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I want to beam into solid concrete as a bomb. I have transporters and unlike Star Trek I’m not afraid to use them. Terrorists have taken the tech and have *nasty* plans for us.
The bomb is 1 kg sphere of solid concrete, and the target is also a 2m thick solid concrete wall. The ball will be beamed direct... |
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Suppose that both Earth and Mars was booming with life in a similar way. Except that, on Earth, there was no hominid family, and no humans evolved. Instead, humans evolved on Mars.
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In our world there are two species of dragon that took different evolutionary paths due to environmental pressures. The first of them, called smaugs, are as large as a quetzalcoatlus, with a wingspan of 50ft and a height of 9ft. The second type of dragon, called shenrons, has a snake-like body with six l... |
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Looking for alternative sources of lighting for my current worldbuilding project so I couldn't help but wonder if a bioluminescent plant-based lifeforms could be realistically feasible. I'm just looking for simple but primitive way to give my imaginary people/characters a source of light in the Darkness ... |
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On another planet there is a life form that has the same level of intelligence as humans on Earth, but it has no appendage to manipulate its environment. It has similar social structures to humans before farming was invented. Also it has a language that is of similar complexity to the languages of humans... |
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With the increasing amount of sci-fi using drop-pods to get their soldiers on the ground I would like to look at the design and how a proper drop-pod should look.
The look and shape of such a drop-pod would depend on available technology, its function and cargo. A drop-pod that carries large construction... |
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With the Kuiper Belt being composed of well over 100 million objects - some grand, some insignificant - is it possible to hide an asteroid base from enemy sensors within its confines, combined with the vast distances of space?
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Assuming a situation similar to [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/85684/almost-tidally-locked-to-moon-and-the-tides-it-would-create/86177#86177), where the moon causes slower but massive tides that slowly encircle the globe. Would the poles be constantly underwater or not underwate... |
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After many, many attempts on worldbuilding, I decided to go back to an old project of mine.
I need to design a planet that, at the same time, is habitable but hostile to human life.
I would like it to have as its principal ecological feature a **very, very dense fog** that covers a large part of the su... |
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**NB: This is *not* a duplicate of [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14234/cleanly-remove-humanity)**, **because A) it only asks to wipe out humans, not any other life-form, and B) it insists that one person must survive. The survival of anything is not possible in my scen... |
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I misread [an answer to *My carrier pigeons have been replaced by spoons: how can I send messages?*](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/120882/11665), thinking it was referring to a network of parabolic reflector dishes made of spoons orbiting the planet. This lead me to envisage a colossal trebuc... |
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Imagine a world in which a household can choose which Commonwealth to be a part of, much the way that you might choose a cell phone provider or a religious denomination or a health insurance company.
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It's after the apocalypse. Most modern technology has been destroyed, either by disaster or neglect.
How could you locate a particular set of GPS coordinates without the aid of the satellites or modern technology?
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The species in question are Herbivores, bipedal in nature, around 50 to 80 pounds on average, and require around 2250 calories per day to stay healthy.
The ships these populations would live on are big, bulky floating towns, in an aproximate medieval period level of technology. Perhaps supporting dozens ... |
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I'm pretty much looking for an easy (or not) formula for calculating the mass and/or weight of fantasy creatures on an Earth-like planet with similar gravity. My world's dragons sometimes reach over 1 km long, magically supported regardless of weight, but I would still like to add a realistic number to t... |
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One of my main characters lives on an island where people bet on bat races. My story is set up so that bats are domesticated and race one another in dark caves. The bats would use echo location to find their way through the cave.
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So there are loads of things that are taken into account with weather from geology to water currents to axial tilt etc. But i am wondering what the effects would be on weather on planets with varying strengths of gravity in comparison to Earth.
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Inspired by [A.C.A.C's comment](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/92890/what-is-the-method-to-produce-food-within-a-volcano-caldera#comment275124_92890), **how can the metabolism of an animal that is harnessing the heat from magma or lava be explained?**
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I've mentioned before that I'm working on a fantasy world where most of the metals we rely on in our world are fairly uncommon outside of a single, inhospitable region of the world. The vast reserves that constitute practically all the world's metal reside in this northern realm and are being hoarded by ... |
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In a SciFi world I'm building with other people, we'd like to create a planet with an infection outbreak going on. There are wildlings. They are pretty primitive, have stone tools and wood houses. They are human-like. The wildlings are getting infected and when it happens, they become highly aggressive, ... |
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I am wondering about this map, from the game *Albion* (not *Albion Online*):
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The island on the right (Umajo) is an arid one, mostly covered by sandy deserts, except for an area of savannahs at the ... |
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Ceraon is a moon with advanced megafauna and flora. The moon is pretty small, so gravity is only about one fifth of that on earth.
Much of the life-preserving atmosphere is retained through a great number of sedentary organisms that form translucent biodome-esque "atmospheric balloons", allowing other l... |
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There's not much on this, so I'm winging it. Plus, I'm curious to see if this species could actually succeed in advancing to the Stone Age.
Basically, a species that I have created (the Verrisirs) evolved on the planet Vixeruka (I described some characteristics of the planet in this question: [Planet wit... |
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Assume a world that's much like ours, but in which there is a naturally occurring resource with the properties of gunpowder. This "gunpowder" is only found in one small area, measuring about 1000 square km. But it is plentiful there, and easy to mine. That means the inhabitants of this region have a nigh... |
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In *Habitable Planets for Man*, Stephen H. Dole proposes that a planet with substantially less oceanic water than Earth could have habitable zones, anyway, even if a high fraction of the surface would be desertic. It "might well have noninterconnecting oceans" and "in the absence of worldwide oceanic cir... |
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Let's say there is planet, similar to Earth in almost all respects. However, some sort of geological process has shattered its continents, leaving lots of islands no larger than Iceland with shallow channels in between. What sort of geological process could case this to happen? Is this even possible?
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Part of my magic system is the ability to shoot force at people. **How much force (or at what speed) would cause an explosion on impact ?**
Or, if that is impossible: let's say that matter is being pushed at an outrageous speed. **How much speed would be needed to cause an explosion on impact ?**
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There have been many questions of moving, floral animals, most of these focus on their intelligence, but what about their sense of sight. I fail to understand how a botanic based alien would be able to see, theoretically they could evolve them from the very start as light patches, like animals did, but I... |
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## *Brains in Vats* and *Virtual Reality on Steroids*
In the (reasonably near) future, humans have developed the field of medicine significantly, and we now have the technology to [isolate the brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_brain) in a vat of oxygenated fluid. Assume the proces... |
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The *ODESSA* network, a highly secretive organisation of former SS members, decides to hold the former Allied nations to ransom; with a giant parabolic mirror in space that can focus sunlight into an incredibly intense beam, capable of destroying entire cities.
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If an alternate Earth had an axial tilt of 45 degrees, what would the seasons look like? Being the most extreme tilt a planet can have before simply replacing North/South with East/West, obviously such a world would have rather extreme seasons, what just how extreme? What would these extreme seasons look... |
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Setup: A small fantasy world -- with about three cities, five sizable towns, typical medieval technology, a low amount of magic, and some typical monsters living in the uncivilized parts -- is plunged into an era of darkness. The darkness is not full nighttime all the time, and varies slightly, but at be... |
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In the never ending quest to get elves to live in trees, I am taking things one step further and attempting to get the entire *city* in a tree. Magic is not in the equation. The tree would start out looking like this from above:
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A parasite starts its first stage of life with the reproductive phase by cloning itself to infect as many people as possible without leaving any signs of its presence.
After two days, the parasite starts its growth phase during which it controls the brain of the victim, making it a zombie wandering aroun... |
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What animals and in what conditions would evolve into something resembling a bearfolk like this one
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Could a creature reasonably have both armor (in the sense of armadillos or pangolins) and be able to change color over the short term (less than a day)? I'm afraid I don't know enough about biology to come up with a reasonable answer.
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Is it theoretically possible to genetically alter humans so that they could live off solar energy like plants? What biological and physiological changes would have to be made?
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That's the plot of lot of sci-fi stories, but on most of them the virus just affect all humans and get out of control.
But lets say that my Umbrella corporation wants to target a specific human population (e.g or people of color or with certain traits) and they have all the resources money can buy, all ... |
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See, I have a magic system and most people can practice a decent amount of power. There are two primary kinds of mage. Sorcerers can give their mana different properties (like making it sticky, solid, etc.) and convert their mana directly into various forms energy, but lack the ability to completely mani... |
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I was thinking of a scenario in which people decide to use breeding to try to make two species more genetically related to each other. The people take genetic samples of each individual from their breeding populations and compare its DNA to the DNA of the other species. The individuals that are most gene... |
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Melanin is what causes the color to appear in the skin, hair and eyes. But in humans there seems to be a limit to this. For example human hair can be orange(gingers) but not green or blue. iris's can be blue but not yellow or black. What determines the color range of hair and iris's? How can I add (or re... |
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My Earth is similar to our real Earth, and some scientists have found out a really cheap way to use geothermal energy. Huge generators are built, but one scientist eventually found out that the Earth is not as hot as it was before this huge usage of geothermal energy. The Earth gets colder inside and nob... |
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I'm curious to the affect a planet would have if it orbited around, or was orbited by another planet of equal, slightly larger mass. Say if Earth had, not the moon, but a planetary object the same size as the Earth. What would life be like on the planet? How would time be affected? Could life be sustaine... |
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Imagine a sci-fi world where many organic civilizations would have raised and have an empire between many planets and systems. Even if there is some political tensions, they all live in peace together. (A Mass Effect-like universe).
Now, for some reason, imagine a race of machines, with a population of i... |
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Currently, the crust varies from 4km (oceanic) to 10km (continental) to 30km (mountains).
How would the earth be different if it was all 1/4 the thickness? So it was 1km, 2km and 7km?
Would we have more volcanoes / earthquakes / geysers?
Would the crust be any warmer? Would life be different?
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In my world there is a trading city in the middle of a vast stretch of wild, untamed forest. It was built to serve as an in-between for merchants as there is a peaceful kingdom both north and south of it. The city is on the banks of a north-south flowing river.
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The long-term theory of climate patterns states that the Earth experiences an ice age, freezing over and remaining so for about 40 years, before returning to a normal, seasonal climate. My question is: is it possible for an ice age to happen so quickly? Is 40 years too short, or is that perfectly feasibl... |
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Eric Schmidt famously declared that it should be considered "a bug" that cars were invented before computers. He was talking about the ability of self-driving cars to remove driver error--the principal cause of traffic accidents--from the equation, but what if it actually happened that way?
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Is it possible for humans to evolve to eat something like wood or stone or something similar? Any hard material you would find or any abundant resource. So is it possible that humans in the past had a chance of evolving to eat this type of thing?
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In this hypothetical solar system the one habitable planet in question would be at center of two sun stars, one similar to our sun and the other a red dwarf. What kind of effect would this have on the planet's day/night cycle, weather, life? Also, could humans adapt to such an environment?
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Imagine we have a machine that can consume celestial bodies, breaking them down into component elements and storing them in big bins somewhere. **If we fed that machine a moon, what would wind up in those bins?**
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A large ring gate appears on Earth that leads to other planetary bodies that vary between being able to sustain human life and just barely allowing humans to exist on the planet for a while.
Another sentient lifeform exists on the planets. The quick and dirty is that they are only capable of moving and l... |
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I'm working on creating a pre-industrial culture of tundra-nomads that herd large, yak-like beasts with large bodies and thick wool, but I'm having trouble figuring out what their clothing would look like. They would definentially have to be warm enough to allow them to survive through the cold temperatu... |
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There is a species of animal in my world with a potent venom that can cause paralysis at a specific dosage. This renders a given target unable to move for 24 hours. This venom "locks" a victim's muscles in place; after injection, the target cannot move a muscle until the venom wears off. For instance, if... |
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The Greek Sphinx is a mythological creature with a woman's head and the feet of a lion, which kills its victims by strangulation
While this is all well and good for a written myth, it has some glaring issues that won't do for any sphinx I add to my world
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Lets say that you have a wormhole where both ends are attractive. Here an object starts far away from rest, accelerates towards the wormholes mouth, travels through the throat at a small fraction of light, then come out the other end and decelerates as you travel away. Now lets say someone "clogs" the wo... |
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In the SF/post-Apocalyptic world that I'm building, the Earth is struck by interplanetary EMP bombardments that destroy most electronics. The year is around 2040~50, and the tech level is bumped back to late 19th c. and wars ravage and crumble civilizations due to lack of resources.
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In the distant past, Water was a world much like Earth--but all of its continents have been eroded away, such that its surface is entirely covered in, well... water.
While many of Water's ancient inhabitants went off and colonized the stars, two technologically-regressed groups still live there: the Peop... |
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In death a new beginning is certain, for the jaws that bit my flesh will suffer a tragic end and no amount of laments or tears will ease the pain.
My blood will flower and fruit inside their bodies, growing a new me inside of them.
My killer, who violated my body and soul will also be the nest of my chil... |
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In my fantasy setting there is a species of merfolk who live in the ocean. They have hands with human level of dexterity and can live completely underwater.
I would want to ask a question about what kind of houses merfolk would be able to build, and how they would be constructed and kept in place.
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Given the following graph: ,
Relations exist among the escape velocities, molar masses of gases and the masses of natural planets and satellites. Is there a general math formul... |
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I have some intelligent dragons that can discharge electricity.(Lets assume they can somehow release this electricity through contact with an object/animal when outside the water, as air is of course not a suitable conductor.) My question is: **Being that they they have this readily handy energy, what ki... |
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My world has Eusocial Wyverns that live in groups of a thousand or so. They are about the size of rats. They have several castes, similar to ants or naked mole rats. All members of the same cast are the same size. They have a strong bite, sharp teeth, and an stinger at the end of their tail with a breath... |
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I have a system in which the main habitable planets are on the many moons of a super-neptune. The ice giant has not migrated inwards, but rather the habitable zone has expanded outwards due to the red giant phase. However I need this red giant phase last long enough that life can form, evolve into an int... |
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In my story, one of the characters essentially possesses something akin to true invulnerability and is essentially immortal due to [redacted]. In this part of the story, a group of terrorists with stolen sci-fi grade technology use it to open a tear in space-time right next to said character, a tear whic... |
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Take a modern setting and a character with a good working knowledge of physics and no fear on telling people about whatever supernatural stuff they've found. As the only piece of magic in the setting, suppose that they are given a large branch of wood that burns eternally and produces smokeless but hot f... |
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I am wondering if habitable planets could form around stars in super dense dwarf galaxies. There are some super dense galaxies such as M60-UCD1 and M85-HCC1 which can have a typical distance between stars of 1/20th of a light-year, compared to the Milky Way's average of 4 light-years between stars.
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So, due to reasons magical, civilization has aversion towards metals which are above antimony in [reactivity series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactivity_series). Yet, that doesn't stop them from developing gunpowder and wooden cannons. But while wooden cannons made of hardened wood with a copper tub... |
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So, as far as science fiction is concerned, **Strangelets** are very potent.
They are so stable that they convert normal matter into strangelets as well, 100% conversion, emitting gamma radiation in the process. Because of that, they are likely to cause an “Ice-9” scenario, [where the whole world becomes... |
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So, in my story, there's a guy that can produce electricity, and functions as pretty much an endless power supply of electrical energy. With that, I was wondering, what would be required to make it so that he can function as a railgun?
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I'm writing a novel in which an isolationist republic has to open its borders following a series of volcanic eruptions in its territory that destroyed most of the crops and coal mines (the republic is currently in the industrial era). This nation can no longer feed its population because of the bad harve... |
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Based on one of the comments in my previous question about [What is the max size for underground creatures before the square-cube law takes a toll?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/160651/what-are-the-max-size-for-underground-creature-before-squarecube-law-take-the-to)
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A squid-like organism uses gravity powered flight but relies on jet propulsion for launch, pouncing, and evasive tactics.
It’s aerodynamically based on the way a true squid flies however it has evolved atmospheric jet propulsion to replace the constricting hydraulic jets.
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This is for a medium/high fantasy magic setting with a medieval flavor (a D&D campaign setting) and am trying to get a grasp on expected long term effects/reaction by repeated worldwide devastation that happens on a cycle and a mechanism that would allow nearly in its entirety that it was just a legend o... |
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In the story I'm currently working on an alien race holds the monopoly on FTL travel. They're using a modified Alcubierre drive system, powered by Negative Mass. Humanity stumbles on a source of Negative Mass, and with assistance manages to bootstrap an FTL drive for themselves.
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I was daydreaming the other day about how tamed dragons whose magic was somehow harnessed as an energy source by humans could be used as a metaphor for nuclear power in modern societies. While considering this, I surprised myself thinking "*of course they would ... |
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One of the planets I am working on is supposed to have a day of about 6 earth hours long & I’m wondering what effects this will have on its surface and climate. Also, I don’t know if this is relevant, but my world is a terrestrial planet that is a little larger then Earth with rings & an axial tilt of 41... |
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I'm trying to auto-generate random solar systems, and I'm basically just allocating 2% of the total system mass to planets (and moons). It provides interesting results, I always have a few gas giants, I often have many Mars-and-Mercury-massed planets.
But to calculate surface gravity, I need a radius.
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I was reading [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/112038/the-worlds-a-jungle-again-would-doldrums-blow-the-global-air/112254#112254) earlier today. It asks about the characteristics of global winds in a modern-day earth with Eocene-like temperatures. I'm here to ask about ot... |
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I’m writing a story about someone who is going to be frozen in cryo for about 450 years. He’s frozen in 2120, so the technology is certainly well-developed in his time. I’m thinking maybe the cryo pod he was put in wasn’t built very well, or maybe 450 years is a bit long to be frozen and not the length o... |
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FINAL UPDATE: Thank you for your amazing points and answers, everyone! I mixed up all your ideas and posted the final answer as a community wiki.
So, I'm developing a bacterial infection where the bacterium is slightly magical. This is how the infection develops. Question below.
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Some time ago I asked: "[How long would it take until we realise that people stopped dying from natural causes?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/66614/how-long-would-it-take-until-we-realise-that-people-stopped-dying-from-natural-c)"
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Note: Some answers will refer to not just tanks, as previously I asked about military vehicles in general, then edited it because it was too broad.
So, right now I'm working on a project centred around a speculative sapient race that lives on a planet with no landforms larger than Big Island, Hawaii. In ... |
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I've come up with an idea of building a fantastical continent inspired by the climates of Scandinavia.
It will be shaped similar to a crescent, and based on two tectonic plates that go over each other (the side of the crescent is basically a mountain range that rose from the interaction between the plate... |
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I am considering setting my next D&D campaign on an earthlike but small planet. By "small," I am imagining a world that still feels vast, yet is circumnavigable over land and/or water with low or no magic, though probably with significant difficulty. I was thinking perhaps 1/6 earth radius, though I'm ma... |
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The enormous shield volcano that [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/96872/exploration-of-a-50-mile-high-mountain) was based on was held up by magic or God. It presented some very interesting conditions for alternate worlds so I thought I would develop that train of thought ... |
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Okay, it's a staple amongst certain fantasy settings where you have different races of creatures and beings co-habiting, which leads to certain off-shoots of different races (the half-elf and half-orc perhaps being the most commonly known).
But how feasible is such a thing? Presumably these different rac... |
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