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[Question] [ Say there is a humanoid creature. This humanoid creature is very tall, with elongated arms and legs. The creature has legs that end in, rather than feet, complete points (similar to a spike). Would this creature be able to maintain balance and walk or run without problems? If there are problems, what wou...
[Question] [ I was thinking about how there are some instances of convergent evolution between marsupials and placental mammals and was thinking about a parallel universe in which there is convergent evolution between marsupials and humans. In this universe a species of marsupial evolves at about the same time as hum...
[Question] [ **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. In t...
[Question] [ North Korea has been a problem child in the world-at-large for longer than most of the world has been alive. The DMZ is one of the largest permanent military operations in the world, and every act made by the nation is scrutinized thoroughly and treated with the utmost suspicion. A sort of prejudice agai...
[Question] [ So we have the [animal that breathes ice](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/11277/how-could-i-scientifically-explain-ice-breath) and the traditional [fire-breathing dragon](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/313/how-could-dragons-be-explained-without-magic). We even have an...
[Question] [ What is the minimum size of a planet that could harbor human life? You get to decide what the atmosphere is, but I'm reasonably sure that O2, CO2, and H2O are necessary components of the atmosphere. Assume the planet's surface is flat. I'm not sure what the soil and rocks the planet are made of, even tho...
[Question] [ I must admit this legendary or mythical creature is really fascinating and I am talking about the half fish half woman. I know most fish have the ability to control buoyancy as they can easily move around in the water without having to tread water; they've got something called a swim bladder. I am wonder...
[Question] [ This is some kind of follow-up to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/30143/where-to-find-shelter-in-a-cold-dark-world-at-war). *TL;DR for the question* : There are multiple small (10-15 members) nomads that must travel from place not to be found by monsters that hunt them. ...
[Question] [ Right now I'm writing a sci-fi story that develops in a double planet (think of Rocheworld.) The double planet (along with a couple more planets) orbit a big star and the whole system is orbited by another star (about 10,000 AU from the central star.) I need to know how implausible this is. I don't want ...
[Question] [ In this medieval fantasy world there are several deities that both help and hinder the prosperity of its various populations. One of the these deities is a god of illusion and lies. Master of manipulation and illusory magic, this deity seeks to cover the world in its influence and destroy any semblance o...
[Question] [ Wearable and implantable technologies are increasingly blurring the line between natural and augmented reality. Currently, our commercially available computer-aided vision systems for the blind are barely capable of providing a blurry, black-and-white low res rendering at relatively high cost (~$250k). H...
[Question] [ My [evil nature mage](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12801/how-to-defeat-a-nature-mage) and his army of Felinus have conquered most of the human kingdoms. Upon breaching the [forest pass](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13042/how-to-escape-an-impossible-situation-usin...
[Question] [ Suppose an advanced technological civilization colonizing a planet/planetoid which has very little iron. Suppose the surface is mostly rocky with a lot of $\text{SiO}\_2$. There is also some carbon and limited amounts of other metals (Nickel, Zinc, Manganese), but only silicon and carbon are available in...
[Question] [ What sort of xenobiochemistry would support information-carrying macromolecules like DNA if only trace amounts of phosphorus were present on an alien planet? Since the phosphoribosyl backbone of DNA would not be possible in such an environment, what might be a viable substitute? [Answer] There is a ra...
[Question] [ Picture this: An AI has taken over the world with the directive "keep humans alive while trying to maximize both their happiness and efficiency of resource utilization." Unfortunately, it has interpreted keeping humans alive as only keeping their consciousness alive rather than their original bodies. It ...
[Question] [ I have two planets located in the habitable zone of a 1.02-mass Star(Class: G1.7V). The first planet is located 1 AU away from the Star and the Sun is 1.08 times brighter than our sun to anyone on the surface. The second planet is 1.2 AU away from the Star and the Sun is 0.75 times as bright as our Sun, ...
[Question] [ So I have an *[iron planet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_planet)*, and its name is Randall. Since Randall is an iron planet, he is basically the core of a planet with no crust/mantle, and very few silicates. Now, I, the creator outside of the universe from which Randall resides in, wants Randall to...
[Question] [ I'm interested in how you could get a creature that is broadly "dragon-like" to evolve from modern-day birds. Considering that some extinct early birds or proto-birds looked pretty reptilian, I think it's not an impossible route. Parameters: Minimum definition of "dragon" for the purposes of this questio...
[Question] [ Another attempt at a broad question I asked here earlier. My aim here is to build another cradle of civilization from the ground up, in an area that never did (for fairly obvious reasons) and in an area that could serve as a sort of connection point between the Old World and New World. For most the part ...
[Question] [ In my current science-based project, I have this idea for a string of rotating black holes (bonus points if you can figure out how they can be lined up without gravitating towards each other) that are used for their ergospheres. Because ergosphere spacetime flows FTL, I think a vessel within it would als...
[Question] [ At what point would we notice or be able to detect an object entering our solar system at 0.20 speed of light? What's the maximum range we would be able to detect with certainty beyond a reasonable doubt (e.g. edge of Oort Cloud)? And how much time would it take for that object to reach the inner solar s...
[Question] [ I'm writing a fantasy old-west type novel, and I want this world to have extreme climates. I have a few questions, particularly for Americans: * I want the mostly settled areas (mid to low income population) to look like a perma-frosted Aspen (Colorado), with mountains and snow and evergreen trees and su...
[Question] [ Space is hard, and making a spaceship engine powerful enough to do interesting things requires an absolutely bonkers amount of energy. I know that lots of authors (including me) think of trying to get around the issue by making reactionless drives, but those have the issue of allowing ships to accelerate...
[Question] [ I translated my question/text with a translator because English is not my native language. I hope there are no mistakes. **Can you help me to define realistic climate zones and weather for my fictional world map? I am struggling with the climate zones and weather of my world map.** Unfortunately, I don't...
[Question] [ My species is a eusocial race of insectoid aliens. The basic gist is only the Queens are sapient, and the soldiers and workers are non-sapient. To me it felt like there wouldn't be much of a society and the Queens would lead very lonely lives. So I got this idea that once the workers are done gathering f...
[Question] [ > > For most of our evolutionary history, we did indeed live in Africa - but not just the eastern savannahs, as previously thought: our biological ancestors were distributed everywhere from Morocco to the Cape. Some of these populations remained isolated from each other for tens or even hundreds of thou...
[Question] [ [Peaks of Eternal Light](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light) are hypothetical mountain peaks that exist on the poles of worlds with little to no axial tilt. My question is simply, if such a peak *did* exist on an earth-like planet, one with no moon or axial tilt obviously, what kind of m...
[Question] [ Spurred on from an earlier post over [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/223208/intercepting-surviving-tank-based-high-velocity-kinetic-weapons?noredirect=1#comment685660_223208). The general consensus was that if a depleted uranium round is coming your way, don't be in its way. And ...
[Question] [ I am considering a setting where an all-permeating "background magic field" has a side-effect of randomly bumping electrons of any contained matter into an excited state (let's say it can provide up to about 3 eV of energy per "bump", at an average rate of 100 bumps per millisecond per cubic micrometer)....
[Question] [ For my factions anti-occult paramilitary force, I decided to give them large, armoured airships for their main form of transport and attack, which do not use gas bags for lift, but rather a magical lifting crystal (the properties of which will be the subject of future questions). To aid this force in the...
[Question] [ 550 million years ago, aliens erected a spherical barrier 1/6th of a light-year (~10,000 AU) in radius around the solar system, centered on the solar barycenter. Things outside the barrier can enter, while things inside the barrier cannot exit. Only massless particles and gravity can move freely both way...
[Question] [ I'm thinking of a story where one country gets very technologically advanced compared to its neighbours, and I figured the best way to do that is with one of those towers that create steam by mirroring a lot of sunlight into one point, then using that steam for energy (ideally electricity). **What is the...
[Question] [ It took Earth ~ four billion years to go from molten rock to multicellular life. Let's take that as an absolute minimum requirement of time for organic life to evolve and produce sapient species (I know, that's a stretch, but just roll with it). So how ancient can my Ancient Precursors realistically be i...
[Question] [ I am making a rogue planet. Right now it is a super-earth with a lot of radioactive materials in its core. It rotates very quickly as well. However, it needs to be habitable. And not just the deep ocean, the surface of the planet, exposed to the atmosphere, needs to be habitable enough for intelligent li...
[Question] [ Lightning is one of the token magical attacks that are there in every fantasy book; something like "[Mage] called down bolts of lightning on the pike-formation", is less common than only something like "He threw fireballs at the charging cavalry." Calling down lightning upon your foes seems to get less a...
[Question] [ I'm bouncing ideas around in my head for the story for a game I'm planning. I wanted the world to be one where humanity was re-emerging from a magical slumber and setting out to reclaim the world. Something where they locked themselves in underground shelters in a magic sleep until a disaster passed. The...
[Question] [ I want to make a world where there's no rivers or oceans but instead they're replaced by quicksand or similar. People get water from rain and water springs or wells. So I want to create a warship for their naval battles, either to *yaarrghh* plunder the booty or invasion. I think a bridge is too predicta...
[Question] [ I am trying to come up with insults and swears for some fictional races. Their cultures pretty well mapped out, but I am still having some trouble. I figured the best source of inspiration would be to look at different human cultures and what they considered insulting. Does anyone know of a good book tha...
[Question] [ After the apocalypse event, humanity basically had to start from scratch. The systems made to store the information about modern technology were damaged beyond repair, with the new human race having only access to middle age technology and limited, poor quality firearms. In this society which saw itself ...
[Question] [ What would be the economic trade offs of building fusion powered rockets vs building laser relays across the solar system? What assumptions would you need for each one of these to be the superior option? [Answer] There are two different determining factors to consider here. For any sort of rocket, ev...
[Question] [ Early life, and many modern organisms have what we call 'blind guts'. Food enters and exits via the same opening. However, that is inefficient and has been widely replaced with 'through guts'. Food goes in one opening and out another. Could an organism do something like this but with the reproductive sy...
[Question] [ One problem, I think writers often overlook, is the problem of flying creatures communicating with each other. I call this the *"I can't hear you over the sound of the f@cking headwind!"* For my world, this problem is present in three different species: 1. Tengu, a race of humanoids with many bird-like f...
[Question] [ Imagine a miracle happened and all leaders decided to wind back the minute hand of the doomsday clock and passed a bill that can transform all kinds of nuclear weapons into fuel for power plants, could nuclear weapon turns into improvised battery and if so how long would it lasts for the entire civilizat...
[Question] [ Many societies have and continue to practice entomophagy, and many environmental activists promote the consumption of insects as an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional meat. It is relatively cheap to raise insects on an industrial scale with modern technology, but would it be feasible for...
[Question] [ How many people can live comfortably on planet Earth, assuming that humanity reaches [Kardashev scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) Type I level? This implies: * Energy is cheap, and available in an almost unlimited quantity, compared to current level. * Sea water can be desalinated and...
[Question] [ First question so hope I'm doing this right! Working on a setting right now where a bio-engineered virus/plague is wiping out a large portion of humanity. Most died upon first exposure. Some survived, but are dying slowly, while a third group has developed complete immunity. How could this immunity be pa...
[Question] [ After reading up on space warfare for a while now, I'd like show how I imagine a realistic depiction of lasers in space combat. This question is more about the general perception of lasers the characters and audience will get than their physics. Please correct me where I'm wrong, but do not change my bas...
[Question] [ (maybe this should be part of the "anatomically correct" series. If so, feel free to edit accordingly, as I don't know how to add it to that list) Could a roughly human sized, human weight, bipedal, anthropomorphized flying squirrel achieve significant gliding capabilities? Details, limitations, clarific...
[Question] [ Suppose there exists a magic-based civilization. Their mining techniques are medieval and their understanding of organic chemistry and biology are on the Enlightenment era level. However, they are capable of creating portals, so they can establish stable supply of water and any needed materials. This ci...
[Question] [ I am a mad scientist with an intelligence matching Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking, and plan to create a new species of animal. After watching Napeoleon Dynanite, widely considered by critics to be the greatest movie ever made in the 21st century, i have decided to put my plan into action. To accompli...
[Question] [ My world is at the outer edge of the habitable zone. There is enough heat and geological activity to start life, but a snowball earth is looming and threatens to freeze it all. There is some spring thaw at the equator, allowing some simple algae to multiply. The carbon dioxide is not sufficient to make a...
[Question] [ In a nutshell, I'm trying to build a world with erratic day/night cycles. To get the erratic days, I'm working with a habitable moon. It takes 3 full earth days (72 hours) for the habitable moon to rotate around the planet. 1.5 of those days (36 hours) are spent in the light, while another 1.5 (36 hours...
[Question] [ *I spent my life, my fortune, my family connections... I sold my children into slavery and my soul to Ilnarren... Wanted posters hang from from the Abyss of Shrondir to the expanse of d'o (most bearing passable liknesses)... I've sworn fealty to the Great Abitor and the Peasant of Myksyr... and betrayed ...
[Question] [ On a world populated by sentient anthropoid species evolved from Terran felines, both big and small cats, could the local authorities use the fur patterns and colors the same way that we used fingerprints for decades to identify people? Or, once their technology reaches the same level than we have today ...
[Question] [ I'm relatively new to all this. I'm thinking of studying a little Earth sciences in the hope that it tells me but, up front, I want to know if I'm completely off. I want to know if a world with no high altitudes can be habitable. What leads me to think it might not be is that mountains are indications of...
[Question] [ **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. Assu...
[Question] [ My weather control machine works! I dragged it out to international waters on a barge and was able to seed a moderately sized rain storm.\* I'd like to start using my device in the United States for fighting drought and maybe even wildfire. The problem is that I can't figure out how to get permits. I kno...
[Question] [ **The Background** I have a species of intelligent humanoids roughly modelled after bears. They're hulking great grizzly-sized solitary mesocarnivores. Genus Homo and descended from H. sapiens, but significantly different in both biology (size) and psychology (solitary and territorial). Think the [varl](...
[Question] [ I have a clam that has modified its foot to make a flat, net-like structure to catch insects often shaped like a leaf. I wanted to know where this hit in terms of feasibility or if there were any examples of an appendage like this in nature. It lives in an extremely humid canopy that is full of water poc...
[Question] [ A roughly earth-size planet orbits a cool G-class star, but barely within its circumstellar habitable zone ("Goldilocks zone") allowing liquid water. It has a shallow inclination and and lackluster seasonal change, fairly evenly distributed continental masses, and I think this would allow the poles to ge...
[Question] [ The world in my story is going past the smartphone era. To replace smartphones people wear a small device like a headphone. The device is not intrusive to their brain, it has nodes that read brain activity from outside the cranium. Using the device they can browse, watch a video or even go to an immersiv...
[Question] [ I'm trying to write a story about the transformation of the protagonist's role in the community that matters most to them, and that community just happens to be a community of mages in a fantasy world constantly at war. But this is just plot. I've come up with a magic system for the world that hopefully ...
[Question] [ My world was once analogous to our own Earth, where life evolved in the light and heat of a nearby star. Unfortunately, a cataclysmic event knocked the planet out of orbit and sent it spiraling as a rogue planet into the dark, limitless void of space. Luckily, some of the inhabitants survived this catacl...
[Question] [ This question has received a major rewrite and restructuring but is still the same original question. * Please see this [meta-post](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5982/how-to-rewrite-a-controversial-question-when-i-didnt-get-the-answers-i-was-expe), where I asked for advice on how...
[Question] [ I am planning on making a new species based on octopus and humans. Human in skeletal structure, Octopus flexibility. I am thinking of calling them octopeople. As far as flexibility, I am thinking of having muscles in the arms attaching directly to muscles without any bones. Not sure if I should have huma...
[Question] [ Pidgins generally arise between interactions with merchants, traders, and the like, while the elites would be far away in the capital, not haggling for fish with the foreigners. They tend to simplify their phonology, morphology, and vocabulary significantly. In my world, the situation causing two groups ...
[Question] [ The planet I have in mind is slightly larger than Mars and is located in the system behind a planet about twice the size of Earth. ~~The effect being almost like a solar eclipse that happens daily (If that makes sense).~~ EDIT: I like the idea that they are **not** double planets but in separate orbits i...
[Question] [ This probably sounds fairly ridiculous- I know, but in short I've been developing a sort of future earth. It's not extraordinarily accurate, but I've been trying to at least keep the obvious in check. As far as I've seen, there's really no long legged semi aquatic animals, and it's easy to see why. Stil...
[Question] [ So, I the question of what if a black hole hits the earth has been asked to death by various people, but what if the somewhat tamer wormhole hits the Earth? In particular, we'll say that one mouth is floating somewhere in free space, and the other falls into Earth's gravity well. The radius of the mouths...
[Question] [ I've been toying with a concept for a hollow/inner Earth universe in which I would like to achieve an even distribution of light. The pickle is that the "sun" of this world operates like a beacon/spotlight that rotates on itself, so as to recreate a sort of day-night cycle. It should be clear at this poi...
[Question] [ The recent total eclipse, got me thinking about how it would look in my world. I have a earth-sized planet with a ring system, a couple of small moons and 1 or 2 bigger moons. How would a planetary ring system affect the viewing of the total eclipse of any one of these moons: * as seen from the planet s...
[Question] [ We have [escaped the galactic government](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/87034/now-how-to-escape-fun-loving-immortals), and now our greatest endeavour yet, life in space. How shall these gargantuan space entities move and travel through space? * The whale or other in question is the sa...
[Question] [ Back home, the Tibetan Plateau averages 4,950 meters above sea level with its highest point being Mount Everest, 8,848 meters--29,029 feet--above sea level. At such heights, problems are resulted as listed: * The air becomes cold, dry and most importantly, **thin.** * The Himalayas are so tall that they ...
[Question] [ In my world there is a kingdom built on hexagonal pillars like you see at the giant's causeway. Your social status is based on how tall the pillar you live on is. Sort of like the image below. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZJFs.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZJFs.jpg) The ...
[Question] [ My colonists have been terraforming a planet for centuries. They chose this exo-planet for its many earth-like qualities (size, gravity, Goldilocks zone, volcanos, similar sun). However, it is like the Earth of 400 million-ish years ago. The atmosphere has lots of nitrogen but not much oxygen. Also, a gr...
[Question] [ I'm building a small, naturally inhabited world where usable water is scarce or difficult to access. Is it possible to have a planet with groundwater, ice caps, temporary rivers and lakes, seasonal rains and fog, but no permanent oceans? If so, where might clouds etc come from? Could there be evaporation...
[Question] [ On my *fictional planet* humanoid aliens have evolved on one continent, and have since spread around the entire planet, just like humans did on Earth. On Earth humans have since developed slightly different physical attributes, such as skin color, nose size, ear size etc; therefore for the sake of realis...
[Question] [ Or more simply, how do octopuses think? I'm designing a race of intelligent-but-primitive cephalopod aliens and while I want them to exhibit some basic human traits such as fear, self-interest, a social hierarchy, language, zealotry and religion, I'd also like to avoid the pitfall of making them too huma...
[Question] [ Here's the background. I'd like the planetary year to be just under 800 days, with a longer number of hours per day-cycle. If the settlers live in the Mediterranean type climate area only and use greenhouses in addition to outdoor farming, could there be enough atmosphere and gravity to make scientific s...
[Question] [ On the planet of the Aves, birds have evolved to dominate the Earth instead of mammals. Of the thousands of species in this world, both on the [ground](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/51622/planet-of-the-aves-quadrabirds) and in the [water](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questi...
[Question] [ Ignoring the tails humans already have. Let's say it's the year 2016. Merpeople exist. They live in the ocean or rivers, breathe air, and have to surface occasionally. They also evolved from earlier humans. They're pretty diverse, maybe as far as having different subspecies of merfolk. Under **intense se...
[Question] [ Could humanoids similar to the cubic-based beings found in Minecraft be physically plausible? The requirements are not that human can take such a shape, but rather that a being of such size and shape could function normally, similarly to how a human would? Assume the biology of our Minecraft figures is e...
[Question] [ Major William die in a combat versus aliens. Now he have the capacity to wake up on the same point of time every time he dies. (Movie: Edge of tomorrow) He uses this power to win the war, but he has to memorize every single movement he do in order to save their soldiers and their own life. Logic says he ...
[Question] [ In the story I'm writing, a civil war is fought between Earth and Mars. Although there is a huge orbital and ground war campaign, conditions deteriorate to the point where Earth decides to unleash the most powerful weapon in its arsenal: The anti-kinetic rod. Using a delivery system similar to the "Rods ...
[Question] [ Well, I have been having [computer problems](https://superuser.com/questions/1095464/my-audio-and-video-drivers-are-not-working-planning-on-factory-reset-is-this-t?noredirect=1#comment1553551_1095464) and I decided that now is as good a time as ever to continue to waste my time developing my reptilian, h...
[Question] [ Adhering to natural laws and physics as much as possible`[1]`, what could cause Venus to go from a habitable planet to its current state, and how long would it take from the apocalyptic event to achieve the current state? In this scenario, human life evolved on Venus, the apocalyptic event took place, an...
[Question] [ Assuming that the sky isn't that color because of excess pollution, would the makeup of the atmosphere need to change? And if it were breathable, would the necessary position and color of the sun cause unliveable or drastic temperatures on the planet's surface? In other words, assuming a world of humans ...
[Question] [ ## Background A common staple in science fiction is the idea that we can augment humans by replacing limbs with mechanical substitutions that enable superhuman feats - weightlifter like strength in a slender incognito package, invisibility, Bruce Lee speed reflexes, etc. None of this is implausible at al...
[Question] [ One of the many things I'm afraid of is the existence of lasers that cause permanent blindness. I know that it would take a lot of energy to melt someone's face or cut off limbs like in *Star Wars*, but the idea of simply shining a light at someone to the point that they can no longer see, forever, seems...
[Question] [ Our Earth and Venus each keep a thick atmosphere because of a magnetosphere. Most terraforming scenarios of Mars involve transferring water and other gases from the ground to the atmosphere. We now know Mars won’t be able to keep them. We also now know the process is happening naturally. So, if Mars go...
[Question] [ I'm working with a city that has cut itself off from the surrounding area. There may be as many as 10,000 people within it, or as few as 1000. I'm trying to be as realistic as possible. How long would it take for inbreeding to present problems, ie genetic diseases, or mental health issues? This will give...
[Question] [ I've got a large fantasy city of about 500,000. It's a trading hub and the capital of an empire. Period wise, I would say that it is close to 1500-1600 Europe. I've got a community of primarily gravediggers that I am trying to figure out the size of. Unfortunately, gravediggers are not a profession list...
[Question] [ Imagine that, without any aliens having been ever found, we get to a point where we can build sub-atomically precise simulations of reality, spanning at least something the size (if not the likeness) of a solar system within the sim (if needed, we can scale up to galactic scales)... Assume we go about tr...
[Question] [ Many questions on Worldbuilding have posited different reproductive strategies that often result in the virtual enslavement of females (when there are females involved). On Earth, normal human biology lends itself to patriarchal societies and almost always, the oppression and marginalization of women. *W...
[Question] [ According to two websites I respect a great deal ([Atomic Rockets](http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunintro.php) and [Rocketpunk Manifesto](http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/2009/06/space-warfare-iii-warships-in-space.html)), weapons fall into three broad groupings: kinetic, explosive...
[Question] [ **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. Base...
[Question] [ A lot of people making maps for their worlds forget to consider the projection they are using when they start mapping but often need to deal with the issue later. If no projection is chosen, I usually make the assumption that their map is made with the equirectangular projection. Is this a good map proje...
[Question] [ When I saw [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14366/close-quarters-combat-in-space) today in the active questions list I thought it would be about one-on-one combat in space. But the question and answers (while still good) were focused on battles between space craft with lo...
[Question] [ If I have a world where all races are one-foot-tall versions of their typical fantasy counterparts, what would be the most obvious ways this would affect the building style of these cultures? Would they be able to still build large stone structures? Would they be able to get away building more permanentl...
[Question] [ Based on the previous answer [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/9120/6429), concerning hammer-proof armor, one of the easiest way to mitigate blunt force trauma, both from swinging hammers and falling off buildings, are with some sort of dampening soft material. However, a hay bale big enou...