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[Question] [ In my near future of manned Mars exploration, NASA/ESA/etc have a dozen or so rovers spread out around Mars. For scientific purposes, the rovers 'talk' to each other via low and high gain antennae bounced off of several orbiters. The rovers are similar to ours today and far enough away that they will nev...
[Question] [ In its wandering through the Milky Way, the solar system is getting close to a solitary neutron star. The neutron star will "fly by" above the plane of the ecliptic and its closest distance from the Sun will be 10 AU. The neutron star belongs to the Milky Way too, therefore its orbital velocity is compar...
[Question] [ In an event immortalised in [this Google Doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/new-years-day-2017), at 4 minutes past midnight (GMT) on Jan 1, 2017, the density of Helium suddenly and inexplicably increased from 0.1664 g/L (at normal temperature and pressure) to 1.664 g/L (in the same situations), a ten...
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[Question] [ [Recently, a planet around Proxima Centauri has been found](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/earth-mass-planet-proxima-centauri-habitable-space-science/). It is in the habitable zone, in the sense that if the planet was a black body, it would have a surface temperature of −39° Celsius. The plan...
[Question] [ In Pokemon, there are many different creatures. Nearly all of them will, at one point, reach a level of experience where they evolve into a more advanced creature. These evolutions are much more drastic than what human evolution is like. One minute an animal could be an average sized turtle, and the next...
[Question] [ I'm writing about a human community (all immigrants or descendants of) in what is basically an elfin city. The main political question facing the community is isolation versus assimilation, but I think it needs some other controversies as well (and this could go for other communities in the world, such a...
[Question] [ Assuming interstellar travel, and self-sufficient colonies in other star systems, what are some methods of destroying the Earth while leaving minimal impact on the colonies? **Context** I would like to keep Earth-based culture and languages intact, without having to deal with "modern" (modern being relat...
[Question] [ In my story, I have a character who travels back in time to Africa just after the [Youngest Toba supereruption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory), about 74,000 years ago in order to collect genetic samples from the human survivors at the time of the most pronounced human population b...
[Question] [ A federation of alien spacefaring nations is doing basically the opposite of prime directive: they are jamming the Solar System, preventing us from leaving it. They are doing so by placing some devices right outside the Solar System, and these are the cause of special relativity and the speed of light pr...
[Question] [ I was inspired by Dead Space which had cloned organ banks for transplants due to mining accidents. I honestly found this idea intriguing so what I'm wondering would it be practical or do better alternatives exist? The "clone" would be a rapidly growing organism that takes the appearance of a bloated infa...
[Question] [ A scenario in the far future -- The moon has been successfully terraformed. All problems have been worked-out, from flinging volatiles into collision course with the moon, up to creating and retaining a stable and breathable atmosphere. With state-of-the art technology, an artificial magnetic field shiel...
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[Question] [ ## Information: After eating my [Khorne Flakes](http://forums.kleicdn.com/monthly_2016_04/v3ovmXE.jpg.be46e441ef9f0d95be92ca93b99003be.jpg), from a sudden idea and playing too much Minecraft, I wanted to make a monomolecular obsidian edged weapon (not just throwing knives and arrowheads). * I have nanote...
[Question] [ In traditional fantasy battles, you have 2 large armies charging at each other while magic users on both sides throw out various spells for whichever side they are on like supernatural artillery. But in more modern times we really have pitched battles. In addition to that we already have powerful ranged ...
[Question] [ Many of us regret that if human lifespan were longer we could learn more from the minds like Einstein and Alan Turing. Lets assume that the human race is evolved in such a way that the average life span is, say, doubled. Now can we assume that the advancement in knowledge and technology would be more th...
[Question] [ Imagine a medieval society in which dragons are domesticated for military use. When they are young and still able to fly, they're ridden into combat. Very few make it to an old age, but those who do are unable to fly because of their size and they are discarded, put to other lesser uses. The knights ridi...
[Question] [ I'm cooking up a city populated more or less half and half by humans and halflings (with a scattering of other races). My first thought was that halflings would generally have more or less human-sized houses (to allow their human friends and neighbors easy access), while humans would have a bunch of step...
[Question] [ Many science fiction books invoke a naval combat paradigm when describing space combat: sensors and battleships with batteries, carriers with fighter-bombers, etc., usually over a distance of lightseconds. Sometimes, they might even use something akin to submarines: "stealth" craft which may try to inte...
[Question] [ I'm writing a book to redefine the horsemen of the apocalypse. My first book concentrated on a new "Death", who reveals that there are in fact 7 "horsemen", not 4 - war, death, pestilence, famine, mania, nature and rot. I have War as an vibration which travels through vibrations, sound waves etc. I'm slo...
[Question] [ Qui-Gon Jinn has finally realized he is an idiot and that everything is his fault. Everything that has happened (fall of the old Jedi order, rise of the empire, the rebellion, the First Order, etc.) can be traced back to his decision to train Anakin Skywalker. If he had just listened to the green troll, ...
[Question] [ So this question, [Designing a Carnivorous Plant](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/73220/designing-a-carnivorous-plant), talks about animals being attracted to a plant, at first by a sweet scent, and then being drugged by an unspecified toxin which renders them 'euphoric' enough to not w...
[Question] [ If someone successfully located and mined all the remaining unmined gold on Earth and released it into the global economy within one day how bad would the inflation be? If the inflation isn't much would it still be able to damage the economies of individual countries? [Answer] # Overall - it's unlikel...
[Question] [ The dwarves in my world are humans who starting digging caves in the Maumturks and Twelve Bens in Ireland during the Iron Age, and eventually connected the caves via tunnels rather than trudge across the bogs that surround the hills. The rough timeline I have is that the caves start during the Iron Age, ...
[Question] [ I have a city in space that will have a local population and a lot of travel in and out (center of commerce). Should I place it out in open space or near a planet? Being near a planet obviously involves gravitational forces that affect both the station and travel; my gut feeling is that that's a positive...
[Question] [ No, this is not not about courtship displays or dominance figths. (even thought I know that that is also part of mating) This is more of "What their genitalia would look like" and how they would "do it". Think on your typical smaug-sized, extra armored, four-limbed, fire breathing dragon (let's ignore t...
[Question] [ In Greek and Roman mythology, the Astomi, also known as the Gangines, are an ancient legendary race of people who had no need to eat or drink anything at all. They survived by smelling apples and flowers. Is something like this possible? I mean, we smell things by inhaling particles, and we judge what we...
[Question] [ I am considering the possibility of having massive cephalopods evolving on my world and having them fill the niche of whales. I've heard about how whales have evolved to increase in size for the purpose of obtaining more food. I've also read about the giant and colossal squid, so it doesn't seem too outl...
[Question] [ During an ice age, would it be possible for a great lake to be frozen while a relatively nearby river was still running? To help illustrate my point: **Would it be possible for Lake Michigan (or parts of it) to be frozen up to ten meters deep? All the while the Missouri River was still running around Kan...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. My q...
[Question] [ I would like to know how close two planetary systems could be without having an adverse effect on each other. My goal is to drastically improve the chances of having habitable planets near enough that humans having the technology of today could realistically send manned spacecraft to other planetary syst...
[Question] [ Series Premise Made Short: For reasons that I'm not allowed to describe here (confidentiality), Earth's deciduous and tropical plant life largely dies off. A hardy and oxygen-hungry microbe infests the dying soil and mankind starts to suffer from oxygen deprivation and CO₂ poisoning. This is projected fo...
[Question] [ My world has an upper atmosphere similar to Earth's, and a lower atmosphere compromised of Sulfur Hexafluoride and water. In between is a layer of clouds. Massive treelike sulfite structures stretch to all three layers of the atmosphere. The bottom layer of the atmosphere is very hot since SF6 is a power...
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[Question] [ Piggybacking off this question: [Shallow sea world - plausable geology?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/4301/shallow-sea-world-plausable-geology) what would we need to have a world covered in reef? An entire world of this: [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gT2U...
[Question] [ In my story one faction in the past used it's Dyson Spheres (they have several) to make a Nicol-Dyson beam (Basically you temporarily redirect a significant portion, or even all of it, of the star's energy output in the general direction of whatever you want to urgently stop existing) to roast one of the...
[Question] [ ## Deceleration as a weapon --- In a very interesting [question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/185802/proper-combat-distance-scaling-for-a-sci-fi-space-opera-tabletop-setting/185944#185944) about the scale of distance useful for a space opera game, I was inspired to consider the use o...
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[Question] [ This question is inspired by a premise from the video game *Batman: Arkham City*, in which a portion of Gotham City has been closed down by the public to be reserved for prisoners from such places as Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Penitentiary. Unfortunately, that was only a temporary environment, as the re...
[Question] [ There's a pariah country in your neighborhood that is in war with one of your enemies. Officially you condemn the war and support the UN resolution for peaceful settlement, which presents yourself as an enlightened peacemaker. Unofficially it's in your best interest to provide clandestine support to thei...
[Question] [ I'm working on a sci-fi/fantasy world set in a solar system with a few habital, currently-being-colonized planets. Most of the action will be taking place on the surface of one of them, but I want background detail to add to the setting and give me info for future developments. I was wondering if a sola...
[Question] [ I feel like this is the most noobish question ever. Anyway, imagine an asteroid hits Earth and the atmosphere is now full of particles, successfully blocking the Sun from Earth. There are people still alive on the planet. Assuming the sun isn't 100% blocked, enough for people to see their hands in front...
[Question] [ In this context, I will define a Roguelike RPG world to be a world where a lone adventurer fights scores of monsters who drop magical weapons, armor and artifacts that the adventurer may pick up, use, and sell. The specific games I am thinking about are games like Nethack, Sword of Fargoal, Dungeons of D...
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[Question] [ So recently there was this interesting [theory](https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04727) -the paper itself is quite readable, but here's an article [link](https://www.universetoday.com/139052/the-challenges-of-an-alien-spaceflight-program-escaping-super-earths-and-red-dwarf-stars/) that expands on it. Basically...
[Question] [ If Age of Sail era Ships were to come into regular contact with Polynesian outrigger and Catamaran ships like the [Hōkūleʻa](http://www.hokulea.com/vessels/hokulea/), and the people using the ships did not start using the foreign design of ships, how could they adapt their ships to compete in an age of s...
[Question] [ Working on my world, I'm reminded of ice mages that can instantly freeze their opponent using an *Ice Ray*. That got me thinking if this is possible in the real world. The most promising method of instant freezing is using an ice pack, which immediately absorbs heat when the chemicals are mixed. However...
[Question] [ England, 1208. The Pope declares an Interdict on England because the King would not agree to the Papal choice for Archbishop of Canterbury. In our reality, King John tried to tough it out and to get clergy to support thim, but he was not very aggressive about it. Eventually he failed and surrendered the ...
[Question] [ So in this scenario our character is just a regular man in his 30's. Multiverses exist, and our character exists in countless other universes, each variant of himself having different life experiences. A powerful entity has merged these countless life experiences into our character's one mind, giving him...
[Question] [ I need a plausibly scientific explanation for how an alien species could "transmute" a skull from bone into a glassy or crystalline substance. It doesn't need to to be too hard-science-y, just enough to be a surface level explanation. I know organic to mineral is pretty much an impossible transition, sho...
[Question] [ In a pre-industrial human culture on Earth with slightly altered flora and fauna, where rivers and canals are the major ways of transport, how would an ideal and realistic animal replacement for horses look like? * Grown River Horses should be able to draw swimming carriages (i.e. boats or floats). * Hum...
[Question] [ I'm new to this and my scientific knowledge is massively lacking in this area (so please take it easy on me!) I'm writing a historical science-fiction novel. Parts of it set in the past (1977) and some of it set in the not so distant future. I need to create a planet that has a layer of silver dust (not ...
[Question] [ A spacecraft enters an unnamed system and spotted a gas giant with a pulsating planetary ring, it glows bright intermittently. What natural phenomenon could be responsible for such brilliant display? It would be better if you can explain why the glows only occurs within certain range of the electromagnet...
[Question] [ How do underwater cities (with aquatic human-like citizens) handle sewage? What type of technology would be possible to use underwater in order to take care of the mess? [Answer] In treating sewage, you're going to have two distinct problems; number 1 and number 2 Proper treatment will leave you with ...
[Question] [ By saying giant, I mean something roughly around 2-3m long from nose to rear legs (not including tail) and 1m tall at the withers. **How would such a creature fare as a mount used by humans/humanoid to travel in the desert?** (both Sahara-like and something like the Outback in Australia or the Grand Cany...
[Question] [ Stars are born through the fusion of light atoms and the star's nucleus. So let's say that as a star is being born, the nucleus split and creates two stars. Could this even happen? If so, would the stars be considered twins? [Answer] Although astronomers have considered this phenomenon in the past, th...
[Question] [ Do clones have fingerprints? Are they the same as their original? Fingerprints are based on your genes but are influenced by your birthing environment. Identical twins don't even have exactly the same fingerprints! So would clones? If you have a dna sample of someone, you can't work backwards and get th...
[Question] [ What would a galactic Empire based off Plato's Utopia be like? The government of [Plato's Utopia](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-utopia/) was designed for a city-state at the time of the Bronze Age. But what if you upscale it to a galactic Empire, made up of humans capable of faster then light ...
[Question] [ I just finished Isaac Asimov's novel [*Foundation*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(Isaac_Asimov_novel)), the first book in the [Foundation series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series). Its premise relies in part on one character, Hari Seldon, planning the future of a scholarly worl...
[Question] [ Loosely based on real life, what single event either man-made or natural can cause communication either to or within governments on a global scale to fail? Can be fictitious, just not totally unrealistic e.g. zombies, aliens, we all turn to dust for no reason at all and so on. My main focus is on cities ...
[Question] [ Could a star system exist where a body orbiting the star has an inhabited planet moon orbiting it instead of the sun? And the inhabited planet moon has its own smaller satellite. I have very little experience with this kind of world building, so thank you in advance. --- *Edited for terminology: In a nut...
[Question] [ In a nearby star system to Earth, there lies an... interesting planet. Thirty thousand atmospheres of pressure, "surface" temperature of 5,500 kelvin, an atmosphere made of gaseous sillicates and vapourised *iron*, it makes Venus look like a paradise. So let's give it an appropriate name, like Hell. Now,...
[Question] [ In a world I'm constructing the sun, the moon, and the stars are not visible but there are tower that stretch from the ground to, roughly, low earth orbit. Each one is around 200 meters in diameter with a unique design (colors, materials, decorations, etc). Over an area the size of Europe there are maybe...
[Question] [ I'm working on a sci fi story which heavily integrates themes of varying alien configurations and how they shape society, culture and language. As part of this theme, I want to have some of the human characters using a variety of different methods of communication, rather than falling into the "all human...
[Question] [ ## The Context A few years from now, perhaps around ten years or so, after first contact with star-travelling aliens, humans have acquired FTL and other technology making a new diaspora of humanity to the stars not only a feasible possibility, but given conditions on Earth, a highly desirable course of a...
[Question] [ First, let's settle the background. We're in a middle of a virus-induced zombie apocalypse. Infected people don't return from the dead, but have their brain capacities cut to a basic minimum and their only urge; eat humans, and only humans. They will grab, they will bite. The virus will suppress any sur...
[Question] [ Horses are not perfect for war but they are still very good when trained. **How to make a horse better for the following conditions?** * be stronger in the act of charging infantry and other horseman * more resistant against conventional weapons * also faster and stronger in any other way you see fit I...
[Question] [ If cheap and reliable anti-gravity devices (sufficient to allow personal flotation harnesses, flying cars, etc) were developed in the next ten years how would it change the design of cities and buildings? Would we start seeing new and three-dimensional layouts or would people still be more comfortable wi...
[Question] [ What would be the major changes to our bodies if we were herbivores? Would our bodies be weaker because they were not getting any protein from meat? Would we be completely different? (Probably, I suspect). [Answer] As far as I can tell, the major changes would be to the human digestive system, as well...
[Question] [ Some published settings -- such as the Greyhawk 'verse commonly seen in conjunction with Dungeons & Dragons -- treat the prime planet's host solar system as geocentric. How could this be reconciled with what we now know about orbital mechanics and gravitation, though? The only theories I have come up wi...
[Question] [ Right off the bat, the world/setting that this takes place in is not the pinnacle of realistic, but I do want to have a bit of realism. Anyway, so in this story, really more of an idea,there is an action-figure named Rina that at times rides around on a talking and human-level intelligence seagull named ...
[Question] [ So I'm designing an alien race loosely based on the Kafers from the tabletop RPG 2300 AD. These aliens not only become temporarily hyper intelligent as an electrochemical effect of their equivalent to the "fight-flight-freeze" response, but also have permanent increases in fluid intelligence over a longe...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. I wa...
[Question] [ I have a story in a mediaeval setting with no magic. There are elves, but they are essentially just absurdly long-lived versions of humans with pointy ears and somewhat more acute senses. Unicorns are central to the story. They are roughly horse-shaped, though there is no need for them to be equids—in fa...
[Question] [ Let's say an alien species discovered Earth and wants to land here and establish contact, however their homeworld's gravity is only 46 percent of Earth's, Would it be possible for them to be able to walk on Earth? Is it possible for them to adapt to Earth's gravity? They are 1-2 ft tall and walk on two l...
[Question] [ I'm trying (failing) to write a story set within the exclusion zone around a nuclear power plant incident set in the near future. The 'incident' that leads to the exclusion zone being set up isn't the story itself, but I want the 'how' to be plausible. Modern (generation 3 and onwards?) light-water react...
[Question] [ Excluding teleportation, the most rapid way of delivering troops to an operation planeside is by dropping them out of orbit in a steel can. Whether a small QRF or a few thousand marines dropping in to suppress air defenses and establish a foothold, drop pods are a staple of scifi stories. However somethi...
[Question] [ In the real world all humans start off as females in the womb and then develop male organs before being born. I'd like to expand that concept further to the humans in my world. In my world, humans are all born females, turning into males later in life. So all younger people would be females and all olde...
[Question] [ I have a spaceship that can get to speeds very close to the speed of light. How can this ship measure how fast it is going near the speed of light? I would think one would measure how fast other stars fly by but does this even work if time dilation makes everything faster outside of my frame? [Answer]...
[Question] [ I wonder if a time machine can be the cause of a bootstrap paradox? **Background:** Let's say one day I found in my room a portable time machine. I use this machine to travel to the future, where I realize I am the person who placed the machine in my room. I then travel to the past to drop off the time m...
[Question] [ You are a traveling across what used to be Colorado and Utah: it may be cold, it may be hot. This is okay, you have caches of clothing and weather gear you can easily pick up. Electricity is sporadic outside of wealthy areas of cities, and water more so due to the scarcity of correct piping. Most people...
[Question] [ 252 million years ago, the worst event in the history of life on Earth occurred. 70% of all terrestrial species and 96% of all marine species became extinct through, according to geological records, a combination of events--flood basalt eruptions in Siberia, runaway greenhouse effect caused by the meltin...
[Question] [ From: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse> > > The multiverse (or meta-universe) is a hypothetical set of various possible universes including the universe which we live in. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy and the physical law...
[Question] [ Let's say that a race of aquatic merfolk have managed to achieve sapience, they are basic hunter gatherers, living in relatively shallow waters of up to 100 meters deep. As I have begun designing their culture I have ran into a road block, how does such a species develop agriculture? After all, very few ...
[Question] [ I'm putting together a scenario, where a "Sun" and some debris are flung so distant that 14 billion years after the big bang, it has an "Earth" (and maybe some other minor rocky/icy objects), but no stars are observable to the naked eye. I know we can't see anything other than our own galaxy with the nak...
[Question] [ Some scientists discover that plants have humanlike feelings. Now it becomes unethical and immoral to have mass production farms for plants as it is yet for animals. As there are animal-right activist, plant-right activists become a real thing. The Information is every where and the theory proved to be r...
[Question] [ Question inspired by movies [You only live twice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)) and [Moonraker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(film)): I am Evil Overlord at his best: I am super rich person with net worth of 32 billion US dollars. I already own island and I am making m...
[Question] [ Is there any way that a town or city could exist that has interconnecting houses floating on a body of water? I once read in a novel about a small village like that in a swamp, and was wondering if a similar thing could be adapted to a larger scale to exist on an ocean/sea/lake. **Conditions for existing...
[Question] [ Let's assume a planet like ours, same size and same conditions. My characters live at approximately 60° North, in a boreal forest, with a climate much like the Nordic countries in Europe. They are travelling south and need to encounter a hot desert much like Sahara. This desert has to be placed as close ...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. I'm ...
[Question] [ Scenario: Earth's history is 100% equal to reality . It’s the year 2040. First interplanetary cities with 3% total population of mankind. 200 million years ago humans appeared on Venus, developing into a greatly advanced civilization spanning multiple planets (divided into multiple nations) until a catas...
[Question] [ Wrathful aliens are teaching the humans a lesson by relocating their world from a cosy 1 AU to around 4 AU away from the central Sun-like star. The planet is Mars-sized and covered in a salt-water ocean averaging at 6 km in depth with very little land. The atmosphere is Earth's in both composition and pr...
[Question] [ So the ideal of solarpunk is obviously that you would not need one, but if not every nation went in a solarpunk direction at the same time, you would likely need a defense against those that did not go in this direction and wanted the natural resources of solarpunk societies that obviously aren't as inte...
[Question] [ Apparently the Biology stack doesn't like theoreticals. :P I'm looking into the sci-fi trope of floating plants via some sort of equivalent of a kelp's [pneumatocysts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatocyst/), and the biggest issue to overcome seems to be that of lift gas storage. Methane is a big en...
[Question] [ My ancient golden dragon has a lot of time, since he doesn't die of old age in my world, and a lot of magical constructs that will tirelessly built a defensive mountain chain for him. This chain will act as defense as well as a testament of his might. It consists of blocks stacked on each other. Ther...
[Question] [ **What single change(s) in history would cause the Dutch people to be speaking German instead of Dutch?** I understand that German and Dutch are both Germanic languages and share a common ancestry, as German has dialect continuum from the border with Poland all the way to the Netherlands. I'm looking f...
[Question] [ Body art is an important element in this society. This art is painted on the skin and applied with magic. They are semi-permanent, only being removed as needed by other magical items. It is not mandatory to wear, but very popular and widely used by men and women. They are gender specific and applied like...
[Question] [ This is a followup to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/73497/can-a-city-in-a-flood-plain-be-maintained-for-centuries-if-it-is-built-on-stone) about city building on flood plains. There is a civilization that developed along the rich *varzea* flooded forests of an enormou...
[Question] [ If humanity discovered peaceful aliens that are truly alien, not just rubber head aliens, but alien in a way that seemingly defies the way evolution occurred on our world. Considering humans have a habit of fearing things they don't understand, mixed with the fact that fear turns to hatred in the human h...
[Question] [ **Goal:** Just imaging a Star Wars X-Wing fight, and you've got the idea. However, I want to know whether something like that is possible without tons of metaphysical hand-waiving and 'just because'. **What I've figured out so far:** * Sound can be an auxillary computer program to help the pilot process ...