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I love the aesthetics of retrofuturistic settingsand I aim to build my own.
A mixture of a [fantastical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy), Thundercats(2011),Outlaw Star x Star\*Drive.
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How yesterday saw tomorrow is quite fascinating to me.
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As we all know the Earth is flat. Once upon a time a group of explorers set off with the idea of proving that the world was round and that there was a route to the spice islands the other way, but the few survivors came back screaming about seeing ships falling off the edge of the world and something abo... |
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While the person of the king may go on trips or lead armies in battle, it is another thing to have an itinerant government. In the earliest feudal kingdoms of Europe, the entire apparatus of government moved with the monarchs.
When Charlemagne was the Holy Roman Emperor, he had no official capitol. Many... |
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My colonizing business found a small planet with about 0.8G. They would like to build the colony in the giant caves under the crust of the planet, due to the conditions of the surface,(little atmosphere, intense radiation, very rocky geography, intense temperatures). Luckily for the colonists, there is s... |
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Using Artefaxian's excellent [spreadsheet](https://ruvid.net/video/designing-earth-like-atmospheres-9-j_JOWPLj8.html) I have created a basic idea for my planet, but in the 'Stability Checker' part my low gravity planet is unable to hold *H2O*.
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Continued from [Can a person covered in mud survive an ordeal with fire breathing dragon?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/109840/can-a-person-covered-in-mud-survive-an-ordeal-with-fire-breathing-dragon)
Miraculously my protagonist managed to subdue the fire breathing dragon and knock i... |
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To create a map for my setting, I took the following steps:
1. Made a [sketch](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9GO42.jpg) of how the (then peninsula) should roughly look like using the [Inkarate](https://inkarnate.com/) map editor.
2. Took a map of the island of [Hispaniola](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispa... |
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What are the requirements for mass distribution and body positioning that would enable a large creature (say, a panther) to walk on water (and still be able to dive down and swim if it wanted?) This should extend to hunting (chasing fish on the surface and then diving through the water to catch it) to wa... |
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I'm building an alien world for an artistic project. The world circles an m-dwarf star, and so the flora have evolved to photosynthesize longer wavelengths of light than on Earth, primarily in the near infra-red. **I've come up with an interesting symbiotic relationship, however I don't know if its scien... |
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I am writing a sci-fi novel in which humanity has colonized a majority of the solar system, and a few minor colonies on nearby stars. Although calculating mass and gravity on individual planets and moons is mostly simple, I am struggling to find out if there is any major difference in gravity based on th... |
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Relating to this question: [Ensuring an endless war, and an endless stalemate](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/83902/ensuring-an-endless-war-and-an-endless-stalemate)
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I understand that there is an on-line site, named Impact Earth!, that allows us to calculate the damage caused by an impact of an asteroid using some parameters.
In my novel, I have an impact from a solid rock with approximately 500 meters in diameter on the ocean bed, free falling at a 90º angle.
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Looking at a race based on Hobbits or Halflings, and I am wondering about the average weight and if that is affected by denser muscle mass (than human children of the same height), and the realism of their strength.
Using D&D as my guide, but it seems...high for something that's supposed to weigh only 30... |
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Assume we have a sentient race that is both non-dimorphic insofar as males and females have no non-cosmetic secondary sexual traits, simply different reproductive organs and perhaps different cosmetic features, and *oviparous*, i.e. laying already-internally-fertilized eggs. (For instance, this is one po... |
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As I am setting up the astronomic framework of my new world, I have real issues finding information, formulas and calculators to get the actual size (diameter or radius) or apparent size (disk size) of my moons.
I know my roche limit and the hill sphere of my planet, and I have 3 placed moon... |
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I'm building up a world with floating islands. They don't move much and generally stay around the same area. However, would this affect the weather?
Essentially, I have giant floating rocks in the atmosphere(similar to earth) which will not go higher than 14 km above sea level. The mechanics behind the f... |
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In my fictitious universe, a god like entity ( which is an amalgam of all individuals , scientific understanding , capabilities , and tech of a type 3.5 civilization ) produces a sun with the same mass of our own , and a habitable Dyson sphere around it.
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Time period is renaissance, with the most powerful culture being in a area geographically similar to the middle east. So a cleric was trying to combat a drought in his kingdom using the power of a solar eclipse, he invoked great divine energies to accomplish this. However he went *a bit overboard with hi... |
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I'd like to send my protagonist permanently into the near-ish future. I suspect that something as simple as the common cold could be deadly to my protagonist once we get a little further along.
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In a world where every human being can fight using their minds, every person effectively has a ranged weapon on them at all times.
Societal change in my setting has brought about a major decrease in street crimes and an overhaul of the world's prison systems, but law enforcement would still need to detai... |
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After years and years of genetic advancement and research, a group of cutting-edge scientists have finally perfected the technology of shapeshifting. They can blend select DNA strands of a given animal with the DNA of a human egg in order to create a *single-animal* shapeshifter. While the ability to tra... |
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Because Boron is directly to the left of Carbon and Nitrogen is directly to the right of Carbon on the Periodic Table Boron-Nitride has the same types of bonds and so as carbon and so in combination with other elements it can form Molecules with the same shape as carbon atoms. Because Boron-Nitride forms... |
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In a world much like our own (basically, identical humans, points in history, etc) where humans live 80 or so years, we have developed a wide array of languages around the planet as well as very different accents in each language. In fact some accents are so different that it can actually be difficult to... |
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In a story I mentioned that an AI overlord in 2036 has one of "her" bases in Ethiopia, and now I want to develop that offhand idea into its own story. My AI is equivalent to a very smart human with computer-related abilities like perfect memory, but not completely beyond human understanding. Her short-te... |
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Assume scientists in the near future create a successful clone of a Neanderthal. This is not too far off since we have already [mapped the Neanderthal genome](http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project). Now, assume that these scientists decide to bring Neanderthals back from extinction by ... |
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Simply put: Given the current state of Mars, how plausible is it that any intelligent life would be several miles below ground?
I do not have any other requirements for such a race, I'm just asking about the possibility to find something there that would be able to communicate with us.
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The deepest mythological archetypes in my Earth-like world hint at a wondrous and terrible disaster in the ancient past. ~10 tya a celestial body (perhaps a small, second moon, or a wandering asteroid, either suits) broke apart in the sky, well in sight of my primitive humanoids, and formed a beautiful t... |
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In a scifi universe I'm currently writing up, a colony was established on a weird world. strangely, it's a habitable planet with an extremely shallow sea, with an average depth of 4 meters, excluding the occasional 2 km deep rift valley. The planet is also dotted with chains of islands, mostly small pile... |
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I found out about Ferrovolcanism on asteroids and its a pretty neat idea for a space sci fi setting. Moreover, I have come up with a hypothetical way that an asteroid could be heated by induction heating.
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Let's say we have a society with people (living creatures with human-like intelligence) of vastly different sizes, from mouse-sized to elephants. People have jobs like us humans do: some physically heavy, some require detailed craftsmanship, some intellectual work.
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The temperature, pressure and radiation are all not optimum on Mars for life. But if the pressure were several fold higher (20-30 mbar instead 6 mbar), the temperature 5C higher, and with less radiation could we manage an open air lake seeded with all the life needed and fish? This could provide food for... |
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I read a story about a Mars war. There was a lot of shooting by the Martians, which made me think about insurgents weapons on Mars. It makes no sense to me for all these guns to be accessible. Not having hunting or armies beyond perhaps a police force, they wouldn't have much in the way of guns. So what ... |
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I've had a look and the other Large Turtle posts seems to be world based or assuming the turtle already exists.
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My question is how large could an island sized turtle reasonably get and what ecology would reasonably be needed, eg large amounts of surface algae/plant life.
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In my fantasy setting there are merfolk who live deep under the ocean and neighboring human civilizations nearby based on iron age civilizations like the ancient greeks and phoenicians.
I would want to know what would be necessary to allow the merfolk to construct and maintain a palace underwater. The pa... |
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I have a world I would like to use for a fiction I am using, and the free tools I got from google (first page) mostly don't do it well.
The world is a Disc. The landmass is about 475 million square kilometers.
With 60% ocean, and 40% land.
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Edit: It appears I've made a mistake with the nature of this question. I accidentally confused this with another idea of mine featuring artificial gills for humans. Assume now that this question is aimed towards humans developing their equivalent for their needs during diving. Incredibly sorry for those ... |
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I'm wondering if, using enough neodymium magnets (dont worry where the material is coming from) in a low martian orbit, could you produce a powerful enough magnetic field to protect the atmosphere from burning away? How would this impact interplanetary travel? How much maintenance would it take per decad... |
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Lately, I've been looking at Google images of "centaur skeleton", but they don't look that convincing to me. The problem is whether or not the last human lumbar vertebra would be the right size to fit on the first equine thoracic vertebra as easily as clicking on a strap.
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So I have this idea for a creature that has a loop arch on its face. My only explanation for why is because it needs extra surface area for its sense of smell. But then I wondered what would warrant the need for so much surface area just to smell? Would dense air require it because there's more air to so... |
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Assuming real world physics and an earth-like world, how big of an area could a/some tidal mudflats cover?
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* More or less consistently mudflats that are partially submerged at high tides
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The world I have imagined is much like Venus, with an atmosphere at "sea level" 70 times that of Earth, and temperatures at the same altitude approaching 377 degrees Celsius - with much more favorable temperature and pressure about 55km up. I used [an online calculator](https://keisan.casio.com/exec/syst... |
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There are three main languages in this world:
* **Draconic**, used by the "old" races, i.e: tengu, dragons, lizardfolk, etc...
* **Abyssal**, used by both demons and angels: Initially was a low-level language where the description of basic concepts could fill books. Later, a renowned demon collected the ... |
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An area of my planet is *very* saturated with lava. Being quite similar to the [Siberian Lava Traps](https://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=2ahUKEwiWwcyKk9PoAhWGwpQKHfRjAZoQFjAHegQIDRAF&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.le.ac.uk%2Fgl%2Fads%2FSiberianTraps%2FIntroduction.html&usg=AOvVa... |
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My temple was built near a kaolin surface mine, which is itself topping an old deep mine (where they used to mine radioactive metals, rare earths and possibly other miscellaneous, if need be). This temple was so beautiful that one day the gods took it to heaven, i.e. fell down a sinkhole/big mine shaft (... |
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Here a laser raptor Pew Pew'ing in its natural habitat and timeline.
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This is a follow up question to: [How realistic is the Swampus?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/166100/how-realistic-is-the-swampus)
What adaptations would current octopus have to evolve, to become land based, meaning that they spend at least 1/3 of their time on land?
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I made an organism called the [Skarlix](https://sagan4.miraheze.org/wiki/Skarlix) for a art/xenobiology project called Sagan 4.
The Skarlix is a eukaryotic, somewhat amoeba-like organism that "eats" various metal compounds and "breathes" (oxidizes) hydrogen (e.g., in the form of hydrogen gas, unless othe... |
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I had an idea for a new world that included cactus forests, with cactuses the size of a giant sequoia. Is this realistic?
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Both the [Saguaro](https://www.nps.gov/orpi/learn/nature/saguaro-cactus.htm) and the [Giant Cardon cacti](https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2016/05/15/mexican-cardon-cac... |
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Some advanced human civilization built a large, 6,000 km diameter [gravity balloon](http://www.scifiideas.com/science-2/colonizing-asteroid-cores/) and filled it with a breathable atmosphere as well as small, rocky bodies with radii of ~200 meters and masses of ~$6 \times 10^{15}$ kg. This was accomplish... |
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I'm working on a version of wormhole-based FTL travel, and one of the side effects of passing through the wormhole is going to be instantaneous heating of every molecule of the thing passing through. The heating works by dumping a specific amount of thermal energy into every molecule of the object passin... |
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This is a submission for the [Anatomically Correct Series](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2797/anatomically-correct-series/2798#2798)
This is the latest in a long series of questions I've asked on my fantasy world which contains many mythical and folkloric creatures. I won't link ... |
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I'm running a D&D campaign and am using a modified map of Venus for it that shows what Venus would look like with similar amounts of water to Earth. The problem I'm running into is mapping the ocean currents around the equator at this point of the map where a centrally based gulf has land on either side ... |
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For my world I would need a really large swamp (or similar kind of wetland). It should be about 200km in diameter, which should be quite possible given a large enough flat terrain and enough rain.
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I was recently redesigning some mostly hominid Aliens I designed a long time back in high school and felt were a little lackluster, and since they were already Tall, Wiry, and vaguely Shambolic-Looking before, I came up with the idea of giving them greater flexibility and strength by giving them a spine ... |
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I'm aware that variants of this question have been discussed before (such as "how to build a self-sustaining medieval city?"), but my question comes at the problem from a slightly different angle.
Imagine that you are tasked with taking around 10,000 people, and imprisoning them within an enclosed city-... |
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In this setting, the family unit is based around a clan system. An individual's wealth and status is related to the clan they are born in, and its ancestry is based on matrilineal lines. Marriage does not exist in the form we would recognize. Instead, this culture practices a form of exogamy, in which th... |
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In this world, there is a global government that is all-powerful. However, what makes this world interesting is the type of government structure of the global government. It is not a junta, democracy, or a theocracy. One could argue this world government is a scientocracy, but it's a very spe... |
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A volcanic eruption is measured in two constants--gas and viscosity. For clearance, low viscosity is like squirting water off a nozzle, whereas high viscosity is like squirting caramel off a nozzle, which takes more effort to do, which makes it more dangerous.
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I am creating a board game that requires an underground cavern world, with huge pipes that pump air for the civilization living there. The underground region is at about 35-40 degrees north latitude. I am wondering what sort of climate such a region would have. Is it really just no weather?
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The world is mostly safe now, but everything has been scavenged from the old world. I live where winter always reached [-20F or lower outside](https://www.gardenia.net/plants/hardiness-zones/4). Our colony has a hundred people and a few working electronic devices, no one else is better off.
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A planet which is heated tidally by its Brown Dwarf parent and permanently dark needs to have native alien life which has **[somewhat similar biochemistry to Earth]** and also be **[permanently habitable]** by Humans without **[extensive life support]** and/or **[extensively genetically engin... |
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I saw [this video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=657s&v=Evq7n2cCTlg) a while ago, and recently it's gotten me thinking. Towards the end of Artifexian's video on gas giants and habitable moons, he mentions the idea of having 2 habitable moons in a horseshoe orbit. An example of a horseshoe orbit would be ... |
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So I've got a werewolf species inspired by [this Tumblr post](https://drferox.tumblr.com/post/159026911411/fantasy-biology-the-werewolf). Basically, the default form is somewhere between human and wolf, but gets hairier and more muscular over the course of a month as the full moon approaches.
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This is a bit hard for me to put into to words, but it is an idea I have been working on for a few days, with input from a few other people. I have actually brought up part of this in a previous question that I asked.
The scenario is a large space station with rings that are not connected to the station ... |
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In my setting I want to destroy the world in a way where people have:
1. Plenty of notice of the impending demise
2. No chance of stopping it
3. They can't engineer a way to survive on earth
4. The rest of the inner solar system is also rendered uninhabitable
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Okay, so imagine a situation where most of earth's atmosphere is lost, the pressure at sea level is somewhere around 0.3 atm. If it matters, let's say that this is the result of the gradual escape of air during a period of a few years. Disregarding the prospect of life under such conditions, I'm more int... |
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My current story is set inside a hollowed out dwarf planet (i.e. Ceres) with an artificial gravity generating "mesh" within the shell. This *Gravity Mesh* can generate a gravitational field that can be modified, anywhere between 0.01g and 10g in strength.
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While asking [another question about Jormungandr, the Snakebot of Doom](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/76425/75), a point was made that it is so big and hot that it might produce its own weather effects. To that end:
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What would be the geographical and ecological implications for an Earth-like planet that experienced intense volcanic and supervolcanic activity on a scale that, while decreasing over time, was far greater during its prehistoric past than anything ever seen on Earth? Eruptions would have had ejecta mass ... |
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I read somewhere that the size of a planet can influence the number of pressure belts (the areas of high and low pressure that cycle wind, heat and moisture about the globe)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QRamn.jpg)
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I'm making a game with a lot of lore associated with it. The thing to know is this:
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In my upcoming book, nuclear war broke out and the survivors were forced to live underground indefinitely.
How would a subterranean city operate, especially in regards to accommodation, movement and architecture?
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I'm writing a sci fi thriller and I'm including an inter-species romance scene which involves a pair of star crossed lover, a middle aged man and a mutated botfly no larger than a penny both drifting at a non-lethal distance away from the surface of Pistol Star, a blue hypergiant or V4647 Sgr after their... |
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250 years in the future, humanity has colonized Mars and the Moon, and built thousands of orbiting outposts and hundreds of O'Neill cylinders in the zone between Venus and Jupiter. The key enabler of this development along with the associated population boom that comes with all this free space is the luc... |
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I have a world in mind that is essentially a planet-wide underground ocean. The planet doesn't have a strong magnetic field, so radiation on the surface is too high to allow life, but what I'm thinking is that through conduction, the sun can heat the underground ocean through the ground and allow life to... |
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These creatures are a few feet longer and about a foot thicker than your average cow. Their skin is covered in densely packed bristles to trap air, and thus heat, close to the skin in cold climates. The 'wings' are large flaps of skin stretched from a foreleg to a rear leg, much like the flying squirrel.... |
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I am continuing to work on the animal society as dictated in [this question here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/26698/intelligent-animals-integrating-into-western-human-society).
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I'd like to be able to see from my Earth-like planet, a very bright nebula that can even be seen during the daytime.
I question, however, whether that is possible, because in order for it to be contained in our viewing, it would have to be so far away as we wouldn't see it (since they're hundreds of ligh... |
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When creating humanoid races or species or just normal individuals, I sometimes want to describe a certain body measure and thus have to estimate a reasonable value. How do you do that? **Are there algorithms, rules of thumb, charts, helpful 2D/3D modeling software?**
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While people are illogical, could AI be able to use that against us? People are gullible, take Scientology, it is a religion that was admittedly made up by it's creator in order to make himself rich. And yet it is a thriving 'religion' fleecing people out of billions of dollars every year. And unlike the... |
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Basically, it's a question about creating maps or diagrams.
In particular, we on Earth are used to maps showing variation over *distance & location*. The problem with space that is everything is moving. Distance and location are constantly changing. In fact, other things such as travel times and $ \Delta... |
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I make no assumptions to the nature of this planet. There are high chances it does not have an atmosphere or a lithosphere. But in a planet that shows a high level of radioactive activity, would it be advisable to probe for life, or is it improbable? Either way, why? How would we go about detecting life ... |
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It's typically regarded that life needs liquids of some kind to evolve.
But liquid is just a state where molecules can move around freely in order to interact with other molecules instead of being packed tightly in the solid state.
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Once, thousands of years ago, there was a land called Dhelō. It was a bright, green, fertile land with rivers, lakes, plains, forests and farms. There was a great calamity, and the world broke into dozens of pieces, each piece a separate micro-world, linked only by magical correspondences, and Dhelō beca... |
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I decided to describe the evolution of scientifically plausible alien creatures and thought about how alien neurons can transmit signals to each other and is it possible in theory some mechanism that could increase the speed of thinking of my aliens (so that they think faster than us)?
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There is a Mystery Busters team that is solving mysteries and catching criminals (like Scooby Gang from Scooby Doo). There is no magic in the setting, the solution is always mundane, a trick done with smoke and mirrors. The technology is present day tech. The budget is 1000$, you can use only what's acce... |
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**The Setting**
World consists of humans with primitive technology living within an asteroid space station built by their technologically advanced ancestors. A lot of knowledge has been lost, obviously.
The station has the interior square footage of Manhattan and is home to 300,000 humans. After generati... |
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In my story the cobblestone roads have each individual stone actually be alive, and during the day time they remain completely still. The stones (during the nighttime) almost kinda swim in between each other (below the stones lies a mucus, cement-like paste they make during their life), with the closest ... |
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I'm making a planet for a book I'm writing. I want to know if the planet I outline here is scientifically probable, able to support life, and what the climate would feasibly be like, compared to Earth.
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Aerosolians or 'loopies' live on hypersonic trains. They stick to the sheetmetal and collected microbes from aerosols captured by tiny pockets in their skin. Because of the high speed they can collect enough energy through only bacteria, yeasts and protozans.
They are about the size of an adult beaver. T... |
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I've always liked the idea of merfolk having extra fins(by this I mean fins like the dorsal and pectoral ones and not the main tail fins). After seeing [this](https://biologyeducare.com/fish-fins-its-types-and-functions/) article about how fish use their many types of fins it only interested me more. To ... |
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I want to create a two alternative monarchy system. I would like someone to help me improve upon that idea. The two monarchy system I would like to create is called democratic monarchy and non-bloodline monarchy.
The democratic monarchy is that a king can't have the crown price become king. It's that kin... |
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I want a creature to be able to set itself on fire when in danger, but I need a way to protect tendons and heat sensitive organs like the brain and kidneys.
I'd imagine this creature to have a perfect insulation method evolved after millennia of heat stress caused by wild fires and eventually it evolved ... |
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