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I'm currently creating a world with a population of about 4.5 billion people and 21st century technology. In fact, the world is strikingly similar to ours. Oh, except the islands that is. The *entire* world (except the poles due to ice build up) is separated into archipelagos with anywhere between 10-30 ... |
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After seeing the film Oblivion I began wondering about what would happen if the Moon was fractured in such a way that large chunks of the Moon were ripped apart.
Would the chunks of Moon stay in orbit around the Earth, or would they drift off into space?
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Allright, what i'm asking is how life would be like on Earth (which pretends Earth could develop life in the "short" life of a blue giant) if we had two blue giants in the sky instead of the Sun?
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[Blue supergiants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_supergiant) are massive. Really, *really* m... |
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Considering that the oceans are rising (and that humans don't seem too keen on doing anything about it) and that population is growing exponentially, is it plausible to imagine that in a not too distant future, cities will expand underwater?
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A modern day Earth nation is at war with another. That other nation is extremely advanced
but they are also pacifists. Instead of killing peoples their gun rounds and shells have the effect of wormholes and teleport peoples to a distant planet 2000 light-years away as prisoners of war. The prisoners are ... |
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I have been designing a planet with an atmosphere of about:
* Nitrogen (N2) - 61.5%
* Oxygen (O2) - 21%
* Neon (Ne) - 15.5%
* Xenon (Xe) - 1%
* Water Vapor (H2O) - 0.5%
* Argon (Ar) - 0.479%
* Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - 0.02%
* Trace - the rest
The atmospheric pressure is 0.98 atm.
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While we hear a lot about rotating habitats as a space structure, I happen to know there are a large number of small worlds and moons out there cursed with low gravity, which has a similar effect to microgravity on the human form. So, I was wondering this: could a centrifuge work to create Earth-like “gr... |
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I'll give you a bit of context and understanding. What's happened is that two people are investigating a scientist who was believed to be involved in suspicious practices and they end up discovering that he's a "mad scientist".
Said scientist eventually traps the two and manages to send them back to a ti... |
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Preface: I am new to the forum so apologies if everything is not in the exact required format.
I know that the higher above sea level you go the atmospheric pressure decreases and the inverse is true when you go below sea level. I have looked for answers for my specific imagined scenario but cannot find ... |
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I've read a lot of harem stories, and they often have things set up to make harems even more likely, such as skewed gender ratios, eliminating jealousy, religious support and such.
I am writing a story where the opposite is true, where a god is making a world where polyamory is strongly discouraged. But ... |
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Background:
It is approximately 100 years in the future. A base has been set up on the Moon and further settlement is ongoing (total population ~1000). The first interplanetary research base has recently been established on Mars, following the discovery of subsurface life by a previous expedition. Howeve... |
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Currently, there are two systems for exoskeletons to move with. Soft exoskeletons that utilize [Soft Robotics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_robotics) and Hard exoskeletons that use electric motors, pneumatics, levers and hydraulics typically mounted onto a metal frame.
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I have another all-female species in my world, and it's Lamia; women from the waist up, snake from the waist down. Sort of like mermaids, but more commonly encountered by humans, as they live in forests, deserts, swamps, grasslands, and even caves (each environment has its own subspecies.)
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Background: this universe has the same physics as our universe. The planet is the same as Earth.
I've drawn out the map of a singular continent and it has all the political modern day boundaries established. How can I work backwards from that to form other continents, tectonic movement, and geographic fe... |
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Hugo Chavez [said](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-usa-cancer-idUSTRE7BR14I20111229) regarding his cancer:
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I am a hydromancer. My magical prowess grants me two abilities:
* I can breathe underwater (magically)
* I can instantly summon a sphere of pure fresh water centered on myself that's up to 50 meters in diameter if I really go all-out (this will leave me very exhausted). Any water I summon starts with zer... |
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In the story I'm writing, there is a global civilization of marine life that's parallel to human civilization on land, however in its world, humans have little-to-no knowledge of the underwater civilization, while the underwater civilization knows about humans and actively tries to stay out of detection ... |
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A common theme in media is that an alien lifeform comes to Earth by clinging to a meteor that was once part of the alien's homeworld. Usually, these aliens are either bacteria, viruses, or germs, creatures that are very tough and can survive the extreme heat of a meteor entering a planet's atmosphere.
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In a world I am writing, there is a species with a super-expansible stomach called ogre (their scientific name is *Homo corpulentus*) (*Homo corpulentus* means "corpulent human", so they are humans, just not *Homo sapiens*). They look a little bit like *Shrek* ogres (formerly, they were a cannibalistic r... |
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I would like a planet with Earth-breathable atmosphere, but I would like some substance at the top layer that acts like a one-way mirror: from the ground, people can look up and see the stars, moon, sun, etc, but a ship in orbit would see only an opaque sphere when on the sun-lit side. Is there any chemi... |
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So I wanted my magic system to have spells based within different religions, each of which rooted in (but not limited to) the country of the race it corresponds too.
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*Dogfolk have their own spiritualist beliefs and spells that fit their style of worship to their deities, such as conjuring spiri... |
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Okay, so, I decided to give both dragons and tengu a rather complex [syrinx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrinx_(bird_anatomy)), allowing them to mimic human speech, chainsaws, cameras shutters, ringtones, and copyrighted music with ease.
Lizardfolk, however, don't really have that luxury. They have si... |
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I was wondering what the best ways for turning minerals mined in the asteroid belt into useable materials would be, so far I came up with three methods, utilizing nuclear, electromagnets, and finally using light from the sun to heat whatever it is I wanted up. Mainly, are those three acceptable choices, ... |
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Ecosystems like the african savanna have lots of megafauna which to some extent compete with each other for the same prey/vegetation, but still coexist just fine.
So how do I construct similarly diverse terrestrial ecosystems, while ensuring I don't have too many large carnivores, or any megafauna specie... |
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In my eternal quest to model a decently-realistic sci-fi space combat system, I've run through the limitations of particle weapons, magnetic accelerator cannons, and fusion rockets. Now it's time to tackle the humble laser.
It's been my assumption that a laser would be an effective weapon at short enough... |
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I've been looking at the altitude boosted SSTO designs from the 90s that were designed to be lifted to launch altitude by modified jetliners and thinking about bumblebees and wondering if [bioships](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioship) used for surface-to-orbit cargo transfers could make use of insecti... |
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I'm creating humanoid specie with two subspecies
* Hairy races - roughly based on humans, [chiss, mirialans](https://swtor.gamepedia.com/Playable_Species), with standard males & females sexes
* Tentacle races- roughly based on asari, twilek, togruta hermaphrodites with sex organs like [futanari](https://... |
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Assume that modern day Earth discovers a way to create portals to another planet. Travel between the two planets is fast, safe, and easy.
The way this works is that there are fixed points on earth that corresponds to fixed points on this other planet (dubbed alterearth) where, if one builds a stargate-li... |
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Alright, so I've been meaning to write out a planet with golden/yellow fields and a violet / purple ocean.
What I was thinking about is having the water of this world is so clean and nourishing that its very color is violet, as a sort of representation of its alkaline nature. I was thinking a possible ex... |
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In my world, 500 years in the future, my population fits anti-gravity engines to salvaged boats as a form of transport. These transports fly close to the Earth's surface and are powered by a highly efficient solar panel system rigged as sails.
I'm struggling to come up with a design to propel the boats a... |
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A habitable (human could survive in its atmosphere without suits) desert planet which used to have large oceans is quite common in ScFi. I was thinking about the processes which could have been responsible for the loss of water.
I want to leave biological processes—like sandworms from *Dune*, out. Likewi... |
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Can we go from this:
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Suppose over millennia (or as long as it takes) humans on E... |
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I remember playing this game back in 2010-2011, and In minecraft if you found a waterfall you could actually swim it up vertically, it was difficult but possible.
Does this apply to real life to, could a human being with muscles big enough actually swim up on falling water?
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I've been thinking about doing something involving bubbles of stopped ([already answered here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/44790/how-would-stopped-time-look-from-the-outside)), slowed down or sped up time.
What would that look like for different speeds?
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I'm looking into magic systems for my fantasy world, and among other things, I want to make sure that I have the effects right.
One such magic system allows the user to create a small 'bubble' of space nearby. All objects within this bubble (including the ground and air) have their mass reduced or incre... |
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So, I am working on a species called the Vosians, who hail from the planet Vos. They are a species of eusocial insectoids, much like Earth ants.
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The Vosians are about 3 feet tall, or 0.9 meters. The average weight for an adult is 90 lbs, though the queen can be 7 feet tall, and weight 600 l... |
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This is a (crude) map of my world of Lorne in the current age. At the point of development I'm in, I'm trying to get the climates/biomes of some of the lands I've envisioned to work out as best as they can... |
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In the future, space travel is common, so common, in fact, that commercial transport is available to most people, like air travel is to us.
As a passenger on a vessel of Galactic Spacelines, half way to your destination, you hear this announcement:
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A few related questions here. The level of technology is that of humans capable of solar system exploration and colonization, with sub-light drives for long journeys within the solar system and nuclear-powered rockets for short range flight. Weapons are limited to missiles, light lasers and maybe rail gu... |
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Recently, looking for information for worldbuilding purposes of my story, I found a post about how in a more oxygen rich atmosphere, the oxidation processes would take place more quickly.
Subsequently, I asked a question where they denied this information and let me know that the proportion of oxygen in ... |
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I have a fantasy city where the respectable areas are literally built on top of the slums - essentially, it's on a series of bridges or pillars, with lots of forgotten crawlspaces and hideyholes for my characters to exploit. I know this is, on its own, viable, if somewhat heightened from reality - Edinbu... |
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Our colony has landed on a planet which is a complete barren desert wasteland, the surface as dead as the moon but also extremely cold, being quite far from the local star. We have settled at the only source of heat - a very deep crater with a hot geothermal spring at the bottom.
There is water in this s... |
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In my Sci-Fi universe, I want humans to, initially, have two traits to their spaceship building:
1. Really good drive systems, at least compared to other races.
2. Complete and utter lack of any sci-fi "Deflectors"
From everything I know, this leads to a ship needing a heavily armored prow to withstand a... |
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### So aliens have arrived in the solar system.
* They have [faster-than-light travel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light) technology and the ability to handwave away the supposed [causality violations that such an invention causes](http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/07/q-how-does-instant... |
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Did you know that i.e. were short for *id est*? And etc. meant *et cetera*?
These are relics of the Roman occupation of Europe, as far as I know. The Latin expression remained in the academic dialect for some time after the collapse of the Roman Empire, mostly because it is a characterizing feature of th... |
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I want to incorporate hot air balloons as a means of common travel in my fantasy world, but I recognize that hot air balloons aren't really "propel-able". My question is, how would someone hypothetically operate a small airship or zeppelin type of structure in a fantasy world? I'm looking more for answer... |
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Imagine a space battle between two warships **without inertial dampeners**. Obviously the ships would be limited to perhaps 4 gravities of prolonged acceleration, and could only perform short bursts of movement at higher accelerations, since the human body is a fragile thing. Even so, the forces involved... |
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In the vast army of famous swordsmen, there's someone who's very well known for a certain community, and completely unheard for the rest.
He's **Roronoa Zoro**, from the anime One Piece.
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Inspired by [Would a full body diamond armor and sword guarantee survival and victory against a medieval battalion?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/54324/would-a-full-body-diamond-armor-and-sword-guarantee-survival-and-victory-against) and my question [What would iron-age tools and wea... |
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Purely hypothetical question here. Would it be feasibly possible to have a planet entirely covered in a dense network of interlocking trees?
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The idea is that the trees themselves act as the 'crust... |
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In my world of the zombie apocalypse, the zombies are slightly easier to kill, meaning that if a group keeps calm and stays strong, they can last as long as the food does. But this means I have to plan ahead to figure out how long food will last (not including looting) in the following scenarios.
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A common feature in fantasy are half-human creatures such as centaurs, satyrs and merpeople. As much as the worldbuilding community wants these to be real, the evolution and anatomy don't match.
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On a planet not too different from Earth, in a land quite similar technologically to ancient Rome, there is a dynasty of absolute monarchs that have remained in power for centuries. They enjoyed periods of prosperity, peace, and popularity, but within the past fifty years or so, discontent has arisen as ... |
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I am wondering what are some of the major concerns/designs an intelligent flying species would have in designing a starship? Generally we consider space to be a premium and crew living space is almost an afterthought. I think Creatures with flight might have a lot more trouble with wings that would have ... |
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Most of people knowing a bit about AI know the concept of paper-clipper, an AI that was meant to produce more paperclips and eventually turn the entire universe into paperclips at maximum efficiency, first obliterating the humanity as an obstacle in that goal (resisting having their world turned into pap... |
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Somewhat related to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9772/the-golden-horde), now that we've established how useless gold is as anything (wow I was such an idiot), what about crystals? For instance, something like the diamond armor from Minecraft.
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A frog has already been levitated without any magnetic object attached to it. I'm wondering if it's possible to reverse this for transportation purposes, by having a vehicle levitate itself using magnetism, without the usual magnetic track. I.e., is it theoretically reasonable to make some sort of vehicl... |
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Somewhat inspired by this question : [Could a civilization as advanced as humans exist on a planet/dwarf planet like Pluto?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/4795/could-a-humanoid-civilization-exist-on-a-planet-dwarf-planet-like-pluto)
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Humanity is facing some pretty scary possible futures. Income inequality could lead to a permanent state of poverty for the vast majority of people. Resource depletion, coupled with inadequate investment in alternative energy sources, could lead to reduced availability of technology. Climate change could... |
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I have a fantasy world I'm making, with a planet and sun similar to our world, except the length of the seasons are significantly longer. Each of the seasons last two years, and the full seasonal cycle lasts eight years. Here's what I thought could explain it:
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This is a follow up to this question. [Dimensions of an O'Neill cylinder with gravity and coriolis force like surface of Earth](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/130863/dimensions-of-an-oneill-cylinder-with-gravity-and-coriolis-force-like-surface-o)
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**Is a biological tourniquet plausible and in what scenario would a creature evolve this?**
I got an idea for an organism that evolved biological tourniquets.
The way it works is that they are basically ring muscles around blood veins that prevent blood loss; it is a mechanism that only activates when th... |
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I'm writing a story where one of the main races is orca (killer whale) mer-folk. Being orcas need to breath oxygen from the surface so do they, this said they live in a halfly submerged cave...but it's a cave how do they see? I need a light source.
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I want to know is there a recreational drug that specifically affect reptiles, either natural or man made chemicals. Humans and if possible other animals species should not be affected by it even if they use or eat it, for example something like catnip or silver vine for cat.
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My idea involves an alien spaceship inside a roughly Earth to Mars sized/massed planet, but the whole planet is displaced when the drive is activated. If you wanted to travel back to our solar system but didn't want to destroy Earth or send it out of orbit, is there a temporary orbital path that wouldn't... |
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A large star makes a relatively close approach to a solar system like our own and the orbits of many of the planets are badly perturbed. A planet similar to Earth is in the wrong place at the wrong time and receives a particularly strong gravitational pull from the passing star that flin... |
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What possible evolutionary reasons would there be for insects to increase their physical size over a long period? What benefits would be gained by an insect being *larger*? For example, say ants increases in size from today's size to the size of a football.
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Newborn humans are born in a very undeveloped stage compared to other mammals. This is because if they stayed any longer in the mother, their head would become too big to fit through the birth canal. However, the advent of artificial womb technology has brought many changes to human development. As well ... |
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My world is medieval-ish in terms of technology level. While there is magic, it's not at all enchantment-like so any armor should be able to be naturally produced.
In this world is a humanoid snake race. So they mostly have the body of snake, but with arms. They also have a frill like that of a frilled ... |
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The time... a few years from now. On the laser-launch pad of one of the spacefaring nations of Earth, a spacecraft stands, the time until its launch counting down steadily. The launch vehicle weighs 1300 tons but on top there is only a satellite. A *big* satellite, weighing in at 100 metric tons.
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This is something of a practical question more than anything else. Consider a setting in the modern world, where a large country e.g. the U.S. has collapsed and been replaced by a sort of modernized version of a feudal monarchy. Let's call it "federal monarchy". In this new Kingdom of America, the benevo... |
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With the setting and criteria provided below, how would a country make an artificial winter that targets the North American Continent?
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The story that will use this artificial winter is set in the following setting:
* Alternate universe that mirrors our own.
* The year is 2025, and science, te... |
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I'm writing a tale about a post apocalyptic world. I'm studying the timeline about the world history, I've planned that, using "clean" thermonuclear bombs, radioactivity should be quite lower after less than one year after the "day zero". Is that realistic enough? considering that real shelter and improv... |
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I'm working on creating a realistic species of giant humans. I've changed the proportions, such as creating elephant like feet and muscular pillar-like legs to support the weight. They also possess a reinforced neck and thick skull to protect the head from fall damage. Average height is about 15 feet. Av... |
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In my world, people have powers based on the four fundamental forces.
One of my characters can generate spontaneous gravity to crush his opponents. He's also resistant to his own power (so I ignore his own mass).
I want to create a twist where he breaks his limit and generates a black hole. How many "g" ... |
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On a continent similar to modern-day Europe with a temperate climate, 90% of the continent's flat and hilly land was once covered by native forest. Human activity has reduced that to 10%.
A relatively sudden event (such as plague, famine, or a massive exodus) removes most humans from the area, causing hu... |
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If some kind of insane wizard began a ritual that would turn the inner core of the earth into gold, what would happen?
Over the course of 15 days, the entirety of the core will become gold.
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For us earthlings, the concept of "year" came from the observation that the Sun reaches a minimum and a maximum span in the rise-set path in the sky.
On a planet experiencing extreme perihelion precession (about 30 degrees) is there any recurring astronomical event which can mark the end of a year for t... |
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Sort-of sequel to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/95143/could-a-jungle-dwarf-tame-a-jaguar).
In that question, I asked about the feisability of domesticating a jaguar with the end goal of making a ridable mount. One good point that was mentioned was that a cat is not exa... |
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Like an idiot, I made a medieval-inspired setting without magic, and now a significant plot point means that I need a healer to diagnose rapidly increasing levels of lead in the queen's body without the benefit of modern medical techniques or magical help. They already know that lead is what they need to... |
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Could a solar flare be coaxed from a star with a magnetic weapon, possibly by manipulating [magnetic reconnection](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/solarsystem/2006_mag_recon.html)? Could the resulting flare be aimed at a planet (or space fleet) with any accuracy?
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There are a number of animals that can change color in a short time, like some chameleons and octopuses.
Is there any reasonable way for a color-changing mammal to evolve naturally?
I'm looking to end up with a mammal that can change its color in a matter of minutes, not months. This mammal would use its... |
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I am writting a novel ( in a world where magic exists, and is evolving every second )
A lucky guy, found the notes of an ancient artificer on a training artifact. The artifact was very easy to make and with him straining the relationships he had with every single person, and visiting many artificers for ... |
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Looking for someone with meteorology/physics knowledge to help with this one.
Let's say I've got an island that floats in the sky--nothing special, these are a staple of fantasy these days. For argument's sake lets put it at a reasonable elevation of about 7,000 feet.
Now, this is going to put it right i... |
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Basically, in my novel, there is a magic power that involves creating portals that lengthen or shorten the distance between two places.
To make a portal, the user must first have a large amount of two things: "Sunlight", a form of energy that diffuses through all things, particularly Sunstones, and "Moon... |
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In this scenario, all the humans on earth have disappeared, except for Fred. Sure, Fred is sad that everyone that exists is dead but him, including his friends and family, but he doesn't let that get him down in the dumps. What did get the former PETA supporter, Fred, sad was all the zoo critters. So he ... |
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Imagine this situation:
One warm night of 1890, you go home from a pub. You pass a creepy house. In the half-open door, you see the outline of a machine. You go in, and open the lights. You see a big machine, exactly like those time machines you imagined of when you were small. You sit in it, pull the le... |
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Under what circumstances would a species develop an adaptation to employ surrogate wombs of their own species or others?
The species implants its zygotes/eggs in the uterus/brood pouch of a surrogate mother/father, of its own species or another, which gestates and births to the offspring.
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I found this twitter bot <https://twitter.com/unchartedatlas> posting maps that look like they came from a pulp fantasy novel.
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Any idea on how they are done?
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Watching *E.T.* I was wondering what evolutionary factors could cause a species to have the appearance of E.T., like the environment he would likely live in and the gravity of his homeworld.
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For what I'm working on, humans (some humans, anyway) develop the abilities to communicate telepathically, move things with thought, possible premonitions, *maybe* psychic projection (but that might be a little **too** far out for what I have planned) and I'm looking for an explanation to how these abili... |
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Humans show aggression by baring their teeth, dogs show aggression by growling and cats, by hissing. All groups of animal show aggression in a way that makes it clear to attackers that they are agitated. How do these aggression signs evolve? Is it random or does it have to do with evolutionary factors. L... |
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So we are in a world where magic is real. There has been a successful revolution against the king, and people try to build a democracy with elections. However there's a problem:
The magic guild (the only ones who are able to practice magic) is decidedly against democracy, and will do everything they can ... |
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So, I'd like to make a rendering of my world to see what it would look like from outer space. I have the map drawn up, and the various features (mostly) designed. Think about it like taking a series of orthographic drawings and turning them into a three-dimensional rendering.
I'd like the final rendering... |
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