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[Question] [ Plausibility check of the whole "insect race". As background, I want some poor astronauts to "crash" (safely land, but because they *had no other option*, possibly some engine malfunction) and meet with my *insectoid* race. But... **How would they communicate?** I will put *you* in the situation. Imagine...
[Question] [ I know it's been proven false in our world, but what is the most plausible mechanism by which an [Open Polar Sea](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Polar_Sea) could form and persist? I don't mean all the ice melting, but an open sea as it was imagined, surrounded by ice, before people actually travelled ...
[Question] [ I was listening to a video on how to write, and the person giving the lecture said something along the lines of "I'm bored with stories where the setting is supposed to be in the far-flung future, and yet the people in that setting's culture act just they do in our culture today". Now, while I get that t...
[Question] [ I am thinking about what would happen in a very-very distant future when most of the stars have already died out into black holes or other catastrophic events, leading to severe lack of light in the sky of remaining star systems with life. And I'm thinking about recent discoveries of gravitational waves ...
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[Question] [ This should be a pretty easy one for you all. I need to render someone unconscious, and unable to be woken, in a story. I need it to be due to an unexpected medical issue, I don't care rather that is due to some undiagnosed personal aliment or an outside source like being hit on the head by a coconut. It...
[Question] [ In an alternate universe where Eurasia is less advanced and the native peoples of the Americas and Australia build powerful civilizations, what animals could be domesticated that weren't domesticated in real life? There are many roles a domesticated animal can be used for. The major ones are farm labor, ...
[Question] [ My world has no axial tilt. Therefore instead of having seasons from axial tilt it gets its seasons from actually moving farther away from its parent star. In the mid latitudes the temperature fluctuates from a balmy summer in the mid-high 70s (Fahrenheit of course) to a brutal -20 or -50 degree winter i...
[Question] [ ## Premise I am designing a kind of eternal corridor whereby healthy people are thrown into to spend ages there. Bodily functions/subsistence needs are nullified: they don't feel hungry or anything. Basically, they are just alone with their thoughts. If inside long enough, I want the outcome to be that t...
[Question] [ Prefacing information // *The Creed of Forgemasters, a religious society worshipping what thry identify as the purity of machines and driven by the holy mission of liberating the pure, immortal souls of humankind from their corrupted mortal shells, exists primarily in the industrial centers of the world....
[Question] [ As was pointed out by the great answers of my [first question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/218899/biological-siege-weapons-part-1-are-living-things-capable-of-breaking-down-th) regarding biological siege weapons, organisms can be rather capable of making it through fortified defense...
[Question] [ The bottom line, of this question, is that I'm quite fond of the [cassette futurism](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CassetteFuturism) (WARNING! TV Tropes link) aesthetic, and want at least some of it in my world. I'm reluctant to shoehorn it into my world, but I have what I think are good re...
[Question] [ Many are familiar with the scenes of astronauts-in-training practicing weightless activities while submerged in a pool with neutral buoyancy. In this scenario, an astronaut is in such a pool, undergoing such training. This pool is completely contained, essentially a large cube completely filled with wate...
[Question] [ I was wondering if it were possible for human life to survive with *slightly* more oxygen and *slightly* less nitrogen. I know a user called [@Lars](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/41044/lars) asked a [similar question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/90937/what-would-happ...
[Question] [ In fiction, beings that can change shape can do so extremely rapidly and are immediately able to function in their new shape. While there is some precedent for the latter in nature (butterflies can *fly* more or less on emergence from their cocoon, and most ungulates can run within hours of birth), these...
[Question] [ Superfluid helium-4 is an extremely slippery substance, which is why I came upon the idea of weaponizing it. One of the planets in my setting is rich in helium, so the weaponization of the element would make sense realistically. The grenade would either leak the superfluid out, or it would detonate and s...
[Question] [ I'm looking to create a lethal disease for a sci-fi book. The plot surrounds a group of rich people taking teenagers off earth to start a new life away from this illness. The pandemic has been going on for a few years already and there's no cure yet. **Some ideas I came up with:** * A [coronavirus](ht...
[Question] [ **Background:** It's 2020 and the US military needs to invade an alien planet for *freedom purposes*. Unfortunately, the only way to get there is through a Stargate-esqe, non-moveable wormhole located at some semi-secret military base within the continental USA. It's circular, big enough for standard shi...
[Question] [ A long time ago [homo floresiensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis) split off into two main groups: [goblins](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/167656/what-evolutionary-pressures-would-lead-to-goblins) and halflings. Now, halflings still need to eat, and therefore, they n...
[Question] [ Worldbuilding Stack Exchange. I ask for your aid. In my project, an Bronze-age alien civilization living near the coast has discovered a mollusk that can secrete ooze that later hardens into nacre, the same substance found in pearls. By using molds and the liquid secreted by these mollusks (let's say the...
[Question] [ So I've been working on the history of a particular fantasy world and one of its main societies. Specifically how it rebuilt after a civil war that destabilizes government and destroyed larger cities etc. during this a plague breaks out. All in all most people end up dead with a few small groups of survi...
[Question] [ **My setting has a lush rainforest planet**, which houses some of the most feared animals in the galaxy. **The abundance of food would make competition tougher and tougher over millions of years of adaptation**. What kind of creatures could survive in such unforgiving conditions? Are there any survival t...
[Question] [ I have only encountered the "Sonic Boom" a couple of times in my life, once when I was lucky enough to watch Concorde fly over my town in the late 70's. In a story I'm writing someone claims to have encountered/observed something that travelled Faster than Light. And obviously the question is "How would ...
[Question] [ This is a follow up question to one I asked earlier:[How can religions be structured in ways that allow inter-faith councils to work?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151781/how-can-religions-be-structured-in-ways-that-allow-inter-faith-councils-to-work/151861#151861) So, these gods are...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ I have characters with ice powers. I was planning that they could freeze an injury and prevent it from progressing. An arrow is shot at their heart, but I could possibly change the location to make the situation more probable. [Answer] Unless you use a healthy dose of story telling Magic, No. The hea...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story about a race that has space travel capabilities without rocket technology, instead is using a portal to space and was wondering whether it's possible for them to put something in orbit, and more precisely: Is it possible to launch an object into portal A inside a vacuum tube so that w...
[Question] [ Wyverns in this world are intelligent creatures (similar to humans), capable of communicating among themselves. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0or8I.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0or8I.jpg) They are reptilians, cold blood, with hands capable of manipulating, and wings that, ...
[Question] [ **What realistic mechanism could be utilized to allow my drone to hover and move around in a visually pleasing and non distracting way?** I am currently working on a short sci-fi film, which, among other things, includes maintenance drones that will be present on a space ship. My goal is to have a fair a...
[Question] [ I looked for answers, but didn't see any solid answers for this particular question. Unlike the other questions my winged humanoids can have their wings disappear so they can pass for human, then have them "grow"out of their body in seconds when they wish to fly. In summer there's not as much problems fo...
[Question] [ Essentially, this is a sort of brainstorming question: Say a world has many kingdoms and cultures, and each of these have magicians who can use magic, which includes things like improving physical strength and casting fireballs and the like. The knowledge that magic exists is widespread and, while perhap...
[Question] [ Assuming there were no extinction level threats to the dinosaurs, and they never fully died off (and survived the following ice ages), how would this affect the evolution and technology use of humans if at all? Given that a T-rex is about the same size and speed as an elephant, and velociraptors are sli...
[Question] [ According to dungeons and dragons, Elves don't sleep, but go through a process called reverie. This is a meditative state in which they retain the restorative of sleeping, but they remain fully conscious throughout it. It is similar to REM state, where breathing and brainwaves slow down, and muscles rela...
[Question] [ Time travel is a major staple is sci-fi. You just can't escape it. Sometimes the characters travel so far back, that if or when they tell locals that they are from the future, I'm skeptical that the story writers have the locals' reactions correct. I'm under the impression that the concept of time travel...
[Question] [ In a post-apocalyptic world, survival is often difficult. In the first few decades after the apocalypse, living in permanent settlements was dangerous because of roaming creatures and bandit gangs, which can wipe out an entire population in a single battle. So, some people chose to steal what they needed...
[Question] [ Orcs and the like are often depicted with green skin, what kind of evolutionary pressures would lead to mammals with green, blue, etc. skin and/or hair? [Answer] There is a flaw in your reasoning here. You assume that there has to be an evolutionary advantage for something to happen. In many cases tho...
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[Question] [ I want to tell my kid an Atlantis-like story, where humans had the minimum required super powers to enable a group of people to create 1910s technology in a fairly quick and easy manner. I have a bit of a beef with "ancient alien astronaut" theorists, many of whom point at cool achievements of our ancest...
[Question] [ As far as we know stars have a limited fusion cycle. Once they fuse elements up to the element iron, there is no subsequent energy that can be released through fusion, given the inherent atomic structure of the element iron. So premise aside, my thought experiment is: if advanced beings were able to mag...
[Question] [ Say you were to implement in the cranium, a series of baffles (similar to the system used in an airplane, to prevent the fuel from sloshing around). And arrange them in such a way as to partition the skull, and subsequently the brain inside, in a number of smaller spaces (separated by relatively rigid me...
[Question] [ As part of a series on plant animals, plantimals if you will, I am now asking about ears. All surface life has them or some sort of equivalent to them and with good reason. Other than sight, hearing is the most crucial sense. But what about plants? While it has been [documented](http://abcnews.go.com/GMA...
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[Question] [ Assuming that during the middle ages on Earth, all wind stopped. Some magic spell has made it so that air will no longer move faster than a gentle breeze from thermodynamics (the speed air moves out of the way of a solid object is unchanged). What would the be the consequences of this? [Answer] ## Sho...
[Question] [ I have a native tribe in pre-Columbus America that has successfully domesticated small, omnivorous bears. They are similar in size to Sun Bears [120–150 cm (47–59 in) / 27–80 kg (60–176 lb)]. I want to use the bear as dog replacement but I don't think its plausible to use them as hounds or to make them h...
[Question] [ Hermaproditism (simultaneous and sequential) and cyclical sex-swapping would seem to eliminate patrilineal and matrilineal concepts of inheritance and allegiance, but I really want one of my alien societies built around the model of great families/clans and major/minor houses. Inheritance to the eldest o...
[Question] [ So I am looking to structure a country so that there are other areas that are "free" to make their own laws but pay a tribute to the main country. I know that there's historical precedent (Rome's a good example). I am trying to get an idea of the practical advantages and disadvantages to allowing mostly ...
[Question] [ In my world, Southern Europe, Northern Africa and all the territories surrounding the Mediterranean belong to a single empire. The Emperor and his Council have decided that they are going to [drain the entire Mediterranean Sea](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/55673/18252). They have of course r...
[Question] [ On Earth, life took on a quadruped body plan which has lead to many different sub body plans; 4 legged, 2 legs-2 wings, 2 legs-2 arms, etc. This has made me wonder what possible sub body plans can exist on hexapods. Ignoring tails, what are the possible ways a hexapods limbs can be arranged? [Answer] ...
[Question] [ The first archetype that comes to mind is: **Coexistent Primary and Secondary World (both on planet earth)**: The writer usually makes up an excuse to explain why the "Muggles" don't know about the fantasy world (like in *Harry Potter*, *Artemis Fowl*, *The Magicians*, ...). I'm not an expert fantasy r...
[Question] [ I'm interested in asteroid mining, but don't have the infrastructure in place to process ores and the like in space. However, I've got a nice planet-based refinery setup where I could easily process an asteroid, except for one problem: it's on a planet, and my asteroids are in space. I'd like to get my a...
[Question] [ Imagine a laser capable of melting through a 1 inch steel plate [in a second](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWK4rKYpYcY). Pretty impressive, no? Good, now make it **100,000 times more powerful**. That's gamma rays. Recent tremendous advances in linear accelerator miniaturization (LAM) have completely ...
[Question] [ If some super-advanced, spacefaring race could carve an asteroid into the right shape, and launch it at the right angle and velocity, would it be possible to “skip” the asteroid off of a planet’s atmosphere, like you would skip a stone off the surface of a pond? How big or small would it have to be for t...
[Question] [ I am writing a novel and I am working on the design of a castle that is defending a long wall at the border of a land to prevent invaders. I am currently trying to think of the design of the castle, because it is essentially part of the wall, to help defend it. I can't decide on a good design for it. I ...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story wherein a young woman becomes the lord/lady of a number of villages in a feudal society (she is the vassal to a king). The world is sort-of medieval, with cannons but without muskets. The way she gets this position is kind of complicated, and there is no question that it occurs, even ...
[Question] [ I am playing with idea of Earth being attacked by aliens. Such attack is aimed on our computers and reason of attack is to show to the Federation of planets that we are still weak to be contacted. The question: **How would we handle after such attack?** * The attack is synchronised, covering all the Eart...
[Question] [ Something I'm working on involving human soldiers in the future- I'm trying to decide whether hand-held rail guns or gyrojet firearms would serve as better weaponry, which advantages/drawbacks one might have that the other would not. Which would have better penetrating power? Require less resources to ma...
[Question] [ Imagine a world with a dead core, like Mars, but covered in water. This world has managed to hold on to its atmosphere and quite a bit of its water as well. I'm sure the prodigious life there would be grateful if the planet could also hold on to its magnetic field. This core has been dead for quite some ...
[Question] [ In my Series there is a zombie apocalypse that has fast zombies in it. They are equally if not weaker than the average man. The problem is that running zombies are bad for storytelling. So I'm asking how I can make running zombies seem like less of a threat? Preferably equal in danger to 2-3 slow zombies...
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[Question] [ Let me set the scene: A team of scientists in their lab one day is told that some miners have discovered some strange new substance. Its properties are extremely peculiar, unlike anything ever before seen. Most of those properties are fantastical and inexplicable (think 'Pure', judgmental energy that see...
[Question] [ In 1495 European sailors discover america, and found the nasty surprise that dinosaurs had survived in this continent and are the dominant species. Can an early arquebus kill or damage a large carnivore as a T-rex? [Answer] The caliber of an arquebus could vary pretty widely but would typically fall ...
[Question] [ I know the question is rather broad but I hope to find a somewhat general solution. Here is a sample scenario: Two characters are in a room. One of them starts discussing something private, the other says "Shh, don't you know the walls have ears?" signifying that they could be under surveillance. How can...
[Question] [ Actually this is not an idea for a book, I thought about it after reading this [article](https://spectrum.ieee.org/moon-base). The power grid they propose for the moon would require a lot of electric cables and robots that bring power where the cables do not arrive. But even if the moon is smaller than t...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story for a character who is a an old monster hunter. In his younger days, he used to make a living by hunting the most dangerous monsters which are basically the story's equivalent of apex predators like tigers or lions. At one time he was tasked to clear a small island of tiger-like monst...
[Question] [ I have a hypothetical scenario in which Mars flies over Jupiter at close range. I want to make Mars disintegrate entirely in this scenario while keeping the scenario scientifically accurate (please ignore the part about why Mars leaves its orbit). The outline of my scenario is as follows: * Mars goes dee...
[Question] [ In stereotypical fantasy, there is normally some sort of revolution in a uni-polar world where the rebels have to fight the evil empire. (This is not always true but its basically what happens) The "empire" either is the only country that exists or sits alone on a continent etc... These are semi-plausibl...
[Question] [ So here is the basic setup. The parasite lives in the cells of it hosts and can only spread via reproduction, and will spread 100% of the time to a child regardless if the infected was the mother or the father. The infected are strongly encouraged to raise families with the uninfected. For the sake of si...
[Question] [ In the world I am making their is a species of wyvern like monsters that hunt in groups of 10 to 20 in the aftermath of the storms they make and have wingspans that range from 20 ft to 36 ft. Other relevant information * A wyvern's average body temperature when hunting exceeds that of 110 degrees Fahr...
[Question] [ Individual tidally locked planets or moons are a relatively common topic, but I was wondering if it would at all be possible for an entire solar system's celestial bodies to orbit and rotate at just the right speeds to make it seem like none of the bodies are moving at all and that, to an observer standi...
[Question] [ So, suppose there exists an island (roughly the same size as Hawaii's big island) which is located well in the Arctic (or Antarctic) Circle, but magically has a tropical rainforest climate (warm temperatures, lots of rain, and bright sunlight even when the rest of the hemisphere is experiencing polar nig...
[Question] [ Could someone with textile knowledge share the wisdom and tell me what type of fiber for clothing different cultures should use or are best suited to use based on their climate and needs? I know jute, sisal and kenaf are really tough but uncomfortable fibers, mostly used for non-clothing things but with ...
[Question] [ The other day I wrote [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/205154/86045) post, asking about the possibility of an electricity based weapon. Sadly, no real feasible or possible weapon was available that could work in a vacuum with some actual effectiveness, so I've mostly dropped the idea. I'm...
[Question] [ The big bad vilain is stealing energy from our sun. He has been doing this for 2000 years and the sun has already shrunk in mass by 25%. What are the effects on our earth. From what i found [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/125953/can-the-sun-lose-enough-mass-that-saturns-current-v...
[Question] [ Under normal circumstances, monolithic diamond is pretty terrible at resisting impact, due to it being weak in certain planes, also known as cleavage planes. To solve this, why don't we just make the diamonds smaller? They'd be much harder to hit on the cleavage plane that way (wink). What I had in mind ...
[Question] [ Extrapolating ~10-20 years from our current technology, what are some limitations with 3-D printing? Is the ability to print any type of matter in reach, or are there some fundamental issues that might limit this technology? [Answer] So I've been 3D printing for nearly 2 decades so I feel I can extrap...
[Question] [ I want to create a sapient, amphibious species who have developed a civilization around as advanced as late bronze age Egypt and the Middle East. I would want to know if these sapient amphibians could be able to develop metallurgy or if their skin would be too sensitive to heat to smelt metals. [Answe...
[Question] [ Using the Tolkien depiction of Wargs (horse-sized and fairly intelligent large lupines that can be domesticated), where would they likely find an economic niche as livestock or work animals? I would imagine the polar regions, where sled dogs are already popular pack animals, would be a good place for dom...
[Question] [ **Backstory** In around modern time in the United States there was a super secret science project, unknown to the general public. They invented an experimental [portal](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/quake/images/b/bb/Teleportoutof.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20110629171827) system,...
[Question] [ The gods created the earth and the humans that live across it. Mankind developed their civilizations and cultures, worshipping various gods related to different aspects. Humanity worships the same gods, but in various ways and are attributed different personalities and images. A god of war for the Aztecs...
[Question] [ **Premise** I’m trying to design a planet with atmospheric conditions nearly identical to Earth, but with roughly the same size and mass of Titan. Titan lacks the conditions to maintain an atmosphere on its own like Earth, it depends on the magnetosphere of Saturn. The conditions on Titan aren’t really c...
[Question] [ It seems that one of the main hurdles of creating an interstellar propulsion system is the need to carry reaction mass to accelerate while conserving momentum. Pretty much every "fringe science" propulsion proposal tries eliminate this problem (e.g. [EmDrive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cav...
[Question] [ Question- would a tesla coil function in space? What I think would happen- Tesla coils are basically a high DC voltage arcing through the air, searching for the easiest path to ground. A single coil will just send out sparks that dissipate(depends on the power level) a few inches away from the coil. If t...
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[Question] [ There was a nuclear war in my world **Anthropocene**. It caused a mass extinction of numerous animals on the planet, so many I can’t cover them all completely, so I’ll tell you what animals are left: * Rats * Most insects/arachnids * Humans (ofc) * Canines * House cats * Pigeons * Livestock Animals (catt...
[Question] [ A worldwide pandemic has killed the world's dogs and their cousins the wolves. In sheep farming countries, dogs have been and still are an invaluable aid to sheep farmers. Some breeds will herd the sheep others guard the flock from predators and rustlers. Sheep are grazers and they don't take at all well...
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[Question] [ One issue with a laser sword (light saber) is stopping the light beam at a desired length, There have different designs to re-create a similar effect using lasers and plasma, usually with some sort of internal coil or a bar running the length of the sword. The idea I have in mind will work best with lase...
[Question] [ Fireflies are amazing little insects. They have the ability to produce a pulse of light without the help of a symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria. This works via a chemical reaction which involves a light-emitting pigment called luciferin [L] and an enzyme called luciferase $$\text{lucife...
[Question] [ Let's say we have a small civilization that built a wall (Great Wall of China as an example, but with no open sections, all contiguous, besides gated castles) of 300 miles all around their country, totally closing access to their mainland from North, East and South and having its west border facing a sea...
[Question] [ In my world, there's a tentacled race of amphibious creatures. They evolved in water, but can also survive on land. They're roughly human sized, but they're boneless and they move around on six flexible tentacles. They use their tentacles both to carry themselves and grip any objects. So what would be th...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story where an intelligent zombie society has defeated humans and won. The zombies are the main characters in this story. These zombies: * Have human intelligence, emotions, and remember their lives before becoming zombies * Have a nearly impossible to resist urge to eat human flesh. Brains...
[Question] [ The Apollo-era [A7L Extravehicular Mobility Units](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Skylab_A7L) were used for less than eight hours at a time, within a few days, with a maximum of three moonwalks per mission. Assume a fictional moonbase with 1960s-era technology, with some reason to have frequent sur...
[Question] [ This question has its origins in the word "dendraphile" used in a YouTube comment. It was used in an insult used by dwarves towards elves. My chain of thought then was that the dwarves would use plainer language like "tree hugger" and after drinking enough beer the "hugger" would be replaced by cruder wo...
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[Question] [ Once the technology is ready to reach and set up a base in Mars (perhaps 10 years if SpaceX expectations come true) could it be possible to build a route among the asteroids to reach Jupiter's moons? The problem of the time of the travel would be more or less the same if you would have bases in the foll...
[Question] [ In a 'verse with Conveniant Interstellar Travel (in the scale of a few weeks to a few months for neighbouring star systems), the East Orion Company controls large swathes of the sector thanks to their private marines. These marines fight in formation just like they did during the age of Colonialism and N...
[Question] [ I have a tidally locked planet on a circular orbit, with an axial tilt of 22.5° That means one side is always in the sun, the other one in the shade. The subsolar point moves along a north-south line during each rotation around the sun, 22.5° each way. The night side can see the stars. How would someone ...
[Question] [ A secret enclave of sorts wants to survive a nuclear war, which they know is inevitable. They plan on riding out the apocalypse on an oil rig, 175 miles off the California coast out in the Pacific. They build an oil platform, the size of the largest oil rig today, disguising it as a commercial project. ...