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I have finally found an edition of the *Dragonriders of Pern* trilogy - living in Italy, I only had access to it thanks to my father's old books, and he doesn't own the complete series - so I have been immersed in that world and started imagining its less peaceful, alternative version.
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Let's take an imaginary world where, without its inhabitants realizing it, everything is physically influenced by what people thinks, by what they believe, by how they see the world. Of course the opinion of a single person has no effect, but if a lot of people think that something is true, in the place ... |
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I want to build a world populated by humans descended from colonists from Earth who have traveled a long distance and time to arrive (say, 80 years.) They come to this new Earth-like planet in dozens of different ships from different parts of Earth, but they all took more or less the same time to travel ... |
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Stories with shrinking never seen to take into account the [Square-Cube law](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SquareCubeLaw). I'm trying to consider what it would take to do a story like this that actually fully addresses the square cube law. I know most of the advantages humans would gain, suc... |
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This is somewhat of a follow-up question to [my ammonia-based world question.](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/3090/98) I've found out that the melting point of ammonia is [at 25°C at a pressure of about 1 MPa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_%28data_page%29) (about 10 times the atmospher... |
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On habitable planets, rotational period can be assumed to vary significantly. What are the limits of human adaptation to these different conditions while maintaining a normal sleep schedule? The humans have to stay awake for a clear majority of the day, and take the clear majority of their sleep during t... |
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Sequinoans. This strange race of Amazonians has many unusual traits, but the foremost our scholars are concerned with are their gems. You see, Sequinoans somehow form gems naturally, perfectly smooth and colorful gems that resemble cut opals in shape and a mix of paint swirled together in color.
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I have been doing some research, but I could not find an answer for this particular question.
Is there any (however so slightly or handwavy) way of explaining the existence of a creature with a humanoid body that has both an endoskeleton to support its body mass and internals, and an exoskeleton (think i... |
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In one of the books of the *The Witcher* series Geralt has been told by a vampire (Regis, if I recall) that it was not true that vampirism could be spread by bite. He elaborated that the whole idea was ridiculous. If I recall, the argument was something like this: if that was the case, vampirism would sp... |
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Situation: My colony is threatened by a passing neutron star. It turns out this planet is part of a binary system and once every several hundred years it passes by a neutron star, which irradiates its surface. I'm trying to figure out a way for the colonists to survive the impending cataclysm. Assume the... |
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I'm working on a story about Earth or an Earth like planet with current or very near future levels of civilisation and technology drifting or speeding out of the solar system. Currently my method for achieving this is the gravitational effects of a rogue object passing nearby (a bit more research to be d... |
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Fantasy and folklore has many instances of giant spiders,ranging from creatures like the J'ba Fofi to Aragog from Harry Potter. My question intends to ask whether a creature like the J'ba Fofi could have evolved.
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In a fantasy world I have planned, I wanted one of the nomadic groups to live on a frozen steppe. They would primarily subsist by herding and domesticating mammoths.
Would mammoths be comparable to, say, a Mongol's horse or a Bedouin's camel? By this I mean could my nomads be able to survive mainly off o... |
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500 years ago, the mountain dwelling Carac clan was cursed with undeath: whenever they or any of their descendants die, their corpses rise as undead creatures, or if burned, as shadowy specters. The Carac quickly adopted a custom of casting their deceased into a chasm. This does not prevent the occurrenc... |
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So in my world I have a variety of nations states ranging from independent city-states to empires.
**I am in the process of defining the socio-political landscape of the world** and have a few story centric international relationships that are partially defined.
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In a novel I am considering, the near-future of Earth is populated with vertical cities. I don't mean one tower; I mean a city of towers, built close together, each trying to surpass the other. The towers are so self-sufficient that the streets below (and the lowest levels of the towers) are no longer us... |
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**This Query is part of the Worldbuilding [Resources Article](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143606/a-list-of-worldbuilding-resources).**
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Pretty straightforward one here, I’m just looking for something to design a galactic map with. I would like to not only name and mark planet/sys... |
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I'm trying to make a world where my "humans" have [ZW sex-determination system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system) that means sex is determined in the ovum instead of the sperm.
Could I just easily hand-wave everything else as being the same, beside mother gametes deciding is it g... |
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An integral species in a large worldbuilding project I'm working on right now is based around the concept of extreme agility.
The species shall be a megafauna (Is that grammatically correct - "a megafauna"?), about as large as a human or larger. It lives in an extremely complex three-dimensional jungle w... |
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For a world I am working on humans managed to create a race of demi-human cat people. These people where tradionality treated as slaves/property but have in recent times been gaining some degree of freedom. Slavery has not been outlawed and there still exists large numbers of slaves many of who live in v... |
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If I genetically modified a human to have a [foxtail of roughly 1 metre length](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/94777/how-much-muscle-mass-would-be-needed-for-a-genetically-modified-human-to-move-hi) through the use of handwaved genetical engineering - would this have an effect on his d... |
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Could humans sustain life after a k-t like extinction event? I know that a long lasting winter was a side effect then, but humans have technology to protect against cold. What other effects of an asteroid strike could humans potentially not recover from?
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One thing that has always bothered me in robot-controlled AI stories is that there is always the assumption that the AI would choose to fight a conflict against humans on Earth, where humans dominate, rather than a more favorable ground (for them).
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This is the follow-up question to [How could an underwater civilization develop electricity?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/30927/how-could-an-underwater-civilization-develop-electricity), as mentioned there.
In that question, I never addressed how my civilization could have discovere... |
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So there are these [AGIs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence) made by some ancient aliens (who are out of the picture for now). The ancient aliens were a *lot* more intelligent than humans, we are at a dog-like intelligence level compared to them, and they were also rather pron... |
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So, for reasons which may or may not pop up in a later question of mine, I need to light a small Moon-like moon on fire.
Well, sort of. See, I need a small object capable of emitting a lot of light - i.e. with a high luminosity. That could either be a large ball of gas on fire, or it could be something v... |
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I have this scenario where the world was thrown into chaos by *something* and in this event, shortsighted governments launched assaults on numerous military and civilian targets, leading to the collapse of the society. It is a society with advanced robotics, cloning technology (not widespread and incredi... |
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I am wondering if a species might evolve to deceive human technology - in particular, a set of night vision goggles. I imagine it is either cold blooded or it has thick fur - which doesn't trap air - so that warm air pockets don't show up in the goggles. What evolutionary trait is required for such an an... |
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I know that chemical rockets would allow for some minor loads to escape the gravity of a planet with higher gravity.
My question is, what kind of technology would possibly allow a dominant species to escape the gravity of a planet and become a somewhat spacefaring species?
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[Man-portable air-defense systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-portable_air-defense_system) have been around for decades, and so have been [anti-satellite weapons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon). But while the former is a small, short range rocket, the latter is as big as a cr... |
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So I am designing a fantasy world, and in it are some fairly stereotypical dwarves, anyhow I was wondering is I could replace the traditional "canary in a coal mine" trick with a cricket and/or multiple crickets. This would give me the bonus of explaining why the dwarves hold them almost sacred as the he... |
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Basically, when designing alien and fantasy races, I tend to try and figure out how they would sound. I originally figured that their language would be made of growls and barks, but then I realized that was too basic. Ask any linguist, and they'll probably tell you that there are no languages that are ju... |
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Let's suppose regular humans (same intelligence and pretty much same features) but they usually have 3-6 babies at a time.
To me, many breasts seem like an evolutionary disadvantage. Something you want to have as little of as possible, especially if you're a biped (they mess with the center of gravity). ... |
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I love chocolate.
Today, when I was making myself a cup of hot chocolate, I was thinking about Easter and about [all the chocolate](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/easter/7544878/Easter-2010-Children-gorge-on-2.5kg-of-chocolate.html) I am going to eat. And at some point I was wondering:
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We all know the usual staples of genetically-engineered super-soldiers. Rattlesnake DNA to see in the dark etc etc. But what about a modification that's a little more exotic, and far more advantageous than night vision or increased stamina? What about optical camouflage?
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In a magic setting, a stereotypical "cold fire" might be a deep blue color but otherwise look just like a normal fire, consuming some materials and radiating cold.
In reality, this is not possible for numerous reasons. However, what is the closest thing we could get?
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The world I am envisioning is a rocky planet with oceans, plate tectonics, atmosphere, and several other similarities to our globe. The mass and size is roughly equal, but its moon is orbiting much closer around it than our moon revolves around Earth. For the sake of clarity: the moon has roughly the sam... |
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I want transmutation of elements (for example, changing lead into gold) to be possible in my world, using magic rather than nuclear physics. I want the overall energy input or output to be consistent with the real-world elements, but without the additional energy required for initiating the nuclear react... |
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In a few sci-fi and fantasy books I've read (IIRC, [*In the Year 2889*](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1603864695) by Jules Verne was one of them), people had global communications through mirrors that are lined up exactly with each other. ( *obviously, visual only; no audio* )
Would this be po... |
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To be most effective, a windmill must face into the wind. Some windmills achieve this with a [passive yaw system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw_system), where the wind automatically adjusts the direction the windmill is facing, often with a tail fin.
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My setting is in the near-future, approximately 200 years from now. Among the many technological advances that have come about are ultra highspeed trains. For the purposes of this question, traveling on these trains works much like a subway, they have high throughput and relatively low wait times when co... |
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We are in a medieval fantasy world. There is a folk where, sometimes, a berserker is born. They are quite rare (maybe 2-5%) and there is no difference between a normal man and a berserker before he turns berserk.
I call berserker a man (or a woman) who will become some kind of a beast during a battle, an... |
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Linked to [Zombie perpetual machines](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12807/zombie-perpetual-motion-machines)
This carriage was devised by Vitrivius as a way to make good use of the Zombies discovered in Roman territory.
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Let's say you're a soldier in a science-fiction war. Everything is relatively similar to how wars are fought today, except that when you die, your likeness and memories are imprinted onto a flash-cloned husk, thereby creating a near-exact replica of you. From the clone's perspective, you died and then wo... |
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I've just come across a subplot in Jack McDevitt's *Firebird* where the earth-like planet Villanueva and the rest of its planet system was moving towards an unspecified dust cloud that made the planets uninhabitable for three centuries, leaving only robots behind (which became hostile so the planet is st... |
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Is there a time system that two spacecraft traveling in different galaxies could share?
For example, a spacecraft jumps to an unknown location in the universe, far away. How could they synchronize? Or know the “universal time”.
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One way, I think, is if the gravity is exactly correct. However, while I think the water might be in a **unstable equilibrium**, I have been unable to work out the mathematics. Let's assume that such a planet exist, will tides/ high waves result in spontaneous boiling of water; meaning that the water wil... |
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This question comes up from [Is there a man-made or natural event that can cause an abrupt climate change within hours/a day?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1169/is-there-a-man-made-or-natural-event-that-can-cause-an-abrupt-climate-change-wit) – trying to get KaguraRap a functional an... |
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In my previous question: [Magic for tone-deaf people in a world where magic is performed through song](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/136601/magic-for-tone-deaf-people-in-a-world-where-magic-is-performed-through-song) it was suggested by Ynneadwraith (many thanks by the way) that anima... |
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I am working on an empire that exists in my world. I want to know if it makes sense for said empire to standardize the materials they use for construction across the empire.
In the heart of the empire important buildings are constructed using a particular local granite and the roofs are made of slate. Th... |
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Here's the full question:
**What's the most plausible way to bio-engineer an underground ecosystem, *without using photosynthesis*, so a mine system would not need an active air exchange system?** (It was over 150 characters, again.)
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If I were to use a pearl instead of a bullet in an old fashioned flint-lock pistol or a musket, could it survive? What would it do on impact? Would it be too light for an effective ammunition?
Basically, what would be its properties as ammunition?
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There are various questions about the [stability of multiple moons](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36929/stability-of-multiple-moons), [how they affect tides](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/71/how-would-having-multiple-moons-affect-tides) and so on, but I don't think... |
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**Background:** I'm continuing to work on the economy of my industrial age world. As background info, it's a fantasy world, with loose basis in western Europe, 1870-1914; though the presence of (essentially magical) airships, largely dirigibles and small planes, complicates that as a point of reference, ... |
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I have a fictional country which I'm mapping. It is roughly the size of the US. Currently I have 16 first-level administrative divisions ('provinces'). Those 16 provinces are sub-divided into 220 or so second-level 'districts'. Districts are further sub-divided to Municipalities.
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If a spaceship left earth traveling at near or at light speeds (that being possible in this situation) would they not when coming back to earth, arrive many years in the future due to [Einstein's theory of time travel](http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98062&page=1) and how could this be prevente... |
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Imagine an alternate history, where weapons types didn't advance past "medieval" type weapons. So like: swords, maces, flails, crossbows, bows, polearms, mauls, etc. I'm intentionally excluding "gun"/explosive type weapons.
A great list is [List of premodern combat weapons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... |
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Has a loose base in [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/11742/how-to-effectively-deliver-a-flu-virus-that-destroys-the-brains-ability-to-absor?rq=1) earlier question of mine, although today we will be working with modern (roughly) tech levels and bacteria. It was pointed out in the a... |
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Suppose that I have a fantasy kingdom, built on a magical land, and the thing is that horses are so cheap and plentiful in that land, even the poorest peasant would have at least a horse to their name. The horses also do not require any special care or housing, they can sleep on the ground and be as heal... |
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Before the development of states, kingdoms, and empires, all humans were confederated into tribes. Since then, of course, things have changed. Many tribal groups banded together defined their own boundaries, and formed into states and nations.
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Picture a planet identical to Earth, but with rings.
It has a satellite similar to the moon, except smaller; I'm not sure how big it needs to be but distance from the planet is more important so assume that it is whatever size it needs to be to have the same effect on the planet as the moon does for ear... |
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# My [organolithium environment](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/160337/life-supporting-climate-for-an-organolithium-planetary-environment) planet needs to be chemically stabilized
But I don't know which compounds could physically evolve on a planet to form an atmosphere and seas wherei... |
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I want a certain asteroid of my system to break into pieces as it approaches a planet, having one fragment impact the planet itself, another fragment slingshot and impact the planet's moon and the rest either burn up or accelerate enough never to be seen again.
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I am working on a dragon project, and have solved how my dragon makes each breath, but I would like to know the most powerful possible breath, and how the dragon might make it, (fire breath, ice/cold breath, corrosive breath, poison breath, lightning breath, air breath, water breath, (kind of earth breat... |
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I am trying to build a fantasy world which is not made of matter, but of raw imaginative power. This world has an overall fixed shape, bound to the memories of a sleeping godlike being, but everything else is quite unstable and constantly shifting.
Some sentient creatures live in this world, unaware of i... |
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I am creating a species of humanoid lizard, and want to find a type of helmet that would be feasible within the story.
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Tech level is basically hunter gatherer and nomadic, with a small bit of metalwork.
Lizards are approximately 6.5 to 7 feet tall and proportioned similar to a human.
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I'm an advanced AI in far futuristic sci-fi setting.
To give you the size of how advanced we are, I'll just drop here a short list of our accomplishments:
* We have discovered cold fission-reactors and mastered all the other known forms of energy
* We have high tech robotics, both on large scale (enormo... |
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In the middle of the night, while J. Random Human is sleeping, A. Hypersphere picks him hyper-up extremely carefully (so that none of his matter falls out in a direction he doesn't have), flips him over through a fourth spatial dimension, and puts him back hyper-down in his bed. When he wakes up, the ent... |
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One idea I've always wanted to try writing is the concept of vampires exploiting their lack of a need to breathe and generally low-maintenance biology to escape the brunt of the sun's rays by living underneath the sea, and the opportunity to use this idea in my current story has recently presented itself... |
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EDIT: There were some great answers here, and I realize this is a kinda broad question, but I'm accepting Monty Wild answer as it provided me with the info I needed to push this forward. Now I have a place to start research.
Thanks everyone!
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In my world, the knowledge of science is largely lost, but many of the practical facts are still remembered. Chemistry morphed back into alchemy.
My main character grew up as a peasant in a city's outskirts, and learned alchemy from an old textbook and experimenting on what she could find in the forest.
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Recently I was pondering mermaids and was wondering how their respiratory systems work. Most importantly, how could their vocal chords continue to function? Secondly, how would they draw the water through external gills? It would have to be different than human breathing because there is no suction.
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In my story, I would like to have a contemporary Mars Rover find not only evidence, but a mostly complete skeleton of a *homo sapiens* that perished around 50,000 years ago when it was exposed to the surface (due to a misguided, childish experiment by aliens).
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is this planet plausible?
* the planet is the third planet from its star.
* by size smaller than Earth.
* the planet has no moons.
* the only habitable areas are rings around the poles.
* in the pole, there's a sea of water.
* ringed around the sea, is a habitable region with a tropical climate.
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For the purposes of this question, let's use the definition of nanotechnology from the tag wiki excerpt: "technology that works with sizes of less than 100 nanometres".
An EMP can vary in frequency range, but Wikipedia gives ["DC to daylight" as excluding infrared and shorter wavelengths](https://en.wiki... |
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Wood has, historically, been used, and still is, to make a great variety of things. Indeed, this material has many qualities, the most relevant being:
* Commonplace: in most places in your typical fantasy setting, you never have to go very far to find trees.
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Humans establish colonies on Mars with slightly more advanced technology than we have today. The Martian colonists lose all contact with Earth. Over centuries, the Martian colonists develop a distinct culture (w/ practices, religion, language, etc). My story takes place in th... |
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Recently, I've seen those pictures showing what Earth would be like if it had rings, and that made me wonder, what would the sky map be like? This ring would appear as a fixed object (pretty much as stars) so I'd like to know how could this be represented on a two-dimensional map.
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I have the below snippet describing a planet in a (hard) sci-fi setting. This harsh planet has some human settlers, who can survive the climate in light weight environmental suits.
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What are the best scientific resources and/or public databases to be taken into consideration when designing real alien worlds? So far, there are thousands of newly discovered alien worlds.
Let's say I wanted to illustrate a newly discovered exoplanet X within the solar system Y, so where can I get relia... |
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This questions was inspired by [this one](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41385/is-there-a-more-effective-way-to-build-the-vocabulary-of-a-fictional-language-th). I'm also in the process of making a language, to pair with a writing system I created.
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The massive Golems are nearly impervious to harm. Thanks to the New Golem Army, the nascent Dutch Republic's castles and forts are now safe from harm. The century-long external threat has been finally and permanently put to rest, as the bones of our enemies are bleaching in the sun by our castle's walls.... |
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Okay, this is unrelated to my current world building in any way whatsoever, but...
I have always been a huge fan of the humongous mecha genre (bonus points to anyone who actually recognized my avatar pic), and have done some world building in such a setting before. Unfortunately, it never really gets any... |
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I've been working on a world for a game I'm making. The basis of the game is that you have to carefully manage your resources, and to keep moving. I'd like to build a world which fits that. These are the requirements for the world:
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Many sci-fi words use anti-gravity or artificial gravity to manipulate the weight of their ships making flight much easier. Wikipedia even has an [article on it](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity) which discusses several attempts to make objects float.
The main approaches seem to be:
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In my story, the land of Koyokuni has a [Japanese-style castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_castle), Akimachi Castle. The castle - and indeed the entire city of Akimachi - is uninhabited, though the land is being repopulated after the end of the war in which it became completely depopulated.
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I'm playing around with the idea of making a world heavily based on one of my favorite childhood book series. (basically a fanmade rewrite of sorts). The series is called Warriors, and is about talking cats. I’m rewriting the worldbuilding and story for fun so that the cats are bipedal and more civilized... |
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I am working on a scenario where a climate protection organization tries to breed sapient Cephalopoda as a help in their fight against climate change. The breeding goals of the evolving species are as follows:
* they should be self aware
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Let us consider that humans leave earth after it becomes deadly for us. And then many years pass.
Would there be a chance of a different but intelligent life evolving in our place.
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Why would an non-Eusocial animal have a caste of sterile individuals?
Formicidae and Apoidea have sterile workers,but those outnumber the fertile drones and princesses or queens.
In another animal that doesn't have queens or drones but just motile(male) and oogame(female) why would evolution support and ... |
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