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[Question] [ A human-like race develops into a modern society similar to ours in technological progress, with one weird difference: in their minds, they can see and hear everything that anyone else has seen or heard, ever. They have their own private thoughts, but experiences are shared across a mental link. People ...
[Question] [ The intelligent snake has all the smarts of a human, as well as the accompanying desire for luxury and refinement in their life beyond fulfilling their basic needs. What they lack is appendages, and much of our teeth. The end of the tail of the intelligent snake is prehensile enough and can, with practis...
[Question] [ Recently I've gotten interested in the planetary romance genre and the idea of a sword, sorcery and spaceships genre. So here's the dynamic is basically something like this. There is a star system with three habitable worlds is analogous to Earth, Mars and Venus. The vast majority of the population lives...
[Question] [ If there were a black hole orbiting an inhabited planet, with the gravity of a typical moon (e.g our moon, orbiting a similarly weighted planet to ours), what practical differences would arise when compared to a normal moon (such as it affecting the atmosphere) and would there be a viable way to harvest ...
[Question] [ Giant dome concepts are beautiful, but I can't help but wonder how they could be so fragile. If there is even the tiniest rip, the whole thing would rapidly decompress. How would you protect against decompression? [Answer] # Multiple layers Why have only one layer of dome? If you have two layers of do...
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[Question] [ A certain part of the continent is currently dealing with a plague of undeath. It takes many forms, with corpses rising from their graves, strange creatures roaming in the night, seemingly driven by some unknown malicious presence. To the humans who have the bad luck of calling these lands their home, th...
[Question] [ ## Harvesting explosions by containing them in a time bubble. Here's an interesting sci-fi concept, which involves generating a time bubble in order to slow a nuclear explosion to the point where the energy that leaks out of the bubble can be safely harvested. Over a sufficiently long period of time 100%...
[Question] [ Idk if here is the right place to put it so if there is a better place, pls do lmk. In Fantasy, lots of the stories have some poor person pretending to be a rich person or some rich person pretending to be a poor person. Usually for long periods of time, ie they are undercover or something. If there is a...
[Question] [ Wait ... what? Basically, this: Most land predators on Earth use their mouths to kill their prey. That is, they have to stick their precious, irreplaceable heads into harm's way every time they want a meal. I speculate that this has an effect on how ... tentative predators can be. Again, wait ... what? I...
[Question] [ Suppose I wanted to form a new sovereign state right now, can I still be able to do it? I can find people to run the government, make laws, build roads, erect commercial and residential buildings and most importantly say I got connections in UN club and many leaders are willing to recognise my new countr...
[Question] [ This world has 3 forms of faster-than-light travel: 1. Warpdrives don't require destination coordinates. They can be activated and deactivated at any time to move continuously through space. But they are the slowest of the three, and are easily tracked and detected. 2. Wormdrives require precise destinat...
[Question] [ I have a character who engages combat finishing with in-armour duel that pushes her to the limit. After it is over she is so exhausted (and probably dehydrated) that she faints. Assuming: 1. she is not severely wounded and there is no underlying health condition, just exhaustation from combat 2. there ar...
[Question] [ When the giant aliens came lumbering out of the interdimensional fissure, we fought back, building giant robots of our own... which promptly collapsed onto themselves and were unable to move because of (among other things) the square-cube law and lack of materials with adequate tensile strength to stop t...
[Question] [ Goblins are small, diminutive humanoid creatures. They are approximately the size of a small child, they are short-lived, and they have very low intelligence. In my fantasy world, goblins have been bred and domesticated like dogs. They can be taught simple commands and tasks, though they lack the intelli...
[Question] [ The situation I'm considering is as follows: A space ship (a transport ship operated by two people) crashes onto a planet on which a swing-by was planned. The crew could escape using an escape capsule and land on the planet, while the space ship crashed on it. The escape capsule lands not too far from th...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [My time machine needs to know when it is](/questions/116454/my-time-machine-needs-to-know-when-it-is) (31 answers) Closed 3 years ago. Specifically, I'm considering a situation where: * The entire planet, as well as all other bodies in the solar system ...
[Question] [ In a few science fiction settings, we can see computers being called differently. A terminal, a holosphere, a pad, anything techno-sounding. But from when computers were invented up until now, they've been renamed a few times and it never caught on. Micro computers, personal computers, portable computers...
[Question] [ In my fantasy setting there are dwarves, inspired by the "stereotypes" and traits presented in [Dwarf Fortress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress), and thus, partially inspired by the LotR lore. It has the implications that dwarves use magic, but to an extreme extent, and even then, it's mostl...
[Question] [ Assuming a world otherwise like ours and at the same technological level of medieval Europe, what change in the world might have caused people to build defensive structures underground rather than above ground? I've already thought about riding large flying creatures, and dragons are far too obvious. Wh...
[Question] [ I'm currently writing a story set in a post apocalypse. It would be based in the current year . This story takes place from the perspective on one person who is speaking to a group of people, all in separate locations. Their main form of communication is radio. As far as I can remember any time I've seen...
[Question] [ My character has stumbled upon another planet with life, and they are able to walk on walls and ceiling, completely ignoring regular gravity (by magic, science, whatever, it doesn't matter all that much). My question is, how would the layouts of the houses change? I'm guessing that the water appliances w...
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[Question] [ Some hundreds of years ago, all humanity was removed from the Americas. In fact, most humans are gone from the world altogether. In the intervening time, nature has overrun the formerly human dominated landscapes of the former United States. The area referred to in the title is the lands formerly around ...
[Question] [ In my scenario, people behave after a certain "transformation" similar to Zombies. However they are not "undead", meaning that they cannot raise again after their body functions completely are out of order. Their behavior resembles those of zombies in the following way: * Not capable of having verbal int...
[Question] [ This question is based off of an episode of the original Star Trek series that got me thinking. Imagine the very near future were just starting to colonize mars and had placed 500 people from all nations on the planet, which was growing most of it's own food with occasional influx of new seeds and resour...
[Question] [ It's a few years from now, and someone **needs killing** at a remote secure facility, where a dangerous AI is being developed by a terror organization hiding behind a respectable corporate front, which prevents *my* organization from launching an outright missile strike against the facility. After much e...
[Question] [ Death occurs in extremely high humidity and an average temperature of 23 C (~75 F), both of which continue for six weeks. At that time, temperature begins to fall over the course of eight weeks to an average of 5 C (~40 F). At the beginning of these weeks humidity decreases sharply, though the air is sti...
[Question] [ We always assume first alien contact will be meeting with some strange looking alien, maybe with a multitude of limbs, sometimes with none, etc. etc.. However, so many of our Science Fiction stories talk about humans having strange bodies that have been manipulated at their genes and have other enhancem...
[Question] [ DC, Marvel, X-men...etc style people, or things, exist. Great. Now the existence of those people would definitely change laws and many legal practices. And of course the governments of the world would like to utilize the abilities of such individuals. Only problem is this: How do you define a super perso...
[Question] [ If I wanted to image an Earth-like planet at a resolution where one could read the lips of a human speaking on the surface 1, 10, and 1000 light years away, how large would the telescope reflector need to be (the diameter) in each case? Another way to ask my question is: Given a parabolic mirror/reflecto...
[Question] [ **Scenario** Mining of asteroids is a successful venture in the future. However much of the resulting mineral yield is required on Earth and the problem is delivery. Carrying thousands or millions of tons of ore safely to Earth by rocket is completely uneconomic. So, how do we do the delivery? I suggest ...
[Question] [ I've been reading about stellar engines. [The Wikipedia article on them](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engine) says this about the acceleration they could provide to a star: > > Such thrust and acceleration would be very slight, but such a system could be stable for millennia. Any planetary syst...
[Question] [ Someone has the power to turn themselves invisible, as well as other objects in a short radius, by bending the light around them and the invisibility can last as the person wants through conscious effort. There are no limits as to what or who the person can turn invisible so long as they are only partial...
[Question] [ I just recently started reading Gulliver's Travels. If you haven't heard of it, it's basically a story about a 1600's era sailor who gets stranded on various islands with strange humanoids. The first one he gets stranded on, Lilliput, is filled with humanoids no more than 6 inches tall, with everything o...
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[Question] [ All right, in this fiction there are airships, they're not like blimps or zeppelins, they're much more like the fantasy-esque "age of sail ship that floats", cool and dandy. With their creation, some people in the air admiralty of a nation thought of creating airborne troops, with parachutes (which I was...
[Question] [ We all know that electrons behave like flowing water, e.g. that electric currents behave like water currents. We also know that modern computers use electric currents to carry out mathematical and logical operations. My question is: * Can a computer (a machine that is able of at least carrying out basic ...
[Question] [ I had a vision of a creature that touched things, and wherever it touched, it left a mark opposite to the original colour. For example when it walked across the grass the grass had red footprints, when it touched the wet stone it shone with a patch of white. **Could such a material**, a liquid or perhaps...
[Question] [ My city's founders had the short-sightedness to place it on the coast. Now, for *mysterious reasons*, the sea level is rising. The municipal government has decided that building dikes is "too Dutch" and wants to let water claim the city, turning streets into waterways. To do this, they will water-proof t...
[Question] [ You have an underwater civilisation, be they merpeople, octopus people, partially evolved humans or not. One thing that is always considered as a necessity in the development of any society is mining. The problem is that water deflects and slows down fast, slashing movements by friction. The deeper you a...
[Question] [ Suppose the mermaids share similar intelligent and technology with us, they also practise performing surgical operation like we do in hospital. Negate the issue of negligent during the operation the most critical problem is contamination that often reduce the chances of success, how can the mermaids nega...
[Question] [ I have a world with days lasting 9 years. The inhabitants of this world have taken to migrating across the globe to avoid the deadly night, keeping themselves in a sweet spot. One of the biological quirks of the people living here is that sleep isn't a thing. Similar to dolphins, they sleep with only one...
[Question] [ My protagonist comes from a "Western" culture where Humanoid AI have regulated the economy into cooperative peace that has lasted a few generations. Technology and living standards have skyrocketed, transforming society. Some older AI are revered like philosophers, younger AI are tracked through social m...
[Question] [ Follow up to [Could a well versed archaeologist understand and speak languages that are 3000+ years old?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/176955/could-a-well-versed-archaeologist-understand-and-speak-languages-that-are-3000) I have an archaeologist who finds some inscriptions that are a...
[Question] [ Out in the desert wastes of my planet, there are living multiple tribes of psychotic raiders who have acquired a number of harmful mutations due to naturally high radiation in the areas that they live. Years of exposure and inbreeding in each individual tribe have made these mutations much more severe, a...
[Question] [ In my world the only available metal is copper and it is as rare as gold is for us. Other metals exist in salts and in rock, but ores and other common metal sources cannot be found for these elements. Noone can harvest metal from salts because reasons. Due to the rarity of Copper, it would not be weaponi...
[Question] [ I'm writing a species of dragon-sized butterflies¹ as flying mounts into a low-magic fantasy setting², and would like to know if these creatures *have* to be imbued with magic, or if they could just be mundane through some contrivances. What stands in the way of having an *insect* of this size, and how c...
[Question] [ Gallium is a metal that melts at room temperature. I have a character who has the ability to manipulate matter and temperature to some degree. Is it possible for her to carry around a sheathe full of gallium and alter it into an effective sword? Her environment is usually lower than gallium's melting poi...
[Question] [ I'm working on the story of someone born in the tunnels after the earth has gone though a runaway greenhouse effect. I want these tunnels to be real, with real infrastructure to keep the inhabitants alive. There's a mountain of research to do, but the big question I have to start with: "Is this even poss...
[Question] [ I have a slug that I need to kidnap. Not an ordinary garden slug; this slug is special. This slug's slime is violently reactive with the atmosphere on my planet, and explodes into flame on contact with the air. The slug breathes oxygen, but doesn't need very much (or else it would suffocate). It also can...
[Question] [ A mainstay of science fiction games is the idea that infantry can be deployed from space based platforms to act as some component of a QRF, or as a replacement for paratroopers. But how feasible is this in real life, disregarding treaties that prohibit the militarization of space? **Assumptions :** We a...
[Question] [ Picture, in a near future, that we build cities vertically rather than horizontally. Need a new city block? Add another few floors. Disregard for the moment any physical construction problems this may present. My question pertains to the reason(s) for building such a city. Why would we do it? It was sug...
[Question] [ In a nutshell, I've an 8-fingered bat-like humanoid (let's call them AX) and a 10-fingered 'standard humanoid' species (let's call them BX) sharing a planet. AX was the first to develop things such as agriculture and animal keeping. They were the first to trade as well, and thanks to being able to cover...
[Question] [ I'd like to have a large underground world. Imagine the "Underdark" which will be familiar with DnD folks. A huge network of large and small caverns connected by winding passageways. The occasional vast underground lake. I would like for this subterranean world to be populated with wicked denizens. Entir...
[Question] [ We are currently estimated to be about 0.7 on the Kardashev Scale. I am interested in the second level of the Kardashev Scale: > > **Type II** > > > "A civilization capable of harnessing the energy radiated by its own star (for example, the stage of successful construction of a Dyson > sphere), with e...
[Question] [ My friends and I are building a world with a 50 mile high volcano on it. The mountain is the result of some bored god deciding to play a joke on everyone. Or, some other god got angry and decided to really, for realz this time, bury an unruly city. The legends aren't especially clear on how it got there ...
[Question] [ I saw this a while ago, and it has bothered me ever since. Imagine a world where you know everyone is going to go crazy in exactly one day. The entire world's population will try to find and kill you, for a 24 hour period. This includes the army, policemen, friends, family (who know you, and where you co...
[Question] [ Ruins of buildings, abandoned cities and suburbs dot the coasts of Earth's landmasses, inhabited by wild animals and the pieces of a once vibrant civilization. The oceans are relatively empty, the soil and dirt sapped of all its nutrients, the vegetation on earth fighting the strong winds clinging to the...
[Question] [ In the lore of the world I'm building, the Dwarves used to have a very large territory surrounded by more or less impassable mountain ranges. This territory shrunk significantly when the elves got four dragons (the only dragons in existence and the only dragons to have ever been seen) and quite simply bu...
[Question] [ Assuming that the observer is on the moon for a full lunar cycle, would the appearance of the planet wax and wane, would the moon's shadow occlude the planet during an eclipse while on the moon? [Answer] The planet, as seen from the moon, would undergo a cycle of visibility, going from full "planet" t...
[Question] [ Suppose I have a machine that lets me see the near future, and I want to use this to get rich on the stock market. What is the best way to invest so that no one suspects that I'm doing something fishy? EDIT: The point is to not just to have an excuse that people will believe, the point is to not draw any...
[Question] [ Obviously I know that everyone who is living there is going to want a house but what comes after? Do they build a butcher’s building next or maybe a blacksmith’s building? And what comes after that? Is a town hall only built once a village has become a town? Basically I want to know which buildings come ...
[Question] [ I have a community in a freezing polar region who **occasionally** resort to cannibalism to survive. This only occurs when **all other food reserves are exhausted** due to story based logic. Each year/few years they designate a number of people to be *standby* victims. This is to avoid potential conflict...
[Question] [ I've considered making a [shared world](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_universe), a world with a setting that can be used by more than one writer or worldbuilder. I have a basic story planned out, and it has certain requirements of the world's geography, natural and anthropogenic history, layout, cl...
[Question] [ It is the age of exploration. Intrepid European colonists have come to settle the Americas amidst a storm of interest over the wondrous materials that may be found in the New World. Unfortunately for them, the indigenous have spent thousands of years cultivating their magic, distinguishing themselves in ...
[Question] [ OK so this world I'm building has Earth-like flora and fauna, along with being around the size of Earth and being around the same distance as Earth from a star the size of the sun. The atmosphere is similar to Earth's as well, and the climate of the land area of the planet is temperate oceanic, similar t...
[Question] [ In my current worldbuilding project, humans find themselves struggling to survive on a cold, dead world with minimal sunlight and the aid of magical machines called "spinners". Spinners are two identical cubes adjoined by a face, always counter-rotating w.r.t one another at a constant rate. No amount of ...
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[Question] [ Ornithopters are vehicles that fly by flapping their wings, rather than trough use of a propeller or jet engine. They've been proposed and built many times throughout history, and are a common element of science fiction and fantasy. ![Da Vinci's Ornithopter](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rasqn.jpg) *Leonardo...
[Question] [ We lived through loads of questions regarding aquatic races, so buckle up, I am going to gather some ideas around [insectoids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/4457/what-could-make-intelligent-insect-race). *The homeworld and race* * This race lives on a planet which has lower gravity th...
[Question] [ In a setting with Alcubierre-drive starships (as per [my answer here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/367/75)), it is inevitable that once the technology becomes common enough and enough different polities and organizations have such ships, that conflicts will arise that may have no mutually sa...
[Question] [ Quick refresher ... I'm considering the two basic strategies of child-rearing. R-selection, meaning you have lots of offspring and don't care for them much; and K-selection, meaning you have a few offspring and take very good care of them. Humans are *the* poster-species for K-selection, and most fish a...
[Question] [ **Background** In a galaxy not so far far away.... The [Andromeda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy) galaxy is presided over by two major powers - the Y'Ing and the Y'Ang. These powers have existed together but never integrated with each other into a galactic whole. They have been in a Co...
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[Question] [ I was bumming around Reddit the other day when I came across a discussion talking about how laser guns in Warhammer 40,000 have appreciable recoil, enough that a laser sniper rifle was described as having a kick strong enough to leave a bruise on ones' shoulder. Now I know 40k plays fast and loose with t...
[Question] [ What technology (at minimum), devices or minimum civilization development is needed, so that an individual member of this civilization would be able to detect that some star is going supernova? My question is inspired by "[The Inner Light](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(episode))" episo...
[Question] [ ## Premise I am in the formation phase of a fictional world. I would like one of its notable characteristics to be extremely large waves. On Earth, most of our large waves are triggered by earthquakes, landslides and things to that effect. Here is an example from 2005: [![enter image description here](ht...
[Question] [ How can an authority verify the identity of an AI? An easy to explain example is the equivalent of a drivers’ license. Consider a typical situation, in the near-ish future: Police cruiser pulls over a car that has a passenger but no driver. Starts to admonish her that self-driving cars must still have a ...
[Question] [ A friend and I are creating a magical bird that eats gemstones then uses them to form a thin coat of crystal armor over its body. Is there any way for this bird (or any living thing) to actually have crystals growing on its body? I kind of want this ability to make scientific sense, but explanations that...
[Question] [ I recently finished reading the Kim Stanley Robinson novel *2312* - set, of course, in the year 2312. Part of the background to the political negotiations and ongoing terraforming in the outer Solar System involves the transfer of energy to Titan, one of Saturn's moons, from the Vulcanoids, a population ...
[Question] [ I have a town that I'm designing (in a D&D campaign, think Neverwinter in terms of technology) that I want to be a town on a river/lake/ocean/whatever. I would like for this town to be unique from other towns in the ways that they have figured out how to wield the power of water. I know that we have thin...
[Question] [ If I want an Earth-like planet, what kind of star can I use to achieve that ? According to the [Harvard stellar classification](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification), our Sun is a G-class star. The best would be to have: * Temperature similar to Earth's, but can be hotter or colder as long...
[Question] [ Suppose human explorers came across a terrestrial planet hospitable for life, but with more than 70% of its surface covered by gallium. When temperatures rises in the day it will form an ocean of liquid metal so how do they cross it? I am looking at interstellar tech level and also submarine will likely ...
[Question] [ Let me introduce myself. I have a twin. We are around our 30's. Even though we are pretty similar (and it's rather obvious we are twins) we are easily distinguishable if you pay enough attention. The interesting part is that we have telepathy between each other. This telepathy works as follows: * We can ...
[Question] [ I'm imagining a super-powerful spacefaring race which has the capability to build or modify a star system or even galaxy by moving stars around, but I wonder if it's really feasible. Is it theoretically possible to move a star intentionally and accurately from point A to point B? How might this be done? ...
[Question] [ A lot of fictional works contain people who are well over 100 years old, some 200, some 1000s of years old. The Emperor Of Mankind for example is over 10,000 years old. Colin from Highlander is over 2000 years old. Realistically, how would these people think and act? How would they act or think differen...
[Question] [ A medieval European ruler (specifically whom and of what country doesn't matter, but may be specified by an answer) one day finds in his bedchamber a group of textbooks and self-improvement books. These books cover a variety topics as understood by modern civilization: logistics/supply chain, industriali...
[Question] [ A person from the 15th century Europe, by way of an [Assiti Shard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assiti_Shards_series), gets thrown forward in time to 21st century New York City. They are aware they're going someplace weird, because the shard manifests as a glowing door opening out of thin air. Now, it i...
[Question] [ In a video game series called Portal, we are given a gun, which shoots two portals: an orange one and a blue one. These portals have the following properties: * Anything that goes into the orange portal comes out of the blue portal (instantaneously), and vice versa. * Only two portals may be fired at any...
[Question] [ I was wondering how effective nuclear shelters actually are? If you assume that your house is equipped with a bomb shelter (aka fall-out shelter). The construction of the shelter is not over the top, just a concrete lined bunker set into the ground say 3m below the surface of the ground. (which is alread...
[Question] [ \*By complex life, I mean something more complex than microorganisms. Something closer to what we have on Earth. Similar to this question: [Is it possible for life to evolve on planets without water?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1029/is-it-possible-for-life-to-evolve-on-planets-with...
[Question] [ Constructed languages are the life blood of imaginary cultures. If a culture speaks an earthly language, how can we be expected to believe that we are in a different culture? While every detail is important, one that is often ignored is symbols. Many people that construct languages tend to think that as...
[Question] [ [Western Marches](http://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78/grand-experiments-west-marches) is a style of RPG game where the players face an increasing amount of danger and hazards the further they go in a given direction. This can be due to being on a frontier, on the border of a war or for any other rea...
[Question] [ Dwarves and their underground cities and the vast network of tunnels that connect them, a stereotype older than Tolkien. What I wonder is how would warfare be waged in this tightly restricted area? Say there are two sides, one which is numerically superior,the rebels, by a wide margin but has little in t...
[Question] [ In Science Fiction we often see the protagonists exploring all sorts of strange new worlds with no apparent discomfort to the variations in gravity. What factors determine how strong the gravity will be on a planet? Is it purely based on the size of the planet in question or are other factors like core d...
[Question] [ **Post-apocalyptic scenario:** What would be the minimum number of cities (financial/transport hubs, e.g. New York, London, Beijing etc) that need to be taken out by nuclear weapons or other means which would create enough disruption to the world economies that trade shuts down and throws first world cou...
[Question] [ It's a very old scenario but never seems to be explored in great detail - not even in the Bible. Two astronauts, a man and a woman, return to Earth to find that all mammals have been wiped out by a virus. All dead bodies have been cleaned by vultures, insects and bacteria. There is no danger from pollut...
[Question] [ In many sci-fi scenarii, most often when mechs are involved, it is not uncommon to see such a technology, usually called [heated blade](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotBlade). Supposedly, it would make the blade even more efficient at cutting through anything; usually designed to cut throug...