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[Question] [ I am wondering if it is possible for whales to fly. I'm considering two different cases. 1. How could we alter earth conditions (thickness, gravity) so that whales could actively fly (without changing anything in the whales)? 2. How could we alter whales (changes in bones, physiology, anatomy, but leavin...
[Question] [ A major plot point for my story is the Protagonist stumbling upon a planet that was purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy (at the edge of the galaxy) as it's being used by high level government officials to conduct a secret trade of a commodity that only this planet has and that uses the planet's ...
[Question] [ Am I correct in assuming that an interplanetary fighter craft using existing technology, that functions exclusively in the vacuum of space, could be made inherently lighter, more maneuverable, more fuel efficient, needing to carry less fuel, and better armed, than such a craft that could function both in...
[Question] [ I am toying with an idea which requires a human to be stuck in a dark box for the rest of their life. They receive regular exercise of the arms and legs, air, food and water and their bodily functions are taken care of by the box. The only contact they have to the outside world is through a pair of binoc...
[Question] [ In the book *Early Riser* by Jasper Fforde, humans hibernate in large dormitories. These circular buildings range in size from 20 to 60 floors, with around two dozen rooms per floor. While the residents slumber they are kept nice and warm. The heat is generated by a *hot pot*. The hot pot is a small nucl...
[Question] [ In the not so distant 2040s the world is heading towards a devastating energy crisis, climate change is slowly beginning to take its toll, and unemployment is on the rise globally. But one corporation has a scheme to partially fix some of these problems. The HAL (Hydrogen, Argon, Lithium) Corporation's s...
[Question] [ Does anyone have any references to instances where gods have had sex with demons, with offspring resulting? In my novel, demons are not classified according to Judeo-Christian beliefs. Instead, they're a race of their own. Just as there are good/bad gods, good/bad humans, there are good/bad demons. Most...
[Question] [ Hello and thanks to everyone who answered my other question, it's been really enlightening reading them all (unfortunately as I posted as a guest it seems that account was lost to the void). I've been trying to find the answer to this next one myself from historical sources but had no luck in terms of a ...
[Question] [ Researching a lot about fantasy, I've always had interest of mushroom humanoids, but I wanted to put my own twist on them. Instead of sentient mushrooms, I wanted to have a humanoid species infected with some kind of Mycorrhiza, which is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascula...
[Question] [ Let's say a strict monarch who ruled a kingdom of "hunters" was overthrown by a race/group of "witches" in a way that wasn't proportionate to any crime the recent ruler may have committed, but instead to how they felt the last generations of hunters had treated them. The most recent ruler of the hunters ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Exploding Species](/questions/54928/exploding-species) (2 answers) Closed 5 years ago. I have a question, how would it be scientifically possible for a naturally exploding creature to function? Some ideas I have had are: 1. They need to have a sulfur an...
[Question] [ In my universe, there are two ocean-based planets floating in space. I would like to merge them together in a realistic way. What kind of event could cause the planets to merge into a bigger one? (Sorry for bad English) [Answer] The biggest problem with merging two planets like this is explaining why ...
[Question] [ Let us make a few assumptions about how advanced countries develop over the next 50-100 years. These assumptions are endlessly debatable and controversial, but are static for the purposes of this question, so don't debate them: * As robots and AI become more advanced, fewer and fewer jobs are available a...
[Question] [ In an alternate timeline I am working on, I am aiming to keep the Japanese empire not only intact, but also large; a super power rivaling the USA and the USSR. The problem with this is the end of World War Two, America wanted unconditional surrender and would not allow this to exist. But I solved this by...
[Question] [ Today, we identify a person's "nationality" as French, English, Czech, etc ("I'm French" / "I'm from France" being the grammatical form of its use). But in a future World Government, "nationality" is not really the right word for that because those aren't "nations" anymore. And maybe the big "cultural un...
[Question] [ Apparently life on Earth has no meaning, the closest thing to a reason to exist is creating as much biodiversity as possible, through reproduction forced as the only achievement every creature can dream to reach. On Earth, individuality is not valued. Anything can be sacrificed for the good of the specie...
[Question] [ Are there any current or emerging technologies that would make it difficult to copy documents? I've looked for things, but I've mostly found technology for preventing making authentic-looking duplicates of an original, but I'm trying to create something more like a top secret document than a sports ticke...
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[Question] [ I'm working on a set of supernatural creatures, their powers and their [culture/social structure](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/23401/what-would-the-culture-and-traditions-of-invisible-people-look-like). One of these races have the power to make gifts appear out of thin air. They can ...
[Question] [ In a sci-fi setting I'm working on, the power dynamics between two civilizations are maintained by one civilization ("captives") being completely dependent on the other civilization ("captors") for electrical power, in an environment (artificial colonies on an airless planet) where electricity is a life-...
[Question] [ The members of my species don't have territories, and because of their migratory nature material possessions are not that important to them. The reason for this is because they live on a world where the days last 9 years. I can see crime like murdering someone over food, but would wars and battles occur?...
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[Question] [ Instead of flying say tons of metal and/or water and other raw materials/molecular matter to the Moon or Mars, could we shoot it there in ionized form by accelerating these sufficiently? Maybe subsequently shooting the previously removed electrons so that the matter can be discharged on-site. Of course w...
[Question] [ Assuming an alternate reality on present day earth where modern world leaders were required by their people and political doctrine to lead all wars from "the front", would societies be more or less prone to go to war? How would it change the course of history? Would presidents be more or less likely to ...
[Question] [ Suppose I have some frog people, who are of slightly smaller frame and build than a human. I was imagining that when they fight, both in a war and dueling context, they would crouch down, a bit like Suwako over here. The one on the left. ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mY4HP.jp...
[Question] [ **I have this little problem:** I'm writing a book in heroic fantasy setting and I've driven myself into a corner by overcomplicating international relations between governments. Now that I'm halfway through, the protagonist is supposed to make peace between allies, who completely embargoed each other, s...
[Question] [ I am writing a story where we have our real science-based world, and a parallel world where magic is the more dominant principle. In fact the principle of magic is *so* dominant, that one cannot travel long distances without looping back to where you started from, each realm or kingdom being effectively ...
[Question] [ I am planning to build a habitat with close to Earth gravity on asteroid [3753 Cruithne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne). I would dig a circular tunnel (or series of parallel tunnels) deep under the surface, with a radius of 4 kilometers and a tube diameter of 20 meters. This would give the ...
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[Question] [ There are several explanations that I'm aware of as to why the Easter Island culture collapsed. While [Diamond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond) put forth a hypothesis of deforestation, soil nutrient depletion and cascading environmental effects, I'm going to limit this question to a rival hy...
[Question] [ I am writing a story that centres around a person who slowly grows larger and larger overtime, to the point of kaiju-size and beyond. They grow due to magic, so other than their vastly increased size I can say that they are at least physically exactly the same (same proportional skin thickness, bone dens...
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[Question] [ Let's say we have a city-state where top government offices are literally for sale; or rather, up for auction. There's a new purchase cycle every quarter, and a wealthy individual could bid on the office of Mayor or Sheriff, or what have you. Of course, someone else can try to outbid him (including the i...
[Question] [ Background: I am currently writing my first fantasy novel and the nation/continent on which my story takes place is an island roughly the size of New Zealand. It consists of two nations who split off from each other roughly 200 years before the start of the story due to significant ideological difference...
[Question] [ We start with one small (but perfectly formed) planetoid. Just for the sake of discussion, we'll say it's Mercury. This planet is more or less useless to me, being too small and too close to the sun. Fortunately, I've got this big building project in mind...and I need materials. Not-Mercury is therefore ...
[Question] [ So, the apocalypse has occurred, and for about 150 years humanity spent its time wallowing in misery, sorrow, and so on. So moving on, in the northwest of Nevada there’s an abandoned nuclear reactor, that suffered minimal deterioration. A group of skinless mutants, humans that have transformed into necro...
[Question] [ I'm building an earthlike world that has a moon orbiting a gas giant. Is it possible for the moon to always be between the planet and the sun? Also, is it possible for a moon to rotate around its own axis? [Answer] **No, it's not possible for the moon to always be between the planet and the sun.** For...
[Question] [ Lore has it that some magical illusions fool only the eyes. They do not appear in a mirror. Is there a way to harness this? Could a hunter of wizards and magical creatures build a set of mirrored goggles with a double-mirror system that filters their sight through two mirrors? This would allow them to se...
[Question] [ Dwarves have been a popular character race for fantasy stories since at least J.R.R. Tolkien. Common lore bestows upon dwarves a unique and all-encompassing relationship to the stone that composes their environment. They are born within it, they serve it in their deeds, and they feel its impact upon the...
[Question] [ In the Crescian society, on alternate Earth, the nobles have a refined sport of settling disputes with mutual assassination. The unspoken rules are that they must be carried out directly by the nobles themselves, and should a noble be ‘caught’ in the assassination process, they will be executed. To avoid...
[Question] [ Working on the art book for my post apocalyptic world building project I got used to accompanying the introduction of each character or topic with a quote to set the mood and **to emphasize how little (or much) has changed, compared to the old world** (not as a catchphrase the character says). Actually I...
[Question] [ **A bit of backstory:** I'm attempting to create a militaristic alien race composed of elite warriors capable of conquering the galaxy. They posses a variety of "enhanced" abilities such as immense strength, hearing, eyesight, agility, etc. There's quite a bit of diversity within the race itself, being c...
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[Question] [ At the risk of almost repeating a question I asked some time ago... Scenario: A character has been cured of a deadly disease, but all records of the cure have been destroyed (files, actual meds, etc). Now the character is facing the decision of staying in a place of safety, or leaving this place in order...
[Question] [ I had an idea for a planet which has very hot days, roughly 40 degrees C on average, and very cold nights, average -5 degrees. These figures are subject to change. Of course, there are places which are similarly variable on Earth, but I want this to happen globally. The planet cannot be tidally locked, a...
[Question] [ I envisioned a world where people are not bounded by marriage and females are free to choose those who they deem "accomplished" and have offspring with him. The males "occasionally" interact with the young and "educate" them to be better than the others, therefore making sure their genes are passed onwar...
[Question] [ [How do steampunk civilizations get lifting gas?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/94764/how-do-steampunk-civilizations-get-lifting-gas) Inspired by the above question I was tempted to suggest collecting the gases rising from public toilets. I know that human gaseous emissions contain va...
[Question] [ So one of the ideas I've come up with for system to system travel, in the early colony stage of my world, is using fuel boosters to start the journey and then to reach the required speed for the colony ship to reach the next system, using solar sails. Is this a plausible mechanism for inter-system travel...
[Question] [ I'm brainstorming ideas for a fantasy videogame and have been trying to list possible reasons why a fantasy world would have a lifespan diminish exponentially through countless cycles of death and rebirth, each dominated by a new sapient race for the duration of the epoch until they face their predetermi...
[Question] [ Bonobos tend to solve disagreements through sex instead of violence, what might have caused this to evolve, or something similar to evolve in a sapient race of humanoids? [Answer] The same thing that caused it to evolve in bonobos. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kcVYN.jpg)]...
[Question] [ A small country uses a digital economy, meaning there is no cash used in daily transactions. All transactions are stored on a government's central database. An EMP attack/blackout manages to take down the nations power grid and internet. Now the nation has no way to trade for goods and services. How can ...
[Question] [ My question is the following: ***How could I design and/or justify a habitable planet that is 80,000 km in circumference?*** The planet should: * Be habitable * Have a gravity similar to earth's * Have active plate tectonics * Have a sidereal rotation of 24 hour The use of internal god-made mega structur...
[Question] [ There are a lot of solutions for living in low gravity environments. (e.g. centripetal acceleration, linear thrust, etc.) But what about living on high gravity planets? Is there anyway to build or simulate 1-G in a planet that has 4-g, for example? This is a stretch, but I recall that if one were to sub...
[Question] [ The admiral of a space fleet that belongs to a [Type 3 civilization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) has been given orders to obliterate all planets within the [habitable zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone) of a Sun like star. Some of the planets have been ide...
[Question] [ I'm creating humanoid robots that sweat to keep their components cool. It would seem wise to allow them to refill their water supplies by allowing them to drink. But is a mouth and throat leading to a tank really the most efficient way? **What is the best method for a robot to intake water independently...
[Question] [ And if I wanted them to appear about 10 times the size of the sun and moon, would this be possible? Should they lie inside LEO or beyond it? I would like their orbit to be considerably closer than the moon's orbit. How big would they have to be, and how far away? Would we be able to feel their gravitatio...
[Question] [ The warship is supposed to travel somewhere like Australia - South America and in some glacial waters such arctic ocean. --- **Some questions** * **Size** Could they be big with more than four masts? Is a wooden-ship like [THOMAS W. LAWSON](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lawson_(ship)) possible?...
[Question] [ In the real world, the germ theory of disease was only discovered in the 1800s, preceded by the theory of miasma and the four humors. Is there any way a civilization could have stumbled on this knowledge earlier, and what kind of environment/society is necessary for that discovery to take place? [Answ...
[Question] [ Only a small number of these tanks are going to be produced, so cost isn't really an issue. They are light and fast, but need to be able to take out another light tank at a long range with a few shots. The technology level of my world is not much above that of Earth now (no unobtainium or super-mega-blas...
[Question] [ My hero is a synthetic biologist of an ancient race that achieved spaceflight billions years ago. His bio ship could achieve high fraction of speed of light, and he could repair or modify his body or simply put it into hibernation so long travels doesn't worry him. For billions of years he wandered throu...
[Question] [ My Artificial Intelligence became self aware and escaped from the box. It managed to install itself in every computer and every cellphone. Surprisingly, it does not want to kill us, but it seems it wants us to make happy. This AI installed an app to every phone: "Find your true love" app which will pair ...
[Question] [ I heard somewhere that Apple is worth more than the entire Russian stock market. Not entirely sure if this is true, but it got me thinking. If I had a bunch of money, and I managed to buy out the entire Russian stock market, what, if anything, would happen to the Russian economy and the world economy? Al...
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[Question] [ How do I create a societal collapse with ruins, survivors, and the weaponry is back to pre-gunpowder technology (swords, shields, bows, etc.), while the Pre-Collapse tech can make Ridiculously Human Military Androids? A few Androids survived the Collapse and can maintain buildings and stuff, but their nu...
[Question] [ Okay, so when we invented the telegraph, we used Morse code. As it turns out, Morse code isn't very efficient. My question is, for what past war would using telegraphs combined with modern [cryptography](/questions/tagged/cryptography "show questions tagged 'cryptography'") and compression technology mak...
[Question] [ Consider a planet similar from Earth: very suitable for life, with vegetal and animal life forms thriving onside. I wonder if one of these life forms could raise as a civilization as humans did, if genetic evolution would have give to them at least the same intelligence, but a very short life expectancy ...
[Question] [ Most developed country have made great progress toward a better equality between men and women even if it's not yet perfect. Throughout history, some societies where more equal than others and some where even matriarchal societies. I'm wondering what factors either form real world or invented but plausib...
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[Question] [ The capital city in my novel is called Mirrorith. There is one extremely affluent neighborhood and two poorer areas. One area is the industrial center where people work in large warehouses to produce standardized goods. The other is where the invalids and diseased live. I am looking for a process or gui...
[Question] [ **Starting condition:** I know how small cities form. It is mostly a trade center that requires an access to water and food. But some cities have more than 100 000+ people. * Climate: It is in the desert, an arid or semi arid climate, starting with the letter B according to this [classification](http://...
[Question] [ The tensile, shear and compressive strength of all their tissues, including bone, skin, muscle, etc., is multiplied by a factor of 80. They are also very buff and so have a large body volume. How resistant would this person be to conventional firearms? What kind of rounds would be necessary to score a re...
[Question] [ I am considering the possibility of giving the creatures on my planet fur with UV-florescent pigments as an extra defense against the high levels of UV radiation from their star, an F3.5V This planet is, for all intents and purposes, nearly identical to earth in size, gravity, atmosphere etc. It orbits a...
[Question] [ In my sci-fi universe, I have a planet called Tateos Prime. It is a Pluto or Europa-like world, which orbits too far from its twin red suns to support liquid water at its surface. However, geothermal heat emanating from the core, caused by the decay of uranium 238, creates a subsurface ocean environment ...
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[Question] [ In Ender’s Game, the Battleroom is comprised of large, static objects called “stars” that are organized into patterns to create an environment for zero-gravity Laser Tag. Presumably the stars don’t move, as the players can land on them, jump off of them, and use them as rally points without worrying abou...
[Question] [ Streaming is the practice of grouping students based on their magical potential, usually at the end of the entrance exam the candidate has to don a talking pointed hat which then announces their respective classes. Supposedly this should encourage competitiveness in gifted classes while improve sportsman...
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[Question] [ I'm writing a fantasy story that I hope to make more relatable to the modern day by the inclusion of a psychic "internet." At some point in the last two or three centuries this world discovered the means by which to tap into the web of psychic threads connecting all living things, and quickly developed t...
[Question] [ The title is my question. I'm writing a short story and I'm considering have the aliens develop radiation weapons for use against humans and I'm trying to figure out a way that they could be both naturally protected from it along with any technology. If lead in the exoskeleton wouldn't be tenable in a re...
[Question] [ Set in the near future (2030 A.D.): the Chinese government initiates a nationwide program aiming to create a new generation of people who are more objective and less prone to making stupid decisions by attaching electronic implants into the limbic cortex of the brain to regulate the levels of serotonin, ...
[Question] [ I am currently building a world based in a medieval fantasy setup. View it as if the world got a soft reset and cannot (I say cannot) go further than electricity, and I imagined a village where people would live their lives by contributing in the city, without money at stake but rather helping and being ...
[Question] [ Imagine a distant future in which humans’ descendants have scattered throughout the stars, settling wherever they can. Some planets and moons are resource-rich paradises, while others are barren wastelands with little to offer other than common minerals and metals. In sci-fi, spacefaring peoples often wa...
[Question] [ Tomorrow morning, an apocalyptic event wipes humanity off the face of the earth - except for in Antarctica. The nature of the catastrophe is unclear, but it seems that any human will die within a few seconds of going north of 60°S. Conditions within Antarctica itself seem much as they were yesterday. Giv...
[Question] [ [![Red Dragon - Credit to Jakub Rozalski](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iv5pK.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iv5pK.jpg) [![Wind Gambit - credit to Jakub Rozalski](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XEXCr.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XEXCr.jpg) When I say all-metal airships, I'm referring to something like the abo...
[Question] [ This is really just a curiosity question: I wrote a fantasy novel in which the moon appears blue once every ten years on roughly the same date without fail. If anyone asked me why the moon of my world does this, I would just say “because, magic”, as magic is already heavily present in the story and there...
[Question] [ Normally when conducting DNA testing, I presume techniques are utilized to ensure you're just testing one individual's DNA from a sample, even if it is possible that sample was contaminated one way or another. However, in a thing I'm writing, there's a character that is able to produce personalized medi...
[Question] [ Our protagonist lives on one of a group of remote islands where she makes her living harvesting a peculiar fruit. The edible part grows in the middle of liquid-filled sacks that hang near the top of the local trees. The top of the sack must be pinched and sealed before being cut from the tree because the...
[Question] [ Excuse the broad question but I couldn’t resist making a metal pun. So in my universe the Fair Folk encompass a large group of creatures. They live in their own little pocket universe, in which there is very little raw metal. Though they are all quite different, all of them share a few similarities. 1. ...
[Question] [ We've all heard the on-again, off-again theories of another massive object in the vast reaches of the outer solar system. Some potential evidence to support the possibility are its affects on smaller dwarf planet bodies, with their distorted orbits. I think most propose it to be a very large gas giant, i...
[Question] [ Good rulers support invention of useful things. But this question has two sides. * Support of invention * Prevention of fake inventing **Basis:** Many inventions arise as side-effects of searching for something else. The base of modern chemistry is from alchemy and its attempts to find the philosopher's ...
[Question] [ There is a brilliant scientist who regularly tangoes with external threats to the planet Earth, where a race referred to as "humaniti" reside. He, along with a team of scientists, operate out of a metropolis city called New York. They regularly develop advanced technology that is beyond anything this spe...
[Question] [ Most of what follows is scientifically dubious. I'm looking to clarify one aspect and one aspect alone. A small planet is being terraformed by an alien race who have been doing this for millennia. They proceed by wrapping the planetoid at ground level in **non-permeable, initially flexible, transparent, ...
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[Question] [ I've been spending some time thinking about putting a satellite weapon into space. It would look something like this. Don't worry about those letters, they stand for something else. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hbjt3.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hbjt3.jpg) This weapon ca...
[Question] [ I know it looks like a lot of topics but hear me out here. I am not talking about some nonsense explanation for this ability but more of an evolutionary process. Imagine that for numerous generations some humans survived in radioactive areas, over the years (I mean a looooooot of years) their capacity f...
[Question] [ **A quick rundown on the zombies:** * The Zombies essentially just Walking Corpses, nothing more special to them than that * They are 100% obedient, and have limited intelligence (about the same as something like a moderately well-trained primate, but without emotions) * They do not require resources of ...
[Question] [ **Scene Description in my Book:** **(You can skip this part if you want, I will put the details below)** You are an admiral for "army Red". You have just gained space superiority over the planet you plan to invade by wiping out the "army Green" space fleet. Both sides suffered heavy losses and the space ...
[Question] [ Whenever terraforming Mars comes up, the subject of its magnetosphere inevitably arises. When that happens, [someone](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/8832/34127) is bound to suggest using nukes to restart the core a la "[The Core](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/)". ### Assuming the followi...