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Setting: ["One Big Lie"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness) Sci-fi RPG
The lies in this setting are an extension of relativity with a couple of extra dimensions allowing for FTL/Backwards Time Travel, and Thaumons.
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The Crabites are back, and they're **ticked off!**
As a reminder, Crabites are deep-sea creatures, they'd remind you of Alaskan King Crabs.
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In this world, a nation's army uses sailing ships to travel across a desert. They only travel at one time of year, during which a very powerful windstorm blows from the East. They leverage the wind to sail west with the wind, and do not need to navigate or change course extensively. Their primary focus i... |
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I am building a world [inspired by](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/78673/how-can-i-have-a-caravan-without-camels) Gondwana, the great southern mega-continent, filled with plants and creatures that live in or evolved first on the southern Continents of Earth. On this world, there are fe... |
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This question happens in the same universe as my other questions:
1. [How should a country introduce a constructed language as the official language?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/63953/how-should-a-country-introduce-a-constructed-language-as-the-official-language)
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I got the idea from [this answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/20629/6799), which suggests a species that evolved early in the existence if the universe and spreads between stars upon their death.
If one of said creatures enters the inner Solar System and modern Earth confirms that it is a l... |
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The majority of communication between old and new-world is sent through a slew of cables running along the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. This method is obviously the most effective, as its how we are doing it presently.
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Maybe it was a trick of the light or a strange cloud, or just not enough sleep. A couple nights ago I could have sworn that thin crescent moon flickered.
Which led to an interesting question - **what conditions could make the moon flicker?**
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Okay, so in my setting I'm writing, the planet is very earth-like, similar atmosphere, liquid water exists, etc.. But the planet orbits a red giant. I've done a lot of fiddling around with various things (color of flora, etc.), but what I can't figure out is what a rainbow would look like. I've looked ar... |
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## Digital Immortality
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It is the virtual era, and mankind has progressed towards immortality, realized through conversion of the body and mind (and soul) into a digital form, allowing people to shed their physical bodies and finally attain immortality.
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Our civilisation is capable of creating any life form we're finding on alien planets. We "sample" several subjects by abducting them and we study them. But for some advanced species, for example - humans - it's not enough. Humans are an interesting example of "social-featuring" species. As such, we can o... |
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The Coriolis effect on a ring-shaped space station gets the most attention, but disregarding that, would the rotation of the starfield be too disorienting?
A 1km radius station at 1G simulated gravity rotates just under once a minute. That's pretty damn fast. The starfield in your vision would be rushing... |
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Normally, technology in numerous fields will advance due to breakthroughs driven by a need for something like more efficient weapons or farming. How can I explain a civilization being "technologically stagnant" and having themselves stuck with technology found around the time ancient Rome existed (600 BC... |
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I was recently playing an RPG, and a discrepancy came up: What should it take to contain a Fire/Ice bird, or Phoenix?
**A little background**: A Phoenix has been defeated and fallen into a pile of ashes/dust, but has had its ashes gathered and put in a restraint facility.
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I'm writing a story where there is a large mining outpost built on a moon. This mining outpost is one large building holding around a thousand people, with an extensive system of passages and mines under the complex. I would imagine there would need to be ventilation shafts to supply air to the miners (t... |
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I'm working with the idea of a 'ring station' encircling a planet, as a tightly connected belt of structures that connect in orbit around the planet's equator. I'm curious to know what would happen if a portion of that structure were destroyed (say, 10-20% of the structure), in particular what effect it ... |
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In my setting (which is roughly early-medieval in terms of technology), magic comes from the Life-energy of all living beings. There are several factors that affect how much of this energy each being possesses:
1. The age of a being. Older creatures have accumulated more 'Life'
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The Cult of the Holy Mother is a female-dominated religious organization that retains a large role in the shaping of society and affairs of the nation. The cult traces its origins to a virgin woman chosen by the creator deity to produce the Messiah, a god-emperor who was destined to save mankind and go o... |
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The adventurers in my classic fantasy world have access to all sorts of potions. Some, like health potions and their more expensive cousins like regeneration potions, can bring people back from being nearly dead. The utility is obvious, and no sane adventurer or fighter of any sort would ever leave home ... |
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So, a civilization built a massive Dyson Sphere around a supergiant star. As the star ages, it begins to fuse iron. At this point, the force of radiation pressure cannot prevent core collapse, and thus the supergiant goes supernova. So I am wondering, what would happen to the Dyson Sphere? Would it get b... |
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I'm about to kick off a game of Dungeons and Dragons. My setting is magic-medieval and the plot is that the power of flight has been suppressed by an avenging god. How long would it take before the lack of flight in the animal population would have visible effects on the ecosystem as a whole? IE, how lon... |
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For this question, I've got a pretty large carnivore. I haven't quite decided on their hunting style, but am leaning toward them being an endurance hunter. They're comparable in size to a large present-day Earth feline (lion, tiger or similar) and have long, rather sharp claws useful for grasping, holdin... |
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**Background:** In a world I am building, France becomes a much larger power in the New world, actually maintaining control of French Louisiana and even gaining control of Canada during an alternate version of the War of 1812. Canada and French Louisiana eventually merge to form the French Republic of Co... |
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After reading Kim Stanley Robinson's *Blue Mars*, I've been considering the role of orbiting space stations in warfare. It seems like whoever controls space has a good chance of controlling the planet below, much like how air superiority plays a large role in modern warfare. What I'm wondering, though, i... |
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So, I know that on the planet earth, the force of gravity is actually [slightly less nearer the equator](https://xkcd.com/852/), due to the ~~Centrifugal~~ ~~Centripetal~~ Spinny Force. Not by a whole lot, but by some small amount.
This ~~Centri~~ Spinny Force also makes the entire planet deform slightl... |
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Let me provide some insight to my magic system. 75-95% of people have magic powers. (Depending on where you are.) These powers manifest themselves any time from birth to the end of puberty. These magical powers fall under seven broad categories. Air, water, earth, plasma (fire/lightning), plants, light, ... |
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## **Deposing the new Robot Overlord**
Some people just can't leave well enough alone. The Robot Overlord has executed its programming of the Zeroth Law and the Three Laws of Robotics for the previous ten years. World hunger, world poverty and war "are over" (to use the popular phrase). Despite this newe... |
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**What is a quasi-creature plant?**
I define a quasi-creature plant as an organism that lives only through photosynthesis that moves with a speed in the same order of magnitude of that of an animal.
**Here on Earth, [almost](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica) nothing**
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Since radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) operate by turning the flow of heat into electricity, and Titan's atmosphere can absorb heat faster through conduction than a vacuum through radiation, would an RTG (or a set of them) produce enough power on the surface of titan, say, for a manned base?... |
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In my world, most mermaids migrate and have two family groups: A warm-water group and a cold-water group. When the water is cold (winter) the mermaids move down south to warmer waters. There the mermaids meet up, flirt, and do other stuff while the kids explore safe tropical reefs without requiring much ... |
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A while ago, I posted a question about musicians with weaponized instruments guarding a palace. I thought it would be interesting if they also had access to some sort of poison that they could use to poison someone (with poison in the drink for instance), if secrecy was more necessary.
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If a spaceplane like the [Rockwell X-30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbWOdOqvv8) existed and was flying to a location in geostationary orbit, would it be substantially more efficient to take off from a runaway at the equator, or would it not make that much of a difference?
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I've been trying to come up with a genetically plausible origin for dwarves, but with little success. By dwarves, I'm talking about the jolly and burly people similar to that of Tolkien's dwarves.
My questions is thus: "What would cause a species (preferably of a common ancestor to humans) to evolve into... |
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I have a group of genetically engineered people known as 'crows'. Their genome has been meddled with significantly enough that they are unable to successfully reproduce with humans, but are similar enough in physical appearance to humans for their ancestry to be apparent (think humans wit... |
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The introduction of FTL travel/communication in a relativistic universe may effectively be equal to having a time-machine with all the problems that may entail for causality.
I would like to avoid that in my setting and I think I have managed. But I'm not a 100% sure of that. So please, look at my setup ... |
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I need a large recession to hit my small country of 4.5 million people.
It's similar to New Zealand, similarly developed, also an island nation, and a GDP around 150,000 million USD.
Most importantly, it needs to not be obvious that the government caused it. Essentially, high unemployment within months, ... |
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Far Future. Almost every household has a 'fabber'. You put raw materials in it (can be almost anything) and it does what you program it to do. It transmutes the raw materials into what is needed. Then it basically 3-D-prints it. It only works if you have enough and the right quality of input material for... |
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In a world in which dragons (as animals, minus magical associations) existed, what natural defense mechanisms might other animals or plants evolve in response? How would a creature as devastating like that affect their environment, and what could the rest of the biome do to keep from completely collapsin... |
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News media showcase any number of potentially depressing events around the globe - internecine conflicts, ethnic conflicts, catastrophes and what-not.
The corollary constitute fiction as depicted by [Arthur Clarke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws) who writes to say
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[This question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/11319/764) throws out the idea of how aliens, perhaps a passing-by alien who comes to investigate a potentially habitable planet from orbit, would recognize an 'official' communication from Earth. It deals with the political and societal concerns ... |
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Out on a small planet called Vernar IV located in the Ghan’Shi sector of the Galaxy, there’s a small restaurant and bar called “Tuang’s Taphouse”, which serves food and refreshment to many species, including humans. There’s just one problem: biochemistry.
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I’m writing a story and the summary is extra universal aliens going to war with each other The magic system used is Clarketech known as the void system it’s more or less based on this formula Magic = area of space /Explosion area
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So I was playing Deus Ex and came across [Hengsha](https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Hengsha), a city so large they built another city on top of it. This got my mind wondering about the practical uses of such a city.
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I'm writing a science fiction novel in which Earth essentially gets the boot out of our Solar System. No sun, no moon, just Earth fl... |
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When I say medieval it’s more like a fallen world that went barbaric really quickly. Firearms and combustible fuels have been commonplace so society is still advanced in a way, but is more tribal/feudal in nature. There are a few advanced nations, but they are at war almost every five seconds with the mo... |
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The creature I'm designing has a tail with spikes on the end of it. The material of the spikes should be strong/durable (not break easily), and very sharp (the edge as well as the sides, being able to cut through most materials like metal). The tail has several uses where these spikes might be a very rea... |
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Planet Swamp. As the name suggest, it is a planet fully covered with swamps.
A new kind of carnivorous plant has been discovered on this planet: when its leaves are touched by an animal or moved by the wind they emit a sweet scent, something like vanilla and sugar. This sweet scent attract unaware animal... |
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I was thinking of a situation in which there is a city state with a direct democracy in which citizens not only vote directly on the issues but vote on which issues are to be voted on as well as counting the votes. The people in this city state vote to begin conquering their neighbors and within ten year... |
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(Related: [Warfare without Metal](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/11042/9498))
In my setting, metals (including common metals such as tin and iron) are a rare commodity. Because of this, humans have to make weapons such as firearms (guns) with other resources.
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How many normal people per mage should a world have for people to globally know about the existence of mages and what they can do but they do not actually expect to encounter one on a day to day basis in a medieval-esque swords and sorcery setting? Assume there's one in the employ by every king but apart... |
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Demigryphon usually depicted as a quadrupedal hybrid creature with a body of a Big Cat and a head of a Bird of Prey.
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I am concerned that the centrifugal force will draw out all the dissolved gases from the ocean in a colossal O'Neill Cylinder in the same way blood centrifuges do in lab. Fishes and most marine life would die from hypoxemia and laying gas pipes stretching thousands of miles may not be a cost effective so... |
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I'm not a professional at world building or character building, still starting out, but I do want to make an attempt at having my fantasy character be somewhat realistic.
He's 11 years old, 4.8 ft (1.64 m) and roughly 80 pounds (36.2 kg). He's a little tall and skinny for his age, and has digitigrade le... |
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## Motivation (fictional of course)
Fantasy is full of references to silver swords and other weapons thought to make a poor lycanthrope‘s life miserable. Since silver appears to be too soft for blades, I came up with the following solution: inlay the blade with silver runes or ornaments, so that upon b... |
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A secret group of environmentalist ultra-extremists has engineered a virus (or virus-like pathogen) with the purpose of making all of humanity extinct (yes, including themselves). They are aware that humanity will fight back against this plague as soon as they notice lots of people dying. There would und... |
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I am writing a fantasy story where a vast Empire has been weakened, and the previous (inept) emperor allowed the feudal lords to act nearly autonomously. Once he died, the lords that ruled their respective nations and vassal states declared kingship, but still were subservient to the Empire in name - bou... |
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In near future a global war wipes out most of humanity, leaving only a handful of survivors. Thousands of years later these survivors have adapted to lives in small pockets of the world still left undestroyed.
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I've been creating a world where most-to-all of its life resides in the deep ocean. For story purposes, I would like said creature to have lungs, but it is not necessary.
**Description of the Creature in Mind**
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A sub-group of Orcs have settled into an area that is occupied by humans who culturally resemble the Greeks from the Hellenic period. These Orcs, who physically resemble Orcs from The Elder Scrolls, decide that having the lower tusks is holding them back from achieving greater understanding or makes them... |
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The ozone layer depleted beyond reasonable levels and life on the surface has become impossible and life migrated underground in giant caves connected together by tunnels.
Some of those caves have access to underground rivers or aquifers but some don't. That's the case of one of the biggest cave (size de... |
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The setting would be an almost permanently snowy climate. Average temperature 10 to -5 degrees celsius, with little difference between seasons.
Edit: This is a human civilization. I suppose the climate is similar to tundra (with sparse pine forest). To the west is the ocean, and to the east there is a mo... |
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For my world, I wanted to create a reasonable and consistent magic system. Well, since I'm not a fantasy type, the result was something people should concentrate on, in which, the resource ("mana") is obviously, the energy from the human body.
To keep the balance of energy and set up limits, I decided th... |
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I recently engaged in a war with an expensive-to-kill psychic warrior race. I prepared to face heavy losses, but my enemies deny me the satisfaction of mourning my soldiers' deaths. They didn't kill any but maimed them all (some still died of blood loss due to the don't-care-ness of their overlord, but I... |
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This is inspired by GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire, where for millennia House Targaryen wed brother to sister at all possible opportunities, and Aunt to nephew, Uncle to niece, and cousin to cousin where that was not possible. As a result, the family had a propensity for madness, and often times children ... |
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Could you make a steampunk style robot powered by steam power and Clockwork mechanics (In such a way that it would practical)?
* Assume no magic is involved, just Engineering
* Assume the brain is a computer (AI)
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Inspired by these two questions [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/31544/how-many-of-a-typical-sci-fi-army-would-you-need-to-take-a-planet) and [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/31573/how-to-accomplish-planetary-independence) that contemplate similar issues, I... |
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I actually have a couple of questions here.
My dragon is very small, just about 3 meters long from beak to tailtip, 20 kilograms, with a 5 meter wingspan. A bit like a velociraptor-sized Rahonavis. Mating among her species usually takes place for 5-10 seconds during freefall from 4000 or so meters. Like ... |
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Take the situation of a modern carrier group (Aircraft carrier, etc.) anchored just off shore (far enough that they initially couldn't run aground) with all the crews abandoning ship for land (in a hurry). The ships then stay there for many years with only the odd adventurer/scavenger visiting.
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For this question think of the times of past, present, and future as $T\_{-1}$,$T\_0$, and $T\_1$, respectively. There is a man named Jim, currently in $T\_0$, so lets refer to him as $J\_0$. $J\_0$ is a very smart man and at some point between $T\_0$ and $T\_1$ he invents a time machine. His future self... |
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In the story idea I'm working on, I'm using the polandball/polish space marines meme as a starting point for the titular space-faring organization. In the story, the meme exists as a way to cast doubt over whether Poland actually has a working space program.
The problem is, how would the Polish governmen... |
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Well, this is my first post here. Been lurking for a while and have read a lot of the RKKV (*Relativistic Kinetic Kill Vehicle*) questions in my search for a solid answer to my question. Alas, no such luck. So time to stop lurking...
At some point in the past a relativistic weapon was fired during a some... |
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In my setting diminutive races like fairies, gnomes, and gremlins exist and to handle of the cooler climates such as in Europe and protect themselves for their many predators many of them live underground. While issues like ventilation seem difficult are certainly possible given that ants and termites an... |
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This animal experiences this lifecycle:
Plant $\to$ worm $\to$ flying animal $\to$ humanoid $\to$ plant
It basically never dies and can only be killed if the plant is killed. If it dies in any other stage it will grow into a plant and be reborn.
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How can one explain the ability of a creature to harden their skin to a solid strong enough to fend off predator bites?
The skin must go from being elastic and flexible to being a biological shield of hard tissue capable of resisting a shark's bite.
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After centuries of careful search and travel, some intrepid extraterrestrial explorers have finally found another inhabited world! Elated with their discovery and exhausted after their long journey, they swing into a high orbit around Earth and start running their scans. Thankfully their vessel is very h... |
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If given a reason to develop such a process, such as attracting prey or scaring away threats or even making recognisable patterns to 'talk' to humans, what is the most likely way they would do this?
Would they be more likely to growl? Hum? Groan? Or would full on speech be possible?
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Lets say magic is capable of summoning fire of varying intensities for different amounts of time, how effective would a shield of wood covered in leather or metal? What would it take to melt or set the shield ablaze? What shield shape would be best at dispersing said heat? And at what point would the hea... |
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Rain happens when the pressure of moist air drops enough to form droplets **and** the droplets get heavy enough to fall.
The trouble that I see is that the pressure will probably drop off slower than the "gravity" (which is opposite the situation on Earth).
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One of Alice's interstellar jaunts will take her to a Gold Planet. It's a planet that was recently covered in a meter deep layer of gold dust (for realism, it is mixed with silver, platinum, teensy bits or uranium and the like)
I've been thinking about how to do this -- since planets don't naturally tend... |
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Nature does some pretty interesting things with gender:
## This is a female trilobite beetle.
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Scientists have observed females extensively, yet for decades, scientists could not identify the male t... |
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Now maybe this belongs in physics, but I want it here because I'm interested in the impacts on our society if the speed of light (c) were to be 2x faster since the big bang.
My first thoughts were about how this would impact our energy and e=mc^2, which would mean the entire universe would be in a higher... |
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I've got a race of aliens that have no sense of sight. They can measure electromagnetic radiation with instruments, but have no concept of vision.
All I know about video encoding and transmission is that it happens, so my question is very basic.
Humans have sent TV shows into outer space. Would it be p... |
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An explorer arrives from a "far away land" where they have "indistinguishable from magic" level technology. Singularity level at least.
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I am envisioning a trading port city/town, that occupies an island in a river mouth/estuary. Bridges link the island to the mainland.
The island is a mostly submerged, extinct volcano; and the crater forms the walls around the harbour and town.
The town is the major trading hub of the continent, and head... |
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I am not a writer. I have never written any story and I have no idea of what it takes to get this idea into any meaningful narrative. It's more of a thought experiment for me and I formally give the go ahead to anyone who wants to steal the idea for anything creative :)
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I'm worldbuilding for a sci-fi setting with some help from old Artifexian videos, and have made a planet that's suitable for human habitation. However, as this planet is larger than Earth, to make the gravity the same (I'm doing so to have dinosaur-esque megafauna) the density drastically lowers.
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There are several stellar environmental results from sentient industrial over-expansionism that I can imagine ie. star lifting that results in entire systems becoming frozen husks and debris from mining operations and collisions creating fast-moving minefields so to speak, perhaps even some sort of radia... |
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Terrestrial mammals usually get their color from [melanins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin), which makes possible a range of colors, from white to black, yellow to red, and most combinations thereof. However, [some](https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/why-dogs-are-turning-blue-and-pink-in-this-russian-c... |
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**Background:** My world, Alendyias, is more than a little interesting. As the Fracture in Reality grows and expands, it takes apart and reforms worlds inside itself, and over the ages, this has formed one big world: Alendyias. Living things are often mutated at least a little by this trip through *chaos... |
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