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We've seen questions about multiple planets in a single orbit before, using Lagrangian points, through orbiting each other as they go around, etc. I'm looking at the creation of a hypothetical system with two habitable planets orbiting their star in a stable [horseshoe orbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wik... |
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A moon is, fundamentally, a rock that's caught in the gravitational field of a bigger rock (a planet) and drawn into an orbit. Some of [Saturn's moons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn), for example, are speculated to be debris from the breakup of minor planets, while others are more-convent... |
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[The current topic challenge](http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/2154/fortnightly-topic-challenge-8-apocalypse) is [apocalypse](/questions/tagged/apocalypse "show questions tagged 'apocalypse'"), so I figured I might as well come up with a question about surviving one.
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In near future a large spaceship is built. It is nuclear powered, has a crew of two dozen, and is propelled by an advanced ion drive like [VASIMR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket).
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The pyromancers described [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/101381/37212) have found some very tall cliffs to jump off of, and they'd like to perform some experiments with gliders. They believe, or at least hope, that being able to magically heat substances at a distance migh... |
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### **[Brown dwarfs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf)** are celestial bodies in the gray area between planet and star.
They're huge, gaseous, hot compared to planets, and **[come in all different kinds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf#High-mass_brown_dwarfs_vs._low-mass_stars)**.
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Say that an individual with a decent, but not mastery level, understanding of health, medicine, and sanitation were to travel to an era with technological level roughly around medieval to Renaissance levels.
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One day, a new island appears in the middle of Earth's ocean, inhabited with humans who have lived there all their lives (but in another dimension). The island is not visible to anyone outside a 25 mile radius, so the rest of the world has no idea the island is even there.
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Time for some hare brained architecture!
I was thinking about elves living in their tree houses via the mapping of such inherently three dimensional settlements. Normal houses transplanted from the ground is unsatisfying. Using magic to shape the trees feels like a cop out and is kind of dubious biologic... |
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As a series of anatomically correct myths, here we have the [Nuckelavee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuckelavee). Is there a realistic way that Nuckelavee could evolve? Using Earth or near-Earth biology, how close could I get to the classic Nuckelavee? Is there a reason that a Nuckelavee couldn't evolv... |
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**Disclaimer :** I'm working on the entire pseudo-science thing , so the scientific part of this whole thing isn't made up properly... Certain things have not been explained , this is to keep the post short. Also I apologize if I haven't provided any necessary info or if I have broken any guidelines as t... |
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There are lots of posts speculating about a planet (or whatever) where life evolves intelligence and goes on to produce technology, under different *differences* lacking something or another that is available to us.
Without thumbs, without metals, without vision, in a different atmosphere or liquid or va... |
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In a story I'm just beginning to write, the aliens who have invaded Earth have a ghastly secret that is about to become known: They reproduce exclusively by transforming other sapient beings into more of their own kind...
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[Wax cylinders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder) were used at the dawn of the phonograph to store audio recordings. This was long before the codec or compression, and they only had space for approximately two minutes of sound.
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*What are the practical limitations of a glider made of bronze age materials and pulled by well trained birds?*
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The king of the gnomes is facing unprecedented levels of unrest across his lands! It is clear that it will take a grand gesture to regain the support of his people; so, he decides the best way to do this is to declare that their sad old shanty town about must be abandoned. Instead they will build a new h... |
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In the event of cultural contact between Chinese Explorers and Aztec/other Mesoamerican peoples, would these Mexican societies find the Chinese writing system to be useful for their record keeping? There are three options I am considering:
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Laugh all you like, you won't be laughing when it sprays you with its jade trunk of death.
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I figured out that I wanted an elephant that sprays poison (not acid) out of its trunk a while ago (Thank you, @James for [that idea](https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45035075#45035075).)
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If a child grew up since being a toddler (2 to 3 years old) in an environment where the gravity levels fluctuated so they were sometimes stronger than earth gravity and sometimes weaker, how would this affect their physical development, particularly their bones, joints and muscles etc.?
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Enter the [Argonian](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Argonian): a *(really)* ugly sentient human-like lizard. Although almost no one plays as this race on their Skyrim playthroughs, they have some pretty astounding capabilities; they are masters of guerilla warfare, can breathe underwater, can communicate ... |
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Another question (and others in this line) got me thinking. In a magical universe we often try to make sense of it with similar physical laws but extended into another realm: nuclear power is "magic" chemistry, as it provides another place energy can be stored so conservation laws and thermodynamics stil... |
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If a human colony is set up on another planet or moon, or in an orbiting habitat, most of the infectious diseases from Earth would not be present in the small initial population. Careful screening could further reduce the number of infectious diseases introduced. Would the human immune system suffer prob... |
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Following the question [Creating a realistic world map - Mineralogy](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/25084/creating-a-realisti... |
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In [this recent question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/19249/what-is-the-amputationility-of-a-monomolecular-wire-weapon), an irresistible image was provided by Samuel that helped to forge the foundation for his question about a weapon design. He glossed over the aspect of the armored... |
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The idea of hollowing out asteroids, spinning them on their longest axis, and filling them with air, water, and soil is common in science fiction (*Rendezvous with Rama*, or *2312* for good examples). Completely enclosed, the asteroid is an entirely self-sufficient microcosm. It should look something lik... |
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Modern mechanical EM transmitters, like radio towers and radar guns, rely on finely tuned mechanical structures. If these structures do not have the right shapes, the device fails to function.
Organic growth focuses on balances and on-the-fly tuning. It has to grow from infant to adult sizes. Organics te... |
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I bring you all to the planet [Krikkit](http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Krikkit), stuck in a star system enshrouded by a large dust cloud which prevents the Krikkiters from seeing the rest of the galaxy - and, by extension, the universe. The planet is a solitary, Earth-like one, orbiting a solitary, Su... |
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I was looking for ways to make gigantic mountains, and found [Willk's](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/31698/willk) [answer to such a quandary](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/206430/87100), where a giant diamondberg forms in an [ice giant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_giant)... |
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In a near-future version of our solar system, humans have established multiple underwater colonies on Jupiter's moon Europa. Many of these outposts are situated next to hydrothermal vents along the moon's rocky mantle. I want to place colonies next to vents as I make the world map, but I don... |
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I have been slowly losing my mind trying to build a somewhat realistic climate map for a fantasy world I'm building for my book. A geographer I am not... I modeled the climate zones and such after this article: <https://medium.com/universe-factory/climate-modeling-101-4544e00a2ff2>
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In my story there is a full size (Island Three) O'Neill cylinder, 5 miles in diameter and 20 miles long.
It doesn't have windows, but is lit internally down the center of the cylinder with a 20 mile long, very bright, full spectrum lamp.
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If an Earth-like planet had an older, red sun — or maybe just a reddish sky due to some property of the atmosphere — how would that affect the growth and/or adaptation of plant and animal life on the planet? Would plants still be green? Would the darker sky affect the eyesight of animals?
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What I'm doing is trying to find a way to create an atmospheric cold trap that will maintain a temperature of approximately −200 degrees Celsius (−328 Fahrenheit).
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_trap_(astronomy)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_trap_(astronomy) "Wikipedia")
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On an Earth-like planet with clustered continents and large oceans, like Pangaea, the easiest method of travel would be boats. However, I am looking to avoid humans using boats. I define a boat as some kind of fast transportation over water. This includes taming animals or any other water-based method of... |
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Consider a Mars base, **circa the 2040s**. A joint NASA and SpaceX mission proved successful in the 2030s, and now a real colony is starting to develop. SpaceX has brought a good number of people to the red planet, and now other companies like Relativity are starting Mars missions. Other space agencies, ... |
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Especially when they don't have dangling private bits like humans do. This seems to be a thing with almost all depictions of humanoid lizard people, that and wristbands like in the photo below. Why is that?
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In [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/197256/how-would-people-in-medieval-times-react-to-the-clothes-worn-by-a-time-traveler?rq=1), a woman from the modern age is brought into the medieval era, which is problematic because what we consider fashionab... |
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In Katy Towells Short story, [The Winterlord](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnlmxhl_q_c), a warlord is able to take over the whole world. He is apparently able to do this because he has a telepath on his side. She is able to predict with 100% accuracy what his foe is planning on and thus able to plan a... |
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In the SF book I am trying to write, the galaxy has been seeded with human life by (not so much) benevolent AIs. Despite isolation between the worlds, everyone speak a single universal language made by the AIs themselves. I am trying to figure out how this language could stay the same across an entire ga... |
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Near future, Boston, United States of America.
This city brands itself as the leader in both medicine and quantum computing. The city looks awfully youthful and energetic; after all, they cured old age and automate almost everything under the sun.
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In my extreme world where controversial public policies are implemented based only on hard/robustly peer-reviewed scientific studies, the people of this nation prospered and were fruitful in birth-rates for many, many years. However it was not always to be so. One day the scientocracy had to conduct anot... |
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The [tongue-eating louse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua) is an absolutely monstrous parasite that eats and replaces a fish's tongue. This of course poses a problem for mermaids; if these things evolved to do that for fish, why not mermaids? I think it goes without saying that this would b... |
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I was inspired by [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/196020/how-could-my-secret-societies-of-immortals-take-over-rival-clan-controlled-towns/196093#196093) which talks about feuding clans of immortals in an urban fantasy setting trying to wipe out each other's cities while ... |
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An alien entity fell in love with Earth a long time ago. When he came back to her, she looked different. He would like to return Earth to her [Hadean eon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean) when she was much hotter.
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A fairly common trope in fantasy is ["barbie doll anatomy"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BarbieDollAnatomy). Effectively, a species completely lacks any visible orifices besides their mouth and nose. This brings up two major questions. First, how would such a species reproduce, and second,... |
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I've been trying to create a world which mermaids are a part of. These mermaids have the ability to transform into an elf when out of water and dry. Technically, they are less mermaids turning elves and more elves turning into mermaids. They are water elves, and there are other types of elves in this wor... |
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Bilabials are nearly universal consonants within human speech. However, why would a naturally evolved language spoken by humans lack bilabials entirely?
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In a medieval-fantasy world, the magic exists by imbuing mana into symbols. The symbols can be written, declaimed or even thought, to cast the spell. A formula can store any non-meta spell you can think of (no multiplying mana or counter spell, etc). Formulas are sequences of at least 3 symbols. The symb... |
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There exists an extremist religious order whose tenets espouse the rejection of vanity and self-interest - to achieve nothing less than the complete erasure of the sense of self, instead devoting oneself solely to the needs of others. This order's members adorn themselves with clothing that obscure even ... |
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About 100 people settled in a tropical area near a seashore five years ago. They've been feeding themselves by hunting and fishing, but now they're also trying to grow crops, including hemp and corn. They have adequate fresh water and late 18C technology. The neighboring indigenous nation is OK with them... |
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Let’s say I have a time machine and I travel back to medieval Europe. I befriend a girl and she needs my help to save the business of her mother: a restaurant, inn, tavern, etc.
I travel back to the present and now I need to bring addictive substance(s) and add it/them to the food. Which chemical(s) will... |
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How much would reasonably well-educated but unprepared time travelers from the present be able to speed up the technological and social development of civilization from the first empires (early bronze age) to the present level?
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**Alternate 1900s**
Imagine that we are in an alternative Earth in the early to mid 1940s. There has been no World War 2. In this world there are analog computers used rarely in laboratories for specialised purposes. There are no digital computers whatsoever.
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Let's imagine a story where the "aliens" leave a lot of super-advanced technology somewhere in the solar system. Scientists spend years excavating this technology and while it seems too advanced for us -eventually it helps to progress our level of civilization. However, after years of research, scientist... |
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One world I've been tinkering on for months is an alternate history where Europe did not colonise the rest of the world, different global cultures remained (more) independent, until in the age of the steamship and telegraph, they forged bonds of coöperation, not exploitation.
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There's a plot point in my script that has been bothering me for a while. My story has faster-than-light travel thanks to distortion engines, which re-purpose the artificial gravity inside the ships to use for acceleration (near neutron star intensity when warping). The ships need to make a trip from ear... |
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In [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/20335/10851), I introduced the concept of a fantasy creature that is basically a sentient badger. I haven't yet named these things, so let's just call them badgers, with the understanding that these are Cobaltduckworld's badgers, not Earth's.
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Set in present day New York City, an unknown spacecraft of alien origin expelled millions of micro blackholes each with the mass of a grape in the earth atmosphere. I like to know what happens if these millions of micro blackholes were to fall on building structures such as skyscrapers, would it trigger ... |
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A toxin was released into the atmosphere. 99% of people were infected, and then the toxin diluted to a negligible state. The infection is passed down generations. There is no possible cure or way to reduce the symptoms, but we don't know that.
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A whale, lets say a humpback (~40 tons) has to be pulled about 250 m from the port to the town square. The road is classic cobblestone.
People put hooks into the whale meat with ropes attached and pull, dragging the whale body.
How many would I need? I calculated the rough number of people to lift 150t (... |
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In the future, baseline humans are joined by gene-hacked humans, cyborgs, uplifted animals, and digital consciousnesses (synthetic or uploaded minds). Most states are either autopias (automated utopias), digital realms (everyone lives in simulations), or hivemind (not Borg-style ones, most common are int... |
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**Scenario**: In my alternate-Earth scenario, Europeans did not colonize the Americas. They use navigation only to circumnavigate Africa and go to India. Maybe they know there is something to the West, but they don't want to go there for some reason. Anyway, science keeps progressing and they discover th... |
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Epic fantasies typically depict northern areas as cold and southern areas as relatively warm. Is this just to play into reader expectations since that's the way it is on Earth, or is there a scientific reason that a planet's northern hemisphere will tend to be cooler?
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Related to [my previous question regarding fine dining for computer processes](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/248130/what-is-eating-for-software).
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We've got a spaceship sailing through the ocean black, crewed entirely by self-aware artificial intelligences. They live in a... |
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Alright, we all know the drill, dragons spit fire, like a massive flamethrower, but their fire probably has quite limited range. This is okay for hunting land animals, and being an unremoveable thorn in the eye for medieval societies, but for aerial combat against something like a biplane, it just doesn'... |
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Okay, I'm researching for a scene in my science fiction story. A character is in a spacecraft and needing to open a locked hatchway. It's locked electronically by an unknown code. All methods of forcing it open are failing, and there's limited time. So...I was thinking it might be plausible for the chara... |
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There’s a song called "Stairway to Heaven". I thought I could write a story with it as inspiration. Could I build a stairway to Heaven? It must be possible to walk up the stairway. It should be standard size. How feasible is making a stairway all the way into orbit?
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In a Web-miniseries I want to create, *Les Superbes Germains Lacasse* (I want that the original title to be in French) (the title means *The Super Lacasse Siblings*), there is a strange country that can be called a quadrumvirate, and that is both a diarchy and a double republic: there are four Heads of S... |
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**Teachers in the future**
In my story, a hyper-tech city has schools, and teachers, one of which is a prominent character. I can't figure out why, though, such a society would have teachers.
This is a relatively generic cyberpunk world (eg. gangs, high tech physical augmentation, etc.)
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I'm building a world where kaiju-sized creatures exist alongside regular-sized creatures. How these kaiju don't crumble under their own weight doesn't matter, and can be explained away by them being biologically separate from the regular creatures and not made of what everything else is made of. Aside fr... |
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Orgone is the natural life energy of the cosmos and the lifeforce which allows the body to function. It is used to perform spells, and constantly regenerates after use at different rates for an individual. Orgone can also be used with other materials to create familiars, translucent creatures that act as... |
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A while ago I saw this brilliant 3d render of a post-apocalyptic world in which a human carries around a live plant in a capsule, connected to the plant via a respirator:
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I have a fantasy setting that is about as advanced as the late 15th to early 16th century. There are humans and many other sapient non-human species; humans are one of the only species to create large kingdoms and empires.
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One of my characters has the superhuman ability to detect lies. Essentially, it makes them hypersensitive to changes in the brain, and certain parts of the brain light up when you lie. How can I give another character an “immunity” to this ability? It works through walls, and only works whenever the liar... |
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So... I have a family that lives in a remote mountain chalet. They need utilities. I think I'm set for gas (propane), water, septic and communication, but I have a question regarding electricity. Now, I plan to give them super-sufficient generating capability (combination of wind and solar) and *may* eve... |
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Me and my friend have a story we are working on, and in this story are alien civilizations that are around 500 or so years more advanced tham humans, one of these civilizations only has one country that is ruled by a sort of parliament like political party.
I wonder, is that actually believable that spec... |
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Everybody knows that Santa employs elves to help him build his toys. Traditionally, they use hammers and other tools to build toy trains, dolls, horses, etc. As more children were asking for electronic toys for Christmas, the elves presumably started reading hammers in for soldering irons to build the ci... |
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Following in the vein of super-villains with problems...
I am an anonymous villain (the best in *my* world), and have recently bought some new land and am in process of building on it with the intention of making it my main residence.
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Let's say that in 1,100 AD, aliens secretly come to Earth and turn all of the titanium oxides into pure titanium.The aliens then leave and humans discover this new metal.
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How would a non-lethal, hand-held ‘firearm’ (as in not a melee weapon) produce enough ‘force’ (I’m using this word lightly, not as a physicist) to throw an attacker back a minimum of ten feet, work?
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The setting is the early 15th century C.E.
My grandmother knew how to make delicious beancurd and it has since become famous as word spread like wildfire across the land. Business is good, as many travelers would make a stop at our stall, so now she is considering delivery services to reach more customer... |
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Or, more specifically : How, starting with a regular ~16th something-century sailing ship, could it be possible to modify it to go on both land and sea?
In a pre-industrial setting, no fuel, no steam.
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My (science-based but certainly not hard sci-fi) world is basically a large island run by a couple of mad billionares. They have each built an army of aircraft armed with cliche "futuristic" type weapons such as rail/coilguns, lasers, plasma-bolt weaponry, and both charged and neutral particle beams. Bat... |
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I am looking forward to create anthropomorphic dragons/lizards with 8 fingers (3 + thumb). As they base their number system on it, the powers of 2 are recurrent.
Would this grant any advantage for the understanding of electronics and the math behind them? Would they create machines faster than humans?
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In the fantasy novel I am writing, there is a world-wide war going on. The war spans several continents and has many fronts, but the actual fighting is very similar to that of WWI - mostly waiting in trenches. The front lines rarely move far. This has led to several countries being permanently bordered b... |
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And by "Weapons" I mean ranged weapons specifically. Melee weapons would certainly be useful for close-quarters, but due to the range at which combat occurs in this question, I'm looking for ranged weapons like firearms.
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There is a hidden rule for all mages that is to jump every time when casting a lightning spell to prevent self electrocution, how this work is as follows:
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All real military ground vehicles use a continuous caterpillar track or tank tread, but quad-treads/split tracks are often seen in sci-fi, with their futuristic tanks and settings. (Halo scorpion, C&C mammoth etc)
**Is there an actual reason(s) or advantage(s) to using a quad-tread/split track?**
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Is it possible to focus the energy of one star to a small enough point and high enough energy to provide the energy to start a fusion reactor?
I'm imagining a large lens placed between the star and its source but I don't even know whether it is possible (ignoring the impracticalities of manufacturing suc... |
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The setting is a medieval fantasy, think general dnd or LotR. I have already created a map and it’s existed for a while now but I desperately want to know where cities and towns might logically pop up. Where might boomtowns pop up and why? What does an area need in order to stimulate a large population g... |
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Now I had previously asked how a loving interspecies couple would work around very Alien Body Plans that is now sadly closed ([How will interspecies lovers overcome different body plans?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/193358/how-will-interspecies-lovers-overcome-different-body-plans?n... |
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