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Imagine an Earth-like society that has developed into the digital age. They have computers, the Internet and most of the conveniences of the modern age, but they still use a significant animal workforce for:
* transporting members of the society over land, sea and air;
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The setting of my story is a medieval refugee community that has found a protected place to settle. They end up remaining in isolation for a few hundred years. The protection is a boost for life, in the sense that their crops that can grow there, and they are able to heal diseases with greater skill. It ... |
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The Red Keep was built thousands of years ago to defend against the invading hordes. The Red Keep itself is a fortress, the main wall of which blocks off the main pass through the mountains.
Over the years the threats of the hordes have diminished and migrants from their homelands have begun trying to ge... |
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I was reading on another question ([this one](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/117876/effects-of-stray-bullets-in-space)) and was thinking "What if those bullets could return?"
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3. Combat effective
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Assume that I have some way to introduce nutrients into the body of a healthy human but I do not have any method of changing their biology. No surgical procedures nor special "drugs" that would affect the normal functioning of a human body.
Would any of the 2 following methods lead to a human not needing... |
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What would be a valid reason for human blood/sweat/body fluids being toxic/harmful/caustic to an alien species' skin?
What would the aliens' organic biochemistry be like and what would their DNA be based on for this to occur in a plausible way?
Any variable degree of reaction to the aliens' skin?
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In an alternate version of our world, lycanthropes and vampires were introduced about 300 years ago and are coexisting with us. Unfortunately, they had to adapt to our cuisine and avoid certain ingredients altogether.
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At the minimum, I'd like to create a creature with a jaw structure that splits into 4 moving parts (like a +-shape or an x-shape). In order to keep food in, the cross sections will have stretchy flaps of webbing attaching them. A requirement for the 'mandibles'/jaw-sections is that they can move independ... |
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In this world, magic exists. The technological level is medieval, but weapons like magically reloading crossbows exist. Magic has the following rules:
1. All magic requires runes and a verbal activation (saying 'magic words' that
correspond to the runes). Runes are one-use only.
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I have a situation where a large oil field is discovered in a country ruled by a junta with abysmal human rights records. On the one hand world oil prices are very high, which puts pressure on governments, and on the other hand there's strong moral pressure to boycott human rights abusers. Trading with t... |
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In a world I've been creating, space and time are mutable. Not in the traditional sense, but because non-sentient magic crystals warp space and time as their means of reproduction.
Now, this warping can't affect sentient creatures or their artifice, allowing people to exist for more than 15 minutes witho... |
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An environmental phenomenon, cloud or mist of sorts, rolls into an area that greatly affects "thinking machines". Basically, any types of computers or logic instrument based on electrical impulse/inputs are severely degraded in their performance or outright stop working while under the duration of this p... |
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I am working on a small worldbuilding project.
The world this takes place in is littered with 5,000 year old (estimate) ruins, and these ruins are full of decaying radioactive material. In most locations, it's not too much. At most, 50-150 mSv an hour. Not good for one's health, but not so deadly as to p... |
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I'm working on a project, a world filled with radiated ruins thousands of years old. People still search these ruins as even now they may hold valuable treasures. Many of these 'Ruin Haunters' come back with what we would recognize as radiation poisoning. How would pre-modern people view this? Many of th... |
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My story is set in an apocalyptic Earth (occurring during the story), and the main character is stationed out alone on a sea fort in the middle of the ocean.
He receives a radio call/signal from a stranger on his radio (or something similar). I don't know enough about radio waves to know if this is plaus... |
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Calculations were incorrect, the earth in my comic is not 5.8x larger, it is 2.4x larger. Its surface area is 5.8x larger but the diameter is 2.4x larger.
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I'm working on a comic that is set in an alternate earth that is 2.4x larger than the real world in an effort to incorporate numerous... |
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In the question [How to safely knock someone out](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/101134/how-to-safely-knock-someone-out), it was explained to me that there isn't such a way.
In which case, for a prospective superhero with super-strength and super-durability, what would be the safest wa... |
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I'm writing a short story about space faring race of people. I want to emphasize how technology has allowed a casual approach to space, making it seem like only a minor inconvenience or hazard.
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I'm building a world but I keep coming across the idea of putting an ancient race in the mix similar to that in the mass effect or halo story lines. However, I feel like it has been over used lately. It really makes my story more believable but I think it takes away from the story at the same time by mak... |
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In 2024, NASA detects a pair of planetoids, each the size of the earth's moon, careening towards our solar system. The good news is that they're set to enter earth's orbit without any collisions (how this happened is the purview of another question). The bad news is that having 2 more moons will cause ma... |
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Let's be using your typical centaur: half man, half horse. Due to the nature of their legs, they can't ride animals in the way that humans do. Horse legs just aren't really made to do that.
My question is, what kind of animal could I use or create for them to be able to ride, and how would they mount and... |
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Most (quadruped) dragons are depicted as having two wings sprouting from their back, consisting of a limb structure draped with a leathery membrane as the way to create lift and fly, somewhat resembling bat wings.
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On "Earth" species that are higher up the food chain tend to have more advanced brains. I won't tell everyone what they already know, but just for illustration: chimps are capable of making tools and sign language and more while horses can't. Yet clearly, [Dressage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressage... |
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So, floating islands are a pretty common trope at least in the media I've consumed, and one thing that sort of stands out - oftentimes, they're meant to be a reveal to a larger world (Either as part of a secret group the protagonists come to seek help from, or more exposition on a situation, or as part o... |
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The superhero has magically increased strength but also magically increased weight so that he can utilize his strength effectively and stay planted. The drawback is he has to make sure things can hold this increased weight.
If he was running through an apartment complex and jumping about while fighting s... |
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I have searched around the site and seen several population-related questions, but not one that is getting at what I'm specifically wondering (or that is at least explaining it in a way that my mathematically challenged brain can get around). Apologies if I missed one though.
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Can radiation block all wireless communications?
My idea is that heavy meteorite storms are spreading radioactive dust around the atmosphere. I know that traces of radioactive elements can survive entering the atmosphere. And it seems some types of radiation can affect some radio signals. Though there ar... |
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A scientist creates device that allows some degree of communication with the afterlife. The communication is very difficult and the dead can only pass small bits of information on, so there is a lot of we still don't know, but it appears so far that most of the Dead are happy in a peaceful place, much ha... |
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In the world I'm designing, the most advanced nations chose to focus heavily on natural helium (readily available in this world) airships for reasons justified by the world (access to resources), each nation having a war-ready flotilla. I assume a ~1850 tech level for things I don’... |
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In the scenario proposed in [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34475/what-would-north-america-look-like-if-the-states-werent-united), the Thirteen Colonies choose not to unite. Sure they work together, but not as a United Nation, as a coalition of Independent Nation States;... |
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Let's say history went on as it would have with one major exception - a virus/series of viruses decimated the European/Asian populations repeatedly to such a degree that they simply could not advance as a society technologically. Now, the Americas are untouced by this, whether it be by immunity or by sim... |
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What other hypothetical alloys could be used for ancient/medieval era weapons/armor?
* Don't use made-up elements (or alloys, if possible)
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My setting takes place in a densely forested continent, with huge trees and rushing rivers. The problem is that this forest stretches on for thousands of miles, only occasionally punctuated by some ancient ruins. The forest is also populated by 'Keepers', who are sort of like overenthusiastic Ents: They ... |
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I have a "simple" question that is the basis for an idea I'm developing: Is it possible to terraform the moon and, if so, what type of technology would be needed?
I understand that this isn't the case because of its current state, but, for arguments sake would it be possible to do this if certain condit... |
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Quantum physics today tells us that we may not predict outcomes with certainty. We perceive events as random.
So is this old philosophical fantasy of an all knowing computer possible? Meaning that all particules at a time T would have a determined state.
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Dragons are often depicted with a set of plate-like scales along their belly like a snake. In snakes, this adaptation is to aid in their slithering locomotion. However, dragons don't slither; they have large legs and wings for walking and flying
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Human beings contain mana, which is the energy required for life. Mana grows over the course of a person's life, being released at the moment of death. Demons can feed on this energy to increase their power through the creation of pacts with humans in exchange for magical power. When a demon makes a pact... |
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The Gaals are a satient humanoid race, of magic origin. They were created by the last of the dragons as a legacy of his race to the world. They are humanoid, but with no hair and scales all over their body (think something like pogonas)
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Human souls are born in the immaterium, a spiritual realm that is a reflection of the mortal world. This realm is made up of light and dark energies that symbolize concepts of "good" and "evil". For a human to be born, its soul must pass through this realm into the mortal plane, a journey wrought with pe... |
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Is it possible (either through genetic engineering or evolution) for a biological creature to be able to detect and absorb electricity from power sources like batteries or other animals?
I know that a shark can detect electrical fields (via its Lorenzini ampulae) in water, but can a biological creature d... |
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My story is set within one solar system, which can be assumed to have a similar composition to that of our own: one Class G star, a handful of rocky inner planets and a handful of gas giants on the periphery. The backstory is that this was a colony from Earth that arrived on a generation ship many hundre... |
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Let's say Earth started rotation in the opposite direction without any catastrophic events, would a day on Earth be shorter or longer or just the same considering that speed of rotation and revolution stays the same?
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I got inspired by reading all about the Directed Energy Weapon programs.
What would happen if you could crank up this concept to eleven?
Please assume energy is not a problem. You have 'superbatteries' (please consider energy not relevant for this question).
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Or how can you modify (temperature, pressure etc.) of hydrogen or a different gas to get more "lift" in airships, if that's even possible?
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I'm trying to find explanations for a strain of beans (*or any other food-producing plant*) that have become large, maybe as large as most trees, and about as wide in girth, that overgrows countries into huge bean-filled forests.
I started by saying that a larger strain of plant had been selectively bred... |
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Would it be possible to make a custom zoomable world map (kinda like google maps), where you can have all the cities of the world but are able to zoom out to the whole world (and no longer see the cities). What programs could I use to make such a map?
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Humans want to build a Dyson sphere around the Sun. They have noticed that Ganymede's icy composition would be perfect for mining to get the icy resources needed to build the sphere, or Mercury could be used due to its silicate composition. However, they do not want to remove the moon itself as to avoid ... |
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I want to create a glutton creature that can open its mouth wider than the prey item like snakes do, but also can bite through that big hard object and even chew it; this creature doesn't swallow prey whole but instead bites or chews the major part of it in a single bite.
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I am writing a story, in which I would like to have three locations within about a half hour to an hour driving distance (assuming population, road systems and automobiles on par with the contemporary real world). The location is unspecified; it is Earth-like, but not necessarily Earth. (As long as "Eart... |
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The entire Khangates of the Mongolian empire recruited soldiers and resources of conquered states. Of course these soldiers at most times were recruited against their will. Is it the threat of the slaughter of kindred that essentially forces these soldiers into the ruling army?
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Recently I had a vision of a colossal underwater bird-like figure.
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A common thing we see in zombie movies in the ability to remove the infected area (usually the arm or leg) despite the fact that a blood borne illness would travel throughout the body. How could I design a zombie illness that would allow for removal of a limb to save the person?
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You find yourself on a world with no gunpowder...don't ask why...or how you know that there is no gunpowder there just isn't any available to you, nor are alternative propellant options available (work with me here).
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In science fiction technology that induces a gravitational pull is often sidelined as just a convenient way of getting people to walk on a spacecraft. The implications of gravity that can be turned on and off are actually much bigger than that. Theoretically you could help launch ships into space by usin... |
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An athame is a magical item that is created to reflect and direct psychic energy. To create this tool, one cannot simply enchant ordinary weapons to give them magical properties. Rather, these items must be built from the ground up, through special materials, ingredients, and rituals. The process can tak... |
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First question ever asked, so apologies if I've done this incorrectly!
*My current predicament:* characters in 1931 Las Vegas are looking to get their hands on some neon/argon (for use in neon signs). I'm wondering where, realistically, they might be able to obtain some. Is it conceivable that they woul... |
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# Quick Overview
Here's the situation: your species, under directive of your friendly world government, has been informed that all "natural" (aka reproducing like your normally would and having a child that way) birth is now going to be "phased out" (made progressively illegal/impossible) in favor of man... |
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The fixedness of body plans varies widely across different types of Earthling organisms. At one extreme, you have things like tardigrades, for which every individual of any given species has exactly the same number and arrangement of individual cells, differing only in size; at the other extreme, you hav... |
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I'm trying to create a planet with a hot desert north and south pole but a cold equator. Is this possible? and if so how? And if it's heavily related to space how would night and day work on this place?
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I remember watching a documentary some time ago and at one point they were talking about how empires were limited to a certain size since there was no way to communicate across the empire quickly and reliably.
The best method they had was courier by horse and that had a limited range. Also empires in Ame... |
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* [Teleportation and speed](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/131575/teleportation-keeping-momentum-on-arrival)
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In particular, I want to know if a creature whose upper body displays bilateral symmetry and whose lower body displays tetramerism like a jellyfish is biologically possible.
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How about 3 types of symmetry: Bilateral, radial and then tertiary bilateral?
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I'm playing with ideas for magic in my world. This is the same world as in [A corrupted religion](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58656/a-corrupted-religion), in case you're wondering.
In the world of {PlaceholderWorldName}, people can perform magic, but it isn't your average run-of-the... |
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In the world that I'm building, life on Earth has gotten pretty unbearable for some. My first thoughts are over-population, pollution, war, etc. A company/government comes along and tells you and your family that they have the ability to resettle you, not to a new location, but to a fresh "new" Earth. Th... |
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How much would the gravitational force (on earth) have to increase to make air-travel impractical (not impossible as escape by space flight to other planets would be a nice option). But to a point where the use of fixed winged aircraft becomes impractical as the energy required by propeller/jet engines b... |
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One of the reoccurring concepts in my worldbuilding has been the existence of a caste based meritocracy. The castes being Guardians, Engineers, Scholars, Administrators, Artisans/merchants.
While brainstorming an idea came to me: What if people in this society were not paid in cash but in some manor of r... |
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With the technologies that we have got, is it possible to completely migrate 1/3rd of the world's population to another planet which has characteristics similar to those of earth ? Possibly it will happen.
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My problem is whether they could grow crops to produce it. If not, what could be a substitute for a population, who live on wetlands in central European-like climate during early colonization era (17th century), so importing rice isn't an available option? What could they eat in general?
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## How Regenerators work
As I mentioned before, thanks to the Foundation, this setting has access to "Regenerators", enormous machines that can bring thousands of people back to life if necessary. Smaller regenerators also exist, though they're slower and can't resurrect as many at once.
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A crone is a witch on the path to achieving godhood by stealing the life force of others through a dark ritual. The second stage on this path is the baba yaga, a point where the crone loses all traces of humanity and transforms into a higher life form, a reflection of her inner self. This creature is pow... |
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Simple question, hopefully not broad.
This is the 21st century, everything that we have. Technology to make cars, planes, trains, boats, all of that stuff. But then, in this world, everybody is a winged-human, or angels.
So my question is:
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My story is set in the future where space travel is cheap and humanity has colonized Mars and some parts of the asteroid belt. Asteroid colonies can grow their own staple food, but crops that require pollination, like fruits, are imported from Earth and Mars because it's cheaper than growing them on the ... |
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I mean, could enough of the Earth be flooded enough that most of the surface would be uninhabitable?
Would there be enough water in the glaciers/ice caps etc for this to happen? Could any sources from outside the Earth contribute to this?
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I want to have a setting for a thing I am doing set in a world with a three-way space race between countries X, Y, and Z. Each country has a space program roughly on par with the 1960s US and [USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union). Detente between any two of the countries is very rare.
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I'm working on a little project called Scrapbook Street where everything is made of fabric and or craft supplies, but while working on the world of the project, I've started to wonder *how* the world works. Some of my biggest questions are about the flora and fauna of the world; mainly the dominant lifef... |
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I am working on a speculative evolution project at the moment that has a low atmospheric scale. As a result, the ground is almost always covered in fog or cloud-like fog that is universal across numerous humid biomes. A small minority of the year will see a reduction to this fog. Visibility can vary from... |
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It is a scifi space opera setting skewing more towards realistic consequences of its breaks from the reality - quite similar to The Expanse.
Considering the situation outlined below, would it be feasible for piracy to exist in any capacity in this setting (of any kind, from the classic space pirates bein... |
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What are the most important factors in determining how fast technology progresses?
And roughly how fast might that be under optimal circumstances?
Innovations have to be dreamed up, but there must be other more basic restrictions on progress. In the scenario below I’m looking for the most important reas... |
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[Somewhat related question, but not the same goal](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/112309/what-can-be-used-as-a-money-in-a-high-fantasy-magic-world-where-noble-metals-are)
In my current concept metals (from nickel to iridium, based on density) are used in the magic system. So in a way t... |
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On a future battlefield where mechs are somehow the most preferred weapon system (over the far [more practical tank format](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/10325/10364)), what kind of melee weapon is most effective?
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Inspired by [Bonegrass](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/38354/how-often-must-carnivorous-grassland-eat) and the local [sawgrass](https://www.nps.gov/ever/learn/kidsyouth/sawgrass-prairie.htm) I've started thinking about a new creation...
Bloodgrass.
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Imagine the population of our planet is given free (almost) and unlimited energy.
What kind of technologies would go mainstream which are not feasible today due to prohibitively high energy requiremnts?
What would happen to our environment with 12 billion humans 'high' on unlimited energy?
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*Magic works by tricking the universe into thinking something is there when it isn't, or thinking something isn't there when it is.* At least, in essence, that's the current theory. As a result, mages can levitate objects, make objects seem heavier, cause fires, make things much colder, and cause buildup... |
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On Earth, tides generally tie to a 12 or 24 hour cycle depending on the location. The exact times and heights are generally based on the shape of the sea, and the positions of the moon and sun.
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**What would happen if a powerful explosive went off in the core of a planet?**
On Earth, you have several layers of the planet, the crust, the magma, the outer core, and the inner core. Right now, human technology can't really get past the crust. But say an alien civilization came that could get all the... |
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A immortal dictator controls an island with about 1,000,000 people. Apparently, he's super into eugenics and wants the population of the island to be "the ultimate humans".
Assume he can control who reproduces (and who does not).
He would want to select the "top" `X`% of fertile females and `Y`% of ferti... |
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Could a plant, with the right adaptations, have the right speed and strength to capture an unprepared human without harming them? The plants would be bound by real rules of biology, and couldn't use muscles or other traits exclusive to groups other than plants. The plant would also be capturing the human... |
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The sub would be about the size of:
* the [Sōryū class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-class_submarine), which displaces 4200 tonnes (implying about 4200m³ volume) and has a 6000kW propulsion system
* the [Oyashio class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyashio-class_submarine), which displac... |
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I’ve watched a lot of people place their ideas here and receive feedback, so I’ve decided to take a try.
You see, I’m planning on writing a story focusing on the relationship between humans and Kaiju through a parody of a Japanese high school setting.
I’ve already got the Kaiju in my story mostly planned... |
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In my world there is a race of humans who are disproportionately female. They are closely derived from and very similar to real-world humans, but are unable to interbreed with the other races as they are too genetically distinct to produce fertile hybrids. They do not reproduce themselves asexually, but ... |
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