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[Question] [ It has been said that one of the inspirations of the Cyclops of Greek mythology was from a skull of a dwarf elephant. Being twice the size of a human, people interpreted the nasal cavity (for the trunk) in the skull as a large single eye-socket. Although the one giant eye has been a mainstay for Cyclops ...
[Question] [ embryonic diapause is a reproductive strategy that is used by a number of mammals. In embryonic diapause, the embryo does not immediately implant in the uterus after sexual reproduction has created the zygote, but is maintained in a state of dormancy. Little to no development takes place while the embry...
[Question] [ I was reading up on this question over here: [Could a planet made completely of water exist?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/4969/could-a-planet-made-completely-of-water-exist) And I was wondering if it would be possible to haul massive amounts of water into space and put it into orbit...
[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. Ther...
[Question] [ In a world I'm creating there is a web of "Mana" across the universe that isn't the same density everywhere creating areas where magic is possible and areas where it isn't. I'm trying to come up with a reason why civilizations that develop in high mana areas would have less technological development than...
[Question] [ In a recent discussion on Dune we noticed that earlier there had been an AI ("thinking machines") managed society for the best possible outcome for the common good and that Paul Muad dib and descendants had used his prescience and power for the same purpose. What was the difference? The Butlerian ...
[Question] [ I've been reading through other posts about such megastructures and they're getting me part of the way to my destination. Wanted to see about a few specific options my imagination has latched onto. The original concept is a tower, an arcology with a 1 km base level (willing to taper it as it gets higher ...
[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. What...
[Question] [ I read somewhere that the lowest depth for a sustainable underwater habitat is estimated to be three-hundred meters. Any lower and the pressure becomes too great for structures that are currently within our means to build. How would such depths affect a pressurized underwater structure on a planet with l...
[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/100335/edit). Closed 6 years ago. [Improve this question...
[Question] [ The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is a current which endlessly circles around Antarctica. (Deets: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Circumpolar_Current> ) The key factors I want to highlight are: * This current isolates A. from warm waters which might otherwise melt those huge ice shelves * There ...
[Question] [ Imagine a binary planet - that is, two earthlike habitable planets in mutual tidal lock, like the ones described in [this excellent post](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/22178/43248). Now, these two planets are populated by humans and human-like species sharing similar level of technology, rang...
[Question] [ In a world I am building, the days last 9 years. One of the results of this is that many species have evolved to sleep like dolphins, one half of their brain at a time. The two sides and thus two personalities never are conscious at the same time. Everybody is like this. If such a system were to exist, h...
[Question] [ Would this type of orbit be possible to achieve without external forces being applied? Is it possible at all? I have little to no background in the sciences so please explain like I'm stupid. Thanks! [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bCo1l.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bCo1l.jp...
[Question] [ I remember reading [Tarzan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The protagonist is a an extremely strong man, capable of hand to paw combat with lions. The origin of his strength is attributed to living among gorillas all his young life. What hand wavy arguments could I invoke ...
[Question] [ What is a plausible way for a planet to have time pass 10× faster than another? Seen the movie Interstellar? That one planet that time ran slower on? It the same idea but the other way around. Is there a way of making a planet's time (not rotation) move 10 times faster than Earth's? So I am making an al...
[Question] [ In my story, it is possible (through alchemy, or some kind of mysterious magical process) to turn base metals into gold. This ability is not widespread, and knowledge of it is uncommon. In fact, most people and even most nations may be unaware of its existence. The Central Bank of a certain country has a...
[Question] [ If a typical human were shrunk down to be 3cm tall weighing 2.5 grams (ignoring all problems that would cause), would the blade of the grasslike plant described below be able to stop its fall from 6 inches up? The grass has a rough texture as shown below [![grass texture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3F0Xi....
[Question] [ I'm excited to share my little secret with you, if you promise me not to tell anyone else and help me with my little, ambitious quest. I think I managed to found a way for someone to enter the internet. Literally. Okay, you may be laughing now, but just let me introduce the principle behind this ...
[Question] [ > > It has been a really long trip since we left our home planet. We have seen so many stellar systems but no planet was over 5 on our Viabilometer©... I was desperate until today ! My Viabilometer© is blinking ! We found one ! A planet with a score of 19.583 ! > > > I am trying to establish a "plane...
[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. Our ...
[Question] [ Suppose a group of intelligent but insane people has developed mind control technology. They have managed to plant a chip inside the US president's head. They can wirelessly send signals to his mind and he will obey them without question. The president is as rational as before, and perform his day-to-day...
[Question] [ Is it the case that if I was to develop an alien world that the most likely outcome would be that the animal in the middle of the food chain is going to be the one that is most likely to develop intelligence? Edit: Are there reasons why a low level animal would gain intelligence? What about higher predat...
[Question] [ So in the story I'm writing, mankind has advanced farther in the next few decades than we have over the past couple thousand years. Colonization has allowed us to settle the planets, and the FTL drive has opened up the ability to reach the stars. But for in-system travel, it wasn't until recently that we...
[Question] [ Modern education teaches citizens that the point of an individual in society is to contribute labor. In a world with limited natural resources, we use this idea to measure an individual's worth in society and award them resources (via money) proportional to the amount and value of their work. However, in...
[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/68133/edit). Closed 6 years ago. [Improve this question](/pos...
[Question] [ These people inhabit an underwater city. In the city there are pools that connect the dry habitat with the outside ocean, this of course mean that the habitat is unpressurized and therefore the internal atmospheric pressure is the same as the pressure at the bottom of the sea. So my question is: how deep...
[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 [K...
[Question] [ Short version - some physicists have created a pathway that appears to permit near-instantaneous travel between two distant points. Objects propelled through one side on the correct vector will emerge on the other side immediately. After initial tests with inert objects and recorders, scientists decide t...
[Question] [ I have a question for those familiar with the dark arts. I am looking for answers from people with knowledge of clairvoyance and psychic abilities (no matter how they came upon this knowledge!) to help with a specific aspect of my fictional world. # Magic system I'm trying to base my magic system on 20th...
[Question] [ If I've recently started a colony on a somewhat habitable, but uninhabited planet, what's the best way to determine the location of any ore or other subterranean resource deposits? The planet is Earth-sized and of similar composition. It's a similar distance from a similar star, but much younger. Tempera...
[Question] [ Suppose there was a disease which didn't destroy humanity, but which mentally crippled all humans over the age of 10, rendering them incapable of mental activity beyond the level achievable by rabbits. Essentially, all humans would lose the ability to do anything but eat and reproduce once they reach 10 ...
[Question] [ Other questions about this are on [this meta post](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4101/machina-plague-series/4102#4102). > > Context (Updated with new information based on Q1) > > In an act of war, an advanced, extraterrestrial species has designed the machina plague - a...
[Question] [ I'm creating a fantasy world (dragons, giants, generally medieval, generally rare magic, potential inter planar travel), and I would like the world shaped like a donut. Obviously I could just say "The world is magically sustained as a torus" and be done, but I want to know what magic needs to be there be...
[Question] [ I'm trying to figure out how a nuclear war in the north hemisphere would affect the south (specially South America, where my story is set). I read about the nuclear fallout and nuclear winter consequences, but all I saw is that the southern hemisphere wouldn't suffer that much apart from minimal climate ...
[Question] [ I wonder if there is a stable star-moon-planet system where a specific area of the planet would be permanently covered by shadow. I'm not looking for a common tidally locked planet with a roughly 50% dark zone. This is the desired order of preference for my world: 1. Most of the planet has a traditional ...
[Question] [ Say you are 30 years old, and something happens and you wake up and find that you've been transported backwards in time to when you were a teenager [you were inadvertently sent back, you do not have control over the process or if it happens to you]. Physically, the whole world appears to be exactly as it...
[Question] [ In this world FTL travel is accomplished by entering an alternate dimension, let's call Aqua. Aqua is a very simple, albeit strange dimension. A great expanse of water as far as civilization has mapped stretches out, dotted with islands, and an ocean floor. Not a planet, just a strange expanse of water. ...
[Question] [ After reading a couple dozen entries about rogue planets and their implications (for those unaware, a rogue planet is a planetary mass that has been separated from the star by gravitational instability or otherwise forceful means). If a planet was geologically active underneath the surface, enough so th...
[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. I've...
[Question] [ It’s Earth, the modern day…and in the out there, there is a fight going on. Two vast space-empires duel for survival, locked in hateful combat. Clashes of fleets and individual spaceships are the most common method of conflict; controlling the ultimate “high-ground” of space an almost guaranteed success ...
[Question] [ Due to an evolutionary arms race , highly intelligent dire wolves evolved on my world. Their vocal cords have developed to produce beyond human ranges of sound , and have become more social , gathering in packs over 300 strong. They have even developed a complex language , and have naming systems for dif...
[Question] [ In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The Die is Cast. A planetary bombardment scene occured where 17 shots was stated to have destroyed 30% of a planet's crust. Now obviously that's a HUGE amount of firepower, but it's not unrealistic for Star Trek as since the pilot episode of the original series t...
[Question] [ Is it possible that a complex humanoid creature to somehow still use [Mitosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitosis) as a method for reproduction, and if so, what would it look like? [Answer] While BlindKungFuMaster is sort of correct, I don't think that is what you had in mind. You want a humanoid b...
[Question] [ Revelation Jerusalem is the golden city, the true envy of the world. Tradition has it that it's bathed in eternal light, that the unworthy are struck down on its doorstep, and that a sense of holiness pervades the place. So much for tradition. More importantly for our purposes, it's really a golden...
[Question] [ Set in a dystopian future, levels of technology similar to today's levels exist with some advances, but the knowledge of how to create and utilize much of it has been lost. Those giant mechanical birds (air planes) are much too difficult to use and coordinate so most trans-atlantic/pacific trade has take...
[Question] [ The concept of a metal poor world is one that I find deeply fascinating. In part because I fell in love with the setting that first exposed me to the concept, [Dark Sun](http://www.athas.org). So I want incorporate a very limited access to metal into the back story of my setting. However I don't just wan...
[Question] [ This story is meant to be an introduction and background for a short videogame I'm working on. Our hero works at a secret, hidden facility. The secret is kept among every staff member working there. The involved parties are mostly scientific staff and engineers, but also military staff from countries l...
[Question] [ ## The Background Imagine a setting in which the only major fictional technology is human teleportation at the speed of light (for this question please ignore the question about how the teleportation device makes it to the destination). Human beings are able to teleport themselves around the nearby stars...
[Question] [ This is a followup to an old question of mine here: [Would ritual cannibalism of the dead lead to issues with disease?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/20982/would-ritual-cannibalism-of-the-dead-lead-to-issues-with-disease) The previous question went a good ways into studying a 'safe' w...
[Question] [ I want to have aliens approach the Earth looking for a new world to colonize. They come from a similar planet circling a similar star, but either their star has entered its red giant phase (how long could life survive that?) or alternatively, they're worried about a potential supernova in their neighborh...
[Question] [ I would like some rare humans (1 in 10 million) to have a mutation that increases their lifetime by a factor of three. In other words, these rare humans could live for ~240 years on average. But I also need to have one of these constraints: 1. This mutation is not transferable to their children;...
[Question] [ While asking some other questions related to vertical cities, I've found out that the cities can't just expand upward to infinity. There is a limit to how high up a tower can go. There were some conflicting opinions on just where that limit was, though, so I decided to make a separate question out of it....
[Question] [ [Cerebrospinal fluid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal_fluid) is a thin layer of liquid that helps use avoid being knocked out (among other uses). Creatures with a thicker layer have more trouble being knocked out. I want my humanoids to naturally evolve a thicker layer of this fluid. How can I...
[Question] [ A group of people time travel to ancient Greece while wearing modern clothing and bringing modern technology. They arrive in helicopters and fly over to ancient Athens, where they land. When they arrive, some of them make phone calls and put their phones on speaker. Some of them decide to log into their ...
[Question] [ This is the first question in a series that I have (that follows the human organ systems). This question deals specifically with the use of the muscular and skeletal systems in a robot. Since they work so cooperatively, I'll ask them together. I'm imagining soft-SF answers (not technical... unless it's 1...
[Question] [ I come from a small costal town, and recently we've been having some giant trouble. This particular giant isn't particularly evil, but he eats cows like crisps and frankly we're all rather worried what will happen when the herds run out! He's about 60' tall and unfortunately not at all dimwitted. We have...
[Question] [ In 1869 a [giant space gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon) was built, with the intent of firing a projectile at the Moon, just to prove that they can do it. Of course, the ludicrous idea to put people inside it was never even taken into consideration, as the acceleration would ...
[Question] [ > > Every child is afraid of the darkness. For them its not simply the absence of light, its the absence of information. Even if you know that there should be a wall or a doorway right in front of you, how can you be sure without seeing it? What other dangers might lurk there, besides stubbing your toe ...
[Question] [ As is well known, the [battle of the Teutoburg Forest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest) was an important turning point in the history of the Roman empire. Now a time traveller goes back into that time in order to change history, with the goal to have Varus win. However it is ...
[Question] [ Suppose tomorrow, on present-day Earth, a group of scientists published a paper detailing a series of experiments conducted over the last ten years that successfully activated and deactivated the quality of life that makes a creature intelligent. The means of this technology could be a specific radio sig...
[Question] [ I am trying to build a planetary system with a maximum number of earth/near earth like planets/moons. What would the maximum number of possible earth like planets be? I am assuming that some would be free standing and that some would be moons of Gas Giants that were still in the goldilocks zone. All don'...
[Question] [ My question would be a follow up of this question, [Survival without emotion](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15101/survival-without-emotion), though not for the same purpose as mentioned in that question. Let me build up a story and a new world (*which is a follow up of the existin...
[Question] [ ![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nfra8.jpg) An enormous alien monster lands on Earth and goes on a rampage. He gets knocked out by a nuclear bomb, and falls into a temporary coma. The U.S. government decides to transport his body in a secure location... but can it be done? What's the maximum mass and size o...
[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. Give...
[Question] [ The rag-tag group of natives and tourists somehow survived for a week on [the manor by the cliff](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13779/how-close-is-too-close-for-a-human-habitation-to-be-near-an-erupting-volcano), while the volcano still spits lava and pyroclastic clouds all around. Ju...
[Question] [ The Settings: A pod of nanobots stranded on earth-like barren planet orbiting sun-like star. Assume no life form has formed on the planet, and nanobots popuate the planet. 1. Could they evolve complex ecology (techno-sytem in place of ecosystem) where plant-like and zoo-like species composed entirely...
[Question] [ How dense would the atmosphere of a theoretical planet have it be, in relation to Earth's atmosphere, to fly with, say, a 10 to 15 foot wingspan? Math is acceptable and encouraged, and a set of artificial wings is assumed. I'm thinking an incredibly tough (fictional) plant fiber spread over a carbon comp...
[Question] [ After being told about hemianopsia (visual neglect) in an [answer to another question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/10510/6986), I started wondering if I could apply the same idea to artificial applications, such as securing information or hiding things. Information has always been something...
[Question] [ I have been working on the setting for a hard speculative biology/evolution project that for now will simply be referred to as the Gemini Project, and the main issue I've been having is whether or not complex life comparable to that seen on Earth in the last ~100 million years could emerge and evolve nat...
[Question] [ ## Context: I've got an asteroid belt analogue situated between a Gas giant and a Super-earth. I knew about resonances, so I started calculating them and placing some of them in the belt, especially ones that would be convergent between the giant and the super-earth, to know where the gaps would be prese...
[Question] [ Could fish (such as a moray eel) evolve chromatophores as advanced as a cephalopod's? Also how long would this take? I'm working on a speculative evolution project where moray eels are the only marine vertebrates. Some moray eels have evolved chromatophores to blend into their surroundings and 'hypnotize...
[Question] [ Is knuckle-walking efficent on snow / ice / thick snow ? Can a predator large as a polar bear evolve this? Is protecting the claw in such way, to far fetch considering the fact that the beast need to travel long distance in the snow covered tundra and ice sheeet in order to track its food? [Answer] It...
[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/228220/edit). Closed 1 year ago. [Improve this question](/pos...
[Question] [ ## Context As I was working on some mechanical ideas (and practicing art), I wanted to see how to render time in creative ways. So I decided to make an horizontal watermill akin to a turbine, which has markers on the outside borders and one blade with an arrow pointing outwards to tell the time. Here's m...
[Question] [ (this is doublet of my previous question, so I did a little improvement on it) -my exomoon is around size of venus, but a little bit smaller. * is very windy, so windy in fact filter feeders thrives in it air. * have a day and night cycle around 1 year long. -however it have almost zero axial tilt * the ...
[Question] [ I don't mean "biome" in the strict scientific definition, but rather, in the broader geological sense that it is used by game designers to refer to unique environments. On earth, when people go diving into caves, or even mining down into sealed caverns, they can find caves that have their own themes. Lik...
[Question] [ Long story short, I have a bunch of folks with [Neolithic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic) technology, and they want to build a big ship - preferably, a ship that's as large as they can make it. How big can these Neolithic folks make this ship? Assume that the amount of available labor and the w...
[Question] [ In my story, Saturn’s moon Titan’s methane lakes are inhabited by microorganisms that photosynthesize, converting hydrogen into methane (A process thought possible on Titan after some study). This helps supply the methane continuously cycled through Titan’s atmosphere. Enter my question. A horse-sized ar...
[Question] [ I have an idea for a creature, and I want to figure out if it's possible. I'd rather not handwave it with "magic", so, here I am, asking the Stack. The creature is eel-like, and is capable of emitting a chemical when scared that turns all water within a 5?( subject to change) into slime, rapidly (in arou...
[Question] [ I'm in the process of creating flying animals big enough to carry a human being on their back, the problem is that if it's too big, the wingspan also has to be and muscle will be needed for the wings to function properly, but muscles add weight and a lot of weight can anchor the animal to the ground. So ...
[Question] [ I saw some questions asking about digitigrades and bipeds, but I could not find much when it came to swimming. I know the two are capable of swimming, but I was wondering whether digitigrades or bipeds would be more efficient at swimming. I would think maybe plantigrade would be better because the le...
[Question] [ Snakemen are absolute beasts in combat when you factor in all of their snake qualities. One of the ways they would be practically unstoppable is if they fought using constriction (credit goes to [Shadiversity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uVRKKdIYLI "What weapons would SNAKE PEOPLE really use?") for ...
[Question] [ The underground city of Anwei is the last human refuge from the invasion of alien robot zombies. The enemies are very patient, and they are willing to besiege the city for decades if necessary. Luckily Anwei has its own food and water supply, and between local craftsmanship and scavenge from slain enemie...
[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/205015/edit). Closed 2 years ago. [Improve this question...
[Question] [ I'm writing a fantasy novel with a race of intelligent and technologically advanced dragons. now, if we pretend that they can somehow fly, How would they utilize boats and ships in order to traverse oceans? [Answer] As long as the ship buys them something of more value than traveling the same dist...
[Question] [ So, from what I've read of [Porter & Grundy (2011)](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/736/1/L14/pdf), most gas giant planets orbiting within their star's habitable zones are thought to have migrated there from further out in the solar system, with interaction with other planets or plan...
[Question] [ Can a planet have its whole surface covered with a 50% carbon dioxide and 50% water ocean (the substances being diluted in each other)? [Answer] ### Yes - with temperatures and pressures so extreme they blur the definition of "Ocean" (and "liquid") So there's this crazy thing called "a [supercritica...
[Question] [ I just did some research on the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which is the crater from the asteroid responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Yucatán itself does have several noteworthy caves like Loltun Cave and the Calcehtok Caves, but their size pales in comparison to Mam...
[Question] [ I am trying to develop an herbivore/rodent which, for the lack of better naming, I have temporarily named "sleepy skunk". The main feature of this animal is that, whenever it feels threatened or is attacked, it freezes, sprays a mixture of gas and droplets and then assumes a "ball posture", wrapping arou...
[Question] [ Just to clarify, this is a serious question. I mean it. I'm legitimately wondering and am looking for feedback on this following question: How close can an intelligent homonid species get to having anime girl proportions? Shoujo and moe girls are often complained about for having "unrealistic body types"...
[Question] [ If I have lasers being used as a primary weapon for spaceships in a realistic sci-fi setting, what would the proportions of the laser cannon itself be? Presumably the cannon would be cylindrical, but I don't know enough about how lasers are generated to know if as lasers are scaled up, the cylinder would...
[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] [ First, some context: I am creating a habitable world with intelligent life present in the second main sequence of a star (hence why it needs to be re-stabilized). This life discovers the ruins of an old civilization that had reached about modern humanity's tech level that had gone extinct thanks to the r...
[Question] [ On Earth, there are far more insects by biomass than any other creature type. Not only that, but they constitute a wider variety of species too. As a result, they also evolve interesting mechanisms unique from animals. That is, it is easier and more common for insects to be bioluminescent compared to lar...
[Question] [ It could be argued that we already have biological EMPs in the form of solar flares. But what I'm looking for is a sort of a half baked idea for a planet the had life forms that produce natural EMPs. So for the context, barely matters but here it is, a space exploration ship gets marooned on a faraway pl...
[Question] [ I was doing some tests in Universe Sandbox a while ago and I noticed a strange behavior shown by giant planets on highly inclined orbits. In the simulation I placed an Earth at 1 AU around the Sun, and with an inclination of 0 degrees, and a Jupiter in a 2:1 resonance with Earth. The Jupiter was also at ...
[Question] [ In the project I am working on, the main race in my setting has the body plan similar to a primate, and has somewhere between a moderate, or highly arboreal lifestyle. (Haven't quite settled on this yet) Recently, I stumbled upon the topic of human throwing, and how large of a role it played in human evo...
[Question] [ I'm working on a world for a miniature wargame, sci-fi/fantasy genre. One species will have the ability to live as fully land dwelling, fully water dwelling or like amphibians. I've given them both lungs and gills, but I've not yet gone deeper into how that will work. My main problem is that the skin of ...
[Question] [ How would living organisms develop/evolve in a very-low g ocean environment? The environment would be a small radioactive core surrounded by a small mass of water, less than 100 km in diameter, in the center of the L4 or L5 Lagrangian point between a very large planet and a large moon. The body of water ...

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