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[Question] [ In the last few decades there has been a lot of progress in the development of prosthetic limbs. They can be operated by the user's nerve pulses, they can be fitted with simple touch sensors, and can be constructed from materials that are both lighter and stronger than their original limbs. I've also hea...
[Question] [ Earth has [stopped rotating](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpinTheEarthBackwards). Maybe Superman started flying around the Earth backwards to turn back time, but hit a wall of kryptonite just when the Earth stopped rotating. Or [Stupendous Man](http://www.rabittooth.com/13_calvin/Stupendous...
[Question] [ I've recently come across a disease that I am unhealthily intrigued by: [Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva). Basically, instead of soft tissue healing normally, it calcifies and grows bone to replace damaged cells. This is, obviousl...
[Question] [ Silicon is often brought up in science fiction as being very similar to carbon, just below it on the periodic table. The silicon-based "organic" molecules are more tightly bound and thus would find a higher temperature to be appropriate. Being too hot for liquid water, what would it use as a solvent? Th...
[Question] [ Rocky planets are terrible. Convenient Earth like planets are rare, but most are too cold or too hot. They are covered with sand. I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Instead, our burgeoning [K2 civilization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) doe...
[Question] [ (This question is meant to be an improvement and/or replacement for [How would you bring wealth back to the past?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/113986/how-would-you-bring-wealth-back-to-the-past), which some users have argued is off-topic for this group.) Imagine a future world in wh...
[Question] [ I'd like to write about a character armed with a sword which *telescopes*, so that he can store it in an ordinary sheath but then draw it and extend it out to remarkable lengths. **Would this be plausible? If so, what are its limitations?** More specifically (re limitations), assuming it is possible, ho...
[Question] [ **This Query is part of the Worldbuilding [Resources Article](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143606/a-list-of-worldbuilding-resources).** --- This is a follow up of this question: [Creating a realistic world - Spreading languages](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/25396...
[Question] [ I am referring to the situation described at the start of the movie [28 Weeks Later](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463854/), where Britain had been wiped out by a zombie virus, but the rest of the world was (seemingly) fine. What would be a realistic, competent response from the rest of the world to this ...
[Question] [ The less likely an event is, the easier it is to insure against it, as the risk is low. Meteor insurance, if it exists, is probably cheap, and still pretty profitable for the company, as the number of claims would be low. On the other hand, the odds of your car being damaged in a fight between superheroe...
[Question] [ I’m writing a story where mars with its current atmosphere is inhabited entirely by women wearing the “spacesuit” with the following features: * tight fitting, * heated shirt, * heated leggings, * full head oxygen helmet Would this suit protect them enough for 1 hour on the Martian surface? [Answer] T...
[Question] [ Time stops nearly everywhere, time only continues in a area around creatures of a certain intelligence. The worlds population is suddenly thrown into darkness as time ceases throughout the universe except near them, since light is no longer reaching them from outside their time bubble. They also find all...
[Question] [ I have a story idea that involves a human attempt to halt and reverse global climate change. The idea is a simple one - a satellite that partially blocks out the sun. The satellite is located at the L1 [lagrange point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) and is stabilised to always cast the m...
[Question] [ How does inverting global temperatures affect climate? Here exists a fantasy world similar to earth in all important ways. Except, however, that global temperatures have been flipped; it is coldest at the equator and warmest at the [geographic] poles. After reading [Climate Modelling 101](https://medium...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- Questions about Idea Generation are off-topic because they tend to result in list answers with no objective means to compare the quality of one answer with the others. For more information, s...
[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. Note...
[Question] [ It makes sense to believe life is more likely to evolve on the surface of large objects like planets, moons, and asteroids. However, a common fantasy trope is the massive space creature: some kind of vast spacefaring organism travelling between planets or stars, typically ancient and often sentient. I lo...
[Question] [ Working to develop a culture within my world where good liars are prized. We do know, from science that the ability to lie is [actually a marker in cognitive development](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/7730522/Lying-children-will-grow-up-to-be-successful-citizens.html), because the creature or p...
[Question] [ Looking for a desktop application that lets me draw on a sphere with my mouse, which I find very much needed for geography on a whole planet. With a world grid and showing coordinates and all, depending on where my mouse is. Google Earth has both features, you can draw polygons and lines and place icons,...
[Question] [ Whales are majestic creatures of the sea, as they glide more gracefully through the water than their size should seemingly allow. What kind of evolutionary path would it take for whales to glide gracefully though the skies? Would it be possible on our planet, or would other conditions need to exist? I ...
[Question] [ Now a solid body of rock will collapse itself to a round shape when it hits about [600 km in diameter](http://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/what-is-the-minimum-size-a-celestial-body-can-become-a-sphere/) (400 km for ice). Now, the Second Death Star is estimated to be between [160 and 900 km](https://ww...
[Question] [ Caloric intake varies vastly even in just the world of mammals, from the hundreds of pounds of leaves an elephant eats everyday, to the small amount a sloth eats. Obviously, caloric intake is important to how actively a species hunts or moves about. Is there a good solid way to figure out the caloric int...
[Question] [ Assuming human-style vocal cords, what phonemes would a snouted animal be able to produce? I'm looking at developing a conlang (or several) for a setting, and it has several humanoid species with protruding muzzles. I can think of a few phonemes that can be ruled out immediately on the basis of lip immob...
[Question] [ There's this what-if scenario that's been kicking around in my head for quite a while now. Basically, what if both *Homo sapiens neanderthalis* and *Homo sapiens sapiens* had survived? What if, due to geographical factors for example, the two subspecies had had been separate long enough to form two dist...
[Question] [ I have a colony of humans on Mars, living in enclosed cities to maintain breathable air. (If they need to leave, they suit up.) Assuming modern-day technology, how do I figure out how many people a city of volume V can support? Or, to reverse the question, how large a domed city would I need to support a...
[Question] [ Let us suppose that we have people who for all intents and purposes are human, except for one (not so) tiny modification: they are able to exert enough muscular force and react fast enough that they can move their whole body, or their limbs independently, faster than the speed of sound, say $1800 \text{ ...
[Question] [ I'm working on a story where the characters are stranded on a planet that turns so incredibly slow that it acts like a tidally locked planet, with one side burning and the other frozen. However because the planet still turns, the characters are forced to out-walk it constantly in the habitable strip, cha...
[Question] [ Strange title I know, but you'll understand why quickly. I wanted to use a black hole to create absurd amounts of power for hopefully obvious reasons (kind of useful). The problem with natural large black holes is that they tend to be heavy and produce less energy per second than small black holes (or th...
[Question] [ For a complex world-building scenario I want a habitable moon orbiting a habitable earth-like planet. The habitable moon should allow for flora, fauna and landscape as similar to earth as possible. The same goes for the habitable earth-like planet it is orbiting. I have checked the various topics concer...
[Question] [ Island planets are common in science-fiction, and we've even got [a few questions](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14220/climate-on-an-island-world) [about them](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14267/society-on-an-island-world) in worldbuilding. However, I cannot help ...
[Question] [ How might the occupants of any given universe identify which (if any) of the many proposed Time Travel Paradigms govern their potential use of time travel? By "Time Travel Paradigms" I refer to the proposed solutions to paradoxes attributed to traveling backwards in time, such as: 1. Anything done while ...
[Question] [ I'm about to (re)start an effort to collaboratively create a complete world. I'm afraid most ideas would be mine, but I really want it to be open for others to contribute. I'm seeking for an Internet-based platform (most preferrably via browser) to do that. So far I can think on a wiki and on Kune, but I...
[Question] [ Could a terrestrial planet have a stable set of layers of atmospheres, and could different lifeforms evolve within those different layers? This question is inspired by the diversity found on Earth. For example, deep sea organisms evolved without light (and in some cases, without oxygen) and are quite dif...
[Question] [ In the first scene of *Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark*, we see a booby trap where a series of spikes are thrusted out of a wall, and are triggered by "walking into the light". I think in the story of the film, this was meant to be something related to superstition (or the beliefs of the tr...
[Question] [ Some necromancers prefer skeletons over undead (have a certain style to them, they don't smell, there's less moaning and grunting). But at the end of the day, they're still walking skeletons. Boring! So I'm trying to do something fun with them: turn them into skeletal helicopters: skelecopters! The magic...
[Question] [ After [reading that lamp ghosts really exist,](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/31618/98) I of course had to try for myself. Not having an old lamp, I just tried to rub some electric lamp at home, and to my great surprise, indeed immediately a ghost appeared. Before I could recover from my surpr...
[Question] [ Science-based answers, please. Key points: 1. the main concern is radiation protection for sustainability of human life (and accompanying plant and animal life ecosystems, whether earth-like or not). 2. atmospheric retention is a minor concern (assume other factors have (mostly) taken care of the atmosp...
[Question] [ **In a future where space travel is common, how would access to space be regulated?** From what I know, currently the [International Telecommunication Union (ITU) assigns slots for geostationary satellites](http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/go/space/snl/en) (since the range of geostationary is essentially one-dim...
[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. # Ba...
[Question] [ I'm developing a world in which everything needed to create gunpowder (sulfur, charcoal, potassium nitrate) along with other chemicals, are all infused with *chaotic, unstable magic*. Weapons which rely on these substances are considered too dangerous to use in war, since magic creates *unpredictable eff...
[Question] [ My world was colonized by spacefaring humans who lost the vast majority of their technology in an unknown catastrophe at least 12,000 years before the present. They have now redeveloped roughly up to the point of Late Medieval technology (with some adaptations to the conditions of my planet). We have all...
[Question] [ There exists a Universe in which all of outer-space is filled with some form of human-breathable air. Theoretically, you could fly a Zeppelin up there and explore other worlds, with a sufficiently long travel time. Nearly everything about physics, except for maybe some minor differences, are the same as ...
[Question] [ Is it possible to have futuristic bullets that travel slower than sound? I'm afraid they would not carry as much kinetic energy as the supersonic variants. I know we have [subsonic ammunition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsonic_ammunition) as of today, but in the future as armor technologies advance,...
[Question] [ That title is probably way too specific, but essentially I'm trying to develop my book's setting. Currently, my characters (a team of six adventurers) awaken as amnesiacs who were once human but now have been transformed into a motley menagerie, within a grassland. This hilly grassland has a road running...
[Question] [ In my modern fantasy novel, there is a species of people called the Hammerts. The Hammerts are small orange humanoids who have issues running and jumping after they reach adulthood. To compensate for their limited mobility, Hammerts all have a supernatural ability to access a hyperspace dimension purely ...
[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. In a...
[Question] [ It's the early 23rd century, and we are about 50 years into Mars being colonized. The planet, which was supposed to usher in a new era in civilization and the expansion of humanity into the stars, hasn't quite played out that way. Instead, Mars is really just more of a depressing, harsh resource mining f...
[Question] [ The battle of superiority between sorcerers and wizards goes way back. The two distinct powerhouses of magic both know that they are tapping into the same magic. However, they do not share the same beliefs about how to use it. Sorcerers use crystal balls, while wizards prefer wooden wands and staves. It...
[Question] [ I am writing a story where a species undergoes devolution. Is there any scientific or plausible way to do this? The process can be instantaneous or may take ages, I do not mind which as I need to weigh my options at this stage. To be clear, the devolution I am thinking of is like taking a human being th...
[Question] [ I'm GMing RPG game based on Stars Without Numbers, but its happening on my personal world. It's in the 36th century of our universe and humans are colonizing planets within the galaxy. In the far future CCTV and other monitoring equipment are very cheap and easy to install, also AI and similar programs m...
[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. Is t...
[Question] [ Many ancient religions place value on dying in combat. For example, in Norse mythology, [only those slain in battle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla) are able to enter Valhalla. In this alternate universe, a the population of a small European country (population around 3 million) still strongly ho...
[Question] [ The world I am creating has flora and fauna based vaguely on that of Gondwana. As a result, there are no dogs, horses, or cows, and no domesticated animals of any sort. Having drawn my map and started building my civilizations, I want there to be trade across some expanses of desert. However, without any...
[Question] [ In light of the recent societal reckoning about and large scale protests against systemic racism, how would a space agency (or other entity) go about selecting individuals to colonize other planets or moons in order to avoid starting a space colony plagued by racism itself? **Assumptions** 1. We're consi...
[Question] [ Imagine a world in which the language barrier is a means of propaganda defence. In this world, one of the primary concerns of each country is the migration of natives, since they know their native language and can function as translators. Let us assume, for the simplicity of the question, there is no pub...
[Question] [ Imagine a world where you can talk to anyone at all at any time, and telepathically transmit any amount of information to any select group of people. Why would a world like this ever get to the invention of radio, much less valuing it and transmitting? Basically, in other words, what other uses could the...
[Question] [ So here is the setup: The protagonist has escaped an underground slave encampment in a cyberpunk dystopia. Everyone in this world is expected to be registered - the SIN (System Identification Number) from Shadowrun best describes this concept. You need this registry in order to have a job that isn't in t...
[Question] [ I'm imagining a low-tech medieval fantasy world where an attack at dawn such that the defenders are forced to look into the rising sun conveys a huge advantage. The effect on my fantasy humanoids would be many orders of magnitude greater than anything humans experience. The armies are mostly wooden shiel...
[Question] [ **How would a group of elemental mages defend against guns and artillery of late WW1?** War rages between two nations. Both have basically the same tech level, but one doesn't use hand held guns. This is because of how common elemental magery is and strong discouragement from the upper and warrior classe...
[Question] [ In my world, there is a religious cult that worships the god of death. They are semi-immortal and have superhuman speed. They can raise corpses that are not too severely damaged. They need a melee weapon that synergizes with their speed that will not render corpses useless - it must avoid brain and nervo...
[Question] [ Inspired by Star Wars and other sci-fi space series, we often see their ships shooting lasers as a "big needle", shot three or four times consecutively to perform a volley of laser fire, similar to our metal bullets. I know from other threads that laser space battle is *very unlikely*, if not **impossibl...
[Question] [ I was originally going to claim my world has very low levels of sulfur, resulting in a lack of gunpowder and thus a lack of guns. But after realizing how cool things like fireworks and [Hwacha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwacha) are, then I noticed that the problem I have isn't with gunpowder, but wit...
[Question] [ I was looking around the site bored for a while, when I found this question: [Why would the military use tanks in a zombie apocalypse?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/196725/) Because I'm writing my own zombie story, I realized that I need my characters to kill the zombies, and not hav...
[Question] [ Taking place in a sci-fi universe during a massive conflict. In this universe, however, robots are a major industry, so it would make sense that the government would specially create robots for this massive conflict. However, it is necessary to the story's plot that this does not happen and human soldier...
[Question] [ Witches have the ability to siphon Mana from other individuals to add power to a spell. They accomplish this through specially designed runes, which are tattooed to an individual. This rune links the person to the witch, who can then draw Mana out through the metaphysical link. This method is not without...
[Question] [ Basically, in the world I am building, magic-users draw the energy necessary to use their abilities from other Realms - specifically, these other Realms are actually planets in the solar system. This is not something said magic users are aware of, however, due to strange magic that makes planets appear a...
[Question] [ I am thinking about a game where people will shoot out in space, with different features. However, an integral part of the game is no spraying/spamming bullets. I don't want to have it in a fantasy world, and I would like to set it in near-future where space travel is cheap and comfortable. I imagine muc...
[Question] [ A secret society of inventors has been hiding for years. Finally, they have designed their Mars base in the year 2019! Unfortunately, they "borrowed" most of their supplies. If they were to build a glass survival dome say, 200 meters in length, would NASA or any of the other space agencies be able to fin...
[Question] [ So, imagine a traditional fantasy world that has progressed into the modern age. Assume technology similar to that we had in world war 2. With the humans, orcs, elves, dwarves, and the like constantly fighting each other, the tiny pixies have historically been pushed to the wayside due to their small siz...
[Question] [ In my story, there is a civilization living in the Amazon rainforest. They need some time of mount that is adapted to the forest. I don't think horses can survive by themselves in there, so I was thinking, can moose/elk survive in the Amazon rainforest? They would have been transported by ship there, bu...
[Question] [ Suppose we've colonized a planet with 99% of the surface area covered by oceans. It has submerged continental crusts, averaging 200-500m underwater, with the average depth of open ocean being 1000-1500m. Other than the difference in surface geography, consider the planet generally earthlike (unless devia...
[Question] [ I like to have a concept of an engine that spaceships can use to lift off (and land) from/on a planet (regardless of it having an atmosphere or not) with the following constraints: 1. It should be simple to "understand" for the audience 2. It should not consume more than 10% of the ships mass in fuel 3. ...
[Question] [ [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/toanH.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/toanH.jpg) Hello there, it's my first time posting, so I'm sorry if I'm going against formatting. I'm making a continent for a fantasy setting, and have been firstly focusing on geography. This continent shou...
[Question] [ In my world there are two planets within the same solar system, which are connected approximately every seven cycles through a portal that opens for a few days. * The planets are very similar. * The atmospheres are breathable. * Both people and animals can move from one planet to another without problems...
[Question] [ When shapeshifters meet each other in other societies, whether human or not, I was thinking that they could "sense" each other's "true identity". They "just know" that the other is "one of us". How about within their own society? Everybody know that the others are "one of us" (OF COURSE!), so what? What ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [What circumstance would produce a society filled with parents willing to let the children be exposed to life-threatening Danger?](/questions/85914/what-circumstance-would-produce-a-society-filled-with-parents-willing-to-let-the) (27 answers) Closed 1 ye...
[Question] [ In my setting (pretty generic medieval fantasy), certain valuable texts can simply not be copied (because of certain religious beliefs, a will to protect information through secrecy or because of some magical "DRMs") therefore, only a single volume exists. Kept in libraries, safes and caches. Fires can v...
[Question] [ I'm trying to think of ways that a humanoid civilization, post-agrarian with solid mechanical knowledge but no electronics, can communicate in near real-time over large distances. Some of my initial ideas include communication by light towers, which would allow for direct site-to-site communications and...
[Question] [ What would be an efficient method of global travel that can take you from, let's say, London to Hong Kong in about an hour? It would preferably be made quickly, but money is no object. I don't want something that would take 100 years to build. [Answer] Your only real option here is an Evacuated Tube ...
[Question] [ I have a race of trolls in my world, they looks mostly like [these guys](http://kaiju.wdfiles.com/local--files/wiki:yeti/yeti_2008_01.jpg) (the yetis from one of the Mummy movies) but with longer arms and a more gorilla like posture. I also imagine them to have very sharp and dangerous claws and a thick ...
[Question] [ Assume that Handwavium is a gas many times lighter than Hydrogen. Is it realistic to use this gas to make relatively heavy full-body armor (say, brass) lighter and/or more maneuverable? This seems like a physics and momentum issue but I must admit my physics knowledge is pretty fuzzy. [Answer] Instea...
[Question] [ Cauldrons are items in the form of large pots that witches use to make potions. These items contain the magical energies resulting from the brew and the chemicals used to create it. These magical energies can seep into the cauldron over the course of numerous generations. As the pots absorb the runoff of...
[Question] [ A city was built in a location that's generally difficult to access (floating in the sky, on a remote island, on top of a mountain or something similar). The primary way of accessing it is by teleporting inside. In this world, skilled mages can teleport from anywhere, but only to a previously built "port...
[Question] [ I've got a story I've started, and realized I have no explanation as to why the main character has a wearable flamethrower. Right now, I'm leaving it as 'He's a youtuber who makes stupid stuff so people will watch and give him money', but would like the explanation to be less unique to him so that I can ...
[Question] [ Let's say the world is threatened by eldritch monsters or nations at war. Instead of investing in tanks, aircraft and such, the government decides to invest in bioweapons that are basically monsters. The monsters that I'm describing are usually human size, sometimes bigger or smaller. They all have diffe...
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[Question] [ I need my race to be highly affected by climate and nature changes. And they are more like a reptile - Humanoid. So making them Cold blood seems good for me. But they are an intelligent race too. They live like our ancient civilizations: hunter-gatherers. They have their own language, country, religion, ...
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[Question] [ A common sight, made famous by the *Terminator* franchise, is the robotic apocalypse. It's usually said that due to their lack of organs and ability to use radiation and biological warfare without a negative effect on them, that we would be unable to offer resistance. But obviously humans are strong will...
[Question] [ Asking this for a more realistic view for ''rising of the shield hero' and possible uses in future writings. A shield is not a weapon, it is basically armor, that's why heavy armored knights rarely used shield and that's why hoplites didn't wear armor on their torso and upper legs, because the shield wa...
[Question] [ Assume a world with no multiverse theory, just a single unbroken timeline. If you were to go back in time to the town your parents lived in on day of your conception, the air displacement due to your presence in the world is going to prevent your own birth. The reason for this is simple. Semen is a liqui...
[Question] [ One morning, suddenly, all humans and any human-crafted things (roads, buildings, technologies ...) vanish, with the only exception of one single city and its inhabitants. How long can the metropolis keep functioning without the rest of human civilization? This takes place on an Earth-like planet (but no...
[Question] [ For sake of metaphor, I want to include a plant that bears fruit that is poisonous, with the intent that when an animal eats it, it will walk away and die within a few hours, such that their corpse fertilizes the growing plant. It seems there would be a rather strong evolutionary pressure for animals to ...
[Question] [ Angels were all originally part of the same race before the war in heaven, when the ones that rebelled were cast out and sent to hell. The humans on earth were similar to angels, but without the essence that made them divine. Among the angels that remained in heaven, some took a fondness for mortals and ...
[Question] [ Suppose a civilization which had domestic flying dragons at ancient time, just like other common stories here. My question is: would that civilization have cars, planes and ships? Initially, I think the world would have no cars, planes, ships, and even public transport facilities. My idea is, if I want ...
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[Question] [ I was writing in my book when I decided I wanted to add some interesting characters into the mix (like an Irishmen, Chinese, Russian etc). But I hit a wall. You see a big plot point is that the Earth was… lost. Now it doesn't matter how it got lost it just did (pick one if you want: Death Star, Alien Inv...
[Question] [ No matter how stable your society is, eventually new ideas will arise and science will progress--especially if your neighbors, who you've historically been rivals with at times, are doing it too and you don't want to end up at a disadvantage. So eventually the elves are going to have to start picking up ...
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[Question] [ Now let's say there is a magician. We'll say he like a DnD wizard or something, so he does stuff like create food out of thin air and turns people he doesn't like into lizards. He doesn't want to restrict his magic use at all, but he doesn't want all the scientists to freak out or anything. Specifically,...