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[Question] [ In the land of Wymran live two groups of people: The Schijka and the Joothuns. Both groups are profoundly religious. Their religions have a few things in common: * They are monotheistic * They are each centered around a unique holy book * They all believe in an afterlife * Their religious beliefs tell th...
[Question] [ So, a setting I'm brainstorming is basically a tribal world, with Hunter-gatherers, animism, and the like. One of the features I want to add, to make it stand out from our own world is the existence of megaflora, like giant trees, or fruits the size of houses. Like, instead of growing a bunch of normal s...
[Question] [ Let’s say there was an early alien civilization, not yet advanced. They hail from a planet with little to no oxygen. If this planet had electrical storms relatively frequently, could they harness the power of electrical energy before the thermal energy of fire? [Answer] **Probably not** The problem wi...
[Question] [ # Background This is a sci-fi setting. People there have advanced biotechnologies, being able to edit the genetic code of embryos (governmentally enforced to be strictly regulated and only for medical purposes as like curing some genetic disease), and a range of tech that allows them to grow organs in a ...
[Question] [ The gods in this setting are extremely powerful but limited beings, who are similar to humans in their mind and decisions. The gods are the highest powers in the world but originate from reproduction in the same way as other organisms. The main feature separating the gods from other creatures is that man...
[Question] [ An intelligent species of aquatic creatures considers human fat to be a delicacy therefore human flesh is a status food only the rich can afford. There is a problem, those aquatic creatures can walk on land but they have a hard time doing so and they become vulnerable when not in water. Because of this, ...
[Question] [ My question is based on the following excerpt from an [article](http://www.human-memory.net/processes_storage.html) I read recently: > > *Since the early neurological work of Karl Lashley and Wilder Penfield in the 1950s and 1960s, it has become clear that long-term memories are not stored in just one p...
[Question] [ (This is part of a game I'm making, with a bit of backstory [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/113133/how-much-metal-could-a-humanoid-safely-have-in-its-skin-and-bones-and-be-functi).) **Details:** Size/Shape: Roughly oblong and quite large. Length of 15 miles, and a greatest width ...
[Question] [ Is it possible to create a scenario where nuclear power is a practical option for nomads living like in Mongolia? There's two possible applications of nuclear power. One is to just use it as a heat source. The nomads have limited access to wood, so it's too valuable to burn, and their philosophical princ...
[Question] [ How would the rules and regulations look like? Maybe, would there be campaigns to encourage broom travel, as it's pollution free. --- Edited after the pointers from the comments: * Everyone can own brooms. * All the other modes of transport (which are currently available, would be available) * The world ...
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[Question] [ It's a pretty simple question: imagine you have a solar system about the same size as our current one. This solar system is close enough to nearby colonies that most observatories can see the planets in the system but not so close that they would be wiped out as well. I'd ballpark the distance to be abou...
[Question] [ In my story there is a mountain range which is almost impossible to climb because it is very steep, and it has a very, very loose surface. Wherever you put your foot, the ground is liable to slip away beneath you. It has no soil. Ideally, it would also be volcanic. Could such a mountain form on an Earth-...
[Question] [ My setting takes place in the late 2100's, so the technology should inherently be much more advanced than the technology we currently possess. However, I still want to feature firearms that are identifiable in the modern day, like the AKM, M16, LSAT, AA-12 etc. The issue I see with this, is that these gu...
[Question] [ Alright so in my sci-fi a prominent corporation dominated by the Borlak species (Mantis-like Hexapods). The Borlak make their money by mining "dead systems", solar systems without any habitable planets or any planets worth terraforming or colonizing. Which they, after taking the best materials for themse...
[Question] [ [Boules](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boules) is a range of relative games played with small, heavy steel balls thrown on a court, such as the French Petanque and Italian Bocce. While there is variation between games in terms of how and why you thrown, and what the size of the court is, they all rely on...
[Question] [ Biologically speaking, what would be the best real world explanation for a pyro, torch, fire-starter type mutation. Leeching heat energy from the environment might freeze dry your surroundings. Generating energy from internal reactor not only may cook your insides but could be more difficult to push exte...
[Question] [ This question is similar to ["How would the human eye need to change in order to see in low light without any changes to physical appearance?"](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/94437/17332), including the apsect of change to the *human* eye, only the more challenging [common fantasy ability](htt...
[Question] [ What metals will a culture most likely use if use of iron is prohibited but it has advanced technology? [Answer] The main problem for an iron-less advanced civilization is *machine tooling*. Modern tool steels are incredibly versatile materials, capable of being forged and machined into highly complex...
[Question] [ Let's assume that somehow a hoofed creature became a carnivore. Since hoofs are inferior in every way for hunting animals, it make sense that the species would need to evolve to hunt better. Thus, if a hoofed creature evolved to be carnivorous, how would the hoof adapt to this? [Answer] Well, looking ...
[Question] [ In short, [Miller's Planet](http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/Miller_%28planet%29) is described as a "potential habitable planet" with very massive tidal waves as tall as 4,000 feet. If for some reason, life began in this planet and is destined to evolve to be as smart as Humans, how would they be d...
[Question] [ Think Humanity in Space, somewhere around 1000 Years from now. My main character wants to 'call' somebody in the vicinity. I would like to use a telephone, if that wouldnt be entirely ridicolous. Therefore I am asking for you opinion and ideas. What will everyday communication (devices and use) in the f...
[Question] [ One day, the earth suddenly gets covered by a spherical barrier that allows waves (light from the sun, radio, etc.) to pass both ways, but not matter. Let's ignore the feasibility of that kind of barrier existing and say that it's just there now. Anything with mass bounces right off as if it were an impe...
[Question] [ There's this old trope where an alien being has a name that "can't be pronounced by the human tongue", but no one (afaik) has ever done the work to make that scientifically possible. Now, I'm not talking about completely alien creatures lest the conjecture becomes crazy, so I'm limiting it to animals tha...
[Question] [ To give context, the setting I'm working on is one where advanced genetic engineering and biotechnology are plentiful. The premise is this, the coffee industry is dominated in the tropics by a cartel that brooks no competition. So as a result one of the characters decides to go against this by taking a c...
[Question] [ I'm trying to chart the roadmap of the evolution of a variety of fictional amphibian creatures which hunts in pairs. But, I don't know of many inspirations in nature where animals hunt in pairs. What history/evolution/environment would incentivize through conscious thought or instinctively of selective p...
[Question] [ What I mean is the /j/ sound (as in English "yellow" and French *hyène*) (*hyène* means hyena) is the most common semivowel around the world. This phoneme is highly conserved in Indo-European languages (this language family include Italic languages like French and Italian, Germanic languages like English...
[Question] [ So this is part of a passion project of mine for an ASB alternate history scenario. Where demons from another universe invade and conquer North America. The demons have been recorded in artwork in the past but most predominately in medieval European artwork. This is due to early expeditions to Earth's pa...
[Question] [ Of course, my question isn't about the existence of magic. It's about coherence of the story. Imagine two neighbouring countries. One of them resembles our society – it's science based, no magic, people have what we would consider 'rational' thinking. The society priors education, but they also have deve...
[Question] [ This question is inspired by *[Mortal Engines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines)*, but I imagine something more feasible. The original question I wanted to ask was "How to keep a city in the air?", but I figured out there is another problem - I don't know how big, and heavy, it needs to be. A...
[Question] [ Okay, I'm trying to make a planet that has at least part of its surface, or at least part of its underground, habitable for humans (breathable atmosphere at a suitable pressure, a suitable level of gravity and radiation, and a suitable temperature). The plants here are white in color. What kind of star(s...
[Question] [ In my world, there are three distinct races with each their own country in a corner of the world, adjacent to one another and a central country. Simplified layout would be like the google chrome logo: [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z1380.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z1380.p...
[Question] [ I'm working on a post-apocalyptic world for a game and the more I think about it the more unsure I get about the technological development of the setting being believable. So I'm asking how likely a certain level of technological regression would be given the following assumptions: In a world that exper...
[Question] [ How dense would an atmosphere (that's presumably non-toxic) need to be in order for a human being (without wings, artificial or otherwise) to achieve unassisted flight (without killing said person from pressure)? Or is atmospheric density unrelated to this? [Answer] We call this "swimming" and you'd n...
[Question] [ In an upcoming writing project, I will be focusing on an autonomous drone that picks through space wreckage. It has access to intermittent star light, but has no source of chemical propellant. The story is in the very distant future and the drone effectively has infinite time to perform its task. What so...
[Question] [ I wish to clarify my doubts regarding time dilation Is it possible for a planet to be habitable like Edmund's planet from interstellar, which has somewhat similar gravitational force as Earth (9.8 m/s^2) and has time dilation with the time on that planet slower in the rate when compared with the time on ...
[Question] [ An exploratory spaceship holding strangers from many cultures and races has a problem leading to escape pods being deployed to a nearby world that is conveniently survivable. The pods crash land in at least two separate points on the planet, no way of telling where or how far apart, and because it's conv...
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[Question] [ I plan to go back in time and help Asterix and Obelix to turn the tide of Gallic wars against the romans. To achive this i will build ancient versions of our most dreaded land weapon: Tanks ! **The vehicle:** Two rows of oarsman propel the tank using pulleys attached to an oar. those pulleys transfer pow...
[Question] [ So I wanted to write an Ace Combat type story but I'm having trouble what type of world that would explain the importance and mass production of aircraft. I tried to look at the map of Strangereal but I couldn't find any type of inspiration. The world I want to make is like an alternate modern world. It'...
[Question] [ I have a fantasy setting where groups of characters, let's call this groups "guilds", compete to gain the favor of the king by doing missions for him. I wonder if there is a plausible reason that can be used to explain why this groups rarely go past the 8 members or so. What I could come up with is that ...
[Question] [ For various reasons I have an army that uses many smaller vehicles instead of spending a lot of full main battle tanks. This army uses mostly up to 90mm\* cannons on their vehicles rather than the massive 120mm+ cannons that adorn most MBTs today. If you shoot a 90mm cannon against something like the fro...
[Question] [ Mana is the life force of the human soul, which allows us to function as we do. As a person gets older, their mana supply increases, which makes them potentially stronger in the use of magic. However, after a certain point, physical age becomes a barrier to how much of it they can actually access. Becaus...
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[Question] [ I want to have a post apocalyptic world where 21st century tech is unable to be made anymore due to humans using up all the resources on the planet. Since space programs also use computers, there should be no way to get to space either. The problem is that I do not know if it is feasible for the human ra...
[Question] [ The reason I ask is because I want to create a terrestrial species that hunt fish underwater by holding their breath for hours without having a large lung capacity. In someway they are buffed Bajau sea nomads. [Answer] > > hunt fish underwater by holding their breath for hours without having a large ...
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[Question] [ As I type these words in March 2021, there are numerous private companies developing engineering solutions for reliable, high-capacity and relatively cheap access to space. At this point in time, it appears plausible to imagine that the first demonstration refineries and matter processors would be on the...
[Question] [ (**NO CIA/FBI/NSA IM NOT A TERRORIST ARMED WITH 250 STOLEN/UNACCOUNTED FOR NUKES**) I’m writing a Godzilla fanfiction and in it, while Godzilla was doing Godzilla things on the West Coast (destroying cities, fighting and brutally killing other Kaiju, forcing humanity towards extinction, etc.), the US was...
[Question] [ Our main characters have just arrived at the brand new SpaceStation2™ (now with geostationary orbit!) soon they get settled in with the other characters already there, then the planet explodes, no particular reason why, just blows up with the average velocity of a chunk being 9km per second (deviating up...
[Question] [ Many animals have the ability to see polarized light (or rather, are sensitive to the direction of polarization), [most notably birds and bees but also a wide range of other animals including cephalopods, many arthropods, and some vertebrates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_sky_model#Navigation)....
[Question] [ Synthetic Mana is a form of artificially created energy that is used for various purposes, such as power sources, fuel, etc. These substances can be made in large quantities and stored away for many years in prime condition. What it has in quantity, it lacks in quality compared to natural Mana found in h...
[Question] [ I'm thinking up a Mars or Venus type planet where the poles (or one pole) has a forest growing out of it due to a device that is used to make the planet more habitable by creating a oxygen friendly atmosphere. However the atmosphere has not spread throughout the planet so it has mostly aggregated at the...
[Question] [ A few years ago I read a role-playing game supplement that described a cold war between kingdom Good and kingdom Bad. Both kingdoms used metal coins with silver as the most common followed by gold. Kingdom Bad planned to flood kingdom Good with gold coins, disrupting Good's economy in preparation for Bad...
[Question] [ The flying aircraft carrier has been in the imaginations of many a writer and engineer, but to date the only true flying aircraft carrier has been USS *Akron* (and to a lesser extent, her sister ship, the USS *Macon*). Neither lasted long enough to see war. In my story, however, the Evil Empire of XXXXXX...
[Question] [ Viral zombies, that is zombies that are alive, are much more terrifying than their undead equivalents. While they lack the required headshot of their undead brethren, they are faster and often smarter. One disadvantage they do have is that logistically speaking, they will die out before they can become a...
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[Question] [ I'm looking at the idea of a large feline as a rideable mount, and I'm running into a question about the rider's posture when riding. Would it be best to have the rider mounted Prone, like on a modern racing bike, or more upright, like on a more classical horse. Or even a bit more reclined? This is a des...
[Question] [ So I’ve got a nice point-A-to-point-B teleporter machine, and for some extra flavor I’d like to have the experience of using it include a healthy dose of gravitational/physical warping to push, pull, squash, stretch, and generally jostle around the user; stretching some parts a bit further than usual or ...
[Question] [ I was thinking on the classic alien mass which spreads throught almost any surface, and in contact with live beings, it doesn't consumes them, but takes control of their minds in order to vary the means of spreading, which also can be the ability to control complex machinery. On my story, a contamined al...
[Question] [ The first effective rotary gun was the Gatling Gun, invented in 1861 and it was a brutally effective weapon that had the advantage of high quality steel, rifling, and percussion caps. But for most of their history firearms didn’t have these features. For centuries firearms were but a metal tube and a tou...
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[Question] [ Trying to create a future earth which has been thoroughly abused by the excesses of modern capitalism. Extreme weather, rising sea levels, massive droughts, that sort of stuff. My question is: could fracking, on a large enough scale over a long enough period of time, plausibly affect the movement of the ...
[Question] [ If on a water covered planet, an aquatic species such as the merfolk evolved sapience and now wishes to go into space, how would their spaceship take into account the lack of land? How would a space ship built underwater be able to get into space? My question differs from [this one](https://worldbuilding...
[Question] [ I have a character. One of their parents died. Said parent was cremated, and then - by their own choice; this is a quasi-religious thing - their cremains were mixed into tattoo ink, and the character was tattooed with that ink. The character in question is a paramedic for a religious order, as was their ...
[Question] [ The society of an island nation is led by a religion known as "The Church of the Eternal Mother", it is an ancient faith that adheres to a fertility goddess. This faith is led by five elderly women called Mannas Natau, at least one of whom will regularly become spontaneously pregnant. These elders are bi...
[Question] [ I understand that on Earth, we mainly get our helium from natural gas deposits, which traps helium atoms generated from radioactive decay. Would this process still work on a terrestrial planet without fossil fuels like natural gas? If not, could there be another way for people on this planet to mine heli...
[Question] [ Can a civilization be highly evolved as far as culture, ethics, societal norms, laws, language, literature and arts, but not ever come to develop any sort of advanced technology besides main practical techniques for construction and agriculture? They have a culture-religion that is fully integrated with ...
[Question] [ An intelligent race of shapeshifter came to settle on present day Earth, they managed to clear the custom and are placed on 24hr monitoring by MiB agents. It is illegal for them to expose their kind to us so they took on a human appearance and learn mannerisms and etiquettes before mingling with the publ...
[Question] [ ## Question: does a liquid or gelatinous substance exist that once outside a body could solidify and be hard enough to be used once as a tool? The **setting** is low fantasy without magic, yet with creatures that went down a different path in evolution due to hard environmental pressure. --- **What I wan...
[Question] [ I need to wipe out a city. Not a huge one (I won't let them grow beyond a certain limit), but big enough to need to do some pretty serious damage. Let's say something similar in size to Pompeii. (yes... *that* Pompeii...) My weapon of choice is a meteor. Carefully aimed, let it meander the heavens for mi...
[Question] [ I have been toying with the idea that *all* oceans are gone. Underground water still exists but the Earth has essentially turned into the planet from Dune. My characters all live / survive out where the oceans once were as it's the closest source for water. The Earth is now just one big desert. My questi...
[Question] [ Can rings be used as a monetary system? Are there any flaws? I took inspiration from Celtic ring money, rings made from different metals- the value of a ring depended on the material it was made out of. E.G. A copper ring would cost less than a silver ring, and that would cost less than a golden ring etc...
[Question] [ I'm trying to create a world where there's an equator-like divide running along the axis(?) of the planet and the two hemispheres are perpetually different in terms of temperature. Basically, I want one side of the world to always be warmer than the other side and for the temperature change to be noticea...
[Question] [ Why might a species advanced enough to develop genetic engineering start a process by which their own genes, over hundreds of years, would get edited back to resemble their more primitive ancestors? For example, why might humans in the year 2200 release a gene-drive, germ-line retrovirus that reverted hu...
[Question] [ If we had Full-Body Immersion MMORPGs, how would morale-boosting and morale-lowering skills work for players? By that, I mean, how would the game forcibly make players more or less confident, even if their out-of-game personality would not fit their avatar's confidence level? Like a coward playing that g...
[Question] [ What kinds of techniques or mechanisms, fantastic, magical or scientific, would make it so that an attacking army would take far less losses storming a castle/walled city than it would by standing outside of it and attacking it with siege engines? A few things that come to mind would be some sort of magi...
[Question] [ Apologies if I sound like a madman ahead of time. Me and a friend have been worldbuilding this alternate timeline for awhile now, and I've recently become interested in the idea of one of the factions in this world performing large desert greening projects in the Sahara and Australian outback. We were th...
[Question] [ The simplest kind of space elevator would be a large mass somewhat beyond geosynchronous orbit tethered to earths surface such that the tether is always under tension from centrifugal force overpowering gravity, but I feel like the equator would be a problematic place to put it because of satellites and ...
[Question] [ Do you know how (almost) every cyberpunk story happens in a dark rainy night? No matter how long a timeframe the story takes place in, it's always rainy and dark. How realistic is it to have a planet like this? To make it more clear, this is a planet that has 3 things about it: 1. It's always rainy on it...
[Question] [ For a science fiction setting I'm working on, I'm trying to make a clear division between ships made exclusively for space flight, atmospheric flight and dual-purpose ships that can fly in both. The most common example I would imagine for these dual-purpose ships are freighters that travel between planet...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Why would people bury their dead in tombs when they might become zombies?](/questions/168032/why-would-people-bury-their-dead-in-tombs-when-they-might-become-zombies) (23 answers) Closed 2 years ago. In the majority of the modern fantasy worlds the dead...
[Question] [ There are a few uses for ground-to-space lasers in science fiction settings. One is the [laser broom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom), used to shoot space debris until it deorbits and burns up. Another is [beam propulsion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam-powered_propulsion), or sending ener...
[Question] [ In the mythology of the Lambas people of Zambia, there is a creature called the Ichisonga. It is a herbivore, and very rhinoceros-like in appearance. Upon hearing a hippopotamus, it allegedly sneaks up on the hippo and then stabs it to death with its horn. It has a similar hatred of elephants and will s...
[Question] [ Could we fire a heavy, long (e.g., 50 meters), spear-shaped object into Europa's icy-surface from space and then, when momentum stops, gravity gradually moves weights down inside copper tubes the length of the object like electrical-generator components generating electricity to heat the tip for melting ...
[Question] [ Similar idea to [this post](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/55794/why-would-civilizations-with-advanced-technology-still-use-castles), why would an advanced civilization able to create AI/ droids ranging from 'hardshell' (I-Robot (movie) or C3P0) to 'soft' (Bishop (Aliens)) still have u...
[Question] [ In my story, an ancient building has been abandoned for a whole century without any care or use from the inhabitants around. They refrain from approaching it because they believe it is cursed, which is why it hasn't been scavenged for resources. The building is located near the sea on top of a hill, arou...
[Question] [ On a [comment to *My carrier pigeons have been replaced by spoons: how can I send messages?*](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/120828/my-carrier-pigeons-have-been-replaced-by-spoons-how-can-i-send-messages#comment372778_120828) I joke about creating a network of trebuchets to launch spoo...
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[Question] [ So Earth has just suffered a horrible catastrophe and most of civilization is back in a Middle Ages level of development. A few people live on other planets relatively unscathed, with highly advanced technology (But nothing inconceivable. No teleporters, no going faster than the speed of light, and compu...
[Question] [ Inspired by [Could laser (or other energy-bolt-shooting) guns ever practically replace regular guns with bullets?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6384/could-laser-or-other-energy-bolt-shooting-guns-ever-practically-replace-regula) As cool as the Star Trek stun gun/disintegrator is. I s...
[Question] [ I have a small modern nation that has many ideals rooted in the idea of community. Notions of civic duty, caring for neighbors, mandatory community service, mandatory voting etc. are the moral bedrock of the society. The creators of this nation wanted their citizens to be aware of the people surrounding ...
[Question] [ The goal is to devise a plausible [geocentric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model) system in appearance. However, for simplicity, we will need only to examine the one planet case. And more crucially, this one Earth-like body is to be the only immutable part of the design. Clearly we can't hav...
[Question] [ I have a sapient species in my setting called "mole-bears". I based their social system on eusocial species, specifically naked mole-rats. Mole-bears are on average around 100 pounds and look like six-limbed furless, grey wombats with bioluminiscent markings, they live in underground tunnels and cave sys...
[Question] [ * ESG stands for [Environmental, social and corporate governance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social_and_corporate_governance). Simply trying to evaluate what kind of radical "E" solutions are possible if "S" and "G" were removed from the utility function (i.e. were not limiting factors ...
[Question] [ Hundreds of years ago, the once-opulent city of not-Atlantis incurred the wrath of the gods and was cast to the bottom of the ocean. Now, our intrepid adventurers have been sent to the lost city of not-Atlantis to retrieve forgotten lore recorded by the not-Atlanteans (along with whatever other treasure ...
[Question] [ I’m having Gorgons as a race in my story setting. They are not exclusively female, have the lower body of a serpent, and the classic snakes-for-hair element Gorgons had in Greek mythology. However, I’m not sure how the snakes that make up their hair would actually attach to their skulls. I know the snake...
[Question] [ I'm working on an alternate-history story in which peaceful alien satellites are surveying the solar system and passively observing human activity. Many of the deep-space satellites would have been in long orbits, communicating with one another mainly through radio signals. (Edit: They are mostly doing a...