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[Question] [ It is an established science-fiction trope, especially in something like Star Wars, that entire planets will be run by a single government. When trying to worldbuild, I began to think about how one government ruling at least 1 entire planet could be realistic. With a government with highly advanced techn...
[Question] [ say someone punched the ground (Earth) with infinite strength, how much force would they require to destroy/ vaporise the earth? Or an easier question how much force would someone need to induce $3.2 \times 10^{29}$((approximate recall) Joules, which is enough to unbind the Earth), to the Earth? [Answ...
[Question] [ One of the major problems I've always had with the MCU and the DC universe is how powerful many of the beings or people are whilst the World is still almost the same as ours. It was as if the writers were trying to have their cake and eat it. Generally speaking the most superpowers you add to a setting a...
[Question] [ By some eldritch means I am able to heat matter (raising the kinetic energy of the matter's particles). I want to weaponize this ability, and need some guidance for its implications. The obvious use-cases would be to have an instant source of ignition, right? Is there something like an explosive effect I...
[Question] [ My question was raised by [this post](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/144607/crash-landed-aliens-political-repercussions). > > Aliens crash-land at the Boston Airport (ie, in the United States). [...] The potential benefits of being able to reverse-engineer their tech alone *is* enough...
[Question] [ What kind of planetary conditions would be required to make a place with really intense winters and summers? Is it even possible? For example on the poles they can go with out the sun for half a year in the winter but even in the summer the angle of the sun is comparable to evening near the equator, so i...
[Question] [ It's a common little tidbit in most fantastical magic novels to have little men and women in funny hats flinging ice cubes(albeit a little more dangerous than ice cubes but it's practically the same) at each other. I'm not questioning their choice of projectile. If anything is shot with enough force it *...
[Question] [ On a generation ship, the people living on it need oxygen, lots of oxygen. More than they can realistically carry, thus a generation ship must be able to create breathable air from relatively common materials and elements found in space. How does a generation ship provide oxygen to the people inside it?...
[Question] [ In a future where humanity has expanded to live on multiple planets and then encounters life that does not trace ancestry back to earth, what is an appropriate term for such life? "Extraterrestrial" has an unfortunate ambiguity, since at this point, plenty of humans and other Earth-originating species ha...
[Question] [ First time here, so I don't know what to expect. I'm writing a dark sci fi mystery story that takes place on a hypothetical megastructure called an "[Alderson Disk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderson_disk)" (Example seen Below). Humanity on the disk has sorta fallen into a dark age, reverting back to...
[Question] [ See this? [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XKOf.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XKOf.jpg) 1. I want it melted into a puddle of glowing metal, since, from my admittedly-narrow perspective, [it's the only way to be sure](https://youtu.be/aCbfMkh940Q?t=6). 2. I want it melted wit...
[Question] [ ## Pull the context and count to three sentences Let's imagine an army has created a kind of explosive similar to grenades, but much smaller in size while maintaining a good chunk of offensive output. Known simply as "flakes", you can hold a good 8-12 in one hand, and due to their higher numbers, you can...
[Question] [ Imagine the following situation: a late 16th century knight loses his horse in a battle and is forced to flee into a forest to escape capture. He lost all his weapons but still has his plate on (a full set from head to feet). Will this aspect save him from an animal attack? (For the sake of keeping this ...
[Question] [ There is a device in my story that »steals« memories from a person (I had some sort of transmitter in mind, but this can easily be modified, as long as it uses powerful long-range signals to achieve its function) and uploads it into its server, where it can be accessed for further use. A person complete...
[Question] [ Need ideas for the fox's tails. In case you're wondering, this is for a speculative evolution book I'm doing which is suppose to build a structure for a novel series about these foxes (something like Watership Down or Warrior cats). To start the extra tails are actually massive dreads of matted fur exten...
[Question] [ I looked at [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/54767/would-an-ice-bullet-work), and a very similar but not duplicate question popped into my head. Although most of the answers mention melting or force, they all use a rifle as the preferred weapon. Not knowing enough to answ...
[Question] [ I've created an alternate Earth where recurring G5 geomagnetic storms have eliminated the use of electricity. This means no major manufacturing and no shipping of everything from basic household supplies to food to medicines. The second book starts 30 years after the event, so how hard would it be to get...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How would my dwarves tell time underground?](/questions/53090/how-would-my-dwarves-tell-time-underground) (6 answers) [What calendar or time cycle would an underground civilization use? [duplicate]](/questions/80245/what-calendar-or-time-cycle-would-an-...
[Question] [ I have a character that travels back in time, from present-day USA, to medieval Europe - specifically, year 1272, present-day UK. Say in this scenario, they really enjoyed those sports in modern USA and wanted to re-create the basketball and soccer ball as much as possible in that era (using only materia...
[Question] [ In my world there is a village with a hot spring, the only one on the entire island. The spring emerges from a local cave which has been filled / caved in by a past civilisation, since the water is secretly heated by engineered means. The spring has been hot since neolithic times, but thousands of years ...
[Question] [ George Orwell published in 1945 his famous novel [Animal Farm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm). In this novel, the animals of "The Manor Farm" decide to revolt and manage to take over the farm. However, the rebellion remains inside the farm walls and finally fails. I would like to know **the b...
[Question] [ **Closed**. This question needs to be more [focused](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- **Want to improve this question?** Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by [editing this post](/posts/99132/edit). Closed 6 years ago. [Improve this question](/pos...
[Question] [ The Angelic Host is going to war. It's a long journey, requiring flight over the highest mountain ranges and long trudges through the fiercest blizzards. As with all large scale military marches the Host will be carrying equipment, tents and provisions for the journey and the eventual battle, averaging 3...
[Question] [ I did read several great thrillers where main hero is injected with unknown fluid and told, that such fluid is deadly poison unknown to normal medicine and our hero has 48 hours to live. If he wants to live longer, he has to do X to get antidote from villain... But, is actually such poison plausible? **H...
[Question] [ Common in sci-fi tropes but absolutely climactic nonetheless, a spaceship faces impending doom after encountering a gravity well such as a stellar black hole. The spaceship's captain gives the order to discard all reactor cores onboard and detonate them to produce a powerful shock wave, the spaceship the...
[Question] [ I have a world that isn't an exact analogue to medieval technology, closer to the late 1700s in terms of culture and agriculture/metallurgy, only without gunpowder. I have them ahead of real history for this time period in some areas (e.g., medical and farm science), but behind in others (notably militar...
[Question] [ I have noticed this in many fictions: during a battle between spaceships exchanging fire in empty space, a pulse of laser fire hits the hull and the entire spaceship explodes into many pieces. Is this possible? Wouldn't the surface of the spaceship absorb all the energy from the pulse and burn? Could an ...
[Question] [ I'm thinking of making a world where the sky is purple, or at least perceived as purple by the native species taking centre stage in my story. What gases could cause this colour? Could the colour have anything to do with Rayleigh scattering? [Answer] ## Sky Colour The sky looks blue to us because of ...
[Question] [ Assuming a sci-fi setting, tech level capable of interplanetary travel, but incapable of interstellar travel (no FTL). Would it be possible for a sufficiently powerful (politically and technologically) 'elite' class to oppress the masses and re-enforce a feudal style society, placing themselves as King/Q...
[Question] [ I feel like there must be a lot of factors here from the actual structural rigidity of the plants, to how well capillary action functions in higher gravity, to how well cellular mechanisms such as photosynthesis function at higher gravity, but I'm not well versed in botany. Are are there any earth plants...
[Question] [ Imagine an Earth exactly like ours, but with one significant difference: the use of animals parts for anything is strictly forbidden. Not even the most depraved, violent and insane will break this rule. Things like wool shaved from animals or the dung they produce are allowed to be used as materials (as ...
[Question] [ Can asteroid fields ever exist locally in a system, or do they tend to form belts exclusively? And by asteroid field, I mean clusters of asteroids scattered around a planetary system. [Answer] I contend that the [Trojan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_trojan), Greek, and [Hilda](https://en.wiki...
[Question] [ Could a civilization exist on a planet/dwarf planet like Pluto? It is so cold and barren. Is it possible? What would they live off? They don't have to be humanoid. [Answer] **No.** I hate that that's my token response to things like this (I really *should* be more creative), but it seems pretty unlik...
[Question] [ In the subsurface oceans of a fundamentally Europa-like moon, (covered in ice, but with an interior warmed by tidal heating etc.) a race of sapient aliens has evolved. These aliens are very interested in where filter-feeding organisms obtain their nutrients, but need a way to find out. The problem is, li...
[Question] [ Many centuries from now, a race of advanced AI who now rule humanity, but who are aware that they themselves are leaderless, begin the construction of a huge dyson-sphere fuelled computer brain to rule over them, (hereafter referred to as a Dyson Brain). This Dyson Brain encircles the sun at 0.1 AU. The ...
[Question] [ Sonic weapons are frequently used by military circles as non-lethal irritants to deter opponents. My question is; **could a naturally evolved organism kill, or at least incapacitate, small prey using sound of some sort, and if so, how would it do this?** I'm assuming a focused beam of sound, likely ultra...
[Question] [ I mean can time be controlled within an area or even a small portion of space? I would like to mention time-bombs, which either reverse time in a radius of explosion or take time forward. Also nanobots which can control time within tiny areas. Time span can be controlled. Is this theoretically possible ...
[Question] [ In my idea for a story, my main character has Telekinesis. My problem is, this is a definite hard science fiction world, and he is abnormal in the fact that he is the only known one who can perform Telekinesis. How would I scientifically explain his abilities? I am fine to bend or even break currently ac...
[Question] [ Let's suppose a fictional world, with ancient / medieval technology and culture. This world has several countries and empires, each with its own capital. Some are purely coastal, some are landlocked. There is a wide range of terrains, from plains, to desert, and mountains. I understand that capitals are ...
[Question] [ Since the invention of hard road surfaces, a centaur would need to wear metal shoes like any other horse-like creature. Can you see any barrier to a suitably qualified centaur (a) being a blacksmith/farrier and (b) shoeing him or herself when the need arises? > > **Notes** > > > If possible I'd like...
[Question] [ Let's say that in a different world, humans evolved to have horns (e.g. Demons in many fantasy stories). Where would those horns be placed on the head, in regards to actual creatures with horns? I've seen depictions with unicorn horns, horns on the side of the forehead, back of the head, etc. So which sp...
[Question] [ So a setting I had in mind has vampires, of the rather traditional kind. They aren't as inhumanly strong or fast, but in turn they aren't instantly incinerated by sunlight, instead just being really prone to sunburns. Here is the thing: "My" vampires still need to eat, but all their food has to contain s...
[Question] [ Most of the quasi-medieval world include nomads, most often there is only one culture of nomads and they are accompanied with the footnote "inspired by the Mongols". Even when that isn't the case, the audience might assume that. I find the overused quasi-Mongols tiresome. So, are there any historical cha...
[Question] [ I am trying to design my main character in my post-apocalyptic series to have a very dense, organic, durable skeleton. The skeleton should also be able to handle gun fire, a sledge hammer impact, as well as gamma rays (and other ionizing radiation). My idea was to have an osmium, iron, and carbon nanotu...
[Question] [ Commander WE NEED YOUR HELP Aliens invaded three days ago and they have been slaughtering us, but now we might have information to fight them. Many soldiers have died to bring you this information use it well, The aliens also called mimics are large quadrupeds formed out of ductile metal with long feeler...
[Question] [ Imagine we're in a world where massive, outrageous amounts of energy are available at our fingertips. Perhaps one of those crazy cold fusion ideas panned out, or we eventually built ourselves a --partial-- Dyson sphere of glittering solar panels around the Sun. It matters not how. Now, one of the charact...
[Question] [ Imagine a modern day special forces soldier, armed with the best gear and training the military can offer (Limited only by what he can reasonably haul around). Now imagine him thrown into the distant past, all the way to early-medieval Europe. Would it be reasonable for this soldier to take over a kingdo...
[Question] [ Is it possible to have a cellular metabolism based on reduction instead of oxidation? All known life currently uses some sort of oxidation in cellular respiration, either from oxygen or from oxidizing Fe2+/other chemosynthesis [Answer] *Any* oxidation reaction *is also* a reduction reaction; at least ...
[Question] [ So, I am imagining a draconic alien species which, (don’t laugh) inhabit a planetary system that is particularly rich in heavy elements such as platinum, silver, and yes, gold. (I said don’t laugh!) However, just thinking about the physics of this, **what stellar/planetary conditions would lead to a sola...
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[Question] [ **This plot point has been bothering me for ages: how do robots distinguish between metals?** Many robots in fiction just pick up parts of machinery for self-repair or to make more robots. They don't seem to check what metals they are using or perhaps it has something to do with their senses. Do they som...
[Question] [ Never mind *why* there's a perpetual hurricane. This is about the vehicles going into and out of it. Let's say that there's a perpetual hurricane that constantly "hovers" in one location - say, over northern Africa, if that's relevant to the question. It's been there for 2 million years, if that's releva...
[Question] [ So oblate spheroid man is mad. One of his oblate spheroids has these nasty rings on it and he cannot watch it rotate in peace. So he dispatches Mr. Skeeble to get rid of them. Mr. Skeeble gets to Saturn and opens his Geffelle™ phone and goes to Amazone to order something to get rid of the rings. Using on...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How do we tell if we're living in a virtual reality world?](/questions/49446/how-do-we-tell-if-were-living-in-a-virtual-reality-world) (21 answers) Closed 6 years ago. In this world, virtual reality has been perfected to the point were senses can be tri...
[Question] [ Earth's greatest minds have done it, they [captured](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/40907/how-can-we-catch-a-teleporter) Dave the teleporter, but now we have a problem, where do we keep him? While we can keep him sedated until it is built we need to work fast, lest we risk a ''Free Dav...
[Question] [ The idea in its simplest form is that a stellar system of planets is within a transparent gas cloud that includes oxygen. The gas cloud is so incredibly dense (around sea level earth pressure) that humans can breathe and survive in open space. I would like to use real world physics as much as possible, h...
[Question] [ My work in progress involves a small town which has been set up in an isolated part of the United States. The backstory is that some very advanced aliens want to set up an observatory on Earth, to monitor human behavior. They have their own version of the Prime Directive (closer to a scientist's desire t...
[Question] [ **Cryomancy** is magic involving the removal of heat from an object by converting thermal energy into magical energy, thereby cooling the object. The conversion to magical energy is not perfect (some small amount of heat is released after removing it from the object or area of effect), however I do not b...
[Question] [ I had the idea of a "void weapon", which would "generate cold" rather than heat on triggering. All the air from the chamber would be sucked out (thus "creating cold") and on firing, it would open the chamber: the difference of pressure would push the bullet out. However I'm not sure it would be powerful ...
[Question] [ I currently have a character whose fields are destroyed as they are at the base of a valley, and the rain has completely killed the seeds and waterlogged the dirt. Thus, main character needs to dig out new ones on higher elevation and then plant the seeds before it is too late and his family goes hungry....
[Question] [ As naive I can be, I always assumed people [started inventing flying machines in order to "be like the birds"](http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/History_of_the_Airplane_Intro/History_of_the_Airplane_Intro.htm). In an earth-like world without any flying/gliding being (ani...
[Question] [ Suppose that magic exists, but is uncommon enough that most people don't have direct experience with it; and you have a government which wants to suppress knowledge of it, so that the general populace has no idea it exists. (Something like the "[men in black](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_black)" ...
[Question] [ I'm at a critical point in a sci-fi novel where a couple of thousand Superintelligent artificial intelligences end up going haywire. Naturally, they're extremely intelligent, and thus, much harder to deal with than an average human. Up to here, these AIs have been almost docile. The power lust of the man...
[Question] [ Following my last [question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/137793/is-there-a-way-for-human-sized-oviparous-humanoid-mammals-to-produce-young-in-eg) asked regarding oviparous humanoids, is there a way for evolution to 'regard' females as the more dominant gender without going down that...
[Question] [ On a distant planet covered mostly by water a species of highly intelligence cephalopods have evolved and even developed space travel. The problem? Most other species are land dwellers and the cephalopods need a means to traverse their space stations and cities. Without a skeleton of their own their land...
[Question] [ My semiarboreal humanoids have a build quite similar to humans, apart from some more specialized arboreal adaptations. They live in rainforests quite similar to the Amazon Rainforest. Though trees are important to their foraging and structures during rainy season, they still need to run or at least walk ...
[Question] [ The magic works like this: * It must not be performed in public, meaning with more than a dozen observers (regardless of the means). It will fail, spectacularly * It must not be performed in private, meaning that if you do it alone, it will also fail fatally * The optimal setting for it to work is in a g...
[Question] [ In my setting , there is a faction known as the Templar that serve a larger Empire. The Templar are all magically gifted and immortal (non aging). They are covered completely in their armor and their helmets obscure their faces to the enemy. The Templar are pretty much always the vanguard. They are the t...
[Question] [ **Closed**. This question needs to be more [focused](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- **Want to improve this question?** Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by [editing this post](/posts/35122/edit). Closed 4 years ago. [Improve this question](/pos...
[Question] [ How would a Renaissance-era shopkeeper, in a walled and paved city, notice that they've traveled back in time, right when they wake up, or soon after, like after 5 min and looking outside? No dead people having returned to life and stuff either... The time warp happens when they sleep, and they wake up i...
[Question] [ I'm toying with magically binding contracts existing. For now I'm trying to figure out if such can exist without being either leaving loopholes, being easily abused, or otherwise resulting in a very uncomfortable situation. My question is basically if I introduced contracts as described below to a story ...
[Question] [ I'm making a completely homemade tabletop system with the intent of generating a hardish scifi, more sim-like experience for my friends. I've settled on no FTL and all space battles would be subluminal, but I'm having issues figuring out the scale of distances for battles, both in lore and in mechanics. ...
[Question] [ There's this archipelago of artificial floating islands. These vary in size from less than 10 meters to about 100 meters in diameter. Is there a passive way to keep them close to each others without the risk of having them collide catastrophically (or, even better, at all)? [Answer] Yes one that has b...
[Question] [ I am trying to recreate King Arthur's the Sword in the Stone using chemistry. I have a couple ideas how this could be done Would any of these work or how it might work? [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V4H6B.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V4H6B.jpg) *Arthur removes the sword fr...
[Question] [ I have a rather odd setting where one of my characters gets cursed/blessed with indestructibility, more specifically all of her cells have stopped degenerating and dividing and they all are now immune to any known forms of damage. (but this only applies to living cells and bone tissues, so nails and hair...
[Question] [ I am designing an alien civilization for a story, and I am currently in the biological part. They will be oxygen breathers, so they will need to have that oxygen delivered inside their bodies, and I am looking for alternatives to that function: I don't want to use iron oxide to transport the oxygen, or c...
[Question] [ A mcguffin is a creature who is wanted by many organizations on earth, wars were waged through history to obtain a mcguffin and to this day they still are. People sacrifice their lives seeking or hiding and defending a mcguffin. Mcguffins are creatures who evolved for the sole purpose of being wanted,ra...
[Question] [ I have done some research and so much contradict one another or I simply fail to understand. Do seasons occur on a tidally locked planet that isn't tilted on its axis? [Answer] ## Yes, if the orbit isn't circular. Seasons can definitely occur on a tidally locked planet. Just like normal planets, tidal...
[Question] [ Imagine a spacecraft travelling at very high speeds, say 0.3c. While a crew member could theoretically suit up and perform spacewalking maintenance on the outer body of the ship, will they be exposed to the risk of a few stray atoms floating in space and hitting them at 0.3c and shredding their bodies? H...
[Question] [ I'm developing a fantasy setting where people can go to other planes (universes) that are not made of mostly empty space, like our universe is. Instead, you have universes made mostly (but not entirely) of earth, water, or gas. (Gravity works differently on these planes, so you don't have all this matter...
[Question] [ I am writing a science fiction short story, which is loosely about terraforming. The drama takes place on a terraforming site, which has been halted, in its early phases, due to the discovery that the planet goes through an uninhabitable period in its cycle. It could be every 50 years, or it could be eve...
[Question] [ The [Hydra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra) is a Greek mythological creature known for its many head that only increase in number as you fight it. Alcaeus was the one to solidly state the the creature started with 9 heads, a large primary head and 8 smaller secondary heads. Along with the m...
[Question] [ Not too far off in the future, maybe 20-50 years from now, an anomaly is detected a little ways outside our solar system and it's like nothing we've ever seen before. Researchers begin studying it immediately and soon it becomes clear that whatever it is will destroy our planet in less then 500 years. In...
[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. As m...
[Question] [ I recently asked about racing in space ([The new Space Race - Racing!](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10214/the-new-space-race-racing)) and as expected while there were a few options they were mostly pretty limited. However 2012rcampion did suggest that sports in space might be an inte...
[Question] [ I have a civilization that lives not exactly underwater, but completely surrounded by water in which their cities are both submerged underwater or built floating right on top of it. Almost all of their resources are limited to the ocean. What materials would be used for them to make clothes out of? I hav...
[Question] [ I need FTL interstellar communication in my story. Ursula K. Le Guin first used the idea of the "ansible" as a fictional device or technology capable of near-instantaneous or superluminal communication. It can send and receive messages to and from a corresponding device over any distance or obstacle what...
[Question] [ In my narrative universe, there will be ships that use a 1g acceleration for artificial gravity. However, when they are not accelerating (whether on a longer journey at a constant velocity or simply "anchored" at some random location) is it feasible for the ships to extend a weighted anchor and create a ...
[Question] [ I am trying to come up with a non-aesthetic reason for a group of humans to have been genetically altered to have an exotic skin color. Purple, blue, green, red, I'm not particularly fussed about which. Ideally this would be a pragmatic reason geared toward increasing adaptability for xeno-planets. The ...
[Question] [ More then 3 decades ago dictator from country A attacked a ship from a country of dictator B. Dictator B invaded and annexed 1000 square kilometers of coastal strip to teach A a lesson, and kept the territory as a collateral until A apologizes and pays for both and ships and the cost of invasion. It has ...
[Question] [ In my world there is a pervasive cultural/ethnic minority all across the continent. They are discriminated against like many ethnic minorities on Earth, and as such often imitate the culture of the majority around them. Do minorities discriminated against like the one described above on Earth have any co...
[Question] [ I am thinking about the miniature kind of fae, like Tinker Bell. I think that class of faery would be the most likely to be able to fly realistically, due to the wingspan/body weight ratio. But would their lungs support their bodies if they were like our own? What do they eat? Where do they live? How did...
[Question] [ Like in video games where characters are able to control the temperature around them by simply removing the heat. Is it possible for a machine or biological creature to have the power of absorbing heat from the outside causing things to freeze? Or does it go against the laws of thermodynamics? Would suc...
[Question] [ Everyone talks about self driving cars in the future, and I'm sure at some point vehicles driven by humans will be phased out, driving accidents are pretty much the number 1 killer of those below 40, not to mention issues of congestion and traffic. However, what form will the most plausible non-driven ve...
[Question] [ [ArtOfCode](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2685/artofcode)'s previous questions about Alynn have defined her movements to Rolhelm. Now there, she faces a new problem: getting a job. Everyone in Rolhelm is expected to have a job. Alynn is no exception and she has to get one. However, she al...
[Question] [ (First of all, perhaps this is a duplicate of [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/569/is-there-a-scientific-explanation-as-to-why-aliens-should-look-similar-to-us), but I'll give it a go since I'd like to focus on something different. Or the answer is there but I couldn't qu...
[Question] [ I'm working on a pretty detailed alternate history of the ancient America's, and currently I'm focusing upon Mesoamerica in particular. The core difference is that, through several different mechanisms that can be handwaved away, the Natives at the time were able to domesticate significantly more animals...
[Question] [ I'm writing a low fantasy fiction in a XVIII century-tech kind of world. The reason of the setting is that I love early modern muzzleloading weapons, and I think guns can make fantasy more interesting. So, in my world, an analogue of Qing China decided to embrace flintlock technology, starting a gun race...
[Question] [ In a world where silver is relatively abundant and not valued as luxury product and is pretty cheap (probably even cheaper than iron or steel) How viable would silver or its alloys be as a replacement for Aluminium, Steel and other metals? Obviously answer would be electronics. But how would it fare in a...
[Question] [ A very powerful corporation is interested in building a device that works similar to a magic lamp. You bring the lamp to a certain location, at a specific time of the year, chant specific mantras, then make a wish. Your wish will be fulfilled in 2-3 days. Basically, the device will transmit the wish to a...