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So, in my story, the entire world has just gone to absolute crap. The largest war in human history, WW3 in October 1962, has just caused destruction in most of the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and populated sections of China.
About half a millennium later, in the year 2468, America is a twist... |
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In [this](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YUKww.jpg) picture, we see a futuristic cityscape, with what seems to me an unexpected occurrence: a fairly normal-looking *barge* chugging along down the river! That just looks out of place, and it brought to mind my question.
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While on a space mission to Neptune, you accidentally broke your [tether](https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/25/flashcards/3675025/jpg/a_dead_astronaut_in_space_by_sc0pe-141709EEA751A0EB56D.jpg) on the way. After a couple of hours floating, you were hit by an asteroid.
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In the TV show [Futurama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama), an in-show infomercial mentions that Earthicans started dropping giant ice cubes in the ocean to slow down global warming. Now, Futurama is a show where science is a mixed bag: Futurama has a number of scientist consultants, but they also... |
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Enchanted jewelry is a major mainstay of basically any genre of fiction involving magic. It comes in many forms, but the concept is the same: wear it, and it gives you certain powers or protects you in some way.
Which got me wondering: there are *lots* of varieties of jewelry. Rings, bracelets, necklaces... |
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Exhibit A: The apex predator of my world, one that can both fly and swim under water.
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I wanted a habitable planet around a binary star system, so I conjured up a system that let me have one.
The problem that I'm facing is that the goldilocks orbital parameters for this planed ended up being 6.5 au from the stars barycenter, with an orbital period of **6.78 years** (the second planet on th... |
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The title says it all. If it wasn't maintained for hundreds of years, would the Channel Tunnel collapse?
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Colonists have set up a viable, long term lunar colony on the near-side of the moon in the mid-21st century. They are quickly reaching total self-sufficiency and the earth governments who sponsored the colony are getting itchy to maintain control.
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Quick summary: it’s the modern day, and everyone can use magic. Some of that magic is of the variety that lets you launch energy blasts from your fists, similar to a Mega Man style arm cannon. You mentally activate the ability, clench your fist, wait for the energy to manifest around your arm, hold it at... |
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You're planning to move to the rich country of Lycania (*names are a work in progress, ok?*), a country as big as the USA plus half of Canada, where you have been offered a good position which would make you earn far more than your current job, giving you an alternative to a mediocre life. Lycania is the... |
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These days we have so much street lighting that the stars are blocked out, and cities are easily seen from space. That wasn't the case a few centuries ago. Flyers in the middle ages (witches on broomsticks) would have a nice view of the stars - but would they be able to navigate by eyesight?
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I just had an idea – likely an absurd one – but it could make an interesting plot.
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Picture this scenario – Present day earth. (easy to picture) But, there is an antagonist. He has a facility full of powerful air compressors and vacuum pumps. He also has lots of massive (heavily armored) air tanks, to... |
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Here on the Space Station 'A long way from anywhere V' (not to be confused with [any other](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5) [space stations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)) a wide variety of species pass through on their way to the Krasnikov tube terminal. Even the sta... |
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This a follow up on the previous post that asked how strong graphene armor would be and the general conclusion is that we have no idea sadly. So in this post I will ask a more relevant question.
If we have made armor with advanced, light-weight carbon and ceramic based materials that can easily stop mos... |
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I've read comics in which someone with pyrokinetic powers was able to block bullets with a sheet of fire. I have three questions
1. How hot would the fire have to be to melt a bullet passing through it? (fire is about 1 inch/ 2.54 cm thick)
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Realistically, if we are ever going to mine asteroids, it would be drones and robots that do it, not humans, because of safety and cost reasons. What reason could justify the participation of human astronaut in asteroid mining?
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I'm trying to think of a scientifically plausible reason for humanity to be forced to abandon earth that would leave animals and plants largely untouched. Is there any natural disaster that would have such an effect? If not, is it possible for humanity to develop a weapon that would unintentionally have ... |
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At different points in history, commodities have been at different levels of supply, and therefore have been at different prices. One good might be valuable in the present while another is nearly worthless; a century ago, this could have been switched. Therefore, any time traveler with an eye for making ... |
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A magician summons a person to the material world to be their servant. Their body is not made from true atoms per se, but is some kind of force projection.
In most ways though, they act as a person and experience the laws of physics as if they were a normal flesh and blood being. This includes eating, ge... |
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We all know that food spoils if left untreated by some form of preservation. Different foods spoil at different rates, of course.
Let's say Dracula stumbles across a fresh corpse. (For the sake of argument, assume the person died of natural causes.) How long will it be safe and effective for a vampire li... |
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Consider a future soldier with access to the technological augmentation indicated below, and for whom it is reasonable to believe he would spend (while deployed) at least 18 hours a day attached to the augmentation.
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I'm writing a speculative fiction story that includes superhumans. The focus is on individual characters and their daily lives, and I'm trying to maintain some consistency by not throwing all the laws of physics out the window. However, this creates some problems in the daily life of these individuals - ... |
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I need a city-sized (10 km2 minimum) area to be declared inaccessible for 50 years minimum.
My thought was to justify this with a dirty bomb attack of some sort. [Radiological dispersal devices (RDD)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb), while very realistic, have never been used or built (as far ... |
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What would happen if the entire inner surface of a Dyson sphere (not necessarily a solid shell, maybe a very dense swarm) would be coated into a highly reflective material?
Let's say it can reflect 99.9% at all wavelengths.
Would it cook the star in its own light?
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If I were to build a world like Game of Thrones, how would the dragons not burn their own nostrils from the heat of flames?
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I am considering whether a pre-Industrial civilisation could carry on for millennia on an Earth-like planet without entering the Industrial Age.
Of course, regularly destroying everything with plagues, earthquakes, etc and sending people back to the Bronze Age might do the trick, but I am looking for som... |
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I'm constructing a world where the humanity had to **migrate from land to water somewhere in antiquity**. In this world, humans are living on seas and rivers. They live both on pier-like and other fixed platforms near the coast as well as on rafts strung together into larger settlements offshore. Fishing... |
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In my story, a planet of low-tech natives in the midst of war are abruptly brought into contact with a much more advanced empire. There are many historical precedents for this kind of event, and occasionally the natives are able to fight back. Now, in order to mount an effective defense, these natives mu... |
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I have an archaeologist who specializes in ancient ancient Northern European civilizations. Due to some handwavy mumbo jumbo, he is brought face to face with a supernatural being which still speaks fluent [Proto-Celtic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language) and/or [Proto-Indo-European](htt... |
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I'm writing a story where the superhuman heroes fight hundreds of thousands of zombies. The zombies are fast and agile and completely surround the heroes. Dead zombies pile up around them until the zombies are jumping down on top of them. The heroes realize they have to continuously climb the pile of dea... |
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Ever since Tolkien most, if not all, works of fiction including orcs portray them with tusks. Though this achieves the effect of portraying them as animalistic, what would the real world applications of this feature be? Would it cause any health problems or change their dietary preferences?
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I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
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The quote has many forms, but is basically "mathematics is a universal language." My question is if this is true? If we met aliens could we use mathematics to talk to them?
The fact that we could show them we know what 10 is doesn't seem like much of help in saying "do you come in peace?"
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I'm working on a story set in a world with a tri-gendered race of intelligent creatures, the protagonists in the story. I want to be able to explicitly describe sexual intercourse among other things. I'd love some suggestions on how this might work. Some questions are:
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In my world, there are underground ruins from an ancient civilization. There are giant insect creatures living in these underground cave-like ruins, ranging from the size of a large dog to the size of an elephant. They are attracted to these ruins due to a magical aura it gives off, and have a natural re... |
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Possibly a dumb and outsider question, but my knowledge in the basics of computer networks is terrible.
Imagine the possibly not too original concept, that humanity somehow manages to transmit data instantaneously, defeating the vast distances of space - however, it is possible for very small data packet... |
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It is late in the day, and humanity has made the fateful step: digital transcendence for some. The last few weeks before the Singularity were singularly chaotic, with widespread violence by opponents and supporters alike, and such rapid change that many storage media became obsolete in those short weeks.... |
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The story is in contemporary earth and with same technology.
How can a single human make the Yellowstone explode with the tools available to us now (or with slightly advanced ones, but nothing too sci fi)?
The human in question wants to cause a mass extinction for reasons, and has virtually infinite bu... |
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A cowboy of the 19th Century got dragged back into the past (just in case, stable time loop does not apply here since it also has an alternative timeline/universe), after some feats of battle, the King and nobles were extremely impressed, especially with his gun, the problem is that his ammo is limited.
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One day, I am randomly teleported to somewhere else where I meet some aliens. These aliens are very technologically advanced and after figuring out communication, we establish a rapport. The aliens, being the benevolent type, want to help me get home, and, as luck would have it, they have a portal device... |
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I am a vengeful scientist who crash-landed on your Earth. While I was repairing my space ship, I had to obtain nourishment by consuming organic matter, and visited a local nutrition warehouse your people call "Arby's."
I have decided that the species responsible for this perversion must perish.
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My story takes place in a fantasy/medieval setting, that will incorporate mostly European, most specifically, French medieval inspiration. My main character is traveling from a small village, to a large city within a couple weeks time. In that time, I would like to incorporate an inn or two. The question... |
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What environmental effects (if any) would ever cause blue to be a colour that a plant would choose as an evolutionary advantage?
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I'm looking for light blue plants as a preference.
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A futuristic entrepreneur wants to start a cruise line company and needs to build a cruise ship that will not only float on a gas giant, but be habitable throughout a 7 day trip (for the uber-rich of course).
**What sort of ship would need to be built to survive a week on a gas giant?**
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I'm creating a game that can grow to an enormous extent, basically can be played with 2 or more and every one represents a nation. Everyone starts with a small castle, a small village and a small army and builds their way up to huge castles and armies, and the winner is the last one left.
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Science fiction shows us two common shapes for large space stations, rings and tubes:
Deep Space 9 ([image source](http://startrek-ships.com/wallpapers/star-trek-deep-space-nine-station/)):
Similarly, [2001: A Space Odyssey](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LzB4a.jpg)... |
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In series such as the *Hyperion Cantos* and *Ender's Game*, there exist fictional faster-than-light communication systems allowing either instantaneous, or near-instantaneous transmission of information.
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In this [photography stack exchange question](https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/89875/why-do-we-use-rgb-instead-of-wavelengths-to-represent-colours) about why we encode pictures in RGB, several answers talk about the fact that our visual receptors are trichromatic, which is the inspiration for th... |
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I'm an artist and I've been trying to find a comprehensive resource that would help me clearly identify likely sky colors for exoplanets that have atmospheres with a similar chemical composition to Earth. It's trickier than I expected. I've cobbled together several resources, and built what I hope is a d... |
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The species I have created looks eerily humanlike, practically indistinguishable from human except for a reptile-like tail and an exposed brain.
The top portion of the skull is replaced with a glass-like dome, which exposes the brain. The species I created lives on a planet filled with diseases and bacte... |
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I have a race of elf-like humanoids that live in a forest. One of their best methods of travel is what you may call "forest running". They are attuned to the harmonic movement of the forest from a young age, they can predict the movement of branches in the wind and are agile enough to run and leap from t... |
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This is a world building question in a preventative context because those people or countries would be left fully functional while others are gone and the safe areas are where the world building would begin.
What countries would be the least likely to get nuclear bombed or have fallout if a full nuclear ... |
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A quadruped the size of a mountain tiger which never stops moving, even in their sleep they walk and wander around.
What benefit would the animal get from wasting so much energy moving every minute of its life?
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### Walking aids (or is) its blood circulation
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A fantasy staple, the [fantastic mount](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HorseOfADifferentColor) (TvTropes). People in Fantasy Land ride giant yellow chickens, giant wolves, giant beetles, caterpilars, ants, and other insects, [evolved bears](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/38502/353... |
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A very common trope in witchcraft-themed fictional narratives is the iconic Magic Broom, a magical object made from wood and straw to fly and serve as a vehicle for witches. Witches generally fly with the broom between their legs, although sometimes women fly sitting sideways with both legs together (som... |
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From what I know about the periodic table, in order to add a new element it would have to be above the current highest element. And up there this new element would be unstable.
But could I just replace an already existing element on the table, such as iron or a lesser known metal like vanadium? The new e... |
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The Hegemony is a global government governing Earth and her colonies. As a global government the Hegemony has a rather large police force (the Hegemony has merged the military and police within the bureaucracy) numbering in the hundreds of millions.
The Hegemony also maintains/condones a large bounty hu... |
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My island is in the Indian Ocean, surrounded by a ring of very sharp rocks. The water is, at most, a few meters deep.
Since a large ferry could not reach the island, what real-world methods of transporting vehicles could get a few (Let's say 7; 3 [Hummers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer_H1), 1 [RV... |
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Let us assume planet Earth, with a history similar to ours. Except, the result of the computer revolution is not a computer system based on binary (i.e. 0 and 1), but some other system. This system could be digital, with more than two digits, or otherwise.
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My story is set in the early 1990s, and it's about various races of immortal humanoid mythical creatures living amongst humanity in secret. The main setting is a town in America that's been around for hundreds of years. It's one of various immortal "sanctuary towns" in the world, places populated exclusi... |
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The dwarven legal system is broken. So badly broken that, whether explicitly through legislation or accidentally via a loophoole, it is possible for the victim of a crime to charged, tried and convicted with the crime committed against them, in defiance of all logic and reason. Even the dwarves [find thi... |
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In an alternative world, matriarchal society is dominated in every way that women always are number 1 position, such as empress, queen, chief, etc. Men can only become the number 2: vice president, advisors, etc. You get the idea.
But there's a strange thing they practice polygyny. You would think a matr... |
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In my novel, my main character has come from earth to a fantasy world. She has been reborn on an island of giants (10-meter tall humanoids) where everything is scaled up to match what they would look like to a normal size person.
My question is what could my main character look for to tell that she is, i... |
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**Is it possible to create a room-temperature solid made from 100% human blood?**
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One of my stories features a girl who has the passive ability to block the superpowers of anyone in a 100-meter radius. The government decides that this would be quite a nice power to have - for example, building a supe... |
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Context: The setting is a future where the planet is pretty much a giant city and due to reasons has become a post-apocalyptic landscape. Humans are long dead and the only sentient life left are the robots and androids the humans made to serve them. Due to neglect, system failure and a rather nasty compu... |
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While watching a Walking Dead commercial I saw a vast number of zombies walking in a single uniform march in one direction. I wondered why (not knowing the show) and could only presume they heard a sound and therefore were all walking toward said sound. However, this was a large army of zombies, surely t... |
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The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
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I am asking if a planet with shades of gray only is scientifically possible in our universe. Basically everything on the surface of this planet would seem black and white to the human eye.
Here are some settings of the planet that may work for the case:
* The sun of the planet produces white light.
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Something like the above (Natural Springs by [Ellie Cooper](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2xwJkK)) - either where the water originates from atop the tree through regular rainfall, or is dir... |
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This story takes place about 300 years in the future and humanity has since come into contact with hundreds of alien races, you get the picture. Basically, I have this character who is half human and half alien, but the issue arises in that her alien heritage was an infamous and feared race thought to ha... |
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A global epidemic of H1Z2 virus has rendered 95% of the population into zombies. The zombies have lost most of their [frontal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe#Function) and [temporal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe#Function) lobes so the following capabilities are either severely ... |
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A common trope with immortality is that the immortal character hides their true nature by faking their death every so often and pretend to be one of their descendants. They end up adding a "III" or "IV" to their name and claim to have a "strong family resemblance".
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I am trying to create a planet that either has no oxygen in the air, or it has very little; i.e. not enough to sustain humans without the use of a breathing apparatus. Large portions of the planet (approximately 50-60% of the surface, compared to Earth's ~70%) are covered with oceans, seas, lakes, and ot... |
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When we place castles on our fictional maps, lots of effort is often made on how to make those castles virtually impregnable. Walls, moats, defensive weaponry etc.
But one aspect is often overlooked in fiction: How much use is my super-strong castle really?
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This question:[Why would a language be untranslatable by universal (machine) translator?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/61954/why-would-a-language-be-untranslatable-by-universal-machine-translator) inspired me to consider, if one possessed a universal translator, is it reasonable to c... |
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Assume that we're in roughly our currently timeline in present day, plus or minus 5 years (for increase or decrease in technology that would/could make a specific method plausible): what event or series of events could lead to the internet "permanently" going away? I say permanently in the sense that it ... |
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Angel society is militaristic with all individuals serving as warriors in some capacity. They are locked in an eternal battle against demons from hell over control of the mortal plane. Angels have wings which gives them the capability of flight. Foot soldiers have one pair of wings while higher ranking a... |
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As a scenario, let's say that a group of heroes is traveling in a hot air balloon as a proof-of-concept for bandit-proof travel. Some particularly well-armed bandits naturally have taken an issue with this, and are trying to shoot the balloon down with crossbows and/or longbows.
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I'm working on a world where, with very few exceptions, metalwork is not possible/unwanted, and I'm trying to figure out what major differences one might see in daily life, and what would be necessary for a culture to continue to go without metal.
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How effective would a cannon made of stone be? Would it actually fire? Would it still be usable after firing? Would it be as effective as a metal cannon? How thick would the walls of the cannon have to be?
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Lord Woodesy wants to have a *glorious* antlered helm! But he has heard that having antlers, horns, or other projections on a helmet can be severely detrimental in conflict since they can be grabbed or violently twist the head if struck. But Lord Woodesey *really* wants that antlered helmet.
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## Why this question is different from existing questions...
The closest question to mine is [Anatomically Correct Cerberus](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/51758/anatomically-correct-cerberus). It is clear from the answers to that question and indeed it's axiomatic to the scientific co... |
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Humanity has spread throughout the galaxy and has split into several factions in a galactic "cold war" type conflict. The two major factions (think USSR and USA) are in a galactic deadlock, with numerous smaller space-faring factions fighting small proxy wars.
Introduce the arrival of an alien race, (a ... |
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When I saw this other question about one somewhat illogical aspect of spellbooks in JRPG games I remembered another somewhat illogical aspect about JRPG spellbooks:
[How would it make sense that spellbooks or grimoires teach only one spell?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/91717/how-wou... |
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The question of whether the Romans could have crossed the Atlantic in a storm has already been answered and the answer seems to be: yes but unlikely.
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Most of the AI's in films/books/series seems to turn out evil or using destructive/harmful ways of achieving what they want in critical situations because they can't understand the earth's biology. Even though they are just a piece of technology, they should be able to learn about earth's biology and cre... |
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There is underground vault built to last a few million years. The contents of this vault are all durable things, such as things carved in stone. Inside this vault is a door to an inner room. While the door is safe from "the elements", the vault will undergo numerous tectonic shocks and thermal changes ov... |
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In a universe everyone has a time machine and can travel both in the past and in the future.
At some point, no one knows when, an eternal war to control the time started.
The concept of history has lost meaning. There is no safe place, in any age and in any place of universe.
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They don't posses any advanced knowledge, their knowledge is in fact irrelevant, just their possible actions (it doesn't matter how irrational those actions might be) that would cause significant environmental changes.
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A great way to introduce [advanced technology](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClarkesThirdLaw) to a story is to have it be of [extraterrestrial origin](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum). E.g. have a spaceship crash on earth, or, like I was planning to, put a... |
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Your large spaceship is damaged beyond repair. You manage to get it close enough to a planet so that you can release emergency shuttle craft. You have very little control over the ship and won't be able control it much longer.
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And I'm not talking about the wimpy 32 MJ kind we have in the real world, I'm talking about the superweapon kind. Anyone familiar with Knights of Sidonia and their flagship's Heavy Mass Cannons will know what I'm talking about (<https://youtube.com/watch?v=D1GdoUDBsaE>)
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While sitting alone in my room today contemplating life I came up with a simple question. How do zombies take over the world when we have armies?
Let's just take the US army alone. They fought in two world wars and came up victorious both times against **armed men with rifles, explosives, tanks, helicop... |
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In my fantasy world there exists a nomadic people known as the Ròda. The Ròda believe in the collection of knowledge, lore, and more importantly spells. They practice their beliefs by travelling in small groups with each commonly having a large wagon. They then travel from village to village and city to ... |
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