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[Question] [ I've been creating a science fantasy conworld, but I'm honestly not interested as much in pre-industrial stuff. But I don't want to ignore the pre-industrial history, so I'm looking for a way for the Industrial Revolution to happen as soon as possible. While most fantasy settings are medieval, this one i...
[Question] [ There is a system of one star and something like an asteroid belt around it. But the distance between asteroids is much less than usual, with some perhaps within nine kilometers of each other, and sometimes even less (there can be closer proximity, to several meters, and collisions are very frequent). Al...
[Question] [ In the world I have been working on my planet has a gelatinous mass of cells coexisting but not a technical single creature. It bridges the gap between single celled and complex and it grows in size as it consumes organic matter (any organic matter). It divides in two like a bacteria when it reaches a la...
[Question] [ This planet is a rogue planet without any star or without being volcanically active. Antimatter continually collides with the planet, and annihilates with hydrogen in the upper atmosphere. This provides heat and light for the planet. Alternatively, the planet could be made out of antimatter, with regular...
[Question] [ **Low energy, fantastic range** From HDE in [another topic](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/63251/seeing-using-gravitational-waves), I learned gravitational waves have an intensity which is inverse proportional to distance, not square distance, like in electromagnetic fields.. $$h\sim\f...
[Question] [ I am raising dragons for my world. So far they had 4 limbs (2 legs that are also used as wings and 2 legs used for walking and grabbing things). But I started wanting to embrace the fantasy even more and now I've decided that they will have 6 limbs, 4 used for walking and 2 used for flying. But a problem...
[Question] [ There are numerous other question on this site about "If oxygen production stopped...?" but all of them appear to still have humans around. This question is different. In my scenario, we may assume that every single living thing on earth has been exterminated instantly. There is absolutely nothing left a...
[Question] [ On a distant world, the atmosphere is different than ours - there is no oxygen but a high level of C02 like on Mars or the early Earth. This planet is otherwise similar to Earth but slightly warmer. The planet orbits a Red Giant as a sun. The soil is rocky, and high in Silicon. If I want plants (photosyn...
[Question] [ I understand how complicated constructed languages can be. I do not want that though. The language would need no grammar or syntax. But I would like to create places/people names and maybe the odd noun for the language. But here's the kicker... I want to be able to generate these languages and quickly, o...
[Question] [ **Body:** Boron-based lifeforms that use ammonia as a solvent and respires methane & hydrogen, with an atmosphere of mostly methane, hydrogen, nitrogen and in smaller percentages, acetylene & other elements. The temperature of the lifeforms' planet is -10 Celsius, with the pressure being 25 atmospheres. ...
[Question] [ So, mechanical computers are a thing, as are pneumatic and hydraulic actuators. Combining those ideas, it's not that hard to design simple purely-pneumatic/hydraulic robots--provide them with a source of compressed fluid, and they just go (and that includes performing middling-complex mechanical calculat...
[Question] [ Would it be possible to have an organism to be based on alcohol, rather than water? Complexity does not matter, but a complex organism would be favourable. their environment would be in oceans of isopropyl alcohol on a relatively warm planet with very thin CO2 atmosphere and less than half earth's gravit...
[Question] [ A spin-gravity space station, a ring-shaped structure that creates a faux gravity on the inside of the ring via inertia, has been depicted as no bigger than a house and as massive as a solar system. However, I expect there's some real-world limitations on size. With the understanding that any given ring...
[Question] [ If your ship just got trapped inside the event horizon of an super massive black hole, could the ship "accelerate" back out with an alcubierre drive? [Answer] Possibly, though you’d be escaping by moving the exit, potentially with hideously unintended side effects. Basically below the event horizon of...
[Question] [ I've read super-earths might become archipelago planets. Picture shallow seas, under a thick atmosphere that alternates between muggy and clammy. Because a bigger share of the surface would be continental shelf, there would be more room for kelp forests and other habitats propicious to photosynthesizers,...
[Question] [ Hundreds of years ago during the black plague, an individual named Howard Phillips Lovecraft started what would lead to the doom of humanity. Although a mediocre writer himself, his works of literature would inspire authors for generations. His most famous work, "The Call of Cthulu", was the first entry ...
[Question] [ I'm picturing a world without oceans. I'm not after Arrakis; I want a quite lush surface. I'd like no surface water at all, but I'm concerned that makes evolution impossible. (I imagined using chemotrophs to get around it.) I want a "sea level" pressure of 2-6x Earth. If there's surface water, it'd be "a...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- This question does not appear to be about **worldbuilding**, within the scope defined in the [help center](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/help). Closed 4 years ago. [Improve this que...
[Question] [ If someone in the 14-15th century world had the knowledge required to build an engine for use in locomotives and ships, what kind of engine could be made using technology that already existed back then? [Answer] **Steam engines** [Edward Somerset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Somerset,_2nd_Mar...
[Question] [ I'm working on a story set in an Earth-like world but with rings (say, proportionately similar to Saturn's). I'm trying to get a solid handle on how these rings would affect the sky. For the purposes of this post, let's focus on *navigation*. For a little more info, let's assume a location in the Norther...
[Question] [ I'm basically looking for advice on how to balance the magic system I'm designing for my novel. Basically, the way it works is this: There are six known Realms beyond this one where almost magic users draw their abilities from. Such a magician is called a Realmtapper. Each Realm is tapped into a bit dif...
[Question] [ One of the worlds I'm creating has a planet-wide communal sentient Biosphere (similar to *Avatar*). They have evolved the ability to bio-engineer whatever they need, and they have decided to send a probe into space for exploration. I've "borrowed" Larry Niven's Stage Tree concept, using Ethanol and Pinen...
[Question] [ What advantages would extreme longevity need to provide for it to develop in a human subspecies/humanoid species without outside tampering? I ask because elves and the like in fantasy are often depicted as living far longer than humans do, and are healthier for longer into old age, and assuming that's no...
[Question] [ In what I hope to be the first episode of a series, I'm going to highlight each piece of Tolkien architecture and see whether or not it's practical enough to use in real life, starting with the simplest: Orthanc, the centerpiece of Isengard. [The original Alan Lee painting right here.](https://vignette.w...
[Question] [ I've become interested in different kinds of dinosaurs lately, and have also been on a creature design kick. Let's talk about [Troodons](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodontidae). Troodons were a type of theropod dinosaur with unusually large brains and excellent senses. Some people have thought that...
[Question] [ Aliens build their city on Earth in such a way that it covers the entire planet but leaves the surface of the planet (including human cities) intact. This is possible since they built their alien city on a huge platform which is supported by pillars rammed into the Earth's crust. So with exception of th...
[Question] [ My first post, I am sure I will have many more! I am so excited to have found this community! I have a game called Rise: The Vieneo Province and a very old issue that I was hoping to get help with. According to our [wiki](http://rise.unistellar.com/Vieneo) for our fictitious planet, the surface pressure ...
[Question] [ How would a medieval doctor identify a poison that was administered through a cut? Is it strictly by symptoms? If the implement is produced, would that help in identifying the poison? The story is fantasy, but I've tried to stick closely with historical and medical facts from medieval times--14th to 15t...
[Question] [ I am writing a story that takes place in a big desert. I've figured that I could make my desert as extensive as possible by building a Pangea-like supercontinent, since I've learned here that, given the distance, eventually the clouds from the surrounding seas will exhaust their water. However, I want to...
[Question] [ There seem to be honest scientific exploration in the field of the alcubierre warp drive if you believe some articles on the net. So to be a little bit scientific accurate in a story using it, I wonder about the following: The warp drive deflates space in front and inflates it to the back of the ship, th...
[Question] [ I am often fascinated by one of Earth's most magnificent beings, the mantis shrimp (also known as 1-2-3-death). These beautiful animals have sixteen kinds of colour receptive cones - compare to our measly three! **They can also see polarized light in ways that we cannot.** Which got me thinking... What i...
[Question] [ I have a binary system in which my world orbits one of the stars, not the pair, in the habitable zone. The stars are relatively close together (because I want the secondary one to [shed significant light](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/25318/28) on the planet too), tentatively [about 20AU apar...
[Question] [ I recently finished reading the novel "Seveneves" by Neil Stevenson. The central premises of the novel is that an unknown object has caused the moon to break into several large pieces, with an immeasurable amount of smaller ones floating around. In the novel, the quantity of objects is sufficient to cau...
[Question] [ So in my story/world I have a region that is straight up destroyed...demonic magic is nasty stuff. So we have rings [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MvoTK.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MvoTK.png) **Ring 1 (1 is in the middle)** This ring has a diameter of about 200 miles. At t...
[Question] [ I've come up with a couple of exoplanets for a story, and have reached the limits of my knowledge. I've googled around, and I had a space enthusiast friend look at them, but he freely admits that he's just guessing for most of this, especially the atmospheric makeup. The other planet is [here](https://...
[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 m...
[Question] [ I have an organization that I want to have some kind of HQ without being in a country. I was reminded of Sealand (Thanks Joel), those platforms off the coast of the UK. I want something similar, basically a really tall tower in the Atlantic, out in the deep sea. It obviously can't touch the bottom, but o...
[Question] [ [Uplifted Animals](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UpliftedAnimal) are real in this world. An miracle technology is capable of uplifting an animal to human level intelligence using a non-invasive procedure. Availability of this technology is limited to North America and Europe so far. Maximum ...
[Question] [ In medieval times, people possessed a muscular and flexible tail that is capable of manipulating objects. Everyone (regardless of race) is born with one such tail, and the tail can hold weight as heavy as 12kg for a short period of times - usually 5 minutes. A severed tail won't grow back and on average ...
[Question] [ I would like to make a magic system that follows the laws of conservation of energy, making it so that you can use magic to do something that you can do physically, like lift things, as well as do things that you normally couldn't, like boil water or start fire. What I want to know is: 1. How much calori...
[Question] [ # My pirates need to maximize profit from their illegal horse racing activities But the horses are not normal, they are machines. You can ride on top with difficulty, and it may slow them down. So gamblers want excitement and lots of opportunities to bet. What race format suits these machines and the gre...
[Question] [ Let's say one had a giant insect the size of a sheep or a cow that some sapient species was raising as meat livestock. These animals would have to be butchered to be eaten and cannot simply be eaten whole like people eat shrimp, crayfish, and insects in the real world. Ignore the whole issue of a cow-siz...
[Question] [ I'm currently building a world for a medieval based D&D campaign (i know super original) and I'm trying to make my cities as realistic as i can. Right now I'm planning on making a city in the middle of a large empire with roughly 100.000 people living there. But now comes the question of how big would th...
[Question] [ It's become a popular speculative evolution trope for the likeliest candidate of the mythological "wyvern" to be a Cenozoic family--if not **super**family--of scansoriopterygid dinosaur. Now the first thing you'd be wondering is, "scanso-WHAT?" and I won't blame you. The name is not as memorable or catch...
[Question] [ The year is 2100. While climate change has wrought serious damage to the biosphere, humanity has at last managed to become carbon neutral, and has even developed technology that can be used to reduce the level of carbon in the atmosphere. This has the effect of allowing humanity to set the thermostat, as...
[Question] [ In a world where every human mind has been uploaded, and no organic humans remain, can we still produce offspring? In a worldbuilding project I'm dabbling with, there are many people uploading their minds to a virtual world. I ran upon a roadblock, though. Could the people in the virtual world, who don't...
[Question] [ Could a species with an incredibly advanced electroreceptive organ (such as that of a shark) be able to use it above water? The gas-mix in which the sense works must be breathable to humans, and it would be good if it was the same mix as in the earth's atmosphere. [Answer] TL;DR: no. --- Electrorecep...
[Question] [ Sadly, the asteroid belt [isn't](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsteroidThicket) the place to showoff your ace pilot skills. It is [so sparse](https://www.quora.com/Is-the-asteroid-belt-visible-from-Mars-with-the-naked-eye-If-not-after-astronauts-land-on-Mars-in-the-future-could-they-see-it-...
[Question] [ The organisms in the oxygen based ecosystem we have today is perfectly adapted to each other. The ocean is filled with water, and on land it falls from the sky. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Carbon dioxide is absorbed to produce sugars. Animals, fungus and the othe...
[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'm ...
[Question] [ I have a hypothetical world in the works and I have a rough idea of what it might be like. My idea is that the planet was life-supporting with a widely varied biosphere. The magnetosphere failed and let particles in the incoming solar wind into the biosphere. My question is: How might a planet quickly (...
[Question] [ Question: Is it technically possible to make a 'Black' Whitewash? True [Whitewash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewash) is a plaster-like substance that has been used to coat stone and wooden walls for cosmetic and waterproofing purposes since the dark ages. It is made from limestone, and as far as I...
[Question] [ Assume a subterranean civilization exists with technology roughly on par with the modern era. With changes due to lack of certain environmental factors being likely due to the vastly different environment. Assuming tunnels can be bored through the earth creating new routes to fit for instance trains and ...
[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. We k...
[Question] [ The most popular type of stars are red dwarves, which regrettably tend to be flare stars. Yes, I know that geomagnetic storms and power lines do not like each other. Technology level: More or less early 21st century equivalent. Extra issues: No legacy issues, infrastructure and settlements are built from...
[Question] [ Ok, so, some quick background... I'm not an evolutionary biologist or anything, but I'm helping a friend with some alien design ideas, and at least one of them she designed and wanted help to somehow explain was a group that basically falls into the classic Star Trek "Humans but Kinda Weird-Looking" mili...
[Question] [ On an Earth analog, assuming all the selective pressures necessary are there, how large can a flower's bloom evolve to be? I'm referring the the vegetative part of the flower, the petals! I have no clue how large a bloom could become since different species have varying petal strengths, of which I can't ...
[Question] [ Let's imagine some very powerful dude with absolutely ridiculous strength/speed/durability. I'm not asking about the credibility of this, let's suppose it's magic. He's got some magical sword as durable as it need to be (probably way more than the hardest thing we can think of today. Here again, let's sa...
[Question] [ I am trying to figure out how to make a moon (75% of Earth size) of a gas giant habitable. To give an idea of the technological level, here are technologies the colonists have access to: * fully automated and robotised asteroid mining; * space travel at 1/10 of the speed of light; * terraforming technolo...
[Question] [ One of the tropes I see very frequently on TV is having a supervillain build a huge mind controlling device that suddenly takes over an entire town, or eventually even the whole world. So, it got me thinking, what would be the most plausible way to achieve this effect with present day / near future techn...
[Question] [ In my world there are this people that live in a great jungle. They are as advanced as the other civilizations of the world (late medieval standards) with a complex society, work specialization, strong army, large cities, rich culture... But they do things in a very different way than the others, for exa...
[Question] [ Let's say there's a habitable planet somewhere, covered with very deep cool water ocean. By very deep I mean thousands of km, but the exact numbers don't actually matter. According to [water's phase diagram](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Phase_diagram_of_water.svg/700px-Phase...
[Question] [ Thinking of terraforming a localized region, how (if possible) can we create an artificial high pressure zone, whether practical or not, Initially I thought, perhaps we can arrange heatsinks to induce a pressure trap heated with laser arrays closer to the Sun. Perhaps a tunable cyclonic system or harmon...
[Question] [ By classical civilization, I mean one that form the ethical, governmental, scientific, or lexical foundation for cultures that follow. Such a civilization's impact lasts for centuries if not millennia. There are many examples of these civilizations in our own history. The most obvious examples are the Gr...
[Question] [ I've been mulling over the idea of nanites (microscopic machines that perform work - usually to transform one material into another). I've come to the conclusion that at a macroscopic level, nanites ought to operate as we see microbial life operating. Whether the nanite is actually coopted microbial life...
[Question] [ I've got a device that can change matter to energy (or energy to matter. Or any combination!) with perfect efficiency and absolute clarity of design. So far I've used it to build a [large, global company](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/29106/concealing-my-earth-changing-invention) with...
[Question] [ Pretty much what it says in the question title. **Suppose** a non-human, social species of Earth animal found itself on an evolutionary path that favored increased intelligence of a kind not completely dissimilar from that of humans. These creatures, from the beginning, are able to plan ahead and at leas...
[Question] [ The steel that makes up the skeletons of modern skyscrapers consists of iron and carbon. The problem with both is that, if the entire city is untended for long enough, both metals betray their downsides. Iron corrodes easily, and though carbon is used to toughen the alloy, it, too, is vulnerable to rust....
[Question] [ Assume Leonardo Da Vinci invented a scientifically wondrous piece of equipment: a vaporizer gun. The gun is able to instantly vaporize any human being or animal, leaving absolutely no trace behind - all clothes, possessions, fake teeth, etc, disappear without a trace. Since the vaporization only takes 1/...
[Question] [ Scenario: Earth men colonized a terraformed planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. There are already industries developed there, farms, mining etc. There's a large fleet of cargo ship capable of reaching 0.8C (over long distances - nuclear pulse propulsion) serving both systems (colonies both in our Solar syste...
[Question] [ A human (contemporary, western) makes contact with an alien. Not wanting to engage 'governments and scientists' the human wants to communicate with the alien. The alien is physiologically incapable of speech (and devoid of other obvious channels of communication perceptible by humans), plus devoid of any...
[Question] [ We have a tiny robot, insect like, barely five millimetres long, but with an almost perfect AI. The sensory input consists on an array of chemoreceptors, vibrissae, and cameras. It can fly through air or swim in water. How would the cameras work? What would be the effects and physical limitations of thei...
[Question] [ How big a difference does the Earth's liquid outer core and mantle make for the evolution of complex life? If all of Earth's parameters would be the same, but it had a solid interior just like Mars, would we still have an atmosphere, liquid water, and a moon? How much weaker would our magnetic field be?...
[Question] [ Essentially, I have a flying predatory creature in my world which is roughly the size of a raven and hunts at night, relying quite a bit on sound for echolocation in tighter spaces, hearing for both prey and predators and for communication. Because of this, I wished to give them large ear-like structures...
[Question] [ I know that many sentient robots in sci fi stuff eat food even if it is just for pleasure, energy or make them appear more like real humans and animals. Well I was thinking how would such digestive system could work. I believe that in a far future robotics could be advanced enough to emulate a digestive ...
[Question] [ I started a Minecraft world one day and decided I'd challenge myself by setting the sea level to 100, a rise of 36m from typical. Besides the fact that the tops of mountains and plateaus are still above water, a quirk of the Minecraft world means that any water in mountain areas above a certain elevation...
[Question] [ The setting I've cooked up for a D&D campaign I'm running features a fair amount of buildings that have been totally abandoned by civilization for hundreds or even a thousand years. Obviously without upkeep, many aspects of such buildings will weather, rot, subside, collapse, etc. Our own history has fur...
[Question] [ I am developing a fictional planetary system in which a large gas giant planet (slightly less than the mass of Saturn), has migrated into the habitable zone during the formational years of the system, and hosts habitable moons. The star in question is a K0V Orange Dwarf, which is reasonably quiet (i.e. d...
[Question] [ There's an important aspect of my headworld involving volcanoes which I planned many years ago. Recently I revisited this concept to refine it further, only to run into a few questions that I've been struggling with. My geology knowledge is quite limited and I can't find much information on these matters...
[Question] [ Magnetic core memory was a critical innovation in the development of computers. Per <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory> it was the most advanced form of memory from about the mid-fifties to early seventies. For development of a semi-steampunk setting, I'm thinking about how much earlier ...
[Question] [ Basically, I want to freeze the technology of earth at a level reminiscent of pre-Industrial Revolution Europe. I'm trying to figure out what substance or material would have to be absent from the geological makeup of the earth in order to prevent any significant technological advancement past this point...
[Question] [ I've just bought myself a shiny new spaceship equipped with the latest in FTL warp technology, the only catch is the fuel bill, this thing drinks the stuff like it's going out of fashion (still, it's better than the F150 but that's another story). Now I'm just a humble space-cabbie but, my understanding ...
[Question] [ I am new at this site, but I've been creating a fantasy story for a while. Now, I'm stuck. I would really like cat people (neko) in my story, but there is a problem! you can't just stick cat ears on someone's head! for the tail, it's easy, it goes on the tailbone, but what about the cat ears? Is it possi...
[Question] [ One major problem with living underground is you lose all of that wonderful energy provided by the sun. This energy is useful for many things including growing plants for food. A window is effectively a very short pipe for sunlight to enter a room in a normal house. Windows clearly allow enough of the ri...
[Question] [ > > I am writing a fantasy novel centered on an Earth-like planet with icy rings like Saturn. This question deals with certain effects of having such a ring system. Assume the planet is Earth, the rings are Saturn's rings (minus the C and D rings), and Saturn's ratio of planet/ring holds true for my pla...
[Question] [ Suppose we had an Earth-like planet based on Saturn's moon [Iapetus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)). Iapetus has an equatorial ridge, 13 km high, which runs around it. Scaling that up to an Earth-sized planet, it would have a ridge almost 120 km tall. (Handwaving things like hydrostatic eq...
[Question] [ We are developing a game setting and, while discussing certain aspects of the it, have stumbled upon our inability to adequately account for some phenomena due to our lack of knowledge. The thing is, in wake of a catastrophe the lower layers of the world’s atmosphere are filled with a dark almost opaque ...
[Question] [ Random idea I just had, would it be possible for a medieval society to pilot massive creatures from the inside? This creature is about 10 stories high, having the anatomy of a gray wolf. The society would have technology equivalent to that of Imperial China as well as our current knowledge of the body an...
[Question] [ So my story takes place on a moon orbiting a gas giant about the size of Jupiter and I was wondering if it was at all possible for a planetary ring to exist beyond the planet's Roche limit. I understand that there are some tiny bands of dust that exist beyond the Roche limit of planets that could be cons...
[Question] [ I'm trying to figure out what weather patterns and geographical conditions would exist on a habitable moon that is tidally locked to a much larger planet/gas giant. From my research, I was able to gather that: * The side that faces the planet would always be night, and would have extreme freezing conditi...
[Question] [ Earth and Titan prove that ocean be made of water and liquid methane, respectively. Theoretical planets with oceans of liquid ammonia and sulfuric acid are believed to exist. But what about alcohol? [Answer] There is no contradiction in a planet that has an Ethanol sea. In fact [Ethanol has been dete...
[Question] [ [Edit: I'm not looking for 100% realism. I'm looking for an explanation as realistic as possible, possible with just few exceptions to physics.] [Edit 2: In my imagination these worlds are different universes and as such not reachable by travelling far. They are similar but not identical to our universe/...
[Question] [ # Description : Even in the ⅩⅩth century, biological warfare was studying only existing diseases. But recently [we're able to modify viruses in order to cure genetic impairments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virotherapy). Would it be possible to use similar techniques to build the perfect weapon? # Re...
[Question] [ Let's pretend the lithosphere of Earth were smoothed somehow to fit a perfect geoid and maintained in this shape; all the water would turn into a uniform layer flowing over the ground. According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth), sea water volume is 1.332$\times$109 km3, and this is 97....
[Question] [ There is a behemoth creature that once swam the great oceans of a planet whose waters now run dry, and whose surface is now a sand-covered desert. The Creature is now long-dead, but it's Skeleton still remains, half-buried under the sand. The creature in question, is a sort of whale, except is hundreds ...
[Question] [ Imagine a world like any standard RPG games. In these games characters grow stronger as they defeat opponents, long after any real-world soldier would have reached their peak possible performance. In these RPGs your level 100 PC is practically a 1 man army taking on dozens of foes at once with little ris...
[Question] [ I am designing a video game in which [Alcubierre Drives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive) will be obtainable by the player. I would like this game to be somewhat scientifically accurate in this way. Specifically, I am interested in what parts would be necessary, their function, what they ...
[Question] [ **TL; DR:** Aliens are not previously known. An alien spaceship suddenly crashes in full view of thousands of people. All members of the crew are dead. How can we expect governments and scientific bodies to react in the short/ medium term, in the broadest sense? Ok. We start in today's modern world, and...
[Question] [ Obviously, this would depend on how prevalent magic was in the world. It would also depend on not only how prevalent magic itself was, but how prevalent are people who are able to perform it. There is definitely a distinction, as you could have a world where anyone and everyone is capable of wielding mag...
[Question] [ An alien race, for reasons of their own, have decided that it's important to make the third and fourth planets in our solar system about the same size and mass. Since they have a strict moratorium on altering planets with clearly visible carbon-based life on them, Mars is the object of their "affections"...