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[Question] [ *[Blindsight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel))* is a first-contact Sci-Fi novel based on a group of transhumans exploring an anomaly in space and discovers a species that has great intelligence but no self-awareness. The author mentions that consciousness is a bottleneck and reduce...
[Question] [ It's now the late 23rd century and there are now hundreds of space stations, orbiting approximately at the height of the (now deceased) ISS, give or take a few kilometers. Lately, the International Space Fleet™ has been trying to find a way to get people back down to Earth without the need to use lots of...
[Question] [ The hero saves the captured giant, and as a reward, the giant presents the hero with a magic ring... However, the ring is made for giant fingers, so the hero decides to wear it as an armband instead. If the ring is a suitable size to be used as an armband, and assuming the giant has human proportions, ju...
[Question] [ In the following I consider "reality" to be "all the sensorial evidence a living being can obtain by interacting with its surrounding world". I am setting up a world where two realities exist, but they are mutually orthogonal. To clarify this concept, look at the image: [![enter image description here](h...
[Question] [ Moon's surface is about thirty million square kilometers large. That's a lot of plastic, but no bigger effort than many other terraforming projects we have discussed. Description: A global bubble of plastic floating at a height of eight thousand meters over the moon's surface, sustained by an atmospheri...
[Question] [ When reading fantasy novels, I have as a rule been left with the impression that exact timekeeping is either avoided as a topic, or referred to only vaguely and obliquely. In many cases, the author would freely use "hours" as a metonymy for a part of the day spent doing something, however never actually ...
[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. Supp...
[Question] [ I've got a group of characters exploring an ancient ruin who've just set off a classic "darts flying from the walls" booby trap. In theory, when the trap was first built these darts would have been coated in poison (something adjacent to spider venom). But since it's been 4000 years, would that still be ...
[Question] [ I encountered sci-fi stories about planets of the twice the mass of Earth, and the characters were able to leave them in spaceships. I wonder, whether it is possible at all? [Answer] On Space Exploration Stack Exchange, Russell Borogove addressed a very similar question and made [some reasonable estim...
[Question] [ I have had an ingenious idea of combining the two most dangerous creatures the world has ever seen by using my massive and titanic intellect. Mankind, the deadliest land mammal, and sharks, the most feared creature in the sea. For decades, these two species have been at odds due to Spielberg. But togethe...
[Question] [ The popular image of a mermaid is a half-fish, half-human creature breathing fine above and below the surface. The only real-life analogy to this are the amphibians - frogs, toads and salamanders. But here lies the snag. Mermaids are often portrayed as marine while there are no species of amphibians capa...
[Question] [ So, based my other question here, [concerning dragons](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9862/tame-and-sovereign-dragons-the-opinions-of-the-sovereign-dragons), one thing that came to mind, and was brought up often was that a dragon knight system with 1 guy on 1 dragon would lead to the g...
[Question] [ Just a bit of background: one of my favorite zombie causers is from the Dead Rising video game series. In it, the undead are reanimated by a wasp-like insect that lays eggs in a corpse (I think. It's been a bit). I always thought that was a cool gimmick if nothing else, but something wondrous happened in...
[Question] [ Time travel works...just invented, by you. The tests prove it! After many conversations and significant planning, your [epidemiologist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology) significant other has approved your plans for time travel, forward or backwards. You are both satisfied that if you do [bring...
[Question] [ In a story set in the near future where robots perform the majority of farming (due to population growth and agribusiness efficiencies), what might still be farmed by humans? Assume no radical AI breakthroughs. The produce could be niche -- something that becomes a luxury since supply is limited compared...
[Question] [ Is it possible for a planet to be heated and illuminated by a black hole due to [Hawking radiation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation) at the same intensity as by a star? What mass and size should a black hole have to produce the same amount of radiation as a star? How long it can be in suc...
[Question] [ ### Historical background In discussions about European medieval archery, there is a lot of emphasis on the english longbow, and the physique and training required to field an archer of that caliber. The stereotypical English longbowman must have the strength to draw a 150lb bow, have trained from adoles...
[Question] [ Many organizations today have identity cards, and use passwords and multi-factor authentication to authenticate and authorize people. If there's trouble, things can be done: Identity cards can be replaced with new serial numbers; passwords can be changed; digital certificates revoked; keys and locks chan...
[Question] [ *This question has been rewritten to incorporate all clarifications.* On Earth, half the planet is illuminated at any time (let's ignore eclipses). Axial tilt lets day lengths vary, but over the course of a year, every location is illuminated half the time. It's easy to make a planet where, over a year, ...
[Question] [ Assume that a magician has the ability to create both flames and ice. His Muggle (for the lack of a better word) friend is wounded and is bleeding profusely. Traditionally, in most fantasy books where modern technology does not exist, cauterization would be used to seal that wound. However, I know that r...
[Question] [ My first question, be kind please! :) I'm thinking about an organization like COBRA from the G.I. Joe comics. For those unfamiliar, COBRA is a nationless terrorist organization bent on world domination. In the comics, there isn't really much deep thought put into their existence. They're just there to be...
[Question] [ I've been working on a procedural map generator that draws cities and towns on continents and islands and I've gotten to the point where I'd like to add lists of structures to the settlements. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIMrD.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIMrD.jpg) I kn...
[Question] [ By "short period of time", I'm referring to the timeframe of weeks to months (not days or hours). For example: at the start of one day the land is flat, but after a few weeks or months there is a mountain there instead. Another example: the land is at first joined together, but after a few weeks or month...
[Question] [ I've worked a couple of Habitat for Humanity mass builds where entire houses go from a poured foundation to complete in the course of a few days, and whole neighborhoods are built in a week. There's a video made a few years back where they finished a whole house in a day, including pouring and setting th...
[Question] [ On Earth humanity has taken the dominant role (excluding dolphins and mice of course). We know of conflicts in pre-history where our ancestors have overtaken other species and slowly wiped them out. What circumstances would allow two (or more) species to evolve on a planet side by side? What could have h...
[Question] [ I'm creating a city of about 200 000 people in a nation equivalent to a modern western nation, like Germany, France or the United States. Strong economy and a calm society, but still a conspicuous underclass. The nations government is about to realize an unconditional basic income to overcome poverty. Po...
[Question] [ In my fantasy world I want fantastically large trees, particularly in the height category. The tallest trees on earth grow just over 100 meters tall. Why can't they get taller? What circumstances would allow a tree to grow taller? Currently I'm growing my trees in micro-gravity, in a sterile environment ...
[Question] [ An alien artwork carelessly flung out into space (most likely an [Assiti Shard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assiti_Shards_series#Assiti_Shard)) strikes Earth, with the following effect: **all live humans present on Earth at the time have their bodies duplicated.** * Each of the duplicated pair is consc...
[Question] [ Twenty years ago, in year 2029, World War III happened. Everyone nuked everybody else. More specifically, India and Pakistan nuked each other, the US, England, and France fired everything they had at Iran, Russia, and China, and those countries responded in kind. Iran, who had developed nukes in secret, ...
[Question] [ Ice is strange, in that the solid form is less dense than the liquid water it freezes from. This causes Ice to float on top of the water. How would our planet earth be different if something changed this property of Ice so that it became significantly denser than water. Dense enough to sink to the bottom...
[Question] [ As worldbuilders, we routinely tweak our unwitting human victims to new environments, new abilities, and new dangers. So far, we've [accelerated the natural healing rate](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/4312/if-accelerated-natural-healing-were-to-occur-what-would-happen-to-the-human-bod...
[Question] [ Now, taking out the cost to produce/collect it, assume somehow we perfected a formula or find a natural source (because that is currently very prohibitive), how feasible would be to use antimatter as a fuel source primarily for space-travel/exploration? Along with that, how much would you need to power a...
[Question] [ Imagine a world where a creationist situation holds: God (or an alien master species, if you prefer) created all the species you see in the world today, and there will never be any others. Are there any real world, science based mechanisms that could prevent evolution, and allow this world to persist wi...
[Question] [ We have many medieval questions here, so I thought I would add yet another. I have a city the approximate size of Paris with a technology level similar to that found in 1000's Western Europe. I have heard of sieges lasting for a [long time](http://listverse.com/2013/09/20/10-of-the-longest-sieges-in-hist...
[Question] [ As a follow up from [riding flying creatures to attack castles](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/186/how-would-the-existence-of-large-rideable-flying-creatures-have-changed-the-desi), let's assume that the practice is now so prevalent that a standard castle is no longer defensible. How w...
[Question] [ Anime, Disney, and many, many other works feature human characters with ridiculously oversized eyes. This is usually just a stylistic choice, and had little to no effect on anything in-story or in-universe. What if it *did* have an effect? Say that a real-world human was given eyes of the same proportion...
[Question] [ Inspired by [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/137585/what-if-earth-became-a-rogue-planet) and my comment on one of the answers. If the earth were flung out of the solar system, it would rapidly become far too cold for any unprotected life to survive on the surface. Any re...
[Question] [ So, yesterday I found an invisibility cloak in my attic. It's got an instruction manual with it, and there it was mentioned that it is truly an invisibility cloak: it **bends the light (actually, all electromagnetic radiation)** around the wearer so that absolutely nothing can detect the wearer when look...
[Question] [ As recorded in Genesis 11:1-9, the ancients allegedly built a tower to the skies in a valley in Babylon (near present-day Baghdad), and God scattered them across the Earth as a punishment. According to the sources brought in [this question](https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/21780/) and [this one](https...
[Question] [ I am considering a human-like species that has a consciously controlled womb- like organ. These beings would be able to gestate and give birth to any smallish creature that fitted their purpose. Naturally, matter doesn't appear out of nowhere; they have to ingest enough food in order to do this. The crea...
[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] [ Would humanoid sized insectoid lifeforms be relatively slow considering that their exoskeleton would have to be rather heavy since it takes more 'armor' to get the same relative protection? Generally they are portrayed as very quick physically, but I think they would actually be slower, like a knight wal...
[Question] [ There are two types of dragons in the world today. Smaugs are bat-like lizards that can grow up to 30 feet, with a pair of arms and legs. They also sport a pair of large wings that allow them to fly. These dragons inhabit the western world. On the eastern side, a species of dragons called shenrons are do...
[Question] [ Lets say an alien trickster wants to trick a group of human astronauts into thinking they’ve been transported to another world far away. But in reality, he wants them to stay on good old Earth, throughout all of this. What place on Earth would be best for faking being on another planet? *Criteria* * This...
[Question] [ Suppose there are several cases of zombie outbreaks across the globe during World War One, it was believed that the Central Powers\* unleashed a deadly fungal disease into the world, hoping to create panics and confusions among the Allies forces. It is known that conventional weapon like rifles and gren...
[Question] [ I'm designing a setting (or in this case, a game) that is dealing with the early days of a colony on a new Earth-like planet (but without any contact with Earth). In this case, while there are no life forms on the planet, there is an Earth-like temperature and pressure and therefore significantly large o...
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[Question] [ What nutrients are only found in people and not in animals or at least in scarce quantities in animals? What nutrients force ogres to feed on people? **Considerations** Ogres are not a different and separated species of humans or hominids, they are more like a wide spread tribe or ethnic group of people ...
[Question] [ Time travel has been invented and it goes like this. You travel backwards in time at the same speed you normally travel forward. Everything is identical - you do all the actions the same but in reverse. When you return to the present you live your life at normal speed just as you did the first time. So w...
[Question] [ In a story I am working on there are 5 AI on a space station of varying levels of social, image recognition and general intelligence. At least one is good enough to pass a Turing test and do image recognition, and this is anticipated by the people running the space station. I also assume the AI is good e...
[Question] [ For an elf-like race whose people do not age beyond physical maturity (the accumulated DNA damage associated with aging does not occur), what would prevent overpopulation? This elf-like race is fairly similar to the stock fantasy elves. Similar to humans, but more elegant, healthier, etc. It should be n...
[Question] [ In plenty of stories you have beings who age incredibly slowly and are technically immortal. I have a handful of similar such beings who have through some means or other attained the benefits of healing blood which lead to their 'immortality'. Now, I've not made these people unable to age at all. **They ...
[Question] [ I was thinking of creating mage "specialists" for my medieval fantasy world, incredibly powerful and/or skilled in only a few spells, who could do some pretty Overpowered (shortened to OP) things. But some of the concepts I keep thinking of would logically break the medieval-setting, threatening to creat...
[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. Nowd...
[Question] [ **TL;DR**: You're defending coastal medieval fortress with help of about 1000 people from attack of zombies. Long version: In my fantasy world, I'm dealing with problem of how would you defend city against zombies. Defenders are very limited in terms of magic and thus, for the purpose of the scenario, it...
[Question] [ Everyone in this world from the age of 5 can teleport to anywhere they have been before even if they forgot how to go there. This started about 4,000 B.C.E where a bright green star landed on earth and affected all humans to be able to teleport, they can teleport with them 5 times their weight (they choo...
[Question] [ What would be best "human rights" word equivalent for all intelligent beings, including humans, demi-humans, and other intelligent life forms? Example of demi-humans are Lizard folk, Cat people, etc. Intelligent meaning they can read & write and understand law. [Answer] # Natural rights The concept ...
[Question] [ In my city, a very high skyscraper stands at the center. Somehow, a tree, in a span of [x] years integrates itself into the building. Its branches reach out from the top of the building and its shadow covers a big chunk of the city. At the time the story takes place, the tree's trunk is almost as big as ...
[Question] [ I am writing a fiction set in the 'dark ages', a pre-industrial, pre-gunpowder world. On Earth that would be no later than 800 AD, but this doesn't have to match Earth. There is no magic, and I won't inject any. It is useful to my story line to eliminate horses as a mode of fast travel. I do mention oxen...
[Question] [ This culture is approximately at the very early Renaissance levels of development. There is a cultural semi-religious taboo against repairing broken things - you are expected to take care of your objects and minor repairs are allowed (like renewing paint, or filling up cracks and scratches), but as soon ...
[Question] [ In a world I am building, human and a plethora of aliens have met and they are meeting, but unlike many stories on the topic, this scenario focuses on the individuals; how does Conner interact with xyzikzhidth? How does Bill interact with Đóŧẅen? That kind of stuff. One of the stories features a strappin...
[Question] [ As far as my baby world goes, androids are slaves to humans, but a niche group of humans wants androids to have basic rights (sort of like Hermione and the house elves in *Harry Potter*). Androids perform manual labor and housework mostly, but some very rich families won't hire nannies and instead buy an...
[Question] [ By the late 1950s, the USA, the UK and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them that any nuclear exchange was virtually guaranteed to result in the destruction of both sides - known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD. **How can Mutually Assured Destruction be made....
[Question] [ If Japan had a population boom and had to expand their land area, on a very large scale, by draining the Sea of Japan, what is the most effective way of doing so in the shortest amount of time? [Answer] Draining a sea is not an easy job. The Dutch know something about it. And here you are not talking ...
[Question] [ If we didn't have the capability to use faster than light travel then how could we stay unified and are any realistic examples in science fiction? [Answer] If you have only lightspeed communications and STL transport, any organization larger than a single star system (including close binaries etc.) wi...
[Question] [ So, I have a group of 6 small kingdoms (in a medieval low fantasy world) that share a lot of their culture, since they were just one country in the past. In my story, a powerful nation (let's call it P) is becoming too dangerous and has the potential to beat all these kingdoms in a war (and go even furth...
[Question] [ If a modern Day tank suddenly appears in 14th century Constantinople; in perfect condition, along with all the ammo, fuel, and components needed for it to run. How much of the technology in the tank could the Roman (Byzantine) Empire replicate, if not reproduce? [Answer] On a very fundamental level, t...
[Question] [ One of my characters is extremely strong, due to their unusual physiology. They can bench press hundreds of kilograms, and so on. They had to hide their strength for a long time, but, as a result, they got immensely fat, so eventually, they give in and decide to start exercise again. Unfortunately, they ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Restricting antimatter - practical rather than legal measures](/questions/118966/restricting-antimatter-practical-rather-than-legal-measures) (11 answers) [Using magnetic fields to prevent a weaponized warp drive?](/questions/97662/using-magnetic-fields...
[Question] [ I would like a planet that's a tropical paradise on one side but covered in ice and glaciers on the opposite side, whether it be the Southern-Northern or the Western-Eastern hemisphere. I know it would be theoretically possible by making the planet tidally locked to its star but I'd like to avoid that b...
[Question] [ An alien race suddenly appears and immediately declares that their intention is to conquer Earth. However, they are surprisingly amicable about it - they arrive, make known their intentions, maybe meet with high ranking politicians from various countries. They give us time to prepare, but either imply or...
[Question] [ A non-human society is engineering minded by nature and is extremely advanced, to the point where they (with wide-scale community effort) have learned how to create wormholes and have practical space travel. Is it reasonable that they are simply clueless on waging war? I want these people to have sought ...
[Question] [ I like the classic trope of dragons loving gold and collecting it in their lair, yet it seems poorly justified. I know that it is often used as a metaphor for greed; "dragons disease" to show how material wealth corrupts people. I would like the same behavior in my dragons, but with a realistic and scien...
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[Question] [ In some of my first questions on this site I asked about a world with a day that lasts 9 years. Many people agreed that life on this planet could survive via migration, but not evolve. The problem lies in the earliest stages of evolution, as microscopic single-celled organisms would not know to or be abl...
[Question] [ I have a very simple question regarding a small problem I cannot find a single satisfying answer to. I am trying to create a country with a prominent Slavic culture. In my story, an alien world has been colonized by the nations of Earth. Respectively, each name their lands and territories how they see fi...
[Question] [ I would like to know if a very advanced civilisation could rule an entire galaxy without mastering teleportation or any other method that allows traveling faster than light (unless you give mathematical and experimental evidence that this is possible). By ruling a galaxy, I mean that the galaxy governmen...
[Question] [ Long ago when apes and hominids split off a third group began to live in the seas and became [mermaids/seafolk](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/167943/realistic-sea-humanoids). Among several species of mermaids, there is a species of "giant mermaids" who have orca like skin patterns. ![...
[Question] [ I've been exploring language for the past few weeks, and I came up with what I believe is an interesting idea. Let's say that a fictitious religious sect decides to, for some reason, make a language. This means that this language can have all sorts of weird features that would never crop up in human lang...
[Question] [ In a society where everyone receives equal education regardless of who they are, why would they all have to go to a boarding school, rather than a public school? This is at no extra cost to the parents. They are kept in dorms separated by age, and are required to attend from ages 5-16. They are not allow...
[Question] [ In Hungarian, there is a new-ish folk-song sung by school-children who dislike school whenever it snows to the tune of Twinkle, twinkle, little star: > > Hull a pelyhes dinamit, > > > Robbantsuk fel a sulit! > > > Minden gyerek várva vár, > > > Hogy repüljön a tanár. > > > [irrelevant verses re...
[Question] [ Regarding the idea of a generation ship carrying a community of people for thousands of years to another planet: Is there is any material for an engineered structure or set of systems that will resist oxidation for the many thousands of years required for the journey? Also, material fatigue and wear cau...
[Question] [ The story situation is that a generation ship is headed to another solar system where there are several planets in the star's habitable zone and once the ship arrives, it will approach these planets one by one and examine them to see whether they're suitable for colonization. I'm assuming such a ship wou...
[Question] [ **Skip to Info if you can't be bothered reading** **(Story Plot)** There are two super powers in a "cold war" scenario. One side decided that nuclear war wasn't the only thing they could use to hurt their enemy. Nicknamed The Wheat Eater Virus, its use was (at first) to destroy the enemy's food supply, m...
[Question] [ What would be an effective zombie killing structure that an average person could put together in a typical suburban neighborhood? Previous discussion that touched on the topic often rely upon machinery like wood chippers that would break down after some number of zombies, serendipitous natural structures...
[Question] [ The setting is in a region of a planet comparable to Earth's California in regards to location. The soil is extremely rich in nutrients and subsurface water. But for the past three million years the planet has been locked in an ice-age. Could 'trees' adapt to grow down through the ice and snow to reach t...
[Question] [ Suppose an extra-solar object the size and mass of the Earth, travelling at a speed of $26\ \mathrm{km/s}$, the same of ʻOumuamua (the first known interstellar object crossing our solar system), hit the Sun at its equator. What would be the consequences to the Sun in terms of heating and heliosphere modi...
[Question] [ All living things possess a form of spiritual energy called reishi. This energy is used by humans to fuel their magical spells, but is also necessary for life to continue. There is a ritual that removes the reishi from an individual through a human sacrifice. The reishi is drawn from the body and transfe...
[Question] [ Consider that I want to let an object to share knowledge to a civilization living in a far future (~10.000 years after today). It can be a book or any object which can store information, must be functional in this future and must be autonomous (it requires no other devices to work or to be read). This ci...
[Question] [ Is it possible to sabotage a horse-drawn vehicle in such a way that it fails a bit after leaving town? If so, how precise can this delay be and how would it be done? [Answer] Compromise the linchpin. Carriages often used linchpins to hold the wheel to the axle. A failure or loss of that pin would lead...
[Question] [ Working on a D&D campaign. As a physics nerd, I'd like the orbital mechanics of the planet, its sun, and its moons, to follow standard Newtonian/Keplerian mechanics. I'm trying to come up with an interesting set of parameters so that there are neat and tidy alignments at certain times. The system was sem...
[Question] [ I am trying to develop a nomad population of human beings, living in a steppe like environment without modern technology, which for plot reasons don't use fire for keeping their refuges warm. I was thinking that they could use a bed of mowed grass with suitable thickness, possibly adding new grass when n...
[Question] [ In a (marginally) cursed world rains of blood are an occasional occurrence. The water in the clouds is magically transmuted into blood at the point it starts to coalesce into droplets (no need to worry about how to evaporate blood), and will transform back into water after a short while on the ground (so...
[Question] [ Assuming it would be possible (but not required) to share resources between ships during the journey, but doing so takes minimal (but non-zero) resources. Is it more fuel/space efficient to have a fleet of generation ships (either several self-contained ships, or specialised ships), or to have one large ...
[Question] [ Year 2998. December 20. One thousand years ago, there was a big change in the world, called [Euro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_euro), and most Europeans had a radical change in their daily lives (in year 2851, all the world agreed on Earth currency, but that is a different story). Now, t...
[Question] [ My protagonist, let's call her Alice, must acquire a priceless artifact, located deep inside an ancient temple. If this were a ruin, the exercise would be academic, but the Temple was protected by the ancient and terrible power that built it. The only way in and out of the Innermost Chamber where the th...
[Question] [ I’m writing a post-apocalyptic [RPG](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game), but I have a problem when dealing with the reconstruction of the society. The apocalypse left alive only the young people up to 21 years of age. Even though the event that triggered the apocalypse is over, the effects l...
[Question] [ A spacecraft designed for interstellar travel is discovered 100 million years later. What pieces of it still work, what parts would be easily repairable, and what would still be even vaguely recognizably intact? Alternatively, if nothing would work, what percentage of the ship would even be left (after s...
[Question] [ I've got an intelligent humanoid species living on a planet very similar to Earth's. However, on this planet, rainstorms are more frequent and slightly... different. Each raindrop is at least an inch in diameter, making rainstorms more intense and creating some interesting design problems for the inhabit...
[Question] [ I'm writing about a setting where the people have some advanced theoretical knowledge, but as yet limited manufacturing ability; in particular, they do not yet have metallurgy, but they are trying to make some fairly complex machines such as spinning wheels, wheelbarrows, pottery wheels and watermills, t...