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I'm working on a class of tetrapods similar to mammals with warm blood. I am planning for their metabolisms to be quite high on average, among the carnivores especially. They range in size from two grams to twenty tonnes.
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I'm trying to design a world for a fantasy setting where some disgruntled god decided to give the general population magic powers. However, rather than recite a spell or use sheer will to use magic, people use runes.
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How do I make perpetual motion machines that utilize the following things:
1. Bundles of weightless energy that bounce around like pool balls,
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Giant winged beasts such as the [Roc](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_%28mythology%29) and the western dragon feature strongly in mythology. Is there a maximum size on a biological winged flying creature? How would an atmosphere different from Earth's change such a limit?
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In my setting there is a mad artificer making armored cars for the army. The cars have wooden frames with 10 mm of steel on every side, wooden wheels with metal plates covering them, and are propelled using two different methods (some have horses which sit within the cart and push it forward, and the oth... |
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# Introduction
I want my story, set in the modern day, to have a unique architectural feel. Part of my strategy - no skyscrapers.
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I have been trying to come up with some kind of small arm that could be used in a science fiction setting with the following two characteristics:
1. It is designed so that it won't put a hole in a spaceship's hull and vent all the air.
2. It is still capable of killing people wearing armor.
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Node is the last active city of the lizard people. Node was built to be a self-sufficient city and a nexus of an interconnected bunker system. It was a vanity project from the peak of the lizard empire, so they designed Node to be as spacious as possible.
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This is basically an extension of the idea of the smart gun, a gun that will only fire when in the hands of its biometrically linked owner, but two steps up.
The idea is that someone won't dare to steal your gun or loot your corpse, unless they want to be blown to bits. I originally wanted to go for a hi... |
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Malcolm dreams one night that he can levitate and wakes up to find that he is still able to. He teaches others to do it and it becomes a world-wide craze. Soon nearly everyone can do it and Malcolm finds he is no longer the centre of attention. Can he or anyone else find a use for this levitation other t... |
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God in this verse is similar to a super-computer, a very large power source that continuously feeds on human souls to sustain itself. All human souls come from God, and remain connected to it through a metaphysical umbilical cord. A person is born with this cord, as it is transferred to them from its mot... |
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So within my world there exists a faction of monks on a secluded mountain whose scientific and philosophical knowledge outstrips the outside medieval world. And with these monks being famous more for their mastery of martial arts in all their forms than any other of their achievements, it follows that th... |
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I have been building a 'magic' system in a fantasy setting and have a number of ways a human can gain power.
Most of these are limited to who can access them by royal bloodline, being god's chosen, intense study, rare ability or immoral choices.
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Demigods are special humans that are born partly divine. These individuals have been extremely rare throughout history, and always have various significant effects for the world around them, leading to important changes for their time period. Demigods are marked by their exceptional beauty, amber colored... |
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I am building a world in which technology has taken an enormous step back due to an apocalyptic event. For one reason or another guns no longer exist in the world and I would like to have a reason why they could **not** be created/used again, even given enough time for technology's advancement once again... |
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Pretty self-explanatory. Could a spaceship use a "ClF3 Mortar" to fire copper shells at enemy vessels? At first glance, this seems like a good weapon: it can burn even in space and can set fire to metals, and even glass and normally flame-retardant substances. Best of all, it cannot be put out by venting... |
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If you've watched Godzilla and Pacific Rim you know what a Kaijuu is.
Kaijuus are monsters of epic proportions, as tall as the Empire State building or as large as 3 supercarriers of the USA.
I'm currently writing a short story about why monsters from "Another Dimension" keep attacking Earth.
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Set in the medieval period, adventurers like to frequent the guild hall to check out the bounty lists, which are updated on a daily basis. Many of the requests on the list requires adventurers to pit against dangerous towering monsters or venture into unfamiliar places where one misstep could spell certa... |
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One rule: it cannot be caused by aliens or AI invading the planet. But it is okay if an alien race causes the destruction in any other way.
It's an Earth-like planet. I need the effects of the destructive event to be continuous there-after, i.e massive storms and natural disasters for years to come that ... |
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Let’s say there’s a Human Space Navy, called the Terran Defense Force. They’re currently in a war with their interstellar neighbors. They’ve reached one of their enemies colonies at the very outskirts of known space. My question is, given all their weapons, what would be a logical reason for them not to ... |
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I should say: this is for a video game, not a short story or novel. Calibrate accordingly. ;)
Imagine that we solved the rocket equation with some kind of impossibly energy-dense fuel. Interplanetary space travel now happens more like something on the scale of cross-country trucking in some very distant,... |
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I recently watched *The Purge 2*, which inspired me to write this question. If every year, on a non holiday (e.g. not Christmas), the government made any crime excluding assaulting government officials and using explosives legal from 7 pm to 7 am, what would the effects on US economy leading up to, inclu... |
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Long story short, my world is set on a habitable moon of a gas giant, and as a result has some very intense tides (about 5x those of Earth, averaging a few dozen foot difference between high and low tide.) As a result, coastal areas tend to flood quite easily a few times a day, and it would be a lot more... |
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I am looking for **possible ways in which a vampire could obtain blood to feed in an modern urban fantasy setting *explicitly without* harming humans or other sapient beings.** Parameters for this question are as follows:
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In my world, I planned for humanity’s soldiers and civilians to use conventional, chemical-propelled firearms. There are changes of course *(ETC ignition became common, more lightweight materials, telescoped ammo, and high-tech sights)* but other than that, they still rely on the same old principle of “p... |
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Various mythological creatures have this strange thing where wearing clothing inside out can ward them off, allow them to be outwitted, or be outright defeated? Why could this be a weakness for any magical creature?
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In my very Earth-like world, the ruling entity possesses a seal of authority.
It is essential that the validity of any seal is proven to be authentic, which had historically been achieved by having very intricate seals which would be too expensive to forge.
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Humans meet some distant alien species. They are mutual first contacts. After learning the languages of each other, they begin to share scientific and engineering knowledge with one another, but here's the problem: given our separate lines of evolution and scientific development, we have different system... |
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**It has occurred to me** that were to get substantial evidence we lived in a infinitely large and old multiverse, the effects on religions would be massive.
**A incredibly** large number of religions are based on the idea of a deity or deities creating everything that exists. However while our universe... |
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It's an extremely common trope in Role Playing Games (RPG's) for wandering monsters to carry lootable currency (gold, moolah, dinero, big ones, cash, large, green, etc.).
Now, it makes sense that *non-human* intelligent creatures such as orcs, trolls, elves, dwarves, gnomes, fey, Crab People, Rigellians,... |
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I **need** technology patent terms to last centuries, thousands of years even (not necessarily millions though). Obviously I don't need the Patent Laws to change overnight. The Laws can take its time to update.
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## Crescian Society
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In the Crescian society, on alternate Earth, the nobles take to settling disputes with mutual assassination.
The unspoken rule is that assassinations must be carried out directly by the nobles themselves. Should a noble be ‘caught’ in the assassination process, they will be execut... |
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I have a city in my world, about with about the land area of Singapore and about 1/6 of its population. In my story, my government needs to passively encourage its population to not go to school. *By passively, I mean by attending any educational facility, you have to pay an entrance fee, taxes, and a fi... |
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I'm my sci-fi setting's history, various hominid species are in competition with each other for dominance of earth and its resources. Among these races are "Halflings" ... okay, not haflings *per se*, but rather like Homo *florensis* with an upgrade, namely human level intelligence (or H. Sapiens with an... |
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**Basic Introduction (story background for anyone interested)**
I have a character whose punishment for causing massive genocide was immortality for ten thousand years. To be more specific, after his death, his soul was imprisoned in a special container for ten thousand years. After his punishment, he se... |
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This is an extention of this question: [Using dead bodies for material 4: ammunition](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/210835/using-dead-bodies-for-material-4-ammunition)
The world is suffering from the creatures of fantasy and nightmares which can appear with just a few minutes of warni... |
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So I'm writing a story and decided to use Hida Furukawa as the location. It has a high school with a field of 650 ft that theoretically could be used for a small aircraft to be use to take off. In the story, a meteor falling that can wipe the town out. A man decides to fly a plane into the meteor with so... |
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So, I plan to write a graphic novel that takes place in the 26th century. By then, humans have stopped using the old slugthrowers and have upgraded to something more.....eloquent.
I mean, if you're gonna go massacre some alien scum, might as well do it in style.
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In my world the empire uses a strict racial caste system that places criminals, poor people and the minority race, the Sublorans, in the lowest class. This has been going on for a few dozen decades, and you know what? The lower caste is sick of it! They created a rebellion called the Black Mane that plan... |
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It's the modern day, somewhere in Europe. Guns are generally difficult get a hold of, and ammunition is not all that plentiful for the average citizen. The cities are death traps, and hordes of thousands, if not tens of thousands of zombies are sweeping the land, looking for their next meal.
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In a dystopic world, amongst many other things, religion has been outlawed and anyone found to be practicing will be punished accordingly.
For minor infringements a large fine is given to the citizen.
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I have a setting I'm trying to get started on where the vast majority of mankind has been killed off, and all that is left is a speckling of small villages pieced together from the wreckage of society.
The grown-ups in the setting were alive for the apocalypse. Most of them are pretty broken from PTSD, m... |
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I saw that there are many questions about how a lunar colony would defend itself. But **in the not so near future** the lunar colony might be stronger than Earth. They may have even suffered from attacks and oppression from Earth. They have easy access to space, they have more satellites, they control th... |
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I'm creating a near future world where one faction is using high energy density batteries that enable their vehicles to outperform gasoline based technology. Like cold and silent aircraft and helicopters, electric cars with enormous range, ion drive drones, raygun handguns, etc.
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What my son likes the most with winter is making a snowman.
What my son hates the most with winter is melting of his snowman.
I really would like to make him happy and make the snowman survive for as long as possible.
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I know it may be impractical, but I have a culture who needs to build round structures for religious purposes.
I just wanted to know if it's feasible or if there are any deterrent factors or major reasons that it wouldn't work.
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I’m working on a setting, and have a state I want to achieve but need to come up with a compelling reason for why it is the way it is (even if no one but me ever knows the ‘why’.) I’m after a reasoned, logical answer that flows along the lines of greatest probability rather than a “it’s this way because ... |
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Premise - A technological device of unknown origin is found by modern day humans. by messing with its controls, it's discovered that its function appears to create some kind of anomaly such as a traversable wormhole. However, this shouldn't be possible and it breaks our modern day understanding of physic... |
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The setting is post apocalyptic wastelands. The use of nuclear weapons has resulted in the creation of mutations, the most deadly of which are the lizards. The antagonist devises a technology that allows him to control the mutations.
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Would it be possible for a spaceship of some sort to descend from space and through the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet, *not* land, then turn around and head back into space? In other words, could it move freely between space and the Earth-like planet's atmosphere without the inconvenience of having ... |
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My story takes place on a hot desert planet that is a colony. At some point people are out in a very hot and inhospitable area of the desert. Dust storms, high heat, constant wind, etc.
Characters have tech that allows them to access the planetary network via satellite. But I'd like them to be out there... |
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The run down here is that there's this continent, and there is a lot of unclaimed land where countries haven't formed yet and a lot of tribes but there are some actual countries like kingdoms, (where kingdoms are at war).
Yes there's magic. (That's the main reason for the kingdom's war).
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I've created a monster with three weaknesses:
1. A soft spot in his belly that can be pierced through normally with objects, but the monster is so big and fast that hitting it is extremely hard and dangerous.
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In the world I am developing, a group called the Garotakor Kobark base their belief system on a fire that has burned consistently for hundreds of years. It has been contained within a step pyramid-like structure. How would this group continue to feed this fire without the general population being aware t... |
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Setting: Earth, 5 million years in the future (*see note 1*). Continents are still recognizable but sensibly altered by tectonic movements. Climate is drastically changed. Civilization does not exist anymore, having already risen and fallen many times (*see note 2*), but humans are still around. Humans h... |
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Specifically: **what are some biological structures that could help subvert the square-cube law's effects on animal overheating?**
Bob is a really, really big land-based ambush predator that's normally sedentary but that puts on massive bursts of speed in order to catch his prey.
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In a world naturally formed where some magic exists but is mainly used by sentient species, I'm trying to come up with a more or less scientific way to explain how this special, rare ore (going to be used for fine crafting) could be found in only one place on the continent ?
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Exploring the idea of "living" matter, (possibly non-carbon based if necessary), decomposing by bacteria (or similar) into sugar.
In our world, sugars are held quite valuable by living systems, so this would be like throwing away fuel.
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FOOF or Dioxygen Difluoride is an extremely dangerous chemical. It is not in itself flammable but makes the substances around it combust.
**How could a biological organism (say a dragon) use this as a breath weapon without itself dying in the process?**
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I want to know whether there is a way to make coins that are "swimmable" in the fashion of [Scrooge McDuck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck).
My inquiry is based off this [Family Guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy) meme from [Pinterest](https://id.pinterest.com/pin/109141990943314... |
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Everything starts somewhere ... and intention of gods (from my fantasy world) to teach people to not ask them for help should start somewhere too. Something, some kind of accident or event, should bring them to thought of teaching humans not to ask them for help.
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A quick glance at real world anti-missile systems seems to show that they do work, but imperfectly. The problem naturally gets harder when the incoming missile is extremely high-velocity.
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I take no credit for the image below. [All artwork and information belongs to Blue-Hearts on DeviantArt](http://www.deviantart.com/blue-hearts/art/Winged-People-Anatomy-Muscles-495419088):
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An artificial endocrine gland is cultured in the lab and is to be inserted in a person. This gland functions by secreting special substances in the blood stream.
It needs to be placed in a position where it can be well vascularized, protected, and stable (close to a bone?). It must be an anatomically fr... |
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The story centers around a group of people that get lost during in the woods and -for no apparent reason- suddenly find themselves in 13th century Europe (the Netherlands, to be precise). They don't know how they got there and there doesn't seem to be much they can do about it, so they stay in a small to... |
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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. The result is a giant shadow that sweeps across the Earth's surface.
This world has the opposite phenomenon. Instead of a giant shadow, this world has a giant deadly "spotlight" sweep across its surface.
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I'm the new superhero on the block. I've got the classic powerset - super-strength and super-durability. I don't have to worry one bit about your average thug hurting me.
On the contrary, I'm really worried about me hurting the average thug.
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I hope this isn't too broad, but the idea is to apply this into a manageable game system - however, I want it to be believable. This is superseding the idea of "belief" makes magic, magic is a physical thing in the universe that exists regardless of belief and cares not of intention or morality. Theoreti... |
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I'm ESL, hope I can deliver the questions clearly.
Consider a regular and sharp longsword.
1. Would it be possible to stab someone by handling it close to the tip or maybe in the middle of the blade? (I never had one in my hands, I have no idea if you have enough stability to stab).
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The year is gazillion and five and humanity has spread out across the galaxy. As we expanded, empires were formed, then toppled, federations coalesced, then unraveled, feudal kingdoms cropped up and were swallowed up. In short, history has been lively.
The current situation, which has held semi-stably fo... |
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For one of my projects, I'm developing an inhabited Earth-like world, with the key visual difference being that much of the land is purple, instead of the brownish colour it is on Earth. My question is: **how would this be possible?**
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I've recently been looking into post-apocalyptic settings for a possible novel. I like the feel of people trying to survive off of the land with nothing but the clothes on their back, or banding together for survival in makeshift shelters, but there's always one problem: given enough time and resources, ... |
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I want my world to contain a fruit that electrically shocks you to the point where it's painful, whenever you bite into it. Now, there are many organisms in nature that produce sensations similar to electricity (jellyfish, electric daisy, etc.) but I want my fruit to *actually* shock you. What would have... |
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One of my side characters is a scientist, and he is zombie immune. This lets him get close enough to study the zombies. However, I feel like just saying he is a "biologist" might be too broad. A lot professional scientists are specialized in something, right? Perhaps some sort of human anatomy or disease... |
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If you have a physically fit individual who can see up to 5 seconds in the future, is it possible for them to not get hit by bullets by moving away?
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I'm working on writing a story wherein there is a revolver inspired by Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy's samaritan. My question is; can such a gun, as described below, work? Or would it be a bone breaker like Hellboy's Samaritan?
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I'm current planning a story which includes a race of diminutive humanoid aliens, one of whom crash-lands on Earth. They're fully sentient, and have the same average intelligence level as humans. The other main difference from humans, besides their height, is that their lifespans are much shorter.
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All our mammalian friends are replaced by domesticated giant insects! Man's best friend are now dog-sized [hissing cockroaches](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_hissing_cockroach), [fireflies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly) are lighting our houses and [harvestmen](https://en.wikipedia.org... |
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Can the programming of simple nanobots randomly change to create a similar effect as mutations in DNA?
This question has a very similar idea as I wanted, although in this case the nanobots are capable of upgrading themselves: [Nanobots Ecosystem, is it possible?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q... |
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Assume that the with the technology level of the near future a self-sustainable colony has been established on the moon. For some reasons a conflict between this colony and some powerful nations on Earth arose. Now the lunar colony has to set up defences against aggressions from Earth.
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What could centipedal mechs do that tracked & wheeled vehicles couldn't do?
It's been 6 years since the 2 legged mech question, it's been 3 years since the spider mech question. *It's time for the centipede mech question.*
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What would cause a place to be always misty?
It is in a Fantasy setting, but I am looking for a feasible explanation.
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Faith is defined as a belief in God based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. Religion and science can be seen to oppose one another due to conflicts between people of those practices. In my world, I have a polytheistic technocracy that has joined those opposing forces. Rather than religion comp... |
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In the world I'm building, there is a race of people whose main shtick is that they can detect the magnetic fields of their planet and use them to navigate. In one of their cultures, the people are nomadic and use the same "roads" to travel to different historic or religious sites in their culture. What'... |
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I apologise as this will be vague - but I am building a world set in the future (late 21st century) and looking at realistic ways for rapid desertification of huge land areas, say America, and civilisations reduced to small towns and roaming bandit packs, as well as one 'mega-city' controlled by AI and h... |
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A group of xenoarchaeologists is studying the remains of a bygone civilization with the aim of understanding its culture. So far, isolated artifacts have been found, such as metal plates with symbols inscribed on them and remnants of stone walls of ruined structures. How would they determine whether the ... |
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I am DONNA TRUMPET, the first female President of the United states reborn, and one of the greatest leaders in world history. I have managed to recently pass the 103rd amendment to our Constitution that allows private contractors, known as necromancers, the right to do business in our country.
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In my world the characters find themselves in a new land. They do not understand the locals nor do the locals understand them. How could these characters learn to understand the locals withing a month or two considering neither have ever had touch with each other's laungage?
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