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[Question] [ The Crabites are back, and chafing at their chains. For context, Crabites are abyssal plain-dwelling large crabs, perhaps the size of a dog. They evolved from those rarest of creatures -- hive-dwelling eusocial crustaceans. Think of a modified honeybee model; one breeding female, close kin workers, but f...
[Question] [ In television and movies we have a very familiar bridge command structure: the captain gives orders like "shields up", "fire primary weapons", or "transfer power to sublight". I think this trope was probably first established with Star Trek, but it appears in everything from Stargate to Star Wars to Batt...
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[Question] [ I am trying to picture how space combat would happen with a sufficiently advanced level of technology (way beyond what we have today), and obviously defense from radiation would be a massive benefit to any vessel in space. However, these spaceships will be attacking each other with directed energy weapon...
[Question] [ Is there any way to explain how did humans in my planet end up with extreme dimorphism without resorting to polygyny nor "magic"? I want men to be around 6ft (183cm) - 230 lb (105kg), while women should be around 5ft 10in (178cm) - 112 lbs (52kg). The planet is similar to earth and was colonized several ...
[Question] [ If the sea levels of Earth were to suddenly rise by 49 meters, or 160.7 feet, what would the world map look like? [Answer] [floodmap.net](http://www.floodmap.net/) has a tool with quite a large range (0-800 meters). I set it to 49 meters, and got some interesting results: ### Eastern United States: [!...
[Question] [ Is it reasonable for a river to be shallow enough to ford in one location, while nearby (say within 5 miles or less), be at least 12 feet (3.6m) deep? The same river can have shallow sections and deeper sections, right? The reason I need it to be [that deep](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/14...
[Question] [ In my science fiction story, there are basically two nations that hate each other. There are no contacts between them and they hardly know how life is on the other side of the border. The protagonist is a young woman who has a twin brother that lives in the other nation. They were separated at birth; the...
[Question] [ In the Animorphs series K.A. Applegate mentions: > > A quantum virus. It breaks down the very forces that holds subatomic particles together. It can take weeks or even months of agony as your body grows weaker and weaker and breaks down into the fundamental particles... > > > So is it possible for su...
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[Question] [ ## Some Background The government is really, really good at catching people as we learned [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/40907/how-can-we-catch-a-teleporter) and [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41776/how-do-we-catch-a-shape-shifter?lq=1). But as logic wo...
[Question] [ Grab the popcorn ladies and gents, I'm gonna talk about a movie real quick. In the movie Total Recall (2012), the main character and his friend step into a huge earth elevator/public transportation system that zooms them through the Earth's interior. We can assume that the elevator went **straight throu...
[Question] [ I'm interested in exploring an advanced society where electronic technology and infrastructure were not developed. What plausible natural phenomenon or context would prevent, or at least strongly discourage, the widespread utilization of electrical energy? Some possible ideas that come to my mind are dis...
[Question] [ Could a shark theoretically exist at the size of a blue whale? Blue whales are apparently the largest animals to have ever existed, at 30 m long and 200 tons weight. There are many species of sharks, but I'm interested in species such as Great White sharks that are capable of attacking and feeding on lar...
[Question] [ This question was inspired by the the Fortnightly Challenge, and also a common occurrence in many fantasy novels. This question is going to use the incomes of England around 1270-1400, based from [this article](http://usna.edu/Users/history/abels/hh381/Costs%20of%20war%201200_1400.htm), for some of the p...
[Question] [ In a relationship between two species, could a certain relationship become harmful to **both** involved species? Keep in mind, I am looking for a relationship between **two** species, preferably of the kingdom **animalia**, although any example will aid my understanding. On an Earth-like planet, the know...
[Question] [ I understand that the Panama Isthmus is necessary for the Gulf Stream, but what would happen if instead of a solid land bridge, like shown below, it was radically changed into a series of islands during the 1st century due to an earthquake? How dramatically would it change the world climate? Edit: The ea...
[Question] [ I am currently crafting a science fiction story in which humanity confronts an unprecedented threat: a novel form of 'heat death' that causes matter to cease to exist when it reaches certain temperatures. This event, initially manifesting with the disappearance of stars and the darkening of one half of t...
[Question] [ I'm working on a character for a story that has the ability to somewhat play around with gravitational forces, mainly weight reduction stuff but I'm sure there's other applications. Practically this would mainly be used for her to use a weapon that would normal be a bit too unwieldy and heavy without the...
[Question] [ How does having super strength/speed but similar mass to a regular person change close combat fighting? This world is a cultivation world. That's a world where people can cultivate abilities by using techniques and a fictional energy unique to that universe. What they cultivate are essentially like super...
[Question] [ The planet is just like earth and the first moon is the same as earth's moon, but there's a second moon further away. I'd like to know how plausible it is for both moons to align once a year. The second, further moon appears smaller in the sky compared to the first one. Would it even be plausible for the...
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[Question] [ Seedgirls look like ordinary girls but they have a big green bulb on their head. This bulb holds a powder they use to speed and enhance plant growth. My question is how the bulb gets there in the first place. Here's why: 1. The bulb could be a part of their body, but that would mean they are essentially ...
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[Question] [ I’m thinking of making airships and zeppelins very commonly used (for cool factor) in my pseudo-mid-20th-century novel, which takes place on Earth in the very far future, tens of thousands of years after most of modern humanity has abandoned the planet. Many of the circumstances that allow this setting...
[Question] [ This isn't a question about an anatomically correct centaur and its features, but I will assume general characteristics of a centaur and the objective is to find what environment would allow an ancestral hexapod to evolve until acquiring said characteristics. This is a way to explain the presence of cent...
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[Question] [ "If you shine a low-pressure sodium lamp on a yellow sodium flame, the flame will be black." I shamelessly stole the above text from somewhere but it whetted my curiosity. I am wondering if out there in the universe there is a similar condition where a star's emissions could mimic the sodium lamp and a p...
[Question] [ Besides the obvious steel entry doors, I am most concerned about air-inlets and exhausts. Electricity for essential things like lighting, ventilation or pumping water is generated by diesel generators. These must have an exhaust somewhere. Wouldn't it be obvious for the enemies to find the spot where exh...
[Question] [ I have this Earth-like planet that is running short on materials, like minerals and gasses, and they have a big spaceship that is able to gather materials from a gas giant that orbits the same star the planet does. What materials might the planet need that a gas giant could be realistically made of? I am...
[Question] [ During the Cold War, the United States initiated [Project ORION](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)). This program was intended to build and launch super-heavy vehicles into space. They wanted to do this not with the use of chemical boosters, but rather by detonating small n...
[Question] [ Assuming magically animated skeletons capable of projecting the same muscle force as an average human (note: not someone who has trained a bunch or such, average) that are tireless and unceasing, what are the respective benefits and drawbacks of oars versus paddlewheel arrangements for the propulsion of ...
[Question] [ In my story I have a group of androids that are able to grow in size from training and repair from damage because of the nanobots that are inside of them. Their skeleton will be made of a carbon nanotubes for the strength and weight advantage and their wiring can be nanowires for the improved conductivit...
[Question] [ The world I am working on is a soft science fiction realm dressed up in the trappings of magic and the occult. A world where there are loosely defined scientific principles behind the rituals and relics of effective spell casting. Lycanthropy is believed to be nanite-actualized lunacy. Vampirism is expla...
[Question] [ Strange! this question does not seem to be on site with a search (only what to wear). I am concerned about the psychological aspect of food production and eating. Clearly tube food is out and I think production agriculture will be necessary besides molecular printers. Thoughts welcome. [Answer] **They...
[Question] [ Orgone is the conduit through which the power of the cosmos flows, focused through a sorcerer's will. Ritual practitioners must draw on this reserve of power in their souls to make a magic spell work. Spells require a constant infusion of Orgone through rituals that are performed inside a transmutation c...
[Question] [ I am creating a world with roughly medieval levels of technology (It is actually in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign) and the world has just been almost destroyed. A city has been flattened to the foundations, and the survivors are trying to rebuild. They can find all the common resources they need (There...
[Question] [ In the future, defensive technology has advanced so much that weapons strong enough to kill an enemy soldier tend to cause unacceptable collateral damage. Sure, we can make a weapon that generates the force required to punch through a personal forcefield, but the blast tends to also destroy everything el...
[Question] [ Answers to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/39736/what-would-humans-wings-need-to-be-like-to-fly) note that human (and by extension mammal) wings would use naked skin instead of feathers, as we see on bats. However, with feathers, birds can have wings with shaped more lik...
[Question] [ Looking at the case of [Mike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken), I realized decentralizing the brain might not be infeasible. The idea is if Horus, the brown falcon, doesn't have enough room in his skull, then why not move various functions to relatively well-protected areas of the...
[Question] [ What would make a good propulsion source for small engines and manouvering thrusters for spacecraft vehicles on Europa (moon of Jupiter), both for near-surface operations (vacuum) and in caves beneath the ice (low or medium pressure)? I am only interested in spacescraft thruster propulsion systems, not w...
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[Question] [ **Unit Info:** On a fallen world that has firearms and combustible fuels. Society is still advanced in a way, but is more tribal/feudal in nature. One nation has an armed order called the Iron Guard that protects the nation’s borders with deadly firepower and brutal force. But they were more defensive th...
[Question] [ So I'm still wondering if humans could survive with dinosaurs. There are some big problems I see. Here they are: # Food Production [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7DF4w.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7DF4w.jpg) This isn't so much a problem with planting and the plants growing ...
[Question] [ *Please avoid the obvious jokes.* Now I know there are different versions of the Greek monster Typhon, so first I will try to describe its properties. 1. Incredibly large roughly 50-100 feet tall, although I believe some versions had it human-sized 2. Appears to take the form of a large storm or tornado....
[Question] [ So I was thinking of a land animal with a biological harpoon, I'm not 100% sure why it would evolve with it. Details of it would be: * Quadrupedal * Medium-sized (similar to a pony) and would hunt smaller or equal sized prey * not limited to being carnivorous, could be omnivorous * Harpoon isn't one time...
[Question] [ I've become interested in sci-fi / science-fantasy / weird Westerns. Building upon what I asked [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/90756/why-colonize-a-planet-without-the-continued-benefit-of-modern-technology/) I would like to be more specific and ask if there's scientifically soun...
[Question] [ ## What happened It's late 2017, and aliens finally arrive on earth. They're very happy to meet us because we're the first civilization their generation ship encounters, and they freely share the two technological devices that allowed them to travel for thousands of years: the "Zero-Point Engine" and t...
[Question] [ Say someone has invented a time traveling device and he can go anywhere on earth in the very distant past. Where could he leave a token (any object or marking) on earth that could be discovered in the present as proof to himself that he went backwards in time. This should be something that the traveler ...
[Question] [ So I'm wondering if it would be possible for humans to live healthily on a largely Earth-like planet that was covered almost entirely in salt water. Landmasses would all be islands, with only a few reaching sizes of, say, 300,000 km$^2$, and the rest being around half of that or less. These landmasses wo...
[Question] [ Humanity is often said to have 5 senses, but this isn't entirely accurate. This is one question of several in a series I am asking regarding going beyond the 5 senses. [Magetoception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoreception) is one of the others. It's strongest in birds (although there's some deb...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story in which a cloud of grey goo is entering the solar system and humanity must prevent *any* particle of it from reaching Earth (and potentially other worlds too). Alternately, I need a way to deal with grey goo after it has landed and begun spreading, but keep in mind that it would be i...
[Question] [ An English speaking person has accidentally fallen through to a parallel world and is now stuck there with no hope of return. English and other Earth-native languages are not spoken there. As they continue to survive and (eventually) thrive in this new country, they begin to suspect that there may be ot...
[Question] [ For a rather hard-science based sci-fi setting, I am checking for faster-than-light (FTL) possibilities. One option that I consider is the following: Interstellar travel is achieved through *portals*. They can be imagined during their construction as two giant rings initially superposed. Once finished, t...
[Question] [ So these magicians have been working on a new weapon for the King because he wants something to show off about. They were struggling for inspiration when they discovered a way of trapping the friction of the metal against the air inside an unobtanium steel alloy and releasing the trapped energy as heat. ...
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[Question] [ How could a planet which humans could land and survive on with no space suits or other help have a green atmosphere? The only requirement is that humans landing here would have to be able to breathe the atmosphere, and potentially live on the planet for their entire natural lives. Note - I would like to ...
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[Question] [ If while exploring the galaxy, we were to encounter an alien script, would we be able to decipher the pronunciation of the language without actually hearing it? Assumptions: * The language *is* pronounceable by human tongue * The text found is very large, equivalent to several long novels * The text desc...
[Question] [ ### Scenario I'm trying to design a colony spaceship. My main character, a soldier, awakes prematurely from suspended animation (SA) to find that the colony ship she is on, headed for [Tau Ceti e](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti_e), is in a mutiny. The journey was supposed to last about 14 years, b...
[Question] [ Let's say that tens of thousands of years pass and earth effectively becomes a giant city. What species of organisms survive our conquest? How do these species evolve to adapt? How long would human progress have to stagnate for any organism to become a competitor or threat? [Answer] You can extend wha...
[Question] [ I'm wondering what types of firearms would be impacted if explosives and combustion in general were to have a random chance of being more potent or less potent. Could new firearms and/or ammunition be feasibly designed to adjust for this random variability? More specifically, the setting/world I'm workin...
[Question] [ A race of beings decides over a few pan-galactic gargleblasters one evening that rather than waste scientific minds on developing hyper-advanced technology, they should just build a huge computer to design clarkean devices for them. A computer of this size naturally requires a huge power source, so this ...
[Question] [ I have floating islands with varying levels of technology that can be allowed on them, usually based on height. One of these islands has tiny microbe/bacterium that allows for food crops to be grown at a reliable rate on these islands but at a cost. It's a green goo (alternative to grey goo in which tiny...
[Question] [ **Eyes, ears and nostrils are shaped to facilitate their function. So what is the optimal shape for a humidity sensing organ?** A paper about fruit flies ([link here](https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/05/discover-sensory-system-detects-air-humidity)) explains that the insects are adapted to reta...
[Question] [ In the vein of the Expanse's juice or the Forever War's submergible tanks, what types of body or cockpit modifications would allow a human to survive high G maneuvers in short impulses in a combat setting? Note in this case I am **not** looking for major coverage in the vertical (+/- Y axis), **rather** ...
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[Question] [ Most humans have both arms and legs. This arrangement is quite useful out in nature, but it seems like as technology advances, this anatomy is becoming less and less necessary Furthermore, space travel will, at least in worlds that respect conservation laws, need to be as low mass as possible. And, it se...
[Question] [ Basically I just want to know for timeline reasons. I'm setting up the timeline for a young kingdom, and I want to know what would be a realistic time period between the moment the settlers find a good place to when they have finally built a succesful settlement using easily accesible resources. By succe...
[Question] [ If you have read Eragon, then you know of the Werecat: a race that can shapeshift between a 'large cat' and a 'child', almost certainly with no change in mass. The Magic System is based on the literal and the scientific, thus matter and material cannot be generated or removed without understanding how th...
[Question] [ I enjoy playing [FTL: Faster Than Light](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light) and got inspired to write my own but more sophisticated 2D strategy game with the focus on custom ship construction. I want to have many systems on board which will require lots of engineering rooms. For this i...
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[Question] [ If I have a group of humans that were genetically altered in a similar way, but with different expression of effects in the individual (for example changed eyes, tail growth, wings, scaled skins, possibly other organs non-existent in regular humans...): 1. would that group be able to breed naturally amon...
[Question] [ All my ideas are really far fetched fantastical, way stranger than one would be used too, crazy unrealistic with its magic, and I worry about the accessibility of these worlds to an audience. Is anything, no matter how far fetched, fair game as long as its self consistent? [Answer] **The story should ...
[Question] [ We are in a far future setting where humans (or transhumans I should say) achieved two things: 1. be able to modify themselves genetically to the point where they can have completely different organs to what we have now 2. be able to customize the earths atmosphere to their needs without causing unwanted...
[Question] [ I am Howard Lovecraft, a mediocre science fiction writer who has discovered an ancient text called the Necromonion. This text was written by Eldritch dieties and causes irrevocable insanity in all humans who lay eyes on it. I have decided to spread this manuscript to millions of people around the world i...
[Question] [ I did the orbital period for a planet orbiting a mass = 1 sol with a 24-hour year, it’s got a semi-major axis of 1.82 million miles - far and away beyond the Roche limit, still beyond the corona, but just a tad too hot. Problem! So what sort of star would be a black body radiator generating earth-like ir...
[Question] [ Some islands can survive for very long. Madagascar, for example, has been around for 80-100 million years and is likely to remain isolated for hundreds of millions of years more. Volcanic islands, however, are generally much more short-live, due to the fact that the same spot rarely has access to magma f...
[Question] [ Let's say there is another planet in our solar system that harbours sentient life and this sentient life can build castles, buildings, and other such structures. When would we notice that? We can see the planet but we can't see lifeforms through basic telescopes - they're not close enough. They don't ha...
[Question] [ I am in the early stages of planning a story called The Four Flamingos of the Apocalypse. The premise is that the Four Horsemen have manifested on the surface of the earth and are tasked with bringing about the apocalypse, but due to an unforeseen quirk they've all incarnated as flamingos. As flamingos ...
[Question] [ Trying to develop a fictional scenario with a 'believable' theory as to how a Nuclear War and resulting Nuclear Winter could turn into a millennial scale ice age. By 'believable', I mean that it passes basic Science Fiction rules, but not necessarily rock solid Hard SF rules. If it's completely impossibl...
[Question] [ In my late-Victorian-based world, mechanical contraptions are incredibly advanced due to the early discovery and quick popularisation of mechanical computation. The science of writing instructions for such machinery has allowed an effective AI ruler to come to power. The insecurity I now face is how comp...
[Question] [ In my world an advanced alien civilization are worshiped as gods by the human population. As the gods have better things to do than actually spend time interacting with the local fauna they created a hybrid through genetic engineering, combining traits of both their own species and humanity to create som...
[Question] [ The creatures I am working with are primate-like, hexapodal aliens with a terrestrial/ arboreal lifestyle. On flat land they are able to walk bipedally, freeing up their top 4 arms for manipulating objects. In trees or tree-like structures, they tend to use 4 or all 6 limbs. (Although technically they co...
[Question] [ I've been working on a fantasy race recently of sentient bipedal salamanders (sorta) and was talking with a friend about them until one of us realised that since they're amphibians they would breathe through their skin, which means they wouldn't have lungs, which means that they wouldn't be able to speak...
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[Question] [ I have a super-earth world. The surface of the world is shallower due to extra gravity, so shorter mountain ranges and less ocean depths. The world orbits a binary star system at a distance of the furthest region of the habitable zone, both of the stars having masses of 0.93x that of our suns. The world ...
[Question] [ Okay, not literally Krypton style, but let's say some local astronomical event is going to render every rocky surface in our solar system totally uninhabitable. Details aren't terribly important, so let's just say every planet is going to fall into the sun for some reason. We have... an amount of time be...
[Question] [ (To specify, it doesn't have to be specifically a crossbow, if you can think of another weapon that can fulfill the same job like a speargun or a harpoon, or even just a regular bow you're welcome to suggest them as well) So, long story short, ice bullets are too lightweight to function, as various answe...
[Question] [ A bit of a thought experiment I'm trying to develop further has hit a stumbling block. The basic premise goes like this. > > All of humanity one day wakes up to the entire world having been changed drastically on them. Important to this plot, all humans maintain the knowledge of the world as it had been...
[Question] [ There's a city. It houses just over 200,000 people. What's special about this city, is that it's the only city. About nine kilometres from the center of the city, in all directions, is a fog. Any roads that lead out of the city will inevitably somehow lead back into the city, and going off road has as m...
[Question] [ I'm building a world with almost weekly extreme windstorms, driving the residents to either live underground or in the 'wind shadow' of sealed-off valleys. To sum up the windstorms' power, "You know that boulder that was next to your house? Yeah, it's out of the country now." I want to know what this wou...
[Question] [ This question is inspired by salmon swimming up waterfalls. I am aware that it is an entirely different thing, but I felt that it was worth mentioning in understanding the question. “What would need to happen (or prexist) for a person to suddenly be able to swim through the skies during a rain shower?” E...
[Question] [ In the fiction, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, one high castle in the mountains, the Eyrie, has so-called [sky cells](http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Sky_cell). Those cells are left open to the cold sky. The Eyrie is 600 foot/180 meter above the valley below. It is astride the peak known as...
[Question] [ What sort of biological challenges and modifications would it take to create a snake with a head on both ends? Assume that said snake is created by a deity and thus some complicated evolution path is not required. It does however require that this species of snake be able to survive and sustain itself wi...
[Question] [ I previously asked [What measures might an ancient civilization take to protect itself from extreme heat?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/95968/what-measures-might-an-ancient-civilization-take-to-protect-itself-from-extreme) The answers gave some useful suggestions as to how cities co...
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[Question] [ **I'm designing an intelligent alien species in which child rearing is a very labor instensive and lengthy process** (their progeny take a little more than a decade and a half to mature), so much so that: * both sexes are equally involved in it * parents do not reproduce again until their child has reach...
[Question] [ I write centaurs as wild barbarians that love fighting - especially with weakling, little humans. So let's say our centaur and hero are fighting in an open, little, dirt circle in the middle of the a village. Neither of them have weapons or armor or magic spells - all they have is their fists and hooves....