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I want an empire that is simultaneously enlightened and barbaric. So the idea is to split the territory in two: [the meritocracy in my previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181683/can-you-have-a-multicultural-meritocracy), a mostly peaceful realm, has a vast periphery that ... |
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In my alternative universe, Atlantis was a real city that existed, although it wasn’t called Atlantis or founded by humans. Atlantis or rather, *Dosham* was a city on an isolated landmass in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, which would later become the Rockall Plateau belonging to a dying race of aliens cal... |
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Let's say that Australia has been taken over by a hyper-aggressive fungus that grows on any biological life form larger than an ant. The stuff covers the entire continent, has subsumed every form of life on it, and is capable of a primitive form of photosynthesis in order to stay alive when other life ru... |
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Yes, I'm back with another Class-related question. Don't worry; I looked through all 24 of my Classes and decided to focus on only the ones I can't come up with roles for.
Recap-How Classes Work: In my book, a mysterious pulse of energy sent a young man named John into another world called Alendyias. Thi... |
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Many mythological humans vary in depictions. Let's use Trolls from Scandinavia as an example. Some are said to be giants compared to humans (I'd imagine twice the height), and some, like Danish Trolls, are said to be the same height or smaller than humans.
[ that operate out of colonies to keep civilians in line and exterminate raiders. these bots a... |
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I'm writing a speculative story about a planet in another Solar System. On this planet, there are five types of reproduction strategies amongst the sapient species. There are androgenic, gynogenics, autogenic, homogenics, and heterogenics. Homogenic species are species that sexually reproduce within thei... |
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If a medieval society had no access to gold, what other minerals or gems could take its place in the making of coins? In my research I found gold was used as coin because:
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* It is beautiful (desirable)
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Set in the modern day, reports of dragon sightings came flooding in from all over the world. No one know where they came from or why are they here but these monstrous creatures seemed to be hostile to humankind and are extremely aggressive, they would attack any human on sight provoked or not. They can r... |
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Here on "Earth" organisms tend to evolve only enough mental processing power to handle sensory inputs in modest amounts. Taking "human" brains for a quick example, even though we have millions of sensory receptors all over our body that can feed touch, smell, visual and audio information to our brain, mo... |
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I am building a country in today’s Argentina (32°-40° latitude) where Europeans would have settled in 10th century. Would their skin color change over that period?
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So, humans have finally figured out how to build a solar-system crossing ship. On the way to the first exo-planet to be colonized, an accident happens, and a few people wind up floating through space, injured.
Aliens find the person(s) individually let’s call each person X. X is still alive, and there a... |
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I'm writing a story about a people that lives in a very cold, icy environment. Their technological level of advancement ranges from stone age to dark ages in different areas.
I'd like them to record their knowledge in books, but I'm facing a problem. They live on fish, mollusks and cephalopods. No plants... |
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Let's say I have a plenty of supply of diamonds for my archer's arrows and my blacksmiths can easily work with diamonds.
Would diamond arrows be superior to iron arrows?
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So as we know, a crossbow was an overpowered weapon in Medieval Ages. It is a kind of a game-breaker, as it could be operated by a untrained and unskilled person and penetrate armor on short distances. Suddenly, a peasant could take down an armored knight just like that. Nobles feared the crossbow and th... |
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In the semi-democratic Empire known as the Aurean Dominate, the small peninsula of Sparteia has seen a population explosion over the past two centuries or so. Located in Argentolia, the most populous (and 2nd largest by land area, around the size of the continental US) province of the Aurean Dominate, th... |
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There are other Groundhog Day questions and other Simulation questions. I believe this differs from all the others.
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Imagine a small primitive humanoid civilization that developed independently in caves under the surface of Ganymede. We can assume there's enough light that filters through the crystalline surface to support life, and that there's enough air trapped in these caves for them to breathe.
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Given the current geopolitical uncertainty and chaos, caused by the leaders of some of the current powers and super powers; New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and a number of other pacific islands join together to form the great and mighty\* federation of the United States of Oceania.
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Given that you can travel back in time and have a baby there, or alternatively, send your baby back in time, would it be possible that this baby one day becomes your own mother (gives birth to *you*)? In other words, you would be your own grandmother.
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I'm building a sci-fi world set a couple hundred years into the future. If humans were to suddenly discover FTL space travel (which are handwaved away as generic sci-fi warp speed or something) in a nearby year like 2020, then by something like the year 2400, surely humans would have colonized tons of pl... |
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The standard weapons of the future soldier (from pistols to rifles to artillery) are, like most 18th century firearms, very slow to fire. It might take 5 to 20 seconds to reload (or recharge, or whatever else has to be done to ready another shot), maybe even longer. Because of the long reloading time, ba... |
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I have a terminte/winged ant based insectoid species, but it doesn’t fit in well with the rest of the universe. I was reading the Darksaber book by Kevin Anderson and thought that the Taurills were a cool concept, as they were a non-insectoid hivemind. Yes, they had the problem of all getting distracted ... |
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I'm imagining taking the "circle hovering in air" image of a portal into the third dimension; a portal shaped like sphere, about halfway sunk into the ground. When you step through the shell from the outside at location A, you set foot "inside" the portal at location B. When you step out from the portal,... |
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I was curious if some biological creature, natural or engineered, alien or Earth-born, might technically be able to get oxygen from oxide rocks. I was similar curious if you could atomically break down water, by any biological means, so as to get oxygen and hydrogen from it.
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Set in distant future, a group of super advance civilization formed a special task force to observe and guard timelines, and they are called Time Keepers.
The Time Keepers will scan for spacetime anomalies and dispatch their personnel to the scene. Once they established that there is a violation in accor... |
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The title sums it up pretty well - I'm basically trying to envision the ultimate predator of much larger prey. A couple of requirements:
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I'm inventing a race for a roleplaying campaign, and I thought about making them live really long lives (or even be immune to ageing) and **not be fertile**, but I still want them to be male and female *in appearance* even though they don't have a reproductive system.
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Imagine there lives a serpentine alien species on a hospitable terrestrial planet in a galaxy far far away, they are found around the swampy area and the entire place will become waterlogged during night fall. The moon always cause high tides at night time and the serpentine alien must evacuate their hab... |
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My protagonist needs food from a village during times of a famine, and all she can offer (or pretend to offer) is spinning their animal hair to make rope (nobody else has those skills.) Is there a way that having more rope available would help them with their famine such that it's worth giving food over?... |
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I have thought of a sort of desert planet that has a atmosphere pretty similar to earth and with gravity a little lower which has little to no water source and most of it is empty dry wastelands. I also thought of a organism sort of resembles a camel that can produce water on its own to survive in such p... |
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This was inspired by [this YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WGKz2sUa0w) titled "Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)" and the fact that speakers and microphones are similarly related.
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My character is a giant-slayer living in the far North with his family. He is able to bend and generate magnetic fields. The only technology he could use would be something like Feudal Japan and/or Europe.
The giants are very slow creatures but 7 times stronger and bigger than humans. They can smell huma... |
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TL;DR: How can a mortal become worthy of being listened to by the gods?
I'm seeking a logical framework to establish a specific relationship between gods and mortals.
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Let there be humans who can move their limbs three times faster than is typically possible. This is the only enhancement: Their reaction time and brain speed is normal, and they therefore cannot walk/run much faster than a regular person
Would such a power be useful in the sport of fencing? Normal modern... |
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**Even though this is filed under the "reality-check" tag, I'm looking more for semi-plausible explanations as this is almost assuredly impossible using real world physics.**
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I need a way for a NASA spaceship to be able to dock with the hatch of an alien spacecraft. The alien ship is automated so there's no communication, and being alien, the hatches on both ships should be a total mismatch. Does anyone know of a "universal" hatch, or someway of connecting an airtight tube or... |
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On the lush planet of Leena, there is a large plant called the ecotitan. The ecotitan is a carnivorous plant that can live for up to 4,000 years. When it reaches maturity, at age 500, it finds a good spot, and roots itself into the spot it chooses. It is 200 feet long, and weights about 600 tons.
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A genius programmer (someone with initials PJ) created a neural network aimed to provide the best results in running marathon for human.
Thanks to Google deep dream project, this programmer also realized what each of the cells in his neural network does and how the neural network actually works.
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In more modern media, elves are typically depicted as slender humans with pointy ears. However, in some settings like DnD the appearance of the elves is much more distinct from that of regular Human.
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I am trying to work out whether it is realistic to have a collection of locations throughout a near future Earth, that are high above the ground (eg. sky, trees, buildings) but secure and either not very visible/obvious or very difficult to get to. These could be either in an urban or completely natural ... |
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Following my mutant thread, I'd like some insight on one of them.
I wrote this first generation highly powerful mutant whose ability revolves around metal.
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When describing my alien civilisations, I frequently see the necessity to define a particular civilisation's technology level.
How can I do it?
The alien civilisation I'm currently working on is spacefaring and has first outposts in a few of the neighbouring star systems. At the same time, humans have a ... |
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Blue is a rare color in nature. If you think of one random organism, there's a high chance that the organism won't be blue. That's why some filmmakers use "blue-screens."
But what if there exists a world where all creatures are blue--where the flowers, trees, and birds are all shades of blue?
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I am currently reading the *Steerswoman* series by Rosemary Kirstein, and the second book introduces us to a unique weapon used by Outskirter tribes who have very little access to metal. Rather than forging swords entirely out of steel, they carve a wooden core with a horn grip and then press-fit a sharp... |
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In my fictional nation, the government has figured out how to provide sufficient nutrition to the entire population indiscriminately. This leaves most citizens time to explore and develop technologies and artisanal crafts. This is similar to what has happened in real life. However, due to the increased l... |
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I am interested in the idea of a moon orbiting only the southern pole of a planet. Could it theoretically be possible (though unlikely) that a moon would, for instance, orbit a planet parallel to the equator, but at a latitude halfway or closer to the southern pole?
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So I want robot enemies in my series, but I also want gore without killing living creatures (related to [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/73375/defeating-this-fleet), because the opponent is the same, the gr8 computer)
So basically the robots I talking about mimic human biology to ... |
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During [Operation Barbarossa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa), the Germans came dangerously close to capturing Moscow - in fact they were [within 20km of the city](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow), and some could even see its buildings. The failure to take Moscow is often... |
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As a follow up to this [question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/184155/in-a-world-with-regenerative-magic-why-would-creating-an-item-not-allow-you-to-r).
When the greatest wizards of all time decide to retire, they place great pride in creating an Artifact encompassing their life's wo... |
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Consider a planet identical to Earth except that it has no moon.
1. **How long is the complete day-night cycle on this planet?** I've heard that having no moon would speed up the planet's rotation, resulting in a day-night cycle of 6 hours. Is this true?
2. If so, then **what would the conditions be so t... |
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I have a friend who is a practitioner of HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts), and who adores telling me all about realistic fighting techniques and why all the fight scenes I love suck. Well, I know he's right, but I'd want any world I build to have flashy fighting scenes anyway.
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Humanity detects a very suitable planet, lets call it Vaung, that is roughly 80 years away from us with their current technology. A ship is made and sent to colonize it, same old stuff.
The issue is the following. At some point in the journey, after 30-40 years did not decide yet, our astronauts suddenly... |
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We are building a 3D game world that portrays an advanced lunar town that's as technically accurate as possible, for the purpose of people roleplaying living there and learning about space development. We have a complex rover right now closely based on one that was designed at JPL for the Constellation p... |
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Suppose Ship A is being targeted by Ship B, which intends to use a laser weapon in an attempt to destroy Ship A.
Ship A has special technology that allows it to alter gravity (mainly used for generating artificial gravity for the crew and to lessen the effects of inertia when changing direction), but th... |
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Could an atmosphere of 50% O₂ 25% Neon 23% Nitrogen and 3% trace gasses be survivable for a human being at the similar or slightly less atmospheric pressures as Earth?
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One day, a type 2 civilization with a taste for unusual meat stumble across earth. They then capture every human being on earth and take them to a planet where they are placed until they are eventually killed off and sold to every supermarket in the galaxy. And the females are also used for there milk wh... |
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I'm building a world based in a mid-future dystopia, where the government has consolidated all sovereign power under its control but has imploded under debt and now basically exists to funnel wealth to its bondholders (most of whom are running it). One of the ways it will do so is to sell people into sla... |
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In a world with infinite food (each organism had access to an infinite amount of food/energy from another universe), would human intelligence develop through some evolutionary mechanism?
If resources were infinite for every organism... it wouldn't make much sense because that would lead to very utopian i... |
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As the title suggests, I'd like more insight into what a futuristic society would prefer for warfare. That is, from a skill and economic perspective what should countries invest more in?
Should they delve deeper into organic-machine interfaces to create cybernetic super-soldiers? Or should nations inves... |
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At some point in the far future, humankind has sufficiently advanced to construct spacecraft for warfare, ie. space navies. The smallest of these crafts are comparable in size to contemporary fighter and attack aircraft, and are used as such. The largest of them, meanwhile, dwarf contemporary supertanker... |
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We Earthlings like to live in gravity wells but also have a taste for the exotic and are a bit lazy. Why not make colonies that take advantage of local conditions?
Cloud cities over Venus, much less fun ones on Titan, an Atlantis under the ice on Europa, Domed potato farms on Mars etc.
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I'm curious what factors a terrestrial planet impacting the Earth would require for the impact to cause negligible damage to the larger planet, while destroying the Earth.
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Elephants are some of the most intellingent mammals, and they have large brain sizes compared to people. They are [said](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition) to present self-awareness among other things.
How could one go about raising the intelligence of elephants to a level closer to humans... |
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Suppose there's a country which is very large by land area, (close to the size of Brazil), but which has a very small population (1.5 million).
Majority of the population lives in a several high density zones, which are usually cities situated on the coast. Rest of the country consists of a land that is... |
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I'm imagining a world where every human spends their entire life in a confined space that just barely fits the human and provides the with everything they need. Essentially, it's like wall-e taken to the extreme.
Unlike in wall-e, these... |
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I'm working on a big feline who lives in savannas and grasslands. It's a solitary ambush predator, 1,4m / 4' 7'' to the shoulder, preys upon medium and big animals (antelopes, buffaloes, camelids, ground sloths), not very fast but powerful. My question is, what's the best camouflage for an animal like th... |
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Stealth isn't possible in space, but what if you just shine a laser in their eyes and make a whole lot of noise somewhere else?
The situation is this: A shuttle full of pirate marines must dock to a warship orbiting a trade station. The warship is fully operational and armed with missiles and coil guns t... |
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So it's 3 years after the apocalypse, there are 2 characters that are living in the wild, I want them to be able to listen to music (any type), but they don't have any electric power.
They need to be able to listen to music while working so it can't be by playing instruments.
How could I achieve this?
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Alright so I'm not really a physics person by any stretch so forgive me if I butcher some physics jargon on this post.
So I'm making this hard sci-fi interstellar ship with a rotating habitat that can house its crew as the usual trope we all see. So I thought it would be powered by fusion rockets and mat... |
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In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. The world has become a barren wasteland that is inhospitable to the the human race, which has been forced to take residence in hive cities. These are massive industrial metropolises that are densely populated and built deep into the Earth's crust... |
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A battle takes place on the outskirts of a colonized solar system between attacking and defending forces. Would any stray shots have a chance of hitting a ship or station closer to the center of the system?
Millions of shots are fired, most from railguns or similar weapons. Lasers are used mostly on larg... |
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I'm exploring a setting where Al-Qaeda manages to smuggle significant number of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles from Syria into Europe.
Would the airlines cease their flights until police locates the missiles?
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In my world, some people discover how to use inter-dimensional energy to change reality (magic) and how to communicate with inter-dimensional beings (magical creatures). This leads to at least one nation rejecting advanced technology, and using only magic and some primitive forms of tech.
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Time: 100 years from now and energy weapons have been perfected.
Location: gun show for **lethal energy weapons** for home defense
My problem is:
I have two types of energy weapons one has a removable energy cartridge/ammo that you can charge separately.
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I'm writing a near-future story in which a form of teleportation has been invented. It's only been around for few decades, and is still very complicated (and expensive) to build, so it's only used for large-scale industrial and governmental purposes. The average civilian's life hasn't been greatly impact... |
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There have been questions about how to protect against specific superpowers in the context of high-value/high-risk target with answers that require a very controlled environment, this question is more what steps a competent security manager would be able put in place given the constraints of productivity... |
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Roleplaying in a survival game, building my own world and now I'm colonizing a new land.
For the sake of realism and immersion I want to find the most effective and efficient staple foods out there. I thought about garlic because it only takes 40 days to grow from one clove to an entire bulb, so it's qui... |
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This is a follow-up question for [Finding Nymphs Before Predators](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/195608/finding-nymphs-before-predators) and covers the terrifying possibility of Nymph-infused superhumans. So....
**Recap:** Magic bleeding through from an alternate reality combines with... |
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On Earth, while birds and reptiles can be quite brightly colored, it's rare for mammals to have any bright colors, and the rare times they do, it's either just slightly different (like with orangutans) or from outside sources (like symbiotic algae). There are several interlocking reasons for this - most ... |
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Certain creatures, like geckos with their detachable tails, are known to *reduce* weight at a moment's notice in response to attack from a predator.
When I considered the opposite phenomenon—increasing weight suddenly and at will, perhaps for stability or a combat advantage—I immediately dismissed it i... |
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I have a bay of water containing several Krakens. One day, due to the efforts of a magical organization, all of the water disappears. The Kraken fall and die on the bed of salt that is left behind. Each are about 50 meters in length.
Assuming the Kraken are preserved by the salt, **how long could their c... |
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So I'm currently writing a story set in an Arabian-influenced medieval world. This society worships a mother goddess, and I was wondering if a matriarchal religion is culturally consistent for a culture that is also patriarchal in its family and political structures (and also pride themselves in having a... |
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Lets say I have a person who can teleport to areas he knows well or has direct line of sight of.
He is trying to travel a long distance without a vehicle of any type. He can teleport as far as he can see, reorient himself, then teleport again to rapidly cover distance.
Assuming it takes about a second to... |
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Imagine your scientists have found a way to increase the space of your empire, literally: They are able to create an artificial [inflaton field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflaton) which locally creates a "space bubble" connected with usual space by a wormhole. In other words, from outside it takes j... |
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I'm writing a dystopia where the authoritarian state messes with people's biology, like in *Brave New World*.
Can they do alter people biologically in some way that makes alcohol not a thing in society any more? Either people would be immune to its effects, or find it nauseating/unappealing.
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In my world, there is a certain group of 'scavengers' — people who go around and pick out valuable (and salvageable, of course) objects from ships that have crashed [onto the surface of a moon/planet], had fatal errors, been sabotaged/physically attacked or otherwise rendered unusable and derelict. These... |
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I have an alien that travels from ~100 light years away to Earth. He can make this trip in a matter of years though. He doesn't reveal how as he doesn't trust Earthlings since he has just come across new intelligent life.
Now, I have a guy that has created a telescope that is stat... |
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Can a galaxy be destroyed by a single but well-accelerated particle, like electron or neutrino?
For instance, one shoots a very high-energy electron in the direction of the galaxy. It collides with other interstellar particles, and due to very high energy a lot of new particles produced in such collision... |
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In my universe, there is a species from the *Homo* genus named *Homo haematophagus* (which means hematophagous human) (they are still humans, just not *Homo sapiens*) (their scientific name is a reference to the fact that they traditionally have a blood drinking ritual after sacrificing animals, and in a... |
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