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[Question] [ In my fictional setting, part of the civilization has a strong astronomical alignment. Religion and Science are hard to distinguish and new scientific discoveries strengthen it´s faith in the heavenly bodies. Photography has not yet been invented, so besides hand drawings, my civilizaton uses musical pa...
[Question] [ I've read some conflicting theories regarding ancient atmosphere (some say it had more oxygen, but others dispute it) being relevant to survival of large dinosaurs. So my question is: is it realistic, from the point of view of known science to have Cretaceous Period dinosaur alive today? (Assuming it wa...
[Question] [ Designing a single isolated political entity isn't too difficult. Just pick a size, government type, invent a few colorful characters and you've got a good start. However, no government just appears, fully formed. Governments grow and evolve just like living things. For richer worlds, with longer histori...
[Question] [ It's a common trope in science-fiction: "scanning for life signs". A few taps on the screen, and you get an instant population count, often with the ability to distinguish species, and even personal details about the subjects (e.g. "40 life signs, 12 Klingon, 7 female, one of whom is pregnant"). But what...
[Question] [ As a tree grows new layers are added each year so that the trunk expands in radius. The living part of the tree is a relatively thin layer on the outside just beneath the bark, and the [wood further inside is dead](http://www.arborday.org/trees/ringstreenatomy.cfm), just there for support. In trees that ...
[Question] [ ## BACKGOUND *I’m working on a region for my world, and I have a very distinct idea of what I want the physical landscape to look like. Below is a description of what I'd like for the land, and an approximation of how it might have been formed.* --- ## DESCRIPTION **Location.** The region is on the equat...
[Question] [ Let's assume a city exists underground, either in natural caves or synthetic tunnels. Are there any food sources underground, and what kind of population can they support? [Answer] The main *natural* sources of food energy for underground life on Earth are chemical: * [Biological material moving down ...
[Question] [ The [Great Red Spot](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/jupiter-s-great-red-spot-a-swirling-mystery) on Jupiter and the numerous [Great White Spots](http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n5/full/ngeo2405.html) on Saturn are storm systems that encircle the globes and last for decades, centuries in Jupite...
[Question] [ This is a part of the [Anatomically Correct series](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2797/anatomically-correct-series). If a magic-free fantasy/SF world were to have naturally evolved hexapods as humanoid as possible, living among bipedal humanoids, how would they actually look, [li...
[Question] [ **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. ## T...
[Question] [ I am looking for a tool that can be used to create worlds with a realistic (= physically plausible) climate and surface given general terrain shape, or can at least assist in such a task. My ideal workflow would be to provide the following data as input: * World terrain shape (perhaps something like a he...
[Question] [ Here is my fantasy medieval scenario: There is pair of adventurers, a Supportive/Non-Offensive mage and a swordsman. The swordsman is actually a disguised rifleman who carries a scoped rifle. In order to not arouse any suspicion by guards, and to avoid the rifle getting seized by them, **the rifle must b...
[Question] [ In my setting, every mythical humanoid creature humanity ever came up with (and most of the non-humanoid ones too, though it's more complicated there) either exists, or at one point used to exist before going extinct. They're collectively referred to as immortals, so called because the active magic withi...
[Question] [ In my world I have a race of god-like beings who I've recently decided should be shapeshifters. However everything in my world comes in threes, and there are three races / clans of these beings. For comparison a related branch of beings is mortals; humans, elves and dwarves. The main difference between t...
[Question] [ I am trying to write my first story and I'm having trouble imagining goods that would need a military convoy (included private) if they were to be transferred safely on a non-at-war soil. It doesn't matter how shiny the goods are, as long they have a big value on the black market. Gold is used a lot in ...
[Question] [ On a fictional planet far away from our own, there is a part plant, part animal creature of truly massive proportions embedded in the sand of a desert-like portion of the planet, kinda like a cross between Dune's sandworm and Star War's sarlacc. Its mouth remains closed, sitting just below the surface an...
[Question] [ In my setting there's a lack of sulfur, simply put. Don't ask for the specifications, just assume that whatever amount there is, it is likely better off used in dietary supplements for the shortage of it. Without access to this, what other propellants would humans use? If possible, I'd like to know how e...
[Question] [ I was once in a roleplaying campaign where time machines had this odd quality. None of us knew why; we abstracted that as stuff the characters knew. But is there any (pseudo)scientific justification for this? A time machine is limited in how far back in time it could go. (It *might* have a similar limit ...
[Question] [ Sails were good, they made ships go farther than ever before, relieved them of the critical necessity of oars, and with the right design they could even sail into the wind. However, sail ships have the one weakness that without wind's aid, they're no better than a floating wooden log stranded on the sea...
[Question] [ The antagonist of my story trades steel with a non-human, and non-humanoid, race, in return for a magical substance. They place great value in steel as they cannot manufacture it themselves. That is, they do know how steel production works, yet some aspect of their biology makes it unfeasible for them. ...
[Question] [ If vampires were around today, not too common, but widespread,it would only take one doctor examining them realize they're different. I assume scientists would hear about it and want to study them. Every news outlet would love to run a story about some well known fiction turning out to be true. People wo...
[Question] [ As of 2020, colonizing outside of Earth and into the other bodies that orbit our sun--planets, moons and even asteroids--is all talk and no do. Sure, we have stations like the International Space Station and Skylab, but they are merely orbiting from the air and not planted on any ground. Space telescopes...
[Question] [ It's a major step forward for humanity when they can finally live on a new planet. Maybe they went there out of desperation to survive, or maybe they simply want to explore. Either way, they suddenly lost all communication to people outside the planet and they will have to live without it. What possible ...
[Question] [ Supposedly there is a school of magic that allows telekinetic manipulation of blood (and only blood). Your telekinetic powers can not penetrate solids and other liquids (including human skin) so you can not just control the blood inside someone's body. The blood also needs to be very fresh (after leaving...
[Question] [ I am writing a DnD module where fishmen are invading island nations. The islands would naturally have adapted to this in some way as the raids have been happening for years. What method would these island nations use to detect underwater invaders? I first thought of nets with floats and bells but these w...
[Question] [ So we've (re)discovered a portal to a magical realm akin to 12th century Europe but with magic. We have giants, trolls, dwarves, wizards, etc. One faction calls upon our aid. Invoking a supposed alliance our ancestors agreed upon. We accept and send a reconnaissance force made up from our modern militar...
[Question] [ Let's say almost everyone is now jobless but almost all goods and services are made by machines including nanobot swarms and 3D printing. Even the government and the justice system in this futuristic world is run by Artificial Intelligence. Why would the concept of money/currency/ means of exchange still...
[Question] [ **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. Your...
[Question] [ I'm writing a short story set in a medieval world. My main inspiration was the videogames of the soul series - so, there is magic, dark themes, and a lot of variance in weapons and armors. As you imagine **realism isn't the main focus**, but still it may be nice to be consistent. Now, the problem is: I g...
[Question] [ As it's that time of year I thought it is time for a Santa themed question... Keeping the bureaucracy up to date with one's correct address is a nightmare: recently I have experienced it firsthand, when a credit recovery agency contacted me for not having paid taxes during the past 3 years in a city wher...
[Question] [ Forget those old-fashioned siege ladders. No-one wants boiling oil poured on them as they labour to the top. They need to get there much quicker and with no ladder to be pushed away when they are at their most vulnerable. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/orVS4.png)](https://i.st...
[Question] [ Let's say your kingdom is plagued by a particularly nasty breed of demons. These hellspawn are similar to particularly ugly thick-skinned humans, except for one thing: they are roughly twice as fast as an average human. There is currently a band of 100 of these creatures roaming the countryside. They po...
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[Question] [ So, my villain captures my main character hero's best friend. He likes to keep all of his captured enemies as morbid trophies. Once an enemy is defeated, they are all knocked out, covered in concrete, and stood up to be displayed for the villain's amusement. They are kept alive during the entire process ...
[Question] [ In my world I plan to have a naval army with boats that are driven by manpower. The rowers are not slaves but are also soldiers. However, I am struggling to find examples of times in history where someone whose job it was to row a boat would also wear armor, march on land, and fight in battles. Can you p...
[Question] [ The Kingdom of the Dwarves has been rich and prosperous since the days that the first Dwarf-father awoke in the roots of the mountain. In the uncounted ages since he rose, the depths of the mountain have been carved into an intricate labyrinth of passages and palaces, workshops and dwellings, great halls...
[Question] [ There have been many (many) questions around here about the how, why & even when will man kind become a multi planet society... this is not one of them. This question in fact goes the other way around, why would humanity fail to become a multi planet society? Assume for a minute that all of humanity (yes...
[Question] [ NB: this question has had some extensive editing. I apologize to those who replied early based on unclear premise. --- **TL; DR** two societies (druids & nomads) each discovered one kind of mana (resp. blue & orange) and never suspected the existence of the other kind (resp. orange & blue), even though b...
[Question] [ Modern international trade basically runs on standardized shipping containers and the infrastructure developed to handle them. Looking at just a small part of it, using crane to unload full containers and move directly from ship deck to truck bed, or vice-versa, and allowing containers to be packed in a ...
[Question] [ What sort of armor would a bounty hunter wear in a fantasy based world inspired by the medieval ages (1100 A.D - 1400 A.D) that would allow him to be both protected and agile, while remaining somewhat incognito? No one in this world has access to magic or gun powder, and the bounty hunter mostly hunts cr...
[Question] [ In my world, nuclear war ravaged the world, and nuclear winter scattered the survivors, dropping down the Earth’s population from 8 billion to a few million, at most. In the region of North America, life has become a hostile struggle for survival. The average person needs a decent weapon to have any sign...
[Question] [ I have a region in my novel called the Burren where some event many years prior caused the once relatively lush hills of farmland to become a barren desert. The desert expands little by little every few years. The desolation was initially caused by magic, but my magic system is tied into the chemistry ...
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[Question] [ I have an alternative-history setting (technology comparable to ~1900), where the country is comparable to modern day Turkey in size (i.e. large), geography (i.e. fertile coastlands, arid heartland), number of inhabitants and city locations. The country is ruled by an emperor with absolute power who resi...
[Question] [ Imagine that the democratic system was allowed to progress so that a direct democracy now existed in your country. Now everybody can vote on all political issues electronically or via electronic voting stations. Politicians are unemployed, but civil servants still work to carry out the actions as voted b...
[Question] [ I was thinking through how to portray Martians, and realized that there's really no reason for them to be green that I can think of. Both camouflage and (I assume) availability of pigments in the local biosphere would imply that they would end up reddish, like the soil. But then I had a thought; is there...
[Question] [ In my book series, the Aurean Empire is a vast entity spanning an entire planet. I'm kind of wondering what parts of my empire would the Aureans draw their best soldiers from (for example, the Roman Empire generally got their best recruits from the Balkans, the Byzantines got their best soldiers from Ana...
[Question] [ Our world is surrounded by a magic barrier that keeps out eldritch abominations that exist in the void, such as Cthulhu⁠. However, this barrier is fairly sensitive and easily damaged⁠. The violent, metaphysical energies of warfare between humans can disrupt the barrier, tearing sections of it open and al...
[Question] [ ## Some background The gods who have watched over us for so long are clearly angry. They've sent us this terrible trial in the form of a giant dungeon and told us if we can't complete it they'll wipe out our continent and start over (our intel says the other continents have gotten much the same message w...
[Question] [ **TL,DR:** Kinetic weapons are great at taking down shields, but can't take out the hull. **I need an explosive that works in a vacuum to take out the hull.** Nukes are out, since they'll hit the atmosphere too. Here is the situation: > > There is a battle around a planet. Two capital ships are in orbit...
[Question] [ In my fantasy novel, I have people living in a giant [swamp forest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_swamp_forest). The swamp stretches as far as the eye can see, so draining is not an option, as there is simply nowhere to drain the swamp to. My people need to have a city in this swamp. This cit...
[Question] [ I'm looking into a story where the Earth is hit by an asteroid going very fast. This must be a complete surprise and I want to go a mile further than just giving the entirely valid solution of it coming from deep space. I want the asteroid to come through the Sun and hit the Earth afterwards. The asteroi...
[Question] [ I'm developing a game that mostly takes place in a universe different from Earth's. In fact, the game has many other universes as well, each with different date/time systems (as opposed to Earth's hours, minutes, days, years etc.). The game takes place mostly on an artificial world that acts a bridge bet...
[Question] [ **Dilithoids or as I call them candy-creatures are the lowest animals on the food-chain on my arid alien planet.** What distinguishes them from other alien fauna is their simple body plan and their extremely high sugar content, which they get from eating a type of sugarcane. Their metabolism, though fast...
[Question] [ I want to create world where legislative body is full of ideologically pure extremists. I don't want any party that is ready to compromise on its principles. I mean green would be borderline Eco-terrorists, religious would try to outlaw divorce and any religion beside Christianity, socialist would want 7...
[Question] [ I'm thinking of creating a story where a relatively peaceful species is capable of taking themselves apart and then putting themselves back together again in a different place. Because of this, a group of different species has banded together to use this power to achieve Faster-than-Light technology (or ...
[Question] [ I'm building a fantasy world with a humanoid species (basically, "elves") which refuses to use dead wood. **Context** * They don't use dead wood because they don't want to. Consider that trees are sacred and should not be maimed or killed to create tools or materials and that even using wood from a tree ...
[Question] [ Let's say the world itself provides food in such amounts, the agriculture is not needed. In our world agriculture was one of the main driving force of civilization, so without it no labor division, no emeregence of class systems, perhaps no cities and permanent settlements. So could there be any "spark"...
[Question] [ A while ago [this question on medieval travel](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/120007/40408) was asked. I looked at it again today and it got me thinking about situations that would mandate travel in other settings, in particular what would force individuals to travel across interstellar distan...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story where aliens are using humanity like a botnet to do hyper complex calculations - each infested human has a program running in their subconscious brain that does a small part of the overall computation. They're doing this in order to find a habitable planet, since they've more or less ...
[Question] [ So I'm writing a book and need help to better explain this island that sinks, more on that in a moment as I give you the basic build of the planet... First, its a world on a very tilted angle. the south continent like Antarctica would be is mostly a summer paradise with short 6 hour nights. The world is ...
[Question] [ Let's say you are creating secret instructions for a new, very dangerous weapon. You have decided to encrypt the instructions. But you do not want anyone to guess that these notes are encrypted! So you want to make sure that it does not look like a coded message, but instead as a diary of a madman. How d...
[Question] [ I'm creating a story in which (almost) all of the world's now 10 billion people have voluntarily become "brains in jars." Considering that almost the entire population has chosen to do so, leaving nobody to take care of the brains except the computers (which are plenty capable of doing so), where is the ...
[Question] [ **Introduction** In a quite a lot of games swords, bows and so forth exist on a regular basis alongside guns, and often are as powerful, if not more so, than firearms. In a realistic, non-magical setting, the plausibility of such thing ranges from "*maaaaaybe* it can exist", due to some weird reasons, to...
[Question] [ [![sketch of the author's fictional world](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ASJDQ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ASJDQ.jpg) Just to say this first, the map is intentionally on a slant, and so the Northern cold areas are displayed at more of a North-West Angle, for example. I am designing the world from scratch...
[Question] [ I want to have a planet similar to earth with 45% axial tilt when hunter gatherers have an advantage over agriculture. The only thing I could think of is far north(Siberia, Alaska) & Sahara desert, even there people keep animals (reindeer & camels) so I guess nomadic herding can't be completely eliminate...
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[Question] [ The protagonist has the ability to reset themselves back to a place in time a limited amount of times. With that said, what other limitations can I place on the protagonist, so they are not consistently abusing the power as an answer to everything or a get out of jail free card that consistently deescala...
[Question] [ If a sentient supercomputer was created as a weapon of mass destruction, and it wants to consume humans for their flesh, why would it do that? I know this might seem too far-fetched, but if there's a possible real life solution, what would it be? I can add more information but I am afraid it'll be put on...
[Question] [ As mentioned by Shad in a recent video ( <https://youtu.be/0t8ZrI5JqCw> ), a big problem with giant fantasy swords is that they are often simply too heavy for the wielder regardless of superhuman strength. Would creating a hollow sword be an effective workaround for this? Or would it create more problems...
[Question] [ My antagonist, a typical Scrooge-like character, has travelled back in time to stop Christmas from ever becoming celebrated. What is the smallest change I could make to history to stop Christmas from happening? I don't want to completely change today's society as we know it (although obviously there woul...
[Question] [ In the mid 21st Century a dinosaur fossil dig team has encountered something a little different from what they are used to. They have stumbled upon some kind of unknown ooze or slime, preserved in amber. Since they are unsure of what they have found, they'd presumably pass it on for further study in a la...
[Question] [ Imagine we could scale up noise cancellation technology in earphones and apply it to earthquake prone zone, what challenges beside engineering and cost would make such a machine impossible to realise? If we could somehow mitigate or minimise the shaking so that the buildings can never hit resonance freq ...
[Question] [ Consider current level technology - surveillance satellites, patrol boats, coastal guards, both USA and Russian anti-submarine jet aircraft patrolling skies of Arctic Sea. I have a big group (~1000) of genetically enhanced people (in my setting they are a vanguard part of interplanetary invasion - in vit...
[Question] [ Let's say that suddenly NASA needs my characters, a party of scientists without prior experience, to go to space with a Space Shuttle-like spacecraft for a seven days mission. They only need to do **very** simple science stuff in orbit. No EVA, no piloting, no space cowboys actions. They have no particul...
[Question] [ I want to have an intelligent life-form on a planet, but I want this life form to be technologically limited because of the lack of discovery of fire. What changes would have to occur in the atmosphere for this to occur, and what effect would this atmosphere have on any human life or human technology on...
[Question] [ Could animal husbandry ever have any economic value as a space-based industry? We are already on the cusp of lab-based meat that is grown as an alternative industry, but would the practice of actually raising animals (on stations providing gravity) ever hold any economic value? Especially if the previous...
[Question] [ This question is for a fantasy story loosely based on medieval west Europe. The story is centered around a small remote village in a mountain that sits by a river. The village uses its river for drinking, bathing in, running its mill(s), etc. It would probably dump some wastes in it as well, but this got...
[Question] [ Suppose a species has limitless resources and the ability to construct megastructures of an astronomical scale. Would it be possible, given antigravitational technology (hypothetical), to create a planet with the diameter of a light year? Suppose there is an internal structure inside the planet that enab...
[Question] [ This cat looks like a normal [Maine Coon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Coon) to the unsuspecting victim. Except for one little detail: Red claws that inject a neurotoxin into the victim onpon scratching it. **What would be the most appropriate way a cat could evolve toxic claws?** I am looking fo...
[Question] [ Assume a projectile, made of a very heat-resistant and durable material (something like tungsten), formed like a modern saboted tank cannon shot. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y31CC.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y31CC.gif) If tungsten, like suggested, is not ideal, you can ...
[Question] [ In the real world, humans have tamed horses and use them as mounts. Horses have very specific characteristics that make them a viable mount, such as size, back-strength, stamina, diet, behavior, etc. That is also the reason why we don't ride animals such as deer and zebras. In my fantasy world, humans ha...
[Question] [ **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. An a...
[Question] [ During a battle between two extremely powerful space wizards, a beam of magical lightning has blasted a perfectly circular hole around 10 feet in diameter directly through an Earth-sized planet. In and out like a gunshot through paper. How would this impact life on the planet after this event, if at all?...
[Question] [ I want to center a fantasy-ish novel on a desolate world. I want barren land, rocks, and dust. No trees, grass, bushes, any vegetation of any kind. Heat would be good. I would like for there to be no water, but I know that without water you can't have life (at least as we know it), so I'm willing to allo...
[Question] [ A civilization uses the sci-fi staple of space gates to get around between systems. These gates, for our purposes, are big, round and very much not transparent; think the star gates but huge or the gates in the X universe of games. You can't see though them, we will assume they have a frequency shadow so...
[Question] [ Looking for a way gasoline can last more than [3-6 months](https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/how-long-can-gas-sit-in-a-car-before-it-goes-bad)? Going off the simple zombie apocalypse scenario, I want a way to find vehicles and drive them after they have sat for 2,3... x number of years? Anothe...
[Question] [ This is something I have been wondering: if an assassin wanted to kill their target with a bullet from a sniper rifle, can they dip it in liquid mercury so even if the bullet itself doesn't kill them, the mercury poisoning will? I am looking for scientific basis on how it could be feasible, if it is at a...
[Question] [ There are many ways to conceive of a universe where physical constants are different to our own; however, what would the universe be like if mathematics itself were different? For instance, what would a universe where every number was either a square or a prime look like? [Answer] You imply that mathe...
[Question] [ Let's say the dots on Ceres are abandoned **alien outposts**. Within the next 40-200 years humanity manages to send a team of **research scientists** to the location. The scientists quickly found a way inside the base and are researching for several years now but with only **moderate success**. The ali...
[Question] [ ## I have a [Category 3 problem](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2661/finding-a-more-objective-way-to-identify-questions-that-are-too-broad) in my world This is an [escape](/questions/tagged/escape "show questions tagged 'escape'") from [pirates](/questions/tagged/pirates "show que...
[Question] [ In most modern steampunk settings you see rudimentary use of electricity (a good example is Dishonored) however, no one seems to be too interested in advancing electric technology beyond very crude applications like electromagnets, Tesla coils and the occasional light bulb. Obviously this is necessary fo...
[Question] [ Let's say that for whatever reason, a population of a country has completely lost interest in anything to do with politics. Nobody shows up to political rallies and nobody votes. Everyone prefers to work on their hobbies or go to the pub or watch soaps on TV instead. Assume this happens in a current-day ...
[Question] [ ## Preface: I'm worldbuilding for a story that has been in my head for ages, it's a kinda SciFi/Fantasy combo. There is one "godlike" being that can alter how physics work in a certain area, and it's the source of all "super-tech" in this world. Real science has not advanced much from our own, no FTL en...
[Question] [ **Background :** In a certain medieval world with magic, people are always in danger of being attacked by non-human races, like orcs, trolls or giant spiders, etc. Villagers keep the village safe by using swords or magic. However the frequency of the attacks on humans is increasing. Therefore the King wa...
[Question] [ Authors are magic users who have chosen to make a fictional world the source of their magic, written in a book they try to have access to at all times, instead of training themselves to follow the usual path of magic which involves channeled energy from the soul. The book is enchanted to simulate the wor...
[Question] [ In my low-fantasy setting there is a civilization of completely blind humanoid creatures. Their ability to perceive the world is directly related to the other senses (hearing, smell and touch), which are slightly more heightened than ours. Aside from that, they have no other special ability. If I think o...
[Question] [ ## QUESTION In my world there's a large empire in a semiarid plains area, that lies smack in between two areas that I would like to effectively lose contact for a long time. To that end, I'd like to make this empire dangerous to travelers for a hundred years or more (really, as long as I can stretch it)....
[Question] [ Climate is not my priority because I prefer to develop the culture and the languages. However, climate has a strong influence in the culture, so I need to know the basics. So, I have a country located between the equator and the 20° parallel. According to what I have been reading on internet, that means ...
[Question] [ I am trying to design an alien forest ecosystem. The forest looks like this (from Dreamstime.com): [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9BKns.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9BKns.jpg) The relevant difference between the real-life Swedish forest pictured and mine is that my world sn...