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I have a setting where there is an online shop that sells magic script, **which sent via email.** The magic in this world is activated via **a runic script** - similar to a program code.
The problem is, I don't know how this shop could deliver the rune script (magic "scroll") safely **without anyone be a... |
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In my custom fantasy world, raising the dead is really simple. Before the Great Act of Beautiful Death, raising a body and keeping it alive (undead?) for at least a week was a part of entrance exams for any University of Magic worth its wands. The reanimated body does not have any intelligence or free wi... |
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A common topic in alternate history fiction works is the question what would have happened if a major conflict had been won by the other side. These usually focus on the events after the conflict, and the change itself is not depicted in a realistic way: it's either not discussed, or attributed to a supe... |
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Would it be possible to make coins from concrete with designs like the metal ones?
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**Anything someone values can be made into and used as money.** That ought to be Rule of Acquisition no. 1, but it ain't.
The point being: if you want to make currency out of concrete or cement, it is indeed te... |
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I'm working on differentiating primarily nonhuman cultures from human cultures in a fantasy world by adding a bit of [Blue and Orange Morality.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMorality) One way I'm considering adding a unique element to one cluster of them where stealing is consi... |
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Through an arcane ritual, a warlock-knight forms a bond with their squire: thereafter, the *squire* wears the armour, and the warlock gets the benefit of it. So any force (be that hand, weapon or environment) incident on the space above the warlock's skin where the armour *would* be, is magically transfe... |
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In this scenario, I would like to focus specifically on humanoids (read: human shaped blinking eyes, protected by eye-lashes and evolved in a waterless environment and fitting human eyesockets, from the outside at least) with the desired effect of them having superior eyesight to humans - by having a bet... |
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Is there any conjecture or famous unsolved problem, that doesn't require much prerequisite knowledge and could be plausibly proven / solved by freshman?
My hero is average freshman in mathematics, that proves a famous conjecture by mistaking it for homework, like George Dantzig.
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Imagine two identical planets *planet A* and *planet B*, orbiting the same star.
Is it possible that these two planets follow the **exact same "route" as they orbit their sun**, but are just distant enough from one another, that their star is effectively always between the two, so that a hypothetical per... |
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I have two planets and humans live on both of them. Humans need not have developed on these planets, but the planets should support human life with the allowance that the humans have technology comparable to modern day Earth.
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In my alternative history story, taking place at the end of the 20th century, one country has an army with platoons of airborne scouts. But unlike modern special forces they don't use combat knives as side-arms, but combat axes. Like this one:
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In my alternate reality, Earth is not a planet. It is a moon and orbits a gas giant (however it has all of Earth's characteristics, it is also full of humans and life as we know it). This is the **only** moon the gas giant has.
This alternate Earth is tidally locked. This means that the people who live o... |
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The evil enemy has us surrounded. They outnumber our forces, they have us outgunned. These helldogs have a trillion dollars/year for their war budget, and they can afford the fanciest toys, numerous mercenaries, the most advanced munitions, have overwhelming air supremacy, and are backed up by years of r... |
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Wow, of all the amazing luck! I just met a visitor from a magical world. He was able to use his magic to establish common communication, and after a bit of talk he decided he wanted to bring some stuff from my world back with him, so we worked out a deal.
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My empire's flagship, the Persecutor class UJBHE1 Abhorrent, rides into the home system of my greatest enemy, Baron Obsequious, levels its Death Ray2 at his beloved home, and pulls the trigger.3 Baron Obsequious' prized emerald explodes in a [shower of light that would make George Lucas proud.](https://w... |
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I'm sure there have been questions on here about fire-breathing dragons, and I recently saw a question about a lightning-breathing dragon, but back in fifth grade I wrote a 150-page story about a dragon with ice breath, and now I'm starting to wonder if it would be possible without large amounts of magic... |
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Inspired by [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/132443/how-long-could-a-nuclear-warhead-remain-functioning-underground):
For several excellent reasons, a 500-year-old nuclear warhead is not going to produce an actual nuclear explosion. But that doesn't mean it's not dangerou... |
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Swords are neat. Unfortunately, they aren't very practical with guns around. What sorts of technologies, social circumstances, environmental factors or magics would allow for people who train to fight primarily in melee to be competitive (or at least viable) as soldiers in a setting with common access to... |
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OK, so scientists have found a great new substance: That substance makes you think ten times as fast! The advantages are obvious. However, as every medicine, this pill will have side effects.
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For example, a street this wide to have enough blood run down the length shown in this photo? Assume that the blood isn't going down storm-drains for whatever reason and assume the stretch of road is 100 feet long. There need not be literal 'rivers' of blood, just enough that the entire street is coated ... |
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Being at Anime Expo last weekend got me thinking about all the "[trapped in another world](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrappedInAnotherWorld)" anime I watched as a kid: *Inu Yasha, Fushigi Yuugi, Escaflowne*, etc. The general plot of these is that a high school girl from "our" reality is m... |
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A human crew of 6 has been sent on [mission to Mars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars)
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We are used to a world where humans are basically an [apex predator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_predator); we don't really need to worry much about becoming some other animal's next meal.
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The trivial answer is that it just means "you have two dimensions with inverted sign in your spacetime metric". But the perceptual result of that kind of choice doesn't actually look qualitatively different from our universe.
Consider the 4D case; our 4 dimensional spacetime has a a +,+,+,- metric--*acco... |
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I'm making a fairly hard Sci-Fi story, and I was wondering what the most scientifically plausible 'energy shield' (for ships and stations) would be. My world tries to remain true to basic physics, but I'm not researching every law and limit to get it perfect. If it's not possible by our current understan... |
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**This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information.
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## Starting with a creature and its environment, how does one create its psychology?
[Evolutionary biology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_biology) and [evolutionary psychology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology) attempt to explain attributes that we observe in our fellow ... |
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I'm looking for recommendations for software to build my world, physically. I want to be able to create maps of the entire world and then drill down to individual areas and define the towns and cities, before going into those towns and cities to create the layout for them.
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Plant poisons in our world (that I'm familiar with) have operational half-lives in the order of seconds to maybe a day to reach full effects. This is because poisons are a defense mechanism and work best when things hurt right away, so that you'll associate pain with the plant. For example, contact derma... |
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So I've seen [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/33059) as to how a cape *could* work as a shield, but why else would 'classic' superheroes (Batman, Superman) wear a cape? Is there something about a cape that makes a person more heroic or does it have a practical purpose?
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# How do I stop annoyed wizards from killing people all the time?
In my fantasy world, wizards are quite powerful, and they can kill anyone they know the location of with just a thought. The usual methods of doing this are:
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The people of Handwave-land have created time travel technology and are training people to send back to Ancient Rome and become part of the community without disturbing the future too much (to observe ancient events). They have already been versed on all other aspects of blending in with society. The onl... |
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I'm writing a sci-fi story with some fantasy elements, and I'm trying to keep even the most outrageous moments grounded in the laws of our universe. This is one of those moments.
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Any story about an independent, self-owned tramp spaceship crew tends to implicitly or explicitly raise the question of how the crew got a spaceship, how it afforded it, and why it doesn't just sell the ship and retire rich, *especially* if it otherwise doesn't seem to own much in the way of expensive st... |
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A couple friends and I have started a world called Lothaucan. On this world there is a continent called Novara with a circle of islands as its key feature.
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My hero travels from our world to a fantasy world where people speak English. While there are other nations that speak non-English languages, the particular land she arrives in does. How can I explain away English developing in a world otherwise unlike Earth?
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I am writing a short story set in a world inhabited by modern humans (Homo sapiens), bulky humans (inspired by Homo Neanderthalensis) and tiny humans (inspired by Homo [Floresiensis).](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis) In response to comments, the height of H.F. was roughly 1m. I might m... |
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The first portal is placed at bottom-most point of the Mariana trench (the deepest part of any ocean, located in the western Pacific Ocean) and the second is placed in the Sahara desert in Africa at the point farthest from any ocean.
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A week ago, I was walking through an old district of Prague and found an old lamp. I tried to clean it by rubbing it... And you guessed that correctly: A genie appeared saying: "I will fulfill you one wish."
Being a long time Worldbuilding member, I said: "I wish for an infinite number of wishes."
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In this alternate history, Christopher Columbus makes landfall in Central America, after passing south of Florida and sailing through the Gulf of Mexico, arriving right on the doorstep of the Aztec Empire.
The First Contact goes badly and most of the expedition is slaughtered. The survivors are taken pri... |
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Can an organism have traits that resemble both an animal and a plant? Such as bone, chlorophyll, muscles, and cell walls. Not necessarily a hybrid, but something that can be classified in between the two kingdoms. Are there any examples of this if so?
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Suppose a species possessed different sets of DNA for different parts of its anatomy. I'm not suggesting one set for every function in the body; that would result in hundreds of thousands of unique sets of DNA.
Instead, suppose there was one set (core DNA) that determined how the body was laid out, such ... |
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Joe, the average Worldbuilder accidentally slips through time sixteen years back. From September 11, 2016 to September 11, 2000. [He gave saving the World Trade Center a thought](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/55576/can-a-single-time-travelling-person-prevent-the-world-trade-center-att... |
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One morning, everyone wakes up and finds that the balance in their bank account has changed. In some cases, it's gone down. In others, it's gone up, a lot. A few people even find that they don't appear to have been affected by this. However, most company accounts have also been affected.
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On the hilltop in the field near my house, there lives a coven of witches. Or, more accurately, there is a coven of witches living in a pocket of the Faerie Realm which has recently become attached to the hilltop by my house.
By the rules of the Faerie Court, their home must be hidden using both verbal a... |
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**Background :** Consider a typical dungeon, which has weak monsters at the top and the lower you go, the stronger the enemies become.
Some questions about dungeons have already been answered - [why are they filled with puzzles](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36446/why-fill-a-dungeon-w... |
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***TL;DR:*** Santa delivers physical objects to 95% of people (including adults) who ask for it in the form of a letter. He will start this Christmas and will continue until decided otherwise. And yes, he will deliver atomic bombs and AK-47's. How do we react?
Most of the parents tell their kids the bigg... |
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Tomorrow, a sudden airborne plague comes around that kills nearly all human males - women are unaffected. The UN and different nations try their hardest but fail to find a cure. There are riots and some breakdowns, but on the whole global society manages to stay somewhat stable through the process. A lot... |
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In the fantasy culture it's not uncommon to find Giant spiders with the upper body of a human.
There are many variants as the spider body having only 4 legs and the upper human body have 2 additional arms or scorpion-like giant stings attached on the shoulders while some other variants even include ant-m... |
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You're an alien that really likes pyrotechnics. Nothing that goes *boom* on your home planet (in a safe and responsible manner) satisfies you any more. Why not blow up a planet and see what that's like? However, you're not allowed to do that in your home solar system. The next closest one is ours. Oh, bu... |
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This would only comprise death by natural causes, no accidents, suicides, homicides etc.
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Many pieces of popculture (like [assassins creed or the aboleths in dungeons and dragons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_memory_(psychology))) use the concept of a genetic memory. How realistic is this concept?
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The laws would be defined in code written in a programming language. Maybe it would be in two parts, the actual rules and then a library that could run them (like how a form validation library is separate to the actual rules that a developer can write), but that's not important.
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Suppose you have a modern city in a temperate climate zone that empties. No people, or hardly anyone left, certainly not enough to keep all the infrastructure going.
Our city is not below sea level (like e.g. Rotterdam), and there are no large natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis) during the period w... |
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I am exploring an alternative history of a timeline if the centre of the British Empire is wiped off the map in the early 20th century.
The [Tunguska event](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event) was believed to be an air burst comet or asteroid that occurred over Siberia, Russia in 1908.
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Weird question but with a head of snakes, do they have to sleep with their head turned to the side? Would it hurt? Do they need an incredibly fluffy pillow?
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In fact, in Ovid's metamorphoses, [Perseus tells](http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph4.htm#478205208) that he found M... |
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**Context**: Your spaceship encountered a Grade III Anomaly (now you really wish you'd have read the darn safety manual to figure out what that would be -- too late now). Structural integrity of the singularity containment apparently was compromised, and an all hands abandon ship signal was transmitted b... |
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If a planet always faces the same side to the sun, so that it has a permanent night side and a permanent day side, it will have a twilight zone in between the two sides. This will be a band around the planet which permanently has conditions similar to dusk/dawn. If the day side is too hot and the night s... |
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I saw this picture and I wonder if you can train a monkey and use him as bodyguard or soldiers in a medieval world. If so, can they be effective against human troops? How can you make them not betray you?
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Imagine that there are two nations at war, but fighting is limited to a small section where their nations border each other. Travel is "conventional", forces from one nation can block the other from deep incursions by placing themselves in the path.
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[Water bears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade) are about the most impressive organism on our planet. They can withstand extreme temperatures (both hot and cold), can survive for a time in the vacuum and cold of space, are resistant to chemicals and radiation, they can go very long periods withou... |
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Suppose the universe contained a species of [planet sized turtles](http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6c/7c/d2/6c7cd27e54bfbe9d08922eb8b6f61bcc.jpg)1 that can travers at least interstellar space. How can I explain (without invoking magic) that these turtles are not [spherical](http://en.wikipedia.org... |
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Most cities don't just spring into existence, they aren't planned to be the way they are (there are a few exceptions, see Milton Keynes in England for example) but grow organically over time. However when you're building a world, you're designing cities that have existed for hundreds, if not thousands of... |
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"Glassing" a planet is a common ultimate tactic in Science Fiction, basically it consists in using high power energy weapons to destroy all life on the planet and reducing the soil and rock of the surface of the world to several centimeters of a fused material, not dissimilar to this [glass](https://en.w... |
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After seeing an advert on my holo-watch about the latest fleet of interstellar spaceships capable of going into warp at the press of a button, I was both amazed and dumbfounded by it
Conventional warp requires onboard computer to sync with at least three deep space networks and plot the coordinates which... |
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In my worldbuilding project, 2 continents located on roughly the same latitude are connected by a land bridge. Both sides of the bridge are surrounded by a temperate grassland, and the lack of seasons means the climate is steady year round, so that rules out winter as an option.
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A common sight in science fiction is that aliens pretend to be human (For example in Third Rock from the Sun). Obviously if the aliens are advanced enough to disguise themselves as another species, there are much easier, simpler and less expensive methods to destroy humanity, so why else would an advance... |
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In my world, there is a plane of existence whose laws of reality work differently than ours. In this plane, thoughts are not private. The boundaries between the mind and reality are slim, and thus every living creature’s thoughts are laid bare and broadcasted for all to hear.
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I am working on a souls-like game and I would like to have an item that works like [Fragrant Branch of Yore](https://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Fragrant+Branch+of+Yore) from DS2.
I do not want to copy the concept of petrification from DS2 so while the item should work in a similar way I would like it... |
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In the mid 22nd century, a super plague has killed 99% of human life, many survivors are killed in the ensuing riots and fighting. The few billionaires that are hiding in their bunkers have over many years of violence, built a generation ship. They shoot into space leaving around 8000 huma... |
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# What would be the pros and cons of a merged military and police?
In the world I am building war is an ongoing issue, and so the culture's military is quite extensive. **Also the majority of people carry weapons around with them because it's 'the norm' there.**
The war is an ongoing conflict which flare... |
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Assume a college student from 2018 *accidentally* traveled to 2023. He is accidentally taken by an alien spaceship that travels close to the speed of light away from earth and then travels back. He is put back to the place where he was taken.
The question is how can he prove to the people in 2023 that h... |
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Imagine a magical world similar to [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/74709/34064) question, where everyone uses skeletons as soldiers.
There are mages running around searching graves for bones to summon them into skeletons.
How do I keep my remains and those of my family and friends from... |
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The year is [Random number between 2100 and 3000], and Earth is now covered in a tight network of teleporters that have replaced all other modes of planetary travel. Only those wishing to travel to other planets and systems must embark on ships.
Teleportation is instant. You buy a ticket, get into the ca... |
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I am thinking of copying the design of an electric eel to create the horn, however as air is not a good conductor of electricity it cannot discharge any electrical shock unless there is a physical contact.
Can you help me to come up with a believable unicorn that can stun its predator from at least a few... |
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A medieval person (say from around 1000 AD, and from a rural village) walks through the forest, and through some unspecified mechanism suddenly turns out to be in our time. He is still far away from any settlement or road, and there are currently no humans nearby. What would be the first signs for him th... |
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Designing an electronic 'mosquito' among my arsenal of 'bugs'. Some work as remote ears, others as eyes. This mosquito is the assassin. He can fly into a room and when he 'bites' someone can inject a small amount of liquid. What substance could kill a human, from immediately to 2 days after the injection... |
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In small towns, people often say that everyone knows everyone. While probably not literally true (for all but the smallest towns), the rate of interaction between members of the town is still high enough to create this perception.
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Earth is setting up mining colonies on [Tau Ceti e](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti_e). But how can they justify the [enormous cost](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15140/suspended-animation-vs-regular-animation-aboard-a-spaceship) of sending people there? ...Because during the in... |
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(Later Edit: Clarifying my question to could Rome, its empire, its complex urban civilization, grandeur, and vast public works be built without slavery in its era or the middle ages?)
Could a civilization at the scale of the Roman Empire in its period exist without slavery? I am looking for technology in... |
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Let's imagine an alien life form attacking Earth.
Their technology and their number do not overtake very much human ones, but they have a very powerful weapon: when a human looks right at one of them, he/she finds it so cute that he/she loses their anger and will to fight, even if there is a weapon point... |
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If we abolished the system of time zones, and everywhere followed UTC (or another arbitrary timezone), what would the possible advantages or disadvantages of this system be? If you can think of any specific activities that would be disrupted or enhanced due to this, please include those as examples!
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I'm designing a world a of supernatural beings loosely based on Christianity/Judaism as described in [Naming the forces of the Purgatory?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/63031/naming-the-forces-of-the-purgatory) who visit Earth without humans being aware of them.
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Often in films and television shows when a person's brain is 'injected' with more information than it can handle, they suffer from immense pain.
What would actually happen if you did supply a human brain with too much information? Would it act like a processor and break up the information or would it 'cl... |
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My world has a city of glass found along the outskirts of a desert. I decided on this because sand can become glass and so it was a huge resource that could be used for building. However, the concern has come up that it would bake the citizens alive. Originally, the glass was textured and thick enough to... |
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Many people set who they are and others by what jobs they do, how they make their living. As more and more jobs are being taken over by computers and robots there are 'fewer' jobs for others. Yet we still expect them to work. Currently there really still are plenty of jobs for everyone, though many are j... |
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Are there any known laws of nature, which don't allow the existence of an animal with following characteristics?
1. Can fly to the altitudes of modern airliners (around 10 000 meters or 32808 ft).
2. One of the sources of thrust are organic jets or rocket engines (details see below).
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Our world of fiction is filled with books, movies, and games suggesting a Mad-Max-style apocalypse can last hundreds of years. This, despite the fact that nuclear fallout would decay within a decade and it only took us about 150 years to develop all our cool tech in the first place. *(This strongly sugge... |
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Suppose we used [SCP-261](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-261), the vending machine that produces anything, and ask for a cup of neutron star. The machine instantaneously produces this.
Suppose also that the vending machine is located at a normal office building, not some underground lair or the like.
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Would it be possible to use spider silk for armour, instead of metal?
I am not worried about how to obtain the silk. I know that spiders are not domesticable and that they are too aggressive to each others so that they cannot be lumped together like bees. (I can handwave all that; my spiders are just of ... |
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Science-Fiction has tools to destroy *anything*: atoms, molecules, DNA, cellular organisms, multicellular organisms, buildings, streets, cities, countries, continents, planets, and even stars. Some extreme settings even have tools to destroy entire galaxies, and I know of at least one setting (*Doctor Wh... |
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I'd like to have a community of humans live indefinitely in space habitats (think space stations supporting mining operations in the asteroid belt).
The technology would be "day after tomorrow"-level; no anti-gravity, no effector fields, or the like.
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I am building my fantasy world from the ground up. In particular, for the races that use a coin-based currency, how do I figure out what it is worth?
Say we have the basic copper/silver/gold pieces each being 1/10th of the next value. Should I arbitrarily assign an annual wage for the working class or sh... |
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