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[Question] [ A century ago, after a catastrophic event on our planet, many of us were were forced to find a new home. There was one world that caught our attention: a tidally-locked blue planet orbiting a red dwarf. Since the planet was 70% ocean, had an ideal atmosphere (thanks to its strong magnetic field), and orb...
[Question] [ ## Let's say a species of naive, yet well-intentioned aliens came across the Earth. They generally like humans and decide to try to increase their happiness by supplying the thing which they have deduced all people clearly most desire: **Money**. As they are wonderfully advanced, generating and deploying...
[Question] [ We all know that the universe is going to die one day: all the stars will die, all the black holes will evaporate and life will be gone. But hypothetically speaking, if a super advanced alien race (let's say a few billion years more advanced than us) wanted to prevent this from happening, and protect all...
[Question] [ **Locked**. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still accepting new answers and other interactions. [Learn more](/help/locked-posts). **A time machine malfunctions and spits a traveller from ~2015AD out in 500BC northern France. With nothing but the clothes on his back, and minimi...
[Question] [ I've been doing a little research (including reading Howard Curtis' *[Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students](http://www.nssc.ac.cn/wxzygx/weixin/201607/P020160718380095698873.pdf)*) because I want to build a solar system with a planet that has a true three-dimensional orbit. Regrettably, I'm not far...
[Question] [ Back in the day, during a writing jam, I started wondering it'd be good if a culture in my world would have loafs of bread resembling a hexagon-based tube. Almost like a cylinder, but with six well distinguishable sides. In terms of practical approach in bakery, how and/or when can it be useful or even w...
[Question] [ A ring species is a species, in which a population migrates in two directions and the population remains continuous as it migrates so that each sub-population can breed with its neighbors, however when the two ends of the population meet they are different enough that they cannot interbreed. I was thinki...
[Question] [ On a mythical world almost identical to our own, deep space telescopes notice as an object appears out near the orbit of Jupiter. In the instance after its appearance, the light which bounced off it during its FTL entry into the solar system finally catches up with it, allowing the telescopes to see what...
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[Question] [ So: We all know about the Labyrinth and the Minotaur. One is a maze of stone tunnels, and one is a half-man half-bull killing machine. It's reasonable to assume that the Minotaur requires a decent amount of energy to keep going (Lets assume about 3000 KCal a day), and it's also reasonable to assume that ...
[Question] [ Humanity has just developed a star drive and begun sending their first probes, and have now discovered an unstoppable force of doom approaching to destroy the solar system. Their only option is to escape to another star system, but they don't have the resources or the time to build a fleet that can evacu...
[Question] [ My mermen & women (fish from waist down and human from waist up, but breathe only in water) are at WWII era warfare and interested in their version of 'underwater,' meaning they want out-of-sea vehicles (sorry, there is no antonym to submarine) to fight over land similar to our attempts to occupy the sea...
[Question] [ It's 2016, but for some reason, the Cold War never ended. You've been inspired by your (for some inexplicable reason) favorite movie, Indiana Jones 4, to start a new business: building refrigerators. However, the market is so saturated that in order to distinguish yourself with a nice marketing campaign,...
[Question] [ Background: Nearly all low-wage labor is done by humanoid robots (retail, factories, transport, sanitation, construction, mining, and similar fields). These robots have all the physical capabilities of humans and more, but jobs that require ingenuity and adaptation such as design, management, etc are sti...
[Question] [ **Story background** The government has chosen to use a constructed language as a part of the process of building national identity. They don't want to use a foreign language. They also don't want to use local dialects because they are quite similar with the languages of the neighboring countries. The t...
[Question] [ Suppose a group of people get transported back in time (say 2500 years). Then, in a manner reminiscent of *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court*, they try to re-design modern technology. Assume that there's no shortage of labor or materials; the only real lack is knowledge. What kind of group woul...
[Question] [ Last week, a young woman came by my physics lab. She demonstrated the telekinetic ability to rotate things from a distance. We did some quick tests, but we couldn't find any previously known phenomena which could explain this. Now, she had to run off to do some sort of superheroics, but she promised to r...
[Question] [ Trying to create horns which are both ornamental and defensive, I've read somewhere that beards evolved in humans because we punch each other so much that even just a minuscule amount of hair cushion can make the difference between you dying with a broken jaw or surviving with a few broken teeth but no i...
[Question] [ From an answer to a previous question of mine: > > A planet spinning fast enough to allow geostationary orbit near the surface would result in odd side effects. Any object at rest on the equator would be moving at speed near to orbital speed. It would have weight but much less than similar objects at t...
[Question] [ Very narrow question: assuming an immortality treatment keeping people at a biological age of a fit 30's, free of infections and cancers & ruling out death by aging, how long would people live (in the US) before dying from an accident (including crimes)? My understanding is that assuming no changes from ...
[Question] [ If an earth-sized planet were tidally locked to a star, and was in the life zone of its star with an earth-like atmosphere, what would its wind patterns be like? The planet would have one hot hemisphere and one cold hemisphere, so intuitively it seems like air currents would drive from the hot side to th...
[Question] [ I have an alternate history epoch taking place in [10th Century Islamic Renaissance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age), but I have a large Bedouin tribe that does not use anything to indicate a person's name or identity. This is a big Catch 22 every time I try to wrap my head about it. I...
[Question] [ My world is basically the same as our own but with slightly more advanced cybernetics and virtual technology. Specifically, they have a technology to create true matrix level virtual worlds. The most popular of which is based on a fantasy RPG. Users connect their minds to the virtual reality and choose d...
[Question] [ **Can there be a planet that space missions can take off from, but never land back?** It is easy to imagine that thicker atmosphere, large amounts of space debris or higher gravity could entirely stop space missions. But I'm thinking of a case where space missions could be developed, but by necessity the...
[Question] [ The goblins in my world are classical fantasy goblins. They aren't too smart, have primitive technology, live in tribes, and use tamed boars, wolves, and other wild animals. They usually have a boss, who runs the show because he is so nasty, convincing, strong or intelligent that the others respect him. ...
[Question] [ If an island in a sub-tropical region were to be unreachable because of natural phenomena, what could those phenomena be? The people trying to reach said island have 17th century seafaring technologies. [Answer] An island that is entirely surrounded by an undersea methane gas fissure that is constantl...
[Question] [ I guess making a tower out of ivory would make little to no practical sense as opposed to making a tower out of wood, stone, concrete, or other materials. I suppose building a literal ivory tower would be immensely costly and, if the world elephant population was not go extinct, would possibly have to be...
[Question] [ A popular story line is that some rapidly spreading plague kills 95% of the human population. That's 7,125,000,000 decomposing bodies that have to be dealt with **quickly** before flies and bacteria spread "normal" disease to the remaining 375,000,000 (hungry, traumatized, disorganized) people. The Black...
[Question] [ What shape of ship would be optimized for space combat in the context of a future space navy? What advantages and disadvantages would the shape you have chosen have and why is it the best for future space warfare? Space warfare will be in a close to hard science scenario. Space is a 3D environment where ...
[Question] [ So, just to clarify, you needn't worry about vague rules - this question is relevant to my own fantasy universe. In this such universe, magic is not a separate energy, it is the ability to control energy (heat, light, electricity etc) much in the same way as the Inheritance Cycle series tackles it, if yo...
[Question] [ I've seen the discussion on how bipedal mechs are inferior to treaded and wheeled vehicles in almost every way. However, all of these questions appear to be related to *bipedal* mechs. I'm wondering if spider mechs have any advantages over the aforementioned normal vehicles. For those of you wondering, a...
[Question] [ Humanity is immortal. You can backup your mind, you can choose your body, biological or robotic, in any shape or form. In a universe like that, there is any motivation for racism to still exist? [Answer] ## Yes, sadly but for a good reason Racism is a sub-type of in-group bias, where a person will fav...
[Question] [ The world I'm building would be based on a new planet discovered and colonized by modern humans (us, essentially). But then some disaster or another happens, and the end result is that all contact with Earth and other humans is lost, and only a few hundreds to a few thousands people remain on the new pla...
[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. I've...
[Question] [ Earth, far future: We built multi generation ship which can get 20 000 people to another solar system in next 20 generations (600 years) For scope of this question assume that ship itself is well built and it will indeed be able to carry people and material to its destination and technology wise, the mis...
[Question] [ There are a lot of great questions about [What would happen if the internet failed semi-permanently](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/20578/20-years-into-the-future-what-would-happen-if-the-internet-failed-semi-permane) and [What would happen if electricity stopped working](https://world...
[Question] [ This magical library is old as the history of magic itself, storing scrolls and tomes of all† spells ever devised by powerful wizards and apprentice mages alike. The scrolls are ready to be activated at once, and may be used as a trap. They cannot, however, be activated by the library itself at a whim. *...
[Question] [ One thing that necessarily happens on a generation ship is that people die of old age. Now that poses a tension: On one hand, you need to handle the dead with dignity. On the other hand, you probably cannot afford losing the materials the dead are composed of. So in short: How would a generation ship res...
[Question] [ In my RPG campaign setting the orcs are tougher than most other races. In hard times they can eat wood (small bushes and fresh pieces of trees). In really hard times they can eat healthy soil and survive enough to continue their march/siege, but they don't like it. How do I begin to explain this process?...
[Question] [ Assuming we had a non-spherical asteroid that doesn't have a magnetic "north", how would the inhabitants define areas on the asteroid? How would they explain to a visitor to go to a very specific spot to retrieve or leave something besides "head over the hill sunward for 50 km" [Answer] My suggestion ...
[Question] [ Anybody who has consumed a space opera movie, tv show, or video games knows that energy weapons go **[pew-pew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss1nFJC197M)**. I however want to do something more creative for my setting, and with truth being stranger than fiction I thought to that reality might provide a ...
[Question] [ We've all played fantasy RTS (real-time strategy) games, like WarCraft or DOTA, where you're in a battle and you need to spend gold to upgrade. Maybe you're buying troops or gear or whatever. But if the orcs are smashing down the walls of your castle, why do you need to pay 600 gold to train a footman? I...
[Question] [ **Scenario:** Deadly virus wiped out 80 - 90% world population and it did it pretty quickly (in 2 months) Although it is plausible that among these 10 - 20% of survivors will be people who actually know how to run nuclear power plant, it's safe to assume that they will have different tasks to solve now. ...
[Question] [ Any spaceship over several hundred tons is an extremely dangerous weapon in the wrong hands, particularly if it's intended for reentry. Made mostly of metal and possibly shaped to be able to breach an atmosphere without trapping enough air and generating enough friction to destroy itself, it'd be at leas...
[Question] [ Suppose we have a civilisation which is made up of many creatures sharing a single hive mind. Each creature can see, hear and remember what each other member of the species (or possibly hive) has seen heard and experienced, they think and make decisions as one. Range limits are acceptable. They are not u...
[Question] [ What would a planet's rings look like from the surface of that planet? Would the rings be perceived to be stationary or move across the sky, and would the alignment of the rings relative to the axis of rotation affect this? [Answer] Very cool, I'm sure. Roy Prol put together a fantastic animation desc...
[Question] [ In a Middle Earth type world, there exists a magical map. It has the property that anything that happens to the map also happens in the real world. The map can be 'zoomed' in or out to get the right level of detail. The **best** resolution would be as shown in the following map. You can see the scale in ...
[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. What...
[Question] [ It is a common trope in sci-fi that engaging a vessel's faster-than-light travel requires performing some complicated mathematics that takes a non-trivial amount of time. I want to know to what extent this is even remotely plausible. In other words: what [time-complexity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti...
[Question] [ I'm creating a science fiction dystopian world that takes place about about 50 years in the future. One of the characters for this world is a member a highly sought-after group of mercenaries that I want to use a high-tech bow instead of guns. What explanation could I give for this? [Answer] Make gun ...
[Question] [ Time traveler here, stranded in the year of 1019 AD, medieval ages. Location: europe. While I can still access and post on web forums because my temporal transmitter has a 1Ky range, I have a broken solenoid. Thing melted down and it is part of my flux capacitor. And as a security measure my ship locked ...
[Question] [ Since it's that time of year again, we need to look further into Santa's delivery mechanisms. We've discovered over the years that Santa is breaking a few laws, ignoring minor matters like [IP laws](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/31987/how-does-santa-protect-himself-from-ip-lawsuits) a...
[Question] [ It's often remarked that voting with dollars — not literally, but through spending and the influence that comes with control of capital — is more ultimately influential than actual voting in a democracy. What if a society were to set up its electoral system to counteract that, where the poorest people's ...
[Question] [ In the middle of the North Atlantic is a black, hexagonal spire. It's 1.5 kilometers wide at the base, tapering to a mere 100 meters wide at the top. It rises 20 kilometers above sea level, and an unknown distance down (anchoring it to the crust). It's made of a magically strong material, is perfectly ri...
[Question] [ *This question is focused on what one man could do without the implicit resources on a larger scale.* The year is 1980. Paul is a 17-year-old farmer in Iowa, with nothing really to his name besides his pickup. Late one evening as he's driving down the road a Handwavium bolt of psionic energy hits him. Th...
[Question] [ There are shapeshifters who can perfectly replicate a person, and eat their brains to absorb all their memories. These shapeshifters are cunning and predatory, and so humans form extremely close knit societies to try and combat them. In these communities, nobody walks out alone, all movements are tracked...
[Question] [ Once you do the handwaving needed to explain a modern-day world with flight-capable dragons in it, how would said dragons interact with the bureaucracy surrounding flying in the modern world? What sort of pilot's license would they hold? Would they get certified as an aircraft of some sort (perhaps in th...
[Question] [ [This answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/30933/infinite-tube-world?noredirect=1#comment82150_30933) and its follow-up discussion with the OP made me think, and boil it down to the essentials: We live in a universe that’s either infinite in spacial extent or unbounded, and wrap-arou...
[Question] [ In my universe a 4th ***SPACIAL*** dimension exists around our 3 dimensions. I'm playing with ideas for a society that has access to a 4th spacial dimension and am currently thinking of what they would be able to construct. My thought process is this: Say you are a 3D being and have a square 2D hotel in ...
[Question] [ I'm not aware of any animals which have evolved projectile weapons that they fire. There are a number that spit venom but none that even throw rocks, let alone using projectiles. On the other hand though creatures that do so are a staple both of fantasy (e.g. Manticores) and sci-fi (e.g. Zerg). Is it eve...
[Question] [ I'm making this whole other alien world and I made it an ammonia world, so there is a lot of nitrogen in the atmosphere. Would nitrogen be a good gas to breathe in an ammonia world and would [Cobalt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt) be a good transporter element in the blood? [Answer] 1. I think ...
[Question] [ I have a regular planet with regular gravity that pulls all on the surface towards the center. In almost all ways, it is identical to our own Earth. The major difference is that, beneath the south pole, a couple dozen kilometers below sea level is the "demon core" and this attracts "demons". These creatu...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How would the road network change, after all cars are self-driving?](/questions/4107/how-would-the-road-network-change-after-all-cars-are-self-driving) (10 answers) Closed 8 years ago. At a typical intersection that uses red lights to control traffic, v...
[Question] [ Something I was wondering about recently. My world has a medieval/fantasy setting. Most of the factions are either empires or kingdoms and they all have some sort of standing army. In time of war, they recruit extra peasants and mercenary bands. My question is: **How much would these cost?** You can take...
[Question] [ Would throwing a fireball leave a trail of frost in its wake? Would transmuting too much lead into gold cause a small meltdown? Would collecting enough power to cast a really big spell like causing an earthquake incinerate the caster if they don't take proper precautions? To clarify the total amount of ...
[Question] [ Most aliens tend to be humans with bumpy foreheads and/or pointy ears. Even when they do have differences then usually it is an entire species being portrayed as a particular brand of human. For example races might be based on Vikings, or Mongols, or Japan in their culture and viewpoint. Even famous sci-...
[Question] [ This is a multi-species animal army with predators of all shapes and sixes, foxes, lions, bears, tigers, leopards, wolves, lynx, eagles, falcons and so on. The herbivores have been excluded from the army because they appear to serve no apparent purpose. They have no talons, no sharp teeth, no ability to ...
[Question] [ The Slow War is almost over. The Machines appeared almost twenty years ago, and since then we've all but lost humanity without them firing a single shot. Instead they won through brute industrial might. We could destroy thousands of their harvester drones, but they would simply build tens of thousands mo...
[Question] [ My planet has interesting geography; there are large islands, each with a unique civilisation of people. But separating them are impassible barriers; they consist of a double range of tall, steep mountains, and between them a sea of "dead water". Top view: [![Incompetent artist's impression](https://i.st...
[Question] [ When teleporting an aura of magic covers your body and this aura works as a **coating** portal. Instead of you entering a portal, the portal eats you. The portal is created magically and eats the user in less than a fraction of a second Thus it is really hard for inexperienced mages to control the portal...
[Question] [ I'm trying to come up with this scenario in a sort of "medieval fantasy" setting. There are two towns. One, *Caertydin* is a large city with all the appropriate tropes, while the smaller town, *Siege* is a sort of satellite town. The reason Siege exists, is that hundreds (or however long ago it has to be...
[Question] [ The characteristics of a wizard: * Spellcasting is very complicated and difficult - a high intelligence is critical to make a success of it. * They spend many years studying to master the basics of their craft, often followed by more years as an apprentice being taught advanced secrets. * Wizards often f...
[Question] [ The universe is populated by a decent number of different spacefaring civilisations and races, the largest spanning over hundreds of systems. They have formed relations with each other: Diplomacy, trade, and of course war. Most nations can field large military fleets and the largest nations have construc...
[Question] [ 9 out of 10 action heroes agree: [Repeating a pump-action shotgun looks and feels just plain awesome](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShotgunsAreJustBetter). But besides the [rule of cool](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool), why would we still use pump-action guns in a fu...
[Question] [ If I create dragons to be castle-sized animals, how am I supposed to let them eat? Won't they need too much for an earth-like planet? I'm currently trying to build a world where a whole lot of gigantic beasts (à la Monster Hunter) co-exist. But how am I supposed to keep them well fed? Surely a starving d...
[Question] [ I have a noble god in my world that is answering prayers, guiding his believers and bestowing divine powers onto selected priests. Now his church is fragmented into several factions on ideological and political grounds to the extent of sporadic armed warfare between factions. Still, each faction is someh...
[Question] [ Let's say that teleportation (magical or technological, it matters not) is perfected to such a great degree that you can go anywhere from a few dozen yards, to the other side of the planet (basically) instantly, would people still use their own two feet, bikes, cars, boats, planes, etc? Furthermore, what...
[Question] [ In a post-apocalyptic scenario a group of circa 100 people is looting houses to gather resources for their survival. They are the only ones in the region, and resulting from this have no issues with defending themselves (against other humans) or with sharing resources. If a few members from this group wo...
[Question] [ I have this idea for a science fiction story (It actually came to me in a dream.). In the distant future, the inhabitants of the Milky Way have formed a galaxy-spanning civilization similar to the Republic in *Star Wars*. However, instead of using FTL starships to travel between planets in different star...
[Question] [ My fairies need to travel very far as they are nomadic, however they can only fly for around five minutes without getting tired. They most likely couldn't tame creatures due to their size and the fact that most things that they *could* tame would just eat them. They also have a low tech level, and magic ...
[Question] [ Fantasy, vaguely European middle ages. Humans are the only friendly intelligent species. Other species (and magic) exist but they're almost always things you work (or fight) against rather than forces on your side. Both the other species and magic are so varied that it tends to be a flavor-of-the-week so...
[Question] [ One of my **wow** moments when playing *Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal* happened when the three most powerful Bhaalspawn siblings (Imoen, Sarevok and the Player Character), together with just three more allies, are confronted by an entire Tethyrian army (melee forces, archers, spearmen, and mages) at a...
[Question] [ Could a world with no animals whatsoever (not even insects, no humans, etc) still have plant life? These plants do not have to include all the plants in our world, or even any of the same plants. I can think of these problems that would need to be addressed: * Respiration. Plants in our world consume car...
[Question] [ I'm moving a ton of people (asteroid miners and affiliated personnel living in the Asteroid Belt) onto a generation ship which will take years to reach its cruising speed of .1c, and which is part of a fleet numbering hundreds of ships that's prepared for a three thousand year journey or more. My story t...
[Question] [ A messenger from the stars just arrived in peace but has brought horrible news. A vast swarm of planet devouring phototropic insects are approaching from deep space and our only hope is to obscure or snuff out our sun until they pass by. The messenger provided a copy of the galactic encyclopedia which in...
[Question] [ Accept that we had a reason to go to Mars, managed to build a colony there, and what we found on Mars is valuable enough to ship back to Earth. There is now a self sustainable colony living under the domes, all made possible because we found out how to make water out of rocks and ice on Mars, and regular...
[Question] [ I imagine a planet similar to ours, except for two details: 1. The presence of **everlasting clouds** 2. **No yearly seasons** Explanation: In this world *clouds are very high and thick*, so that sunlight (or starlight, for that matter) only comes through like on a cloudy day here on Earth. There are cl...
[Question] [ Missing magnetosphere on Mars keeps popping up. Most likely caused by Mars core being cold, mantle not bubbly enough. [Mars mantle](http://www.space.com/16895-what-is-mars-made-of.html) is dormant, core does not move. What would be good way to get it going? So future martians don't have to spend all the ...
[Question] [ Assume you traveled back in time to the middle ages, and you brought with you the schematics of a fully automatic firearm. Could a group of experienced smiths and jewelers reproduce it? What would the major issues be? There are some guns which were designed for simplicity and easy of production, like the...
[Question] [ The question: What realistic environmental signs would telegraph to the occupants of a floating landmass that their home was slowly losing altitude? The planet: I'm working on a story that takes place on a gas planet, but with breathable air (I'm sure it has a solid core below its dense cloud layer somew...
[Question] [ > > [Raining animals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals) is a rare **meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky**. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history. One hypothesis is that **tornadic waterspouts sometimes pick up creature...
[Question] [ I have a setting with space fleets fighting, the include both capital ships and human flown 'space fighters', which I already put some work into justifying: [How to keep humans pilots instead of AI in sci-fi future?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/17043/how-to-keep-humans-pilots-instea...
[Question] [ **Background story:** Current Earth, in the close future. Astronomers have found first signs of extraterrestrial life: huge sheet-like objects (with surfaces easily as large as the surface of the Earth) appear all around the sun. They do not approach Earth, but remain in stationary spots relative to each...
[Question] [ Similar to [Could Plants Develop Sentience?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34034/could-plants-develop-sentience) but slightly more general: I'm not interested in plants in particular, but want a more general understanding of the effect of motion on intelligence and vice versa. In gen...
[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. My q...
[Question] [ I'm thinking not only of the impact they would have had on how you would defend from an aerial attack, but also that they could be used for much more specific bombardment by dropping large rocks and such. For simplicity, let's assume that no more than two people in leather could ride such a creatures, wh...
[Question] [ Imagine I have a device that can stop time for the person who holds it (similar to [Bernard's Watch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%27s_Watch)). This device works in a very specific way - it creates a bubble around the user (just large enough to hold the user) in which time flows much faster than ...
[Question] [ Say you were to drop a (bunch of) human(s) at some past era of our Earth. I'm assuming they might encounter a few problems such as the composition of the air not being breathable, the water being too rich or too poor in some chemicals, some diseases being totally new to their immune system... Maybe they ...
[Question] [ Planet is earth sized. Fantasy medieval setting that takes place on Continent A, which is on the other side of the planet from Continent B - about as far as South America is from Asia. Continent B has a very very tall giant lumbering around on it, so big that it basically wrecks the landscape of Continen...
[Question] [ [Monomolecular wire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomolecular_wire) weapons are a somewhat common element in science-fiction. Including in this this [*fantastic* image](http://www.consortium-horizon.com/wiki/Fichier:EclipsePhaseCoverPanopticon_1500px.png) I found while looking into this: ![armored oc...