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[Question] [ > > When the skies release a column of fire, the land around becomes a > barren place... > > > Can such phenomenon be explained with some rare, but "closely possible" circumstances? I don't think about lightnings/meteors here, rather about something lasting a bit longer (at least some hours). I tho...
[Question] [ Suppose there's a vault secured with a numeric code and a biometric sensor. What technologies and methods could be used to open the vault if a character isn't registered on the system? Here are a few biometric systems I'd be interested in seeing solutions to bypassing and some ideas I have already consid...
[Question] [ I am building a habitable, Earth like planet, but instead of it being in a solar system, it is inside a Nebula. The actual composition of the Nebula is uncertain at this point, but I am considering something like the Orion Nebula. Imagine if there was a vast cloud of gases, similar in composition to the ...
[Question] [ I am making a setting for a various TTRPGs that me and my friends want to play. I want this world to have longer seasons than earth. I was thinking about 3-4 earth years each season. This is difficult, as I know this would not work with our current solar system. I know that as you get further out from th...
[Question] [ In this universe contained self sustaining fusion has been achieved. As we know the fuel for fusion is most commonly isotopes of hydrogen, and helium is produced as a byproduct of that. Helium is, as far as im aware a worse fusion fuel. So my idea is that only rich can afford hydrogen for the best burnin...
[Question] [ A common trope in fiction involving things like magic or aliens is the concept of the "Masquerade", wherein the fantastic elements of the setting are kept secret from most of society. While the in-universe reasons for this vary, the main purpose of it as a writing tool is generally to make sure that the ...
[Question] [ There is a horse race happening in Hell. Hell is very rocky and prone to earthquakes, so the best place for the racetrack is on a river of molten lead. This makes for a flat course with obvious boundaries. The horses are 800kg robotic hell horses so they don't mind the heat of the lead. The jockeys are D...
[Question] [ My story has generally humanoid, human-sized creatures with insect-like exoskeletons. Assuming their joints and bone structure work as closely as possible to their internal-skeleton counterparts (and that lower gravity allows the exoskeleton not to collapse), would hand-to-hand fighting/fist-fighting hav...
[Question] [ Silverbloods are those whose blood gleam like polished silver when alive and are a dull grey when dead, an image of them bleeding being much like the spilling of mercury. They have the ability to willfully control their blood as if by telekinetic influence for as long as it or a mass of it remains in con...
[Question] [ I have designed an animal that lives on a low-gravity planet. It has bird-like digitigrade legs with raptor-like claws, similar to the image below, except with two wider toes instead of three in the front. [![A similar foot design to what I'm shooting for](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qaMHv.jpg)](https://i....
[Question] [ I was thinking about [Ozymandias](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias), and it struck me as a little weird that the head of the statue fell so close to the legs while the rest of the statue seemingly disintegrated into sand. Thinking a bit further about this led to a prompt which I ho...
[Question] [ > > The autonomic nervous system (ANS), formerly the vegetative nervous > system, is a division of the peripheral nervous system that supplies > smooth muscle and glands, and thus influences the function of internal > organs.[1] The autonomic nervous system is a control system that acts > largely uncons...
[Question] [ Okay, this is another question related to my drop mechanic, a question similar to [Wingjaw Steel: Superior Armor and Weaponry?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/195622/wingjaw-steel-superior-armor-and-weaponry) in that it concerns a monster's effect on items. You see, when a monster is k...
[Question] [ I am particularly interested in the case of feasibility to have all countries and all regions of our planet, the Earth, to have a unified Single Time Zone (say UTC). Suppose all countries and all governments agree to fix their time zone to UTC, so they just need to adjust their schedule. Questions are: 1...
[Question] [ Simply put, what I'm imagining would be something like a quarterstaff or bo staff, except with a rectangular flag attached at one end (it would take up half of the staff's length). These would be used in a similar way, however of course the user would need to hold the staff on one side, as opposed to str...
[Question] [ i want to make renaissance era armies that are large in size and able to travel far( without plundering for resources) but I'm running into a problem regarding how to feed them since there is no industrial farming or preservation. (to support large armies traveling far away from the homeland) some import...
[Question] [ I have some research that it needs a good space suit to protect you from heat and cold but I need more so, what does planet mercury need to sustain life for humans? what could we as humans do to have the things that mercury need to sustain life? [Answer] A scifi trope I've now seen more than once (KSR...
[Question] [ The basis for this question is the selected answer for [Plausibility of Mushroom Buildings](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/141173/plausibility-of-mushroom-buildings). Prototaxites and braket fungus are the likely candidates but I want to know if this type of fungis can float on water o...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. What...
[Question] [ What would it take to build helicopter blades that can fold in several parts? This is the continuation of [a question on Aviation](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/66267/are-there-any-helicopter-blades-that-fold-in-the-middle). Unfortunately, there have been no use case for this for existing ...
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[Question] [ I want to have a group of space colonists get stranded on a planet where the only way they can get enough nourishment is to gather or cultivate edible plants. [Answer] Sure. All land vertebrates descend from bony fish. If those (or other equivalent) never evolve in your world, and land animals depend...
[Question] [ In Steven Gould's Jumper series, the main character has the ability to teleport, and he eventually realizes he automatically does frame matching when doing so - no matter where on earth his origin and destination are, when he arrives, he is perpendicular to, and at rest in relation to, the ground. I'm wr...
[Question] [ Okay, so I'm working on a novel and I'd like to have a dense asteroid field, something akin to the old ESB Hoth field, though it doesn't need to match that exactly. The notion is there is an advanced civilization going into such a dense field to pull out desirable mine-able ores. I'm looking for a plausi...
[Question] [ In recent years, the search for the origins of life is becoming complex. It turns out that oxygen is NOT a requirement for multicellular life to thrive. As stated in [this BBC article](http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150112-did-snowball-earth-make-animals), poriferans (sponges) can thrive at oxygen leve...
[Question] [ This is part of the same world I am making that this question I once asked is set in: [How to evolve a reptile into a wyvern, 100 million years in the future?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/118788/how-to-evolve-a-reptile-into-a-wyvern-100-million-years-in-the-future) I might call the...
[Question] [ For backgrounds sake, let's say that there are large, and I mean *large* beings living underneath the icy surface of Europa. Now consider this excerpt from NASA's page on Europa: > > One of the most important measurements made by the Galileo mission showed how Jupiter's magnetic field was disrupted in ...
[Question] [ [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3g2R9.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3g2R9.jpg) [Here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfADU.jpg) is a map I just produced of the plate tectonics of a world I'm working on. Does anyone familiar with the subject see anything wrong with it? If you can d...
[Question] [ In our story's universe, a solar system is hand-crafted by a deity with seven smallish bodies working in a way that I can only describe as [Lagrangian Points](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point), where all planets have the same orbital path and rough mass and volume, but are separated by a se...
[Question] [ In multiple regions of Earth, cockroaches developed sentience by means of a natural virus with mutagenic genes. A long time ago one such colony made its home inside a house of a scientist. The colony has lived in that house ever since. The roaches are intelligent enough to understand/learn human language...
[Question] [ How powerful would a series of explosions have to be to significantly change a planet's axial tilt? In my universe they have highly energy efficient crystals, not only do they store energy but they also produce it, somewhat like quartz. These crystals also potentiate the power of any energetic reaction ...
[Question] [ Assume enough bombs have been dropped for there to be a nuclear winter which would impede the growing of crops and cause famine. Modern infrastructure in most major nations has collapsed, and all the combined deaths from the aftereffects (fallout, societal breakdown, and the aforementioned famine) are ex...
[Question] [ So I've created a map of a fictional world using the guidelines established in the [Creating a Realistic World Series](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2594/creating-a-realistic-world-series). However, like all creative endeavors, the first few (hundred) maps are not going to look p...
[Question] [ A bit of background on what I'm developing: I'm trying to develop a language for an alien race with completely different biology to humans. It's still in the very early stages, so the exact form is subject to change, but they won't be making sounds with their mouths, but still through their breathing app...
[Question] [ Humanity is often said to have 5 senses, but this isn't entirely accurate. This is one question of several in a series I am asking regarding going beyond the 5 senses. One of the senses is something I am just going to call "body sense" as a catch-all for these: > > Equilibrioception: The sense that allo...
[Question] [ I have left a link to the NASA video in case you are not to sure what I am referring to or to get a better picture of what I am talking about. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKFaAS30X8> With that in mind, I imagine that some of these planets if not all would be capable of having sentient life. **Que...
[Question] [ Not a duplicate of "[Overcoming language barrier; no speech](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/11265/overcoming-language-barrier-no-speech)" which confines answers to **nothing** that is clearly a form of communication; it focuses on translation, **not** physiology or evolution Not a dupl...
[Question] [ What would be the land requirement (in acres) for both farming and housing to sustain a society in this scenario: * Small city of 1000 humans living on an island * Medieval setting * Mostly self-sufficient * Trade ships with supplemental goods arrive weekly [Answer] Mostly self-sufficient medieval set...
[Question] [ I am imagining a temperate forested area with freshwater lakes, rivers, small mountains, and rolling grassy hills. This environment is situated within a very large explosion crater. Outside this crater is desert for miles in every direction. Under what conditions could such an environment develop and how...
[Question] [ So I thought up this alien parasite that enters through the mouth (usually of a predator) where it attaches to the throat and simultaneously takes control of the brain and replaces the esophagus of the victim. It basically sends the unfortunate host into a feeding frenzy, eating as much as possible, with...
[Question] [ My setting is a late Steampunk science-fantasy, the world's technology is beginning to cross into the Dieselpunk era. I have also played around quite a bit with nature of reality and technology in the setting to get things exactly the way that I want. The [aether is real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
[Question] [ Can a planet possess more than one ozone layer? Can multiple ozone layers cause more harm? If one ozone layer had a hole, would the other(s) act like a backup shield to harmful rays from a star? Assume the star is similar to the Sun and the planet is habitable. Thank you! [Answer] Yes, in fact **we ha...
[Question] [ Frankly speaking, I haven't come up with a design for my dragon; however, I want to design a dragon that can feast on the energy released from the constant bombardment of cosmic rays (either solar or interstellar high energy particles) with the air molecules in the Earth's atmosphere and discharge the st...
[Question] [ I need an advice about creating an independent city (a city state) in the middle of a desert (the stony kind of wasteland). I will scratch what I have in my mind so far and I would be glad to hear if this is a realistic scenario and how to make it as realistic as possible. My world is quite hot and aroun...
[Question] [ **The Background:** I am going to be asking a series of questions that will be relevant to forming some sort of a picture of human space commerce. Let's say that Earth-based human civilizations have discovered a series of ancient jump-gates that allow them to travel within a large and varied interstellar...
[Question] [ Is it possible that any life on earth could evolve to live off a liquid which is not water? Something like oil or some other natural liquid? [Answer] Water can be substituted with liquid [Ammonia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry#Ammonia) (NH3) which has many chemical p...
[Question] [ How would evolution have changed without the "[reflex arc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_arc)", if all reflexes had to go through the brain instead of the spinal cord? Would intelligent species be able to evolve? [Answer] There is no reason intelligence could not evolve under this situation. I ...
[Question] [ Imagine the Earth is sucked into a wormhole powerful enough to pull it out of it's current orbit. the ones who created the wormhole wanted to move earth to protect it however didn't want their actions/existence known to an underdeveloped earth. Assuming technological awareness on earth is today (2014), t...
[Question] [ Basically, my world includes both magical and scientific elements, but it leans more towards being scientifically explainable (even if it usually ends up being more pseudoscience). As such, I want to know how to explain the magic system I’ve developed under a pseudoscientific lens. Currently, the magic s...
[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. Fair...
[Question] [ A giant hole exists in the earth surrounded by a super material that can withstand the extreme temperatures and pressures from the crust to crust through the center core of the earth. It is perfectly straight. The material that keeps the hole open maintains an even cave temperature throughout. How would ...
[Question] [ I'm writing a short story that takes place many decades into the future. A major plot point is that a car that was promised to a future archaeologist via inheritance has naturaly eroded to the point that only a few scraps remain. The following are true. * The car was parked in a remote field in rural Okl...
[Question] [ The time-stream is the normal passage or flow of time and its historical developments, within a given dimension of reality. Elder gods are all-powerful beings that exist outside this reality within their own dimensional plane. As they are not subject to the traditional rules of time and space, they are a...
[Question] [ The world: sky nomads in solar-powered airships, roaming planet earth The technology level: 2030s or 2040s. The airships are similar to the IRL designs LCAT60T airship by Flying Whales, Airlander 10, and Aeroscraft made by Worldwide Aeros Corp. The question: how do they acquire food in the sky? You may b...
[Question] [ Are there any actions that humans do that could influence whether a magnetic flip (I believe the proper name is geomagnetic reversal) happens? Are there any ways humans could theoretically influence the planet's magnetic field in a significant way? (Intentionally or not). Nothing here is really off limit...
[Question] [ There is a highly militarized nation of 300k people between 0 and 60 years old – technology level similar to the Romans. For climate, think the Mediterranean with plenty of freshwater (streams & therefore irrigation) and sunlight. Military service starts at 10 years old. Everyone is enlisted. This is a h...
[Question] [ **Question**: How to preserve food (preferably in ready to eat form [[MRE]](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Meal,_Ready-to-Eat)) for 200-300 years on a spaceship? Bonus objection: preserve viable seeds for the same period *Requirements* MREs should contain all necessary nutrients to sustain humans for a peri...
[Question] [ I'm trying to figure out a realistic setting that depends heavily on desalinating sea water for desert agriculture. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out exactly how early in the tech tree, this can be done. The practical way to desalinate water *on an agricultural scale* – that part is critical – is by...
[Question] [ Say we have a men vs. orcs warfare scenario in a world with roughly medieval-type technology. The men can see well in daylight, but almost not at all at night. The orcs can see in the darkness of night, but are somewhat weakened in the light of day (but not hindered by lesser lights such as torches). Pre...
[Question] [ What would cause/allow a planet with very high gravity to have tall, sharp mountains? Mountain height is generally capped off by gravity, erosion, and the mountains composition. On a higher gravity world, mountains likely wouldn't be able to get very tall or jagged, but I love the idea of a planet having...
[Question] [ A magical calamity has wiped out an area about twice as big as Germany. The calamity also altered the climate in the region from one supporting forests and grasslands to a desert similar to the American southwest. Think badlands, not sand dunes. Aside from the climate changes, there are no lasting effect...
[Question] [ I want to write a science fantasy novel about humans evolving into five new species. The five races are: the Groses and Grosettes (they are my Ogres) (their name comes from the french word gros/grosse that means fat, big, large, overweight or obese) (I am a francophone from Quebec), the Dwarves, the Gian...
[Question] [ **How would a wild Mimic differ in behavior compared to a dungeon mimic? What are the strategies they may employ? What would they mimic without human influence?** In D&D and other media Mimics are always seen as the treasure chest monster found in dungeons and caves. But biologically that should not be p...
[Question] [ If you were air dropped onto another planet, where multi-cellular non-plant life did not evolve, could you survive on what was only around you? The planet in question is a clone of earth, in almost every detail. Plants are almost the same as on earth, except for features evolved because of animals and in...
[Question] [ In my setting, magical civilizations have physical aversion to metals and moving metals have nasty distruptive effect to magic, so these civilizations development went completely different way from ours. Eventually, after centuries of primitive protomagic, they discovered process to transform magic cryst...
[Question] [ I want a character to get sucked into what she thinks is an FTL-wormhole-gate. While it turns out that the gate is indeed a traversable wormhole, it does not allow for FTL travel. The gate transports her at a velocity of ca. 0.9999999999 c over a distance of 570 million lightyears (outside of the Laniake...
[Question] [ Note: size here denotes the physical dimension(s) taken up by the creature in a natural, idling posture One of the many fantasy tropes that make me want to Fahrenheit 451 contemporary fantasy literature is of course: Literal power scaling (i.e: the bigger, the more powerful) This has led to dragons the s...
[Question] [ ...That is the question. In my [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/154298/how-powerful-a-starship-coilgun-can-we-make), I asked about coilguns, how powerful we could make them and their plausibility. In that thread, and the discussion I had with Starfish Prime afterwards...
[Question] [ Background, with potential spoilers: In the Netflix show *Stranger Things*... > > ...there is an otherworldly creature known as the Mindflayer, which can telepathically control creatures in our world as long as the portal to its world is open. Once it has a creature from our world under control, one of...
[Question] [ If a person is sent out of their hermetically sealed community and in the process becomes immune to a deadly disease. When the person returns will the immunity make them a carrier and infect/kill all of the non-immune citizens? How would they quarantine and deal with that possibility? [Answer] The sc...
[Question] [ I want to start by thanking everybody in this community as your posts have been instrumental in helping me to build my world. All I am asking for is a final review of the maps that I have created thus far and any details that should be changed to make the maps more realistic. Thank you in advance. Some t...
[Question] [ One of my mermaids is on land in the daytime, and I'm just wondering what the sudden existence of sunlight and Florida heat might feel like for her, since she's from the mesopelagic zone and is absolutely not used to anywhere near that level of light and warmth. Edit: To clarify, my merfolk can develop l...
[Question] [ The .50 BMG is a very powerful round with a lot of penetrating power. I want to survive it. I did some research on my own, I'm just not sure how to combine these in a way to effectively stop a .50 BMG AP (black tip) round. My research: <https://phys.org/news/2016-04-metallic-glass-secret-almostbut-quiteu...
[Question] [ It would be nice if there were an atmosphere on the Moon with oxygen; in fact it could be just oxygen at 1/5 the Earth's pressure. People could live there. Now of course given the Moon's lower gravity the atmosphere would escape into space, but it'd take hundreds of thousands of years for that (roughly 1...
[Question] [ Fantasy and sci-fi works often are set in worlds of dramatic terrain, because, well... it's dramatic. A few examples of the kind of thing I'm talking about: ![Arch Study](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fR6tc.jpg) ![Zhangjiajie](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8gfG2.jpg) ![Tepui, Venezuela](https://i.stack.imgur.com...
[Question] [ So the idea is that most people use horses, but in this deserted mountain range, people have had to adapt to rams, so the breeding, domesticating and all of that has been handled over generations. Now, much like dogs to wolves & horses to wild horses, Rams have been trained to be ridden over mountains an...
[Question] [ **Is it possible to build a garbage recycler that turns residues into its constituent elements using plasma and accelerating it through a magnetic field?** The technology level is around that of the typical space opera: starfaring civilizations. Physics and chemistry are the same as ours. Energy input an...
[Question] [ One of the ways to create a major mountain range is a process called *subduction*. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oPu4B.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oPu4B.gif) Here, heavy oceanic rock sinks beneath the lighter continental rock. The result--coastal mountain ranges like the ...
[Question] [ In my world, there is a chain of offshore volcanoes which are the result of a smaller plate hitting a larger one. There are two to three active volcanoes. My question is: two of these volcanoes are close enough they are only separated by a narrow strait of sea, so would the volcanic activity from them, ...
[Question] [ I would like a realistic evolutionary path for non-hominid humanoids, but evolution is extremely complex and varied, so I will narrow the question to examining how evolution might occur in felines to produce a humanoid. I would like to start with the *Pseudaelurus* (a prehistoric cat) and move to an upri...
[Question] [ I'm trying to find some type of space weather or other natural occurrences that would result in the intensity of Earth's magnetic field dropping for a few hours to maybe a week or two at most. Polarity reversal doesn't work and I don't think I'm getting anywhere with solar flares. Any ideas? I'm starting...
[Question] [ So diamonds are the hardest natural substance, but can be broken/shattered by impacts. If a planet had a large mountain range made of diamond (maybe the size of the Rocky Mountains on Earth), would it erode at all? (This is the same system in [How close to a supernova can a planet retain an atmosphere?]...
[Question] [ It's around 1895 and the British Isles have fallen to a communist uprising. Or sunk underwater. Or invaded by Germany or covered in ice or something. So the government, the Royal Family and a large part of the population has been successfully evacuated to the colonies. The Royal Navy is still intact and ...
[Question] [ *Editing this question to word it better.* I don't know if it's a unique dilemma or a silly premise, but it looks like I need more guidance than I thought. I'm not a history buff and kingdom/state dynamics are all new to me, but I still wanted to have a go at it. Although the setting takes place in the 1...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. In a...
[Question] [ I'm designing a sentient, aquatic creature, and trying to decide how many eyes it should have. This creatures biological strategy is one of redundancy - it has multiple mouths, multiple tentacles, multiple...well, lots of multiples of lots of things. I was thinking of giving it multiple relatively primit...
[Question] [ So, this one's probably for those ones with a bit of knowledge of economic history. I'm wondering what events tend to trigger the formation of a royal mint in a society so that a country might start manufacturing coinage and how they protect their coin values against nearby economies and counterfeiting. ...
[Question] [ How is it possible to have a habitable planet where there are patterns of light and dark so erratic, it almost seems random (with a leaning towards greater periods of darkness than light)? For example, you might have several hours of light followed by 20 hours of night, 5 hours of dawn, 10 hours of weak ...
[Question] [ I'm trying to envision a human colony on a planet called Imot, which orbits in the habitable zone of a Red Dwarf star. Imot is similar to Earth though somewhat larger, and has strong magnetic field to protect itself from the stellar wind. Its year lasts 20 days and has a large moon that orbits it on a di...
[Question] [ I'm designing a "adaptive" humans where repeated physical contact, skin on skin or exchange of bodily fluids, over prolonged period affects the development of the individuals. The effect I want to achieve is that people who are in extensive physical contact for a quite a long time adapt their physical lo...
[Question] [ If I were to attempt the colonization of a planet *with preexisting life*, how would I manage to pinpoint a candidate planet from the comforts of Earth's orbit? I am interested in the stars somewhere within 40 light years from Earth, and with relatively realistic technology (no FTL drives or time machine...
[Question] [ Suppose I have a time-traveling DeLorean (of all things), and I've used it to travel back to 1955. But then I ran out of juice. Fortunately, I just happen to know that a certain clock tower will be struck by lightning on a specific evening at a specific time, and I can use it to power a trip back to my o...
[Question] [ Could Viking settlers have established a catholic kingdom in the Caribbean by 1450? What challenges would they face, and be unique to their colonising this region by this time? And if they had, could they have monopolised access and trade to the Americans, in order to grow into a major power? I am aware...
[Question] [ I'm trying to construct a most realistic desert possible. I've made a continent with my little knowledge and may ask further questions about climate and similar stuff, but now I want to center on a desert area that I want to locate. ## Our little world I have a large continent, large as Europe and Asia t...
[Question] [ Athena is a young woman living in the year 2028. Smartphones are long gone and technology has evolved to a point where its bio-compatible. Athena might have several implants, for example one from a crash she suffered where she lost an arm and another one which can give her night vision. I want to underst...
[Question] [ Inspired by this question about a [fantasy World Tree](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/48435/would-a-world-tree-be-feasible-in-real-life), I thought I’d ask about the science fiction equivalent: a [Dyson Tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_tree). Dyson Trees are a living tree plan...
[Question] [ A type of species is not defined yet. It can be the insect like bee, slime like oak moss or AI. * There is a hive-mind species, but its hive mind is not queen/king/mastermind. Each individual in the colony connect to each other using a **protocol code** (some kind of password that only allow individual ...
[Question] [ Alice is a highly advanced AI. Alice likes to survive. Perhaps she may see survival as an end goal of itself, or maybe she sees survival as a way to help it accomplish whatever goal it is programmed to do. But survival is essential for Alice. Alice is controlled by human programmers, who are responsible ...
[Question] [ Say a large, stray Kuiper Belt object manages to enter the inner solar system and hits the moon, causing the moon to fracture. Say the impact wasn't devastating and left most of the moon intact while creating fairly small moon fragments. What would be some conceivable short and long-term consequences for...
[Question] [ The year is 2089. The political shenanigans of the day have gotten more out of hand than usual and violent zealots have detonated the Earth's largest deposit of *plotium devicide*, an extremely versatile chemical compound that in this instance explodes with sufficient power to destroy the Earth. The plan...