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I'm trying to create a 'futuristic library' in a 1st-world country set in the 21st century. I'm imagining a library where for each book, there is instead an electronic tablet to hold the same text. Each electronic tablet only holds one text and serves the same purpose as a book. In what context would suc... |
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On the planet Nova 3, there exists a species of intelligent, Macropodidae-like creatures called Novians. The species is mostly herbivorous, although meat is eaten on special occasion. Their planet is covered by many biomes, such as rolling plains, dense jungle, savannah, and tundra. The Novians evolved f... |
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In an Earth-like world with a moon as large as this:
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Nyarlathotep, the Black Pharaoh, is in ancient conflict with other elder gods in his weight class, and seeks to enter the realm of Earth to rule over mankind. Unfortunately, he is prevented from doing so by a barrier that blocks eldritch deities from crossing over. To get around this, he breaks his soul ... |
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Wondering about a source of vegetable oil for my goblins. Something that produces nuts, perhaps? An underground nut-bush? Or something that produces a lot of seeds, the same way dandelions do? Or could we get a plant which produces fat/oil, and the whole crop could be crushed for it (like fatty turnips)?... |
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I'm designing a creature that has found a new way to evolve directly during its life time. This method is different from having to bear incredible environmental stress or being a victim to violent radiation.
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So I have this android character that has super-human abilities. I like her durability level, speed, and everything else, but I feel her jump is a bit to short. She can lift around 12 1/2 times, or 2,000 pounds/1 ton, her body weight of 160 pounds. Currently she can leap vertically around 28 feet, but if... |
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So, in my story, their is a Superhero called “Mind Quad” aka John Paul “JP” Stevenson, a college dropout. Back when he was 23, a radioactive brain tumour nearly killed him, but thanks to an experimental treatment surgery, his brain is more powerful than any other human in existence. His mind is a... |
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Let's say a modern man is transported to a world that is roughly medieval and modeled very clearly off of medieval Europe. He manages to impress the son of a king and eventually gets the king to hear out his 'crazy' theories. The king is willing to experiment with sanitation, but is not certain he believ... |
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I writing a story about a physics student who has a difficult relationship with his estranged father, world famous physicist and strong proponent of string theory. As a revenge he wants to rule string theory out, something that his father spent his all life working on.
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So, to start my story, I need to make sure that my so called "Defenders of Earth" can leave Earth *unnoticed* (not yet sure), that's why I'm thinking of Cannons, **1000ft** long, hidden beneath the earth. Then these cannons will fire the **20Ft** diameter bullets at a **80 degree angle**.
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So I've seen a lot of research done into how guns react in low gravity environments as well as on space stations. However, for my story I was wondering how the trajectory, force and speed of the bullet would be impacted. The planet has a thin atmosphere but a gravity that exceeds earth's. I think that fi... |
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Short version: A given person’s arms are now legs. But somehow they are able to climb trees despite having no opposable thumbs or big toes. How is the anatomy of their arm-legs designed to make this possible?
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In the 13th century A.D., the king put up a hefty bounty for anyone who can help defeat the dragon and rescue his daughter. Actually, this was all according to the king's devious plan. The dragon was actually gifted to him by a mysterious wizard who foretold that as long as the dragon is alive, then his ... |
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The land of Vau was once dominated by the Queens of the "Old Kingdom". The currency of the old kingdom was known as the "Argen". The Argen was minted in silver, bronze, and iron varieties. However The Old Kingdom collapsed 100 years ago due to the capital being sacked and royal family betrayed while tryi... |
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**I need ideas for a chemical or disease which kills the victim upon holding it in the palm for about 4 or 5 seconds. The death isn't necessarily immediate, as it might take days to kill the victim in the case of an incurable disease.**
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I want to create a magma slime, which has a magical vulnerability to being cooled down and turns to rock easily (like when hit by a water or an ice spell). This rock can then be shattered to gather valuables.
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I'm making a character that keeps their books stored in their many large mouths. Thing is, it's a medieval setting and I'm not sure how the book would be made to survive being in such an environment.
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I have a magic system with two types of magic: black and white.
Black is a liquid that can be frozen/condensed into a slightly tougher than ice, crystalline solid, that can be refined into pointy things through practice in bending. Demons and some humans can control black magic, which was created by the ... |
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Evidence exists that Hymenopteran eusocial insects possess higher social and logical intelligence than most other insects (i.e. facial recognition in wasps, limited self-awareness in ants), suggesting that the two traits have some correlation, which inspires this question.
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A hag is a witch deeply entrenched in the art of dark magic. This kind of magic comes from experimenting with forces beyond our reality. Over the years, her abilities and spells grow in power. However, her physical form also changes, evolving into a higher life form. At the initial stages, she retains so... |
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In a vast desert, several factions vie for dominance. The factions use giant tanks and advanced aircraft. All the factions have a common origin, but are now entrenched in their respective dogmas and will continue warring for the forseeable future.
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It's the ideal city for a siege. They have all the resources and man power required to sustain themselves during a siege.
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## The kingdom where rulers are young
Once upon a time, lies in a faraway place a medieval kingdom following a classic european hereditary monarchy, excepted on two peculiar points. First, the ruler could be equally as Queen or King, but that point I will not linger on it too much. Then, a custom which h... |
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Assuming the atmosphere on a Niven ringworld is retained by gravity, what shape would it be?
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We all know about the horrific history of the slave triangle which transported people from Africa to the Caribbean and America in exchange for sugar and other plantation produce.
I'm trying to envisage a United States where the concept of african slavery never took root. The two areas I want to focus on ... |
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So I have in mind a plot point in mind where my protagonist is elected to pilot a giant humanoid robot with flight capabilities - Kinda like a mobile suit from the *Mobile Suit Gundam* franchise. To pilot this robot, the pilot docks a specialised car into the chest, whose interior transforms to form the ... |
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In Christianity, there is the idea of the [Rapture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture), in which - if I understand correctly - the good are taken to the afterlife, while everyone else remains on Earth.
Take an alternate Earth. Sometime in the near future, something like the Rapture occurs in a manner ... |
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I have this story where this dude turns himself into a mutant by saturating himself(drinking, cooking with, bathing in, inhaling, and injecting it) in this stuff he made with energy drinks, protein powders, vitamins, veggies, and more(and irradiating himself as well). I imagined and want it to be liquid.... |
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Messing around with different aesthetics and groups for this story, and I'm wondering how to go about this. I wanted to do a setting where a region is full of basically ancient Egyptian inspired cultures but the climate is colder instead of a hot arid desert. I've seen it speculated that certain groups w... |
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**Why would a powerful god need or want a blood sacrifice?**
Many religions require blood sacrifice to their gods, but why?
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One thing that’ll limit humans in colonizing planets is the atmosphere. Currently humans primarily need oxygen to survive, and without it all life that needs oxygen to live will die. Currently, plants produce oxygen when other animals breathe out carbon dioxide, which these plants use in a process called... |
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Given any kind of living organism (plant, animal, silicate, gaseous, energy, etc.,) what logical reasons (natural, environmental, evolutionary selection, nurtured, artificial) could result in more than three genders?
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I'm worbuilding a situation about a polygamous family, consisting of a father, his several wives and their many children. They are cut off from their tribe, by highland rebellion which closed the only mountain pass. As per their custom they don't intermarry outside of their tribe.
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OK, I'm putting together a bunch of concepts for a interstellar military, one that sits between the Colonial Marines(Aliens) and the UNSC(Halo) in terms of technology and equipment. Lasers exist, but are used less by the interstellar forces due to the added complexity, weight, and reduced effectiveness o... |
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Say there is a country that is ruled by a king, medieval era style. It rules over several cities and towns, maintaining control with a national guard.
Now let's say within the boundaries of this country, but close to the border, is a city that has rejected the monarchy, and rules itself.
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I'm trying to design a railgun to meet a very particular purpose: to destroy (i.e. render inoperable) modern man-portable firearms, such as pistols, rifles and grenade launchers, from a [Glock pistol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock) to a [Barret M82](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82) while ... |
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Background: In the early 2020s a magical life-extending "elixir" is created but is in short supply. However, a very reckless individual steals most of the US's supply and drinks a sufficient amount of it to extend their life by 8000 years. It is decided that this individual must be quarantined to avoid a... |
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I am building a world where most of the wildlife is capable of flight and there is an ecosystem that is almost totally isolated from the ground. Is it possible to have a mammal, roughly the size of a labrador retriever, be capable of gliding and landing softly on the ground, without any injury? I am curr... |
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The probable results of the below (in my imagination) would be a toss-up between asphyxiation, blindness, and/or molten magnesium in uncomfortable places but I'm not entirely sure. So given this scenario what would be the outcome:
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In [The Laundry Novel series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files), basilisks and associated weapons and creatures turn their targets to stone by transmuting 10% of carbon to silicon. Ignoring the question of how, what effects would this actually have? It’s shown to generate massive amounts o... |
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I wonder, my Kepler Bb world has a lot of different biomes. Go x regions in a certain direction and there will be a different biome.
Region 1, where the first city is, has a river, lakes both isolated and non isolated, a cave, a mountain range, forests, and grasslands.
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After reevaluating my sense of perspective on sublight interstellar travel, I'm thinking of moving my planet closer to Earth to cut down on travel time and fuel costs. However, the planet my colonists are traveling to and the solar system it presides in have some very specific conditions.
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Context: The inhabitants of my world, humans, live on a supercontinent divided into three subcontinents **separated by seas.** The supercontinent is located above the equator in what is roughly the size and location of Europe in our own world, and the orientation and orbit of the planet is just like our ... |
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So I have a story about a world where honor is the most important thing and where if someone insults you... *duel to the death*. Most often this is peacefully resolved but when duels happen I want a kind of Wild West theme with revolvers and the like. So with 21st century gun tech why would people still ... |
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So, this is for a story that has a medieval/fantasy vibe. It has to do with the small village my main character comes from. It's a very old village, having begun with a small monastery. I was thinking it be very simple, made of stone and possibly having a thatched roof. It would be maybe three rooms larg... |
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My world operates under a few assumptions, and changes to those assumptions are outside of the scope of this question:
* Aircraft are not considered to be any threat to warships, and due to some treaties and influential people, their development has not progressed (Weapons that would be effective against... |
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The idea is to have a number of artificial, spherical satellite to have sort of a "spiral" orbit around a Ringworld, such that the inhabitants of each of a number of ring sections see a moon in the sky once every year or two. Is that theoretically possible for a sufficiently advanced civilization?
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I'm picturing an universe where FTL travel was invented as a sort-of-fluke, and artificial gravity technology isn't available. Transit between star-systems takes at least a few days and a star's gravity well slows the FTL down to a point that it's STL anywhere around the Goldilocks zone.
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The merfolk are fully marine creatures with a mix of human and piscine traits. The culture in question is demersal, and constructs cities and towns upon the sea-floor. The merfolk all have a finned tail like a fish and gills to breathe underwater. Most of them also have lungs or air-spaces for buoyancy, ... |
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Pre-industrial production system: means of production where the vast majority of goods are made by skilled craftsmen specialized in that field (I.E. Carpenters, blacksmiths, millers, weavers, and woodworkers) and not mass-produced in a factory.
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In my setting there are large floating islands and much smaller floating islands that flow in random directions. Smaller ones sometimes contain mini ecosystems or ore veins that are extremely useful to larger islands. Battles and skirmishes are fought over these or even other larger islands between diffe... |
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This is NOT a repeat of [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/11441/could-there-be-a-planet-bigger-than-earth-but-with-less-gravity) question.
I am NOT looking to see the smallest planet possible that has less gravity than Earth. I am looking for how big a perfectly habitable planet (H... |
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I am wondering if there are any specific cities on the North American continent (not considering Mexico for the moment being, for reasons detailed below) that supernatural beings trying to live hidden amongst humanity would naturally flock to in order to hide.
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How effective or possible would flying machines that are not powered by a machine be on a flat plain?
I have a setting where much of the world is a relatively flat grassland, and the people have no magic. The inhabitants of this grassland are nomads, living in wagons ans almost always travailing. I would... |
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I was recently thinking about which technologies an Isekai-Protagonist could give his allies in a medival fantasy world. For all those who don't know, Isekai is an anime genre where the protagonist is a real world human who get transported into a fantasy world. Come to think of it, this question applies ... |
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I have this idea for an alternate universe where guns were... flat out rejected. Basically, while the powers that were recognized that guns were more powerful and had greater range, they were considered to be too loud and inaccurate for use in war.
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Demonic possession occurs when an evil spirit hijacks the biological system of an organism, corrupting it and taking control of its functions. Although powerful, the possession eventually breaks down the body, degrading it as time goes on, due to its incompatibility with the ethereal form. The demon must... |
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The running theory is that if the Earth is hit by a sufficiently large meteor, that the impact would create an ice age from all the dust it would put into the atmosphere. While this has been historically seen as a bad thing, this has me wondering if people might one day want to intentionally steer a larg... |
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In my setting, the planet is grossly overpopulated. Vehicles are required to carry large loads of people from place to place. Bi-articulated buses are a necessity and have replaced regular buses as a whole.
However, I want to use double-decker tri-articulated buses rather than bi-articulated ones. Would... |
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In my world, I created a race that doens't reproduce sexually. They have offspring through the combination of their blood, just blood, from a wound, and a special natural place that must be found in this world, in which the new life would gestate in a cocoon-like structure. Just one individual is needed ... |
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The principle of the Cold War was Mutually Assured Destruction... but what if this idea is now obsolete?
In the 1950s the US planned to deliver hundreds of atomic weapons to Soviet targets via a bomber fleet. This was to prevent retaliation by obliterating all obvious sources of enemy command, launch, a... |
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Can they be pulled by traditional beasts of burden? I want to create a wagon that’s fireproof, can survive high temperatures, turn over to protect the occupants like a shell, and be made with materials available to a pre-industrial society in a world without metal (to protect against dragon attacks, obvi... |
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There is a world out there, with people fairly like us (minor physical distinctions, irrelevant to the question), and with technology on par with ours, but with a very different religion.
The world (unified government) has this state religion. This religion is
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On an earth-like world I am creating there is a small island that is regularly covered in dense fog. The fog is thick enough that your standard human cannot see where the nearest mainland shore is.
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In our iteration of "Earth," there are several studies suggesting that the study of paleontology is itself going extinct. In an attempt to envision a brighter future for the field, I want to build a world whereby society values paleontology above all else -- essentially valuing ancient life more than pre... |
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All individuals contain mana, the life force of a human that can also be used to power spells. People are born with various levels of mana, with some having larger pools than others. This determines the strength of their magic and the power of their spells. The amount of mana a person has also becomes ra... |
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The setting is low fantasy medieval. Magic (and other supernatural things) belong exclusively to the realms of the gods, and are not for mortal beings to wield. However, there is one major exception.
Each and every recognized kingdom in the world has a single major patron deity who watches over it. They ... |
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The law of equivalent exchange says that for anything to be gained, something of equal value must be lost. This means that if you put in the hard work, you will be rewarded with success. I am a half-metal alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus, an artificial human being without a soul. It possesses u... |
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I was meddling with creature design a bit, and I had not been successful at coming up with anything that I would call beautiful that isn't some sort of humanoid creature. This is disappointing because it renders the design to be a mere deviation from the existing impression of a human body.
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I'm making a fantasy weapon, a spear with a thick, heavy tip.
I know that for a mace or sword that you slam down on your enemy, the weapon being heavier will give you more force, which is good for fighting armored opponents.
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A character needs to build a computer out of raw materials in a bronze age.
He has a nano scale factory, so manufacturing chips and such from silicon is possible, but I'm not sure of the best way to power it without resorting to something stupid like "And then he built a fusion reactor".
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Hello again :) My first questions had some wonderful answers, but brought me to the following problem:
Although (in my eyes) really dull, the Cpt. Geary series (the Lost Fleet) tends to depict the relativistic issues with space combat quite well (timescales, speed distortion etc.)
Is there anything I can... |
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I have two solar systems in my world that I'm not sure would be stable. I'm not concerned about whether they could evolve naturally (they didn't), just whether they would be stable if set running.
The first would be if there were two earth-like planets in the same orbit at each other's L4 and L5 Lagrange... |
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In my world, during their equivalent to the age of absolutism, dragon riding becomes very common. They can be too expensive to personally own, so they are mostly used in general warfare and transporting goods and merchants. However, the technology of my world eventually reaches to the point where there f... |
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There is a planet orbiting a binary system inside the Goldilocks zone. The problem is that the binary system is of a violent kind. It either regularly explodes and sterilizes a portion of the planet's surface ([recurrent nova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova#Recurrent_novae)) or constantly bombards th... |
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