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Far, far away from Earth, near the center of the galaxy, is the planet Nebulous VII. It is the hosting planet of the universe's favorite gameshow, “Victory Nebula”. On the show, pre-type 1 species from across the galaxy are pitted against each other in Olympic-like sports. Contests include a 90km run, ba... |
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In a future police state, I need a way for investigators to determine who was present at a protest that turns violent.
My idea is that police use flashbang grenades to disperse the crowd that leave a radioactive trace on the participants. Agitators who wear disguises can be detected later at security che... |
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Consider a world in which cooking food is complicated by the need to employ split-second timing to prepare it correctly (for example, to prevent it from being overcooked or undercooked).
This would make a chef's job significantly more difficult and as such preparing fancy food would be a much more presti... |
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I am looking at realistic options that could damage the Earth so severely that it would be impossible for mankind to survive there and that would also not allow us to just colonize other planets or moons in the system.
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John is a teleporter. He can teleport other people/objects along with himself. Teleportation is very fast - let's say one second per 1000 miles travelled. He needs to be touching something to teleport it with him.
But this is kind of overpowered - imagine a criminal is holding people hostage, and John ju... |
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For many battles when one side is obviously superior I observe that victors(bad side) almost never finish his enemy.
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* [Empire vs Rebels](https://youtu.be/PN_CP4SuoTU?t=331)
* [Ori vs rest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhZlccoI8c)
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Imagine a visiting alien accidentally spilled a bucket of inverse matter (a substance I made up just now) on the planet Earth and this stuff will annihilate with ordinary matter to produce neutrinos with perfect efficiency, erasing the earth.
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I am trying to create "job" for a very small, specific sect of people. These people's bodies naturally generate and store an energy capable of creating temporal and physical discontinuities. Basically, they are capable of magic. Due to a physical incongruity (their eyes are bio-luminescent and have patte... |
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I'm looking to write a story where the world is a lot of islands separated by rather small water expanses (about the width of the Mediterranean or maybe that and a half) and I am struggling to find a reason to have a guild control travel, a bit like in Dune with space travel.
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Many creatures - humans among them - have [binocular vision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binocular_vision), where two eyes side by side allow good depth perception. There are quite a few other advantages over one eye, including a larger field of view, as well as redundancy (an injury leading to blindne... |
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For the story I'm planning out, the setting is on one of the worlds of a technologically advanced extraterrestrial race well-known for their economic infrastructure, which includes incredibly efficient logistics networks that are capable of transporting matter across continents and between neighboring pl... |
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The Martian Sol is 24 hours and 37 minutes long, so daytime at a fixed point on the planet's surface will drift in and out of sync with a fixed point on Earth's surface, and keeping the tradition of a 7-day week would have similar implications. Roughly every 39 days on Mars, 40 days will have passed on E... |
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Historically, units of measurement are often based on sizes of body parts. Probably the most obvious example would be a "foot" literally being based on the length of someone's (or everyone's, or anyone's) actual foot. Other examples include inch (length of a thumb, from tip to first joint), cubit (elbow ... |
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In a world that's essentially a carbon copy of our own, through mean's no one knows how, people started developing superpowers. With seemingly no rhyme or reason, people got powers of all shapes and sizes, like a woman who can fly to the stars, or a man who can turn into a flaming peacock. Some people us... |
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A while back, I asked [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/96644/34744) question about the plausibility of giant floating whales and received an excellent and [high-scoring answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/96659/34744) from Dubukay demonstrating that, given the assumptions th... |
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Some gigantic, and presumably evil, alien spaceship has taken up residence in LEO. This spacecraft is ominously blocking all satellite communications, and launching smaller flying saucers towards the surface for assuredly nefarious purposes. The object is a few km in diameter, irregularly shaped, and due... |
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A well-known pop song talks about setting fire to the rain, and I'm wondering if that's possible.
My first thought was that if you had oil droplets in the clouds, then those could be ignited as they fell, but I have no idea if it's possible to get oil droplets in the clouds.
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> “Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know
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I have a world where the average lifespan of 90% of the population is 120-150 years old and history is almost solely maintained in writing (so there are not really many visual recordings of past events).
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What could cause a culture to change their writing style from left to right similar to English to vertically like traditional Chinese?
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Say I have a modern Era USA town. This town has a population of about 30,000 and an area of about 30 square miles (79.4 square km). It is a predominantly rural area, lots of farmland around the town.
Something happens in this town. A plague outbreak or a zombie outbreak or whatever. Something highly con... |
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A spaceship is crewed entirely by self-aware artificial intelligences, who have no permanent physical bodies; they are processes in a digital environment controlling the ship. This ship is of their own design, however the software procedures (and to a lesser extent hardware components) hap... |
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In this world set in an alternate Ancient Greece, science is combined with magic given from the gods.
People who study healing arts usually worship Asclepius. There also is a cult that studies the secrets of death under the governance of Thanatos (they have access to curses that drag the target closer to... |
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Fairies are small winged humanoids, about 10 cm in height at most. They can proportionally carry more than a human, but not much in absolute terms. Previously, fairies have lives in their own smaller, separate societies away from humans and have had no need for money.
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So, in my world, a nuclear war engulfed the Earth in the autumn of 1962. It is now the year 2568. In my story, a cult of mutants known as ***“The Followers Of Uranius”*** have sprung up in Kansas City. Their leader, Derryk, is convinced that the nuclear warhead inside of a silo is a holy divine being, an... |
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I want to make a fantasy world where iron, copper, silver, gold and other "common" metals are far less abundant in the planet's crust than they are IRL, forcing people to use stone and bone for most weapons and building materials. Is there any way I could reasonably explain this without invoking "a wizar... |
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The king's mages have made a discovery: they can create perfectly frictionless surfaces using a new spell. The king immediately suggests a use for this spell: Use it on areas of floor, to keep prisoners on. He hopes he'll be able to make completely inescapable prisons, without any walls or roof.
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It's a common plot device in stories for one politician to assassinate another in order to take their position. Normally though, these actions are frowned upon by everyone else and act as a motivation for the hero to avenge their politician father/brother/sister/uncle's death. In other words, assassinati... |
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Question is ultimately asking why would we do this? A few parameters first...
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I am world building/culture building for a story that I'm writing and one of the races/sapient species is patterned after spiders. I'm willing to take a lot of liberties with the physiology (for example, structurally they resemble Trogloraptors and they have the size range of Shetland ponies), but I woul... |
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Around 100 million years ago, the Solar System was instantaneously encased in a massless, magical sphere centered about the Sun. The boundary is about 10,000 AU (.158 ly) in radius and behaves abnormally: matter and energy from outside the boundary may enter into the Solar System unaffected, while matter... |
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On our world we have any number of creatures that use:
* [Noxious Chemicals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle)
* Poison(Spiders and Snakes being the obvious examples)
* [Sound](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1320601/Dolphins-use-sonic-booms-to-kill-prey.html)
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Let us assume, for the moment, that we have an army of (Tolkienesque) elves to equip, and only modern small arms to equip them with. However, elves have hearing that is rather more sensitive than humans (by at least 10-20dB). This is great for avoiding ambushes and tracking prey in the deep woods, but ha... |
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Imagine a Yorkshire hill. This place is like that Yorkshire hill in all aspects except for those I describe. Its size is 100km by 100km, with a slope of 0.5%.
When going up the slope and crossing the edge one would pop up seamlessly on the other side but 200m lower down with regards to the way gravity is... |
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If humanity decided right now that they wanted to become a space empire and colonize the entire solar system would they be able to do it? One of the biggest problems with theoretically colonizing Mars is lack of funding and lack of fuel. Assuming that all of Earth, suddenly and universally, agreed to foc... |
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Is there a scientifically plausible way for a habitable world to have a sun that undergoes a regular, dramatic, and easily observable change? One comparable in visual impact to an event like a solar eclipse or a full moon? Such a change might affect:
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The capital of the society my story revolves around is built on top of a cliff, similar to the White Cliffs of Dover (pictured below for reference). For story reasons, they settled in this location after fleeing another continent and had few options due to less than friendly neighbors.
In the present, th... |
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If an advanced alien life form were to visit Earth, given the hypothesis that baring/showing one's teeth might be universally considered a sign of aggression -- would it make sense to avoid smiling at them?
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While smashing heavier and heavier particles together to create super heavy elements 122, 123, and 124, scientists noticed that these collisions created strange, random-looking electromagnetic waves.
Upon further inspection, it turned out that these waves have patterns. The patterns repeat, but with sma... |
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More or less exactly what it says on the tin. Start with a group of cavemen on prehistoric earth, discovering fire, language, wheels, etc, and walk them along the path to civilization, but with one major difference: at no point will anyone ever think of the concept of mathematical zero.
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What are the conditions that determine the types of buildings that will be dominant in a city (e.g. skyscrapers, several-story buildings, houses, etc.)?
I guess these conditions include history (how old the city is), location, whether it becomes a trade/business center, etc.
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Alternatively what eye properties can be modified to give the feeling of living on a flat, but infinite plane rather than being on a really tiny planet?
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On an alternative Earth live the people of Tcelonia.
One of their founding myths goes that, in the dawn of times, when they were under the menace of being attacked by an enemy population, for an entire month the night sky of the entire planet remained as bright as under the full moon, frustrating all the... |
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We all at some point in our childhoods thought that the moon is made out of cheese. As such, I thought: under what circumstances can a planetary surface form in such a manner that it is edible (and ideally, nourishing) for human beings?
Since the idea of something like this was never (according to my kno... |
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**How could a large (10,000-20,000 people) elven city hide itself from a person wandering through?** These elves can bend plants to their will and stimulate plant growth by singing, so they could live in magically altered trees. However, they need a reliable source of food and water, a place to put waste... |
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After the uncontested absorption of Hong Kong in 2020, China reasserted control over Formosa in 2022. In 2023 the Korean government reopened its war against its southern rebels, leading to their surrender in 2024. Despite prognostications of world war, these went largely without retaliation. Most of the ... |
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In my fantasy world there is a large valley. At the northern end lies the 'endless desert' called the "Sea of Glass" due to its shimmering sands. Within these deserts live great wyrms that swim through the sand as if it was an ocean.
The wyrms/worms would roughly have these dimensions: 4 meters high and ... |
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I always found it interesting, and it was clearly inspiring to the soldiers, that there were drummers and fifers during the 18th and 19th centuries, playing music during *marches* *into* battle. However, my question is, would it be impractical for, say, the drummers and fifers to stay behind the main lin... |
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I was thinking about people who once told me that I must feel the rain earlier than them (I'm tall). So I thought of a world where the rain falls so slowly that the humans of different size living on it may not feel the rain at the same time.
Let's set a few boundaries, because I want this world to have ... |
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This is similar to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10017/how-would-society-react-if-the-existence-of-a-god-was-scientifically-proven)
Some scientists found indisputable evidence that the universe is all just a simulation. Maybe they found the code that is running the sim... |
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Let's take our regular "Great Blue Star Whale", with a mass of about 10 000 tons.
That poor, poor whale is reaching the end of its life for whatever reasons. (Damn you! Space whale hunters!). It will interestingly crash into a planet. That planet is not too dangerous (no endless volcanoes or corrosive sa... |
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I am drafting a short story about a small object orbiting the Sun at the precise 'speed' as Earth's opposite the Sun, undiscovered by us due to its position. The problems I see with this include the following.
1. We would have detected it by now, because of the gravity that impacts other objects in the s... |
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The people in my story's universe all have various magical powers, and if they want the effects of these powers to extend to their clothes or equipment, said equipment needs to be designed to a few specifications in order to comply with my world's method of "syncing" objects to their owners' aura, an inv... |
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In pop culture Vampire teeth are often assumed/shown to be just like human teeth except that they have fangs instead of canines. After spending way too much time in front of the mirror, making weird faces, I have come to the conclusion that the canines are too far back in the mouth to be properly placed ... |
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So I'm creating a world in which humans have a close sister species very similar to the Japanese [Nekomimi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgirl) seen in anime and manga. Eventually, the humans turn on Nekomimis, perceiving themselves as superior. I'm not concerned with how Nekomimis actually came to be... |
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There are a number of movies, books and TV shows where the villain wants to kill nearly everyone on the planet because of ecological concerns: there are too many humans, we're using the global resource stockpile way too fast, we're polluting the planet, other species are going extinct,... In many of the ... |
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Let's say I have an aquatic humanoid, vaguely like a [selkie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie). As creatures that spend a lot of time in water, it would be great if they can stay under water for "a while".
The human breath-holding record is over 20 minutes, but this a) is exceptional, and b) such fe... |
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In a world I’m building - the same one as in [Is space piracy orbitally practical?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/62937/627) - there are many space stations in [low Earth orbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit), used as orbital spaceports, each about ten times the size of the [I... |
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**A Little Background**
March came and went, but the snow continues to fall on earth, even in Sudan and Brazil. What was once thought of as a miracle of Christmas has begun to cause problems. Winter came and with no signs of the coming spring, this is a
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Humans don't exist, at least... not here. Instead we have [Insert non-lame animal name here:].
They're not too bright, but also could be considered vaguely self aware, about Gorilla level intelligence. They're roughly bipedal, but can get quite a trot going on all fours. They're thick skinned and durable... |
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Several times I had idea for a medieval-like world where the people living on the planet did not discover all the world yet.
I know the first two steps:
1. Create a map of whole world, for worldbuilder's own purposes
2. Create a map with white spaces (here be the dragons) from point of view of the people... |
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We failed to establish communication with the aliens. Our scientists have lost hope in reverse-engineering their technology - what little we can even recognize *as* technology. The only commonality, it seems, is that the biology of their cadavers is remarkably similar to terrestrial life. Close enough to... |
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After reading the question on inbreeding ([Could fictional species benefit from limited inbreeding?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/2578/could-fictional-species-benefit-from-limited-inbreeding)), I started to wonder if there could be any reasons why an species (intelligent or otherwise... |
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I read a prediction that if the global fertility rate stayed at the same rate as it was in 1995 by 2150 the population would be 256 billion people. That sounds crazy, but for my sci-fi I'm rolling with it (albeit shaving off 50 billion).
The Hegemony needs to feed these 200 billion odd citizens. One solu... |
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A very powerful funeral company offers fossilization as burial options to very rich clients.
Of course, no one can check if it would actually work in a few million years, but the company shows great power and influence and has strong arguments that it could actually work.
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I have an idea for a story set in a not-too-far future where the political lines of the world map have been redrawn, not by nation-states like France or Belgium but by corporations like MacroCorp, Branson Genetics and The Co-Operative. Huge industrial conglomerates literally control entire nations as our... |
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**Setting:** Modern Earth; technology no more advanced that what's reasonable within the next thirty years.
**Premise:** A prehistoric (and broken) alien device is discovered on Earth, and researchers determine that it was built to allow either time travel or teleportation (or both).
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If a future Mars colony declared war on the Earth, would asteroid manipulation be a feasible option as an effective weapon against the Earth from a Mars colony? How would this be accomplished? Are there enough asteroids close enough to Mars that current/future rocket technology could steer asteroids towa... |
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In my story, I have a slower-than-light starship (traveling at 0.6 $c$) going to Alpha Centauri A. There are several planets around the star. The target planet is a terrestrial, habitable world orbiting at 1.2 AU (since Alpha Centauri is slightly bigger than the Sun) and a gas giant 3 times the size of J... |
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Inspired by Cort Ammon wonderfully detailed answer here: [How to prevent tiny mistake in 'programmable language' magic spell causing horrible disasters](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/31774/how-to-prevent-tiny-mistake-in-programmable-language-magic-spell-causing-horri), and my desire t... |
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So we all know that the majority of sea creatures use fins that move either from side to side or up and down to propel themselves.
But our boats don't do that. Our boats use propellers - a rotational motion not based on sea life at all.
That begs the question: how plausible is it for a sea creature to ev... |
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In 1857, native soldiers in the Crown Jewel of the British Empire--the Indian subcontinent-- mutinied and for three days established rule of a native monarch. Eventually, British imperial might toppled this rebellion and independence remained more of a concept than reality until 90 years later.
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Suppose we have an intelligent alien who has landed on Earth and has somehow found his way into a human high school math class (for the sake of scenic stability, the alien has the ability to cloak itself as a human form).
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Suppose that a planet whose size was somewhere between the sizes of Mercury and Jupiter impacted the Sun. Would such an event change local stellar activity sufficiently enough and for long enough that Earth's climate would be affected?
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Most species which use blood (that I know of) use a heart or set of hearts to pump their blood around their body. However, in something like our digestive system, a series of muscles are used to force digested food through tubes instead of a central pump.
My question is, would using a similar ringed musc... |
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I'm searching for a source of nutrients for a nomadic tribe that climbs a seemingly endless metal tower. They have been climbing for generations and are too high up to see any ground below. The structure they climb is only made of metal (so far).
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In this universe humans have advanced far enough to be able to colonize planets in our system but not enough to do interstellar travel. Earth is united and they have moved beyond countries and borders.
Against a possible attack on any of the colonies on other planets, humans must have come up with a way ... |
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In a previous question, I [established an area that creates megastorms](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/79356/cauldron-of-storms-geography-to-create-and-isolate-localized-mega-storms).
Unlike a bunch of my other questions, this one is incredibly straightforward: Just how deep does a sub... |
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What did smiths/metallurgists know about why some steel was stronger than other steel in the early 15th century in Western Europe? I want to know so I can determine whether my mages could come up with a spell to increase the strength of steel by removing impurities via magic or not. If they could come up... |
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As part of [Fortnightly topic challenge #3: Creature Design](http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1862/fortnightly-topic-challenge-3-creature-design)
I am looking for a realistic way to create a particularly nasty creature.
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Another question based off of this one [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/8772/can-a-nonspherical-planet-exist-and-can-it-be-habitable). Let's say on a cube styled Earth-like planet, there was a similar race to humans. If the differences in the planets were minimal (besides, you kno... |
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What is going on with the atmosphere that the world is so gloomy and dark?
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I have had a low-magic fantasy world I have been wanting to solidify for a while now but previously dismissed the idea as too hand-wavey until [this answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.co... |
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I'm developing a world in the near future where a start-up company develops an artificial womb. Now well-off people could grow their children from their eggs & sperm. My story is about couples that can't conceive and serve as test subjects of the program.
Since I read that human babies are born [prematur... |
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In my world I want to create a really deep underwater science facility to conduct weird and unethical experiments in. But I think to myself: How deep could I take such a building?
Does it become easier to withstand ocean pressure with a larger building because you can increase the size and strength of s... |
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If the ground end of a space elevator was severed, what would the unfolding event look like from the ground? What would the movement(s) look like, and over what period of time?
I’m assuming that it’s a “standard” space elevator: situated <= 20 degrees of the equator; diamond nanothread construction; “top... |
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What **artificial disaster** could **disrupt the orbit** of our planet? Not necessarily making it leave the Solar System, but maybe changing its trajectory around the sun. And by artificial, I mean that the cause **can't be an asteroid** or an object from outer space. Any ideas? I thought about a single,... |
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I'm designing creatures with naturally occurring white or pale grey irises and pupils so that it looks like their eyes are all white. What effect could this have their vision (colorblindness, light perception, etc)? Please note I'm not talking about leukocoria or eyeshine.
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I'm Worldbuilding, and in my world, people can grow houses from seeds. My world is not a Fantasy one. Could this theoretically work, and if so, how?
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I had a rough idea of a species that has a tendency to blackmail other species into feeding it. The concept was a tree-dwelling species, a larger one that has few predators among the trees to worry about, that will harass a stronger land-based species into feeding it by threatening to help a predator fin... |
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Illnesses caused by bacteria can be held at bay by antibiotics, and some viruses can be fought with anti-viral medicine. However, I'd like to create a disease for use as a bioweapon that cannot be stopped.
Here are some things I'd like the disease to do:
* Be transferrable through fluids
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The bicyclops are half man half bicycle - a bit like a centaur.
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Inspired by this question: [What would it take for society reach a point where the time it takes to learn leaves no time to discover?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/5294/2871)
We live in a world where no one person or group of people truly understands all of our technology. The majority of pe... |
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