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I am revisiting an older scenario I came up with, but I have been experiencing many of the same problems. I have a swampy, jungle world which flooded, causing a species of fire ant that made an ant raft to evolve a collective behavior, ditching anthills and becoming an ant-hill (I'm not sorry). Over thou... |
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So, the idea in a story is that in far far future there’s a trend that rich people, they are able to buy themselves planets. Tiny little planets with sizes 4-6 km (3-4 miles) in diameter. The company that makes them, seeks for an asteroid which is as round as possible, and then drills and makes a hole in... |
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In the past, we had black and white photos only, then we got color films to take photos. Stepping into the 21st century, digital photos were becoming popular, and the number of pixels alone are increasing rapidly.
30 years from now, what will a typical photo look like? Does it have much more pixels tha... |
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According to [an answer to a previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/88499/41373), it would be comparatively impractical to conduct mining on a rocky planet when there are moons, asteroids, comets, etc. that have smaller mass, so much less fuel would be required to reach their respec... |
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I'd like to implement a currency that is "alive".
Picture a small, rat-sized animal that is:
* only found in a small geographic region, making it reasonably scarce.
* lethargic, or in hibernation most of the time, unless to fly/burrow away from predators.
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The traditional Amazon tribe in mythology is a society of only women that reproduces by capturing outside men. Suppose that the Amazons were an actual sub-population/subspecies of humans that, as the mythology goes, was all female and could only reproduce by capturing outside ("normal" human) males. What... |
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The Enlightenment brought both technological and scientific advancement (starting a period of discovery and achievement that hasn't yet ended) and social/political advancement. We generally think of the revolutionizing of science (towards more fact-oriented, provable science instead of sentimental, unpro... |
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With the increase in living standards, the number of children by women is decreasing in highly developed countries.
**Question:** Is it conceivable (with the aggravating factors proposed below) to see this tendency become global in the future, and the population ending up decreasing up to extinction lev... |
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I have seen a similar-ish question on here, but it doesn't quite match my inquiry.
Suppose you have an interstellar civilization (the means of travel between stars being stable two-way wormholes on the outer edges of each system), which has somehow also circumvented the light speed problem for communicat... |
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After asking my question about seeing [black holes](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/5262/19) in your path between the stars, I also wondered abut other more mundane objects. Black holes affect large areas of space so even if you didn't get 'close' it could still affect your trajectory. The answ... |
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This is a rewrite of [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/92525/if-an-inventor-discovered-how-to-build-a-teleportation-device-and-used-it-what) question in an attempt to bring it back in topic and avoid the story based objections.
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A mutant who sees multiple futures has predicted that the world will be invaded by aliens. Every future ends disastrously for the human race with us being wiped out. The only one in which we survive is one in which the American mob retains its power into the modern age and plays a vital role in our survi... |
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As stated in the topic: I would like to have [Project Olympus](https://www.wired.com/2013/09/project-olympus-1962/)-style space stations served by Apollo-like spacecraft in a world where neither nuclear power (and weapons) nor transistors were developed into actually workable devices.
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I see this in so many maps. Normally, the water flows downhill because of gravity but here it is the opposite, rivers will go above the hills. When you mention this incoherence, the authors refuse to change it because that's how they want it. Apparently, the laws of physic does not need to apply with riv... |
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So, suppose a medieval society knows how to create vulcanized rubber. (As long as they have rubber sap, sulphur, and the recipe, it shouldn't be outside of their capabilities. The process is super simple, and Charles Goodyear stumbled onto the process by accident.)
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I am developing a (magical) first-millenium CE alternate history based on an extension of historically matriarchal societies, and am trying to decide how this would affect the stereotypical male personality. To obtain the desired cultural shift, I have applied a few magic-based tech changes, specifically... |
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On Earth, all plants are green because they contain the pigment chlorophyll, which photosynthesizes by absorbing all light except green light.
However, it is quite possible - if not likely - that alien planets would have plant life (As in, organisms functionally similar to Earth's plants) containing diff... |
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Requirements:
1. There is a solid surface.
2. Somewhere on the surface, the temperature exceeds 2,230 C, such that pure silica vaporizes.
3. Elsewhere on the surface, the temperature is at most 25 C, such that humans can be comfortable.
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Let's assume that we live in a world similar to ours, but with bio and nanotechnology that is 25 years (give or take a few) ahead of what we have today. Few years ago scientists in most advanced country created a programmable nanobots. They were able to withhold this information from public for a time ne... |
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Consider such a tidally locked planet:
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Many issues with tidally locked worlds have been discussed, but I'm not clear on how the water cycle for an otherwise Earth-like tidally locked world, would be sustai... |
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In an act of magical warfare, a wizard opens a gateway leading to the center of the Sun. Matter can pass through the gate freely in either direction. The gate does not last very long -- the wizard dies immediately and the gate vanishes shortly after that.
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I found an interesting [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star#White_House_petition), quoted in an [answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/3378/2072) here.
I'm looking into writing a story where someone has built a [Death Star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star). Th... |
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As a series of anatomically correct myths, here we have the griffin. Is there a realistic way that [griffins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin) could evolve? Using Earth or near-Earth biology, how close could I get to the classic griffin? Is there a reason that a griffin couldn't evolve?
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We all know and presumably love enormous space battles with vast battleships doing minimal damage to each other for hours before being blown up by a single fighter.
On Earth battleships became big white elephants with high cost and minimal use, vulnerable to every submarine, aircraft carrier, and missile... |
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What could be most reasonable explanation for rapid increase in life expectancy for all people on earth?
Some points:
* Effect can be increased over time: 100 years in 2020, 140 - in 2030.. and so on, till it reaches about 250 years of life expectancy.
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Space is two things: empty and (mostly) dark. This makes it really, really hard to hide in it, because to do anything in it, chances are, you'll be shining a big bright light through it.
Even if you're not trying to do anything, the emptiness of it makes it very difficult to hide from some kind of scanni... |
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I've designed an alien race of bipedal humanoids with [digitigrade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitigrade) legs.
This race's advanced scientific progress means that they use traditionally human-associated technology, or similar (such as vehicles.)
It did however occur to me that the double-jointed le... |
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My hapless wanderer (I believe we agreed to call her Alice) won the struggle at the [Morrow Castle](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10939/how-to-defeat-a-precognitive-warrior). This next challenge will test her abilities (and ours, as worldbuilders) like never before.
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In a future where all cars and public services are self-driving the way, I am assuming traffic congestion would be seriously limited, if not removed completely, because the road network would also have a companion communication network between vehicles, allowing the implementation of some optimal bandwid... |
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What might clothing designed to be worn, long-term, in microgravity look like? For the purpose of this question there are two categories. Practical, or everyday wear, and impractical or simply fancy wear. But these categories can overlap. The second is just for those designs you might not want to wear ev... |
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For purposes of this question, assume whichever body position and/or axis of acceleration is most likely to provide a successful outcome. And if it is not possible at all, what is the maximum length of time that a human could withstand 5Gs?
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So as an experiment, I took a bunch of machine learning algorithms (neural nets, genetic programming, traditional optimization, etc ...) and connected them in a mess of reinforcing loops, along with of my own algorithms. I'm pretty sure it's Turing complete, and could in theory develop any algorithm, but... |
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I need a fortress that will stand up to the following magical creatures, must be above ground and have a fairly large (20-50 thousand) civilian population as well as a roughly equal number of soldiers, middle-ages level technology:
* **Dragons:** Enormous (75-100 ft. long) flying creature, arrow proof (... |
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Astronomers place planet Earth under what they call a "Goldilocks Zone"--a spot in the solar system where conditions are ideal for liquid water to form, thus making the creation of life possible.
In Norse mythology, there are nine separate worlds--Midgard, Asgard, Vanaheimr, Jotunheimr, Alfheimr, Hel, Ni... |
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The sea is used as an analogy in space travel, and sometimes it works well. Ships sail on long journeys, between distant lands, across a hostile medium.
But these analogies tend to break down when it comes to planetary invasion. Planets aren't like islands: because an island has a coast that can be defen... |
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Virtually all animals on earth ranging from insects through to swimmers, fliers, mammals and reptiles, have a symmetrical body plan. In other words legs and wings come in pairs, as do most sensory organs. The mouth is centrally placed, etc. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_in_biology#Bilateral_symm... |
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I've been thinking about a steampunk style world where a lot of the transport is done with balloon powered airships. Obviously there are conflicts and I'm trying to think of ways these craft could be a little more resilient to attack. A flying navy.
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I thought it might be visually and thematically interesting for a character to have a sword made from just one piece of steel, like those knife sets you can buy. Something like this, but obviously more sword-length, intricate, and double-edged, maybe with a crossbar:
[, I have begun to wonder about the kinds of weapons mer-people would use when fighting one another. Normally, mermen are assumed to us... |
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My story takes place in a near-future where robots have gotten so realistic it is impossible to tell them apart visually from humans. Hyperreal human robots are the latest fad, where the robot has its own body functions, needs to eat, and can die. Where the story takes a turn, is that a mechanic who is s... |
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I am writing a story that is meant to take place after the death of the sun. However, 7.5 billion years might be a little long for most people to stomach. Is there anything that could cause the sun to turn into a Red Giant sooner?
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Several light-years away, an alien species has just discovered Mars. They deem it a candidate for colonization, so they launch a [Voyager](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1)-like probe to get a closer look. They have no idea that there's life in our solar system; they just want to examine Mars more ... |
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In a civilisation similar to humans (although not necessarily humanoid) living on a planet the size of Earth, could the whole civilisation (no limits on size, although I was thinking a few thousand at least) exist in space as **space nomads**?
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I had in mind a sci-fi setting where humans have begun terraforming nearby planets without the benefit of faster-than-light travel. For example, [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_terrestrial_exoplanet_candidates) lists a handful of terrestrial planets within 15 light years. What I... |
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Dragons commonly breathe fire. They can do so over considerable distances, often many times their body length. But this needs to be powered somehow, by a substance that the dragon can generate on its own. Flamethrowers in real life can be powered by either a gas or a liquid.
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I'm trying to come up with a the most economical design for artificial gravity. The simplest design for a space ship is to have a spinning ring structure around a central body. People living in the ring experience gravity, but the central body is still zero G.
But making a ring is expensive, the walls ne... |
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In many fantasy worlds people send messages using ravens, they're often portrayed as being intelligent birds.
To the best of my knowledge, on earth only homing pigeons have been used to carry messages backwards and forwards (they're also restricted to a single destination).
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It bothers me in games when the price of something is seemingly arbitrarily set.
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This is mostly asked out of simple curiosity since this is the backstory of a [LARP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game)er’s character within my story and thus has little expectation of scientific rigor. But basically, this character is one of the last survivors of a tribe who li... |
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## The Situation:
The year is 2014 and the city of Prague is under siege. Cut off from supply, the city prepares to defend itself with whatever is at hand. The Jewish community offers the services of as many Golems as they can make, but are concerned that they will be ineffective against modern weaponry.... |
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Lo and behold! A zombie apocalypse broke out inside Roman territory. In the Iberia peninsula. Being smart as vitruvius is, he devised a plan on how to deal with the zombies. Use them as power sources!
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For sentient avians, knowing the location and behavior of currents in the air would be vitally important. Jet streams, thermals, downdrafts, and shear layers would all be important in their daily lives.
I imagine that bird people would want to map these currents. While they might change on a daily basis,... |
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The size of a planet affects its gravity, its climate, and its likelihood of developing life.
Earth is large enough for an advanced civilization to develop. A smaller body such as Europa, while able support life as well, might not be large enough to birth an advanced civilization.
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Before humanity develops actual bidirectional time-travel – assuming it’s possible at all – there will be years, probably decades or even centuries before that during which physics theories prove the general possibility of traveling through time. Philosophers will realize their duty to come up with the m... |
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I want two populations to coexist in a world with extensive tunnels carved into the rock. One population lives in the tunnels, coming out to trade and gather food. The other is aware of the tunnels but is wary of entering them.
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Imagine there is a country in which there are all important natural resources (oil, gas, metal ores, wood, etc.) in their natural form and which lies in a temperate climate region. There may be some portion of a sea. The country is completely isolated from the rest of the world - nothing (except for air,... |
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Let's say that there's a "dumb" AI - it can only learn within preset limits, and cannot learn anything that is outside of those limits.
However, it's very good at imitating human speech, and the loudspeakers attached to its chassis are top-notch - so much so that, if you heard it directly but didn't see ... |
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If you have miles of steel pipes 10m thick, could you pump water from the sea to the centre of Antarctica, then pump it into the air like a geyser so that it falls around the pipe. As the fallen seawater freezes and makes a cone, extensions are added to the pipe to raise the height and more water is pump... |
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Modern cities are built from concrete with steel rebar because it is abundantly available and provides enough tensile strength. Concrete requires cement. Cement is made from limestone. Limestone is made from coral and skeletal remains. On lifeless planets there are no organic materials such as limestone ... |
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Like our good SciFi prophet [Isaac Arthur](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g) postulates, for a civilization with a decent space presence planets are overrated and rubbish.
1. They're down there in the deep gravity well.
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I have time traveled to the past on an oriental country in southeast Asia. I want to hide my island from European colonists using some technology available in both the future and the past.
Would building giant mirrors solve my problem? Thanks!
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In the school of fine magic, all magic teachers must undergo a course on forbidden dark magic such as witchcraft and voodoo curses and achieve a satisfactory result in the exam before they are qualified as a teacher. It is forbidden so they can only do theory but they must also swear never to teach their... |
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I am aware of [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/55804/developing-a-government-that-can-hide-an-immortal-ruler-and-their-secret-to-imm), but I think my situation is somewhat different. In the low-fantasy setting I'm working on, the king is a vampire in a world in which vamp... |
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The Illuminati, Men In Black, NWO, Lizard people and various other secret organisations exist in my world, and for some reason (probably related to plot) they all favour having ‘hidden’ floors in tower blocks. The basic idea is that you walk into an elevator with X floors, punch the right buttons and end... |
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In a world where people have advanced robotics and A.I. to the point that most people can just have a machine do things for them, is there any reason for slaves to be used also?
Obviously nobody needs slaves, you can operate farms and factories with paid labor or robots. Not to mention just doing things ... |
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In my universe, humans are pretty good with AI and have some experience in space combat, as nations fought for resources.
Regarding the world, humanity remains in the solar system and is in space mostly for science and resources - humans in space stations, scientific colonies on mars/venus, small colony ... |
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Imagine if we would hit a point in time where we would accept that living in a virtual world is better for being happy and would make us near immortal.
And then we would build something like the matrix and upload our minds into a virtual world.
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I am looking for ways to tell time when the sky is completely blacked out all the time.
I am aware of nails and other metal objects inserted into candles. Due to vegetation dying due to this calamity, sources of candle making materials could be in short supply. Such as: bees, animal fat,uhh human fat.
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In [Plague-inc](http://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc) the most typical strategy is trying to infect everyone, while staying hidden by not harming infected people (when a virus, bacteria, fungus is found, people start working on the cure). Once everyone in infected the epidemic starts to kill. ... |
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Would a chainsaw be a practical weapon in the medieval ages where swords and bows were the their main armaments? How well would it do against swords and shields?
Disregarding the problem with fuel of course. Just go with one of those chainsaws that always show up with a suspicious hockey masked man.
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Yttri are an odd race. Like many species on their planet they can selectively position themselves along the r/K reproductive strategy spectrum. r species are those (like some species of frog, fish or insect) that throw out thousands of 'expendable' but cheap children in the hope that enough of them will ... |
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In my story trolls are a large humanoids (8-9ft tall) and are about as intelligent as humans. Elves are similar sizes to humans and are also as intelligent. If trolls are about smart as humans, then why would so many practice this inhumane tradition? I was thinking of a few ways, perhaps trolls were hunt... |
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After reading the question [Are “Midas” swords useless for warfare?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/119564/28789) it really tricked my mind of finding ways on what to do will all that gold.
So I was wondering: assume a war broke out and you used your Midas weapons to instantly kill soldiers (b... |
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In the system of magic that I am using I try to follow the laws of physics as much as possible. The idea being that whatever magic can do, a scientist and machine can eventually do. One of the things my spellcasters can do is transfer and convert kinetic energy. I know there isn’t a scientific principle ... |
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How can a part of a continent (super or other) remain unexplored by the apparently civilized majority?
The undiscovered part must be habitable but inaccessible, by land or sea, so that the rest of the world is completely in the dark about their methods of war, culture and the flora and fauna.
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Midichlorian's are chemical compounds found within every living cell that forms the basis between the connection life and the Force. Without midichlorians, life would be impossible. The amount of midichlorians in a life form represents its ability to understand, comprehend, and manipulate the Force.
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What would birds look like if they did not have to fight gravity to fly?
The question comes from the premise put forward by some that gravity is not real and that what holds us down is pressure caused by density.
Obviously, this is not the case, but if it were, how would it (yes, conceptually) affect the... |
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Alright, this is a little hard to describe. This story I'm writing includes a tiger that was experimented on and had a living cobra replace its tail, with the cobra still alive and able ... |
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For millennia the Arbol and the Byrond clans have engaged in bloody warfare. A benevolent wizard who is passing by and hears of this decides to stop them once and for all.
He casts a powerful spell that makes the clans invisible to each other. This includes their clothing and any artefacts (British spell... |
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Assuming that as a species, we do ourselves in, not through war but through environmental neglect and overpopulation, what species will benefit most from the effect we have had on the planet during our brief time at the top of the food chain?
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Essentially, what would, in a modern (21st century) society, cause city walls to return?
* I don't necessarily mean *stone* walls; steel, titanium, and aluminum walls are perfectly acceptable.
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In my world one of the branches of magic is Sight; foresight, farsight and hindsight.
Foresight is basically the gift of prophecy. It's limited in that the world doesn't exist in a fixed timeline, so you can only see possible or probable futures. A very powerful Seer is dangerous and can see well enough ... |
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So, I time travelled back to the year 1969. I messed around back in time for about a week before leaving. But, me being forgetful and everything, I leave behind my modern laptop ( it’s an Apple MacBook). After being found, it makes it way to the US gov’t, who quickly see its huge value. My question is, c... |
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I need to know if it’d be possible for a underground ring-like structure of immense proportions and alien design to go unnoticed by modern day sonar, radar, and geological surveying.
For an idea of size, imagine a tunnel about the ***width of a football field*** or bigger (maybe *100-200 meters* in diam... |
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The gem in question is emerald. The design has a large emerald in the center of the chest, and emerald on the shoulders, knees, and elbows. **Would the emeralds be weak points in the armor? Would the design make any practical sense at all?**
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As Luke says in an answer to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/44958/what-could-prevent-a-sentient-species-from-going-to-space), a species may never attempt space travel if they cannot see that there is something out there.
My question is just this; is that possible? Could... |
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The world has ended and our valiant group of survivors is roaming around the ruins of the old world about sixty years after the apocalypse.
Now, most people carry around black-powder muskets and maybe a few, and precious, guns of the old world.
Would it be possible to make bullets out of the alloys reg... |
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I am developing a highly advanced AI, but I am paranoid about creating a super-intelligence, so everything I do is in a computer not connected to anything more except the obvious electric plug and keyboard.
One day, the AI started to improve its own code and making itself more efficient.
Assuming that th... |
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In a Victorian society, an engineer has come up with a clever boat lift for his canal, using counterweights. In order to work correctly and most efficiently, the operators will need to know how much each boat or barge actually weighs.
How could he do this? Clearly the obvious answer is to put the boat i... |
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Imagine that we start expanding the International Space Station until it becomes a ring encircling the whole Earth. Then we started widening the ring until it met at both poles, forming an orbital eggshell around the entire planet.
Ignoring all the problems, like that it's starving the planet's surface f... |
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To simplify the question as much as possible, let's assume an Earth-like planet, part of a galaxy-spanning civilization. 30% is above water level, the rest is ocean of salt-water.
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Aliens are camping on Mars and gathering their forces ready for an invasion of Earth. They wish to find out as much as they can about us before commencing hostilities.
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How can they access the Internet and hence get a valid email address and search Google etc.?
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The world is covered in mana, the life force that flows through all things. In certain places, this mana saturates to high levels. This affects the animals living in those areas, who absorb the high concentrations. Over many, many generations, these animals mutate away from their parent species, giving r... |
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To avoid being too broad, I'd like to use the portals for purely altruistic purposes (health, environment, safety), and not for scientific or military acheivement (e.g. - not an instant space elevator, which would be to save money and a bit of the 'ol environment).
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