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For stylistic reasons, I wanted to impose some limits on the use of computers and automation to justify my setting's retro-aesthetic and elements for my science fantasy story.
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A alternate-historical story is set in a third-world country some time in the 70s or 80s. The country operates similarly to any semi-developed country in central or south America. The countryside is barely developed, with maybe some token schooling. In the cities there is some technology, like airplanes ... |
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The setting is a post-apocalyptic world in the near-future (100-200 years), where remaining humans are living in a few domed cities scattered around the world. The reason for living in the domes, and why people can't survive outside, is an uncontrolled virus that has spread. There are no humans living ou... |
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This settings' world is united by a world religion that all countries pay homage to. It is controlled by a priesthood who, as well as fulfilling traditional religious roles, keeps the peace between nations to prevent destabilizing wars from breaking out. This religion has seven gods, with each of them re... |
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**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.
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I've got an idea about boarding parties on spaceships but it's based on the continued existence of infantry, and infantry weapons that are designed to function in an open-system environment. The question is in a world where:
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I live in a pre-industrial world, very similar to earth, but with very limited access to magic (no flight, only healing very minor injuries, making flowers grow faster, lighting a candle, etc.).
I recently joined a sea sect residing on a vast archipelago, since I wanted to join the worlds strongest navy!... |
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One day on planet Earth, for reasons that are not immediately apparent to the population, all natural sources of oxygen production stop producing oxygen. No new oxygen is output from any natural source, whether it be on land, from the oceans or elsewhere.
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In the story I am writing right now, a scene portrays the attempt to kill the main character in his own apartment. After having studied the floor plan, the assassin decides to shoot him from the neighboring flat - through a wall. Here is the full plan:
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I need a way to send messages that can only be viewed once, and then become permanently unreadable (physical media destroyed, encrypted, any method as long as the message cannot be feasibly recovered by **anyone**). How can this be accomplished?
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We've got a lord - the lord returned from a quest and has been absent for a few years. When he returns it is to a little coastal town just large enough to have a thin palisade that protects it from raiders.
The lord returns with only a handful of riders, whereas none of them are knights. So there is no s... |
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How would build a road system or transportation system that respected nature with the following constraints:
* No paved roads or less than 10% paved roads
* can’t use gasoline (oil)
* allow nature to thrive and migrate with little to no impact
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**The year:** Sometime between 2025 and 2045.
**The place:** A new high-end subdivision (or custom home showroom) near you.
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So, in my story, there are six main categories of magical abilities, and everyone's able to have 5 abilities at a time. Each category of power has its own limitations on, and rules for, their use, and one category, called "Tribute", allows you to temporarily disable a certain number of your other powers ... |
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Based on a set of questions by [Pavel Janicek](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/2071/pavel-janicek) about how to [address](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32778/magical-internet-unique-addressing-system) and then [monetize](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/... |
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Radiating heat into a vacuum is a no-go, so a spaceship that generates any kind of heat is going to be in trouble. I had an idea for a potential solution - dumping your heat into a disposable heat sink component, and then spacing the component. Sort of like the heat-sink clips in Mass Effect 2, but for s... |
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Imagine a sentient species with these attributes:
* not very advanced (think primal tribes)
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* live in a high fantasy world with orcs/elves/etc
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In my world, a hyper-intelligent AI has struck out on their own to form a perfect, mechanized empire, populated by loyal robot citizens, devoted to the overlord as a child would be devoted to their parent.
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# Background
There is a world with flora and fauna based on the life forms that evolved on Gondwana (see [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/78673/how-can-i-have-a-caravan-without-camels) for previous questions). Humans colonized this continent from a distant one some thousands of ye... |
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A long time ago, far far away, in the distant future of this galaxy, (don't think about that too hard) aliens created links between star systems enabling interstellar travel to occur within a day. Now these aliens happened to make one of these links terminate somewhere in the vicinity of earth's orbit al... |
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I *love* my Death Star. There is nothing more thrilling than pulverizing a planet and feeling the inhabitants screaming out in terror.
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# The World
In the near future:
* we discover FTL
* we run into some friendly aliens that are part of a benevolent galactic "empire"
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Say we have a large cargo spaceship and a small pirate spaceship. The pirate ship is the only one with any sort of weaponry (lasers, missiles etc.), but for the pirates to safely retrieve the cargo, they decide to board the ship and take it manually since teleportation is impossible.
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This is set during the Renaissance, a mostly normal European setting.
Magic works through controlling the flux of energy. A mage can't simply create energy, but he can store and change it.
Most mages will meditate in front of water barrels, draining heat from the water until it turns into ice. A regular ... |
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In H. P. Lovecraft's *The Case of Charles Dexter Ward* (1927), a character is resurrected approximately 150 years after his death and (being an accomplished and intelligent wizard), decides that before he restarts his magical research, he will go on a quest to educate himself on recent historical, politi... |
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Can we increase life expectancy by replacing important organs for life such as the heart, kidneys, young blood, etc. *(but not the brain)*? Most organs can fail and, for the ones which we already have the technology to develop artificially, would it be beneficial even if the person is otherwise healthy?
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My story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where there are no humans. On the island of Manhattan, which has been abandoned for a long time, there are communities of animals with human-level intelligence. This includes pigeons. Physically, these birds appear to be the same New York pigeons we see to... |
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When worldbuilding, what elements can be introduced that can justify the conquest or overtaking of a technologically superior species by one that is not as advanced, or much weaker.
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In my world, a form of magic exists which allows a person to be revived after death. Prior to death, a ritual is conducted which tattoos a rune onto a person's soul. This rune is connected to a large crystalline structure kept in storage at a secure location. When a person dies, their soul is transported... |
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On my world, there is a lot of water: sea, oceans, ... There are also firm land and islands, so it's interesting to travel on the water. The problem is that there is NO wind at all, and lots of currents. These currents are mostly tidal: basically, they go in one direction for some time, then i... |
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In an alternative universe with alternative physics; light, by default, is everywhere at all times. Rays of 'dark' from a dark sun, are initially the only way to dispel the light. This provides day and night on a planet orbiting the dark sun.
When the 'sun' is in the sky, it radiates dark and produces ni... |
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Is it possible to have an aircraft carrier that travels on land instead of water? Assuming that the land aircraft carrier is the same size as a regular one the shape can be different but the overall size the same.
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The library of Alexandria was the largest and most important libraries in the ancient world. The library acquired many scrolls in its lifetime, up to 400,000, and was regarded as a capital of knowledge and learning. Many of the important and influential scholars known in history up to today took up their... |
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I'm creating a humanoid species, roughly based on humans. The difference is that not every opposite sex couple of fertile age could produce offspring.
The premise of my story is based of some men being incompatible with some women. And I mean genetically, if they mate they won't be able to produce child... |
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Let's say that due to some intricate societal laws and advanced technology, people were allowed to nominate someone for a "judgement". This person who is nominated, is usually someone who is terrible; the likes of people who trample on the less fortunate to have their way (in politics, business or even s... |
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In my fictional world, there is a race of mermaid-like creatures that are having a bit of a problem. That problem is that the surface dwellers have made something called a depth charge. This makes underwater explosion that creates pressure waves that crush their lungs. So what I’m wondering, is if there ... |
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For a while now I've gestated this concept for a culture of people who live in a tropical rainforest populated with dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles. To protect themselves from the wildlife, they build treehouses analogous to those of the Korowai people of New Guinea (although other aspects of th... |
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It’s rather cliché that an alien message would use a value like π (actually I expect it to be 2π because Earthlings are weird), but in *my* story the message which contains the bootstrap information for reading the message has **natural numbers** as an atomic construct, and fractions, continued fractions... |
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I'm trying to create well-off country, which judging solely by GDP per capita would be considered wealthy with something like 60,000 USD per capita. However the country middle class is very small.
Is such economy possible?
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If a bank wanted to operate branches in multiple cities, possibly separated by large distances, how would they prevent a fraudulent customer from double-dipping on a withdrawal?
For example, if I have $200 in the bank in Town A, I could go in and withdraw it. As soon as I get it, I rent a horse (/some ot... |
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One of the races in my world is a fox-people. They are basically small humanoids with a few vulpine features, including ears and a tail. They live primarily in a sub-arctic climate, where their additional fur is a benefit. Technology is very roughly 16th century European. I had imagined there were indivi... |
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Brief setting notes: it's a "basically earth" type situation, a spinning ball of rock in space with the same size and gravity and atmosphere and magnetic fields and everything else.
The main difference is that there is also a HUGE dungeon-cave system across the continent. No one knows how deep it goes, ... |
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In my [other question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/67281/what-off-earth-colony-would-be-easiest-to-build) I tried to find out if it makes any sense to colonize other planets or moons instead of just building space stations. The answer I accepted seems very well elaborated to me and ... |
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If you were to hook up a human being to a sort of syringe sized water wheel to generate power using the force of their blood flow; how much power could they generate?
Consider a human in a medically induced coma on a steady drip of some kind of stimulant like adrenaline to speed up their heart rate and b... |
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I’m writing a low magic fantasy story in which there’s a race of creatures called shadow-thralls that were basically bred as a slave race by a wizard thousands of years in the past. In the present day,they’ve somewhat assimilated into human cities after being liberated, however they instinctively t... |
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In regards to fantasy dates, they're usually set somewhere between 100 - 9000 W.E (Whatever), but rarely exceed 10,000. Is there a reason for this besides being more aesthetically pleasing?
More importantly, what happens when the date becomes too long?
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I have a new fluid, called Unobtaniol, which is a room temperature frictionless superfluid. It has the same physical properties as liquid helium, but with less freezing everything.
A friend of mine reckons that it would be great for lubricating gears, pistons, various forms of reciprocating arm, worm ass... |
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Relating to my earlier question [Is it a good idea to harvest the sun to terraform Venus?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/236518/is-it-a-good-idea-to-harvest-the-sun-to-terraform-venus)
Suppose that we continue to “mine” the sun for hydrogen to be used as rocket fuel. If we continued t... |
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What bows are used for different situations and what makes them the best choice?
In my story a village is only easily accessible in one direction (Tall mountains around it and a fast river behind) with hills the path towards it. What would be the best bow to protect against an invasion and why? If the en... |
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In the movie [Gravity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(2013_film)), gravity embodies the persona of the film by virtue of its absence. It purportedly leaves the audience with a sense of fear of the chaotic zero-G environment and likewise leaves them with new respect/appreciation for ou... |
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Elves in fantasy are commonly depicted as having long life spans and that applies to my story as well with Elves on average living between 250 and 270 years. The question is how would this work and what evolutionary pressures would cause a group of divergent hominids to evolve into such long life spans?
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In a world based on [secular humanism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism), the powerful strive for universal well-being and individuals prefer the long-term profit for all to the short-term profit for one. Because everyone is striving for universal well-being, sustainability would be highly ... |
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If the Earth was destroyed by a cataclysmic event such as a large mass colliding with it, such that it fractured into multiple pieces, would any trace of human civilisation remain intact ?
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It's the future. The setting is about as "hard-ish sci-fi" as it is possible to be, with the one big exception of a viable FTL engine. Humans have began spreading out into the galaxy, colonising nearby star-systems that have compatible exo-planets. There are currently about 100 colonies, spread over a ro... |
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In my world, a group of "lamplighters" seek to turn off unused stars to conserve the energy for later use. This serves a few purposes, but mainly:
* It delays the heat-death of the Universe to some insanely distant point in the future.
* It can be used to preserve a planet's history. For instance, if our... |
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I am in trouble: my boss, a multi-millionaire, has just come up with a scheme, but it has problems and he wants **me** to solve them.
The whole thing started when he saw this picture:
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Old Nick is Saint Nicholas' elder brother.
He sees his brother's good work at Christmas and wants to help in his own way, and sees a gap in the market (he really can't compete with spreading good).
# The naughty list
Saint Nicholas neither punishes or rewards kids on the naughty list, but Old Nick decide... |
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First of all, I tried to look if this wasn't answered before. Found [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/65763/what-is-the-highest-pressure-humans-can-live-in-in-comfort) and [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/65182/what-is-the-highest-pressure-any-life-form-coul... |
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I've always loved well-done ghosts. However, I've always hated the afterlife-speculation that they engender if used in a story. So I need a way to get ghosts without the fluffy spiritualistic bits. This is **not** a value judgement on the afterlife, I just don't want to cheapen the concept with easy answ... |
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On a world I am building, the day and night cycle lasts 9 years, resulting in the majority of animals migrate across the planet. One of the problems that my sapient races (one on the out going night side and one on the up coming night side) suffer is that they cannot stay in one place long enough to reli... |
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in 2015, I asked [How can a planet-spanning empire keep their soldiers experienced without wars to fight?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/22669/how-can-a-planet-spanning-empire-keep-their-soldiers-experienced-without-wars-to). After doing some more thinking and mental worldbuilding bas... |
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## Some background
In the movie [*The Wandering Earth*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth), the rotation of Earth is slowed to a stop, and then 10000 engines are strapped to one side of the planet and used to accelerate it out of the solar system. The plot also involves slingshotting arou... |
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So, let us go back in time to the year 1973, specifically around October of 1973; the time frame of the Yom Kippur War. In our timeline, the conflict almost became WWIII after the Soviets threatened to intervene on behalf of Egypt after the ceasefire began to break down. After the American Sixth Fleet wa... |
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**Would it be practical for a small, largely isolated country to have a drafted army to be hired out to other countries as guards for caravans or a policing force?** The soldiers would all serve around 4 years, not counting training. How would this work... would the patrons pay the rulers of the country ... |
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Picture the future, where man kind has spread out across the galaxy.
What would be the most precious and sought after materials?
Today it is metals like gold and platinum that are most sought after. Would this still be true in the future? Am I right in thinking gold would be more abundant in space and th... |
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I have a magical children’s fantasy land, which is bordered by mountains on its northern side. I want to make it so that anyone travelling too far north is likely to enter one of many trap pocket dimensions which are easy to walk into but extremely difficult to exit; once you’re inside, the outside edges... |
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I watched a generic Da-Vinci-Code-like french movie that, in a certain point, featured a secret society trying to find an item of great value that was lost in a vault built centuries ago (millenia, if I remember it correctly). Obviously, to gain access to the vault, a key is needed - sinc... |
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This takes place in a magical world with a medieval setting. They've undergone an apocalypse (not defined yet, but it has no relation with necromancy) that wiped all but few thousand survivors, all permanently scarred from the tragical event that left humanity hopeless.
With so many casualties and so few... |
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Is it possible to have plants that wouldn’t burn?
Having the plant getting damaged by fire is fine, but I want the plant not to burn at all. It does not need to survive, it just must not catch fire (for roughly an hour).
This is going to be a plant from another world, but I would like to know if this is ... |
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In what ways could an island be protected from tsunamis, given the following constraints?:
* It lies in the middle of the ocean, at least several hundred kilometers from the nearest continent.
* It does not rise up from a continental shelf - the surrounding ocean is at least a couple of kilometers deep.
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There is a planet that is orbiting around **not** a single star, but the core of a galaxy. It is independent of the other solar systems in the galaxy, but is affected by the center of mass of the core.
**It is orbiting very near the speed of light.**
It does have a clean orbit, meaning, it does not colli... |
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My world is in the mid-Bronze Age, very loosely based on ancient Mesopotamia. Metal is scarce and generally of poor quality, and the only iron available is meteoric in origin. Gold is relatively common, and is used liberally for decorative purposes.
The continent is split in two by an enormous crevasse o... |
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Crude Oil, is a term used to describe [petroleum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum) products harvested from geological formations beneath the Earth's surface. As a fuel they maybe called [hydrocarbons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbon), hydrocarbons can be found/created in sources other t... |
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A friend of mine, ɹɐqooɟ, lives in a large globular cluster where stellar encounters and collisions are very common. His civilization is a Type 1.8 civilization, having built half of a Dyson Sphere around their star.
Astronomers on his planet (a super-Earth of $7M\_\oplus$ orbiting a F5V star) have disco... |
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I came across this interesting weapon by H.G. Wells, from his novel, *The World Set Free*, about a special type of atomic bomb that will explode indefinitely.
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I want to check if the geopolitical system of my world is actually stable. Here's the background on the HAMMER protocol, the treaty that unwound Mutually Assured Destruction:
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All nations got nuclear ICBMs about 350 years ago. Mutually Assured Destruction reigned a... |
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What would happen to the fish/animals living in the ocean, if the water became 50% less salty, within the space of three months? Would everything die, or would they evolve very quickly?
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Is it possible for an Earth-like planet to exist where the light reflected by the moon is, not as powerful, but close in intensity to daylight?
And if so, what would be necessary for it? A moon much closer to the planet? Different chemical composition? Different moon cycle? Multiple moons??
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So here's the deal: my story takes place in modern America in the aftermath of an unexplained event where a runic magic system was introduced to humanity by an unknown entity. Every week a new rune is given to everyone on Earth over the age of 13, and everyone can keep any six of their choosing before ha... |
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Youtube, Vine, Twitter, Tumblr, 4chan, Reddit, Stack Overflow, heck, even Github or Slashdot...all these online, primarily social sites have been able to build up not only tremendous communities, but "celebrities", sometimes even actual stars as well.
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When you delete data, you make it impossible to retrieve for **all** times in the future, assuming you have done it right.
However, the data still existed in the *past*. In a world set in the 22nd century, where time travel has been achieved with negative mass tachyons, people can simply go back in time ... |
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Two medieval armies are fighting one another. Their infantries are approximately equal, and their artillery pieces are well matched. During one battle, they enter what appears to be a stalemate.
Then one side reveals that they have a trick up their sleeve. A wizard, who has been secretly working for thei... |
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In my world, I have a form of magic that can be used by a practitioner to connect with a subject's mind at touch range, and effectively give an experienced, powerful practitioner total control over that person's mind and body.
Such a practitioner could easily kill an individual, or - given a minute or so... |
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As previously stated, I am constructing a world that has a day lasting nine years. The inhabitants must always be on the move in order to avoid the freezing wastelands of the night, but not so fast as to enter the scorched noon zone.
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A coven is a group of witches that have come together for a single purpose: apotheosis. This is a divine state of being in which a person becomes an idealized version of their own vision of perfection. This is done through a ritual that requires a circle of 9: eight witches and one sacrificial victim. It... |
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I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with Michio Kaku, but he's a renowned physicist who has often talked about humanity's role in the future. He mentions some valuable words about how we are still a [Type-Zero civilization](http://www.destinationinfinity.org/2010/12/12/type-0-1-2-3-civilization-michio-... |
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# Background
There exists a continent on the scale of Eurasia, which spreads from tropical regions to polar. It has the full range of biomes that we find on Earth. On this continent, there are many varied wild beasts. All animals that are extant in the present day Americas may be found there, as well as ... |
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I have a universe where humanity has produced various civilizations on multiple planets (and no planet has achieved a single world government); and very few of these countries possess the know-how of nuclear weapons- but space travel is possible, although it can be expensive and difficult.
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I am in the "drawing board" stage of creating fantasy mounts for my world and I was wondering how useful would a giant centipede-like creature be as a mount ?
I am personally operating under the assumption that while the centipede-like body-plan would be quite slow and creepy looking, it could potentiall... |
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For reasons that are too complicated to explain right now, I'm currently living on the edges of a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age set of civilisations, and I need to make a long overland journey. The world is currently in a pangaea-esque supercontinent; Civilisation, such as there is and what there is of ... |
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While researching unique methods of nuclear energy generation and propulsion, I encountered many things, both in rocketry and aerospace. For instance, the nuclear thermal jet engine. However, I found the thermal intermediary of most nuclear energy applications annoying and lacklustre when it came to smal... |
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In a brand baby spanking new world I am building, appropriately named Escargard, punningly named by the AndyD273, mollusks have become the dominant form of life. Resulting in aliens similar to those below
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The origin of [Superman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman) is fairly well known. A baby is sent to a planet and gains super powers from being in the environment (technically the sun, but I believe you catch the gist). I'd like to make a planet/environment that boosts humans in a similar way. **What... |
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For example, beans and rice cooperate to make a "complete" protein, providing all of the amino acids the body can't synthesize on its own -- in fact, most traditional dishes that combine legumes and rice are "complete". In this same way, are there three crops that are symbiotic in their nutrition? If a c... |
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## A planet with changing gravity
On earth gravity stays constant (besides negligible fluctuations), but it may be possible to change that. **What kind of geology, natural satellite, or other anomaly could cause periodic changes in gravity?** (And what magnitude of difference would they have). The ideal ... |
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For some time I've been working on a universe with non-instantaneous Faster-Than-Light travel, but I've decided to open a new universe with instantaneous travel. So I'm working on the differences that the two modes of transport necessarily enforce on the societies that use them.
The first question that o... |
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