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Not that political correctness has ever been an important theme in fantasy, but I've always found "humanoid" a strange category in settings that include, say, men, elves, orcs, dwarves, goblins, and other beings.
Yes, the reader/player/audience is a human and it is perfectly useful that humans be the spe... |
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You're a sailor on (in?) a brand-spanking-new [*Virginia*-class nuclear submarine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_submarine). You just set sail a couple of weeks ago, and were doing some routine exercises in the North Atlantic (about 500 miles north of Bermuda/500 miles east of New York), w... |
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Several science fiction books I have read (including, IINM, *Nightfall* by Asimov) have featured planets with several suns. Some worlds where this happened wrought interesting effects on the inhabitants of said planet; for example, in a world that was perpetually experiencing daylight, people might be so... |
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In a world with humanized (or at least tool using) reptiles, how long would a tattoo be able to last on the scales? Would the tools need to be much different than what we use today?
Would it be possible for a reptile to get a tattoo of a human?
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It is difficult to find statistics for the ratio of Lego men and women in the general population but from a non-scientific survey, I get the impression that Lego men vastly outnumber Lego women. Yet clearly they do reproduce. Here is a picture of a pregnant Lego woman.
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*Deer bound across broken pavement, eating from bushes growing were there were once cars beneath trees where there were once light posts. Busses have been replaced by bears, rumbling slowly down ancient, abandoned avenues and wolves build dens in the uncollapsed portions of what were once subways.*
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Satyrs, fauns, pan, and even the devil are commonly depicted as humanoid bipeds with goatlike unguligrade hooves for feet. However, common as such beings may be in fantasy and mythology, I have been unable to unearth any paleontological evidence that any form of biped has ever had hoof-like feet.
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If there was a life-supporting planet that was cubical rather than spherical, would it be feasible for there to be a unique but similar civilisation on each 'Plane'?
I know that cube planets are impossible for a whole bunch of reasons involving centrifugal force, gravity and such, but in this case I want... |
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Assume we have an Earth-like environment.
If a tribe with only early medieval technology were to settle in a mountain environment:
* What resources would be needed to deal with the elevation, cold, and other hazards?
* What resources are they likely to have available?
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In many stories we hear about people whose genetic structure is modified after they're born (Spider-man, The Fantastic 4 and practically any other superhero you care to mention). However current science focuses very much on modifying the DNA at the earliest stages of life (if not before) and allowing the... |
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Worldbuilding is hard work, as we all know. When you want to write a story, or use a setting for a game, or just as inspiration for some creation (art, music), there is a strong incentive to reuse an existing world, or heavily derive from it. The world building has been done for you - the logic holes fil... |
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Inspired by the [many](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10793/how-tall-can-a-tree-grow) great [questions](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10914/could-plants-spread-their-seed-to-other-planets) asked for this fortnight's [tag challenge](http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexc... |
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It’s the year 2018, and you live in the good ol’ North American landmass. The fascist landmass. By this year, the dystopian N.A.F party controls all of the landmass and secret police prowl the streets armed with automatic rifles. Protest the rules and NAF makes you disappear -- permanently.
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I’ve included more background below, but the TL;DR is that you’re a lone immortal who’s decided to breed some species of animal to a human-level intelligence (over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years). **Which animal do you start with?**
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Aliens are invading with lasers, spacecraft, and tons of superior technology. The end of the world seems to be coming, until some kid finds the aliens one weakness. Nerf guns\*.
For some reason the aliens seem to die when hit by a Nerf dart\*. Shortly after discovering this weakness, the remaining milita... |
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The vampires in my setting have varying powers and weaknesses based on the magical grade of their blood. While the two higher-grade vampire types can survive in sunlight with no issue beyond losing access to some of their powers, for the two lowest grades, the celestial energy of the sun (not UV light, s... |
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Bird people are humanoid creatures with a wingspan of 4 meters, they are as tall as humans and the fittest of them weight 72 kilograms or slightly less, so they are quite lighter than the average human.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6u5Wt.... |
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I don't want my world to be infinite, that would be a pain to draw maps for. And I need it to be flat (for a slightly unrelated reason). How would I explain why no one has looked over or seen the edge before? I could always put a giant wall there, but that just makes more questions than answers ( i.e. wh... |
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I've developed superhuman abilities, specifically, I am able to "copy" and permanently keep "skills" and technical knowledge from other people. For example, if I spend time near a politician I might absorb oratory and public speaking skills or if I spend time absorbing skills from a scuba diver, eventual... |
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I am going to post this question in general terms, but resemblance with our Earth is totally intentional - to the level that I am tagging this question [alternate-world](/questions/tagged/alternate-world "show questions tagged 'alternate-world'"), so if unsure, assume the behavior and technology level of... |
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How does Superman fly?
(or rather, a Superman like character in a different world. This is not a question about the existing fictional character but a similar being.)
He does not simply use high powered jumps and follow a ballistic trajectory. (Though the existing Superman originally did, actually.)
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I am trying to figure out what kind of liquid, if any, can be used to severely impede or slow human motion without killing or severely damaging their bodies (IE if after being submerged in this liquid they need to spend a long time in the hospital, or are permanently disabled in some way.) Experiencing p... |
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Imagine there was a material that was mostly identical to steel in almost every way, but instead of a density of $7.85–7.87 g/cm^3$ it would be **a tenth** of that. That is about **4 times lighter than aluminium** is.
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So, a common trope when it comes to dragons is that their underbellies and necks are vulnerable and covered with soft scales, whereas the back, head, and sides are very hard to damage.
But why would that be the case? Storywise, my dragons have metabolic pathways to create and use high-quality CNTs (carbo... |
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Assume the time travel is a soldier who has a good idea of how to maintain and care for most guns and knows how all the parts fit together. They've brought with them a working assault rifle, a double-barreled shotgun, and a revolver, as well as a smart-phone with a solar-powered charger that contains a f... |
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**Mod Note: Some people may be squeamish about this subject, please keep all responses clinical rather than vulgar.**
So, in my world, I try to play the "immortality" trope with twists that make it suitable for my imagination.
So, to understand the question, let me give you precise details:
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So, long, long ago, on a planet in the Milky Way, dwells the Qualian civilization. The time is around Earth’s 16th century, in the Tasadian Empire. Emperor Zora II has just been betrayed and nearly assassinated by the famous High General Duluk. Duluk now waits underneath the great prison, waiting to rece... |
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(Almost) each work of fiction requires Villains. Sometimes the more dastardly, the better. And what is more dastardly than an evil, murderous, secret cult that practices human sacrifices?
And again I caught myself on thinking about the details, the personalities of people involved, the scenery and the li... |
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The setting is basically earth. Our planet is unfortunately on a collision course with a large asteroid. However, humans have discovered and decoded a message from an ancient, advanced alien race (our parents). These aliens have left behind technology and knowledge that could save the planet, but this te... |
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A post-scarcity civilisation is one where the automatisation of production and a universal basic income system have made it impossible to suffer unwillingly from the lack of means to satisfy the physiological and safety needs of an individual. While there can never be a guarantee that the higher needs; l... |
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The dragons aren't all that common but they live in the nearby mountains and after a harsh winter are more likely to come looking for easy prey to fatten back up on. What are the major design considerations likely taken into account by those people living on the edges of a dragon's sphere of influence?
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It's 2020 and I've decided the perfect location for my next villainous lair is on the Moon (Earth has too many pesky heroes after all). Fortunately, construction and transit shouldn't be too difficult, I have teleportation technology, however it's not instantaneous but rather lightspeed.
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This question continues the premise set in my [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41229/what-can-cause-the-aliens-not-to-understand-our-signal), but do not worry, I will try to tell the most important bits:
There is intelligent alien race about 30 light years away from u... |
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In reference to the classic [Indestructible Edible Trope](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IndestructibleEdible), how long can an adult subsist on largely junk food? I realize that "largely" is vague, so feel free to clarify as desired to give a helpful answer (one way or the other). To motiva... |
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The succubi are popularly represented as women with horns and bat-like wings. They feed on the vital energy in myths, but could a humanoid creature resembling a woman evolve and feed only on human sperm? If so, what kind of animal and environment could trigger the evolution of succubi?
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A somewhat benevolent, previously unknown superpowered flying knight, appears out of thin air and upon arrival (somewhere between New York and Washington DC) the USA government took him for an hostile and attacked first.
He is impervious to any conventional weapon, and Uncle Sam won't nuke his own turf.
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Let's say that a long, long time ago, on a world not too different from our own, there walked a prophet, a divine figure. He went about doing various deeds, and eventually died. A religion sprung up around him.1
A long, long time later, when the religion is well-established, the prophet returns, resurrec... |
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What would be needed for a piracy-based economy? One based mainly on raiding ships?
I don't know if there are any real-life models of this that were successful, though I know that piracy existed (and still does) as an outlawed way of generating money. But actual countries at least disapprove. This countr... |
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A portal about 30ft in diameter appears on the surface of our present-day Earth. It appears for about 5 minutes each day before disappearing. Hesitantly, scientists go through it and discover a new world! This new world is "Earth-like" in that it has a similar ecology and atmosphere to earth, but it's pr... |
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**In the society I am building it is illegal for a government official to lie** (this isn't a reaction to real world politics; I've been building this world for a while), **while speaking/acting as representatives of the government/state**. In other words, all government employees are constantly under oa... |
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Many fictional spaceships of all kinds are known to have external lights. Do they even need them? Outer space is lit by the billions of stars and galaxies, so why are there external lights on fictional drive ships, war ships, cargo ships, etc.?
Would these external light sources be useful, at least?
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I am Queen Aerith the 3rd of Alagaesia. I rule a large and powerful nation in a time period technologically equivalent to the 17th century or so. Most of my world map is known, and cross-ocean trade is increasingly common.
However, I have a problem. One of my court mages has discovered a means to transfo... |
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In regards to questions on [artificial-intelligence](/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence "show questions tagged 'artificial-intelligence'"), it seems like there is always usually an immediate opinion that the goals an AI is tasked with is going to end up with the opposite effects than what the prog... |
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I'm looking for a slower-than-light (STL) drive for fast inter-system travel. It should make trips from one planet of a system to another (e.g. Earth, Mars, Jupiter) with sublight speed possible in a few days.
In many science fiction works we encounter starships that accelerate to high speeds, change dir... |
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Simply put, the world has magic, though it would be considered "science" by the world itself. This first section is going to provide a background for how the magic works.
"Spells" can be cast via some medium (*usually paper*) which have the spell written on them. A spell fully describes some kind of inte... |
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In a book I'm writing, a king has a bodyguard of a dozen elite swordsmen, trained their whole lives to protect their sovereign. Their capes are long and trail behind them. What are the disadvantages and advantages (if any) of wearing a cape during combat?
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There have been countless (literally) stories written that have contained within their pages monsters that are stronger, faster, and bigger than the human heroes.
I can think of more than a few where the monsters are a relatively common species. Right off the bat I think of one of the trilogies in the [I... |
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I'm taking about a gigantic building that serves all the needs of small city, about a thousand inhabitants. People must be able to work, sleep, eat, play, and go to school all with out leaving the building.
Is such a thing possible with our current tech level?
Upon thorough inspection, I have decided th... |
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I am envisioning a space faring species, evolved from an obligate carnivore and apex predator.
The obvious concept to me is a tiger like species with prehensile tails that became increasingly adapted to tool use. However if you want to create an answer based on a different origin that is fine, as long as... |
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Generally, when you run a long distance or do something particularly strenuous, you start breathing heavily because of a decrease of oxygen in your blood. Your gasping and weezing is in an effort to replenish that oxygen that you used up while you were working hard.
So let's say that there exists a suit ... |
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Joe Everybody, a modern day man with average knowledge (high school and Wikipedia) in biology, medicine and chemistry, wakes up in an medieval city.
He sees a lot of sick people and remembers about antibiotics and how penicillin was discovered.
Is it possible for him to rediscover and produce any antibio... |
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I'm developing a magic system that has as its weakness or limitation the fact that the energy used in the magic is drawn from the future. I'd like the system to experience a form of "resistance" such that the more influential the magic (lighting a candle vs. stopping time) the more difficult it is to pul... |
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Many fantasy stories involve some variation of a dragon, and while there's a lot of variation in whether or not they fly, if they can breathe fire, how magical they are, etc., the strength of dragon scale is almost universal. Often, it is the hardiest material in the setting. My question is, by what (bio... |
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I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
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This is a partner question to [How do centaurs get enough calories to live?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/7288/how-do-centaurs-get-enough-calories-to-live)
Centaurs are a common mythological figure, with the body of a man where a horses head would be. They usually exist in fantasy wo... |
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For any reason, a human heart is replaced with a pump that instead of pulses provides a continuous stream of blood. It varies the pressure, as a heart does, as needed.
Ignore such technical issues as energy, immune system rejecting strange body, etc...
Is that viable/compatible with life?
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I'm trying to create more opportunities for roleplay in a setting where most civilized cities are along the coastline of a "new world." Most cities are fortress cities on the frontier that serves to protect other colonies. Since most of my cities have the same constraints (protection, etc), there is a ri... |
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[Blackdamp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackdamp) is the condition where the breathable oxygen is removed from the air underground. Causing asphyxiation in humans and humanoids. Normally seen in modern day mines.
The base area of the dwarven fortress is almost mined out and the dwarves are looking to ... |
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## A society grows with time, but does the technology needs to grow with them?
Is it possible for a planet to have a very large population and much society but no more improvement in the ways of the society? Like all scientists are on vacation, for ever?
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This question is meant as a reality check on [this answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/103644/809) to [The land grows evil and corrupted ... but why?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/103609/809)
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This question is specifically about the mechanics of an alien creature **swimming in highly viscous magma**, the unlikeliness of life surviving at magma temperatures etc isn't relevant. Just imagine it's extremely thick mud if it helps. :)
My research so far:
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We all know that [equation for surface gravity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_gravity#Mass.2C_radius_and_surface_gravity) is
$$ g = \frac{4\pi}{3} G \rho r $$
So if we want Earth-like surface gravity of $ g = 9.81 $, then the equation for radius is
$$ r = \frac{3 g}{4\pi G \rho } $$
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Ruins of many kinds are a staple of stories whether for games or tales of high adventure. My question is about the design process behind such structures: should one start with a city or building and break it down or start with the ruin and justify the finished form afterwards?
In short, to maintain real... |
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Assume a plant was engineered to cope with a wide range of different environments, and to have seeds that were capable of traveling through and surviving both the depths of space and re-entry into atmosphere. Given this assumption then you can see these plants would slowly (much slower than light speed o... |
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Being on the autism spectrum is often described as a feeling of being on ["The Wrong Planet"](http://wrongplanet.net/) So I'm wondering what the right planet might be like...
For those that are unfamiliar:
* Social conventions aren't always obvious to the average [person with Aspergers'](http://en.wikipe... |
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Take a torus planet:
It has the structure of a normal planet (ours):
The diagram is not to scale. Assume similar proportions of Crust:Mantle:Cores as the Earth. Is has... |
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In Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ([imdb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094074/?ref_=nv_sr_1)) a single strand of Superman's hair is seen suspending a 1000lbs weight.
Is is possible to build a space elevator from strand... |
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Back in the days when men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centaury, an obscenely rich woman decided she wanted to have the biggest diamond of all.
Realizing that this would mean a diamond of planetary size, sh... |
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**Important note: The orbits in the diagram are elliptical. They have low eccentricity so they appear to be off centre circles but they really are ellipses with the star at a focus.**
The habitable zone around a star is the range of distances at which a planet which would have liquid water and otherwise... |
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Lets indulge in a bit of **Mad Science**, here.
Assuming the world described here: [Making the Enterprise Fly](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/1188/539)
(60% of earth's gravity, 50% denser atmosphere) what is the wingspan needed to allow an average adult human to fly?
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My problem is as follows:
* mr Average Joe has designed a device for time travel in his garage/basement
* at the moment he has sent the device forward in time (for testing purposes) a couple of times (first time a full second, afterward parts of a second -- smallest time setting is 0.01s), the biggest pr... |
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I know how [continents](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/581/creating-a-realistic-world-map-landmass-formation) are formed and ... |
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One person lives alone with access to a small patch of useful land. They have to grow all their own food and survive indefinitely.
* This small patch of fertile soil is the only useful land. No grazing, everything around them is basically rocks.
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I'm writing a science fantasy setting for a tabletop game. Its major influences are *Dune*, *Final Fantasy 7*, and *Borderlands*. My goal is to give a universal account why swords, spears, etc., equal or even best guns between fighters of equal skill. Let me define my terms:
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I'm outlining some ideas for a game I'd like to write, that at its core is about interplanetary space-trading (amongst other things, but that's not relevant to the question).
For project-scope reasons I don't want to go down the route of implementing planetary landings, and want the entire game to occur ... |
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This takes place far in the future. The emperor of the star empire has a lot of things to deal with, that stress him out. The treaty with Xcarus is down the toilet, the High General has just purged a great number of high ranking officers for suspected treason, and his brother tried to assassinate him, an... |
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A hypothetical speculative fiction setting uses the universal translator/babelfish/translator microbes/whathaveyou as a convenient plot device. However, certain languages are simply untranslatable by this method.
What property would make such languages untranslatable by the universal translator?
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A malevolent force is lurking the shadows creating monsters to be its army and take over the world. WHY in the world does it put a highlighted weak point on all of them? It makes sense from a writers' and heroes' perspective: each enemy has a gimmick which makes them formidable at first, then suddenly it... |
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I'm creating a story set in a peaceful society. The society is actually very strict about being peaceful, to the point where they don't even play games involving competition. But at the same time, this society enjoys recreation, and also is very intellectual.
I'm looking for your help to design games (ph... |
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I'm writing a world where iron is incredibly rare and the technology to make more complex metals like steel was never developed. However, both lead and niter are incredibly common, so firearms were developed very early on and heavily influence the culture.
The current technological level is a cross betw... |
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Modern earth, no magic. Only difference is that a small percentage (~1%) of the population are biologically immortal, they can die by accidents/murder/etc but are immune to old age and disease (they will spend forever in perfect health).
My question is how do I stop these people from dominating the econo... |
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I've noticed that most magic systems appear sometime between a civilization's Bronze age and Medieval period, sometimes as early as the stone age.
What properties would a magic system need to have for its discovery to come much later in technological development? Specifically, around the time that electr... |
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In my pre-electricity world, fast communication is achieved by means of lighthouses, each being able to direct strong and precise beams of light towards distantly visible lighthouses.
However a problem is encountered whenever the weather turns. Many meteorological conditions, such as fog, rain, hail, sno... |
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[Bubble wrap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_wrap) is a synthetic packing material featuring small bubbles that are designed to provide cushion to the protected object and pop in place of damaging the object under excessive stress. They also make a lovely crackling sound when popped.
But this is a ... |
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**This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information.
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Historically, there's about a 700-year gap between when crossbows start appearing in European texts around 950, and when bayonets do the same around 1670. And those bayonets are strictly associated with muskets, as sources note the change from plug bayonets to socket bayonets over the next 30 to 40 years... |
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I have an early medieval/late dark ages society roughly equivalent to Anglo-Saxon Britain or Viking Scandinavia. Everything's fairly normal...apart from the fact that people who drown in the sea come back as draugr.
This has always been a low-level nuisance throughout their history, bu... |
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I have a character who can teleport to essentially anywhere he can think of, assuming he either has been there before, or is given exact coordinates.
The problem is, I can only think of two ways to complete this:
1. He disassembles his molecules at the same time as he is rearranging them at the target l... |
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Heat is energy. Temperature is an indication of the level of heat in a substance. But the normal way to *measure* temperature is to observe how the substance interacts with its surroundings - most commonly, by giving off heat to a cooler body, or receiving heat from a warmer one. (A classic thermometer r... |
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In any modern story nowadays, shapeshifters always have an original form; [Andalites](http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Andalite) from [Animorphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animorphs) or [Mystique](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystique_(comics)) from [X-men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men) to name a... |
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The story I'm writing is about an intragalactic war and is told from several perspectives including the CO of a small warship. Because space is massive, I have run into an issue with presenting distances and speed in a way that makes sense to the reader.
I decided not to use km/s or km/h as that would re... |
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The year is 2020, 98% of the world population are normal people with normal skills, two percent (2%) are people who have the ability to become invisible at will.
The majority of the invisible people live in peace with us, following the law. But part of this 2% are criminals, and we must find a way to pre... |
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We have a lot of weird questions come up [in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/17213/worldbuilders-general-chat) and fun comments about how we destroy worlds over a lunch break. Here is one that though I might share. You are a power that can affect cosmic bodies and phenomena. You have been offen... |
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From what I know about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, one of its consequences is that when you learn a great deal about the position of a particle, you greatly increase the uncertainty of the particle's momentum. This got me thinking about a super-accurate scanner that will measure the positions o... |
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