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[Question] [ A spaceship crew, during their interstellar travel loses control of the spaceship for a few hours due to external factors (exact factor not important). This causes the spaceship to deviate from its original course. The deviation is sudden and large (imagine the spaceship spinning(?) in space during devia...
[Question] [ I'm referencing [ST's Borg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg) in this query but due to WB.SE customs regarding asking about known franchises, am generalising the query itself. So, in Star Trek, the Borg are a collective society of humanoids, described as a "hive mind" in which all the people are linked...
[Question] [ This question may seem like an impossible challenge. What I'm talking about here is a biological explanation for limited (or, for bonus marks, unlimited) form shifting, immortality (at least in age) and the ability to defy physics. For example, in Ribbontail's series Aman5 she has a complex system of go...
[Question] [ So, if I have a civilization that lives in a hollow planet, with a sun in the middle. How would they tell time? The sun always shines, and it is a Constant Spring/summertime weather. They have animals that live about as long as they do on earth, trees, and other plants. The planet will have a magical bac...
[Question] [ I’m working on a first contact story set in the near future where an advanced alien species arrives at Earth and reveals itself to humanity, but is utterly baffled by the diversity of life that it finds on Earth. What kind of world and evolutionary development history could possibly lead to an advanced a...
[Question] [ This question [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/186728/speedrun-to-the-moon-in-one-lifetime) asked if it would be possible to reach the moon within a lifetime for a civilisation starting with "nothing". The answer to that question, quite clearly, is: no way. But it made me think. G...
[Question] [ I have a group of pixies fighting a group of humans. The pixies are about 4-6 inch tall humanoids, which seems like it puts them at a big disadvantage unless they seriously outnumber the humans, or are using guerilla tactics, both of which I would prefer to avoid. The pixies have a medieval level of tech...
[Question] [ **Backstory** You won't believe it, but I'll tell you anyway. I'm a Level 61 wizard. If you think about it, wands aren't all that hard to use. Point, invoke, joyfully watch your enemy burn in the fires of *Reetath.* I've watched wizards do it all my life.2 So, when I stumbled across a fairly new-looking ...
[Question] [ If an advanced being or group wanted to limit a human society's technological development, they might establish a series of cultural taboos or religious guidelines to influence the societies development. Assume that the creators of these guidelines are not going to be around to enforce them after they ar...
[Question] [ We have these "magical" items everywhere in fiction; from the classic rabbit coming out of a hat illusion, to the TARDIS from *Doctor Who*, to Newest Magical Beast Newt Scamander Briefcase. These items all share same characteristic: a container with interior spaces that are much larger than they appear t...
[Question] [ By that I mean, if you are travelling about on a continent on a planet with a circumference similar to the Sun, **how much further would you be able to see, and would it be noticeable, without more complex scientific instruments? Would standing on a mountaintop, or the shoreline of a Atlantic ocean sized...
[Question] [ The Dyson Dilemma states that every civilization of a great enough development stage will want to capture all of the energy from its home star and surround it with a Dyson Swarm that uses solar panels to capture every last square meter of sunlight. Such a structure should be detectable within [1 kpc](htt...
[Question] [ In many survivalist stories the intrepid heroes wisely (given the impending plot line) decide to build and stock a [fallout shelter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_shelter). When the inevitable catastrophe comes they move into their underground bunker and live in relative comfort while the bulk of...
[Question] [ Would the USA have been deterred from dropping a nuclear bomb on Japan if Japan had the means of retaliating with a nuclear weapon in WW2? Leading on from that, would Japan have used the nuclear weapon against America if they had the knowledge that the USA could retaliate with similar destruction? [An...
[Question] [ Suppose there was a world on which evolution and natural selection took an odd turn and [never produced an organism](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59025/can-a-plant-change-history#comment168219_59025) that could be considered a plant by our [modern definition](http://www.dictionary.co...
[Question] [ Based on the desert world from [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/98663/roughly-how-much-water-would-my-desert-civilization-need-every-year) I need to transport around 500 cubic kilometres of water / year across a desert. [Using this calculator.](https://www.eng.auburn.edu/...
[Question] [ Spaceships are a peculiar thing. We've got them in all forms, sizes & colours. They have vast computers needed to do all the real-time calculations required for [astrogation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrogation). Assuming our computers are not as *perfect* as we [designed them to be](https://en.wik...
[Question] [ I am making a game universe involving spaceships. While chewing through the implementation issues, I also keep making story and environment plans. Big battleships have big guns. However such guns have a recoil and there's nothing a battleship can brace against. Shooting a big conventional cannon or railg...
[Question] [ Imagine an orc-like species of violent sociopaths: they are sadists taking pleasure in the suffering of others, have fits of violent rage, see altruism and empathy as contemptible weakness and are all around complete jerks. It is a truism that no-one consider themselves evil, but it is actually false: th...
[Question] [ As the topic asks, what could an aquatic civilization use to write on/with? By aquatic, I mean they live in the oceans, breathe water, etc. -- like mermaids and such. And they are trying to create a way to write in that underwater environment, rather than having a gas pressure dome of any sort. Edit - ...
[Question] [ In Sci-fi, space fighters often look like exotic versions of fighter jets: wing shape is often different but the general shape is most of the time kept. However this seems unrealistic: the shape of fighter jets is almost always the same, because it is optimised for air-combat. In particular wings serve n...
[Question] [ As a strongman I want to rule my country with iron fist, but times have changed, this days west doesn't look too kindly on autocrats. Oh how I miss the good old days when I could hang people by their genitals just because they dared protesting for 40 hours work week on frivolous charges that they are com...
[Question] [ It's a common trope that during the Cold War (and afterwards) America, the UK, the USSR, and sometimes nations beyond these developed super spies, capable of acts of espionage, sabotage, and direct military action worthy of a film deal or two. Often they're subject of super-soldier programs, and achieve ...
[Question] [ Suppose I am elected the leader of the government (president, head of state, etc.) of a present-day Western style Earth nation. My government has solid support in my country's parliament, but not unrestricted support. (So I can't just propose a law that, say, outlaws every other political party.) My coun...
[Question] [ The business of mind storage became a profitable one, after the discovery of a magical process that allows the memories and personality of a living being to be transferred into another body. Consciousnesses are stashed in animals (or rented humans, for the wealthy) while the body undergoes surgery. Dange...
[Question] [ In a society that has relatively plentiful magic, enough that spell casters would be a standard part of any size-able army, would cannons and artillery still develop? For the purpose of this question lets say we are using a D&D/Pathfinder like system where spell casters get a few spells per day and can t...
[Question] [ We have already discussed [how difficult it would be to blow up a planet like Earth](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/4684/29), basically deciding that you can't do that with any reasonable amounts of energy. But what if I don't need to *blow up* the planet (as in, cause a mostly-solids-to-near-...
[Question] [ In popular mythology, wearing a garlic wreath is a good defense against vampires. Silver kills werewolves. But why? How could ***garlic***, a spice whose only offense is plain stink, deter an attractive man with a seriously unhealthy diet, as opposed to more potent spices like pepper or azalea? Why does ...
[Question] [ I would like to create a sentient creature with telepathy and/or telekinesis. * Can either (or both) of these concepts exist biologically? * If yes, what would the biological mechanism be? * Would a specialized organ of some sort be needed and how would it interact with the rest of the body? * How stron...
[Question] [ Original prompt: "What would be the effect of a giant magic fireball burning in the ocean? Imagine there's a magical fireball that stays in one spot in the middle of the ocean and emits heat at a constant rate that is hot enough to evaporate any water on contact. It's visually sun-like but doesn't do all...
[Question] [ Global famines have dropped the population to 1 billion people and global civilization has collapsed. In an effort to save future civilization some time, you want to provide some information to kick start civilization's regrowth. # You have to choose exactly three books or articles on chemistry By virtue...
[Question] [ A middle income country with weak institutions, which is heavily dependent on tourism and trade for its foreign currency, has a problem with rising crime rates. There are many petty criminals from destitute farmers due to flood of subsidized food from EU & USA. Also there's a large influx of foreign crim...
[Question] [ There is a medieval city that, for multiple reasons, doesn't have any kind of structural defense, but they decided to build a wall now as there is risk of a war in the bordering kingdom, which can make the city a strategic target for an attack. Now, they want this wall to be a nice stone wall, and I assu...
[Question] [ I'm working on a space story in which an astronaut is travelling to Neptune to validate our CurrentEarth™ corporation's findings regarding our Solar System. The setting is a moving ship similar to the Mars home base in [The Martian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)), but I came across a b...
[Question] [ I'm sure that this has been asked before, but I need floating islands for a fiction story I'm writing. It takes place 5000 years after a catastrophic event (on a vaguely earth-like planet populated with humans) that shrouded the surface of the planet in a continual fog of toxic, biochemically unstable ga...
[Question] [ I was wondering if three planets can rotate around each other so that: * Two of the planets are smaller and rotate around each other * Both of the smaller planets rotate around another, bigger planet. It's a bit hard to explain, so I made a (low-quality, just illustrative, using Mercury, Venus and Earth ...
[Question] [ [This answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/14978/49) to my question about light-as-a-weapon came up with an interesting concept: > > # The Reflecting-Oven-Jay > > > This is a small African predatory bird with a perfectly smooth set of wings with an area of ~100 cm2, so maybe the size of a...
[Question] [ My story has a battle between two tiny races of humanoids. Assume that both of these races have developed in relative isolation from one another so they have not had a lot of time to develop specialized weapons and tactics against each other's strengths and weakness or steal each other's technology. Gnom...
[Question] [ Ignoring the plausibility of their evolution and sources of food, could a whale-like creature which internally consists largely of hydrogen bladders/gasbags realistically stay aloft? If these creatures are plausible, would larger creatures be able to float more easily, given that their volume (and hence...
[Question] [ ## Introduction This question is based on the time travel mechanic discussed in my previous question [The Tricky Trouble with Two Time Travelers](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14667/the-tricky-trouble-with-two-time-travelers). I'll lay out the rules that I've decided on so far: * Cert...
[Question] [ [Planet of hats](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfHats) is the name of a trope where all inhabitants of a planet share a defining characteristic, of which there are many sub-tropes like [environment](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/40/are-geographically-typed-planets-r...
[Question] [ I'm currently designing a world where the inhabitants see the Aurora Borealis on an almost nightly basis almost all the way to the equator. The lights are so strong they rarely see the stars beyond. I've been wondering what could cause this, increased solar activity? Stronger magnetic poles? So far I've ...
[Question] [ In my world I have one side armed with 'muskets' which utilize a simple form of magitek. Their 'bullet' is actually a magical 'blast' of condensed magic from the air. Despite being magical in theory, I am modeling them off of early muskets (at approximately the effectiveness of muskets present when Ameri...
[Question] [ Imagine an intergalactic society that has the following abilities\tech: * Warp drive allows trips between stars in days and galaxies in weeks. * Able to live in spaceships for long time without health issues. * Full control over millions of star systems spanning multiple galaxies. * Super cheap power due...
[Question] [ I have been asking myself this question recently. How would you make a reactor powering a powerful weapon harder to produce for each successive reactor being produced? My solutions currently would be : * One reactor construction/design needs to be pre-calculated by a simulation with a supercomputer and t...
[Question] [ The dominant faith in this world is religiously conservative and believes that the only legitimate form of sexual intimacy is between husband and wife, and that homosexuality and extra marital affairs are sinful. However there is an industry that exists in parallel with society and seems to contradict it...
[Question] [ Mutants are individuals with various unusual powers. These abilities manifest at different points in life, some at puberty, others well into middle age. Some may be benign, such as breathing underwater or being able to heal people. Others however, are dangerous. Growing adamantium claws, shooting optic b...
[Question] [ The year is 2216 C.E., humanity develops an economic solution to travel to the Alpha Centauri A, our closest star system, in a matter of decades. Despite mankind's technological prowess our species is still divided by selfish gain and corruption; the war never ends. An armistice agreement is forged betwe...
[Question] [ ## First, a clarification: **Dwarfism** is the umbrella term for 200+ medical conditions that result in short stature. Since this is *Worldbuilding*, my question refers to *human beings* with genetic dwarfism (not a fantasy/mythological race of Dwarves). Pre-natal screenings will avoid or solve serious ...
[Question] [ Let us pretend there is some "sacred city" created by gods, where gold is so common that it is the standard form of currency and everyone has lots of it. But once you try to leave the city with this gold and move somewhere poorer, the gold will turn to dull rocks or dust. The ideas I've had so far is tha...
[Question] [ I enjoy designing games, and in one that I'm working on the ships have shields, similar to the shields in Star Trek. They are created via some kind of force field projection mechanism and are spheroidical (that is, they take the shape of a spheroid). I would expect that those shields have strength relati...
[Question] [ I'm worldbuilding a situation where new drug increases IQ when given to preschool children. Unfortunately only 1% of the recipients get the benefits, the rest risk their development being stunted. As a result, the drug is illegal. This creates a moral dilemma for the parents: try your luck or play it saf...
[Question] [ In my far-future world, owning a planet or moon is as common as owning a house. People usually have a large house, with an adjacent farm for their own sustenance that is usually tended by robots. Other than that, the planet is left alone, except when hotels or residences for friends are built. Poorer peo...
[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] [ In the year 2116 C.E. scientist can easily make multiple clones of a human, I was thinking maybe the doctor can make some markings on the clone body however what happens if the doctor forget to tag. Answer with the most reliable method of identification that can see through the most forgery wins. [Ans...
[Question] [ Telekinesis, pyrokinesis, matter transmutation, bringing tiny chunks of stuff into existence, etc... If no special rules apply, it seems that wielders of such superpowers might easily defeat their enemies by attacking their ultimate weak spot - insides of their bodies. For example, just a small intervent...
[Question] [ As has been pointed out numerous times, zombie apocalypses of the classic zombie-bites-you-and-you-become-a-zombie are stupid and would never work in real life. Biting is a horribly inefficient method for a pathogen to spread, the infected are obvious and scary enough that you could easily lockdown any z...
[Question] [ One of my major characters is between the ages of 10-13. She is supposed to be **terminally** ill and she's supposed to die at some point during the story (while still within that age range). The problem is, I'm struggling to find a terminal illness that would afflict someone this young that meet my nece...
[Question] [ Long story short, a thousand years ago a man killed himself halfway through a ritual, which stopped it in half (think Jumanji). In order to complete the ritual, the bad guys need the direct descendant of the original (his wife and kids survived). How can I make sure that there is only one direct descenda...
[Question] [ There is an Earth-like planet with human-like inhabitants. After almost destroying the ecosystem with weapons of mass destruction, toxic waste and such, the civilization changed to survive and an almost utopian society was created. I know how unlikely this sounds, but please go with the premise. Perfect ...
[Question] [ Near future, Earth is starting to die, we send out dozens of small spacecraft to investigate promising exo-planets for habitability among neighbouring star systems: * AI isn't smart enough to do the task for us - AI can help, but we need humans there to make descisions. * The ships are travelling in a ps...
[Question] [ Godlike-powerful ancient aliens have vanished from the galaxy for unknown reasons and left behind various artifacts. Millions of years later, lesser species had found these artifacts and discovered that those were hyperspace FTL engines. Strap it to a reactor and it will get you to Alpha Centauri in two ...
[Question] [ In comic books all kinds of super hero technology comes up. Villains will use shrink rays, heroes will have super suits and an AI in their bat computer, and the government has flying helicarriers and super serum experiments. Yet despite all this technology the every day citizen always seem [stuck with th...
[Question] [ **Scenario:** * An exact copy of our world is sliced in half by a particle beam. * The beam has a diameter of 40 meters and moves at a speed of 0.999c. * The beam slices the earth from top to bottom in 600 milliseconds or 0.6 of a second What are the implications of this? I'm assuming that the Earth itse...
[Question] [ In my world front line assaults are done with Mechanized Assault Vehicles, or MAVs. They are kind of like the vehicles in the Mecha universe, but more armor than weapon, more humanoid, than purpose built. Think [*Pacific Rim*](http://www.pacificrimmovie.com/ "Pacific Rim") only on half the size and not r...
[Question] [ Let's say that a character moves much faster (>100 x) than a bullet. If he is shot at, could he theoretically catch the bullet (and put it in his pocket) ? * What happens when he touches the bullet, does it burn ? * Where does the kinetic energy of the bullet go ? [Answer] ## Assuming the [Required Se...
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[Question] [ This is a follow-up to my [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/62163/23218), based on one of the [comments](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/62163/23218#comment177490_62163) that was made. While the answers to the original make it quite reasonable that there will be no p...
[Question] [ Medusa is a legendary myth about a woman with snakes for hair that turns anything she looks at into stone. How can I achieve both of those features in an animal realistically? And how would these features evolve? A list of all of the Anatomically Correct questions can be found here [Anatomically Correct...
[Question] [ I'm a [free-market anarchist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism)\* and, not surprisingly, I enjoy writing sci-fi and fantasy stories about societies without governments. However, I do NOT want to write stories that only myself and those who agree with me will enjoy. I'd like to know what w...
[Question] [ In this world, magic is based on belief - if "everyone" believes something is true, then it is true. In order to create a new belief, it may evolve naturally (and then there is no problem) OR one goes to the Guild of Professional Liars, who are so skilled at spreading rumour as though it is fact that, ev...
[Question] [ Quick Question: I have looked at both separately but can't find a clear answer that compares them side by side and clarifies what the actual *difference* is. There seems to be a large overlap between the two. Trade Unions appear to be modern 19th century onwards. A result of the Industrial Revolution. Tr...
[Question] [ North and South America totally cut off from world trade for years in modern times. No intercontinental except between the two. Would there be any current technology that couldn't be made due to lack of resources, or would they be self-sustained? Just resource-wise, geographically, and technologically, n...
[Question] [ Eureka! Mary Sue has just finished her unobtainium-based levitation engine that should be able to deliver payloads to orbit for less than the price of a Tootsie Roll, and will allow her to start operating her own space agency! She's ready for her first test flight to make sure it's all working, but -- We...
[Question] [ Let's say the oceans' apex predator on a planet similar to Earth is a species of Kraken (octopus, just big huge ones) that live 200 years in average (so they have plenty of time to develop their cognitive skills), and have basically the same capacity to develop intelligence as Earth's octopus (that don't...
[Question] [ I am working a hard science fiction story and I cannot come up with a really good reason to put people on Mars. I need people on Mars for the story to work, but there is no reason for them to be there. Drones can do anything people can (often better than people can). Why should they be there in the first...
[Question] [ Space battles, with huge/gigantic space ships shooting lasers, missiles and projectiles at each other, there's a lot of material regarding space battles (Movies, books, games), but there's something that's been bothering me for quite some time now... Like how during and after WW2 they stopped producing l...
[Question] [ I've been mulling over an idea for my preferred RPG setting, and I wanted to check if anyone knows the following: Is it possible for a river to flow underground for miles, and then suddenly be put under enough pressure to jet a mile or so into the air (as the focal point of a city) and then flow away as ...
[Question] [ What’s the deal with flying saucers? There’s no drag in space, so alien engineers don’t have any limitations placed on them when it comes to ship design. Yet the ships portrayed by media look like disks, sometimes with a dome in the middle. They could be spherical or even fractal. So then why settle on a...
[Question] [ ~200 years into the future, most of mankind has been wiped out by war. The remainder lives in walled supercities, to protect them from the hazards of the wastelands - including a nation of machines intent on human extinction. I've been thinking of ways to give the humans a fighting chance, while also res...
[Question] [ While this is a hypothetical question, I am actually looking for a 'real-world' answer. This is my first time here, so please let me know if I should ask it somewhere else. So, let's say I am an ordinary person (i.e. not famous, not a scientist or in academia at all) -- for example, a tax accountant. One...
[Question] [ **TLDR: What believable real-world consequences can there be for killing orcs, goblins, etc. when such acts are not illegal nor necessarily frowned upon by one's society?** I am preparing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign and would like to treat humanoid races (orcs, goblins, etc.) differently than usual. ...
[Question] [ In [a question about mermaids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/42617/why-would-merfolk-have-hair), it was proposed that they might have evolved to look like humans to lure them in and prey on them. *How could a creature survive on a diet of nothing but lured-in humans?* As I see it, the...
[Question] [ *Survivor, Season 435 (teaser trailer): The holocamera pans over the night sky, revealing an utterly unfamiliar set of constellations. A blur, familiar to viewers, starts to disturb the seeming peace of the night, and the characteristic blueshifted hyperspatial portal soon opens up, with the latest round...
[Question] [ I am writing a science fiction novel where dead humans are turned into diamonds by compacting cremated remains. What size of diamond would the amount of carbon in a human body form? I know that the size would vary somewhat depending on the weight of the person. Specifically, would the diamond be small ...
[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. Some...
[Question] [ Fossil-fuel-powered shipping is obviously much better than old-school sail-powered ships for moving cargo around. But if winds were predictable, fossil fuels rare and solar/nuclear power not an option (for whatever reason) how big could we build cargo sailboats? We can obviously do better than most mode...
[Question] [ This is related to [Must magic be tied to medieval tech?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/8/must-magic-be-tied-to-medieval-tech), but not the same. So the setup: There are two worlds, one is Earth, as it is now, with all its history. The other is a magic world, with an earth-like planet...
[Question] [ It has been said that any reasonable kind of magic would be possible to study and thus, would be like just another branch of science. That is, unless it makes absolutely no sense. I have created a setting where magic is present everywhere, but not everyone can use it. Despite millennia of effort, no one-...
[Question] [ My time traveller has a maybe 20-minutes-into-the-future smartphone and laptop. They can store large amounts of data, on the Petabytes level or higher. The time traveller can effectively store the entirety of the current day's internet and library of congress or other information on his laptop. The probl...
[Question] [ Pretty much what it says on the tin: > > It's the beginning of 2016. Due to a fast-spreading virus, humans have lost the ability to reproduce themselves. The virus makes current artifical fertilization techniques useless as well. As a result, the population starts decreasing, due to the complete lack of...
[Question] [ How would the human body be affected if oxygen levels increased by a lot? Our air is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. If it increased to 30% oxygen, what would the effects be and how long would it take for the effects to affect us. [Answer] 30% Oxygen levels are not a huge deal as far as respiration goes...
[Question] [ So I've been thinking for a while about making a world where cats aren't as common and instead are more of a regional domesticated animal, replaced in (mostly Northwestern) Europe by foxes. How come it never took that foxes would be pest control or even hunting companions for rabbit hunt in Europe? Doing...
[Question] [ In a future world, well-to-do people have access to piped food that travels straight to their kitchens. Let us focus on one such food; **the eternal sausage**. 1. My first idea was to simply force sausage meat into one end of a pipe. A tap at the other end allows the consumer to slice off the required am...
[Question] [ **LEGO™ as a defence against barefoot warriors** In the far future, after the collapse of civilisation, there is an ongoing war between two tribes. The tribes have only the ability to make neolithic technology. These are the Barefoots and the Legolanders. The Barefoots are a fierce tribe who never wear s...
[Question] [ A medieval alchemist (from Europe) has figured out how to crystallize any object and turn it into diamond. Would diamond armor (e.g. chain mail and plate armor) and weapons be superior to their traditional counterparts? They would be lighter (density of diamond is 3.5gm/cm^3, roughly half of the density ...
[Question] [ I've read many posts discussing the method of creating a religion, or the way that a god gains the belief of people ([Here's an example](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/45843/how-will-a-god-gain-belief)). These discussions have caused me to wonder the *why* of gaining belief, not just ...
[Question] [ Worldbuilding generates a lot of "Can I domesticate [insert real or fictional creature here]" questions. This is intended to be a canonical version of that question. I'll self-answer, but please don't let that stop anyone from posting their own solution. So: **What conditions are required for domesticati...
[Question] [ I created a fantasy map a while back, but only recently have I realised it may have a major problem. There is next to no land at the equator although some land between 0-30 degrees. The vast majority of land that exists is 30 degrees and above. They say Earth's rainforests are the lungs of the world. Hav...
[Question] [ Let's assume few things: 1. There is a difficult technology that allows making someone's body an arbitrary number of years younger, or reset it to, for example, the state of "young adult" - a point when puberty has ended and growing old has not yet started. 2. The total costs of a year of youth is signif...