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[Question] [ * In my world, there's an era when only some 20 visible (big enough to see with the naked eye; all other animal life forms are microscopic) animal types lived on the planet. Mammals such as wolves, livestock animals, rodents, small wild cats, as well as a few different types of fish, bird, insect, reptil...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Could the development of a body armour that completely stops any small arms fire make a civilization go back to medieval-style combat?](/questions/107195/could-the-development-of-a-body-armour-that-completely-stops-any-small-arms-fire) (16 answers) Clos...
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[Question] [ **Say, we had a teleport in all bigger cities (let's say circa more than 1 million) in the world (and some other "important" places, like military bases). What would be the impact of this?** Would the leaders be more friendly if they had the opportunity to see each other more often? Or will it cause only...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Stumped: How can I get a huge Earth-like planet?](/questions/15062/stumped-how-can-i-get-a-huge-earth-like-planet) (11 answers) Closed 7 years ago. How big can a planet be ( like Jupiter or Saturn)and have an "earth-like" gravity. i. e can à planet be a...
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[Question] [ Imagine a dwarf star and a gas giant orbiting each other around their barycenter. The gas giant does not have enough mass to ignite (but may be close to igniting). Over time, the sun loses mass due to radiation, flares and so on. Could the gas giant end up having a higher mass than the star? *(If necessa...
[Question] [ I'm putting together a little self-actuating industrial society in a post-nuclear desert. I want the chief mode of transportation for their military to be helicopters, similar to those used in the Vietnam-era. However, I though it would be interesting if those copters communicated not via radio but using...
[Question] [ I'm working on a novel where the characters inhabit a rogue planet. Would that planet get hit by more asteroids due to the fact that it isn't orbiting a star? I have a feeling that the distance is negligible, but I can't really find an answer to this question. [Answer] Fewer. There is very little in i...
[Question] [ It is the year 274 After Singularity (2384 AD) Humans have settled on Saturn’s moon Titan and are adapting humans to the methane-rich environment through pantropy. The results are the Titanians: beings that drink liquid methane, breathe hydrogen and breathe out methane vapour, and use acetylene instead o...
[Question] [ Seeing as the brand new James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror was recently hit by a micrometeroid, I figured that now would be a good time to ask about spaceship hull protection. When we think "spaceship" we probably imagine a large hunky piece of metal floating through the vacuum of space. Space whic...
[Question] [ In order to have somewhat justified fancy Expanse-style holograms in my world, I came up with the concept of using free-floating nanobots that emit the photons needed to create a 3D image. I can easily handwave the ability of the nanites to arrange themselves and emit light, but I became curious as to ho...
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[Question] [ **Question** How small could a human scale down to? **Requirements** Must be able to work stone, metal, and wood. **Notes** -If we can assume they evolved in a place with temperatures where they wouldn't freeze or cook to death, and figured out how to make clothes/fire to keep them warm so they could exp...
[Question] [ What temperatures can one expect 50-150 meters below different types of deserts? The rocks in my campaign heavily feature iron sediments, like in Australia, but since this is a fantasy world I am open to changing types of rocks and environments. This question is aimed at an underground cave system I am p...
[Question] [ In my world each person has the ability to call upon the power of a star; using it to further whatever end they’d want—i.e. *using the sun’s energy to power a spell.* However, they can **ONLY** call upon the power of the visible stars in the sky and once the stars are on the other side of the plane...
[Question] [ I like the image of heavily armored troops fighting wars. I understand that body armor is very cumbersome, and does not totally protect from damage. So what about shields? Imagine we had access to a supermaterial, which is reasonably lightweight to be carried by a soldier, and protective enough to st...
[Question] [ What if there was a binding global resolution passed tomorrow mandating that all countries gradually close down their terrestrial resource extraction sites and instead source from asteroid mines? Would mining metals and other elements from space sources (moons, asteroids, etc.) in lieu of mining them fro...
[Question] [ One common trope of RPGs are the "bane weapons". Say, there's this axe that deals more damage to elves, or an arrow that's better at killing dragons. I won't go into detail why in a world, where one item can only have one enchantment, is this a bad idea, so I'll just quote one of my OCs: > > Oh, a weapo...
[Question] [ Say that we have many undead zombies/vampires/ghouls/whatever. I want to use them to generate electricity, because they never get tired, never need to take breaks, and can exert great force without needing large amounts of material inputs. What is the best way to do this? Should I have them ride some sor...
[Question] [ Would a fictional relative of a [Mosasaurus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaurus), the fictional one being a tad bit bigger, be capable of destroying a ship? For the purposes of this question, assume a wooden ship of comparable size and construction to medieval [cogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
[Question] [ Can arrow heads containing certain substances cause skin and flesh to crystallize, giving the impression of the target being frozen? Do such substances exist? [Answer] So, freezing targets is actually rather hard. Setting them on fire has of course been solved half a dozen ways already, but there's ...
[Question] [ Say there is a floating city that rests high in the air, it has the area of around New York City and has massive hydrogen tanks under it to keep it afloat, (I am aware the physics of this is impossible, but this takes place in a fantasy setting so I am not concerned), and the residence have air filters t...
[Question] [ We’re in the late 2020s and we’ve all the planned future telescopes - [WFIRST](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/wide-field-infrared-survey-telescope-wfirst/), [JWST](https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/), Giant Magellan Telescope etc - and technologies. There’s a small black hole in the outer solar system. It ha...
[Question] [ Let's imagine a race of Giants, with an average height three times that of a normal human being. Let's also imagine that these Giants are completely identical to humans, proportionately speaking... that is, they haven't disproportionately larger or shorter legs, hands, or any other bodypart. Every single...
[Question] [ **Scenario** Set in modern day Antarctica, a group of very talented scientists are working on a highly confidential scientific experiment which would one day allow us to manipulate time literally. They are working deep inside an abandoned mine to develop a machine that can extract the energy of time, the...
[Question] [ **Characteristics:** * has close to 80.000km in diameter * The atmosphere is composed of: -30% hydrogen (cold gas planets have hydrogen but it makes sense it exists in a rocky planet?) -20% oxygen -49% nitrogen -1% carbon dioxide and others * The planet round these temperatures: -90ºC and - 40 ° C * Th...
[Question] [ If Star Trek transporters actually existed... Bob and Dave transport down to Earth from their ship. But something goes wrong and their DNA is swapped over! Not their cells as such, just the DNA strands within each cell. What would happen to them in the ensuing seconds, hours and days? I can imagine a few...
[Question] [ In Sci Fi, the majority of weapons come in the form of either some kind of energy beam/bolt, or as testosterone-dripping slug-throwers. In [Mass Effect](https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons) and the [Aldreaverse](https://eldraeverse.com/2014/08/05/interlude-things-that-go-bang/) utilize weapons tha...
[Question] [ In this universe, a "warp drive" is more like a "constant linear velocity" drive. Once it is turned on, the craft travels at exactly the same velocity (speed plus direction), in a straight line, that it had initially. There is no changing this velocity during the warp trip, including by gravitational fie...
[Question] [ In my magic system, sorcerers can absorb magical energy from another plane of existence, called Ether, in order to convert it into kinetic and thermal energy; they can also dispel these types of energy, which is converted back into magical energy and returned directly to Ether. Now, this means that a sor...
[Question] [ In my world the south of the mountains is the crumbling empire, here orcs where driven out long ago, apart from a few mercenary bands and such. North of the mountain is the steppe, this grasland is what a strong human khanate calls home. Given this setup, how can the orcish tribes also live on the steppe...
[Question] [ On the earths surface, radar is pretty sweet. It apparently penetrates the atmosphere well and bounces back and can be detected. I think this has to do with the wavelengths absorbed by our atmosphere. But what about space? For detecting things at a distance (for example - rock on a collision course) does...
[Question] [ Over 100,000 years ago giant megafauna roamed the earth such as mammoths, gigantopithecus, and giant sloths. Fast forward to today and most megafauna are extinct (with the notable exception being in Africa) the probable culprit HUMANS! So what I want to know is how do I preserve some of the Megafauna lik...
[Question] [ Probably beginning of a series of questions. **Human armies** I treat human as comparison point for other races. Their civilization level is around ~1500-1550 year of our world. Heavy cavalry is still used and prominent and knights are still most important part of it. Infantry forces are based on early t...
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[Question] [ Consistent units are one of the most important inventions to the modern age. Before standardization, one used natural units such as 'feet', but these all varied from person to person. My world abides to all natural laws of Earth and has developed very similarly. **Could anything exist naturally in my wor...
[Question] [ Assume a location which is heavily polluted with dust of several types of elemental metals (copper, silver, nickel, cobalt etc) or their respective oxides and salts (whatever is stable in humidity and air). It's in the water, in the dirt, basically everywhere. All organisms consume it with their food all...
[Question] [ I've pretty much finished the map of a world I'm building for a fantasy novel, but I've realised that on one of the continents I need there to be forest on both sides of a large mountain range. I've never made maps/worlds before so have had to research everything from scratch and I didn't really account ...
[Question] [ I've seen in multiple forms of fiction the sort of joking notion of stopping a volcano from erupting by just... plugging up the top with something? Like, a large and sufficiently heavy rock? While the idea is obviously silly and extremely impractical, the prevalence of this trope got me thinking: is it ...
[Question] [ ## Premise Even at present day, space assets are very valuable: > > Our space assets, day by day, are growing by leaps and bounds. It's > the value of that satellite to the economy. - Neil deGrasse Tyson > > > Historically, the US Space Command has been around since 1985, and has played several impo...
[Question] [ A [distributed ledger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger) is a 'database' without a central administrator or central storage. Instead, each copy of the database replicates and saves an identical copy of the data and updates itself independently. A distributed ledger must: * Have a mechanis...
[Question] [ In a fantasy world I'm developing the kingdom of Andalus is seeking a more potent propellant for a grand bombard planned by the sanguine king. The size and composition of the bombard is saved for a later question, but it and the cannon ball itself would be so huge gunpowder isn't potent enough or would n...
[Question] [ > > "All around me are familiar faces > > Worn out places, **worn out faces**" > > -[Mad World by Roland Orzabal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_World) > > > What if a humanlike species can actually wear out their faces and need to change them? *Possibly by stealing from humans.* But: ...
[Question] [ **For context** : A squad hunters has been assigned to capture a *Tyrannosaurus Rex* for the grand opening of a new amazing zoo. They will be sent to a location in Montana 66 million years ago using a time warp (one-way, and opened for 1 hour) and will have about 1 month to find and capture an adult *T. ...
[Question] [ So my hero (henceforth Bob) has become disgusted with all that society has to offer. He decides to set sail on a ship, never to return to the mainland supercontinent again (this is WWI tech, so you can assume no one is going to find him in Panthalassa, which is basically a large global sea with mainly sm...
[Question] [ According to a recent paper from the university of Edinburgh, the ground of Mars contains a lot of perchlorate, which combined with the high level of ultraviolet radiation, makes a very bacteria hostile environment. Let's imagine that we are going to colonize Mars. Bacteria which would go out of our spac...
[Question] [ So I'm writing a scifi/Fantasy story and the setting is a primitive steampowered era. No electricity, gun powder, etc. I was wondering how realistically storing steam power in canisters for mobile use would work. Can a steam engine store pressure like a CO2 cartridge? Would it be able to be used on the g...
[Question] [ I was thinking of exploring Lovecraftian horror the other day, and the thought occurred to me: say a couple decades after the American civil war, there was a certain city in New England of 10,000 people whose inhabitants committed atrocities, summoned beings so heinous and devolved into creatures themsel...
[Question] [ I'm designing a city where there are multiple layers of tunnels- there are catacombs(because the nobles ruling there bury their dead underground), there are escape tunnels from the royal palace, & there is a drainage system underneath all this. Is it possible to have all this underneath a city, specially...
[Question] [ I'm developing a story about a world which is as similar to our world as possible, except for one important difference: sex doesn't exist. Romantic love still exists, it's just that there's no lust involved; two people just fall in love and have a desire to be with one another. Hugs and kisses may still ...
[Question] [ Lets say that we are in the modern world, which looks mostly the same as it does today. However, rapid healing has become available, in my world due to sudden influx magic but for this question you could easily hypothesis some new technology, nanotec healing whatever. The point is that a small number of ...
[Question] [ As we all know, the idea of any sort of legged fighting vehicle would be a horrible idea in real life, as mechanical complexity and the huge silhouette would make them punching bags for just about any weapon system. But we are still infatuated with the idea of them in fiction anyway. Note, mecha here in ...
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[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How to justify the absence of weapons](/questions/30355/how-to-justify-the-absence-of-weapons) (17 answers) Closed 7 years ago. Think of a post-apocalyptic world: 2% of the population survived, the world is in utter disarray - the works. The entire pop...
[Question] [ Centuries ago, a localized meteor shower deposited rare "supermetal" in the side of a mountain range. Due to the force of the impact, it created a pockmarked area with the metal at varied depths. In the present day, a nation has sprung up in this area, mining the pockmarked area for the supermetal to be ...
[Question] [ A man who wants to live in a hidden cave on his mountain property in the Pyrenees has hired a caver to evaluate the cave as a bomb shelter in case of a nuclear war. The cave is small compared to most caves but he used to sleep in it when he was a boy with his two brothers. The cave is dry and has 2 caver...
[Question] [ In my sci-fi story there is a man-portable railgun. The gun fires a 4mm-wide tungsten bullet with a muzzle velocity of Mach 23. The inventors of this weapon could have made the projectile faster but were concerned that doing so would cause it to go into orbit and didn't have enough time to fine-tune the ...
[Question] [ I'm working on a setting with a really old, sentient rock. While its able to think, and has an excellent memory, it has no moving body parts - because it is a rock. The idea is that it can vibrate to produce sound but I'd like to check what sorts of sounds a vibrating rock (or crystal) can make. I don't ...
[Question] [ I'm considering a worldbuilding exercise focusing on a "second generation" civilization, which arises after a previous civilization from millions of years ago either died off or left the planet. One of the biggest questions, which I haven't found a good answer for yet, is what would happen to that previo...
[Question] [ I have been looking into the earliest possible time in the universe that a human-like intelligent species could evolve based on the necessary elements being present. [Kepler-444](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-444) is one of the oldest solar systems with rocky planets that has been observed. It is ...
[Question] [ ## Context There is an inland sea called the Poisoned sea (name subject to change), which is around the size of the Mediterranean sea. A vast majority of the land masses in the Poisoned sea are the corpses of utterly ginormous chimeric kaiju called God-eaters. Relevant information on the God-Eaters * ...
[Question] [ A supreme being has finished their renovations of modern day Earth, and has now decided what is needed is monsters, epic quests, magical powers, danger, excitement, and all. However, they also don't want to force people to go into it, or magically change people so they want it, and want to have this real...
[Question] [ So this bioweapon is a genetically-engineered microscopic parasite used by a certain government in a sort of revolution-turned-war. It works by making its host more paranoid, stressed and non-trusting by altering the chemicals the host's brains produce. Kind of like biologically contagious fear, or the o...
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[Question] [ So, this question concerns gaining the Engorgement Enchantment, which one can only obtain by killing an Engulfer *without* a weapon (ie. non-natural weaponry, one must use one's own body to accomplish this). Now, I don't want this question longer than it has to be, so if you want to see more about the En...
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[Question] [ The concept is that my world has a permanent chaotic geomagnetic field going on. Sort of a perpetual [Carrington Event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event), only the source is not a solar storm. In theory, this should make electronics be hard to develop, be very limited, and quite unreliable ...
[Question] [ Since I want to experiment with nonhuman shaped species, could a sentient species use its lips or tongue as primary appendages? Giraffes have prehensile tongues and many aquatic species use their lips. We can expect many creatures will have lips and tongues, but would evolution want this to happen? Aren'...
[Question] [ A mostly autonomous city exists deep underground inside a mountain. They enjoy a modern level of technology and engineering. Other than nuclear power what energy sources could they harness to power their infrastructures? Maybe geothermal energy? But then where would you dump the heat? [Answer] **Letti...
[Question] [ My story involves reference to another universe which is never actually visited during my story. This other universe has very different physics e.g. time works differently, matter and energy related differently to each other. Within my story there is some matter from this universe that has come into the ...
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[Question] [ For my question, I was wondering the idea of a creature that needed to be visually seen by Humans or else, if no sight on it by a human being has been made then it can only last for 24 Hours. I was wondering, despite the obvious Non-Scientific biology part of it, would there be a more scientific and bio...
[Question] [ I’m designing a human Bronze Age civilization on a world with only ⅓ of Earth’s gravity. This reduced gravity will allow humans to jump much higher than they could on Earth. It will also allow humans to climb much further and much faster given their reduced weight. This seems to me like it would render c...
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[Question] [ Larry Niven defines a macro-life civilisation as one that lives in interstellar spacecraft, independent of planetary resources and culture, full time and by implication keeps moving. This could mean small but self-sufficient generation ships or could entail something as vast as a ram-jetting Ringworld wi...
[Question] [ Many efforts have been made to construct simpler languages that are easier to learn (e.g. [Esperanto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto)), and relatively simple language arise naturally in the form of [pidgins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin) and [creoles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espera...
[Question] [ On a (colonized) fallen world humans have been pushed to the brink. The planet is a massive desert world with no body of water on the surface, and no rain fall. The only way to get water is from the aquifers underground but even they go dry leaving the settlement to die shortly after. Society is still ad...
[Question] [ In my world lives a society with ancient technology. By ancient technology, I mean ancient roman-like tech, with full access to ancient greek-like knowledge (like the antikythera or Archimedes' war machines). Now, I would like this society to develop a kind of military zeppelin, and I was wondering if it...
[Question] [ For the purposes of this question, "teleportation" refers to Star Trek style teleportation: a body is diassembled in one location, and reassembled with an exact (perfect) replica of the entire consciousness in another location. The process happens very quickly from the point of view of an external observ...
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[Question] [ **Short Version** (During the next 500 years on Earth) How does life change for students during school and after they graduate, to find work in a world where our economy is still based on gaining wealth by providing services but fewer and fewer services and tasks are performed by humans? (I'm interested...
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[Question] [ Death of stars are fun and make for a great premise, but the actual dying of stars that are conducive to intelligent life aren't so interesting. Stars that can go supernova are too short-lived to harbour intelligent life. # Questions How do you kill a star such that a civillisation is around to witness t...
[Question] [ In a setting I am working on there is a civilization based in a tropical floodplain that’s dependent on paddy field agriculture to maintain its population. Problem is that all the standing water and moist soil creates the perfect conditions for mosquitoes, and those buggers spread absolutely awful diseas...
[Question] [ A planet little bigger than earth with slightly less gravity. Colder than the earth, with longer days and shorter years. And water prevalence: 32% (23% surface water and 9% subterranean) and two moons. Other specifications * Larger and slower waves * Taller plants * Larger and faster animals * Thinner at...
[Question] [ Meet the Artarons, a group of giants of unknown origin. This troop consists of 15 humongous human-like giants, they have been living isolated in the woods to keep themselves secluded from the modern world, and are currently striving to secretly sneak and live in a modern city. These giants stood at a tow...
[Question] [ Solar panels cannot operate at night. If we put self-adjusting mirrors on the near side of the moon, they could reflect sunlight back to the dark Earth, allowing solar panels to operate at night. How much of the moon would have to be covered in mirrors in order to allow Earth-based solar panels to operat...
[Question] [ Magical texts are used to record spells and rituals. When a witch reads a spell from the book, the magical power is activated, releasing the power within to perform it. However, the main issue with texts is that they are subject to wear and tear. The magic within the book is constantly leaking, spilling ...
[Question] [ I've got a fantasy setting set in a world based on the ancient near east ca 500 B.C. In it there are merfolk who have contact and trade with local humans. The merfolk are physically more similar to Abe Sapien than Ariel, their upper bodies are also covered in scales, they are more piscine than mammalian ...
[Question] [ Atmospheres like Earth's or Mars would freeze and precipitate towards the surface if the planets were to be moved very far away from the Sun, since the light that reaches that far is incredibly dim and provides close to no heat. **Could a planet, say 44 AU away from the Sun, have a volcanic atmosphere if...
[Question] [ My universe is focused on a steampunk-esque atmosphere although with more modern technologies up to the early 2000s (yes I am aware of dieselpunk, atompunk etc, but in here the steampunk aesthetic is merged with newer technologies, which are designed in resemblance to Victorian futuristim for cultural re...
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[Question] [ The fleet in my setting are forced to leave the planet due to a volatile virus, and leave in pre-prepared spacefaring vessels capable of transporting ten million people per ship. The ships have algaculture-based farms for sustenance, but food isn't nearly as important as water. Water can be recycled from...
[Question] [ My story has some very advanced robots that have spread throughout the galaxy. Their advanced technology has developed to massive radio and optical telescopes to view unexplored areas of space. When I heard about black holes that can reach enormous proportions, I wanted to explore the idea of viewing one...
[Question] [ Let’s say you have a planet called... Galileo. Galileo has a large level of biodiversity, with bacteria, plants, fungi, and animals. The animals are what I’d like to focus on today. Unlike Earth with its birds and insects, I intend on Galileo having no animals capable of flight. My question is, what coul...
[Question] [ I was creating a map of the air currents in my world, working back from the climates of the land (which I had already determined). (The world consists of one continent, similar to Pangea, with empty ocean covering the rest of the planet.) That resulted in this map: [![A map of a single continent with win...
[Question] [ So we have seen questions stating or asking how a dragon could breathe fire. Although, I want to know what substance would make it as powerful as dragon fire could be. I envisioned a biological napalm that was slightly viscous and stuck to the target continuously burning until out of fuel, but a dragon c...
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[Question] [ On another planet there is a group of organisms that have colorful display patterns allowing them to attract mates. Eventually a branch of this type of organism evolves the intelligence of early humans. Could their intelligence affect how they select for color patterns in mates, and so affect, the evolut...