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Tolkien wrote on The Silmarillion about Tol Eressea, an island that the vala Ulmo (a god-like figure) used to ferry the elves back and forth across the sea into the Western lands. José Saramago also wrote a novel (The Stone Raft), about the Iberian Peninsula breaking off the rest of Europe.
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This world is background for erotica story which came into my mind.
Porn/erotica worlds are commonly totally unrealistic: Pizza delivery is always on time, always delivered by fit male at exactly the time when female just leaves shower...
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You've got to love the rainbow, it's an awesome sight. But I don't want humans to have the pleasure of seeing the rainbow.
**What change to the earth, atmosphere and so on, is needed so that humans from approximately 2250 BC do not know of the existence of the rainbow?**
[ resisted all attempts at conquest. The reason is not very important; let's say a fluke storm killed all of Pizarro's men shortly after they started engaging the Inca, who, magically resistant to all Old World disease, ad... |
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I saw some ideas of translating an alien language, like in the movie Arrival. The steps make sense, but I thought of another scenario:
Imagine you meet aliens in space. They speak, but you can't understand them. Tthe normal way to learn their language is to point at things and try to get what they are ca... |
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I'm looking to create a syringe gun for um....reasons.
Don't worry about the specifics, I'm not looking to assassinate anyone (at least not too much), but I want to be the new Vaccination Vigilante®. I plan to have liquids of all sorts be added to this weapon, so microscopic syringes won't do. It needs t... |
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The GURPS roleplaying supplement New Sun, based on the Book of the New Sun novels by Gene Wolfe, describes a particular sword as having a hollow channel in its core containing mercury. According to the material, this causes the blade's weight to "shift backward when raised and rush forward when swung" (w... |
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One of the most common answer tropes to the "start-your-life-over-at-x-age-with-all-your-current-memories"-question is people saying that they'd buy Bitcoin or invest in Stock XYZ that they know will be successful to easily become multi-millionaires.
Now, with publicly traded stocks, I don't see a big pr... |
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I saw a movie where oil companies stumbled upon these fictional underground aquatic deep-sea animals that survived on eating and digesting the oil where they lived. They had squid/octopus-like bodies and were as smart (possibly smarter) than dolphins or apes (not us, though).
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In the near future Science Fiction novel I am writing, the personality and memory of a person are transferred to an artificial brain after a fatal accident, creating an artificial intelligence with the personality and memories of an actual person.
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A group of scientists has been slaving away largely in obscurity for two decades, with very few publishable results. Suddenly, one of them has an epiphany, which turns out to be instrumental to enabling them to succeed at what they are attempting to do. This happens around year 2020 or so, on Earth, inha... |
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We have some characters living in a wetland biome (freshwater swamp, specifically) without access to trade from other areas. What kinds of options do they have when it comes to using the natural resources a swamp provides to make clothing? We've done a lot of research on the natural resources in a swamp,... |
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In a medieval fantasy world I am imagining, there are bear-men living in villages, with your medieval houses, roads and such. They also have farms with various vegetables, fruits and grains (wheat, lettuces, apples...). And of course, honeybee farms. Note that they don't tend to livestock like cows or ch... |
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I've been playing with different conceptualizations and types of armor for historical settings, especially armor with magic enchantments or made from weird materials. I was stuck thinking about lightweight protection and remembered that mithril shirt from the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring... |
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There are few things cooler than a fish that can walk on land, or a rodent that can fly, but despite all the amazing adaptations evolution has seen fit to create upon this Earth, I cannot think of an animal that is equally skilled in two transportation media, let alone all three.
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I've read the other answers relating to this area (and discovered to my disappointment that my great ideas have been done before... hey ho). But I'd like to get the science right.
I have a nation of humans on a planet which they have arrived at through colonisation and a little light terraforming, but wh... |
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An octopus is one of the most intelligent non-human species on Earth, can manipulate objects, and has lots of other interesting adaptations (e.g. the ability to change color). But, an average octopus has a life expectancy of [less than five years](http://animals.mom.me/life-span-octopus-7703.html).
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This is a drawing by my daughter which inspired one of the elements in my story/world:
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Highly inspired by [How would we fare against an interstellar RKKV Attack?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/116342/how-would-we-fare-against-an-interstellar-rkkv-attack)
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In my space western setting, I went nuts with the time scale, so now I have a faction living entirely in space stations (with planets used for transit and agriculture, but that's irrelevant for now), which is about 5000 years old.
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# The Context
It's 2015, and I am a nuclear-armed nation in the midst of a 2nd cold war. Fearing nuclear annhilation by my antagonistic neighbours, a computer was developed - to act as the dead man's switch. In case a nuclear first strike wipes out the chain of command/obliterates the populance, this com... |
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I am creating a speculative evolution project for school (and partially for leisure) and I need a planet for my organisms to live on. I have a rough idea of what it may be like but I'm no expert in planetology and other planet-related sciences.
My planet has/is:
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For most sci-fi movies/tv series ship bridge/main control room is exposed (external part of ship). Examples:
* *Star Wars* Star Destroyers
* *Stargate* Dedalus/Destiny/Atlantis(top of main highest tower)
* *Star Trek* Enterprise
* *Prometheus* USCSS Prometheus
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Here's one to ponder: what would an immortal eight-year-old be like after one thousand years?
In most stories involving immortality, the immortals are fully formed adults. When those stories do involve children, often those children are effectively presented as fully formed adults with the body of a chil... |
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# Background
Say hi to Jane Doe. Jane is a writer and, after years of writing and rewriting, has finally achieved what she believes is her greatest, most personal piece of writing ever.
And she has a crazy idea. She wants to make her work even more personal and craft, from scratch, one book to put her no... |
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A lot of games feature some sort of wooden armor, but it's usually pretty low-level and mostly useless. However, I think that with a knowledge of flora and a healthy dose of imagination, there exist possibilities for plant-based armor that can actually provide some useful protection. Maybe papyrus is as ... |
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So, I have an empire, many political notes about which can be [found here,](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9966/how-would-an-empire-survive-weak-crown-authority) although I will put more relevant notes here as well.
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I am trying to figure out the feasibility of using Anti Matter to bombard the surface of a planet from a position in space.
My gut feeling is that its not very feasible. Wouldnt the Anti Matter react with the upper atmosphere and explode up there instead of on the surface?
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In my fantasy world there's the race of trolls, vastly inspired by the ones one encounters in Baldur's Gate 2 ([see here](http://orig10.deviantart.net/c9ed/f/2011/187/3/a/troll_animation_by_cyderak-d3l59cx.gif "troll")).
Millennia ago, they've been driven underground by orcs and elves, as well as occurri... |
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To expand the territory of the EU, one can consider recreating [Doggerland](http://education.nationalgeographic.com/maps/doggerland/) by reclaiming the lost land from the sea:
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I love books,
This love brought me to gather hundreds of books of all different types. When I disappear, like all old men's belongings, these will be scattered, thrown away, sold, burnt.
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Are there any industry-proven strategies in creating truly scary monsters? The scariest monster to date ( this is opinion ) is Alien.
Are there any proven strategies in horrory/scary/fierce creature design that character or movie designers reference?
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I would like to use this scenario in writing a book.
Using only countless balloons that permanently hold hydrogen made from water could a city be built in the sky? Workers from the ground can raise balloons up to the builders. Other material would be vinyl to walk on. Landing on water for resupplies lik... |
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I have some ideas, but I'd like my fictional Roman (100BC) General Mikey (ha) to build a submarine(s). This should be able to navigate in lakes and calm shores of the Mediterranean, succeed in bringing down simple boats loaded with soldiers, and finally, travel longer than "just as much air is inside.\*"... |
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On a certain planet, there is a large population of falcon-like birds. They dominate the avian ecosystem. However, a population of nearly-identical birds soon finds its way in. The only difference between the two species is that members of the new population have *four* wings instead of two.
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Suppose a wooden treasure chest is placed in an underground dungeon in a medieval European climate. The chest is as sturdily built as is practical, but isn't protected by any kind of magic or advanced technology.
In roleplaying games, wooden chests seem to last thousands of years without fail. But realis... |
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Sister question to: [What's the smallest reasonable natural planet or moon with Earth-like surface gravity?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/76107/809) - I want us to have both upper and lower bounds for 1g planets available for authors.
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In a close future (in 100-200 years), humanity is in an energy/resource crisis and seeks new resources in the solar system. In my story, humanity, still in need after colonizing the moon, sends a mission to harvest a gas giant in the solar system.
For plot reasons, I need the main resource to be extracte... |
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When we speak about alien encounters, we mostly have one of these two scenarios in mind: Either the aliens know *nothing* about us, or they know *everything*.
Let's explore a third option. The idea comes from the great sci-fi comedy [Galaxy Quest](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/):
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Suppose that we pare down human consumption to a minimum survivable level across the Earth, and devote the entire surface of the planet (as well as the planet's interior, if needed) to support as many human beings as possible. We ignore the damage we are doing to the environment except to the degree to w... |
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Here is a hypothetical, but not entirely plausible, scenario:
An organization or company (likely pharmaceutical) discovers the formula to develop a drug that stops aging (the human body's cells are created and die at an equal rate indefinitely).
The question I have is, would this discovery be broadcast t... |
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If a much older solar system - say 10 billion years with a slow burning star - would sprout intelligent life at around that age, given the half-life of U-235 and natural Uranium reserves, according to math U-238, although twice as hard to find, would still be available. But U-235 would be nearly all deca... |
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Humans have finally made contact with aliens! We've just received a signal from a civilization somewhere in the [Orion Nebula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula). It contains a message from their civilization, talking a bit about their culture, and asking for a response from anyone who receives ... |
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I have a race of carnivorous mammals living in a very resource-poor environment. Due to a mixture of lack of resources (no metal, no wood or tough stems, etc) and cultural taboos, they are only allowed to build weapons out of materials taken from living animals that they have killed (finding a long-dead ... |
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Kinda inspired by [the non-disappearing ship question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/37833/how-large-would-a-world-have-to-be-for-a-sailing-ship-to-never-make-it-past-the), but I actually asked this particular question on an unrelated forum a few years ago. Reposting it here (well, pa... |
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The idea of an elevator reaching to the near cosmos is very tantalizing when trying to think of ways off planet. A major draw back to this idea is that a long, thin tower into the atmosphere seem like a very likely candidate to be damaged by Space junk, asteroids, etc.
My question is, is there a truly ef... |
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I am writing a science fiction movie script and a planet idea came to me a few weeks ago: A planet with equatorial icecaps and polar jungles. As interesting and intriguing as this is to think about, it has been the bane of my sanity as I try to find a way to make this planet even *PLAUSIBLE*.
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In my world I have a variety of nations and city states but I also have a history/background that means they are not and have not been completely isolated. In fact there was once a continent spanning empire from which these nations evolved.
Knowing the historic (base) culture for each group, what process... |
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If all of the continental crust on Earth were eroded down, smoothed out, and distributed evenly across the whole planet, filling in all of the ocean basins and displacing the water therein, how deep would the resulting world-wide ocean be?
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Are you familiar with the [Fermi paradox?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox) It asks why the Earth hasn't already been (convincingly) visited by aliens - there are so many suns and planets older than the Earth, that aliens *should* be ridiculously more common than what we observe. One explanat... |
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Today, I was thinking about a few species I've designed, and I realized that while I had some quite fleshed-out ideas about their cultural values, language, rituals, history, and biology, my vision for them was sorely lacking in terms of what everyday, friendly communication would look like--small talk, ... |
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It is well known that [some organisms can produce electricity.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_fish) Therefore I think it would not be too much of a stretch to assume that also some plants might have evolved that ability (after all, it could be a great deterrent to predatory herbivores).
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We have ways to generate light and direct it with our own technology. Humans have had the ability to do this for even longer. Within the last number of decades, we have begun understanding what light is and how it works, how photons are generated, etc.
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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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Gas giants can generate heat via the [Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_mechanism). It's oft-repeated that Jupiter actually generates more heat internally via this method than it receives from the Sun. Scale this mechanism up enough and you get into brown d... |
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I am a survivor of the United Nations Space Corp's 2nd Exploration Fleet. On our travel to the distant Epsilon Canares system, our scouts encountered a strange lifeform.
We call them 'shapeshifters'. At first contact, they looked like 6-legged crabs. After a few months, they started to mimic us and now, ... |
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When I want to populate a fantasy world with different regions and their cultures, I have problems knowing where to start.
Recently I used a quick-and-dirty technique that I could call "cultural mash-up". I note down that a particular area is a (-n unlikely) mix of e.g. renaissance Italy and medieval Ja... |
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On an hot planet at the wooded poles are two aliens species that coexist in a mutually beneficial relationship.
The Honey Mouths use gecko-like feet to hang from the far larger Thorn Shredders, where they are protected from predators. They feed primarily on sap that leaks out from the damaged and uproote... |
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I have always though of three basic ways that force fields function.
The first way is that the force field projects an indestructible shell that oncoming objects can never break. Further, the velocity of the oncoming objects is irrelevant. In this case, the rock harmlessly rolls off.
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It is a jewel-encrusted black box, seemingly made out of a dark exotic wood, a mere few inches across, so it can be held rather comfortably in one hand, although it certainly feels a little bit heavy for its size.
At first glance, it might even seem a bit cheap. However, there is something remarkable abo... |
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I think the Hubble telescope is too small to observe the universe. Ditto for James Webb, Keck and other telescopes out there. I decided I need something much bigger.
So, I recently got two Death Stars approximately $160\text{ }km$ in diameter near the Earth (don't ask how I managed to get that, I could t... |
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I’m trying to think of a reason why an advanced civilization would find it useful to invent an invisible handheld shield as protection against a civilization with primitive weaponry (sticks, stones, nets, spears, bows and arrows).
Specifically, what advantages would an *invisible* shield (blocks physical... |
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I am looking for a fighting style a semi pacifist could use; someone who hates violence but has no problem defending himself and putting someone down. He has no problem HURTING the infected, but he refuses to KILL them.
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Suppose we have standard world of fantasy RPG videogame. The MC (main character) earns money by killing monsters and then selling loot. Also, sometimes there are people happy to pay generous reward for slaughter of especially vicious monster. As an adventurer they **aren't** a member of any guild.
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On this planet there is a species similar to humans with two sexes having differing reproductive organs. The concept of gender is non-existent on this planet. I'm not writing this for any political reason, it just fits with other themes (imagine Vulcans not seeing the "point" in genders, for example). Th... |
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This question is about speedsters and defending against them (Dr Wells' gun thing doesn't work).
There is a speedster. His 'cruising speed' is about 1000 mph, but can get up to 2000 mph if needed. This speedster happens to be an evil speedster (basically Zoom or Reverse Flash). So the world has combined ... |
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My story is set in 1998 and is about a secret 1-in-1000 minority demographic of the human race that are all actually magical beings like vampires and werewolves and merfolk. They secretly live amongst the human race, and there are very harsh punishments for breaching secrecy on more than a personal level... |
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I was looking at the questions where [Everything Joe](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/31904/everything-joe-says-is-true-how-can-he-most-help-humanity) [says is](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/31349/everything-joe-says-is-true-how-can-he-get-around-it) [true](https://w... |
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Imagine a single, long, straight stretch of track. On the track there is a train heading in one direction at 100 km/h and a second train heading towards it at 200 km/h. The latter train is a special priority train that should not slow down at any cost.
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So, in my story, in a prelude to an epic aquatic fight scene, my main character gets chased by a great white shark. He swims as fast as he can but he can’t escape. Just to clarify, he’s wearing one of these types of underwater gear:
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In the most fantasy settings there is a binary structure of the ways to achieve some practical goal, namely "magical" and/or "technological" one.
For example we have a goal to remove a mountain top, so there are ways:
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Long ago, our ancestors worked out how to travel faster than light: by sending craft directly into the Sun, employing fusion, quantum entanglement, and a healthy dose of handwavium/science indistinguishable from magic to skip between the stars.
We did this enough that we drained the Sun's fuel in a matte... |
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A being known as Dea is the creator of all things in the mortal world. He created human beings as living batteries in order to fuel him and give him power. This god is in competition with other gods for domination over the universe. Dea feeds off of human worship, which he uses to get stronger, gaining p... |
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I'm worldbuilding low fantasy with technology level of the early middle ages. Very few of the people could tap into psionic power, which makes them faster and stronger than common people. Average psionic users could be three times stronger than a strong human, while the most gifted ones could be up to a ... |
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In a magical world where mages can become immortal, why would some of them retain the appearance of being old (70s-80s), even though they can become young and beautiful? Even some mages who become immortal at young ages would change their appearance to become older. Why would they do that?
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I want to make a world where mages can search for and establish portals between a planet and another, but in a way that only one portal can exist between planet A and planet B, one between A and C, etc ...
Portals can be created from A to B even while B is yet inhabited.
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How do a you make a knight with armour and a sword formidable against a modern-day soldier with gear and a gun?
And how can you make a medieval army formidable enough to face a modern day army?
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My modern doctor has been time-slipped to a medieval city, without any equipment. She has the patronage of a powerful, rich noble, so being accused of witchcraft is not a problem. She will be embarking on a public health program, but what can she do in terms of treating people with the available material... |
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In my scenario of a post-scarcity society in the far future, everyone has abundance in their basic needs from food and energy and the technology is very advanced that humans are more intelligent, healthier and can live for much longer (millenniums). There are also intelligent robots that do all the work ... |
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Because a handwave-science-based virus has created a pandemic, humanity in my story has lost the ability to get intoxicated and high.
This, however, only affects external causes or intoxication based on consumption, and not internal means like praying, meditation, or anything akin to that.
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It doesn't necessarily need to be breathable by humans. But it should be room temperature (at which mercury is liquid). My concern is whether mercury oceans could remain stable or would they all get locked up in metallic compounds and precipitate?
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Blinding, amputation and other punitive mutilations have been used effectively in the past; however there are no accounts of deafening, e.g. removal of one's sense of sound, being carried out.
How would a judicial deafening sentence be carried out using simple technologies and techniques?
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My setting involves a masquerade (though in this setting the term used is "The Veil of Ignorance") where numerous immortal humanoid beings live in secret amongst humanity as a 1-in-1000 minority. There is an independent immortal organization, known as the Veilkeepers, tasked with keeping humans from find... |
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I have an idea about an alien that conquers the world by assuming human form and releasing a film that drives whoever watches it insane. The masses that see it go on to destroy civilization in a constant fit of anxiety and terror. It would be the audio visual equivalent of the fear toxin in Batman Begins... |
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Tech level? Medieval.
Magic? Yep. More specifically: using levitation.
Forests surround my town, which is built in a wild forest on a river trade route to protect merchants.
**How would I build my town to be spider proof?**
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This is a problem I ran into while writing a piece set into a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy future.
For a short background: I proposed a world where a large Island-country had disaster struck and regular living has become too dangerous with new predatory creatures as well as environmental changes.
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In this settings, robots are a humanoid looking personal device that try to mimic the owners traits and behavior, even though they 'realize' they are not their owner, but rather a helping robot. The robots are mostly self sufficient but rely on a bit of solar power. Robots that need repair due to wear is... |
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I've got a magic item that translates languages.
The rules are this: the closest word to the word used in meaning is given to the listener, unless there's something the other language doesn't have a word or concept for, in which case the original language is used.
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I'm working for Henry Ford's engineering department and thought I'd gatecrash your "worldbuilding" forum to do my job for me. Our customer research department tell me that our customers want faster horses, and I'm looking in to how to create them.
A few thoughts to get us started:
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So, I’m writing a sci-fi story, which has a setting which involves human colonists crash landing on a massive, icy hellhole. The weather is extreme on the surface, and because of it, wireless communication is useless, so for settlements to connect with each other, they need to physically move messages to... |
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In my fantasy world, criminals who have committed serious crimes are sent to an island called "Yaehlbuhn". This island, quite far from any continents, is essentially an open prison where criminals can live in almost total freedom.
Law enforcement is present but only act when large conflicts breaks out. T... |
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In the far future, galactic space travel is now a common reality, and spaceships reach sizes of over 1 kilometer in length.
Any capital ship in existence would therefore be designed for functionality, prioritizing life support, weaponry, and propulsion over appearance. Unlike modern naval ships, which ar... |
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My story takes place in an archipelagus in world X, inhabited by people X.
In the shores of the capital city of that archipelagus, there is a bay of deep, dark waters. It's supposed to be dark and deep enough to feel scary and lovecraftian.
From that bay, people Y simply float up from the darkness, naked... |
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Imagine that you're an adventurer archaeologist in the early to mid-20th century, like Indiana Jones. One day you find a lost civilization in an underexplored corner of the world. However, instead of abandoned ruins and booby-trapped temples of doom, you find a living society with a unique culture. It's ... |
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