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This is related to my last question [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/74058/how-could-a-magical-sentient-library-defend-itself).
The library here is not necessarily the magical sentient library mentioned in the previous question, but can be *any* wizard library. This library can be... |
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Let's imagine a group of people who can turn from human to wolf at will. Wolves are quadrupeds, and humans are biped, so I guess their weight is differently shared in their body, notably when they walk.
Assuming that, if one such person receives a wound in one form, it is placed in the equivalent of that... |
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I have a race of octopodes with the same intelligence distribution as humans. I want them to “colonise” land to a similar extent as we have “colonised” space; have regular transport between the ocean and land, and have a permanent settlement. Ideally there would also be some form of EVA suit, to enable t... |
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The animal in question starts off with reptile like intelligence, classic gecko and is a singularity, the only individual of his species to be immortal.
It can die and be killed but for the sake of the question we exclude that. Degradation by oxidation, mutation, cancers, viruses don't happen.
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I have humans who live in a world filled with floating islands. These islands span all heights in the planet: from the core to the upper atmosphere. The problem I have is that most of these islands are too small to have an internal water cycle. **Is there a way to provide the people with a reliable sourc... |
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**Literature Review**
[Pokolpok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame) is the Mayan term for an ancient ball game that was played throughout Mesoamerica in antiquity. While much about the game (even the rules) has been lost to time, archaeologists have a loose consensus regarding the follo... |
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There is a bottleneck towards Strong AI in my universe. For whatever reason, no one has ever figured out an AI that is sufficiently autonomous to be left alone without intervention, and no one has figured out how to execute an uploaded copy of a human mind *in silico*. For deep space voyage, a Weak AI th... |
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Fantastic universe, but not necessarily magic involved in the process. You face a guy who has a shield (tower shield or not). You do not have a shield, but you are a better swordsman. How do you win?
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I have a sailing ship. It leaves port. As it goes away, it grows smaller and smaller. In our world, it eventually is hidden by the curvature of the Earth, such that the top mast stays visible longer. I want it to simply grow smaller and smaller and smaller, but (from the perspective of a human with a hum... |
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I have a tribe that is completely isolated from the outside world and there is a shaman that can see in 4 dimensions. He can identify disease before it manifests and is hailed as a god.
This 4th dimension would be purely **spatial**, he is not able to travel in time. He can only see in 4 dimensions.
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Humanity just disappears tomorrow, let's say it is like the Thanos-snap but it kills everyone. **How long until the last unambiguous evidence of our existence disappears? What was this last relic?**
The faint spectres of electromagnetic signals which will travel space forever, odd isotopes ratios and mat... |
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I am building a world with many deserts and swamps. So a simple question:
Are there any real world examples of where a desert and a swamp meet each other?
Deserts and swamps are vastly different types of terrain (one containing hardly any water and the other containing lots of water), so I would assume t... |
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Let's say that somehow, Earth suddenly acquired a computer with ridiculous speed.
This computer can run a program described in a language of your choice, which can be described by a readme file that comes with the device. This device can have the capability to generate true random numbers, and run any pr... |
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## Some Background
The government is very good at catching people. Even the few who can keep away from them are forced into a life of running. But there is a new threat that all of Earth's governments face together, Dave the Teleporter. He was born in southern Russia and ever since he learned he could te... |
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Handwaving the origin of one such place, imagine a universe where every part of space is filled fully and evenly with liquid water (at, say 1 degree Celsius). What would be the experience of a solid object in that universe?
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I've recently been replaying Skyrim (for about the fifth time now), and I've stumbled across something I thought would make for an interesting question.
The [Greybeards](http://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Greybeards) are a group of extremely powerful, isolated mages who live on top of a remote mountain. When... |
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There are many weapons that appear in fantasy that are unrealistic for use in combat, from Cloud's sword in Final Fantasy to Daedric weaponry in Skyrim. One of these (less-than-realistic, in this case,) weapons is the whip sword, a simple sword (i.e. a Katana, Gladius, etc.) that at the press of a button... |
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A tad bit late perhaps, but the creation of Gwent in The Witcher 3 PC RPG game has got me thinking: would a modern trading card game(hereafter referred to as TCG) like Magic: The Gathering be able to catch on and be commercially successful in the Early Renaissance period? If not, what do I have to change... |
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Let's say you have a culture which is pretty much like ours, except honesty is the highest virtue. In particular, being honest about something is *always* better than being dishonest, no matter the consequences.
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If inducing long-term comas was medically trivial and safe, and ignoring potential problems with muscle atrophy or bed sores or the like, would this come to be considered the only reasonable way to jail people? Or would "experienced imprisonment" continue to be the preferred route, even if it involved hi... |
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On Earth, nuclear weapons can wreak enormous damage to a country and for that reason, large-scale wars between nuclear powers don’t happen. But what would happen if humanity progressed just enough to the point where countries expanded into space? Now powerful countries have fleets of spaceships (not fant... |
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The world where the question spans over a 100 years between 1945 and 2045, the story beginning just at the end of WWII, and proceeding in such a way that never saw the end of the Cold War all the way to 2045 and is centred around it. Many spy movies feature "unrealistic" cool gadgets, and while designing... |
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In many stories, a mysterious indent in a wall acts as a lock to a secret vault full of ancient treasures. The way to unlock this archaic door? A strangely shaped stone. By placing it into the indent, the vault opens.
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Inspired by Frank Herbert's *Dune*:
Action Joe is kept prisoner in Doctor Evil's prison. Doctor Evil knows that Joe's escape is inevitable. So he decides to introduce **poison** to Joe's body. Joe gets his **antidote** in his daily food rations.
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## Premise
The premise is an adept modern chemist is transported back in time and is to serve as the court alchemist to a wealthy prince in the late 16th century.
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Let's say I have a small village with 100 people of which everyone is able to work, what kind of professions do these people need?
Background to the society: they are as smart as medieval people, with an almighty god ruling them through a strict religious code.
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Is this alternate history I came up with plausible? What holes does it have?
Are some events very unlikely to happen, even impossible? Should I change some dates of some events?
Most of my knowledge is in Science, not in History.
Note that this would be in a history timeline of a wikipedia-like website.
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I have a character who has a super power that gives them what can be best described as perfect pheromones, and when in their presence, anyone will volunteer for anything they want. (Eg in existing fiction: [Lucius Lavin](https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Lucius_Lavin))
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## The Story
The year is 2027, [singularity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity) happened. A [powerful AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence) (let's call it Eve) was created. In a matter of days, it escaped the control of its creators and hacked all the co... |
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### Context
It's the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great has just passed away and his empire has been divided amongst his generals. Now the successor states of Egypt, the Seleucid Empire, Macedonia, Bactria and others have inherited his legacy and stand on strong military grounds.
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On Earth today, even though most people speak some English, there is seemingly no reason to believe that future generation's main language will be the same in decades/centuries to come (i.e., we'll keep having different native languages and learn a common language later on in life).
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Let's say you wanted to preserve some electronics for 500 years or more in a museum. What could you do to preserve them in working order for hundreds of years? Deep freeze? Lead lined vaults? Vacuum? I've seen questions about how long electronics would last left unattended, but not how to proactively pro... |
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Or, phrased another way, how thick would the blade behind the cutting edge need to be in order to cause significant and lasting damage to a human body?
My question can be considered an expansion of [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/19249/what-is-the-amputationility-of-a-mo... |
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Consider a world in which time travel has been made viable possibility. Initially, many are ecstatic at the new technology and the knowledge it will unlock. However, biologists and other scientists soon come forward to warn about time travel.
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Let's assume for a moment that humans developed telepathy as part of our divergence from apes and becoming bipedal. Like intelligence, that evolutionary trait was powerful, leading to it quickly becoming ubiquitous.
The telepathy works like your brain. You have ideas, concepts, feelings, but you can "hea... |
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Fictional worlds, usually ones set in the future, often depict planets with a single worldwide government. (In fact, it's such a common trope that one *Babylon 5* episode made a point of saying "hey, Earth isn't like all you other guys" in that way.) Living here on Earth, I have trouble seeing how we cou... |
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In a world of cyborgs, it seems pretty likely that many people will have some number of nanobots in their blood, completing tasks such as clearing away blockages, monitoring health, and boosting the immune system. However, what I'm wondering is how many little robots you can put into your bloodstream bef... |
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**The Details:**
The human body is capable of impressive acts of self-repair, but such processes take a lot of time, and can take a toll on the body. Infection or other complications can also develop, and sometimes a wound/inflammation may not heal entirely or correctly without external help. We see su... |
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In [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/10901/75), I asked about a universe with (amongst other things) 4 large spatial dimensions.
In 3 dimensions, we have the familiar [periodic table](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table) with its familiar arrangement of atoms in the S, P, ... |
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Go to the kitchen, open your baking utensils and make yourself a tinfoil hat. Put it on your head before continuing to read this question. Done? Ok:
Let's have an alternate Earth where [The Illuminati](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)#Illuminati) exist and dictate the mai... |
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Modern era western company, with plenty of combat experience in Iraq & Afghanistan, is magically transported from East Syria into the newly founded kingdom of Jerusalem, right after the first crusade. Their clothes, weapons & equipment are replaced with age appropriate items, such as swords, spears, hors... |
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It is the mid 22nd century A.D. Twenty men and women signed on a ten year space exploration trip to the nearest star system. There are robots to do ship maintenance and a powerful A.I. to monitor the antimatter containment shield around the clock.
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Imagine you have a large, powerful nation. Let's say about 320 million well-educated citizens, occupying the largest part of a rich, fertile continent. It's the richest country on the planet.
For my story, I need it to be utterly dysfunctional. **Why would it consistently fail at most of its infrastructu... |
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Necessary background info: So I made a hard(ish, there is FTL but it's fairly restricted and that's about it in terms of scientific implausibility) science fiction worldbuild. There is the "Oval", a small region of space where there is a higher concentration of habitable worlds and alien civilizations. T... |
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**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.
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Across countless worlds, the concept of the "burial hall" is an oft-used construct for adventurers to cut their teeth. These locations are often teeming with the animated dead or other necromantic entities. They also serve as an excellent place to tell gripping tales, put characters in danger, and simila... |
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The dragons are the size of a double-decker bus with a long wingspan of over 100 meters, despite their muscular build they lack both endurance and stamina so more often than not they would simply ambush their prey. Thanks to the overgrowth of moss and the high humidity all year round, their scales can ea... |
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In most sci-fi (graphic) novels and films, they often depict the design of the cockpit or captain's bridge in a rather unusual way. A smaller ship such as a fighter or a transport ship usually comes with a bridge near the nose of the spacecraft, while a larger ship such as a battleship or destroyer comes... |
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In this world wandwavium machines fly around with glee.
But, between one flying island and another, there is no ground.
Beneath your flying machine the air only gets denser, and denser, until eventually there are only poisonous and caustic gasses.
If things go south in the air and you find yourself face ... |
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Traffic lights are mechanisms that control the usage of intersections. I'd like to perform a thought experiment for an alternative mechanism. The basic idea is that the intersection is a shared resource. Therefore, if some people are using it, they need to compensate the people who are prohibited from us... |
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What kind of destruction would it cause? I’m assuming it’d be rather significant, could it shatter a tectonic plate? The crust? How would the oceans fare? Would the planet be able to catch the projectile? Could any life survive the event?
And if you’re able to stand another question, how immediately not... |
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I have a group of eco-terrorists who want to limit the amount of $CO\_{2}$ the world puts out drastically: by poisoning oil fields so that the oil becomes unuseable, or at least forever uneconomical to pump up.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet thought of a way to do this, not even with unrealistic wealth and... |
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This question was inspired by [this one](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/118125/is-it-possible-to-create-a-practical-sword-thats-naturally-toxic), which brought up the concept that a lot of the issues with a sword that created toxic fumes would also kill the user (that question also has... |
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We are living on this big lump of rock called the Earth, drifting ever so continuously through space.
Now imagine a tiny but immovable object in space, a single atom of 'unexplanium', locked in space-time (relative to our universe or whatever you need). It will not move, bulge or transform; it's just the... |
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### Dear Abby,
My mother-in-law moved away last October. Before then, she was very, uh, involved in my and my spouse's life, so I was if not exactly looking forward to her departure or demise (perish the thought!) at the very least feeling ready for the next, more independent stage of my life.
I should h... |
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In the answers to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/66139/28) I learned that some cephalopods communicate via [color](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence#Communication):
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Following in the steps of the entrepreneur Elon Musk who created SpaceX (which creates rockets to get to space), an entrepreneur decides to build a space station for visitors.
But instead of just a floating hotel above Earth, the entrepreneur wants it to be under a separate country so that he/she can dec... |
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On a planet similar to Earth, there is a society similar in technology to the society of ancient Greece. They believe in a single, all-powerful deity. This deity performs miracles on a regular basis. These are the common ones:
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The sun inexplicably ceases to give light. It's still there and continues to have a gravitational pull keeping us in orbit. The solar system continues to operate as normal, but the sun has gone dark and ceases to provide us with light or energy.
Could humans, with sufficiently advanced technology, find a... |
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I posted this question: [How would the United States survive and adapt in the decades following a Yellowstone eruption? What things would need to change as the world recovers?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/216987/how-would-the-united-states-survive-and-adapt-in-the-decades-following-... |
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The title is pretty self-explanatory. **How powerful does a computer have to be before it has the hardware capability to simulate and emulate a human mind in real-time?**
I'm leaving the question of the software needed for later, but feel free to address it if it's a vital part of the answer.
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This is a **social engineering** method.
The government takes background checks very seriously. A person's **moral standing** is not only determined by the actions of the person themselves, but also by his/her relatives (parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts/uncles, etc.) If one family member screws up,... |
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For my story I need a data storage device that will be reasonably familiar to adult readers. My character will have obtained this device and know that vital information is stored on it, but not necessarily in what form. It needs to be obsolete so can't just be plugged into any handy laptop or PC, in fact... |
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It is a well known fact that if aliens invaded, it would be our puny kill-one-person-then-reload-for-half-a-second-or-more-firearms against their super-cool-ultra-mega-thingy-laser-mumble-quantum-force-unobtanium-whatever-ray-guns.
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In the game "Stelaris" torpedoes and missiles are different categories of weapon. Presumably they wanted to include numerous kinds of weapons for the player to chose from. These weapons are all launched from spaceships in deep space. (They only ever travel through a vacuum; never through air or water.)
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In a society where government-issued currency (most current countries) is used, could the government fund itself by printing money to use instead of taxing its citizens?
Would this work?
If so:
How would this affect the faith in the currency system?
Which class would be relatively taxed the most?
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The world is full of grinches. Party-poopers who simply insist on taking the fun away from everybody else. They'll do everything they can to stop Santa from delivering his gifts — and too many of them work in militaries across the world.
What's amazing is that Santa is a really nice guy! He doesn't want ... |
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In the story I am writing has a person, let's call him John Doe, who has been transported to an alternate reality/parallel universe. This world is very magic dependent (he doesn't know this yet of course). This includes - but is not limited to - farming, cooking, logistics, war and construction, or anyth... |
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Firstly, I'm not looking for an organism that gives birth to two separate species (like a human that gave birth to a human baby and a puppy) as I'm fairly sure that is impossible (though feel free to correct me if there is any example of that).
What I'm thinking is a symbiotic pairing that utilise the sa... |
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So, the world experienced an apocalypse about 150 years ago. Sad times. Me and a couple buddies are the the salvaging business, and hello, recently we found a jackpot, an untouched military base. When we tried to raid it though....
The security measures are still capable of keeping us out. My question is... |
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The idea is that a number of satellites have been deployed throughout the galaxy and ships use them to plot their FTL jumps. If that's the case, the thought occurs to me that someone could try and destroy one if they wanted to cut off a particular section of the galaxy. I thought of something like a "Fre... |
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This is a classic of fantasy/sci-fi stories. A creature with two heads, two brains, two distinct personalities, sharing a single body. An entire race of Siamese twins. But the question is, what environment or constraints would cause this adaptation to come about? What would be the evolutionary advantage ... |
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My world is similar to our daily world except that fully immersive virtual reality is already well-developed. The virtual reality is built by scanning real environment. The system was first used to do scientific research on military to test how weapons perform in different environments.
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Animals on Earth have 2 or 4 legs they use for walking. On another world, however, animals have 3. I want to know how these animals will walk. How will their legs be placed and how will they move them to walk? For instance, maybe they would have 2 legs in front and one in the back, 1 in front and 2 in th... |
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In [my answer to another question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/139415/627), I suggested that the Super-Earth in question be tidally locked to its host star for a period of time while part of its surface experienced a bombardment. After that's finished, however, I'd want the planet to rotate... |
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So basically, battleships are awesome. I am interested in creating a setting where they were never superseded in their role of long-range command vessels and fire support by aircraft carriers, preferably without eliminating CVs entirely. But I am unsure how technology and/or military doctrines would have... |
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The Phoenix appears in Greek mythology and are most commonly seen as beautiful golden birds that burst into flame and are reborn from the ashes. Is there a realistic way that they could evolve? Using earth or near earth biology how close could I get to the classic [Phoenix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... |
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We've had a few questions where answers state, to a lesser or greater degree, "humans would investigate this ability to figure out how it works" in another creature with abilities not readily scientifically explainable and in-universe explained by magic - for example [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexc... |
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As it's that time of year I thought I'd do a Christmas themed question that is a big problem for the old man up north; Why don't the elves rise up and kill Santa?
First let us consider the horrible conditions elves are forced to work in;
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When the USSR [broke up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union) into fifteen [independent states](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states), it's well known that Russia inherited the nuclear arsenal of the dissolving state. I don't know exactly how this was decided: if it ... |
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Assume there's a spaceship in earth orbit that its crew of 24 want to get to Mars, the crew are all humans and possess all of modern day knowledge and equipment, **is it possible for said ship to make the (one way journey) without any electricity while the crew get there alive?**
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Had a dream that I was the size of an ant and I was being chased by spiders and other small horrors. I created a campfire and was able to scare off the insects. When I woke up I came up with a TTRPG campaign that is basically 'Honey I shrunk the Kids'. But when I thought about it I was ever wondering if ... |
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If humans colonize Mars how will the 2 societies (Mars inhabitants and Earth inhabitants) be able to synchronize and cooperate regarding time? Since:
* Martian days and years are different than the Earth's
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## Synopsis
For reasons unimportant to the question all divine/infernal beings and deities took a hiatus from interacting with the earth in the dark ages. For reasons equally obscure they are back and busier than ever. Law enforcement, corrections, mental health staff, and the US legal system now must de... |
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A pacifist pyrokinetic in my story is accosted by several armed men. They have handguns, but they are currently holstered and do not have rounds in their chambers (*these nameless thugs are all about firearms safety*). The pyrokinetic's ability is pretty minor (*limited to creating small sparks*).
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Over time separate countries have adopted common currencies, and a world can be imagined where a planet has a single currency. However, in building a world spanning a multiplanet system (several inhabited planets plus asteroid settlements and moon colonies around the gas giants), I would like to have a s... |
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Let's focus specifically on the devolution of empires. How is it that something so powerful falls?
The collapse of Rome, Byzantium, the Han, the Mayans and so on. What similarities can be seen in the fall of these great empires? Whether natural events, social trends, or technological advancements. Also, ... |
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I have a planet orbiting one star in a binary system. When the planet is exactly between the two stars it will experience a [double day](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/25203/28); when the primary sun sets the secondary one rises, no overlap. (My second star sheds enough light to make a differe... |
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In the Norse prophesy of [Ragnarok](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k), Fenrir eats the sun. Considering the Earth is not immediately consumed by a supernova, it must be assumed that he swallows it whole and it just ceases to exist on the material plane. (Taking its gravity and solar energy with... |
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For example, a quote from one of the Witcher 3: Blood and Wine's side quests says
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Have you ever seen a fat Elf?
I haven't, and I think there's an unexpected reason.
You see, Elves aren't really the best workers or at least working the land and cultivating food is not something they do. There isn't such thing as Bob the elf farmer with 14 children which he forces to work on the farm.... |
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The scenario described below is for a role-playing game. The setting is Earth-like but with a healthy dose of sci-fi. Even though the setting is sci-fi I would prefer answers be largely based in real science (no un-obtainium based answers).
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In my medieval world, population A and population B have not had any contacts for thousands of years. But pressing events will make them look for each other.
However when they meet... how are they going to understand each other?
I assume that:
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I fear this may be too broad, but I am looking for reasons earthborn humans would be considered inferior to those born on various space colonies. For example, it is important to reference the distinction when introducing oneself (I am AG Weyland, Earthborn, or I am AG Weyland, Starborn) to reinforce one'... |
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What restrictions this planet must have to make it possible?
Planet can have any size, be made of any material
A human must be able to land in it and observe it, dust added to the planet from the human's clothes or equipment may compromise the no-dust characteristic of the planet but it must be dust-less... |
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Following on from my previous utopia-based question ([Could compulsory experience-sharing make a utopia actually work?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/90928/could-compulsory-experience-sharing-make-a-utopia-actually-work)), I'm wondering whether a website could ever be a utopia.
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It lots of fictional settings and worlds, 'rogues' and other skilled martial fighters are constantly throwing knives and daggers at people. Furthermore, assassins/rogues are often pictured as having a ridiculous amount of knives on their bodies and it's a trope that they never run out ("you can never hav... |
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