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[Question] [ I'm writing a story about a company similar to Google, i.e. which wants to know everything about everyone and which wants to trace everything that is traceable out there. But which, at the same time, wants to secure their key, top-management workers (CEO, CFO, CTO etc.) from being traceable by all, inclu...
[Question] [ In this universe humans aren't the first civilization to reach space in the local stellar neighborhood (a bubble of ~1000 light years across). In fact for the past several billions of years civilizations were popping in at a rate of roughly once every couple hundred thousand years to a million years or s...
[Question] [ I want to kill a huge Dragon. How to do this? The only description currently available of this Dragon is very short: "It looks like a lizard with two wings of bats and he swallowed our ship without even noticing" (The boat mentioned is the size of a small Viking ship.) My technological levels is limited ...
[Question] [ My setting is what I would call "post-post-apocalyptic", meaning that our civilization doesn't exist anymore, but the collapse has happened in a past distant enough that people aren't really dealing with the direct fallouts of it anymore, or at least those aren't the story's focus. I need this setting to...
[Question] [ My world has a very special political system. There are no leaders, no dictators, no monarchies nor democracy, nor ... I think you get the point. But wait it's not the case to say there is a non existing political system at all! Instead let's describe what are the characteristics of this system. The poli...
[Question] [ ## Background For a pair of games I am working on, I'm trying to work in a VERY basic evolutionary timeline for a lot of the more mythical creatures to set up design language of some of the creatures. This timeline will give me an idea of which creatures are related to which in order to help guide the de...
[Question] [ Suppose you want to invade Russia. But, beating it in a conventional or nuclear war isn't possible for your people for some reason. What if, instead, you line up 500,000 soldiers to move to Russia with civilian cover stories, blend in, and at the right moment, emerge everywhere at once with the benefit o...
[Question] [ In modern-day spaceflight, most astronauts with long hair simply bundle up their hair to keep things in order in zero-g, or to ensure easy helmet operation during spacewalks. However, fast forward a few centuries to when entire human societies might live their lives without setting foot on a planet, and ...
[Question] [ There is a really nice question about quenching swords in dragon blood: [Quenching swords in dragon blood; why?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/140413/quenching-swords-in-dragon-blood-why) That made me curious about a more realistic example: Mercury Could this substance be used to quen...
[Question] [ In this world, a Bronze Age tribe hunts and is hunted by multiple species of large dinosaur. What bronze age weaponry would be utilized by these people for the purposes of combating these beasts, either in offensive hunts or defensive fights? For this question, I'm primarily concerned with weapons effect...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ In my story there are two largely unknown secret corporations (on Earth; present day) which are at war. They are quite technologically advanced, although all of their inventions are somewhat feasible. Except for one, which involves an 'aether' (not *quite* the luminipherous one). Anyway, one of them has ...
[Question] [ I am writing a siege battle that takes place on a fallen world. The defenders are behind a large steel reinforced wall (20m by 8m). The attackers, after suffering heavy losses, decided to bring in the big toys: “THE FORT BREAKER” (cooler name will be decided). The fort breaker is just a slightly bigger a...
[Question] [ If an alien race visited us, is there any possible reason they would care to interact with us? They would already have a percentage of light speed, access to many worlds, technology unimaginable by us. Interaction would be on the same scale as us to Cro-Magnon man or lower. Their culture would not even h...
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[Question] [ A [seawall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawall) is basically a coastal defense to prevent waves and tsunamis. Let's suppose there is a town that is located in a lagoon next to the ocean, a sea version of [Esgaroth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esgaroth), the lake town. In this town, with a 16th cen...
[Question] [ A sail [generates propulsive force by the difference in pressure on the concave and convex sides](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4CQ4T_K8Hw). This principle of fluid dynamics should be true of seawater as it is of wind. And the seas do have currents, including predictable permanent currents. This got m...
[Question] [ In a distant future where FTL interstellar travel is commonplace, there is a stable large-scale market for a commodity called **photonic negentropy** (**"PhoNE"** for short, though nobody remembers what the word was once used for). PhoNE is a kind of consumable "wonder-stuff" that facilitates the constru...
[Question] [ Let's say a future world where faster than light communication exists, but not faster than light travel. There is a desire to colonize other worlds outside the solar system, but it's massively expensive to put together a colonization effort given the expense of shipping things so far. 1A few have been do...
[Question] [ **This question already has an answer here**: [Planet of the Aves: Tool use](/questions/55370/planet-of-the-aves-tool-use) (1 answer) Closed 2 years ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 1 year ago and left it closed: > > Original close reason(s) were not resolved > > > I...
[Question] [ I had a cool but not so original idea: aliens with many many redundant organs, and a nervous system spread across their bodies. This creates some issues. How do I kill one? What the Alien is like: The alien looks like a blob with lots of tentacles covering it. Each tentacle has a eye, mouth, fingers, and...
[Question] [ This is a submission for the [Anatomically Correct Series](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2797/anatomically-correct-series/2798#2798) Sentient Skeletons are a staple in works of fantasy and horror. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kqZr0.png)](https://i.st...
[Question] [ There have been several discussions about mechs, and the general consensus is - whilst cool, they're not actually a very good design. [Plausible Reasons for usage of Combat Mecha](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10320/plausible-reasons-for-usage-of-combat-mecha) What I was wondering tho...
[Question] [ ### Question So lets say a post-apocalyptic society that primarily uses steam to power everything wants to make war hammers that have their impact force enhanced through the power of steam. What ways could steam be used to basically enhance them? ### Requirements * Needs to weigh no more than 400 lbs. * ...
[Question] [ In my fantasy world, airships are the main way of transportation. These airships have the hull of a regular 12 century medieval liner. This liner has two leather horizontal gliders on either side (outriggers) responsible for keeping the airship afloat, as well as a sail above the main vessel for propulsi...
[Question] [ In my [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10320/plausible-reasons-for-usage-of-combat-mecha), it was quite well established that tanks were basically superior to walkers in every way. So, lets even the playing field. I've been contemplating several ways of doing so, but...
[Question] [ I am writing about a race that uses almost no animal products (nothing that kills the animal; dairy products, eggs, cast-off deer antlers, wool, and honey are fine, and the verdict is still out on fish products). I was wondering if there was anything they could use for drum heads besides animal skins? Th...
[Question] [ *One of my more brilliant characters is taking a terraforming class and at one point, early in the story, she has to leave the action to take an exam. The question presented in that scene is listed below, and by authorial coincidence, she wil encounter such a solar system during a deep space survey. So I...
[Question] [ Imagine if by chance, a [Lightsaber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightsaber) was transferred using a time machine to the middle ages. At first it was found by a peasant. The poor fellow didn't know what to do with it, so he sold it for a few coins to an artifact collector who was obsessed by cleaning a...
[Question] [ Say I've got a hero who's been summoned to another world. The inhabitants of this world have been expecting his arrival, and are armed with the knowledge that he won't speak their language. So the first thing they do is give it to him. Every method I've come up with for this has left me unsatisfied. Here...
[Question] [ This country currently only has two languages in common use: Language A, spoken by 62% of the population, and language B, spoken by 38%. Both languages have official status in the country, so road signs, government documents, education, business, etc are conducted and printed in both languages. However, ...
[Question] [ In the scene of one of my stories, an airship gets hit by a violent storm. Apart from exploding (which isn't helpful to the main character), what other things could go wrong that would be fixable? Most of the examples I can find online of airship problems almost always resulted in total disaster. Some th...
[Question] [ In my writing, a guy wrote a politically acrimonious pamphlet (basically the summary of the communist manifesto) and disseminated its copies secretly. The guy just so happen to be a very vain person and so, even though he knows that if the authority ever finds out that he had written the things, he would...
[Question] [ There have been questions asking if rhino, hippo and other similar kinds of cavalry are feasible. Now let's for a moment skip that and assume we have some special means, on the end of which, we get rhinos that behave almost war horse-like. I'm asking this question for worldbuilding reasons, as I'm trying...
[Question] [ I want to use a mercury based golem as a enemy in a murder mystery P&P story. The golem flows through cracks and under doors and envelops its victims until they are dead. Let's assume that the golem loses some mercury when engaged in a struggle, but not enough to leave drops or pools. **What do the victi...
[Question] [ In my setting, a handful of characters have to attend a daily event (such as classes). They do so anonymously, as attending this event could endanger their civilian life if the wrong people were to discover their identities. Continuing with the example of classes, this event happens always at the same pl...
[Question] [ I'm trying to write a story where the main characters discover the wreckage of a spaceship in the fields that border their town to the west. To the east, there's the end of a large mountain range. Basically, the town's built into the side of the mountain. Does a mountain range have to be preceeded by foo...
[Question] [ A mad, egomaniac, scientist has developed a way of extending the natural growth of humans to create an army of 20ft (6 meter) tall soldiers. Physiologically, they are three times the size of normal people in terms of height and mass. He's managed (through genetic enhancements) to increase the efficiency ...
[Question] [ I'm working on a story involving life on Europa (or at least a place just like it) being upturned dramatically by contact from a probe sent from Earth. Found this community while researching, and have found a lot of great ideas. I know the chances of life, let alone intelligent life, are pretty slim on E...
[Question] [ Lets say you had a planet which has held many, many prosperous civilisations, each one technologically advanced but not space faring, what sort of cataclysmic events could wipe each one out which are unavoidable, repeatable, and leave enough survivors to evolve into the next? I was considering meteors bu...
[Question] [ So I was outlining the part of the story where Gyvaris, a dragon, almost gets killed, when I realized I glanced over something. You see, Gyv had a human friend before and they used to play games to pass time. Gyvaris' mother taught him the basics of close-quarters combat through various games. She'd ofte...
[Question] [ I've been thinking of the idea of creating and adding an alien species that's antimatter-based (being from a universe where antimatter became the majority instead of "normal matter"). However, I'm not sure what abilities or what their biology would be like. Leading to the question of, what would antimatt...
[Question] [ There are two worlds of more or less equivalent technological level, say a difference of only a few decades and no more than 50 years. A first contact event occurs and after the hoopla dies down trading starts. Initially, barter is the primary form of trade but this quickly becomes cumbersome. How would...
[Question] [ The title pretty much says it all. I'm wondering if it is possible through "digital" means only (aka any physical disruption of satellites is not allowed) to disable the US GPS satellite constellation. Here are some additional details to help with answering: 1. This would require that the GPS satellites ...
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[Question] [ I'm currently creating a world that would have both fantasy and sci-fi elements. What I want to convey is a fantasy feeling within a sci-fi world. To achieve that, I have magic, different races, political houses, spaceships, probably FTL (didn't think this through, yet), etc. But I don't think it's enoug...
[Question] [ This question is pretty straightforward. I would like to build an earth-like world in which humans don't have access to iron, or at least can't mine any prior to full scale industrialization. They can scavenge very small quantities from meteor impacts to make "magic" steel weapons, but I want to force th...
[Question] [ Is it possible for a country to be economic & technological super power but to have relatively little political clout? If its possible under what circumstances it could happen? [Answer] While there are already some good answers, it should be noted that for exampled Germany, South Korea and Japan are ...
[Question] [ For a pen-and-paper RPG scenario, I want the player characters to find and salvage undeveloped film from a crashed early-cold-war or late-WWII photo recon aircraft. Where in the world is it most plausible that the film would survive until the present day? * As per this [news story](https://www.bbc.com/ne...
[Question] [ Imagine a scenario where a country around the size of New Zealand (in GDP, population, military strength and other areas) decides that it wants to take control of or at least destroy a much larger country (think Russia, USA or China). The following rules apply: * Neither country can call on other countri...
[Question] [ So Mars has been colonised and is mostly self-sufficient (food,water, construction etc). (We finally managed to create a back up humanity! Whew!) Ok now Mars is looking to create an export economy with earth so they can afford luxuries and high-tech equipment etc. However it turns out it is rather expens...
[Question] [ In the show *Game of Thrones* there is this thing called The Wall. It is a monstrous, 300 mile (≈ 483 km) long bulwark consisting of a fortified ice wall that is 700 feet (≈ 213 meters) high (check [the wiki](https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wall) for more details). There are also castles/forts ...
[Question] [ This planet's atmosphere has oxygen at a partial pressure that is breathable to humans, and the rest of the atmosphere is, at least, not made up primarily of Nitrogen (that is, it's not just Earth's atmosphere with marginally different partial pressures). The atmosphere must be breathable for at least lo...
[Question] [ Alright, so take your basic (not DnD or any other universe specific) mimic: an unassuming treasure chest that turns out to secretly be a monster as soon as you open it. This particular creature is one that happens (for whatever reason) to look and feel nearly-identical to a chest, rather than being some ...
[Question] [ In a world that i am building, there is an advanced civilization that is somewhat close to 21st century humans. Two of the differences are: they have discovered electricity much earlier than we did and they have never had the idea that explosives can be used as a propellant for projectiles. That's why mo...
[Question] [ I have a scenario in which the Kingdom of Aderia has King X of House Harranshield. A civil war to push the claim bannerman Y (of House Bloodshield) has on the throne (because his mother was the daughter of the former king) has been declared and a decade of bloodshed ensues. This decade of bloodshed ends ...
[Question] [ **Can people learn precise hand-eye coordination for prosthetic or external mechanical limbs that don't have normal proportions?** For example, someone is controlling a small mech via a suit or exoskeleton that takes in their real body movements (like pacific rim but one person and smaller). But that mec...
[Question] [ A small perfect sphere is suddenly *gone*. Everything inside is teleported somewhere -- through space or even maybe through time, we're not sure. It's a small sphere, just enough to fit a human sitting on a chair. The perfect vaporization affects everything -- most of the chair, large part of the desk, a...
[Question] [ This is the third in a series of 5 (at this point) questions. It's not relevant to this question, but for anyone who's curious this was the [first](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/137897/at-great-altitude-what-conditions-are-needed-to-support-a-human-community), this the [second](https:...
[Question] [ This is unabashedly stolen from this recent question: [What would be the structural impact of an oscillating orbit on a planet?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/205068/what-would-be-the-structural-impact-of-an-oscillating-orbit-on-a-planet#comment635043_205068) with its sweet sweet gif ...
[Question] [ I'd like to explore the development of a country that has a political system where people vote for their favourite candidate and against their least favourite. The *against* votes are subtracted from the *for* votes. This could mean that some people would get negative votes - the least negative would win...
[Question] [ I'm writing a novel which takes place in a Middle-ages-type world with magic. The heroes come across an abandoned city in the middle of a deciduous forest. The climate is temperate with rare snowfall and high humidity but not tropical. The city was built of quarried stone, probably something like granite...
[Question] [ Would *artificially* created robots that can reproduce and heal themselves be able to evolve? I imagine a planet where an advanced civilization made robot "creatures" and then died out, so would they be able to evolve? [Answer] **Locked**. Comments on this answer have been disabled, but it is still ac...
[Question] [ In the summer of 1957 Soviet leadership was shown a model of the soon-to-be first man-made object in outer space. It was a shiny sphere with thin antennae. The energized chief designer didn't mince his words describing the propaganda value of the launch. Then premier Malenkov interrupted him and spoke ca...
[Question] [ I am reading *We are Legion*, by Dennis E. Taylor, in which humanity has developed the so-called 3D atom printer, briefly described as: > > 3D printers delivered individual atoms using a number of tuned carbon nanotubes, each sized for specific elements. (...) as you had to place individual carbon atoms...
[Question] [ Is there any generally useful magic that can be done if all it could do was violate the [Third Law of Thermodynamics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_law_of_thermodynamics)? The Third Law of Thermodynamics just seems to relate to [absolute zero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero)? And it sa...
[Question] [ We are pretty used to read private letters of important and less important people who lived in a distant past: for example we can read the quite explicit letters that Mozart wrote to his wife and love letters [written on birch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark_manuscript) by somebody in Novgorod....
[Question] [ I am trying to make a language for a fictional world and I am wondering how a species without vocal chords could communicate via written language [Answer] ## It may be 2-dimensional as well as 1-dimensional Speech, sign languages and such transmit a single sign at a time, thus forcing the writing, whi...
[Question] [ You may have heard of this common fantasy trope, an archer firing multiple (usually 3) arrows in a single pull of the bow. Now, I am not an expert at bows or tactics, but it seems to me that the loss of accuracy is not worth even attempting this and that's assuming it could work! What problems appear w...
[Question] [ The world is similar to that in Prince of Thorns: namely, so far in the future that civilization has essentially reset, and is back to a medieval level of technology and culture. However, there are still rare pieces of modern civilization scattered around. A type of trade has emerged where Artifact Hunte...
[Question] [ Assuming: * there was no power, so there was no web/internet * you had a mobile phone (one of the smart ones, not a basic one) powered by solar * the phone had maps downloaded on to its memory card (so you were not reliant on the internet for map access), Could you still use satnav (satellite navigation)...
[Question] [ On my quest to make pretty much every single fantasy creature biologically feasible I have come across a hiccup. It wasn't angels, no you people helped me with that. Demons are easy, we have plenty of ways to fireproof a human. No it was something much less common, something people may know, of but don't...
[Question] [ When building a city, one must consider *why* one is building a city. It's all very well imagining a city perched on top of an inaccessible mountain peak, but a believable world requires that we consider why on earth anyone would ever live in such a place. With that in mind, imagine a city. This late Bro...
[Question] [ Sabotaging the electric network is kind of a well established scheme: find a node of the network, put some explosive on the pole and take it down (or the like). The network is gone for a while. Now imagine that this organization wants to avoid using explosives and plans to do the following: a large set o...
[Question] [ A little context: According to the beliefs of that religion, a woman sent by God guided humanity from a distant place to the world in which they live today. This woman known as The Lady, taught them to use a resource present in the air that allows people to use magic.She told them it was a gift from God ...
[Question] [ In my world, interstellar vessels use a drive whose design mankind learned from an extinct elder civilization. While construction of the drives is possible, the physical principles making them work are beyond mankind understanding. The drives have a number of curious properties, which I need them to have...
[Question] [ We're starting off with a Japanese mythical creature, the [Yuki-Onna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki-onna). Now the specifics of this being vary quite a bit from one tale to another, so let me be specific what this being is about. Keep in mind that this is **my** version, and may therefore deviate fr...
[Question] [ I didn't see this question pop up when I wrote the title, so I don't think this has been asked before (or, at least not the way I'm going to ask it). Everyone knows and loves fictional languages: they can be really in-depth from Klingon and Eldarin to simple languages like Newspeak. These languages serve...
[Question] [ Imagine that one day in the not-too-distant future, our scientists discover that our world is dying. It doesn't matter how this is happening, maybe magic or unstable core or Gaia herself has finally had enough of our sh\*t, but the important thing is that it is happening, and *soon*. Our only hope is to...
[Question] [ In Deep, deep space, there exists a star system with a single planet. This planet, named Dewel, is a large, green gas giant with a mass of about twice Jupiter's. What could this planet's atmosphere composition be to make it green? [Answer] ## You need methane, ammonia and atmospheric temperatures of $...
[Question] [ The Orville has Mochlans, an (almost) all-male species. They reproduce in some unexplained method that produces a fertilized egg. The issue here is that if one of the mates lays an egg and the other fertilizes it, they are functionally hermaphrodites and the male designation basically only implies a cert...
[Question] [ Lets suppose there is a race of Immortal beings. What are possible solutions to them slowly losing their teeth due to wear and tear? After all, if a normal human lived for hundreds of years at some point he'd lose his teeth. Edit: I meant immortal like elves in The Lord of the Rings, they can be killed b...
[Question] [ I would like some fighter to use chains as weapons, I already have the evident pro and con of the weapon set out, but I need help to see if that weapon would be useful or quickly abandoned, even when only against infantry. What would be top notch for me is a chain ~1m to ~1.5m long, with a weight put at ...
[Question] [ There's a pretty common trope that what you post on the internet is there for ever which can make for some good story lines, but how realistic is that really? After all, all content is held on physical servers maintained by (for the most part) by companies with a smattering of other organisations & priva...
[Question] [ In a fantasy world I'm building I wanted a group of tundra dwellers to live within a large city that is in reality the frozen remains of a pod of this world's equivalent of sperm whales. Is there any logical way to explain how a whale pod became trapped in ice? Preferably with the ice somehow being above...
[Question] [ My world - think 13th century medieval Europe - has a gigantic waterfall. Imagine Niagara Falls but even bigger, consuming multiple sides of a big mountain. People don't climb the mountain, as it is too steep or the waterfalls make it impossible. One day, the water stops pouring down. The world is shocke...
[Question] [ When a massive handwavium accident happened on Earth, 99.9% of all flight-capable birds worldwide, instead of dealing with it, answered with *"Nope, gone to heaven."* Basically, they died instantly. Birds that do not fly, like chickens, penguins, ostriches, and so on, are fine. Birds that were able to fl...
[Question] [ Some humans have been genetically engineered to be able to detect ionizing radiation to better survive the harsh environments found outside of earth's protective magnetosphere. What could be the physiological mechanism for such a biological Geiger counter, and would they be able to tell what direction th...
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[Question] [ I want to write a novel situated in a “reversed planet”: there are two stars orbiting each other, and there is a little spot exactly in the middle of the two that is suitable for life. A normal planet wouldn’t be possible, because of the intense heat, light, and the gravity on the outside of the crust, b...
[Question] [ Related but not a duplicate: [How long can a river physically be on a planet?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34354/how-long-can-a-river-physically-be-on-a-planet) How wide can a river possibly be? Many river are over 10 kilometers wide, but how wide can a river be before it is no long...
[Question] [ Would a Dyson sphere make a [red dwarf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf) appear to be a [Brown Dwarf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf)? Would it disguise a star enough to misidentify it what size it is? I'm just wondering if it could be possible that some Dyson spheres are out there drift...
[Question] [ My universe was created without stars, of any kind (which includes the sun!), and has continued that way for about 2000 years. To clarify, all life (intelligent life) was created by the deities around the same time as the universe. I'm aware this poses several problems, but my main concern is whether I c...
[Question] [ I'm about to break rule seven of superpowers: don't think too hard about what it does to the air. A superhero has the ability to disappear any atoms that come within 2 cm of their skin (atoms that are already in that region do not disappear unless they exit and re-enter, so their clothing is fine if they...
[Question] [ [The question, Reference to Earth in Intergalactic Universe](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/100907/reference-to-earth-in-intergalactic-universe) illuminates the shortcomings of the term "light-year", which defines a distance by mixing the universally constant speed of light in a vacuum...
[Question] [ The main setting for a piece I'm planning is a lab whose purpose is to find the cause of the orcs in my world (they're basically [hypermuscular humans](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10232/what-sort-of-problems-might-occur-if-every-human-gained-extra-muscle-mass), but nobody knows this...
[Question] [ Would it be loud enough to hear and is there any risk of dangerously loud sound waves being generated if the object being teleported is large enough? [Answer] # A noticeable pop, but not that loud. I've used vacuum chambers a fair bit at work, and it's not that loud. You definitely notice it when that...
[Question] [ *Tl;dr: In a medieval setting, what would be the key steps to gain control (tax, army, police) of a region similar to a city-state?* The region has a central city, with access to the sea, surrounded by few villages in the woods and hills. Its territory is around 3,000 square miles (~7.700 km²). There isn...
[Question] [ ~~Considering the nuclear arsenal that existed in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, could it have destroyed the entire world, following the events below?~~ *Edited question a bit:* Considering the nuclear arsenal that existed in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, could it have destroyed all life...
[Question] [ While we have notable variation in grammar certain patterns can be found in almost all human languages. For example verbs, nouns and adjectives can be found in some form. They are strung together into sentences and paragraphs. The most famous "alien grammar" is probably Yoda. Speak differently, he does. ...