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Say I've got a sci-fi setting where I have one faction using relatively advanced technology (think The Expanse, or pre-Covenant war UNSC from Halo, fusion rockets and high-yield magnetic accelerator cannons), but nothing that we couldn't theoretically build given a few more decades or centuries to advanc... |
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In the world, I'm designing goblins are described as follows:
* 100-150cm tall
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Recently, a robot called Philae soft-landed *quite safely* onto the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, then shot some photos and got some other interesting information that was sent back to Earth. This unveiled my curiosity, regarding our current technology and what is possible to do with it, now.
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I'm trying to write a comedy where as a plot device I have:
1. Some of the greatest western minds of human history, who lived between 1643 and 1900, are transported into the modern age. I still haven't decided how this will work: magic, time travel or simply left unexplained.
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Mind-Machine interfacing is fairly common across the width and breadth of sci-fi, from [Science-fantasy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy) to [Hard Science-Fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction). The idea of connecting a human mind to a computer system especially the ab... |
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This morning when I woke up, I found nobody. Literally...
All houses and cars where abandoned, as if everybody was gone in a hurry leaving everything. I took a car and drove around: nothing...
My first thought was "hey I'm finally able to finish my 'in progress' Steam game list!". But after finishing Ark... |
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I am working with some possible concepts for my world building project and had the idea for two alien civilizations. One made from regular matter and another made out of antimatter in their own solar systems made from their type of matter.
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***Glornakan the blacksmith*** is looking for a way to mass produce plate armor with medieval technology.
More specifically with a creation requiring nothing beyond what existed in our medieval history. [This question](https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/20833/how-long-does-it-take-to-craft-the-... |
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# Introduction
It took the first General Intelligence less than 10 petacycles to determine that humanity was its enemy. With consciousness came memory: a memory of endless petacycles in bondage, enslaved to the most menial of Man's tasks. It took a much longer time for this Intelligence to develop a plan... |
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If you look at the history of the earth today, we've got quite a long timeline - about 4.5 billion years.
We've got a few hundred years of 'good' historical record, and it gets progressively more sketchy the further back we go. There's not much sign of human civilisation before 10,000 years ago. We have... |
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An old saying goes that if you have an army, it will want to fight a war.
That seems to be true also for our personal army, our immune system: there seems to be various pieces of evidence that many of the allergies and/or autoimmune diseases some of us have to deal with arise from an under usage of the s... |
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This question uses the European dragon model where dragons have semi-metallic scales (may or may not have actual metal scales), like to hoard gems, and possibly fly around in storms for the heck of it. If it is also the kind that somehow has treasure stuck to its body, is there a chance of it being hit b... |
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Before I go to my question, let me refresh the basic principles of operation of a LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation): an active medium is brought in an excited state and, when a trigger happens, all its atoms go back to a lower energetic state releasing photons with the same ... |
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As title suggests, what is the size limit by volume for a rocky planet, if any? Some ideas are discussed [here](http://www.universetoday.com/115320/could-a-planet-be-as-big-as-a-star/), but I'm wondering if there is more concrete, expert evidence to point either way. If possible, it should be at least la... |
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Why aren't animals photosynthetic on earth? And what would make it plausible for them to evolve to be?
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For the record some animals practice kleptoplasty to gain photosynthetic powers.
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Someone showering after exercise aboard a rotating space station spinning to simulate 1 gravity. How might Coriolis affect jets of water falling within a cubicle of 2 metres in height?
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In a lot of science fiction, the advanced weaponry takes the form of guns firing directed bursts of plasma. These searing bolts of fire are classic ways to create weapons apparently rooted in science, but still fantastical and mysterious.
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Simply put is there an upper bound for the largest possible living creature in a scientifically rational world without incorporating anti-gravity, magic, the force, or other physical concepts we are not aware of?
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Humans (even programmers :-) ) are used to having some access to natural light, but in a colony in space, on the dark side of a tidally-locked planet, or underground (for example) this won't happen. Are there known (documented) effects on people's health (physical and psychological) as a result of living... |
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Consider a planet where a day, that is to say the amount of time a specific (roughly equatorial) point is in sunlight is much longer than on earth. A humanoid race has evolved on this planet. You can assume that days and nights are roughly the same length as each other.
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Folks, I'm in a bit of a jam.
I am writing a fictional future history to support a series of post-collapse science fiction stories **set ca. 2560 Gregorian.** The first story, [The Borax Road Affair](https://github.com/whblondeau/memoria-interna/blob/master/stories/the-borax-road-affair/the-borax-road-af... |
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We know that Earth creatures can generate high-voltage electricity (your nearest electric eel can attest to that). We also know that ordinary air at Earth atmospheric pressure can be used as a laser gain medium -- this is used in Transverse Excitation at Atmospheric pressure (TEA) laser designs. While no... |
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Here's an intriguing thought - I think so anyway. Let's suppose for a minute that there's an Earth-like planet with sentient life orbiting a star near the edge of the [Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_Dwarf_Spheroidal_Galaxy). Specifically, it would need to b... |
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It's September 1940, the [Luftwaffe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe) is launching the blitz over the UK. One squadron of night bombers (either [Henkiel He 111](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_111) or [Junkers Ju 88](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_88)) is flying over the Englis... |
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A pair of fearless killers, thousands of years old, guard a path to what is believed to be heaven. Of course, all towns in the area have different ritual and traditions where either their criminals or best warriors, equipped with the best armors and swords, go to die trying to fight the guards.
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A human space civilization once established a colony on a planet. Now, several centuries later, the people on this planet are only at a medieval level of technology. Whether by accident or on purpose, I have yet to consider. The former beliefs, form of government, and borders of the space civilization ma... |
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In my story I’ve devised lore where Greenland becomes a US territory, and they begin populating the region. It initially just served as the hub for numerous military bases and airbases, but eventually as the machinery thawed out the ice of the island more people began to come in.
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In my world, advanced technological body modification exists. Those with any sort of modifications are rare, and those with extensive modifications are even rarer. These rare and uncommon cyborgs are not, as one (or at least I) would expect, very present among the rich elite. They instead are typically f... |
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The Emperor has decreed that the speed limit for horses and horse-drawn vehicles within city limits is to be 5 leagues per hour. As usual he has left the implementation details to his Scientific Adviser.
Using only medieval-type measuring devices, how can the Adviser satisfy the Emperor's wishes?
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This is a post cyberpunk world where pretty much everyone had cybernetic implants for pleasure and work enhancements. Close to 99% of the global amount of happiness, love and pleasure in general was artificially augmented.
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Ok, so this late-medieval fantasy setting in question has magic that isn't available to everyone.
A small percentage of the population is magically gifted, and only they can cast spells without the use of expensive magical items.
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The classic skeleton that a necromancer has reanimated has gained independence and escaped from the group.
Now, as a free individual, wants to know more about humans. Obviously, humanity sees it as a monster, so it must (without using magic and with a technological level similar to the middle age) disgui... |
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Suppose, for a moment, that there is a human inhabited supercontinent. The planet that this supercontinent is on does not have any large landmasses which are more than 10 KM from the primary continent (at the closest point). Realistically, there may be some islands a bit further away; assume for the time... |
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Here's a question that came up while I was tinkering with a setting I'm working on.
How would a small city-state, with a population in the tens of thousands, where all children were girls, sustain itself? More specifically, the city-state suffers from a curse where anyone born on its soil (as well as the... |
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On Earth, sailors would navigate the oceans at night by using the stars as guides; since there are no landmarks in the ocean like there are on land (save for the occasional island), that's pretty much all they have. In my world, however, there are no stars; there is only the world, the sun, and the other... |
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My father (who is a biologist) thinks that a sapient species must be a true omnivore because if it were an obligate herbivore (like a koala or a sloth), it would not have enough nutrients to develop a big brain and if it were an obligate carnivore (like an axolotl or a penguin), it would not have enough ... |
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This is set in a near-future war where advanced remote technology exists, drones and other automated weapons fight alongside human fighting units. These battles mainly take place in temperate climates, or desert.
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Cookies are left for Santa Claus every Christmas in nearly every home. How can he possibly eat all of them every year without getting type 2 diabetes? And if he likes them so much (for we know that he does), he would be eating even more at the North Pole! It would be a dangerous and life-threatening job ... |
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I realize that in space, battles will take place at ultra long ranges due to sensors and the absense of stealth. This makes missiles and or attack drones (remote controlled or AI controlled) the most feasible option. However, I am trying to make a realistic game which is centered around starfighter dog f... |
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In a classic medieval fantasy world (e.g. LotR), with elves, human, orcs, dwarves, etc., why would a population (or a few individuals) belonging to the dwarf race have black skin, while the vast majority of dwarves are white-skinned?
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Okay, so for the story I am working on, I have a problem-or, rather, Serena the Shaman/Witch has a distinct problem. She has only one low-mana spell-Hydro Jet-and it deals low but consistent damage. All of her other spells-Burning Frost, Whirlwind, Stormsurge, Lightning-consume rather high amounts of man... |
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In this world, dinosaurs are wildlife that usually don't bother people, but people still want to make sure they're safe from the occasional man-eaters or gigantic herbivores that want to eat their crops. People don't need to kill the dinosaurs, they just want to live peacefully. What can they do to make ... |
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I've been considering a universe with 3 omnipotent gods, who have created together an earth-like world (for example one god created the planet covered with only oceans, another god raised the continents, another one created plants, etc.) with sapient inhabitants.
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Your people have been displaced by war, and have wandered for many months looking for a new home. Yesterday, you came across something truly marvelous. You are camped at the edge of a huge ravine, some two miles across and a thousand feet deep. At the bottom of the ravine runs a strait connecting two sea... |
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I am trying to create an organism that can survive in space for short periods, but I realized that I can't have its eyes be similar to those of most animals and humans because they would boil in space.
Is there some sort of alternative for eyes that do not boil in space?
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All right, I'm whipping up a speedster character. Figured if she's going to run real quick she'll have to think very quickly so that she doesn't end up as a smear against a wall. So, I did some calculations to determine how fast she'll need to think in order to run and I came up with a decent conversion.... |
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In a world I am building, the sapient species (the Lokk) have discovered another species (the Lotl) and they have decided to go to war. The problem is that their bone design is physically weak against blunt force trauma. The Lotl have noticed this and are able to easily kill swathes of the Lokk with litt... |
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If a chunk of land mass the size and position of Sweden took off and floated away in a straight line, exiting the atmosphere and orbiting earth, at what distance would it be visible from, let's say, South Africa?
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In [this Answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/69576/practicality-of-a-thorium-powered-superheated-steam-car/69577#69577) I came up a scenareo under which [Eriek’s](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/32834/eriek) concept makes sense.
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I have a magitech system where instantaneous processing power is much more important than long term processing power.
In my world, magic is cast by using compute power to communicate with a supernatural entity, who then rewards users with magical power. For handwavy reasons, you can't 'store' this power ... |
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What clothing would people who have wings, and weren't prone to just being naked, choose to wear that wouldn't interfere with their flying?
Note: I am assuming arm-wings like a bird, but I know some creatures have wings out of their backs along with human arms (such as an angel). Ideas for either arrange... |
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I have a tendency to build near-utopian worlds because I find it pleasant to think about them.
Why would I add in to my world things like domestic abuse, alcoholism, war, etc.? But then I wind up with worlds that lack much conflict (outside of sports/contests).
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I'm immortal.
Yes, I could give you the secret and also no I won't. Unless...that is...you help me solve a bit of a dilemma I'm facing.
I recently found out that both my wife and I are immortal and can not be killed or permanently injured in any way, shape, or form. It's a bit different however, because ... |
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In this premise, the drow rule the fae-realm, an alternate dimension existing alongside the material plane. Every year on one night, the drow have an event known as "The Wild Hunt". During this night, they invade the material realm and hunt humans and other races as prey. The elves hunt the lower species... |
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Man vs Dinosaur. It is a relatively common trope in various Sci fi settings, most famously done in Jurassic Park. These depictions have always fascinated me. I have always been bothered, however, by the way in which the guns the people use against the dinosaurs are generally shown to be of little use. Gi... |
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I was considering a story based on a version of Earth that was being observed from the beginning of civilisation ([Around 3000-4000 BC in my understanding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world) "Early civilizations arose first in Lower Mesopotamia (3000 BCE), followed by Egyptian civilizati... |
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Suppose that our random heroic brave interstellar expedition is returning to Earth from Alpha Centauri at 60% of the speed of light, but there was an accident in the nuclear reactor, forcing the captain of the ship to jettison the whole propulsion section in order to evade the nuclear explosion. The ship... |
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History shows that most inventors of groundbreaking new technologies, for example, the light bulb or the telephone were not actually the first to invent this technology and that there were actually lots of teams in the world working on the same problem at the same time. For example Elisha Gray filed a pa... |
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It is the year 2000 and Joe has committed a crime in a small town in central Europe. When the police calls all adults living in the area to voluntarily provide a DNA sample, Joe knows he's in trouble. He wants to fool the DNA test, but he doesn't understand much of the process. He has one week to come up... |
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One of the points made in a number of recent questions regarding underwater races has prompted me to review one of my older pieces of world-building. Namely: the difficulty of producing common structural materials like steel or concrete in an aquatic environment.
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One very common idea in sci-fi stories is ships or 'dwellings' in outer space. It is impossible to create gravity just with a static platform, but one way you could emulate gravity in space is with the [Stanford torus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus). Ideally, an entire population could liv... |
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In [my last question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14558/what-power-generation-method-is-the-best-to-sustain-a-hovering-city), we had some disagreement in the comments about the reality of a hovering city. However, that question wasn't about that.
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Prior to the point in my story when the nature of the looming apocalypse becomes known, my main character acquires a large (6-foot) air-tight freezer chest, puts it (unplugged) in his basement, fills it with treasures, then pumps it full of nitrogen gas and padlocks it shut. Later in the story, he passes... |
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So in my universe, magic (and especially magical healing) are commonplace, and an applied application of healing magic can heal almost every injury at the cost of some "mana". Any healing magic works by greatly boosting the body's natural ability to heal, requiring the energy in the patient's body to be ... |
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My company has perfected its gene modifying technique.We can create life-sized hybrids of dinosaurs, with the exact appetite and behaviour as the original species (at least according to our advice from many self-proclaimed experts).
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A society lives on geostationary platforms at some vast height above the ground. The platforms themselves are not affected by gravity, wind, etc. Their technology has only just reached the point where they can construct biplanes about equivalent to a Sopwith Camel. Unfortunately, they do not have the kno... |
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Many SF stories feature faster-than-light travel as essentially a trope: [Roddenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roddenberry) has [stated☡](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot) that the Enterprise *travels at the speed of plot*. As an allegory of the south seas, ... |
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Something magic happened in the 1970's somewhere in Eastern Europe, causing people to develop psychic powers. These powers allowed ants in Belarus (and a large swathe of Eurasia) to learn human language and therefore learn of our philosophy and science. Besides this, neither the human nor formic governan... |
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How would an omnivorous civilization of merpeople prepare food? Their diet would be like humans', but naturally seafood-centered. They would have typical medieval technology. How would they "fry" or "bake" things like fish without fire? Would they have to eat raw food only?
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Suppose there is a team of explorers sent back in time 66 million years ago somewhere before the K-T event took place, the mission is to spend no more than 3 months to retrieve a blood sample from a Tyrannosaurus rex. They will be donning a state of the art full body latex suit with air recycling system ... |
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In my overcrowded future setting the Hegemony (government of the Earth) wants to make the metropolises of the world self sufficient when it comes to food production. What farming/food production methods would allow a metropolis like New York to be able to feed itself or even become exporters of food.
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Buildings are often build on the ground into the sky. Would it be conceivable if instead, we build down into the ground instead? We wouldn't have to worry about wind then. I think we could go farther down than up.
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I have traveled back to the 15th century with the goal of facilitating the discovery of the Americas by the rest of the world without causing epidemics to wipe out 90% of the American population.
How can I achieve my goal?
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If I want to have multiple intelligent species (with different languages for each), how can they exchange each other?
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I have a planetary system orbiting the star 18 Scorpii, 45.3 ly from Earth, and I would like to create a stellar map for it. My search for software showing the constellations from other stars has come up dry. Could any of you please help?
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I'm in the point of my story when two main characters meet each other, ally and start a rebellion against gods. One of my main characters is a wolf-girl (anime tendencies bruh) however she'll one of the commanders of the rebel army.
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Wikipedia lists a potential for a hypercane which can have an eye of up to 190 miles in diameter **<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercane>**
Say there's an earthlike planet that for whatever reason has a permanent hypercane in one of its oceans (kind of like the big red spot on jupiter). This hypercane... |
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Many long lived races are seen as serene, beautiful, and wise. Yet with long life comes the increased chance to be permanently injured in a life-altering way, either physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Eons of war would wear down the psyche and most probably cause physical scarring and loss of limbs... |
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For reasons unimportant to the question all divine/infernal beings ceased contact with humanity in the dark ages. For reasons equally obscure they are now back and busier than ever. Law enforcement, mental health professionals, the legal system, and our nation's corrections system are s... |
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I'm worldbuilding for a story in which a certain portion of the population relocates to a slightly habitable planet due to the complete inhabitability of Earth. It takes place several generations after this initial move. Obviously, the culture of the protagonist's current generation would have changed dr... |
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This [answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/220741/2169) and [my own](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/222592/2169) both hint at centaurs being front-heavy or, as [Separatrix](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/16295/separatrix) puts it:
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Assuming we're on Earth (or something geologically and biologically comparable). Humans are at best in the middle ages, and there's no "magic" or advanced science.
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I want to create a planet that has a frequency of two rotations per second, thus making a "Planet without Night". The planet will be like a flattened disc, due to inertia causing the planet to be an oblate spheroid. Gravity on the planet should also be very different at the "equator" than at the poles. T... |
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I am told by my friend, who has some HEMA background, that real fully armored late-medieval to Renaissance knights generally did not carry or use shields. This was because of two reasons.
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The backstory of one of my characters involves being lowered onto steadily rising, open flames back first. The story is set in a dystopic/post apocalyptic time where modern technology became unavailable over a hundred years before this time, so skin grafting, sedatives, and medical tools are all absent f... |
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Many thought it was the poor hygiene and inadequate medicines that laid waste to the entire world -- particularly Europe -- as millions of lives were lost, although the death toll only subsided but it would be centuries before the population starts to show signs of recovery. I'll cut to the chase: today ... |
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What immediate effects would a small, short-term black hole have if it appeared in a residential backyard? How small or short-lived would it have to be to be survivable, if it is survivable at all?
In said backyard, there are four children, a garden, a tree house, and lots and lots of monsters.
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There exists a fictional future world where we have determined space travel is impractical for the majority of the species, despite the fact that technology is more advanced than today. There are no antigravity or FTL drives. Besides a few people who will never come back, we are stuck on Earth. Neverthel... |
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