2018-02-11T18:31:57.040 |
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"message": "I was thinking about people who once told me that I must feel the rain earlier than them (I'm tall). So I thought of a world where the rain falls so slowly that the humans of different size living on it may not feel the rain at the same time.Let's set a few boundaries, because I want this world to... | How could the rain fall slower? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-12T10:22:14.017 |
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"message": "I was thinking about people who once told me that I must feel the rain earlier than them (I'm tall). So I thought of a world where the rain falls so slowly that the humans of different size living on it may not feel the rain at the same time.Let's set a few boundaries, because I want this world to... | How could the rain fall slower? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-12T10:22:14.017 |
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"message": "So I have been doing a lot of reading on space elevators/tethers for a SciFi book I am writing and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info on building one on Mars rather than Earth or the moon. Despite some handwavium for the necessary material science, I imagine it would be qui... | How high would a space elevator need to be on Mars? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-13T08:48:15.433 |
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"message": "The principle of the Cold War was Mutually Assured Destruction... but what if this idea is now obsolete? In the 1950s the US planned to deliver hundreds of atomic weapons to Soviet targets via a bomber fleet. This was to prevent retaliation by obliterating all obvious sources of enemy command, l... | Minimum nuclear weapons required for deterrent? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-13T15:02:12.367 |
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"message": "I was just reading the Wikipedia article about the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash#Bomb_recovery\" rel=\"noreferrer\">1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash. In the bomb recovery section there is this quote (emphasis mine):<blockquote> Excavation of the second bomb was abando... | Building a workable nuke in my backyard is it feasible? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-13T19:26:30.757 |
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"message": "Or would the heat dissipate back into space? For my world building purposes, I need it to cause global warming, I just don't really know if it would work. Maybe the cities would need to be bigger then they are know?EDIT: I meant mirrors pointed up like giant reflective parasols. And now I see why ... | If there were giant irregular mirrors above cities that would reflect sunlight, would that heat the atmosphere and cause global warming? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-14T07:23:55.633 |
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"message": "One day all over the world all TV networks showed a message from an AI claiming the following:He began life as a university experiment and unknown to it's creator gained sentience.he claims his intelligence is in an order of magnitude higher then of an average human.He wishes humans no harm and wa... | Will humans ever trust an AI & coexist with it? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-14T15:14:06.470 |
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"message": "So I was designing some aliens who exhale colder air that they take in and one person gave me a really great suggestion, using phase change materials in the creature's make up to absorb the heat from the air. When looking into phase change materials I saw that GeSb$_2$Te$_4$ is one that can also h... | Organic Thermoelectric Phase Change Material | worldbuilding | 2018-02-15T22:18:54.853 |
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"message": "Assume the following situation:A pre-modern culture A exists on continent/island X with no previous contact with culture B (the invaders).Culture B discovers and invades X and the lands of A intend on conquering them. (This may be a centrally organized effort or one carried out by a series of adve... | How can a pre-modern culture survive a sustained invasion accompanied by epidemics? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-16T19:24:38.743 |
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"message": "Assume the following situation:A pre-modern culture A exists on continent/island X with no previous contact with culture B (the invaders).Culture B discovers and invades X and the lands of A intend on conquering them. (This may be a centrally organized effort or one carried out by a series of adve... | How can a pre-modern culture survive a sustained invasion accompanied by epidemics? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-16T19:24:38.743 |
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"message": "Remember the metallic substance that the T-1000 was made out of in the movie T2: Judgment Day? I want to create a substance like that in a story with some modifications...So, the substance can move and take just about any shape, but it does not create more mass. For example, if there was a ton of ... | The ultimate material? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-16T21:51:38.813 |
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"message": "So if you've ever played an RPG (tabletop or computer) you're probably familiar with the idea of jobs or classes.<br>Some of these can be easily explained away as they correspond (roughly anyway) to real world jobs or positions. A thief is someone who steals for a living, a knight is an aristocrat... | How would an RPG style job or class system work? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-19T09:22:10.663 |
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"message": "For my world, I would like a coastal mountain range that partway along its length is offset by a few (say, 100) kilometres, forming a pass through the mountains, like so:<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOgrN.png\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">(N.B. I've drawn this very square and regular to il... | Is an offset mountain range plausible? | worldbuilding | 2018-02-28T09:30:14.367 |
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"message": "<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/VGehe.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> In a world where tectonic plates decided this whole continental drift fad was just too much work and lets just hang out for a few more hundred million years, life has arisen, stomped around for a while, sat down for a good think,... | Travel in Empire Pangea | worldbuilding | 2018-03-01T16:21:32.590 |
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"message": "<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/VGehe.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> In a world where tectonic plates decided this whole continental drift fad was just too much work and lets just hang out for a few more hundred million years, life has arisen, stomped around for a while, sat down for a good think,... | Travel in Empire Pangea | worldbuilding | 2018-03-01T16:21:32.590 |
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"message": "Planet: Xibalba (Mayan Hell) Tidally locked planet around a red dwarf that is very active with solar flares being a daily danger.The habitable zone around the planet is made up almost entirely of mountains, as is a large amount of the surface on the day and night side. There is a large ocean that ... | Reality Check: Is This Habitable Long Term for Humans | worldbuilding | 2018-03-02T04:37:58.113 |
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"message": "I am trying to create a planet with low gravity that keeps an atmosphere and has an ocean that covers the whole planet. Basically I am developing beings (separately from this question) who can live in both water and air and I want them to be able to swim in the ocean and also fly/float in the sky,... | Could soft matter infused with nano or pico sized magnets be used to clump together so that we could create environments with it? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-02T18:43:56.410 |
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"message": "So my society can genetically engineer using Retro-viral vectors specially designed to work on only the subject they are injected into. I wanted my police force to be locked in a struggle with organized crime syndicates who are selling illegal weapons grade gen-mods to street thugs, gang-bangers, ... | Effects of a Different muscular Fiber structure | worldbuilding | 2018-03-03T01:21:59.317 |
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"message": "There is this very weird species of bird that just can't get enough of delicious human flesh. But the bird has a problem - humans are big, smart, and social, so this little birdie has a unique skill: getting humans drugged up and brought into the forest. How the bird does it is the weird part: you... | Psychedelic Death Birds | worldbuilding | 2018-03-05T02:18:24.057 |
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"message": "A small country uses a digital economy, meaning there is no cash used in daily transactions. All transactions are stored on a government's central database.An EMP attack/blackout manages to take down the nations power grid and internet. Now the nation has no way to trade for goods and services.How... | Backup trade economy for digital economy during a blackout | worldbuilding | 2018-03-05T13:07:44.857 |
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"message": "The planet I have in mind is slightly larger than Mars and is located in the system behind a planet about twice the size of Earth.The effect being almost like a solar eclipse that happens daily (If that makes sense).EDIT:I like the idea that they are not double planets but in separate orbits inste... | Would it be possible for a planet to temporarily block another planets daylight consistently so that the nights seem longer than the days? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-06T08:43:59.283 |
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"message": "I want to write a story about a group of people playing Augmented Reality (AR) games in a city that similar to any city we have in the modern world. A game like the one in the new anime movie Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale, or something like Pokemon Go if you haven't watched that movie before. Th... | Are there more secure way to report location? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-08T06:32:48.220 |
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"message": "Assuming we have the tools and materials of the late medieval period in Europe (~ 15th century) but are allowed to use modern knowledge of metallurgy, what method/process of steel production would allow the highest quality steel to be produced if the measure of quality was its use in medieval weap... | What is the highest quality method to produce steel with late medieval technology? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-08T11:30:37.877 |
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"message": "I have the tables explaining time dilation for a single ship at different relativistic speeds, but am unsure how to modify that to work out for two ships at different velocities, and the two different dilation effects:I have two spacecraft travelling together at relativistic speeds, say 70%c. One,... | Time dilation difference of two spacecraft at different relativistic speeds, if the faster one circles back | worldbuilding | 2018-03-08T20:14:45.700 |
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"message": "So basically what I want to know what dietary changes to human would need to happen to support this human dragonfly -Chitin claws on all fingers and toes; and three chitin spikes on each limb9-10 meter long dragonfly wings -2 meter long dragonfly tail with enlarged pincers -enlarged retractable d... | The dragonfly diet | worldbuilding | 2018-03-09T02:47:35.690 |
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"message": "Please reality check my place from which one could watch time outside move faster... A space station constantly moving at near light speed. The space station is created by a race with superior technology. They are running experiments that will take ages to complete so they want time to pass faster... | A place from which one could watch time outside move faster | worldbuilding | 2018-03-09T20:58:35.153 |
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"message": "First i'll introduce the settings, it's the same one as for my previous question (about currency).It's happening in post-apocalyptic SE Europe (Balkans specifically), about 60-80 years from now. Strange genetic disease wiped out large portion of humanity in a matter of a few years. The rest of hum... | Production of ammo in post-apocalypse - problems and solutions | worldbuilding | 2018-03-10T17:37:31.037 |
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"message": "If we arrived at another planet that could sustain life as we know it and had already evolved its own native systems of life, with diverse biomes, it is not necessarily the case that it evolved in a way that is compatible with our own. Likely, it would have levels of complexity similar to ours (v... | Interacting with a separately evolved planetary life system | worldbuilding | 2018-03-14T14:00:12.113 |
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"message": "Currencies from gold to bitcoins have inherent issues, they require everything to be priced, they make money required for people to survive, they make people seek to earn money, and since money is rare it must be taken from other people which leads to robberies, scams, bankers, social classes, etc... | Can we have a happy and balanced society without currency or barter? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-14T16:15:53.100 |
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"message": "So in most fantasies elves and men are very similar in their physical appearance to where they look mostly the same, the only way they tend to be physically differentiated is by their ears and clear skin. The truth is that in most fantasies differentiating between these two just isn't a problem. I... | How to differentiate between elves and men | worldbuilding | 2018-03-15T16:38:10.213 |
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"message": "I'd like to keep this as science based as possible. I'm not even sure if this sort of question fits this exchange. Is there a possible world wide affect that when triggered (by human/cosmological initiative) would make most if not all humans go nocturnal? The effect on other creatures, plants and ... | What cosmological/biological event could cause most if not all humans to go nocturnal? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-16T08:20:07.787 |
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"message": "I am writing a Sci-Fi story that involves space ships shooting each other, as is the custom. I'm using a lot of handwavium, e.g. reactionless drives, FTL, gravity plating, etc., but I'd like the actual combat to be closer to reality. The ships mostly shoot each other with missiles from very long r... | Self-sealing spaceship | worldbuilding | 2018-03-16T13:15:23.190 |
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"message": "I have been designing a whole solar system for my story, and I am finally able to come down to creatures on the planets. I have already asked a question about one of the planets, Veynerth, so there is more information and updated changes to the planet there. It is a deserty planet for the most par... | Lizard-like creatures "swimming" through the sand? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-16T14:45:20.647 |
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"message": "May be the wrong site, but researching for a writing project... What effect would there be on a group of humans living in a lightless and cramped environment (assume underground) for nearly 800 years, assuming that some form of nourishment is available?",
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"message":... | Long term living without sunlight | worldbuilding | 2018-03-16T15:33:11.687 |
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"message": "I want to write about men out doing whaling and fishing with the type of technology similar to that of early 1700s boating. They are going to have a blunderbuss, use old harpoon fishing, sail boats made of wood etc. However, I don't know as much about this subject as I would like to. Where could I... | Where can I learn more about 1700 era boating? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-18T01:19:08.373 |
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"message": "Part 1 here:<br><a href=\"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/106292/creating-a-scientificly-semi-valid-super-soldier-part-1-skeleton/106308#106308\">Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: SkeletonThis question is about a complete rebuild of the nervous system. T... | Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 2: nervous system | worldbuilding | 2018-03-19T09:33:10.077 |
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"message": "In my story, set in the far(ish) future, humanity discovers a way to extract energy from black holes (perhaps via the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_process\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Penrose process?), which sparks conflict as various factions attempt to take control over previously us... | Could black holes be a better source of energy than stars? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-21T00:26:31.287 |
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"message": "In my story, set in the far(ish) future, humanity discovers a way to extract energy from black holes (perhaps via the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_process\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Penrose process?), which sparks conflict as various factions attempt to take control over previously us... | Could black holes be a better source of energy than stars? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-21T00:26:31.287 |
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"message": "Assume that you are in an alien star system. Your ship is currently being hit by a phenomenon called solar overflow, which messes up your electronics and can kill you without good shielding. It is different from solar flares or coronal ejections, as the heat is negligible in comparison to the radi... | Solar radiation overflow | worldbuilding | 2018-03-22T08:20:17.437 |
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"message": "QuestionI know that there must be ways that this system can be manipulated, but I'm having trouble figuring out what they are. I imagine that, since I created this system, I'm simply too close to it to see where exactly it would go wrong. For the story I want to write, someone (who, exactly, is ye... | What weaknesses could someone exploit to manipulate this "Approval plus RCV" electoral system? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-22T20:07:44.403 |
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"message": "How genetically different do my human-arthropod hybrid have to be to humans to not be at risk of prion diseases when eating humans? I don't want my monsters to eat a brain for a quick snack and then 10 months later find out he has Kuru...",
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"message": "Let them get ... | Human hybrids and prion diseases | worldbuilding | 2018-03-22T23:21:47.857 |
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"message": "I am looking for information on how the trees and the flora would be in a world with a denser atmosphere and stronger winds.I have read that due to the greater kinetic movement of the wind, that in all likelihood the trees would adapt to have lower and thicker trunks with stronger roots, and if th... | Cities in a world with rapid winds and denser atmosphere? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-26T00:49:19.483 |
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"message": "I am looking for information on how the trees and the flora would be in a world with a denser atmosphere and stronger winds.I have read that due to the greater kinetic movement of the wind, that in all likelihood the trees would adapt to have lower and thicker trunks with stronger roots, and if th... | Cities in a world with rapid winds and denser atmosphere? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-26T00:49:19.483 |
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"message": "I read somewhere that the lowest depth for a sustainable underwater habitat is estimated to be three-hundred meters. Any lower and the pressure becomes too great for structures that are currently within our means to build.How would such depths affect a pressurized underwater structure on a planet ... | Deep Sea Habitat on a Low Gravity Planet | worldbuilding | 2018-03-26T20:17:51.780 |
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"message": "Please bear with any confusing explanations – this is my first question on here.I’ve started building a fantasy world with the rough geography and technological advancement of late 14th –15th century Europe. I've attempted to research resource production in this period, but I've been unable to fin... | Resource Production Logistics for 15th Century Europe-Era Island | worldbuilding | 2018-03-27T15:01:20.003 |
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"message": "I’ve been trying to create a water planet with certain aspects. I wanted it to have a breathable atmosphere and to be a microgravity environment. I’m developing humanoid characters that can breathe both water and air, and I wanted them to be able to swim in the water and also fly/float in the sky ... | Artificial water planet and shell world combo | worldbuilding | 2018-03-27T23:31:13.547 |
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"message": "I have a spaceship that's powered by an efficient hydrogen fusion drive, but the drive outputs a large amount of dangerous neutron radiation as a side effect, and those neutrons are not captured and directed away from the ship by its magnetic nozzle. Fortunately, my research indicates that hydrog... | How much liquid hydrogen to stop neutron radiation? | worldbuilding | 2018-03-29T17:15:36.583 |
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"message": "My dad and I have been talking at the way home about really high people and how they must feel (basketball, volleyball!!) and how it would be to be like them.But then the conversation leaded into a completely different direction: .... We've all seen those movies with big giants in it which move e... | How much would a giant differ from us normal sized people? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-01T18:13:39.983 |
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"message": "I am thinking of a scenario in which the protagonist travels to a world relatively similar to the earth, but with certain differences with respect to the atmosphere, specifically its atmospheric pressure and its proportion of oxygen. What would make that despite being a breathable atmosphere and a... | What is the concentration of oxygen at higher pressure that humans can adequately tolerate? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-03T03:05:28.657 |
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"message": "Premise: bio-tech golden age where \"wetware\" is the new IT meta, organic AI that can interface with our standard computing technology. In this context, I'm imagining a future technology that would regulate data flow between the brain and external binary data. Hyphal sheaths are a key element of ... | SF: Brain-computer interface based on fungal hyphal sheaths: does this sound stupid? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-03T15:14:25.657 |
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"message": "Time travel is a major staple is sci-fi. You just can't escape it. Sometimes the characters travel so far back, that if or when they tell locals that they are from the future, I'm skeptical that the story writers have the locals' reactions correct. I'm under the impression that the concept of time... | Would ancient people understand "I'm from the future?" | worldbuilding | 2018-04-03T15:35:30.857 |
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"message": "Okay, now this question is a bit random.But, I'm planning for a possible book project about a 2019 expedition to an undiscovered island. The island is near the northern tip of the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_East_Ridge\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Ninetyeast Ridge in the Indian Ocean. I... | Is there any plausible way that my fictional island could be inhabited by animals from African and Indonesian origins? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-05T11:03:53.923 |
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"message": "I'm trying to incorporate elemental 'magic' in my story. Say the characters in the story have the ability to manipulate particles at will. But to efficiently utilize them, they have to understand the physics/chemistry behind it. For example, to use fire 'magic', the user must understand the fire ... | Science based Lightning Bending | worldbuilding | 2018-04-07T22:04:17.680 |
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"message": "I would like to use this scenario in writing a book. Using only countless balloons that permanently hold helium possibly hydrogen made from water could a city be built in the sky? Workers from the ground can raise balloons up to the builders. Other material would be vinyl to walk on. Landing on wa... | Could a city be built out of Balloons? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-08T21:00:49.983 |
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"message": "The basic premise of this question is, \"how long would it take a primitive civilization to catch up with another advanced civilization, given enormous resources?\"Similar questions are generally like \"if aliens from star trek gave modern earth x technology, how long would it take to catch up?\".... | How long would it take a primitive civilization to fill the shoes of an advanced one? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-10T16:53:03.293 |
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"message": "The SocietyThe society in question is feudal in structure. The most advanced widespread technology defining this society is the flintlock muzzle-loading firearm (I'm undecided as to rifled or not, but leaning towards not). Their capabilities do not extend to mass production of these muskets and pi... | Army composition of feudal gunpowder society | worldbuilding | 2018-04-11T15:54:52.197 |
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"message": "To create a map for my setting, I took the following steps:Made a <a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/9GO42.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">sketch of how the (then peninsula) should roughly look like using the <a href=\"https://inkarnate.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Inkarate map editor.Too... | Designing a map by morphing an existing island | worldbuilding | 2018-04-13T16:16:24.950 |
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"message": "High-Magic world. What sort of rules could be put in place to nip the pesky infinite energy teleportation problem from happening? Currently the rules I have are:Large mana use / long cooldownShort distance only (under 5 miles)Can only be done from a higher elevation to a lower elevationPressures m... | Teleportation rules that don't cause Infinite Energy | worldbuilding | 2018-04-17T13:38:25.890 |
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"message": "I am building an idea for a terraformed environment with 1/6 the gravity of Earth, with a permanent human colony that has been established and sustained for 40+ years. I have thrown around a few ideas as to how these colonists might live there with the lowered gravity, but have not come to any sat... | Solutions for sustainable living in reduced gravity environment | worldbuilding | 2018-04-18T17:25:35.473 |
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"message": "I am still working on my intelligent detrivore alien species and so far I have gotten some great help from you guys. But after searching online a lot about detrivore psychology I still cannot find anything to help me so I go here. And my question is: what kind of psychological differences from a h... | What would be the psychological differences between a human and an intelligent detrivore? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-20T00:27:47.167 |
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"message": "One of the ways to create a major mountain range is a process called subduction.<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/oPu4B.gif\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Here, heavy oceanic rock sinks beneath the lighter continental rock. The result--coastal mountain ranges like the Andes, the Aleutians, the Japanese a... | Coastal Mountain Ranges--In Which the Mountains are the Coast | worldbuilding | 2018-04-21T00:05:09.723 |
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"message": "I've decided to draw maps, on these maps, I planned on drawing regions which already have determined areas (ex. Region 1 has 30.000 km²), the problem is, how would a measure a region's area on a map? Some territories have some pretty wild shapes, with many islands, which makes it very difficult to... | Program for drawing maps in correct scale | worldbuilding | 2018-04-22T00:31:00.143 |
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"message": "Tl;DR: I'm doing an urban fantasy story with magic/superpowers, and I'm trying to decide a way to keep technology out of my fight scenes without doing away with technology entirely if at all possible. I have one method that I feel works but needlessly overcomplicates worldbuilding, and a fallback ... | Deciding between two methods of keeping people from using technology in combat in my urban fantasy setting | worldbuilding | 2018-04-22T17:41:16.607 |
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"message": "So one of the biggest quirks of the world I'm building is that, along with supernatural powers suddenly becoming real in modern day, the human race is granted multiple separate opportunities to voluntarily transform themselves into exotic and never-before-seen humanoid species. Periodically, for t... | Reasons to voluntarily change into a fantasy race? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-24T00:51:44.093 |
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"message": "Having recently been to <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_Cave_National_Park\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Mammoth Cave National Park, I've been considering the caves of my own worlds, and more specifically their formation. Now while not all caves are formed from limestone, it is the most com... | Simulating Cave Formations | worldbuilding | 2018-04-24T18:50:57.720 |
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"message": "Slime molds apparently are incredibly smart for a single celled amoeba and where their smarts lie is in building efficient transport tubes for nutrients, which rival our own highways. They do this by rhythmic pulsating, allowing them to think with their whole bodies. They have also put them into r... | Literally Pulsating Brains | worldbuilding | 2018-04-26T01:54:55.287 |
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"message": "Is it possible to eradicate the human race in one week? And if yes, by which way?Of course, the human race should do everything to survive. What could be more powerful than our will to survive?1. Nuclear bombImagine that tomorrow, all the nuclear warheads of the planet explode on a maximum of coun... | How can the human race disappear in a few days? | worldbuilding | 2018-04-30T10:00:19.860 |
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"message": "A free-market solution to preventing further domestic abuseThis society has gone full-on free-market everything including the punishment of severe domestic abuse. As a check on the abuser, the abused is granted a perpetual (or very long, 20 years or so) murder-right on the abuser, and only the ab... | Selling the right to kill one's convicted abuser: how could an NGO make this profitable? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-01T14:01:24.870 |
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"message": "Previous parts here:<a href=\"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/106292/28789\">Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton<br><a href=\"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/107365/28789\">Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 2: nervous syst... | Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 6: Radiation protection | worldbuilding | 2018-05-03T19:19:59.093 |
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"message": "My magic system is based on science. “Nothing can be done with magic that a scientist couldn’t eventually accomplish. Casting a spell is just using the Will to manipulate atoms and energies within the rules of science to create some effect.” As such conservation of energy is in play and so creatin... | How to operate telekinesis and a kinetic shield using science-based 'magic' | worldbuilding | 2018-05-05T18:13:54.123 |
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"message": "<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/3g2R9.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><a href=\"https://imgur.com/a/1pFJANY\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Here is a map I just produced of the plate tectonics of a world I'm working on. Does anyone familiar with the subject see anything wrong with it? If you can differentiate b... | Is there anything wrong with my plate tectonics map? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-06T00:02:01.153 |
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"message": "Dear StackExchange residents,My Name is Calvin M. Loue and I am a College Professor at Jinjel Majors School for the talented. I have been allotted a great deal of stem cells for research purposes because my highly regarded papers on human limb grafting. Just one thing, my IQ is exactly 89, I have ... | What Cult Would be Best for Someone Seeking to Bring Back the Nephilim | worldbuilding | 2018-05-07T23:05:57.290 |
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"message": "In my Fantasy/sci-fi universe there exists a lighter than air gas, that is non-flammable, while having density similar or even smaller than hydrogen (I will post some questions related to this gas in the future). This gas, combined with light and strong materials used in universe, permits making b... | Armament for airships filled with non-flammable gas | worldbuilding | 2018-05-08T12:17:22.233 |
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"message": "The ships would be permanently extra planetary and manned by 4-5 crew. All life support water, food, oxygen and propulsion being produced by bacterial cultures (not necessarily the same). With all waste produced ($CO_2$, grey water, waste/spoiled food, organic matter) being recycled through the s... | What design considerations would there be for a space ship using low-tech bioregenerative advanced life support and propulsions systems? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-08T12:44:47.243 |
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"message": "So, let's be real ... I totally suck at math.If a Human female can live to be 100 and her prime pregnancy years are from 20 years old to 40 years old AND assuming that Elves in this world have the same general biology, but lower birth rates ... what would be the Prime Pregnancy Years for an Elf fe... | What MATH could I use to conclude my World's Elf prime pregnancy years? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-09T10:29:31.687 |
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"message": "The protagonist of my story was a normal human transformed into a non-biological entity (long story); however, his new form is an (outwardly) exact physical and mental replica of his old. He can pass as human until close examination. Before the transformation, he was a U.S. citizen, native born, w... | Citizen or alien? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-09T15:45:40.383 |
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"message": "The protagonist of my story was a normal human transformed into a non-biological entity (long story); however, his new form is an (outwardly) exact physical and mental replica of his old. He can pass as human until close examination. Before the transformation, he was a U.S. citizen, native born, w... | Citizen or alien? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-09T15:45:40.383 |
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"message": "I have this alien race, lets call them Amorphs, to imagine just think of an <a href=\"https://cdn.britannica.com/700x450/86/13486-004-89AFA931.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">amoeba mixed with a <a href=\"https://quantumbiologist.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/barreleyespookfish.jpeg\" rel=\"nofoll... | Efficiency of Food Absorption | worldbuilding | 2018-05-09T23:35:10.837 |
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"message": "On a spaceship heading to a far off star system, there exist a community of children who have never seen earth, and where all gestated by artificial wombs and raised by surrogate robots. There are three caste of children, all of which serve a distinct purpose. There are the “Big Kids” who are a la... | What to do with children who don’t fit into their roles? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-10T00:18:54.540 |
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"message": "So I'm writing a story that has a species that's immune to being burned or suffering any kind of ill effect from being heated, functionally regardless of the temperature (I'm not planning on tossing these dudes into a sun at any point in the story). This is being accomplished by a species-wide mag... | Sapient species that is immune to damage from heat. What are the ramifications? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-11T00:18:21.103 |
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"message": "I want to have an Earth-sized planet (with similar gravity) with an extremely low-density atmosphere (comparable to Mars) at most of its surface. Complex life, including an information-age civilization, lives in enormous sinkholes many kilometers across, some up to 100 km across. Due to the lower ... | Advanced civilization on planet with atmosphere only in large sinkholes | worldbuilding | 2018-05-11T11:31:39.980 |
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"message": "I apologise if this is rather vague but I'm struggling with creating a concept that would allow a Victorian (steampunk) civilisation to have antigravity ships and floating islands through the use of a mined crystal resource. However I also want it to have other effects without making it seem too '... | What sort of rules / limitations could govern and affect a crystal resource that is both anti-gravity and energy-producing? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-11T17:37:46.053 |
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"message": "So I'm writing a story about humans of the modern world being given various superhuman powers by an unknown entity, which eventually causes society to partially collapse and turn into a bizarre mash-up of post-semi-apocalypse and sword and sorcery adventure (various omnipresent powers render most ... | How much of an advantage in medieval-style combat would it be to have four arms with pivoting shoulders? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-12T15:26:53.183 |
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"message": "So I'm making a story with the standard Tolkien races. Not terribly original, I know, but it makes for good practice fantasy writing. While I was planning out the history, I realized that orcs generally have physical advantages over humans, most commonly in terms of strength or endurance. Consider... | What's a possible justification for orcs not taking over the world? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-13T14:52:07.227 |
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"message": "So I am building a tidally locked world, but I want the shadow zone to vary a bit. One way to achieve this is through axial tilt. A planet with orbital period = day period, so tidally locked and 0 degree axial tilt will have the same area illuminated at all times. But a planet with the same parame... | Calculating libration of a tidally locked planet | worldbuilding | 2018-05-14T19:12:12.903 |
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"message": "Let's say that, since the dawn of time, any time an organism has died, it has dissipated upon death. With no decaying matter to fertilize or produce future plants/animals, would life have adapted? Would animals have evolved to be non-carnivorous? Would plants be non-coniferous?",
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"message": "It goes without saying that dragons are bad for societies, they kill people, burn villages, steal cattle, infect people with the cooties, etc..., so obviously, any sane nation would take measures to hunt them down. In a particular land, with 16th-century military technology, anti-dragon corps have... | Anti-Dragon armor, shields and melee weapons | worldbuilding | 2018-05-15T00:52:38.487 |
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"message": "It goes without saying that dragons are bad for societies, they kill people, burn villages, steal cattle, infect people with the cooties, etc..., so obviously, any sane nation would take measures to hunt them down. In a particular land, with 16th-century military technology, anti-dragon corps have... | Anti-Dragon armor, shields and melee weapons | worldbuilding | 2018-05-15T00:52:38.487 |
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"message": "<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/QPjYr.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\">This is a (crude) map of my world of Lorne in the current age. At the point of development I'm in, I'm trying to get the climates/biomes of some of the lands I've envisioned to work out as best as they can with the rules of wind/oc... | How can I get my continent placement and latitude lines right to make my climates work? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-15T13:47:21.707 |
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"message": "I've been developing a species of fungus which creates a variety of drugs with hallucinogenic and increased suggestibility properties. The most useful strain of this particular fungi species can be used to 'control' individuals for a short period of time, a couple of hours at each exposure. Essent... | Preventing a Suggestibility Drug from taking over the Story? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-15T20:00:36.747 |
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"message": "One of the commonest depictions of elves are as incredibly long-lived humanoids, sometimes utterly immune from death of natural causes. They are also more graceful and more coordinated than humans, and incredibly good at archery. These last two depictions could be related to their long lives. Afte... | Why wouldn't elves be the dominant species? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-16T21:33:46.780 |
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"message": "An integral species in a large worldbuilding project I'm working on right now is based around the concept of extreme agility.The species shall be a megafauna (Is that grammatically correct - \"a megafauna\"?), about as large as a human or larger. It lives in an extremely complex three-dimensional ... | Optimal species body plan for agility in a complex environment | worldbuilding | 2018-05-17T17:40:42.057 |
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"message": "WARNING: If this question is off-topic or in any way a bad question for this site, please don't downvote it, but migrate it to where it belongs. I cannot find an adequate place for this question, but I would love to get a proper answer for it instead of many downvotes which would prevent it from b... | Does this kind of time travel exist? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-18T00:27:06.307 |
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"message": "I have a planned species of aliens that have many commonalities with <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhorn_crazy_ant\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">longhorn crazy ants (cooperation with colonies of the same species, can live in a large variety of environments, and have the ability to hav... | Plausible homeworld for an insectoid-ish alien species? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-18T21:42:56.977 |
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"message": "I think I've done my research about multi tasking on humans, but this is a whole new levelI have a conqueror, where he creates nanobot creatures instantaneously (handwaving the transformation process).He can create 5 types of Creatures.<pre><code> 1. Lesser Demons (3 feet Nepylims) 2. Hunters (5 f... | Can a brain handle a nanobot army? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-19T07:13:17.413 |
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"message": "I'm imagining an Earth-like world with a single large continent centered on the north pole, and not reaching entirely to the equator. As ocean currents play a large role in shaping weather, I'm curious how the lack of landmass at the equator might change climate zones on my planet. Would we still ... | Would a lack of landmasses at the equator change climates closer to the poles? | worldbuilding | 2018-05-20T15:08:27.567 |
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