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I’m in the process of making my own original series where I have all types of biologically feasible cryptids and monsters in it. In this series, I’m planning on having vampires being a species that broke off of humans at some point in our evolution. I was thinking homo erectus but more on that in a futur... |
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An unpowered alien pod drifts into our solar system. No particularly advanced technology is present on it. But the pod is full of ejected hazardous waste (say, between 10-1000 tons) from an alien civilization and dumped into interstellar space thousands or millions of years prior. Earth technology is sev... |
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## Background
I just read this [question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/154420/67246) about how to get a planet to have one hemisphere with [tropical](https://sciencing.com/hot-equator-but-cold-poles-6908312.html) climate and one with polar climate.
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I saw this question here: [Can I have wind turbines on my base?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/123374/can-i-have-wind-turbines-on-my-base) and someone else asked about how the planet can have 60-100mph winds without very much sunlight to cause the energy differential, to which OP neve... |
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I wanted to create a constructed language for a species in my world that other people will be able to speak , but I have no idea where to start at all , and I am very confused.
My Question is : what are some steps / guidelines for making a speakable constructed language?
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## **Portals to Parallel Earths**
**In this setting** events diverge when massive breakthroughs in physics are made. The breakthroughs effectively prove the many worlds interpretation, but more drastically they allow portals to be opened to parallel universes. Other advances are made because of this know... |
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Note: I'm working on a far future sci-fi setting for a novel series which aims to blend elements of both "soft" and "hard" science fiction concepts. I'm aiming for the series to be as grounded and consistent as possible whilst still allowing some elements of speculative physics. Most places in the galaxy... |
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In [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/25206/75), I detail a world with a third human sex, lilim, who have bat-like wings and taloned feet like a bird's. The TL;DR is that lilim give birth to equal numbers of men, women and lilim (and early-miscarried male lilim), while women give b... |
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People of the forest, people who become trees when they die.
The trees are interconnected, a giant web spanning almost the entire continent.
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In this world, nations once came together and decided that global empires are generally a bad thing for the species as a whole - since their effect on history and culture is very similar to monopoly's effects on the economy. They also act like focuses of the attention, with everybody ambitious beginning ... |
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Would honey be feasible as a kind of money? It seems ideal to me and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
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Could wings and feathers be capable of creating a sonic boom like whips do?
The thunder bird of native American myths was a large raptor that was often accompanied by bad weather and the sound of booming thunder. If this was a real flesh and blood avian, perhaps it was so large it used storm winds to hel... |
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So I'm aware that the usual hard sci-fi array of spacecraft weapons generally includes self-guided missiles, rail guns, lasers, etc.
However, in keeping with this spirit of hard science, I've encountered a truly terrible problem- lasers and particle beams are invisible in a vacuum: the lack of pretty col... |
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# Problem statement
I am building a world where the flora and fauna is based on that of [Gondwana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana), the lost supercontinent that consisted of South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, Australia and Antarctica. One of the key biomes of this continent, linking all th... |
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So fellas have you ever head of pig from hell, well if you haven't its called the [Entelodont](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelodont) and it is an extinct pig like omnivorous mammal that resembles a giant boar. It is thought to be most closely related to hippos and is about 6ft tall.
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Following on from [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12705/steam-boats-of-ancient-rome) which specifically asks about the consequences of aeolipile development, how can my ancient Roman civilization develop effective steam power for use in their ships?
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I am currently trying to find information about different magic systems for an RPG. There are a lot of possibilities as to what could be a potential starting point for a magic system and I recently came across some interesting information about a [magic system based on Tarot](https://worldbuilding.stacke... |
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I am really surprised that I can't find a question that has already answered this. I am working on a book about essentially what might have happened had a zombie plague broken out in England in about 1060 AD, right before [William the Conqueror](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror) began t... |
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Within my setting, there is a large empire which includes all of civilized humanity, within a late medieval setting. There are no notable external forces, so any and all conflict has always been from within the empire.
Previously, the empire was well respected and honoured by all, each of the many kingdo... |
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Imagine a planet like earth, but windier. Not pick-up-a-house-and-drop-it-on-a-witch windy; let's say just give-trees-a-hard-time windy.
I'd like "high winds" (defined by the United States [National Weather Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service) as 40-57 mph, or about 64-91 kph)... |
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There's a growing number of people who have telekinesis of different strengths, maybe as high as 1% of the population.
Many sports are collapsing into squabbles among players and spectators over alleged subtle telekinetic cheating - nudging a ball, interfering with equipment, or just a little extra power... |
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I imagined the scenario for a story where the USSR still forms and will later fight in a Cold War with the USA. However, I am imagining a scenario where the tsar escapes, goes with some loyal followers to another location (on Asian continent or other location) and is able to establish a great power in th... |
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Aliens arrive today (2020) and are not completely peaceful. The aliens destroy all Earth satellites instantly.
So that means a lot of the more advanced military technology like guided missiles and drones are off, right? I'm only interested in what Earth military systems are disabled and disrupted by this... |
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Goblins in my setting are around four feet tall, with batlike ears, a keen sense of smell, and lithe, dexterous bodies. They are omnivores, eating slightly more meat than the average human, and their skin is tinted yellow-green or olive. What sort of environment would best suit them?
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As the title says, you know stuff like minotaur, lycanth or werewolf, cat or dog folk, etc especially for the female specimens.
I want to know what happen if quadrupedal mammals which usually have their teats around their stomach evolve normally to become bipedal, will their teats change place to around ... |
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i.e left-to-right, right-to-left, top-to-bottom etc.
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* material on which writing is done,
* tools by which writing is done etc.
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Certain fantasy creatures are extremely sensitive to concentrated UV light. eg modern vampires. They either slowly or rapidly burn up in-front of you when exposed to direct sunlight or modern high techy UV-lightsources.
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Orbital denial is like area denial but applied to the entire orbit of a planet or even a star. I don't remember where I first heard the term but I know Max Brooks uses it in *[World War Z](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z)* and suggests that the controlled detonation of a single space station co... |
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This is The Sahara Project my grandfather made up with me:
On the western African coast and its surroundings, where the rocky Sahara desert lies, great fields of solar panels will be placed; they will generate a giant amount of energy. But instead of just providing plain electricity, the energy will be u... |
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So, I'm looking to get one of my characters poisoned. However, if they notice that something's up, the jig's likely up as they'll seek treatment for what happened, so this needs to happen "under their radar" so to speak. Hence, the poison needs to have the following traits:
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We are at 2015 present, and assuming we travel back in time and meet the people from the same country but long ago (make it 1000 years ago). Can we communicate and understand whatever each other say?
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Suppose that there is a species of dogs that are much more intelligent than humans and can speak. The humans know that the animal is smarter too. The only reason these animals can't rule over humans is because of their physical limitations (no aposable thumbs). They can learn faster, they are more creati... |
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I am creating a tundra-nomad inspired culture, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to design instruments that will seem believable for these people and also be unique when compared to the real world. The nomads are primarily herders who control large, yak-like beasts for milk, meat, and wool, and mak... |
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(please see note re: name controversy at the end)
My world needs a captivity environment that convincingly tends to cause [Stockholm syndrome](https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-stockholm-syndrome#:%7E:text=Stockholm%20syndrome%20is%20an%20emotional,toward%20an%20abuser%20or%20captor.) in its ca... |
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In a world which to a visitor coming from our own world would appear to be identical to our own, the mental processes (thoughts, emotions, memory) do not occur in the brain. That is, memory isn't stored in the brain and it is not the brain that is "doing the thinking". Instead the brain is a receiver for... |
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It is common to find resource/loot crates in games that be opened/broken by the player to find money, ammo, resources, and similar. For instance, Warframe contains both loot crates that drop resources / ammo / credits:
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In the "Legend" trilogy and its sequel "Rebel", author Marie Lu envisioned a far future where Antarctica is a superpower decades after the United States splintered into two separate countries. The cities are built inside climate-controlled domes and are described as being large enough to hold skyscrapers... |
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**Question**: I'm trying to determine how large (geographically) my city will have to be to accommodate for 1 million people.
I have a city that was basically formed by the gods to be fertile land with a good climate for crops (there are all four seasons) and to look like this:
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Hydrogen and oxygen gases can be combined to form water and a lot of heat. As with many exothermic reactions, the heat from this process can provide activation energy to the reaction of more H2 with more O2 in a runaway process commonly referred to as an explosion. I would like an atmosphere rich in both... |
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I just spotted this [article about a metal foam that stops armor-piercing bullets as well as radiation](http://www.gizmag.com/metal-foam-bullets/42731/). It's a press article, not a scholarly paper, so it may be complete bunk. And rifle bullets are amazingly slow relative to just about any object wanderi... |
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Numenera puts you as someone living in the Ninth World (actually the ninth Civilization that currently inhabits Earth)
All eight former Civilizations were somewhere between Type I and Type II on the Kardashev scale as far as I can tell. They must have developed at least interstellar Tra... |
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20 people (men and women of varying demographics, occupations, and socio-economic classes) awake and find themselves on a deserted tropical island (with no idea of how they got there). The island is approximately two square miles and contains a freshwater river, trees and vegetation, and smal... |
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Let's say you have some advanced aliens seeding life on multiple earth like worlds. They want sapient roughly humanoid creatures to evolve from this starting seed. However, they are not dropping humanoids on the world, they are leaving smaller non sapient creatures.
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I've seen somewhat similar questions to this one (mostly about outright mobile plants or "planimals") but the idea I'm trying to conceive for my worldbuilding is not exactly that so I wanted some guidance to how viable it is, since I have a lot more knowledge about animals than plants.
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While reading [*Seveneves*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves) by Neal Stephenson, I realized that most combat techniques don't work as well in space. Old fashioned hand to hand combat and swordplay don't work since there's no footing and even if you hit someone you'll also be launched in the oppos... |
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Artificial gravity is a staple concept of science fiction. Not much focus is ever put into explaining it for time and convenience as it would distract the audience from the story. Realistic sci-fi commonly uses centrifugal force to get their gravity while others prefer the good old gravity generator. The... |
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Escalators, from what I've seen, were created in 1891 using iron. However, with the way they collapse into themselves, is it even possible to make an escalator using technology from the 16th century, without iron? For example, an escalator made out of wood? If so, how can it be done?
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The dragons in my fantasy world spit fluid from their mouths when threatened, which upon contact causes a burning sensation. I could have this liquid be standard venom, like modified saliva, but I wanted to shake things up a bit.
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So I want to set my post-nuclear story in a small town in Minnesota on the US/Canadian border that's secretly home to an active missile site hidden beneath the local Air Force National Guard base. The town survived the nuclear holocaust relatively intact due to the soldiers stationed there refusing to la... |
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Before the first nuclear weapon was dropped, a scientist (whose name has escaped me) had a thought: could it ignite the atmosphere? But this was during World War II, when they didn't have the maths it would take to determine whether they could have ignited the atmosphere, so they dropped it anyway.
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In many scenes you see something like this:
If I was designing a world for a culture living in a rain-forest and their land was cut through by many vast ravines then what sort of spans could they bridge just using the materials naturally available to th... |
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Is there any kind of technical term (and if not, can you think of one) for a civilization that “eats” others to gain their knowledge, powers, etc.? Such as… the Borg from Star Trek *sort of* did this, or at least they said they were going to during their “You will be assimilated” spiel—their commitment t... |
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So I have this underwater echolocation using species. I'm wondering if they could have a language partly based on recreating sounds from returning echolocation waves to 'talk' images at each other. (I hope you can understand this. I'm having a bit of difficulty putting it into words).
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I'm trying to create alien species that is hermaphroditic, with strong sexual conflict. In essence each being tries to trick or force (by mechanical or hormonal means) its partner to take role of female during copulation, as to avoid costs of bearing the young. Their behavior is in this case is similar t... |
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Why would a creature that lives on the surface of a planet evolve limbs that can bend at many points (like a tentacle or elephant trunk) and still end in some sort of hand-like appendage?
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This is mostly an economy-based question, so I am using Fallout world as an example. But bear in mind I care about economy factor of switching from one currency to another.
The world is after a great nuclear war. Only a few people survived and are repopulating the world. Existing states cease to exist an... |
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In a futuristic sci-fi world (galaxy?) I'm building, warfare has become highly regulated and commercialized. When two corporations meet on a deserted planet to do battle, they're followed by all sorts of ships: from weapons dealers to mercenaries, everyone wants a slice of the action.
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A kaiju swinging its arm through a building, a superhero that, locked in battle with a villain, flies through several buildings, a huge mecha that uses its ax on a skyscraper, like a lumberjack would on a tree. We have seen similar scenarios several times in fiction, and the constant is that the object, ... |
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I have a mosquito in my story who is suspended in amber. The chunk of amber it is encased in eventually finds itself drifting through deep space without any sort of human-sourced protection (long story). After millions of years, aliens find the mosquito in its chunk of amber and remove it, finding that t... |
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In fantasy and science fiction cool monsters and creature desgins constantly appear, this feature specifically (a mouth that exists in and occupies a good portion of the ribcage area) doesn't seem to stick to what is biologically or physically possible, but sometimes their body shapes could work or at th... |
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I am writing a story, in which a mad scientist (based on Ted Kaczynski) wants to kill as many people as possible with an artificially created disease.
The idea is, that more complex societies are better able to solve many small problems (wildfire, etc.) compared to hunter-gatherer societies, because of ... |
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In one of my stories, I have a race that communicates using only two sounds: "O" and "U". This can be strung together like this:
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Or something like that. *There are no pauses between words within a sentence.*
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In a world where tectonic plates decided this whole continental drift fad was just too much work and lets just hang out for a few more hundred million years, life has arisen, stomped around for a w... |
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Could a planet's axial tilt change a meaningful amount (what is needed to make inhospitable biomes even more inhospitable: hotter dry hot desert, colder north) over an extremely short period (~100 years), without the interference of technology?
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I thought of two questions regarding ringworld structures in solar systems with results I can't assume, so I will try to describe each (assume stability):
1. If a (toroidal) ringworld were massive enough, bodies or planets nearby would orbit it in a spiral fashion along its length, as opposed to in discr... |
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I am a huge Minecraft fan and just realized, this hasn't been asked before, so I wanted to ask a live-long ([31. August 2009](http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Version_history/Classic#Survival_Test_1)) question, and pay my obulus to the [Anatomically Correct series](http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.c... |
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Let's say my eyes were ripped out in some horrible accident, and were replaced with cameras. Over the years, the cameras get better and better... 4k... 8k... 16k... etc. Is there a limit to how high of a resolution our brains are able to process?
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So I'm working on building a city in my world and I've run into an issue with scale/size. I have the general idea of how large the city will be (~8 km diameter) and I am having trouble coming up with a number of residents.
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In the book *[The Killing Star](http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=158707)*, Relativistic Kill Vehicles ([RKV](http://eclipsephase.com/rkv-weapons-suite)) are described as the ultimate weapon.
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Is there any way to set a kingdom in a forest so that it still is a forest instead of a clearing surrounded by forest?
The kingdom must live on the ground, and somehow, if transplanted to Renaissance Europe, would have the social status accorded to kingdoms of that time, instead of being regarded as an "... |
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A world much like earth has a society which, although rather aware of metals, does not possess the knowledge or resources to refine ore and produces alloys. They have access to practically unlimited wood and a variety of stone and volcanic glasses, but the only metals they can utilize are whatever native... |
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Just as the title says. If you pumped all the air from a balloon and somehow (handwave) kept it from collapsing. Would that balloon produce more lift than a hydrogen filled balloon? How much better would it perform?
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It's common to see "ice beams" that are able to freeze enemies or objects. Freezing a large object solid takes time, so most freeze rays aren't practical or logical, especially after factoring in differences in the material of the object.
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I'm creating a world several hundred years after an apocalypse, but am struggling to get the decay of our current civilization right.
The world in short: Earth was hit by an apocalypse in the 2060 (nothing too fancy, just standard nuclear apocalypse with everybody throwing nukes at each other; plus some ... |
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Imagine a medieval-style city, besieged by enemy army. It might be big and have wide river preventing besiegers from direct attack on the walls and launching projectiles significantly far into the city. Besiegers want to use hot air baloons to drop burning projectiles and biological weapons in form of in... |
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So, here's my situation: my first book revolves around an unknown entity giving modern day humanity an assortment of supernatural powers. Every week a new power is given to everyone on Earth over the age of 13, and they can hold up to 6 at a time. Once they hit 6, they choose which of the ones they have ... |
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I'm working on this concept. A floating island a mile long and 200 meters wide that would travel eternally in a wide circle between Western Europe and the Americas.
I am going to make some diferente questions about this concept. My preliminary description of this is as follows:
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Suppose the Wicked Witch of the West was simply an alien life form that was stranded in Oz. She comes from a race of beings that are water soluble.
She would have to be able to resist a small amount of water, or else any contact with water vapors in the atmosphere would dissolve her. Yet, any significan... |
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I have seen a few similar questions but none seem to take the density of a planet into account. I'm creating a planet on which several small civilisations develop. The planet needs to have a few biomes of varying temperature such as mountain ranges, deserts, temperate areas etc.
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In story after sci-fi story you have images of clones stepping out of some sort of gooey bathtub or cloudy coffin type device. Be they a single doppelganger or whole clone armies.
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Let's go back 10,000-12,000 years, when humans have yet to make strides in basic machines. In our world, the invention of the wheel makes things easy to move, starting a transportation revolution. This will eventually lead to new technologies, and eventually the rise of more complicated machines.
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If we take an earth-sized planet with similar atmosphere, and put it into a P-type binary orbit, could it sustain human life? For sake of clarity, assume both stars are G-type stars and the planet is orbiting at 1-2 AUs from the stars.
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Bob loves plants. More specifically, he loves [terrariums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrarium).
Bob's *magnum opus* is a large terrarium made from a 5-gallon glass water jug. Inside is a miniature ecosystem: plants grow, detritivores feed on the fallen leaves, larger insects hunt them down, and anyt... |
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There is a humanoid species whose natural lifespan/period of senescence is very short compared to other sapients of the setting(around 20 years). They have similar levels of intelligence to humans and have sapience but due to them only living long enough to reach adulthood and reproduce but not long enou... |
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I'm learning about how to account for the fact that we can't really model (to a perfect degree of accuracy) an Orbital system with more than two bodies - I [very, very barely] understand this as the [n-Body Problem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D89ngRr4uZg).
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This question is related to a [SE:WB question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/141298/aliens-englobed-the-solar-system-will-we-notice) of mine. I shelved the project about a year ago and am now dusting it off. To sum the concept up: several hundred million years ago a rather impenetrabl... |
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I'm working on a space exploration game where humanity has become extinct and Earth is no longer inhabitable. A lone AI activates and its main directive is to find another world where humanity can be given a second chance (via cryogenized embryos).
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I'm writing a rough sketch for a book about a world where people sorta violently and suddenly get barely working superpowers. That is every time each person uses their power they run the risk of killing themselves. (I already almost set up the world with powers like invisibility, intangibility, super spe... |
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As I'm sure anyone reading this knows, our body parts move via the brain signaling the appropriate muscles to contract or expand. Now, for hair to function the way it does - its texture, malleability, etc. - it doesn't seem plausible for prehensile hair to happen with a humanoid with muscles all the way ... |
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Probably one of the many main-stay go to weapons for most sci-fi settings. How exactly would you go about making the blade "vibrate" or resonate at in such a way to increase its cutting power? Would you even be able to hold on to such a weapon and would the weapon eventually destroy itself?
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A mimic is a flesh-eating monster that looks like a chest:
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Without boring you with details, in my world, a government is try to protect a package from ninjas crossing over from another world.
# Technological Bases
The technology in this government's world is about the same as our own. The ninjas' technological level, by contrast, is about the same as Japan in t... |
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Someone has created an AI of human-level intelligence, and within hours this AI has grown in intelligence and power to the point that human life no longer seems so sacred. In an instant, all life on the planet is extinguished, and the AI begins to rebuild the Earth in a way that best suits its needs.
Wha... |
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