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[Question] [ Related to [How far in the past could unprepared humans survive?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/57120/20149), but assumes a single survivalist, purpose-trained for his mission. He is to time travel as far back as he can and attempt to survive for an entire year. He is to be presented with ext...
[Question] [ I have a Viking-inspired race living on a harsh ocean based planet with very rough and cold seas. In these seas there are giant creatures, not unlike kraken who frequently attack ships. I was thinking long and hard without an answer on how a ship (e.g. [Viking longship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long...
[Question] [ Earth-Year: 2618. Location: Planet Hope, Proxima Centauri. Terraformation status: 97.8% Earth-like. Population: 128.596. The residents of this planet live in a paradise-like environment. The gravity and atmosphere is almost identical to Earth. 25% of Earth's flora and fauna, the most impo...
[Question] [ Imagine a Venice like city, but instead of water, it had lava/magma flowing through it. Would this be possible? Materials? Society changes? [Answer] ## The Original In Venice, the streets are made of water; gondolas carry people from point to point, and walkways stretching over the water allow foot tr...
[Question] [ I am writing a hard science fiction story and I want to avoid violating known physics, while still enabling some of the classic mainstays of science fiction under the auspice of sufficiently advanced engineering. To that end, I have developed a method of interstellar travel that I believe avoids violatin...
[Question] [ Let's say that in a medieval world, a town has been built on the coast, the location chosen as it has ideal conditions for a port town (natural harbor, lots of nearby resources etc.). It is a good sized town, burgeoning on the size of a city. However it is situated in a region that is surrounded on all s...
[Question] [ The context: There is a population of people surviving on a lunar-analogue's surface, descended from the crew of a crashed spaceship. The rest of their society is not relevant to the question, but their technology includes cobbled together habitats and void suits that protect against some solar radia...
[Question] [ Behold the Khajiit; [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2wySB.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2wySB.png) Born from the insanely popular game series, Elder Scrolls, the [Khajiit](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Khajiit_(Skyrim)) are a race of cat people who live in hot jungles. F...
[Question] [ A group of behaviorally modern humans was cut off from the rest of the earth-like planet. At the time of the separation, humankind had reached a technology level including cattle ranches, brass, writing, and cities. ([Same cataclysm](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1241/humans-born-with...
[Question] [ First of all, I am tagging this with the [magic](/questions/tagged/magic "show questions tagged 'magic'") because this phenomena is not a result of something natural. What would happen to a whole forest region if a patch of desert magically appeared at its center? Below is an example of what I am tryin...
[Question] [ Say a time traveler ends up back in time and has earned the good graces of one of the nations' kings by sharing some of his future knowledge. Knowing that the printing press was an important milestone towards increased education and science he suggests the king commit his most skilled people towards tryi...
[Question] [ Assuming that the world still uses melee weapons like swords and spears, has magic and medievalesque warfare tactics. They are a race of smart mice (they still look like mice, just that they can use armor, weapons and magic). And their opponents are a human army and kingdom (for whatever reason they wan...
[Question] [ Reality check: Protagonists of my story have a scientific device of a peaceful purpose. Unfortunately, despite the peaceful purpose, activation of the device, as a side-effect releases about 100 kilotons equivalent of energy, mostly thermal. No radiation. They don't want to cause any harm. Absolutely no...
[Question] [ Wild animals like wolves, lions and bears rarely attack people. They behave as though they know humans are dangerous and generally best avoided. Imagine a group of people traveling sideways in time, to a world that resembles Earth as it would have been had humans never evolved. Thus, the familiar species...
[Question] [ One thing that a few science fiction films seem to get wrong: it is extremely unlikely for two civilizations to evolve completely independently and yet be within a few hundred years of each other technologically when they make contact. They are more likely to be millions or billions of years apart. Could...
[Question] [ Suppose that, after puberty, human beings aged about 15 times more slowly than in our world. Some would still die young (by their standards) due to diseases, wars, accidents, etc., but it would be commonplace to live to be 1000. What kind of effect would a long lifespan (but not immortality) **have...
[Question] [ Airships are a hallmark of countless steampunk and dieselpunk constructed universes. Of course, in our world, they were around for a short while. I want to know what effects geographical circumstances had on this. I feel like one thing that lead to the death of airships as a viable form of passenger tran...
[Question] [ I'm trying to design a food chain. For the sake of argument lets say it's based on flying creatures over a particular mountain range. ``` Sun Plants/Fungus etc Tiny Insects Small Birds Hawks Large Apex Predator ``` However I'm struggling with getting the balance right. Obviously the big predators are the...
[Question] [ As part II of anatomically correct myths here we have the Angel. Angels appear in many cultures and are most commonly seen as simply winged humans. Is there a realistic way that angels could evolve? Using earth or near earth biology how close could I get to the classic [Angel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
[Question] [ This might be more fit in physicsSE, but since I don't even know if my premise is physically sound, I'll post it here. --- One day, something caused the universe to get mirrored, meaning a left-right swap, relative to any arbitrary view point. Let's ignore how this is done, how it's possible to move thin...
[Question] [ Our intrepid hero works in an open office, within a short stone's throw of the IT Support Desk. They fool around every Friday (and most days between Friday and the following Thursday). The inane chatter and laughter is annoying and disruptive. How can our intrepid hero create a hand-thrown silence grenad...
[Question] [ Taking into account a medieval-ish lifestyle, one of the most important things, I would imagine, correct me if I am wrong, is food. If you could eat food, you were probably also not poor. Now, imagine a kingdom, such as the [one depicted here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10218/horse...
[Question] [ The praised Dutch book "Koning van Katoren" features an 18 year old who wants to become king of his country of Katoren, which had been under the regency of half a dozen evil ministers for his whole life. The ministers gave him a series of impossible tasks, like curing a plague and cutting down a dangerou...
[Question] [ Bob is older than he looks. Specifically, even though Bob looks like he's in his twenties or thirties (it's hard to tell), he was actually born in Europe about ten thousand years ago, long before the first word was ever written down. By coincidence (or not), on the night (or the day) of Bob's birth, some...
[Question] [ In [Creating a realistic world map - Waterways](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/21402/627), I asked about exactly what processes affect how rivers flow and meander. With some of that knowledge in mind, I'm curious as to how a worldbuilder (like myself, for instance!) could go about creating a r...
[Question] [ I am a [Traveller (game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_(role-playing_game)) referee. I've generated lots of worlds before, using a basic system that describes a world in eight fundamental pieces of data. For the record, those data are: > > Starport class, from "none" to first-rate, primarily ...
[Question] [ This question is, like [How long will it take to form a new dialect and language in underground steampunk London?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/22688/how-long-will-it-take-to-form-a-new-dialect-and-language-in-underground-steampun), part of an experiment I'm conducting on Worldbuildi...
[Question] [ I'm curious what the gravity would be like on an infinite area flat world. The plane of the world would have some finite depth but be infinite in all cardinal directions. This is, in effect, a Minecraftian world. This is expanding on the ideas presented in [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexcha...
[Question] [ Somewhat in relation to this question - [What could restrain post-singularity societies from spreading across the Galaxy?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/4918/what-could-restrain-post-singularity-societies-from-spreading-across-the-galaxy) I'm assuming not all star systems move at the ...
[Question] [ In a hypothetical world where multiple humanoid races develop independently of each other (such as a world that contains Elves, Dwarves, and Humans for instance) what are the conditions for half-breeds to be possible? In our world; * Dogs can produce offspring by mating with any other breed within their...
[Question] [ When creating a map for a fantasy world, I typically add broad top-level descriptions for terrain. Mountains here, forests there, a river, a swamp etc. Watch any nature documentary, and each terrain type in reality has a huge number of variations which radically change what they look like, and what it me...
[Question] [ Let's say for some odd reason, a planet (while in orbit of something) travels at all times inside of a nebula. What all would happen to the planet? Could it sustain life (if sunlight was substituted), or would the nebula cause some other nasty side effects? [Answer] Like Samuel mentioned in a comment,...
[Question] [ I am building a habitable Earth like planet, but instead of it being in a solar system it is inside a Nebula. The actual composition of the Nebula is uncertain at this point. I am thinking the planet still needs one or more stars (that are also in a nebula) to provide it with light and energy. I am curio...
[Question] [ This Query is part of the Worldbuilding [Resources Article](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143606/a-list-of-worldbuilding-resources). --- Once geological processes have created a landscape a number of factors come into play in order to reshape it. This includes weather and climate ...
[Question] [ So, I have a superhero, and his name is Logan Wotowski, the indestructible man. He can survive and heal from gunshots to the head, knives to throat, getting hit by cars, fire, electrocutions, high falls, disembowlment and explosions, you name it. No normal, ordinary injury can kill him. So, in my story ...
[Question] [ Imagine a future where humanity has reached the stars, an exploration party lands on a earth like planet that's liveable (doesn't have to be perfect but life on it is on the range of what most people would consider comfortable, climate is ok, gravity isn't too heavy or light, breathable air, sunlight, et...
[Question] [ I have a fairly dystopian dictatorship with a police state. There are two ideologies amongst the population. The first - the more mainstream - in general support the rulers and the police and the wish to maintain the status quo. But there is a second, smaller, rebellious part of society who wants to ove...
[Question] [ Imagine quite a way into the future, the Earth becomes overrun with humans. Birthrates are similar to where they are now, and the advancement of medical science means that people live a lot longer (say average life expectancy is 150 for the developed world). We are, at this point, in frequent contact wit...
[Question] [ Closed. This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ I know language is not easy to learn, so I have a little bit strange idea: would a civilization simpify their language just because it is too difficult to learn? For example, to simplify English: 1. Disable some words with same meaning, eg:disclose, reveal, uncover -> just use 'reveal' 2. Unify past tens...
[Question] [ This is something that is starting to bug me, I'm creating a universe in which space travel is cheap and comfortable and space habitats can be built roomy enough that no-one actually needs to live on a planet anymore. **If we can live in space, with gravity, open spaces, fresh air, and grow sufficient ...
[Question] [ In my yet to be named sci-fi universe humanity has begun to expand into space and has established large scale space stations near Earth and on places like Eros and Luna. I wanted the stereotypical "spacer" to have more children than is usual on earth (1 or 2). Are there any logical reasons or advantages ...
[Question] [ Built within an asteroid belt (near convenient resources) is a densely populated human settlement. While not a "planned city", the settlement has expanded in a organised, grid like fashion in all 6 cartesian directions. Up, Down, North, South, East, and West. Allocations of space within the city are basi...
[Question] [ Inspired by [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/113270). I was thinking about the constructed language I'm building and a group of countries in the history of my world, and ended up wanting to ask this question. ***Please do take the time to read all of the information under the mai...
[Question] [ So it turns out the universe is a computer. Or at-least that is how it can be analogized to our puny mortal minds. Human souls/consciousness are simultaneously the equivalent of emergent AI, players, and the dissociated fragments of the universe's creator depending on what theological interpretation you ...
[Question] [ I shall present myself: I am Alfara Gal Strid, proud leader of a clan of Arat'nie - what you would simply call "winged humans". I come to you with a troublesome question. You see, for a long time we winged humans have faced war with your kind, effectively keeping your lot at bay using ranged weapons and ...
[Question] [ I'm just an average person. I'm not a millionaire with thousands of dollars to spare. I don't have any kind of special power. I'm not currently affiliated with anyone working on anything grand. I'm just a 20 years old college student trying to get through life. However, for one reason or another, I'm exp...
[Question] [ Exactly what it says on the tin. Kleeber the warrior is wearing a gambeson and carrying the standard adventurer's gear (leather backpack, 100ft of hemp rope, bedroll, spare clothes, waterskin, dry rations, and the 10 foot pole, some metal knicknacks like a spork, a knife, etc) and some weapons (longsword...
[Question] [ In my world anyone can use magic with the proper training. There are two levels of magic users: * The first level is apprentice (someone with 4 to 8 years of magic education). They can move people and medium size objects with their mind, sense what a person is feeling, and they have limited control over ...
[Question] [ In my sci-fi world, mankind has begun colonization of the large asteroid Ceres. There are several established towns on the surface, but most of the population live underground in icy/rocky caves. The major industry is mining and exporting water-ice. Ceres is undergoing a rapid transformation from primiti...
[Question] [ Civilization is fairly young in my setting. Thus, the sheer number of ruined buildings and abandoned structures, found throughout the wilderness, seems strange. The ruins vary a lot: has-seen-better-days forts, modern suburb houses, post-communist concrete slabs and lonely staircases (in-universe called ...
[Question] [ My story has brain uploading, but in practice it serves a purpose more like reincarnation, recreating the original recorded state of the scanned brain in a pre-prepared clone of the deceased. I need a reason why these people's uploaded consciousnesses wouldn't be able or be allowed to be conscious while ...
[Question] [ Would the discovery of alien bacteria found on even an Earth analog planet preclude the possibility of colonization due to the potentially deadly nature of bacterial/viral infections? Put differently, would the fact of our evolution in Earth's biosphere alongside its (albeit rapidly mutating) microscopic...
[Question] [ Its the year 2050, and extraterrestrials have popped up next to the Solar System. We know they are coming our way and we know they are most likely hostile. As Steven hawking said: > > Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach, I...
[Question] [ I want to describe a world where one doesn't know how long the day will be. It can be anywhere between 18 and 30 Earth-hours. Would such days be possible in our reality? [Answer] Binary star. If you have two sources of light, you will have 4 options for night and day: double star day, two single s...
[Question] [ (For my own needs) I write stories that are primarily fantasy, but with very strong touch of modern technologies (modern technologies converted to magic world, for example magic bomb that behaves like nuclear bomb, magic rods that give cold light, climatic change released and given by magic, and so on). ...
[Question] [ So we already know that [flying creatures are good at attacking castles](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/6479/54229). But what about a flying castle attacked by ground creatures? Let's say we have ourselves a medium-sized castle built on a [driftrock](http://theedgechronicles.wikia.com/wiki/Fli...
[Question] [ This question asks for hard science. All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. A si...
[Question] [ I have a situation where planet A (democracy with a rule of law) has an alliance of convenience with planet B (dictatorship with disregard for a law). In order for B to effectively fight a common enemy A has to sell them their cutting edge spaceships. Planet B is something like a decade be...
[Question] [ So, I'm working on a flintlock fantasy series, and my protagonist is what's called an Arcane Engineer. This is someone who makes magical devices. Among those she has made there is a mask that let her breathe both underwater and in environments where there's smoke or other gases that would be bad to inhal...
[Question] [ If Earth instantaneously reverted back to when the only organisms were small microscopic creatures in the sea, would evolution happen the same exact way creating the same animals and species? Was chance a factor in the world as it is today? How drastic could that change be? [Answer] The first thing th...
[Question] [ Closed. This question is [opinion-based](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by [editing this post](/posts/104103/edit). Closed 5 years ago. [Improve this question...
[Question] [ So I've been thinking about the idea of a series that takes place on a small fleet of generation ships, traveling at around 10% of lightspeed to Proxima Centauri, which should take around half a century. So the flaws here have been pretty well laid out in detail by Kim Stanley Robinson [here](https://boi...
[Question] [ In fantasy works, it can be interesting to imagine an infinite world. It means you can travel in any direction for as long as you want, always discovering new lands, new cultures, new landscape, etc. By infinite world, I mean an infinite habitable surface. However how should such a world be shaped to ha...
[Question] [ These creatures have the ability to see all possible outcomes within their vicinity within the next 30 minutes or so. This is not the same as foreknowledge that they have no choice over. Even if they foreknew that they will die the next day, they could not escape it. If they could escape it, it wouldn't...
[Question] [ Airships are awesome, but making them realistic while retaining the awesome factor is hard due to how relatively little weight they can realistically carry. I was thinking about ways to mitigate that and came to the idea of introducing some Unobtanium-like mineral that produces lift on its own, meaning i...
[Question] [ I'm building a race of plant-like creatures that are pacifists in a pre-industrial age world. Because they live hidden in forests, caves, etc. and often blend in with the natural flora, occasionally one of them is killed either on purpose or by accident. I want to create an appropriate punishment for the...
[Question] [ It’s common nowadays for many different types of fictional, and non-fictional, works to speculate on the possible existence, operation, and further expansion, of hidden organizations such as ‘deep states’, secret branches of known organizations, and so on. There are quite a few number of reasons why the ...
[Question] [ In a steampunk, class divided world, farmers are among the lowest people on the societal ladder. The establishment offer them very low wages for their labour and keep them where they are. Although they are oppressed, and there is danger to speak out against the government, many of this class genuinely be...
[Question] [ Closed. This question needs to be more [focused](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by [editing this post](/posts/55665/edit). Closed 7 years ago. [Improve this question](/pos...
[Question] [ Alternate dimensions/timelines are an important part of one of my settings, a modern fantasy. Magic is well known, and it is possible for objects to be enchanted by a powerful magic user to connect to other universes. Traditionally mirrors are used for this. Each mirror can only be connected to a single ...
[Question] [ My family comes from a long line of well known tomb designers and my spouse is a part time tomb raider, we really are a perfect match! I explained to my spouse that a tomb is a very sacred place for the deceased to rest in peace and great care are taken to ensure that is the case for eternity, the talk w...
[Question] [ Some dwarf lore, particularly the video game Dwarf Fortress, depicts dwarves not just as aggressively alcoholic, but as a species that functions better when drunk than when sober. That they need alcohol to get through the working day the same way a human might need caffeine. Now, the easy way out here is...
[Question] [ This question already has answers here: [Resources to justify long-distance space mining missions](/questions/15364/resources-to-justify-long-distance-space-mining-missions) (17 answers) [How would Earth-Mars trade work with a Musk-like colony?](/questions/1064/how-would-earth-mars-trade-work-...
[Question] [ Setup: Earth, current day. US president decides to attack fictional country of Lalalistan, because terrorism/drugs/whatever. This attack has big support in NATO countries and Russia with China officialy object the attack, but remain neutral. (Example: Lybia attack). So, while it is officially NATO ac...
[Question] [ Daddy Longlegs Spiders, officially "Pholcidae" are known to be the worlds most venomous spiders, sort of. We are supposedly unaffected by them because their fangs are too small, the shape of their fangs, or their venom doesn't affect us due to size. > > According to Rick Vetter of the University of Cal...
[Question] [ The eleven year old son of the king and queen, prince Jeoffrey Boratheon, is destined to take the french iron throne after his father passes. One night, an old hag knocks on the castle door and begs to spend the night, to which the prince answers the door and refuses. However, this was a test, as the hag...
[Question] [ Let's pretend for a moment that right now, everybody on earth was given the ability of flight. What impact would this have on the modern-day transportation industry? Physical restrictions on the ability of flight: * Maximum altitude is based on existing human survival limits (no more than 26,000 feet...
[Question] [ Even the tallest mountains will be ground to dust with time. Given, of course, nothing sustains them (like tectonic activity which prevents mount Everest from eroding away too quickly, even making it taller each year). Let time pass and the elements will erode away anything that isn't supplied materials ...
[Question] [ Someone has discovered the secret of immortality (whoa, awesome!), but it requires what amounts to a human sacrifice and their spirit overtaking the deceased body (not as awesome!). Technically, it's more like possession than immortality, but it will be referred to as immortality since it's the soul ...
[Question] [ My question is about unusual hereditary traits in humans. I'm new here and this is my first question - apologies in advance if I've accidentally messed this up or covered existing ground. I'm writing a post-apocalyptic story in which the protagonist realises partway through that a child he's rescued is b...
[Question] [ So we all know that interstellar starships that travel at high relativistic speeds, like 50% c or above, would be very susceptible to getting destroyed just by a grain of salt hitting it during travel. We know we can stop this from happening by using a physical barrier or the use of plasma shields. [![Ar...
[Question] [ Robots (intelligent machines using some form of artificial intelligence), are central to the plot in a snippet I'm working on. These robots do not have to interact with humans on a regular basis: maybe once or twice a year for checkups. ***Why would these robots use a spoken language as opposed to a q...
[Question] [ I'm writing a political system where women hold a higher rank in society than men. Almost immediately, I ran into an issue with the naming of locations. Now, if a land ruled by a king is a kingdom, a land ruled by a queen can be a queendom. However, what are the equivalents for other titles? A duke rule...
[Question] [ In the 1985 movie [A View to a Kill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill), James Bond discovers--and then foils--a plot by > > the main villain, Max Zorin > > > to destroy Silicon Valley, in a manner that makes it look like a natural disaster. The plot for doing so is a bit dubious, but t...
[Question] [ ### Problem statement There exists a thriving Bronze Age civilization in a gigantic rainforest, bigger than the Amazon and Congo put together. This civilization is built in on the flood plains of a mighty river system (other questions related [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/78570...
[Question] [ One common way sci-fi writers try to make their aliens seem more 'alien' is to give them an extra heart. This has been done for example in Babylon 5, Dr. Who and Alien Nation among others. But: Would a humanoid (note: in this question humanoid only means two legs, two arms, one head, all in a...
[Question] [ Lets say I go back in time with a wallet full of, say, 150 dollars worth of bills. How far can I be sent back before I reach a point where I'm unlikely to be able to use my money because it looks too different from the current currency to be acceptable? What are the odds that I'll have some 'old' bills t...
[Question] [ Background - Imagine a world where suddenly everybody has a new power - all they have to do to kill someone is to think the thought. So say if Bill wants to kill John - he just has to think "I want John to die" and then John is dead. Some rules * you don't need to know the name or the face of the person ...
[Question] [ You may assume the rainfall will match that of a Tropical Rainforest at [their wettest](https://sciencing.com/average-rainfall-rainforest-5068456.html) (304 in. annually). --- How would this change the landscape over time? (0-100 years) [Answer] **Something like this has actually happened once alr...
[Question] [ When we talk about orbits we often imagine a ship or station orbiting a planet outside its atmosphere. Is it possible a ship could go into orbit inside its atmosphere (perhaps to hide from other craft) or would it be torn apart by the gravity and atmosphere of the planet? [Answer] It would lose speed ...
[Question] [ My question is not human-specific. I found [this](https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/2415/is-it-possible-for-any-animals-today-to-have-more-than-one-brain) question that mentions that a brain have more neuronal complexity; I deduce it is more efficient (in terms of neural communication and energ...
[Question] [ I've been toying with how to word this question but I can't think of how to word it well. Under current British law would it be possible to 'privatize' the government? In my scenario I'm wanting a private company to take over the running of the country effectively turning it in to a disguised dictato...
[Question] [ I'm writing an autobiography of my life in the post-Zed world. Now, I think the effects of the Zeds have been obvious – total obliteration of any worldwide infrastructure, severe depopulation, turning most or all major cities and even smaller ones into zombie-ridden hellscapes. Nowadays, any area with a ...
[Question] [ In my story, there is an Earth-sized planet orbiting a red dwarf, tidally locked to its parent star, with large oceans like Earth, two moons similar to ours and a thick atmosphere to distribute heat around the planet. On the dark side of the planet there are two small continents, each about the size of ...
[Question] [ My world - basically Earth all along, unless told otherwise - is populated by humans and few fantasy-based "races" (actually, species - any interbreed offspring, if possible, is infertile): elves, dwarves, etc. Despite the fact that setting is to some extent inspired by common fantasy tropes, there is no...
[Question] [ In my world spaceships are guided by lighthouses floating in space instead of electronic navigational systems. A lighthouse in space has the shape of a huge sphere emitting intense red light. Like the ordinary lighthouse a space lighthouse mark dangerous things, such as : black holes, supernovas … They a...
[Question] [ In both fiction and non-fiction worlds, that attempt to keep a sense of realism, planets are spherical. Is it possible for a planet to not be shaped like a sphere? If such a planet is possible could it sustain life? For example, having a proper magnetic field, atmosphere, etc? [Answer] It'd be possi...
[Question] [ Everybody loves [steampunk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk). Without reading the Wikipedia page, the main idea of steampunk is a world (usually 19th century or thereabouts) where [steam power](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine) is used universally, and computers as we know them have not y...
[Question] [ For plot reasons I need a country that will always negotiate with foreign delegations using open door policy. The media can watch and record the negotiations but they can't participate. Is there a plausible way to explain this besides something like this is our custom or similar excuse? [Answer] # Int...

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