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[Question] [ This hypothetical organism would: * Be able to control a host using neurostimulus * Inhabit the space near the host's brain * Be rather large, so it would have to disguise its body in an attempt to match a human body part. Maybe it would approximate hair as best it could? Signs that a host has this paras...
[Question] [ One of the things that affects the color of the sky is the wavelengths of light that the star emits, like the image in [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/48867/sky-color-of-an-alien-world). Here is the image again: [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/...
[Question] [ I have a society of merpeople that have developed sonar in order to hunt, gather resources, and in some instances communicate. They use organically created weaponry (sharpened coral, animal incisor daggers, turtle shell shields, etc.) and live in woven seaweed fortresses. A rift has been created, and the...
[Question] [ I'm trying to create a continent where desert areas are as maximal and fertile coastal areas as minimal as possible. I've been trying to find some tools to help me with this, but I've only been able to find Geoff's Climate Cookbook. Unfortunately, Geoff's has it backwards. The Cookbook wants me to have a...
[Question] [ **TL;DR:** suggest human traits of mind/society that one should (a) tweak (b) leave well alone, in order to generate an alien worldview that allows a **novel length** tale to be told **purely from perspective of said aliens** but at the same time permit human readers to identify with and care about the c...
[Question] [ I have made my billions here in the present day, and I'd like to have a **permanent underwater settlement**. It is about as useless as the [Mars One](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One) mission (yes, I went there), but some people may come and go as they like or can afford to. This is fully pressuriz...
[Question] [ Especially like the sandy Sahara. I read a little and found said desert lost its lushness from a change in Earth's tilt. Are there other reasons? [Answer] It is correct that equatorial areas typically are hotter due to greater exposure to the sun. However, that doesn't directly impact rainfall. There ...
[Question] [ It seems that people who live at very high altitudes have demonstrably "thicker" blood, highly concentrated with red blood cells to overcome the low concentration of oxygen in the air. Moving between extremes of altitude apparently needs to be done gradually for the same reason. Assuming a biology large...
[Question] [ Note: This question assumes an earth-like biology. Could a microbe (probably virus) be created that transformed humans into plants? What I mean by this is that the microbe would take human cells, and slowly, over time, transform them into plant cells. Like the new plant would retain a human like shape, a...
[Question] [ The Question of the [Tunnel through a Planet](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/612/122) grinds my mind. **How could you dig a Hole through the fluid mantle of a planet?** Would your walls not constantly break and collapse on you after the 15-20 km of the crust? Would it be a straight, spiraled...
[Question] [ The world is an infinite plane with an Earth-like surface. It has an atmosphere, but it has finite height Because of this, and how fields work, this should give us the same gravity all the way up, which has implications for light; all light that leaves the atmosphere will eventually turn around and hit t...
[Question] [ House cats are among the oldest domestic animals on Earth. They basically followed domestication of cereals in the Middle East; mice infiltrated human habitation to eat the stored grain, and cats came in to eat the mice. To this day, house cats behave, unlike other domestic animals, as though they are gu...
[Question] [ When a planet is under seige, obviously its airports, missile silos, and launch sites are the first targets of bombardment, to prevent a counterattack. It thus seems that submarines, which can fire missiles and then submerge and swim away, and only have to resupply at a port every few years, are the logi...
[Question] [ I'm writing a fictional story where non-primate mammals (and marsupials) evolved into different species of humanoids which roamed the earth. In my world humanoids have evolved from animals such as bears , sloths and koalas including extinct animals such as Chalicotheres. I'm wondering what evolutionary p...
[Question] [ **Specifics**: the magical ability is genetic, very rare (about one in ten thousand people will be born with it), and no mage can be too strong (no destroying mountains, drying lakes etc.). Also, the nature of magical spells is fundamentally different from any technology or natural phenomena (i.e. laser ...
[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. In [...
[Question] [ I'm working on a planet wherein the dominant species isn't humanoid (in this case, mantids.) However, I'm unsure as to whether or not it'd make more logical sense for the dominant species to be comprised of a single species of mantis, or multiple species of mantises. Mantises, after all, are an order, no...
[Question] [ Perhaps you've flown in a plane on an especially cloudy day when all you can see are clouds beneath and above you. It's a beautiful sight, strata'd white all around. So what if the plane were flying on Jupiter instead and enjoying the cloud strata there? There's a couple of assumptions here: 1. There are...
[Question] [ The government of Futurestan has finally decided to hear the voice of her people. It would seem that [the protriotors](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18771/the-new-rioters-weapon-of-choice) access to malware, EMP-otovs, and weaponized angry glaring (and thermite. Lots of thermite) caus...
[Question] [ Lets say there is a fire on a zero-g space station (no efforts have been made to give gravity to the structure and it's far enough away from any planet/sun that gravity is negligible). It is contained and does not breach any of the structure itself (so ignore the vacuum elements here). For simplicity, le...
[Question] [ Any curved space is approximately Euclidean on small enough scales, so for a sufficiently large characteristic length (significantly larger than the radius of the smallest real stars) the answer is obviously "yes". But what about more extreme cases? Say, if the characteristic length is 1km? That's large ...
[Question] [ I've seen [Which is easier to develop: a piston prop engine or a jet engine?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/168295/which-is-easier-to-develop-a-piston-prop-engine-or-a-jet-engine) and my own [Effects of ~10atm pressure on engine design](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/question...
[Question] [ On an Earth-like planet, an intelligent species evolved in symbiosis with another species that lives in their digestive system and act as the microbial gut flora in humans do. What implementations of macro-scale creatures (such as insects or something similar) would allow them to take over as much of the...
[Question] [ This is part of a series of questions about biological hydraulics, the fist one being [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/111528/would-biological-hydraulics-be-worth-evolving-in-tetrapods). My tetrapods have hydraulics in the thighs of their hind legs. To push or pull fluid from clos...
[Question] [ I'm inspired by the comments discussion on a (now deleted) question by XandarTheZenon. We're preconditioned to think in terms of a 2-sex lifeform, which is natural with diploid genetic material, and sexes that specialize with different reproductive strategies. This often leads to species that have sexual...
[Question] [ From a science-fiction development perspective I am looking for some plausible answer for the following: **What conditions (the more permanent, the better) would make for a bronze sky?** All the better, could we be currently creating those conditions? For instance, the sky is typically blue based on the ...
[Question] [ In analogy with a skydiver, a culture has developed an extreme sport called "tornado-surfing". Essentially, a thrillseeker hunts down supercells that might create tornadoes and lets themselves be sucked in by one. The goal is to stay airborne as long as possible while surviving the winds and debris. The ...
[Question] [ So I heard about this thing on vsauce a while ago, where scientists use this thing called “acoustic levitation”. They use ultrasonic frequencies to levitate various substances, for use of studying their properties in an isolated environment. But I had a thought: if sound can push against gravity and cau...
[Question] [ I want to write about men out doing whaling and fishing with the type of technology similar to that of early 1700s boating. They are going to have a blunderbuss, use old harpoon fishing, sail boats made of wood etc. However, I don't know as much about this subject as I would like to. Where could I learn ...
[Question] [ I am trying to construct a standing stone calendar for my world Jasmi, located at latitude 53.8 degrees South. To do this, I need the hour angle of moonrise and moonset for my world. The problem is that I have no idea how to calculate the hour angle of the Earth's moon, much less the hour angle of an exo...
[Question] [ Imagine an earth-like planet on which gravity is reduced by 20%-30% every 15 months. The low-grav-effect should start slowly, reaching its peak/bottom of round about 0.7 g after 6 weeks and should slowly diminish again for another 6 weeks, so that it lasts for 3 months in total. The effect exists since t...
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[Question] [ Suppose we have a binary star system and a planet at the L4 or L5 point of the orbit of one of the stars around the other. The planet is thus illuminated by the two stars from the same distance and the angle between the stars is about 60 degrees. If the planet is tidally locked, it will be constantly ill...
[Question] [ Much like how certain cultures have adapted to live at extremely high altitudes, what would be the evolutionary effects if humans today were taken to a planet with atmospheric pressure not unlike an early Earth? Think something oxygen-rich, about 4 bars of atmospheric pressure. The catch is that gravity ...
[Question] [ Sometimes when building a world, and in particular since Tolkien, one may wish to create original languages for the inhabitants. There are some information around the site about the creation of conlang, but @knave made a [good summary](https://medium.com/universe-factory/conlangs-for-non-linguists-827b1e...
[Question] [ Apparently it is **theoretically** possible for a planet [to achieve a stable orbit](http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/black-hole-alien-life-110413.htm) around the [singularity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity) at the centre of a black hole within the [event hor...
[Question] [ I am a big fan of of 'post-scarcity' societies, where we could, in theory not worry about basic needs such as food and shelter anymore, and instead focus on pursuit of 'greater' things that are our area of interest. The crucial stepping stone to that is the concept of basic income - that is everyone has ...
[Question] [ Picture, if you will, four planets sharing the exact same orbit and orbital speed, and separated by exactly same distance from each other. Each planet is the same size and roughly the same gravitational pull and are stable in this arrangement. No satellites and each has no axial tilt. If each world's sur...
[Question] [ Any form of FTL, including traversable wormholes, allows backwards time travel. (EDIT: I mean going backwards in coordinate time. We get to closed timelike curves later in the post.) My world has traversable wormholes, so I just bite the bullet and say *yes*, anyone with the ability to use wormholes can ...
[Question] [ By that, I don’t mean what type of structures, I mean under which part of the Earth? It's an extremely densely populated nation. As densely populated as many major cities - think Hong Kong and more specifically the Kowloon at its prime. I’m struggling to think about where on our planet this place would b...
[Question] [ When looking at mammals and their heart rates one can find a [correlation between the lifespan of a mammal and their heart rate](https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/20489/is-there-any-relationship-between-heartbeat-rate-and-life-span-of-an-animal). Namely most mammals seem to get [about 1 billion...
[Question] [ I was wondering what is the smallest a terrestrial planet can be and maintain plate tectonics and generate a magnetic field, atleast to Earth's current age? [Answer] I have been browsing a few references on the subject and the parameters that are involved seem more numerous than just the size or mass...
[Question] [ I was thinking of writing a story and had the idea of having a society exist on the core of a gas planet. The core would be similar to earth with a breathable atmosphere similar to ours above it but still have the outer atmosphere of hydrogen and helium above it as these two gases are lighter than the ma...
[Question] [ Our universe is incredibly young, relative to its total life span. How young? Well, it contains *stars*. Giant balls of readily fusing hydrogen and helium that give off a pleasant glow, suitable for igniting the formation of life forms on planets orbiting at optimal distances with healthy chemical compos...
[Question] [ As a tangent to [How "advanced" can a stone age society get?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/968/539), is there a way that simple electronics could be created by filling channels cut into rock with some form of conductive material? An organic substance derived from a plant, for instance, or a ...
[Question] [ I use the koppen-geiger climate maps a lot but I haven't found any for Pangaea. Would the climate zones be the same if the continents were in the Pangaea shape or is it something different? It would be helpful if there was a map or something of the Pangaea climate.[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d2VgV.jpg...
[Question] [ Humans evolved in ancestral environments as semimigratory omnivores, which has embedded several things into our instinctive sense of wellness, aka "all is alright with the world", among them a preference of [living close to water](http://www2.tulane.edu/news/newwave/010912_ethiopia.cfm), [rolling hills](...
[Question] [ I need an semi-organic structure large enough to fit a dense kasbah village on top, that protrudes from a shallow sea. additional info, maybe unimportant: planet orbits a red dwarf star tidally locked in the habitable zone, breathable atmosphere but unpleasant, located on the night or twilight side of th...
[Question] [ Garden Fairies exist... But not in the way we thought. A strange form of life borrowing traits from insects and plants with a human-like appearance. This is a reality-check, is what I am about to suggest at all possible? What improvements need to be made to make it plausible. *Aside: how these fairies ev...
[Question] [ In an old story of mine, there happened to be a species of humanoid who could produce a variety of mutants and hybrids from stolen and harvested DNA, sperm, and biological tissues. They would produce organic embryo-holding pillars, or eggs, or sacks to contain their countless highly differentiated young ...
[Question] [ My question is mainly related to the impact on food production if the climate changes made agriculture more difficult in the state of California but also in the other American and Mexican states from both side of the border. **Context:** If you live in the United Sates, in Canada or possibly in other co...
[Question] [ *Related:* * *[How would a completely urbanized city-planet support its population?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/810/how-would-a-completely-urbanized-city-planet-support-its-population)* * *[How a completely urbanized city-planet be maintained?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.c...
[Question] [ I'm building a soft sci-fi world where gravity works a bit differently: the acceleration due to gravity drops off at a rate much greater than our inverse-square; and the acceleration due to gravity "flips" and oscillates at regular intervals, becoming repulsive rather than attractive and vice versa (simi...
[Question] [ Let's consider an [O'Neill cylinder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder) with a radius of 3.2km and length of 20km. In the classic O'Neill design, we have three large axis-aligned windows in the shell, alternating between purlins of habitable surface. The windows provide light, and presumab...
[Question] [ How can I predict the color of the sky based on the information provided? Atmospheric composition: * | 2% Trace gases | 58% Nitrogen | 26% Oxygen | 11% Argon | 3% Carbon dioxide | Average surface temperature: * 36 degrees Celsius Planetary rotation: * 34 hours Axial tilt: * 0 Info regarding of altitude, ...
[Question] [ I'm developing a silkworm that spins webs of a particular kind of "silk" and weaves thin, fragile webs. The magic part of this is that it also spins wind. The following addresses how this works and my question. # Info The silkworms "fold" breezes into the silk, basically funelling the wind into a handwav...
[Question] [ Sequel to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/95835/could-you-make-bat-wings-shaped-like-the-different-kinds-of-bird-wings). Basically, I've been designing an intelligent avian race based on bats. After reading through some of the answers for the linked question, I've decide...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ I might have a bit too much saltwater in my brain. I'd like to discuss (can you do that in this format?) the ideas of combative mermaids on land. If you saw my other questions, you saw me bring up Tactics Ogre Knight of Lodis as a cool inspiration for this. Bryan McClure had a good comment in this questi...
[Question] [ # Linked: [What would conditions on a methane world be like?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14312/what-would-the-conditions-on-a-methane-world-be-like?noredirect=1#comment34633_14312) # Question: As mentioned in the linked question, Titan is the second most likely world in the Solar S...
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[Question] [ We occasionally get questions and answers that discuss how close to each other planets can be and still meet some criteria. For example, [this answer to the question *''Habitable'' planet close to a star*](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/151107/29). For the purposes of this question, I am *not*...
[Question] [ I'm envisioning a series of moons in orbit of a super-earth (ideal) or gas giant. If technically workable, the super-earth would have earthlike gravity, the mass and size aren't important. If it's too hard to make it terrestrial, I can use a gas giant. What is important are the moons: 7 earthlike. In add...
[Question] [ I am searching for a software capable of creating any planet ( like universe sandbox) with the ability of shaping the landscape and adding tags to any coordinates I wish to in order to represent cities, important places, etc. It would be even better if I could assign pre-designed icons to them. I've sear...
[Question] [ I could have sworn that there was a question that covered this, but I suppose I'm misremembering. If anyone finds one, let me know. Back in the early days of the Solar System, things were pretty bad. There were many collisions, which made it hard for any particular object to stay the way it was for exten...
[Question] [ [![see the schematics here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6GWO.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6GWO.jpg) Ok, assuming a planet that's tidally locked to its sun, but is otherwise roughly similar to earth in gravity and atmosphere. Classic tidally locked planet: one side is covered in ice, the other is a sco...
[Question] [ Mars has an inactive mantle and core and thus little magnetosphere to speak of. Assume that a lunar mass object is placed in Mars orbit at 300,000 kilometers out (one light-second). Given the tidal forces at play, how long would it take to bring the magnetosphere up to a strength where it could divert so...
[Question] [ I have planet with twice the radius of Earth, with its core being the same absolute size as Earth's in order to provide magnetosphere, and the rest of the planet made of silicates like Earth's mantle. There are oceans on the surface with similar depths to Earth's, covering 2/3 of the surface. I chose tho...
[Question] [ In Chinese folklore the dead live in a society much like our own while waiting for reincarnation. One notable exception is that that the government is that of the Yama Kings. The living can send their ancestors all kind of things (food, clothes, house, money) by burning the paper model of those things. ...
[Question] [ People wonder how Santa can deliver all his presents in one night. It's, simple: he's a master time traveller. (This post will form the base of a long series of questions). Here's how Santa's usual Christmas goes: 1. Santa spends Christmas with his family 2. After Christmas, all the presents are in all t...
[Question] [ So, many predators, but especially felines, have more "strength" per kilogram than humans. Why? Well, it's in the type of muscle fiber they use. These types are: 1. Slow-oxidative: Small force production, very high endurance, found in skeletal muscles responsible for posture. 2. Fast-oxidative: Medium fo...
[Question] [ I am creating a map for a story set in a pre-industrial world, and have made the basic physical geography. My main concern now is the development of culture, centred around urbanisation. There are some obvious commonalities between major cities historically; mostly that they are along a river or beside t...
[Question] [ We've all seen science fiction movies where a beam of some kind hits a person, and the entire person is affected but nothing else. For example, an ice blast freezes a person, their clothes, and their shoes instantly, but not the floor. Or a phaser disintegrates a person's body without leaving a trace, bu...
[Question] [ I'm working on the biology of a fantasy race of very large human-like beings (think something like the Vrykul from WoW or the Norn from Guild Wars), and got stuck on one aspect of their development as infants. Relative to other species, human babies can be considered somewhat "undercooked" - or, putting ...
[Question] [ I'm trying to develop climatic maps for our countries and know that wind is a huge part of that. Our world is shaped the same as Earth, it's just a little smaller, and our axis is slightly less tilted (about a 20 degree tilt) so we have less dramatic variations in climate and season. Here's a draft of pr...
[Question] [ Having recently discovered that [torus-shaped planets can actually form](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJvbO_rR07g), I've started to consider using that design as a setting for a map(no real purpose in mind, just map making for the sake of it). How would I realistically simulate the formation of landma...
[Question] [ In my setting, there is an isolationist people known as the Jotnar (sing. Jotunn), who are merely humans, but are consistently taller than other human populations, which I think of as reverse pygmies. But although there's plenty of room for discussion as to why there are populations that are consistently...
[Question] [ Let’s say I have an island, similar to the likes of [Kerguel](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands) in the Indian Ocean, as the island is hundreds of miles away from any mainland, has no immediate resources, a tiny population and no strategic value; But for one reason or another, the governm...
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[Question] [ I'm currently trying to create a separate kind of Earth, without just changing my setting to a world that fits my criteria. So I'm trying to figure out a way for Earth to have a new beginning, so that I can develop an entirely new world, while also maintaining the aspects of this one, with minor details ...
[Question] [ Background: in [my setting](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/209979/how-does-one-defend-a-military-depot-against-nazi-ish-sasquatch-vampires-in-a-co), there's a regional-scale nuclear war across most of Europe that primarily uses [gun-type](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_...
[Question] [ A set of small isolated human populations, villages, although geographically close stay separate for one reason and one reason alone. Terrifying beasts that hunt human flesh and terrify children at night. The beasts mimic a human appearance, often previous victims, making them excellent at picking off pe...
[Question] [ There is an elite and secretive school of warriors known for its ruthless method of training. Very few students (only around 10%) ever complete their training; this is because the training is often lethal. However, those who do leave the school alive invariably become all-but-legendary. Their very names ...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- Closed 6 years ago. * You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I ge...
[Question] [ I have a story that is set in a world with a 1910's to 1940's style going on. So fitting to that era I have quite a few characters who smoke. Now I have a scenario where one of the main characters (the only one of the main cast who regularly smokes cigarettes) gets asked by a character from a different c...
[Question] [ Currently writing a fanfiction called *Challenger*, a spinoff of Uru-chan's *unOrdinary*. A sort of a fan parallel dimension, if you will. Grey (inspired off of John Doe) is a 17-year-old highschool student-soon-to-be-hero, but, like all his other classmates, he has an Ability. 95% of humanity have been ...
[Question] [ I am a DM for a homebrew D&D 5e game. In terms of technology, the time period loosely takes place somewhere between 1100 and 1400 CE (so High Middle Ages to Late Middle Ages). The villain of my piece knows of some substance (TBD) underground that, when ignited, would destroy everything within several mil...
[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. For ...
[Question] [ I've been thinking about a world in which nuclear power and nuclear weapons were never developed. What kind of mechanism would allow this to be possible? Nuclear weapons seem the easiest option, with fears of of nuclear proliferation leading to various nations agreeing to dismantle and refuse to build we...
[Question] [ Assume this city is relatively large by late medieval standards, around 200,000 people. The city is mainly a site for trade due to its geographically central position and being on a river. Also, because it is geographically central, it also means the city is important for the government to project power....
[Question] [ I have a concept for an asteroid mining station. The metal ingots that are processed are fired out of a railgun towards Earth. How could I slow the ingots down before reaching Earth to avoid accidentally causing an extinction-level event? Edit: The ingots are about 2-3 tons. [Answer] You need to dissi...
[Question] [ In my world, there rules a wise government that maintains an Utopia that was created centuries ago. This Utopia was founded by elders that left earth because they felt Earth decayed through wars, famine and - first and foremost - overpopulation. Hence those elders and their successors introduced policies...
[Question] [ I am planning to write a book where a near-future government on Earth begins recruiting talented children at the age of 14 to train them to become the next political leaders. They are going to study in an academic environment where they will receive a specialized education in running a state. These child...
[Question] [ For my Science fiction and Fantasy genre book, I need an energy source whose energy output should be much more than even a fully functional Dyson sphere. Can you please suggest some hypothetical concept as an option? Edit: I need just a Supernovae of energy to make some kind of hypothetical weapon, I don...
[Question] [ In my world, there are humans (often called Earthlings) and eight alien species. Humans have an Earth government best described as a democratic quinquevirate: to be exact, this is an elective semi-presidential republic with five Presidents, ten Prime Ministers, and one honorary Emperor/Empress/Empross (t...
[Question] [ When a character jumps into water from a great height, they would normally be severely injured, as displacing the water to decelerate is harder than displacing the impacting body. If the body is soft, it will easily deform. That's why, in my story, I want someone to jump into water wearing armor. It cove...
[Question] [ Oh yes, personal powered armors, such as MJOLNIR, are a staple of sci-fi. A sci-fi that disguises itself as fantasy needs to have some for the knights! But, there is one thing I don't want to let it do, that is increasing encumbrance. If powered armor allows people to wield and shoot a Barret M82 like it...
[Question] [ So I could not get any answers for my previous question regarding what happens in a indeterministic world such as the worlds in a Cauchy Horizon of a Reissner Nördstrom Black Hole. However, I deduced from one of the comments that a world beyond time, and beyond where both space and time in one universe ...
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[Question] [ Imagine a space battle happening high above Earth (~25k miles, or ~40200 km). It's right above the observers who are standing on the planet's surface. Both armies have the same amount of spacecraft, one mothership (the size of two ISD from Star Wars), two warships (same size and weapons as a Star Destroy...