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[Question] [ Within a near-future setting, where ships can move between planets using existing or currently experimental technologies (e.g. fusion), it seems that rail-guns are an extremely effective weapon. Are there any plausible (that fit within the existing understanding of physics) defenses that can be employed ...
[Question] [ Mint is a highly invasive plant that rapidly takes over gardens with its sprawling root systems. In my story, a group of scientists engineer a particularly prolific strain of mint in order to increase industrial yield. They have more success than they expect, and begin shipping “super mint” seedlings to ...
[Question] [ In various sci fi settings you'll often see soldiers that have been modified beyond their baseline human level. Sometimes they are genetically grown this way, but other times they're modified as adults. The latter is the focus of this question. **If one were to place a custom organ into a person, how doe...
[Question] [ In a planet within our solar system, the US Government with the help of a private space industry discovers a really special cool McGuffin mineral. It is super shiny. However, the US Government doesn't want to let everyone know about it and so instills the \_\_\_\_ Agency to go keep it secret with guards,...
[Question] [ **Would aliens on a entirely different planet to earth still use the same rocket fuel as us? If not what are the alternatives?** The planet has an escape velocity of 17 km/s, an atmosphere roughly composed of 25% sulfur dioxide, 50% nitrogen, 6% methane and 6% hydrogen sulfide, and is 55 °C. It also has ...
[Question] [ As far as I am aware [nuclear powered bombers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft) were the first attempt by the USSR and USA (either unintentional or not) at enhanced nuclear deterrence. Intending to place a nuclear reactor in a plane armed with nuclear bombs aloft for weeks at a tim...
[Question] [ In this form of self-government, a lobby is a set of 21 people in an area. Similar to a county, but on a much smaller scale, each lobby governs their immediate surroundings. The 21 people are only responsible for their environment and their fellow members. In a sense, they act like a Homeowners Associati...
[Question] [ **Problem** If you were attempting to take over an O'Neill Cylinder without destroying it or the majority of its inhabitants/ecology how would you go about it? What benefits or detriments to an attacking or defending force would the gravity and the cylinder shape of the land have to a fighting force? **A...
[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] [ So I've discovered that there's a whole genre now of romance sci-fi. The typical deal is that through some mischance a plucky young Earthwoman either gets abducted by a handsome alien stranger, or nurses him back to health when he crash-lands on our planet. Proximity leads to hijinks, and next thing you ...
[Question] [ I'm working on the layout of a fairly large crypt/small catacomb (for a RPG dungeon), and I want it to be built out of *necessity* (thus justifying its size, relatively frequent visitation, and egalatarian usage patterns) as opposed to the more typical case where a crypt or tomb will be built for the bur...
[Question] [ I am imagining a story where people store heat in the summer for use in the winter and store cold in the winter for use in the summer, unleashing the appropriate temperature when needed. But without hand-waving it away, how would such a thing work? I care not whether this device is magic or technology. (...
[Question] [ Imagine a civilization that approaches Kardashev II. They are deep into spacefaring, they live on a few less than one-hundred colonized worlds. They've not found evidence of other sapient life, so they believe they are alone in the galaxy. The unfortunate news is that this civilization is dying. No amoun...
[Question] [ Using the search engine here and on Google is not leading me to any answers. Assume no shields here or any unobtanium technologies. What happens upon impact of a projectile fired out of a railgun against a ship in space? I am not sure of the physics behind it. If a projectile smashes into a surface at a ...
[Question] [ On earth we have relatively well defined national borders. But for off world colonies on places such as the moon, mars & titan, very little would matter outside of military bases, mines & spaceports. How would this impact how borders work? Would it be like Rimworld were there are randomly placed instilla...
[Question] [ There is a newly discovered dungeon believed to be made up of a series of interconnected tunnels and caverns that runs deep beneath the ground, the place is thriving with all kind of terrifying monsters and they share one common trait that is they likes to fart a lot. Unlike mammals their flatulence has ...
[Question] [ Here is a supercontinent map generated randomly from the Donjon website: [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mdztr.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mdztr.jpg) Now, hold on just a minute. Something looks wrong. The mountains in brown and white are too far inland to be caused by subdu...
[Question] [ Let’s say that early middle ages humans discovered and expanded into a newly discovered land. Those humans made a concentrated effort to populate this new territory; they shipped several ships of settlers and refugees, along with armies of soldiers intended to forge a foothold. Then flashforward a hundre...
[Question] [ Assuming the technology level is about the same as that of the mid 1800s, what would be necesssary to equip a sizable army with revolver rifles? I've seen pictures of individual soldiers with revolver rifles from the American Civil War, but never in great number. What are the factors preventing an army f...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Plausible Reasons for usage of Combat Mecha](/questions/10320/plausible-reasons-for-usage-of-combat-mecha) (30 answers) Closed 6 years ago. After thinking about the issue of the development of this type of vehicles, I have some doubts about why the deci...
[Question] [ I was thinking about how some animals emit sounds, and then wait for the sound to bounce back to their ears letting them detect other animals to eat as well as obstacles to avoid. Some animals in the ocean also emit light that they use to help them see prey. I was thinking of an animal that similarly thr...
[Question] [ My world is to have a tiny island that will periodically be inhabited by a person or small group of people. By tiny I'm using a fuzzy yardstick: 1-50 hectares. When people are here, they will be conducting basic bushcraft and foraging. But at this scale, felling even a few trees would be a major pull on ...
[Question] [ In the near future, the human population is overcrowded and food and water becomes scarce. Every preventative measure failed to address this issue and the world falls into a turmoil and panic is everywhere. It was suggested that humanity is one of the creatures that have sex for pleasure and decided that...
[Question] [ So, after a nuclear holocaust, the students at Gun Runner High school are all evacuated with all survival kits, and a large amount of chocolate milk. There is no food left, and no lighters from smokers left. It’s empty of normal survival gear, like food, water, and heat, but people still want to see if ...
[Question] [ On the internet, I saw a post that the scientists are testing a drug that makes you feel the passage of time differently and that you can feel like 50 years passed in a day. Such drug should be used for prisons, so that you could drug a prisoner and make him do his time in much shorter time. So you waste...
[Question] [ Essentially, the organism (Homo Armyus) has 4 arms, 2 placed at the shoulder and 2 at the hips. All bodily functions in Homo Armyus are the same as Homo Sapiens, just the arms are different. Would Homo Armyus have any advantages over Homo Sapiens in an earth-like setting, on planet? [Answer] **Arborea...
[Question] [ A common topic in alternate history fiction works is what would have happened if a major war had been won by the other side. These usually focus on the events after the war, and the change itself is not depicted realistically: it's either not discussed, or attributed to a superweapon or deus ex machina. ...
[Question] [ It's common in sci-fi for large medieval-esque populations of humans living in the ruins of a former technologically advanced civilisation. My story is one of these, with a large population of humans locked in a pre-industrial society after an A.I. rebellion but I feel I need a reason that these humans h...
[Question] [ So, in the early years of interstellar colonisation, a planet called Uwa Ohuru starts to be terraformed. Uwa Ohuru is a Venus-like planet with a thick co2 atmosphere, (though not so thick that this co2 is at supercritical pressures) and scalding surface temperatures of up to 100 C or more. Terraforming t...
[Question] [ In my setting, humans want to colonize Jupiter, so as to establish an outpost in the [outer Solar System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System#Outer_Solar_System), but cannot due to a barrage of reasons. * Jupiter's gravity is really high and would prove to be hazardous to any astronaut who stays t...
[Question] [ When the council of angels threw Lucifer out of heaven after rebelling against him, God assigned a group of angels the task of watching over humanity to guide it along the righteous path. This group, called the Watchers, broke their oath and fornicated with man, creating a race of giants called the Nephi...
[Question] [ I tried to stick with vampire folklore and the various movies/shows about vampires when I thought of how vampires would be like if they really existed, but I also wanted to keep it as realistic as possible so here's what I came up with: * Immortal but can die of being decapitated, stabbed through the hea...
[Question] [ If I am correct, depleted uranium bullets are used because of their high weight and densitry which allows them to turn armor into Swiss cheese easily. Many modern armor piercing or otherwise heavy weapons designed for taking out vehicles, ranging from machine guns to artillery, use bullets composed of de...
[Question] [ ### Premise Imagine a slightly more advanced modern day world where space flight was starting to commercialize. Imagine that all of a sudden laws changed and the only thing different is that no computer worked. This is sort of the premise of my new world: there is no personal computer. ### Additional Det...
[Question] [ Is there a way that a sort of immortality could be achieved through genetic engineering or some other type of biological/medical technique? Not necessarily permanent immortality until the heat death of the universe, nor general *invulnerability* (just looking at anti-aging here, not necessarily being unk...
[Question] [ In a future web-series I want to create, there is a species of massive humanoids named giants (*Homo gigas*) (technically, there are still humans, just not *Homo sapiens*). They are less social than anatomically modern humans, they are as solitary as orangutans (meaning they are often alone, but they can...
[Question] [ My story (set in the far future) has a bear-sized monster with a tough shell. The human settlers fighting it realize their ballistic firearms are not effective in killing it; though they may pierce the shell, the monster clots and regenerates tissue extremely quickly (like Wolverine’s “X-factor”). ...
[Question] [ I'm creating a continent which will be about the size of Great Britain (250.000 km2) and I'm creating it under certain constraints.: * This continent was very powerful once upon a time, but now it is completely devastated by something (working on it). The only people remaining are living in a town in the...
[Question] [ This is World Building through a preventative measure. The Earth has been destroyed a few times in the past and it will happen again in the future, it is just a matter of time. For the first time in history we have the capability to save ourselves if we work together. What is our current capability when ...
[Question] [ I've tried to write up a few new styles of swordsmanship for a story I've been planning. I've got a lot of mileage from different sword types and techniques, but have one idea that I can't find any real world evidence of. Basically there is at least one school of swordplay that uses ankle length dresses...
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[Question] [ One of the countries in my world, *Izisbesi*, is located in the far south and is home to Reindeer and Elk. I was thinking it would be really neat if the locals there traditionally rode those kinds of animals instead of horses like on Earth and the rest of the planet, at least until horses may be imported...
[Question] [ I am taking inspiration from games like Dark Souls (Dark Souls 1: Lost Izalith, Dark Souls 2: [Shulva - Sanctum City](https://www.google.com/search?q=shulva%20sanctum%20city&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwie4IKQ4Iz3AhXshP0HHQ3KChcQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=shulva&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAA...
[Question] [ In my epic fantasy world set in the 1450's there are underground tunnels that literally go across from under the ocean for 700 miles or so. So here are my questions: * How long would it take to dig through this tunnels which would be made from rock and minerals. * How many men would you need? * Is there ...
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[Question] [ Could a classical era or middle ages civilization advance in shipbuilding technology alone and develop ships like carracks that could circumnavigate a world's oceans allowing them to colonize other continents then enter a 'medieval tech' colonial era? Would it require other technologies advancing simulta...
[Question] [ Imagine an arrow, but instead of the traditional arrowhead (thick and pointy) it uses a much thinner and sharper razor-like head. I am thinking such an arrow could be used for delivering death to unarmored targets at high range (at which point a conventional, less-sharp arrow no longer has the strength t...
[Question] [ How could a vertebrate animal evolve for extended flight before evolving land adaptations? Is that even possible at all? By extended flight, I mean breathing air and spending most of their time in the air, similar to sea birds. [Answer] Hmm. This is an interesting one. Unfortunately, my best offer is ...
[Question] [ I'm toying with the idea of writing stories about the influence of World War II on Russia. The target audience are ordinary Americans, hence it makes sense to have a viewpoint character, who is an American, who somehow got to Russia and witnesses the Russian side of the war. What is a realistic scenario ...
[Question] [ This is an odd question, but one that has been taunting my mind for a while. I had the idea of a weapon which used a firework, or something similar to a firework, for ammunition. I'd prefer it to work and look more like a crossbow in design, but I imagine this might backfire, quite literally. So, while I...
[Question] [ No metal weapons allowed I'm limiting this to wooden or composite ones only (for example the use of something as tough or harder than lignum vitae and other materials). I accept far fetched answers or ones including a little bit of magic since lack of realism doesn't really bother me that much. (for exa...
[Question] [ In terms of context, this airlock would be used on airships which fly at a height in which oxygen levels are too low for humans to live. Within the hull of the airship, stored oxygen would be pumped inside and kept within through insulated walls. However, many still need to go out on to the deck. This wo...
[Question] [ I've posed a question on how to build a continent with [as many hot deserts as possible](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41646/resources-for-climate-world-building). On the basis of the answers I got on that question, I've drawn a map with the following desert. [![enter image descriptio...
[Question] [ Alternate Earth. Using our own Earth as a baseline, this question opens up altering details of our history or societies to accomplish the intended outcome. The goal, quite simply, is to stagnate technological development to approximately what was discovered by modern nations during World War II. The qua...
[Question] [ I'm working on a story about four planets around a star much like the Sun. But due to my (very limited) knowledge of gravity, I know that putting them too close together will cause them to collide or repel. So this is my question: Is there a way to make sure that the planets will usually stay the same di...
[Question] [ So I'm a dictator of the world, who seized power after a global collapse and I maintain control of the world with my giant army of killer robots - tanks, planes, androids, and so on. Things have been pretty good, and I've been able to be fairly benevolent, since no one can face down my invincible army of...
[Question] [ Short. Got it. Thank you to all those who provided answers before and explained how to fix the problem in the comments as well. I Want to make an intelligence agency in a fictional setting that only has about 16 century technology. Setting does not match with ours in a lot of ways. Ask if you want more d...
[Question] [ In this series I'm mulling, kaiju have been around since prehistory, turning up off and on right up until modern times. In the near-future of this alt-history, say in the next twenty years (2040ish), measures have been taken to minimize damage kaiju inflict on cities. In no particular order, here's stuff...
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[Question] [ I was imagining the possibilities of creating a ship mast which could not get struck by lightning. Is there a material it could be made of that would never get struck by lightning? [Answer] It's not the material per se which makes it lightning proof, but rather what's around it. When a difference of p...
[Question] [ Suppose a habitable planet is perpetually enshrouded with clouds but still has enough light seeping through to make lit and unlit portions of a day, and has an intelligent tool-making species living on it. Assume primitive civilization of some sort starts to develop. When would they start to need clocks,...
[Question] [ In fantasy, a relatively common trope in fantasy settings, particularly D&D, is underground societies that are more willing to endorse slavery than surface-dwelling societies. We see it in the Drow, the Illithids, and the Aboleths (they're more underwater than underground, but they are prevalent in the u...
[Question] [ I am currently trying to write a sci-fi world set in a very distant future. It is a "hard" sci-fi setting, however it has things such as artificial gravity and FTL systems, however I am currently unsure if the weapons for ground forces should use conventional cartridges or directed energy weapons, in thi...
[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. Cyan...
[Question] [ Is it possible to use a power plant-like machine to create small amounts of electrical (or other) energy directly inside the human body, making it such that the human has energy for activity without the need to eat? Something like directly giving the person heat or electricity for human energy or somethi...
[Question] [ A kekai genkai is a bloodline ability that is passed down genetically within clans. They give users access to specific powers unique to that family. These abilities take a number of forms: going bones out of one's body to make weapons, psychic abilities, super strength, seeing the mana flow of others, et...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Is it possible for a planet to have a liquid ring?](/questions/92642/is-it-possible-for-a-planet-to-have-a-liquid-ring) (4 answers) Closed 5 years ago. There have been numerous questions on this site about moons being composed entirely of water. However...
[Question] [ This question would be best answered for the time period of our first colonized planet, which will most likely be Mars. With the thinner atmosphere, weaker gravity, low oxygen, and the bodily damage possible from the sun, some sort of protective suit is a must outside of colony pods. But the size of curr...
[Question] [ In the story that I am writing (medieval fantasy) I want one of the factions to have access to a remote weapon capable of penetrating heavy armor (we are talking about steel plates and chainmail, gentlemen) but not a siege, that is to say , that a soldier could take it with him, was able to shoot several...
[Question] [ Picture this, humans (or human-like sentient beings) having the innate ability to photosynthesise their food in a similar manner to plants - thus providing all the nutrients required for sustained life. Let's also assume that the humans have evolved to have the same brain capacity as we did when agricult...
[Question] [ It's a sprawling city, similar to that of [Whiterun](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Whiterun) (capital of Whiterun Hold in Skyrim) with about 1500 inhabitants. Assume medieval-level technology and weapons, and also assume that the city is fairly sloped with a few natural hills scattered here and there. ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [If magic is real, can it be true that rational scientific thought should exclude it?](/questions/13364/if-magic-is-real-can-it-be-true-that-rational-scientific-thought-should-exclude) (33 answers) Closed 7 years ago. I am building a world that has both ...
[Question] [ Enter the world of hypothetical-ness: Imagine a world where we have used almost all of our copper, lead, and iron supplies and deposits. The amount that we still do have is not enough to make a lot of bullets and military ammo. But what if we could use glass as a projectile that could be shot from a gun ...
[Question] [ *Color legend: The brown shapes are hills, the darker the brown the higher the mountains and the highest peaks I've made white. They are mostly clustered on the east and west edges. The green shows forests and the darker green is jungle.* I am creating my first map for a world I am building, but I am hav...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story about an icy alien culture which applies ultracold helium bombs that they can make appear at any place. The battle between good and evil translates in hot and cold. Though of course it remains to be seen which of the two is good or evil, Helium bombs are just large balls of zero-kelvi...
[Question] [ I'd like to approach this in a sort of hard sci-fi way, where the following is grounded in something plausible. Suppose we want to take a plane down at a reasonable speed where there is a 30% chance or so of surviving, or rather, something that isn't going to be fatal like a straight on nosedive. While I...
[Question] [ Medieval warfare can get ugly, particularly during sieges. Most will agree that the best course of action is to sit tight for a year or two and hope the defenders starve before your attacking force dies of illness. But sometimes that's not an option, maybe the emperor is impatient, maybe enemy reinforcem...
[Question] [ Set 100 years into the future, a mysterious meteor landed in the pacific ocean and since then reports of supernatural phenomenon exploded exponentially throughout the world. People waking up the next day to realise they have magical powers such as levitation and telekinesis etc, and there are also toweri...
[Question] [ Imagine if you will a star comparable with our sun and a planet like earth orbiting at roughly the same distance around this star as our earth around the sun. Would it be possible to place a planet somewhere between this ''earth analogue'' and the star/sun at such a distance as to get a planet comprised...
[Question] [ While by no means a smoking gun, there is still a reasonable amount of empirical evidence on the notion that socialization and testosterone are negatively correlated. ## Archaeological Evidence From the archaeological side, Robert Cieri submits that certain skeletal features (heavy brows, upper face) ar...
[Question] [ A setting I've been planning for a while involves a function of magic that can animate objects using the magical equivalent of programmable functions. A wizard/witch/magic-user uses a magic language to define the shape of an object, then adds programs to make it move, and then strings together an array o...
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[Question] [ ## How could they keep track of the "Surface World Time?" ### Parameters: * Very little contact with the surface world * Phobia of "just go and check" * It is needed to know when traders will descend * They don't trust traders with the secrets of "Dwarf Time" * Dwarves have a limited knowledge of alchemy...
[Question] [ I’m writing a novel about a superman protagonist. He is the only super in the world, and the first. Some friendly ETs gave him a skinsuit that can withstand speeds of up to 4,000 mph, and he uses it to fly everywhere. However, he refuses to go through the hassle getting a pilot’s license, since he has na...
[Question] [ In my story with magic based around the manipulation of electromagnetism, I need the characters to have a hand-wave electric organ. This electric organ is about 10 cm per organ with the capacity to generate magnetism. The problem is that the organs are large and I can’t think of any spaces that would fit...
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[Question] [ Jimmy Hopkins (yes, that's his name) is a extremely weird organism. For one thing he is extremely large, but on the other hand, he is extremely weird, because of one thing- **He is an unicellular organism** You heard it right. JH is just nothing but a giant unicellular organism about 50m across and 30m t...
[Question] [ In our real world we have been blessed with many mechanical inventions throughout the ages. Wind mills, water driven sawmills, rope and pulley systems, cranes, marvels in clockwork and gearing such as the Antikythera mechanism or many ancient automatons. In the real worlds case large scale implementation...
[Question] [ On an alien Dyson Sphere up in space, there is a blackish-blue slime that is everywhere on the sphere. It's slippery to the touch and is basically a combination of cleaning fluid, disinfectant, and lubricant. Its purpose on the Dyson sphere is three-fold: 1. it keeps stuff clean and ensures stains don't ...
[Question] [ On a planet similar to Earth, is is possible for all living creatures to have bioluminescence? If yes, what role would it fulfill? What other traits would be useful in such an environment? Larger eyes? Bioluminescence camouflage? Seasonal bioluminescence? Communication? [Answer] **Reproductive fitness...
[Question] [ Assume just for this question that in one same plane of space, there are the following stars within close proximity of each other: * An O-type main-sequence star (18x wider, 15-90x more massive and 40k-one million times brighter than our sun, lifespan of 10 million years) * A G0-type main-sequence star (...
[Question] [ For the fluff of my story one of the space-ships is equipped with what I hope is one of the biggest F-you weapons in ship-to-ship combat: a miniature black hole launcher. The launcher fires a whopping 329 metric ton black hole, which is tiny compared to the majority of black holes. Hawking radiation caus...
[Question] [ I am considering a story where a group of human colonists looking to colonize an alien world come across another human society on an alien world on the other side of a wormhole. The colonists crash land on this world after an incident and discover this society. As it turns out, the humans on this world a...
[Question] [ Okay, so how feasible is it- if even possible- to put the Earth under 'one roof'? So here is the premise. The world is heavily *heavily* over populated, so overpopulated in fact that almost all of the land has been covered in infrastructure. However, instead of visualising this as a *huge* mega city, ima...
[Question] [ I am a time traveller from the not so distant future. I have gone into the past to the Roman Empire (specifically the [Nerva-Antonine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerva%E2%80%93Antonine_dynasty) period) and via -*handwaving magical mumbo-technobabble*- have become Emperor. I have a small cadre of loyal...
[Question] [ What I want to know is if an asteroid about 15 KM in diameter and roughly double that in length, spinning at a significant speed, could go undiscovered until a crew of an asteroid mining ship happened upon it, out in the belt (specifically the Mars/Jupiter belt, not the Kuiper belt). A little bit of extr...
[Question] [ > > In a far-distant future Pascal enters the bridge of his intelligent space ship. > > > He's a lazy bloke who can't be bothered to sit or stand, so he flicks his fingers and in a moment of [Clarkian magic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws) a pillar, an object, a force appears.1 >...
[Question] [ *Nb: This question was posted in [sandbox for proposed questions](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4835/7974)!* # Backgrounds **Design Goals:** The weapon should be capable of delivering a powerful impact, but would be super easy to turn. Not to mention that the sword should be powerful eno...
[Question] [ A small late medieval county, consisting of a very small town, a small castle, and a couple of surrounding small villages suddenly and inexplicably gets transported into the past. It's not a spherical volume with soil, they are just transported there with their houses, clothes and tools intact. The desti...
[Question] [ In the past we humans thought that our planet was the center of the universe and everything revolved around us, due to science/math/astronomy and any other means we now believe that to not be true. Would it be possible for a planet, Earth or otherwise, to be in the center of universe/galaxy/Milkyway/sola...