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[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. Give...
[Question] [ Imagine a war in a standard fantasy world, roughly medieval, most magic is limited, but magical healing exists. Healing comes in three forms: 1. **Rare Healers**, who are born with ability to do rapid magical healing, taking even severely injured to full health in minutes. However, they exhaust their own...
[Question] [ A question blatantly inspired by my old question here: [What would be the impact of a modern programmer and laptop being dropped into World War II, possibly breaking Enigma?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12129/what-would-be-the-impact-of-modern-programmer-and-laptop-being-dropped-int...
[Question] [ I am assembling a small group of nomads that will soon begin developing into a civilization. However, there are a couple small details that I have to work out first. The first little intricacy that I have to iron out is what my people use when they have to wipe their behinds. I want their method of backs...
[Question] [ Rogue parties in fiction have a tendency to appear as...filler, which to a certain extent makes sense as they usually form a launching point for the story meaning they aren't terribly important long term. In building my world I am creating a setting for a specific story, but I am also creating a world th...
[Question] [ In a setting I've been working with, I sought a method of sublight travel that wasn't crazy engines or magic. I've already got FTL using a different method than the Alcubierre drive, so it wouldn't be used for this purpose. Furthermore, I postulate that the power requirements for such usage aren't attain...
[Question] [ Following up on [how-might-a-religion-be-used-to-help-maintain-a-generation-ship](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/20908/how-might-a-religion-be-used-to-help-maintain-a-generation-ship/20913#20913) and [what-society-might-survive-the-3-generation-rule](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange...
[Question] [ Let us suppose that we have a non-human sentient species that has "evolved for war", i.e. has evolved significantly both biologically and sociologically from a non-sentient state such that its members consider a state of warfare as natural and right, and for there to be an absence of war as quite unnatur...
[Question] [ With modern technology, targeting equipment has become very good in its ability to pick out a target and lock onto it, thereby reducing the viability of traditional camouflage. In a world of mechs, this technology has increased in power and accuracy, primarily against large signals like vehichles. The is...
[Question] [ I'm starting a whole new planet for a story and would like it to have an orange sky during the day. At a basic level (I am not a smart man) what chemical composition would be most conducive to Orange sky colouring? What colour would that appear during sunrise/sunset (Our blue turns orange due to some sci...
[Question] [ What underground, for example burrowing or tunnelling creatures on earth, have underground organisation/societies, that are intricate enough for interesting narrative features, for example friendships or self expression? Worms for example have no society at all, and are no good. They may be unfamiliar, o...
[Question] [ Could life originate on planets outside the [circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone) where there is very little exposure to sun (like Uranus). If so what kind of energy source would they depend on. Could more complex life (than bacteria ) evolve on ...
[Question] [ What characteristics of society/culture might change if we would not have developed social media? or, if we had developed it, but it was somehow not as addictive as it is... * Would this generation's teens be as self-absorbed/narcissistic? * Would society be more moral? * Teens today are very aware of ...
[Question] [ I'm designing an alien species roughly based on starfish. Starfish in the real world don't have brains or blood, they just let seawater run their nervous and circulatory systems, but I figure a species of any intelligence would need an actual brain. I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a brain t...
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[Question] [ I have been wondering how galactic features could impact interstellar civilizations in the process of colonizing a galaxy (either andromeda or the milky way). According to [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGpy4QRtCrU) these features, specifically the arms and the core, could be areas in which...
[Question] [ I am working on a setting with a large native population of humans who live in a year-round freezing environment, somewhat akin to the real world Antarctic. These humans should be as biologically similar to other populations as possible, however they will be taller and thinner on average than other human...
[Question] [ An alien species has built Dyson swarms around stars which have orbiting planets with primitive life on them. The section of the star which is facing the planet with life is left uncovered to let the planet receive enough light but the rest of star is surrounded by a Dyson swarm in the shape of some sort...
[Question] [ I have read about [hybrid speciation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_speciation#:%7E:text=Hybrid%20speciation%20is%20a%20form,isolated%20from%20the%20parent%20species.): "speciation where hybridization between two different species leads to a new species, reproductively isolated from the parent spe...
[Question] [ Sexual dimorphism, that is the difference is size between the male and a female of the same specie, is common yet normally not extreme. There are however species where the difference is extreme: I remember reading about a fish where the female is about 1 meter long, while the male is a couple centimeter...
[Question] [ **WARNING: This post contains some spoilers for the anime/manga *Dr.Stone*.** As I'm watching Dr.Stone, I see Senku and the gang trying to make vacuum tubes for their circuits. The vacuum tube is an ancestor to the transistor. It is quite hard to make and is fragile because glass is used to enclose a vac...
[Question] [ In my story, there is a planet that experiences near constant sunlight. Since sunlight so plentiful and reliable most organisms are, at least in part, photosynthetic. The only intelligent life on this planet is plant-like people that get their energy entirely from photosynthesis, and absorb nutrients and...
[Question] [ So I just got back from watching an episode of the Science Channel program *Unearthed*, a show focusing on archaeological discoveries. In the episode in question, the subject was on the Lighthouse of Alexandria, and one of the questions asked in the episode is how the lighthouse stood true in an earthqua...
[Question] [ In my Conworld, the inhabitants have discovered a type of star they cannot identify. I would like it to be a star made *not* from just hydrogen and helium, like our sun and countless others. But my question here is: Can a star be made of other materials? I am mainly interested in: * Oxygen * Nitrogen * N...
[Question] [ As clarification we're talking about those common fantasy *healing potions* that recover health over time and their scientific plausibility. Here are some results from my research on the subject: **Modern medicines** are pathetic compared to even the weakest of health potions. Medicines reduce the amount...
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[Question] [ Consider a planet which is entirely Earth-like. Same mass, same rotation, etc. But in this world, resource-rich objects are suspended by some phenomenon at varying altitudes up to 200km above sea level (effectively from the surface, since the highest point, Mt Everest, is >9km above sea level). *Clarific...
[Question] [ I'm new here but I've been a worldbuilder for the last decade or so. I'm pretty late to the 'mapping out your country' party and I've only been at it for about 8 months, but I'm starting to see some progress. However, I appear to have a bit of a deficiency in my knowledge of rivers that threatens to jeop...
[Question] [ Humans can speak making precise movements of our tongues, teeth and vocal chords. I want a sentient creature whose carnivorous mouth-parts are completely unsuitable for speech to be able to communicate fluently with others of its species. * A trumpet can certainly make different notes by vibrating the li...
[Question] [ **Question:** Could colonial organisms form into a sentient being, something like a human, for example? Could they evolve into beings with thoughts and feelings? A race of colonial organisms taking the form of humans would be interesting... but I'm not sure if its plausible. PS: by 'colonial organism' I...
[Question] [ In the DC universe, there exists a hero known as Sister Superior with prosthetic arms that are capable of turning into any weapon she desires. Interestingly, her arms look no different from a regular girl's arms when not transformed, save for a few seams. Obviously, having the ability to form any weapon ...
[Question] [ A large group of billionaires, engineers, pilots, and volunteers come together to announce the creation of an aircraft-based civilization. Here, people spend most of their lives aboard an aircraft, whether it's an airplane, seaplane, helicopter, gyrocopter, cyclocopter, hot-air balloon, or airship. For t...
[Question] [ **Note:** this is not a duplicate of [Anatomically correct Giants](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/51771/anatomically-correct-giants) or [What would be the tallest possible height for humanlike creatures in earthlike conditions?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/51686/w...
[Question] [ I'm working on a humanoid vertebrate species that I'd like to be capable of true, flapping flight, but still have arms and legs completely separate from the wings. I also wish to avoid a "six-limbed vertebrate" scenario, since it has a number of fairly closely related species that only have four limbs. S...
[Question] [ **Assume the following situation:** 1. A pre-modern culture A exists on continent/island X with no previous contact with culture B (the invaders). 2. Culture B discovers and invades X and the lands of A intend on conquering them. (This may be a centrally organized effort or one carried out by a series of...
[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. Assu...
[Question] [ There's a empire with big jungles (60% is covered by jungle). Actually, I wanted the empire to use a lot of heavy infantry and cavalry. After doing some research, however, this seems to have hardly been the case with cultures that lived in jungles where light soldiers were dominant. Is it possible to ju...
[Question] [ Here is the scenario: Two factions, one defending its planet, the other attacking it. The winning condition for attackers is capture of leadership, so boot on the ground are required. The planet is Earth-like, the capital metropolis is coastal. WMDs on the surface are off the table. Defenders have a wide...
[Question] [ **Premise** In the near future, a cult-like ruling family worships symmetry and condemns asymmetry. By association, they are condemning much of nature as there are many instances of asymmetry in nature (crooked trees, irregular shapes of clouds, ect). To further "defy" asymmetry and nature they take cont...
[Question] [ Say we're on a ship traveling between the Milky Way and Andromeda. We decide to stop and take a look out our space-windows. What do we see? I'm presuming that the Milky Way and Andromeda would both be large and easily visible. But what about the other galaxies, further away? Would stuff normally restrict...
[Question] [ If two incredibly strong incredibly indestructible characters were fighting on earth could one punch the other one into space? By space I am assuming that we at sea level and are trying to escape the earth's gravity well to guarantee the victim does not return to the planet. We are assuming that strength...
[Question] [ This question is inspired by NASA’s recent [TRAPPIST-1 announcement](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around/). Imagine two planets orbiting a star with orbits very close together. At the nearest point in their respective orbits ...
[Question] [ ## Setting So for generations a ship has been traveling through space. After reaching their desired destination you are left with a group of people who have been used to their largest spaces being no more than a few tens of meters across. If I were to suddenly send them out to populate a planet with vast...
[Question] [ Regarding the Many World Multiverse, everything I've been reading (and searched on SE) seems to assume that each (parallel) universe is, at this moment, the same age. For my story, I need this to not be true for my time-traveler. By making it not true, is it no longer within the scope of the Level III: M...
[Question] [ I want to have a species based on humans, where everyone is born as female, but switches gender to male later in their life. Assuming that transformation takes 4 years (\*) hermaphrodite is born as woman, at 27 starts transformation and at 31 becomes man. Assuming that anatomy of sequential hermaphrodit...
[Question] [ I created an incredible machine that can reduce my size infinitely. (or not, that's part of the question) This is some kind of spaceship-like machine that makes everything inside smaller and smaller every second. I started the machine and look through the window. What will I see? Is there are any limit o...
[Question] [ I asked in [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/35630/how-can-i-achieve-2-separate-rebellions-for-the-same-cause) how I would achieve two rebellions for the same cause only to find out my basic premise was wrong and that having only one rebellion is the less likely of the two...
[Question] [ or; # Pass me my gryphon pants please. > > His high school racial studies were kind of a pain, Billy thought. Spending the day as a unicorn may have made gym class easy, but it just made trying to write on the chalkboard in math class a pain… also all the girls looked at him funny. Still, football was f...
[Question] [ ## Context Wizards built a civilization on a barren planet. More details [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/39775/space-wizards-city-is-it-sustainable). --- ## Magic Batteries The population of the planet is between two and four million wizards, but not all of them are born equal....
[Question] [ I have a character who loses her forearm. To up the cool factor (and because this once happened in a dream of mine), I'd like for her to dip her stump in gold. Would this actually result in gold covering her skin, or would this just burn her skin/flesh and do nothing otherwise? I'd like a relatively re...
[Question] [ Similar to this question, but on the galactic scale: [What would life be like for the common people on a libertarian planet?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/35160/what-would-life-be-like-for-the-common-people-on-a-libertarian-planet) My specific questions: **- How could a libertarian-...
[Question] [ Future governments (1-100yrs) believe human civilization has de-evolved since the invention of the personal computer. Their points are: * People stopped socializing * People don't go outside * Global depression and anxiety levels at an all time high * Cyber crime flourishes * Humans stopped thinking and ...
[Question] [ Allow me to shed some light on this subject (turns on lightbulb). **Brief Overview of Magic** These powers manifest themselves any time from birth to the end of puberty. These magical powers fall under seven broad categories. Air, water, earth, plasma (fire/lightning), plants, light, and animals. Animal...
[Question] [ I am creating a fantasy world on a planet entirely separate from our own. Since it is a different world, it makes sense that the food there would be different as well. Some of our fruit is similar. Oranges and lemons both have rinds, a fairly similar shape, and look nearly identical inside (save for the...
[Question] [ I'm working on a high-fantasy alternate world setting, I explained it a bit [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/29433/psychological-effects-of-a-normal-human-in-a-fantasy-setting). But think of a deconstruction of tolkienesque fantasy. It's a society populated by humanoids, some base...
[Question] [ Let's take a classic AI revolution scenario: An organic civilization seeking more comfort in their lives created robots with self-learning algorithms to make them more efficient. But while the AIs were becoming more and more intelligent, they started to want to live their "lives", wanted more than a sl...
[Question] [ # Context "God games" are organised, in which a hundred immortals participate. Each "God" are given an alternate dimension. These dimensions are all identical and contain an Earth where Humans didn't yet evolve. The gods monitor their Earth from a lunar base and never set a foot on its ground. Every hund...
[Question] [ One of the biggest 'immortality sucks' issues has always been the question of what to do with the new people being born. Without death, a world's limited resources can't keep up with a never ending increase in population. Imagine a sci-fi future world where we developed some means of stopping old age, an...
[Question] [ Can you get modern levels of health care, with no electric technology and no steam technology? Both electricity and steam are possible. Physics is the same as real life. Like... * No Cavities * No Acne * Antibiotics But, what I'm mainly going for, is to justify my villagers of such a society to look as g...
[Question] [ Don't scream zombies at this question. That is not meant to be what it is about, regardless of how it sounds. I have an interstellar war between humans and an alien race. The humans are winning, so the aliens design a virus based off of the original flu that used to go pandemic in early human history. Th...
[Question] [ Starting with the background provided in [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9035/dragons-and-aviation-bureaucracy), how would a dragon outfit himself/herself (avionics, power systems, etal) for operating under the Instrument Flight Rules? How would the process of obtaining ...
[Question] [ If a planet existed in an orbit where the asteroid belt is, would the orbits of all the planets be stable, and what would the climates be like on these planets? Assuming there could be a planet in that orbit, could there be any scenario where this planet is destroyed and the solar system reaches the stat...
[Question] [ In the magic system I've been workshopping, magic is powered by the caster's emotions and memories. Specifically, mages can shape spells by creating associations to their own memories, and strengthen those spells with the emotions those memories conjure. A happy memory of sitting around a campfire with g...
[Question] [ People who "... do not have more than 65% of their brain function provided by natural human neural tissue" according to a new, pernicious and poorly thought-out law "shall cease to be legal persons and become property of the nearest family member or holder of greatest corporate interest." Brain implants ...
[Question] [ Background: seeking modern technologies, resources, etc that could potentially be discovered and applied in a fantasy setting where manufacturing processes, while advanced, are more akin to the late 1700's. Society has access to "knowledge-base" of advanced species, but A) have currently only been able t...
[Question] [ A few decades ago the Third World War destroyed Earth. Space infrastructure was considered a priority target by both sides. Orbital space was in the years before the war was filled with skyhooks, power satellites, zero-gee factories, several habitats, shipyards, and so on. The mass of the entire infrastr...
[Question] [ My fantasy world Treyidal is a planet inhabited by two races, humans and merfolk. They live on a very seismically active world, with such things as micro-magic based earth quakes. For the moment we'll put all that aside, and just look at one aspect of the world. If viewed from space, Treyidal has the pec...
[Question] [ I'm trying to construct this organism in my world, that is completely biological, but is almost like a large human-esque brain organ with slug-like apparatus extending from it. Like multiple tentacles and minor organs for sight and sound, and overtime these "tentacles" form the basis for piezoelectric mu...
[Question] [ Assume that an external force nudged along the evolution of a mammal and/or insect species towards an appearance mimicking as much of humanity as possible - skin, mouth, language, fingers and thumb, etc - while capable of flight (like a hummingbird? or Tinkerbell). Assume that their minds are built and w...
[Question] [ The cold war never ended in 1990-94, and the Warsaw pact still exists, as does the prominence of communism in eastern europe. It’s now 2030, and both sides have colonies on the moon and are establishing colonies on mars. Ignoring the technical the fact that both sides now have prominent forces in space, ...
[Question] [ It is my dream that humanity can one day become a multi species civilization. As someone who feels like a stranger on this planet, it would be nice to have some company in that regard. But aside from the difficulties of making sure all those species are comfortable around humans in our environment, and s...
[Question] [ Considering both full water worlds mostly out of water and ice, and rocky planets that just have a bit too much of it - would polar caps form on them if the conditions are roughly similar to modern Earth? Or the lack of large landmasses would turn the whole hemispheres of the planet into one giant Gulfst...
[Question] [ I am an aspiring fantasy writer, and I wanted to include rideable Wyverns in my world. There will be a magic system in my world, but I still want to make them as scientifically possible as I can. Now, believe me, I did my research (or at least as much as somebody without a degree in physics and biology c...
[Question] [ As a layman, I was shocked to learn that LASERs in real life are much more dangerous than Hollywood portrays. As I understand it, you can get permanent eye damage from a strong enough laser, even without looking directly into the beam's path. Knowing this, as someone who likes to write Fiction, I find my...
[Question] [ Thundercats 2011 was great. I mean, it even had Thanos and infinity stones before it was cool. Such a good remake simply couldn't survive in final-stage capitalism, as those who worked on it didn't sacrifice quality to more efficiently promote plastic landfill. Well, at least my secret network of spies a...
[Question] [ I'm working on a novel that takes place in a fictional universe which involves creatures with long forelimbs and short hind limbs. Some of these creatures includes amphibians , reptilians and mammals. I want to know what type of environmental factors could lead to this type of evolution.![enter image des...
[Question] [ So. our boss is kinda... nuts. His current pet project is to create a device that can play his [theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJrFqzrgU4) whenever his location is revealed to someone within a 50 meter radius. Naturally, he outsourced it to us. * The device has to play the song in high-qual...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Anatomically correct pixie](/questions/48874/anatomically-correct-pixie) (5 answers) Closed 4 years ago. There are many questions and answers regarding giants and how to scale up human anatomy on this website. (larger bones, better lungs and heart, lowe...
[Question] [ Supposing climate change continues at its current "worst case" projected rates, would we see a noticeable reduction in insects down the line? I am wondering if it makes sense to have a character who has noticed a change like this in their lifetime, or if such a change would be unlikely or not drastic eno...
[Question] [ Magic has recently become possible in my story, and singing is the mechanism by which humans use magic. A totalitarian regime wants citizens who can speak, but not sing in any way, even poorly. (That is, they cannot produce a note at all.) If necessary, the speaking they are capable of can be whispering,...
[Question] [ *A side shot from my series on a computer-less future; see [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/129395/a-clock-for-interplanetary-travel), [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/100613/can-you-design-your-own-plants-without-a-computer?noredirect=1&lq=1), and [here](h...
[Question] [ The [talaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaria) is the name of the winged sandals or shoes famously worn by Hermes in Greek Mythology. If someone were to make a high tech gadget which the attached beating wings to a pair of boots, how exactly would they need to design it to make it fly properly if i...
[Question] [ This question was originally posted in the [Sandbox](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6168/32016). It's set in the same world as [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/80301/solid-material-made-from-human-blood), but is not related to it. --- I have a speedster ch...
[Question] [ Starting at the most basic of theoretical questions, is it chemically possible for these minerals to be deposited by an organic enzyme? I'm particularly interested in diamond because it's pure carbon, which is very plentiful in the environment. Perhaps, for example, one enzyme might set down methane mole...
[Question] [ Okay, now this question is a bit random. But, I'm planning for a possible book project about a 2019 expedition to an undiscovered island. The island is near the northern tip of the [Ninetyeast Ridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_East_Ridge) in the Indian Ocean. I think the book will be in a simil...
[Question] [ Let us take an earthlike planet. Approximately same radius, atmosphere and climate. Now let us create an approximately circular, paleovolcanic mountain approximately 30 kilometers in height and 150 kilometers in radius, not dissimilar from Olympus Mons. The crater's radius is 20 kilometers and its depth ...
[Question] [ I plan to write a novel set on old Venus. What I mean by this is that it is set on a Venus where it was still thought to be a swampy planet. I know that is an unlikely past, but I have read oceans may have once existed on Venus but were probably lost to a runaway greenhouse effect. So reality check: is i...
[Question] [ My planet has an increased axial tilt, resulting in crazier winters and summers and higher temperatures. For most places, the temperature never drops below freezing - even in the winter, but the days can be as short as four hours during this time. I want my fauna to reflect this, and rely less on photosy...
[Question] [ I'm building a map of a fantasy town and its surrounding area. I'm using Campaign Cartographer (CC3) for this and I'm striving for appropriate scale. I know that, nowadays, the average outside wall thickness is of 30cm (12 in) while the inner wall range 10-20cm (4-8 in). Unfortunately, this average thic...
[Question] [ I would like to have a humanoids with three pairs of eyes placed on the same horizontal plane like in [Protheans](http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Javik) not one below the other like [Batarian](http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Batarian). I was thinking of one pair being sensitive to our visible light, ot...
[Question] [ What's the minimum safe distance to start building if you don't want any part of the shell or swarm to fall into the event horizon? Could you build a stable structure just short of the Schwarzschild radius or would you need to move farther back to be safe? How much farther? Could you build a shell only a...
[Question] [ The [Spriggan](http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Spriggan) is a tree-like creature native to the Elder Scrolls, where they are often found in forests and groves. In appearance, a Spriggan appears to be made of entirely wood and a glowing source that the people claim as magic, they are also claimed to b...
[Question] [ I'm making a species which has a gas-based circulatory system. How would one go about designing such a system, in which liquid blood is replaced by some kind of gas? What kind of blood vessels would it need, how could blood cells and hormones travel through the system, what kind of pressure would it need...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Could a Dwarven Civilization Exist?](/questions/9947/could-a-dwarven-civilization-exist) (11 answers) Closed 7 years ago. How far underground, assuming we're talking about a secret underground "living area", could be hospitable for human life assuming y...
[Question] [ The current Underwater tag challenge gave me an idea: What if the whole universe were actually liquid? To elaborate: **How can a liquid universe come to life?** Ultimately, I want to have a universe where the space between planets and stars is filled with liquid. I would like that universe to violate as...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. I wa...
[Question] [ There exist numerous theories on why the Moon lacks a layer of air if any, however the main culprits are gravity and the lack of Geo-dynamo simply put the Moon does not have the necessary mass nor the appropriate core condition to prevent air from escaping if there is any in the first place. I shall spar...
[Question] [ I am making a sci-fi web-comic set on an alien world and I thought up an idea for an eye that works much like an eye from a mammal, but instead of moving the whole eye, only the pupil moves. This idea sprouted from the eyes of mantis, though their moving pupil is possible because of their compound eyes, ...
[Question] [ To clarify by flying ship I do not mean conventional airship. A lot of fantastical depictions of flying ships look like their naval counterparts but in the air. However these have features like underside hulls and sails on the top which wouldn't necessarily be optimal for a ship in the air. This is prima...
[Question] [ For my science-fantasy I'm building nation that is governed by guilds,this country is loosely inspired by the concept of Anarcho-syndicalism. The governing council Is made up of the Grandmasters of the guilds that are the most vital to the nation. However I don't know what industries or service are indis...