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I have a friend who is a really nice guy. The problem is that he was born as a half demon. While he looks completely normal, he possesses a spirit inside him called "Amon". This being forces him to experience certain demonic urges, which he must constantly suppress while awake.
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In a tropical shore, where a great river empties into the sea, there is a [zone of very high tides](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/124344/how-to-have-high-tides-in-the-tropics). The water level rises and falls by meters every day. In this challenging ecosystem, alternately ba... |
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In an alien atmosphere, where methane is the main gas instead of oxygen and ammonia is the main solvent instead of water.
Similar to how photosynthesis on earth plants work, by taking in carbon dioxide and water to create glucose (source of food) and oxygen (waste product). What gas would plants on this ... |
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My first time here, hope this is a useful question. Mostly about orbital mechanics and vacuum.
So the crew of a general-purpose interstellar spacecraft have stumbled across a paradise planet. After extensive testing of the area, they decide to establish a colony. They land the spacecraft, offload all the... |
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The State of [Muskogee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Muskogee) was an **independence movement in the late 1700's and early 1800's started by William Bowles**. The goal was to create a united **aboriginal nation** in the southeast that could **resist the expansion of the Unite... |
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It is typical of fantasy stories that there will be a dragon somewhere down the line. They are typically the strongest boss right before or after the main antagonist.
Now the question is what color would the dragon's blood be, given that it can breath fire, it can produce thick scales, it has very sturdy... |
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I've asked another question about trinary planet systems which turned out to not be possible.
Is there a way for three worlds to co exist within sight of each other? Sight being defined as making out continents with the naked eye.
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Rogue planets are generally not to healthy for us humans to live on. No permanent source of heat or light means that generally they are a pretty cold place. Plenty of other problems arise too, but lets not get into all of that.
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Any suggestions on ways to power large-scale clockwork vehicles? I'm building a world with highly advanced mechanical technology in a D&D-esque fantasy setting, but I haven't decided how to fuel them. I've considered just big hairsprings and flywheels, but I'd like some outside opinion.
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We live in an age where cloning technology is close to being capable of bringing back extinct animals. Currently, there are research groups who are moving forward with efforts to clone the passenger pigeon and the wooly mammoth. A cloned wooly mammoth may have some difficulties learning how to be a mammo... |
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As I asked in [**Previous Question**](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13119/what-will-be-the-roles-and-strategies-of-big-countries-in-the-conflict-between-i?noredirect=1#comment31435_13119) about the role of countries in the conflict between India and Pakistan and most of the answers su... |
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Would it be possible to modify a human to be able to survive in space without protective gear?
Genetic engineering and cybernetic enhancement are both allowed, although when not in space the person in question should look completely normal.
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For the sake of scope, we'll assume the warrior already have the potion in their hand.
Also for the sake of scope, we'll assume there's no magic to help a person drink faster. It all relies on technique.
In combat, time is everything. If two warriors fighting each other drink a healing potion, but one ta... |
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This question is based off an interesting scenario that I began considering while researching [XCOM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM). It's hard to sum up, but the question is inspired by it, so I'll cover it step-by-step:
1. Aliens called Chryssalids, which resemble giant insects kills an unfortunate... |
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Architects were a rather weird civilization. You see, not only did they create servant races like demi-humans, but had also engineered themselves to be specialized in various areas. Here is the hierarchical order and their roles:
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Imagine that **Terra Australis** was real, that there really was a vast continent in the Southern Hemisphere like that shown on old maps. It's massive, encompassing what in our world would be Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego, the Kerguelen Plateau, Australia, New Zealand, and most of the Pacific Ocean south ... |
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Setting, a land apart from the world, where an immortal race of humans live. Their social culture began as egalitarian hunter gatherers. Their cells are resistant to senescence and mutation, and they have a reservoir of stem cells in their bones that replenishes their bodies if they are injured. Other th... |
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I've been thinking of a story revolving around a smallish humanoid troll/lemur-like species with large eyes, a tail, and bat like ears that allows them to use echolocation. They typically prefer low light conditions such as at dusk and night, and are known to create burrows, treehouses, or massive underg... |
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In my world there human-animal hybrids. My protagonist is a snow leopard-human girl (outwards looks almost completely human, except for the tail). These hybrids have been created through experiments, so there is no evolution in play.
So I can also play around with sci-fi-ish elements (and/or magic). **Wh... |
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I am trying to create an island with a large settlement on it, the people of this settlement need to be able to sustain themselves and according to [Medieval demographics made easy](https://gamingballistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Medieval-Demographics-Made-Easy-1.pdf) (MDME)
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I has this idea for quite a while. I searched for information on the internet but I could see no reference. All searches gave results on the same idea but the effect was not what I'm looking for.
**The constraints**: a space colony on a planet away from its star, an underground colony or a hostile climat... |
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My world - basically Earth all along, unless told otherwise - is populated by humans and few fantasy-based "races" (actually, species - any interbreed offspring, if possible, is infertile): elves, dwarves, etc. Despite the fact that setting is to some extent inspired by common fantasy tropes, there is no... |
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In my world a lot of people can fly. It isn't everyone and it isn't all to the same skill level. Some people can only float around a bit, while a master can break the sound barrier. There are enough people like this to form all-flying squads in an army.
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There have been a lot of questions about zombie bites on this site. From making it lethal to allowing for an amputation cure. But we have not discussed the primary issue of this line of questioning is its feasibility.
Even assuming that a quick amputation can prevent the *zombie infection*, there are a p... |
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Assume you have two blades (of whatever design you wish) made from identical starting steel (in fact, we can assume that the two starting ingots are sisters from the same mill run). One is shaped by manual hot-forging, while the other is shaped by a single-blow, closed-die hot forging process. After shap... |
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I am imagining a planet more or less earth like. I would like it to have only one pole cap, so only the southern hemisphere has a snow-covered continent. The trick is, I don't want it to lie completely on its rotational axis because that would cause the days be as long as seasons (please correct me if I'... |
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This questions a spring off of a [previous](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/31933/defining-and-balancing-entropic-magic#31933) one.
My Thaumaturgic magic system uses five elements.
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3. Electricity.
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Imagine an effective ranged stun gun that renders an opponent unconscious is built in the near future and is easily produced. It works like this:
1. for most people if shot they will be knocked unconscious for anywhere between 2 hours and 18 hours, depending on power level of the gun
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Scenario: Last line of defense. I want to prevent anyone from reaching a highly guarded building.
Such building is in the middle of top secret, heavily guarded military area (think of [Area 51](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51)). I want to make sure, that if my military base gets attacked, I have a w... |
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We've had a [question about a city designed to guard against dragons](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/13794/6986), so I would like to propose the opposite (which happens to be a part of a world I built a while ago).
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This is somewhat different to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/30802/would-it-be-possible-for-an-organism-to-evolve-a-biological-fusion-reactor) on the possibility of biological fusion reactors as I am curious if a living FISSION reactor is more plausible.
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I'm building a world with humans being genetically engineered species, created by certain advanced Alien civilization ("gods", Creators etc ...) like in the [Sumerian hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts), but with a twist: those "gods" created certain dormant genetic code in huma... |
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I'm working on a novel, in which a character was given a cutting edge vaccination to a deadly disease. She is now valuable because she was the only one given the vaccine and the research to make more is unavailable. Now some people want to "reverse-engineer" the vaccine by studying her (the one who creat... |
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Rats are commonly associated with illness and disease due to the role they played in [The Black Death](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death). However, some works of fiction portray [rats as carnivorous swarms](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SwarmOfRats), devouring people indiscriminate... |
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The subterranean nation of Glot has developed the ability to “thermally link” two equally sized diamonds, such that they are always the same temperature, regardless of spatial separation. We can consider this “thermal linking” process “magic” (or sci-fi "thermal quantum entanglement"), but physics otherw... |
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Let's say our world is set in a [hyperbolic space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry) with a curvature $K$ of $-1$ per $9$ square meters. The surface of our world is a hyperbolic plane (approximately, there are still hills and valleys and stuff). The sun is surface 100 million miles away ... |
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On a planet, a species uses magnets (i.e. float in the air) instead of wheels for transportation. Roads are easy enough, just slap some magnets in it, at it works.
But I was wondering about the feasibility of having transportation which uses the magnetic field of the planet to hover above the ground, or... |
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Supposedly we human are able to terraformed Mars decades from now, then in few hundred years able to enhance our genes to be more adaptable to live on harsh conditions, creating space colonies and starting to live on moon, Jupiter's moon, all the way to Saturn. Supposedly we also invented FTL travel betw... |
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A ship powered by a [black hole of a few hundred thousand tons](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship#Criteria) (say, under $6 \times10^8$ kg, which would have a lifetime of several years and a power output of a few hundred petawatts) crashes (malfunctions or is piloted deliberately, it doe... |
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I'm developing a magic system that is supposed to be pretty close to real science.
I have a spell "convert element" described as follows:
Elements are converted by adding or subtracting protons. The simplest form of elemental conversion is to drop from one element to the next lower element by number. Ref... |
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One of the great misconceptions of history is the horned helmets of vikings. This is in fact untrue, they didn't have horned helmets. But horned helmets were a thing thousands of years before the vikings. And have been used from time to time.
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In the creature type I asked about [in my last question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/38213/can-an-insectoid-race-have-a-flexible-exoskeleton), there are some lower caste members who seem to have metal limbs. However I don't think they would waste resources to build the legs for lowe... |
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Suppose there's an earth-like planet, perhaps even modern day earth itself - and at one point in time, it began to be bombarded by a continual stream of Electromagnetic Pulses.
For the sake of simplicity let's say that the EMPs are coming from a set of cloaked alien satellites orbiting the planet, and al... |
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Suppose there was a disease that caused accelerated healing in the host body during incubation. Once symptoms appeared, the initial advantage was replaced by the real, negative purpose.
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Imagine a species (the cause is largely irrelevant - could be alien meddling for all I know) that is *Homo sapiens* in all except one detail: they have additional organ which is kind of like gills - allowing them to breathe under water.
Note that the species has *no other* aquatic adaptations:
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How does one calculate the caloric needs of various creatures considering their different behaviours, heartbeats... hormones, blood types, abilities, body temperature, external temperature, gravity, air density and stances like bipedalism, quadrupedalism or multipedalism.
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In monarchies and feudal societies the line of succession was extremely important, having an heir was one of the primary goals and creating familial connections was important to creating alliances. In a world where there are multiple races, and none of them can interbreed, what type of systems would aris... |
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So, dragons. They're omnivores and, while they would be potentially formidable hunters, mostly scavengers. This requires them to be more sparing with their energy.
Still, they fly and flight needs good eyesight and good eyesight needs this:
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I am currently trying to resolve a problem of heavy anachronism in the story/world I am "building".
I will start of by giving a small summary of the story/world, and why there is an anachronism. (Also, I am terribly sorry for the lack of detail here. The problem is that I myself am not sure of the detail... |
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Human (spoken) languages have a great variety in terms of grammar and what the basic elements are, but they have essential features in common in terms of being a time sequence of phonetic primitives, which are sounds involving both AM and FM modulation of basic sounds that the vocal apparatus can make.
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A plethora of previous questions have queried the existence of botanic (plant) intelligence and they all have created good solutions, but their still remains a even bigger problem to even the dumbest sentient plant: movement. The closest solution to the problem of plant muscles that are plant based are b... |
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Back home, Earth's moon is 2159.2 miles wide and orbits 238,900 miles from its parent.
But let's pretend that the moon is 2500 miles wide and orbits 200,000 miles from Earth. Would the nightscape look any different? How much would tides and axial tilt be affected?
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So we make code for an A.I., and it makes better code, which makes better code, which makes better code, etc... ad infinitum. I'm not going to specify its goal. Maybe it's [Robot Overlord Green](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/22616/deposing-the-new-robot-overlord#comment58841_22616). M... |
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Let's take again an imaginary world where, without its inhabitants realizing it, everything is physically influenced by what people thinks, by what they believe, by how they see the world. This world is more or less in a medieval stasis because the majority of people received no form of education outside... |
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If a large part of the population was killed, but the infrastructure was basically unharmed (I know it take people to keep things going, but I guess that is part of the question), how long would I still be able to use my GPS? How long would communication satellites still send and receive data? What other... |
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In my world(s), there are many varieties of humans. We have what *we* would think of as normal humans of various races and colours. However, we also have *other* varieties of human, such as Satyrs and Fauns (ungulate legs and horns), Lamiae (a long snake-like tail instead of legs), Mermen (a cetacean or ... |
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One of the solution to make a cold planet habitable for us is to increase the greenhouse effect. It works with planets like Mars that are inside the habitable zone but would it be enough for a planet outside of that zone?
It does maximize the heat absorption of the planet but there is a limit to this. We... |
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Assuming a world where starships don't use missiles and bullets in combat much. They only carry those as a final strike or for convenience. Their arsenal is almost entirely composed of electricity-based weaponry and tools: Arc generators to scar opponent ships with lightning bolts, field generators to de... |
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I want to know what key invention would allow my civilization to travel down to and explore its world at sea level. This is similar to my previous question\* but this time does not assume metals are in short supply so technology may develop as on our world.
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The older a memory is the fewer details we remember. The importance or impact of an event can also drastically affect how much we remember about it, but even the most impactful will, presumably, eventually fade.
Most fictional races with immortality or extreme longevity seem to recall events from the dis... |
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I am a complete amateur regarding biology, so please forgive me if this question is a little stupid.
Could we ever create squids that have human-level intelligence and could serve as a replacement in case humans die out?
I heard that squids can have giant axons, that can exceed 1mm in diameter. However, ... |
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I was having a discussion with several people on whether or not a lightning dragon can be biologically plausible, without any magic involved. We came to two main possibilities and I'd love to see feedback on them:
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This question is in the same context (the same world) proposed by Steven L. Gillett in his book: "World-building".
And actually there have been some other questions about this same chlorinated world. For example this:
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I'm trying to build a story around a supermassive black hole, which is ejected from a merger of two galaxies, that is hurtling our own way. What is the smallest realistic distance at which the black hole could sneak upon us with our current technology?
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I had an idea for a group of nomads/travellers who sustain themselves with mobile hydroponics system and whatever they can grow on the move.
How feasible would it be to have a mobile hydroponic farm capable of comfortably sustaining one person that can be mounted on a vehicle of some sort?
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The [Hoop snake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_snake) is a mythical creature from the United States and Canada that looks like a regular snake, but has the ability to grab its tail in its mouth and roll like a wheel at high speeds. It hunts by chasing people in hoop-mode, getting close, and then rap... |
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Compact, rapidly rotating astronomical objects (like neutron stars) are often observed to emit streams of high energy particle radiation along their poles. Near supermassive black holes in galactic cores, the velocity of these jets can reach 0.99c.
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I’m looking at ways the nobility of my world could go about displaying their wealth and it occurred to me that they might intentionally adopt a way of walking that would wear out the soles of their shoes quickly.
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Welcome to Computistan! Would you like to begin learn about our immigration services?
Great, what would you like to learn about today?
I will explain our Government. In Computistan all government decisions are made by myself, the **G**overnment **A**lgorithm for **M**anagement of **C**omputistan. I am of... |
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Related somewhat to [Gravity on a Minecraftian world?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12442/gravity-on-a-minecraftian-world)
say I have this infinite plane/world, then punch a circular hole through it to the other side. Say I manage to make a circular hole around 1 kilometer fairly uni... |
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For story writing purposes I would like a realistic setup where there is a planet with close to earth conditions in terms of gravity, relative position to the sun etc. However I aim to have a much larger moon with greater mass and thus a gravity sufficient to retain an atmosphere. This leads to questions... |
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What adaptations are needed for human-derived sea-dwellers?
My people are not the classic half-fish, nor are they whale-tail-people - they wear ankle-length swimming skirts that bind their legs into a hydrodynamic shape, and flippers. On land they wear loose skirts and walk almost normally. (The skirts c... |
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Taken from [this](https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/12856/2844) fascinating answer:
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I've been experimenting with a fantasy world that is flat, with the sun fixed in place over the centre. The day-night cycle is provided by the sun dimming and then brightening again. Most of the rest of things are assumed to be 'as on Earth'.
The lack of sun motion, though, creates an environment that do... |
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In this setting, the family unit is based around a clan system. An individual's wealth and status is related to the clan they are born in, and its ancestry is based on matrilineal lines. Due to certain environmental factors on the continent, travel between regional areas can be somewhat difficult and exp... |
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I'm building a world which is 50% covered by the sea. For approximately half the year, the sea covers one hemisphere; for the other half it moves to the other hemisphere, leaving the first a dry sea-bed, until the seas return again the following year. My working assumption is that the sea is dragged arou... |
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I'm writing a story in the genre of *Heroes*, *The 4400* etc in which a group of apparently random civilians, mostly US citizens, are subjected to some alien influence and gain strange powers, whereupon the government wants to keep an eye on them and run tests to find out exactly what they can do. The DH... |
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Imagine a society of people every bit as intelligent as people today, on a planet in all material respects identical to Earth. But, on this planet, no one has ever invented a written language, or even a written proto-language like the Vinca script or Harappan seals.
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The world is made of floating islands suspended in the atmosphere. For all intents and purposes, the world doesn't have a solid surface.
Due to a magical influence, islands rise from the core of the planet into the outer atmosphere and then fall back into the core in a cycle that takes thousand... |
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Hopefully, this is a little less broad. Apologies if it isn't! I'm rather new here, so I'm not used to this yet. Oops. Also, apologies for the length - I'm trying to explain as much as I can.
To pull some of the stuff I know already; Human babies are born underdeveloped compared with other primates. Our ... |
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One of the inspirations for this was Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis, where I liked their depiction of slithering, combat-worthy mermaids.
I've been trying to develop mermaids who make pilgrimages to land cities, and have been considering mermaids with shore-side villages and towns. For this purpose, I've ... |
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We have discussed the Railgun and the Coilgun, I'm fairly sure we've even talked once or twice about magnet guns. But could a centrifuge gun exist?
For those who do not know, a centrifuge rifle is exactly what it sounds like, at the pull of the first trigger the hollow, donut shaped barrel spins the bul... |
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This actually occurred in a dream last night, but I'm interested in what could come out of this. I'm not experienced with writing stories and have only read some Worldbuilding posts, so excuse me if this isn't the best! I'll give a brief introduction on what happened, but the scenario does not really lea... |
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I'm trying to flesh out the history of a fictional galactic society, specifically the initial settlements and inhabited worlds. Something that I thought would be important to settlers would be an abundance of heavier elements (because hydrogen is pretty easy to come by, but uranium not so much, and it's ... |
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My titled question was, can a planet without one or more moons be habitable?
In more depth, how would that planet be affected overall, without the moon to affect the tides and without providing light during night?
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I've been trying to come up with a scenario in which space stations and lunar bases are established but are considered controversial. I sort of figure that if corporations started mining the moon that some people would start freaking out about it having an effect on Earth despite the fact that the moon w... |
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