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[Atlantropa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa), Herman Sörgel's proposal to turn vast swathes of the Mediterranean Sea into livable dry land by installing five hydroelectric dams (the main one across the Strait of Gibraltar), is an awful idea for a great MANY reasons. Ignoring all the pesky socia... |
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In a [story of mine](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/38428/how-long-would-it-take-us-to-detect-a-deimos-like-object-moving-towards-sol-from) mankind has established a permanent base on the earthward-side of the Moon complete with a [beanstalk dangling into Earth-Luna-L1](https://en.wiki... |
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Solar wind density is very low even at Venus it is only 10 or so H+ ions per cm$^3$ but it is moving at a brisk clip of 400 km/s for the slow wind and 750 or so for the fast wind. So (feel free to check my math here) if one collected all the H+ ions passing thru a 1 cm$^2$ square in a second you would co... |
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Follow up to this question: [How would earth goverments respond to killing of most of a colony to keep the rest alive long enough for rescue](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/27301/how-would-earth-goverments-respond-to-killing-of-most-of-a-colony-to-keep-the-re) but with a different appr... |
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Firstly: I'd like to note that this post ( and the world it's based in) is partly inspired by the time travel mechanics of the game [Achron](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achron). If you're confused by my question go watch some videos of that, then you can be confused by them too.
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I had an idea for my story for an advanced civilization to capitalize on possibly the most energetic events in their universe which is the merger of supermassive blackholes.
From current observations of mergers it seems that ten percent of the mass of the smaller blackhole is turned into gravitational wa... |
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The setting is an endless sky of naught but pillowy white clouds and floating islands scattered across the skyscape. In such a world, how would the various nations, from small city-states to large empires, trade with, conquer, and otherwise move people and resources between one another?
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What light spectrum would hit the surface of a planet orbiting a red dwarf star?
The planet is a humid greenhouse with a cloudy atmosphere and a strong ozone layer. Over 80% of the surface is water. The planet is tidally locked to its star.
I'm trying to determine plant life on a world, and the type of l... |
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This may seem similar to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/28458/anatomically-correct-phoenix) but my goal is for one:
The bird does not die and secondly to get more exact solutions.
The ultimate goal would be to create a bird which can ignite itself at will for one or tw... |
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Because of reasons, I need a sword that needs to be on fire and still be effective. I've found [nitinol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_titanium), a shape memory alloy that when hot reverts to a preconfigured shape. If it reverts, would it actually STAY in shape when it's thrusting or slicing an op... |
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There is a terrestrial planet called **Paveiha** that orbits a small Red Dwarf star. It is the third planet in a system of 10 planets. Paveiha is close enough to the Sun that it is tidally locked and the planet itself has three moons. Two small irregular moons and one major spherical moon, **Jeah**, whic... |
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Let's say I have a character whose body stopped aging at say 7 years old, prepubescent; just say [a wizard did it](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt).
The individual is now into their 20s, but their body never ages and, in particular, they never go through puberty.
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Mars' gravity is 38% of that of Earth's.
Supposing a human born and raised on a Mars colony traveled to earth later in their life, would they be able to survive the increased gravity?
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The setting: A planet with two main landmasses, each one's center located more or less at each pole of the planet. Liquid water ocean in between them, wrapping fully, if not directly (due to the non-symmetrical nature of landmasses on either side), around the equatorial region of the planet. The planet h... |
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**I want to know if this is physically possible.** So at first I thought I was nuts. Then I started reading about [Hill Radii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere), and googled left and right. Turns out a Hill Sphere is the region around an astronomical body where it is dominant in regards to attra... |
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So I have been working on a world where space has been "cracked" by some mysterious disaster which plunged the world into chaos.
It is not immediately apparent - i.e. no giant glowing holes in the sky, but the world map no longer follows the rules of geometry;
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So for the story I'm writing, I'm designing is a gas dwarf with a very strong magnetic field and a planetary ring with a slightly inclined orbit. However, the rocks within the ring are very sensitive to magnetic fields. How would this affect the shape of the ring, if it is able to form at all?
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So for the purposes of this question, the following items are already determined by our world:
* The humans and human society are in very beginning of an Industrial Revolution almost identical to our own on an Earth identical to our own, meaning they are technologically and socially on par with Western c... |
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In this fantasy world there is no day/night but a constant mild light. There are also no seasons and the mild light is akin to the light at dawn or dusk. The sun doesn't really exist.
How would the plants and animals differ?
I assume sleep would look pretty different as well as photosynthesis.
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One possible approach how to estimate extend of space colonization is to define costs of it and then estimate the investments the governments and organizations would be willing to pay. In an [excellent analysis](http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/2009/09/price-of-spaceship.html) of starship costs on the... |
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In a Tolkein-like world, I want to devise a rehab program for Dwarves to course-correct if/when they succumb to treasure-induced [auromania](https://www.macmillandictionary.com/amp/dictionary/british/auromania). Symptoms include:
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Just as the title says, I'm looking for a quick-and-simple point-and-click cartographic software to easily make a basic map.
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This might be asking too much for too little, but I wish to make a simple map. It needn't be beautiful, or highly detailed (these wou... |
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**EDIT:** (Important) M. A. Golding commented that the regalecid method of locomotion would be unfit for a constricting predator, so I have **completely redone the taxonomy of the sea serpent**. They are now eels, closely related to moray eels. The sea serpent taxon has been upgraded to family Serpentima... |
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Having recently been to [Mammoth Cave National Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_Cave_National_Park), I've been considering the caves of my own worlds, and more specifically their formation. Now while not all caves are formed from limestone, it is the most common cave material, given that water... |
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So to start, let's assume that this hypothetical life form relied on something similar to LNG (liquefied natural gas) - mainly relying on ethane - as a solvent in the same way humans rely on water. Let's also assume that they breathe hydrogen, use acetylene as glucose, expel methane, and that they are ca... |
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## The Basics
There is **no FTL**.
Most spacecraft use He3-De fusion Torchdrives, capable of **performing sustained multi-gee burns**. Most torchdrives can also use fuel that is delivered by accelerators elsewhere in the system, so fuel doesn't have to be used until the actual battle begins.
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So, I had this idea about a sapient alien specie paritally based on the reproduction of the schistosoma
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A flat worm specie in which the male is notorious bigger than the female, and this have a curvated chanel in which takes ... |
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On the Atomic Rockets site, there is [a series of handy tables](http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/usefultables.php), the first of which is aptly named "The Boom Table", providing examples for a wide range of energy releases (in both Joules and TNT equivalent). 3.2×10^26 Joules, or 77 petatons ... |
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Let's say our world is set in a hyperbolic space with a curvature K of −1 per 9 square meters. How would crystals be different than those in our world (assuming that the atoms are the same as the ones in our universe)?
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Inspired by: [How much electromagnetic transmission noise does Earth have to emit to be noticeable?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/124365)
**Premise:** Assume that the infamous Wolf 359 star system has one habitable planet and a second, habitable or not, upon which the Wolvians have d... |
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Recently, [a question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/96120/anatomically-correct-charybdis) was posted about how a creature like the mythical Charybdis could evolve. Today I want to talk about Charybdis' mythical counterpart: Scylla.
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Suppose you took earth and gave it approximately 3 times the air, with most of the extra being N2 or Ar.
Combustion goes up with the partial pressure of oxygen. So unless we want to burn down the planet around our ears, at 45 psi, we want only 7% O2 or so. This much Nitrogen starts implying nitrogen narc... |
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I've been thinking about this the whole day. At first I thought it was an easy fix, given my dragon's bones have a tensile strength of 3-6.5 GPa and an elastic modulus of 50-140 GPa, depending on the reinforcing fiber's orientation. For limpets, this fiber is goethite, for my dragons, I take the risk of ... |
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I already have a land mask (view below) from a basic world map generator, but I need anyway that will help me place mountains, deserts, rivers, cities, etc on it. And, if possible, a height map from it as well (not so important, but if there is, just doesn't need to be all-in-one).
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By "fairies," I'm referring to the eldritch horrors and creepy-crawlies of Celtic folklore, not the glittery pixies with butterfly wings.
My urban fantasy setting puts a sci-fi spin on supernatural creatures. The Good Neighbors of Celtic tradition belong to a hominid subfamily called Externinae, which p... |
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## Which solvent to use for metal nerves?
Based on [this answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/27124/10364) on to how to evolve biological radios, the answer states that if creatures in an ecosystem utilize metal for electrical transmission instead the sodium-gate depolarization system used o... |
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Earth has an iron-nickel core which gives us a magnetosphere. **Based on [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/27277/10364) that replaces our iron core with a mercury core, would we be likely get a magnetosphere?**
Mercury is highly conductive and forms mercury(Hg ii) crystals at high... |
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I'm working on a tabletop roleplaying game about witches. I have most of the mechanics of broomsticks worked out, but I'm having trouble deciding on top speeds. Speed limits are not a result of how fast the broomstick itself can be made to go, but are imposed by air resistance ripping the witch off the s... |
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Assuming the axial tilt of the Earth was increased to roughly 30°, and the orbital eccentricity roughly doubled(0.03 as opposed to 0.016) so that the average temperature stayed the same, but the summers became hotter, the winters colder and the seasonal changes from latitude became more extreme, what kin... |
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Many alien worlds will most likely be water worlds. I was wondering what the deepest possible global ocean dept is where land is still possible. I think that volcanic islands will still have a chance to form even after continents are no longer possible since they can have quite steep slopes which are sup... |
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I'm about to (re)start an effort to collaboratively create a complete world. I'm afraid most ideas would be mine, but I really want it to be open for others to contribute.
I'm seeking for an Internet-based platform (most preferrably via browser) to do that.
So far I can think on a wiki and on Kune, but I... |
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So imagine people were the size of house cats, and the world's land masses were scaled down accordingly (in volume). In comparison to the original size of the landmass, how big would England be? And how would the scaling down change the climate of England?
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My world is roughly the same as the middle ages but has a natural form of birth control in the form of a root that can be grown and consumed to prevent pregnancy.
Because of this root, opportunities to receive education have opened up to those women who can afford it.
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Lets assume that we have magic users that often like to hurt each other.
Now the simplest option is to try to blast the other mage directly, but it is not without drawbacks.
First the enemy will be often magically protected making our work harder.
Second they will try to magick us back making the whol... |
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*"At this very moment we face a threat insurmountable to Man. We are faced with two options. Stay on Earth and die, or leave Earth to space."* - UN Preservation Council, CE 2047
**Earth, year CE 2047**
An asteroid is detected, traveling at about 5% Lightspeed, with a mass of about 1/2 the Moon. It also h... |
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In this world, women generally live naturally longer lives than men. The typical female lifespan would be 125- 150 years, and a male would be 30-35 years. Our society attributes this to an ancient curse that God placed on the first man for disobeying him in the garden of eden and eating a fruit from the ... |
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Imagine a race whom have mastered the knowledge of black holes, at least a bit.
They've found a way survive, with their planet intact, inside the gravitation of the black hole without getting destroyed by it. (I know it is not possible for humans but in my fictional universe there are species which und... |
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In an effort to make it possible for fantastically large organisms to exist I've altered the square cube law of my universe so that instead of something getting 8 times the mass when doubling size it instead only doubles its mass, three times the size three times the mass instead of 12, etc. So far this ... |
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A very common media technique is to replace area or exchange codes of phone numbers with 555 to prevent people from dialing real numbers and harassing people by accident. However, I find this a bit limiting for my world, since I think a lot can be conveyed through phone numbers. I still wanted to avoid t... |
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Think Tatooine in climate, but with oceans. Here are a few restrictions due to setting:
* There is modern technology, but not too much electricity ie no super high amperage machines.
* Population is small at first (only a couple hundred), but is growing since this town has a strong supply of water and ot... |
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A long-running concept I have for my fantasy continent of Diggoran is its isolated and unequalized technological and industrial progress.
By ''isolated progress'' I refer to the fact that Diggoran's technological and industrial progress barely extends to the rest of the world which is largely pre-Indust... |
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I’m working on a story-driven game, and I have an aspect of my game I need to create a lore-based explanation for. In this game humans are battling highly advanced robots. These robots are heavily armored, and pack powerful weapons, so ordinary troops haven’t been able to put up much of a resistance ... |
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My setting is a fantasy where the average space-trekker subsides on scrapping derelict ships from a distant golden age in the past to maintain their own, with only the corporate rich being able to afford new construction nowadays. I may use some hand-waving for the setting since it is fantasy (e.g. space... |
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In the galaxy I'm worldbuilding for my science-fantasy series, by far the most important planet in the galaxy is an ecumenopolis called Ishga. What I had in mind for this planet is something resembling Coruscant from Star Wars, with either the entirety or the vast majority of the planet covered in a thic... |
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Potions have been the traditional solution for medical issues throughout history for populations within witch society. Witches were seen as the doctors of their community, treating people with various ailments (anxiety, pain, muscle spasms, etc.) with their magic brews. This excelled even further in the ... |
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It is 1950. I am a rich and crazy entrepreneur, who wants to replace pens with typewriters. I can try to influence (or lobby) any government in the world. I want my typewriter to be cheaper than pens, although that typewriter may have an extremely limited set of glyphs. With the hindsight available to yo... |
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We have modern humans found in a near future, first world country on Earth. The primary technological advancements are in the form of extremely cheap and fast genome sequencing ($10USD/genome) and in the inexpensive use of [CRISPR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR) gene manipulation to fix any and al... |
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I have a setting that involves floating islands that coast slowly across a planet. There are multiple tiers separated by cloud layers, however the surface is inaccessible to my floating islanders.
In order to suspend my floating islands I have decided to use a few different magic/handwavium particles. Th... |
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Plain and simple: could your offspring's offspring be genetically identical to you? What conditions would this be possible under, if any?
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There's nothing to prevent it, though the chances of it happening in the wild are effectively 0.
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I'm workshopping a medieval fantasy setting and one of the primary locations is a large port city, located on a bay out to the ocean.
I'm still early in development, but since this settlement is quite large and located relatively close to borders with another country, I'm working out its defenses, the bi... |
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The human body contains mana, the life force that can be transferred for use as a source for magic. The individual's capacity for mana slowly grows with time as the person ages into adulthood, finally reaching its limits during middle age, and then steadily declines. A mage must take care to control the ... |
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I’m writing a novel where people from our universe move to another.
The other universe is a fantasy one with medieval technology.
These people have the help of an advanced AI that contains the history of the last universe down to the specifics.
Now I was wondering, when these people inevitably develop a... |
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Suppose that there are 2 interstellar empires at war with one another, both armed with FTL drives which cannot be used within a certain radius of huge gravity fields, stars, gas giants, etc. Another thing to note is that both empires use the same FTL tech, which they had both independently researched, as... |
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In an alternative earth, or just a few decades from now, someone was able to make a breakthrough in nuclear bombs. Developing a way to make the radiation be nullified by its extreme chain reactions or just dissipate it so quickly that the exposure to the fallout is almost inoffensive).
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I have a sci-fi world that is very technologically advanced (at the stage of "sub-singularity" where they have already invented AIs posing danger to humans, but not achieving singularity, so it's not God-like and can be fought etc.). Both humans and the machines (so far the only inteligent "races") use t... |
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I'm writing a realistic sci fi story involving interstellar conflict , where space warships (assume something like star destroyers from star wars) are the norm, These warships are capable of orbital bombardment and can essentially strike any place on a planet with immense force and rapid speed. In such a... |
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I have been working on a hard Sci-Fi narrative of a first-time human colonization scenario on an interstellar star system like Alpha-Centauri.
My narrative though uses NO FTL drives or other fictional warp technology and instead focuses on realistic interstellar travel. The ship I thought of can travel a... |
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I'm trying to figure out how necessary firearms would be in an early to mid-industrial setting. From what I've gathered, it would be a stretch to say that the technology for firearms would go undiscovered in such a setting, but I'm not sure if it is inevitable for them to dominate combat and warfare.
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In my story, I have Artificial Intelligences that turn against their creators (think something akin to Skynet). These AIs are bent on the destruction of humanity. Humans and the AIs go to war against each other, and eventually the humans manage to capture and contain the AIs within some form of technolog... |
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How could gender on 1st person pronouns come into existence? I've been working on a language where every noun is required to state what gender it is. The 5 genders male, female, real, not-real/unknown, alive, and dead. For all my pronouns I wanted them to have it required as well. I've been trying to cre... |
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The Dwarves of Zanzibar (no, not the real place I just liked the name) have long lived within the Great Red Desert among its mountains and arid plains.
But I've noticed one issue with burrowing in the desert especially a large sink hole design I planned for my dwarves (their settlements would be designe... |
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The wizarding world is a cut throat place. It's divided between several great mage families. Each one of these has a network of lesser families allied to them through marriage. Relations between families and a mixture of cut-throat politics, temporary alliances, blood feuds, duels and the occasional assa... |
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In trying to both invent and prevent mediums with which opposing armies can defeat "Army X", I come to you, stack exchange, hoping for some second-opinions on how to 'defeat an immortal army'.
In essence; "How does an army equipped with standard blades and shields (and the etc that comes with it) ultimat... |
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What kind of asteroid would it take to hit our sun out of its current position, even by just 50 meters? And how big does it need to be in order for it to do so? Would it continue to travel through space after being knocked out of our system, or is this simply not possible? If so:
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with the latest arcane technology, archers on the battlefield are able to shoot "smart arrows". Smart arrows are **propelled** by a little unit of magiteck, which allows the archer to control the arrow' movements finely. This includes **sharp turns**, sudden **accelerations**, and the ability ... |
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Basically, I want to decisively put an end to any idea that lasers could be used in my space combat in any large degree. One of the solutions I've thought of is a world having advanced armour (either through a coating or something else) that is resistant enough to lasers (or I guess heat because that is ... |
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Our intrepid wizard protagonist realizes there is only one of him and an army of baddies. He has a band of some 50 people with him, but only a dozen have combat training and he is the only spellcaster. The guards are working on tactics, wooden spikes, choke points, and [etc](https://c.tenor.com/1i0_NMO7M... |
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In this world there has been a recurring population surge of ferocious insects every 20 years for many centuries. The setting is approximately our own time in relation to the existence of "cave men". In other words, since around the time humans began to create things and have fire, essentially stone age ... |
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Ejaculation is the discharge of semen from the male reproductory tract, usually accompanied by orgasm. It is the final stage and natural objective of male sexual stimulation, and an essential component of natural conception. Despite this, "dry" orgasms do occasionally happen. This occurs when the final s... |
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The current technology around this subject is somewhat hard to gauge. For obvious ethical reasons, there is not a lot of empirical precedents. Also, given that it's subliminal, it is by nature difficult/if not impossible to perceive for the targets. For these reasons, extrapolating into the future (50 ye... |
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I like toying around with systems of magic, and I recently had the idea of a system of magic where someone could slow down the flow of time (by a factor of, say, 500) for everything except their brain's own processing speed. For example, if a practitioner of this magic were shot at by an archer, they cou... |
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When I asked [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/235040/non-religious-reasons-to-have-highly-advanced-physical-simulations-without-any-a), I was expecting there to be some way to have highly advanced simulations of physical systems without the technology for modelling social... |
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On my world, a magical device known as a Reincarnation Anchor (RA) was invented. The effect of a RA is that any human who spends a significant portion of their life within sight range of a RA becomes subject to reincarnation. Within Sight Range doesn't mean that the RA must be visible, but that the RA is... |
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The goal is to find an element which can be applied remotely to a target (like from a laser), and work as a homing device for a missile. (Or at least, to find a homing device which could be applied remotely and would be undetectable to the target.)
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I know from [here](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006041614112) that a flame thrower can operate in deep space if specially built. However, I want to know if using a flamethrower on a spaceship in space could have any tactical benefits. Could a flamethrower be used to destroy or blind enem... |
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