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[Question] [ I am building a world with a small island nation trying to defend themselves against a large continent with medieval (1200-1300) level technology. They lack metal and use obsidian and stone for weapons and tools, similar in technology level to the Aztec around 1500. **How could they feasibly synthesise a...
[Question] [ **What requirements would a meteor have to satisfy, to approach Earth unrecognized until hitting the atmosphere and cause climatic changes after the impact?** * The meteor should have at least a circumference of 500 meters at impact to cause something. * It might have to hit earth at land because at sea ...
[Question] [ Inspired by comment under [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/5078/what-would-the-world-be-like-if-computer-software-did-not-have-any-undo-featur) > > "Darling, does this dress make me look fat? > > > QUICKSAVE > > > "Uhm ... no?" > > > WRONG ANSWER, WANNA TRY AGAIN? ...
[Question] [ **TL;DR:** Can human build a computer that lasts for a few hundred years under active maintenance with a limited spare part supply, not too bulky or power hungry, and has the performance similar to a high-end desktop PC in the near future? > > I'm aware of similar questions in this site, like [Preservin...
[Question] [ Imagine a 1 square km section (including a suitable depth of soil - maybe 100m?) of a contemporary rainforest is transplanted onto the Earth in a time a few million years before the Cambrian explosion (540 mya), to an area which approximates the same surface temperature and precipitation as the area expe...
[Question] [ I'm working on a setting where a settlement was established by about 350 people. These were from a medieval civilization, but have been cut off due to various reasons and had settled on the coast of a new continent (uninhabited). It was a shipwreck situation and not a lot of supplies they got from their ...
[Question] [ This has been a burning question of mine for many years: [If magic is real, can it be true that rational scientific thought should exclude it?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13364/if-magic-is-real-can-it-be-true-that-rational-scientific-thought-should-exclude) In the course of discuss...
[Question] [ And could it look anything like the universe we know? *Don't get hung up on the terminology. In general, you seem to see through it easily, so I don't want any more answers mentioning that. I'll say it's a translation error: My "F" is the quantity that, in the equations of motion discovered by physicists...
[Question] [ Could a civilization grow or develop to advanced levels if they don't hold religious beliefs? I have just watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, "[Who watch the watchers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Watches_the_Watchers)" (season 3, episode 4). It tells the story of the Mintakan people, a proto-Vu...
[Question] [ This is a question I've been wondering about for a while. If I wanted to give my characters the best possible chance of surviving my story's Armageddon, what time of year should I schedule it for? Let's keep the scenario as general as possible for maximum usefulness to people who aren't me, while still l...
[Question] [ This is specifically about the climate, and where on the planet it would be mildest. Imagine Earth, rotating at the usual distance from the sun. Except, it is tidally locked to the sun; a so-called **"Eyeball Planet"**. One spot on the earth is always directly facing the sun; lets call this the **"Day Po...
[Question] [ Would copper-based blood be viable for a human-like land-based species in an earth-like atmosphere or would it be worse than iron-based blood? [Answer] No, it would be less efficient. Hemocyanin [is a protein that transports oxygen in some invertebrates](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemocyanin) the...
[Question] [ The Dwarves, they mostly live within their mountains while a wealthy but small percentage of them own land on the surface. They are very isolationist preferring not to take sides when conflict arises unless it directly affects them. The Hierarchy of the society in question is as follows: * The Tsar - He ...
[Question] [ **Closed**. This question needs to be more [focused](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- **Want to improve this question?** Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by [editing this post](/posts/96765/edit). Closed 6 years ago. [Improve this question](/pos...
[Question] [ I am living in a society which considers autonomy over one's own death a basic human right. That means killing someone is very, very bad, no matter the circumstances. Our society is strictly against the death penalty, and also opposed to law enforcement using deadly force. But at the same time we believe...
[Question] [ Suppose that there's a button at the other end of the universe, and a 'stick' that goes all the way there. If I push the stick, will the button get pushed instantly, or there is some latency that I am missing? (Suppose that the stick is made from whatever strong enough material that can stand whatever p...
[Question] [ I recently came across [Could pulsars really act as "lighthouses" to help in interstellar travel?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/94682/627), asked a week ago. The author was trying to figure out if pulsars could be useful for interstellar FTL travel, because they could be used to find a craft...
[Question] [ Given that the surface gravity on the Moon is a fraction of Earth and there is virtually zero atmospheric pressure but I still want to wet our beloved moon with whatever liquid that is known to science. It can be liquid nitrogen or a cocktail of acids etc, assuming the present day tech level and the only...
[Question] [ In my setting, one of the habitable (?) worlds has a global average temperature of 34 degrees Celsius (93.2 F). Is this within the human habitability range, or is it too hot? [Answer] We can live in this temperature. We would have to adapt to it but we will get used to it soon. The limit for living on...
[Question] [ A plot point of my novel is that the pilot accidentally finds a planet that is being purposefully hidden (i.e. been deleted from all star maps). It starts with him arriving at a location that is just empty space. Other than distant stars, there's nothing physically around him. There is a minefield of jam...
[Question] [ **Closed**. This question is [opinion-based](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- **Want to improve this question?** Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by [editing this post](/posts/78308/edit). Closed 6 years ago. [Improve this question]...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [What are the enabling factors for melee combat in modern or future settings?](/questions/3358/what-are-the-enabling-factors-for-melee-combat-in-modern-or-future-settings) (17 answers) Closed 7 years ago. Let's be honest, swords are cool, we can all agre...
[Question] [ In [how smart can I make ants](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/45037/how-smart-can-i-make-ants), an idea was suggested, to instead of making each ant individually sapient, [make the 'anthill' as a whole sapient](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/45046/885); a kind of unconventio...
[Question] [ I'm working on colony development. The word is similar to the earth around 5000–4000 B.C. and humans basically known how to hunt, farm, build houses/structures and share their knowledge between them and their kids. We have a group of these people (let's say around 300) who wants to build a sustainable c...
[Question] [ I am creating a semi-dystopic sci-fi world in which the government is - surprise, surprise - corrupt and needs to be replaced. In books, this is often done via warfare and violence, but I would love to find a way to do it without war and yet not have the story devolve into a series of political debates o...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story in which a character has to make it through an area filled with aerosol poison...or something along those lines. He starts out in a hospital area, with access to equipment. Is it feasible that he could just put on an oxygen mask and be adequately protected? I think hospital oxygen mas...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Is Asteroid Harvesting economic?](/questions/5168/is-asteroid-harvesting-economic) (9 answers) Closed 5 years ago. My story is set in a somewhat recent period of time (within let's say 50 years) The material (raw metal and such) are extracted by splitti...
[Question] [ Many people here have likely played [Spore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game)), a game where you design a species and expand its empire into space and beyond. It was one of those games that worldbuilders absolutely adored and after recently playing it I noticed something that could be...
[Question] [ When viewed from their planet, are moons always the same colour as ours? Or is there a variation? What other colours might be possible and what causes the differences in colour? [Answer] More or less they can be of any colour. The colour of the moon from the point of view of someone who is in the plan...
[Question] [ It's well understood that [torchships](http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php) are the most powerful spaceships that we know of without inventing new physics or handwavium. Getting around on the back of a nuclear flame is crazy fast. Also, attacking something with a nuclear flame is ...
[Question] [ In this universe, mass and gravity work differently so stable torus planets are possible (donut shaped). How would a torus world orbiting a single star have to rotate in order to have a stable day and night cycle on all of its regions? For example if it was constantly in a horizontal position from its s...
[Question] [ The hero of my story has been cursed to be forever 'bloodthirsty' in the literal sense of the word. Effectively, he has been turned into a vampire. But drinking blood will cause him to lose his senses, compassion, and empathy, which is why he refuses to drink blood, even though his body thirsts for it an...
[Question] [ So, this race of Wussname are a peaceful people. Each and everyone of them possess this weird ability of sympathy that allows them synchronize their emotions and share their knowledge with other each within a short range of a hundred meters or so. Their warriors are not as numerous as mine. At their best...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- Questions about Idea Generation are off-topic because they tend to result in list answers with no objective means to compare the quality of one answer with the others. For more information, s...
[Question] [ *Edits are in italics*. To narrow it down more, can you have 'magical' force that doesn't have laws the way physics has laws? For example, in Tamora Pierce's books, magic is tied to the users physical and mental strength. The magic is a bit like a muscle, you can build it up, but everyone's maximum str...
[Question] [ I have an idea for a Young Adult fantasy, a small number of teens are visited by characters from 'fantasy' world, at which point they learn that most of our fantasy worlds exist and that magic works in our present world. They are attacked by a few people selected by an enemy as their opposite number, als...
[Question] [ I understand that generally, beings get as big as the thing(land, sea etc)they live on or in however another celestial object can interfere with size, like the moon and ppl got smaller. But can a molecule somewhere completely foreign to this realm be for instance as large as a dog or horse, human or hous...
[Question] [ Castles, particularly Concentric Castles, are great to have against the technology of the time; swordsmen, crossbowmen. They're less great against ornery wizards and capricious dragons. The lords of the land got tired of the occasional wizard tossing a fireball in their courtyard and flying off at a heig...
[Question] [ In my world (essentially playing in the late 1920's to early 30's, though with a bit of hand-waved technological and political progress), a rail line exists that spans Eurasia from Lisbon to Bangkok. Most segments of the tracks are either completely straight or only bent in a very minimal way, so there w...
[Question] [ Assume there was a super advanced alien race that for some reason, wanted to add a new planet, of lets say 1 Earth mass, into the Solar System. Where in the inner Solar System *(The part of the solar system inside Jupiter's orbit, so asteroid belt is included)* could we put this planet, so that it would ...
[Question] [ I was reading [James Blish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish) again the other day and came across a passage wherein he suggested, with all seriousness, that the only article required to create a new age of piracy was ships that didn't require fuel. It further suggested that the only reason the [...
[Question] [ Post-apocalypse how well would photo-voltaic solar cells hold up? They are solid state so I expect they would do okay for a while, but would they remain functional for 100+ years. I know that dust and grime would stop exposed arrays functioning, batteries will rot and that inverters and smart meters are...
[Question] [ * Consider the zombies to be human-like, with characteristic zombie gait, only differing in that they don't need to eat, they eat out of taste for human flesh, not out of a need for nutrition. Do not consider normal metabolism. They can very well run continuously, accumulating lactic acid without pain. T...
[Question] [ I have toyed with the idea with a certain creature in my head for quite some time, and with the [creature design challenge](https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1862/2113), I thought this would be a great time to ask about it here. The basics of the creature is fairly simple. It is a ferocious ...
[Question] [ **TL;DR: I want a society which behaves as a hive. Is it plausible and how to achieve this?** *The setup:* Different planet in our universe. In other words: Normal, physical rules apply, there is no magic involved. I would like to have plausible explanation for everything. *Bonus:* Because This is around...
[Question] [ The premise is a low-tech world such as Earth prior to 1600 CE but with a fixed number of magical/technological teleportation portal pairs scattered across the world. Each portal only takes travelers to its paired portal. The workings of the teleportation are no longer known so the portals just stand the...
[Question] [ My people live in a tidally locked planet with very strong winds from the night side to the day side. Normally these winds are **50-70 km/h (around 30-45 mph)** but they can easily reach 100-120 km/h (around 60-75 mph). I know that winds can be much faster in tidally locked planets, but it has to be an i...
[Question] [ My [polytheists with competing moon gods](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/71/28) are going to have to contend with (what they think is) a new moon, and thus a new moon god, showing up. What are the most plausible ways for them to react to this? We have historical precedents for a new god *repla...
[Question] [ Reality is both cruel and unjust when it comes to the point of absorbing magical power from a slain monster: every adventurer notices the significant boost in their magical power when they defeat lesser monsters found loitering around the kingdom but pathetic gains from the high reward bounties usually i...
[Question] [ I understand, of course, that humans evolved for this exact environment! However, if you could travel back in time 2,000 years and modify our species (without any unintended health consequences), could you prevent the widespread environmental damage we currently do? And could you do that *without* adjust...
[Question] [ **Preface** With all technology discovered prior to this question, on today's planet, there are still some things we have not observed - which may be used to justify introducing new life forms, right here at home, in a story. --- **There are a LOT of unexplored places on Earth** > > * We've explored ...
[Question] [ Assume a fairly futuristic scenario where we can deal with the energy requirements of handheld laser weapons and the realistic creation of plasma ammunition etc. From what I understand a plasma gun will shoot a ball of plasma like a projectile, which provides a little bit of kinetic energy and "burns" it...
[Question] [ I'm trying to figure out what a huge swimming ark that is able to support maybe 10.000 people would look like. It's for a P&P campaign. And please excuse any bad grammar, spelling or poor word choice, I'm not a native English speaker. **The setting:** * The world is covered basically entirely in water (...
[Question] [ I don't just mean tides or large-scale floods and droughts but a premise where one or more large bodies of water (or even every such body if that makes it easier) disappear, only to reappear one or two millenia later. My intuition tells me this would logically happen either through a form of cyclical geo...
[Question] [ Let's pretend these magnificent and beautiful creatures are able to reproduce asexually so we can forget about their mating habits or their partners. I have yet to witness any hard shell eggs laid underwater by any species and most mammals like to bear live offspring even underwater, just like whales and...
[Question] [ We all know of plants that draw in animals with sweet nectar or even just sit around hoping an insect will sit on it and get caught, but I'm imagining a forest dimly lit by the flickering flames of a plant that tried to attract moths for consumption. These plants are then harvested by those who dwell in ...
[Question] [ Suppose a message was sent to the past with a diagram, description, and use, of the simplest fission weapon. It didn't describe how to mine Uranium, enrich it, or even a description of WHY it works or atomic theory, but did indicate "U235 (and indicate element 92) needed to be separated and concentrated ...
[Question] [ Planets that are larger and have higher gravity tend to have thicker atmospheres, since it is easier to hold onto gases. Higher air pressure leads to a higher air density, and therefore, a greater the air resistance. So, on a planet twice the mass of Earth with a proportionally thickened atmosphere, woul...
[Question] [ In my story, those who are transported back in time do not age if they have to live through the years in the past. You don't start aging again until you reach the point in time you left. I was curious though, in this situation, would it still be feasible for one's hair and nails to grow (basically meanin...
[Question] [ For as long as recorded history, the Earth has had two moons - religions were based around the interactions of these two bodies in the heavens, they were worshipped, feared and romanticised. Then at the birth of astronomy in the 17th century, it was discovered that the smaller of the two bodies was in fa...
[Question] [ Life on Earth pretty early on settled on [deoxyribonucleic acid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA) organized in chains of base pairs as the means to code for the construction of proteins which make up a lifeform. It also has the benefit that it can be biologically copied relatively simply and accurately...
[Question] [ Average Joe was an amateur astronomer. While he was out in the wilds one day with his telescope he was kidnapped by aliens, carried off and kept as a slave on a world somewhere in the Milky Way. Having learned enough of their language and technology to steal a ship he now needs to find his way home. The ...
[Question] [ I am trying to build a city populated almost entirely by monsters, but I am having difficult conceiving a power structure that can exercise proper control over this city. Given the evil dispositions of the variety of monsters within the city, what power structure might be constructed by the creators of ...
[Question] [ In the early 21st century of a world closely resembling our own on the surface, rare individuals awaken Telekinesis- and Telepathy-based powers during adolescence. Their existence is unknown to the public through interference of certain organizations with power. One such government organization in a high...
[Question] [ Say you have a galaxy, possibly ours, with a central black hole. In an instant the black hole falls through a plot hole and vanishes. **What happens to the rest of the galaxy?** Does everything keep on like nothing happened? Does it slowly unravel? Does it quickly unravel? Something else? **Why ...
[Question] [ I have this fictional sci-fi galaxy (similar to Mass Effect) in which a race of aliens is blind, but has superhuman hearing. I want to make these aliens interesting and somewhat scary on the battlefield, so the first thing I thought of was a sound gun. That is, a weapon that fires a directed beam of soun...
[Question] [ In my setting, I have reasonably traditional Dwarves and Elves. The Dwarves magic allows them to control metals, earth, and other non living constructs. The Elves can control non sentient living things like plants and animals. In the past, during a Dwarf-Elf war the dwarves turned the elves metal armor a...
[Question] [ In my story, some personal effects get jettisoned from a spacecraft airlock. Some time later (months to years), other characters discover one of these items drifting in space. It holds information on it, but I'm not sure what format to use. I'm sure the obvious answer is an SSD or some form of flash stor...
[Question] [ I'm drafting up a world for a pet project of mine. I came across the idea of "what if there was a much longer night every *X* days?" I thought that would be an interesting theme for the world, so I'm trying to explore it. My first thought is that if there was a very large cloud of debris in just the righ...
[Question] [ I sometimes tell my kid that when he grows up, he might be living on the moon. Last night he was worried that Santa won't be able to bring him presents there. To which I replied that sure, Santa can go quite fast, covering the entire globe in a 24 hour period. So, Santa wouldn't have a problem reaching a...
[Question] [ Imagine you have someone sent back in time without warning. He is smart and has a good generalist grasp of science and technology, but is not a master of any particular field. He wants to use a crude microscope, for instance to demonstrate the presence of germs and thus germ theory. At what point in hist...
[Question] [ Imagine a world that reaches the end of its resources in silicon, petrol, coal, metals... everything that allows for conventional technology — even before it has found a way over it (renewable energy sources, space exploration for mining...). Let's ignore the possibilities for stagnation or proper collap...
[Question] [ So far I had no luck trying to find the visible absorption spectrum of CO₂ anywhere, all I get is the far infrared absorption spectrum and stuff like that. If you just search "what color is liquid CO₂" it simply says everywhere that "it's colorless" but... That's also said a lot about other liquids such ...
[Question] [ In my world a Roman emperor (any emperor of any period of the Roman Empire for the purpose of this question) decides to create the tallest possible tower (measured from base to the highest floor reachable by traditional steps), and is willing to build it anywhere in his empire where it would make the mos...
[Question] [ One of the bigger difficulties is the storage of information is that the more efficient information is stored, the quicker a single person can learn, and thus the more they know. This becomes extremely efficient when books come into play and starts on a quick rise after the population becomes literate. ...
[Question] [ Imagine a coordinated attack by a large and motivated hacking group, that results in a nation-level compromise of the financial systems we take for granted: credit card payments, accounts at the top banks, the ACH system etc. Funds become frozen, and so do individuals and corporations, financially. Illic...
[Question] [ As discussed here: [How would a Reflecting-Oven-Jay Evolve?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15061/how-would-a-reflecting-oven-jay-evolve) > > The Reflecting-oven-Jay > > > This is a small African predatory bird with a perfectly smooth set of wings with an area of ~100 cm2, so maybe ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Where would an identity implant be implanted in the body? And what would make it secure?](/questions/54211/where-would-an-identity-implant-be-implanted-in-the-body-and-what-would-make-it) (12 answers) Closed 6 years ago. In Futurama every person has a c...
[Question] [ In sci-fi movies and tv shows, English happens to be the Lingua Franca of most alien civilisations humans come into contact with. Even upon first contact. The obvious reason for this is that these movies are largely produced to be shown to English speaking audiences. Lets assume there are many planets in...
[Question] [ While the reasons for it's existence do not matter as it is part of an artificially created planet, I am curious if a lapis lazuli island would be able to survive erosion and support Earth-like life? Are there any new dangers that would come about from this kind of environment? What kind of adaptions wou...
[Question] [ I am creating a world where the currency (the only currency) is tablets that dissolve in water to create food. Each tablet provides all of the nutritional needs for an average adult for one day. The gruel doesn't taste particularly good, and the person feels hungry again right away. But, most people rare...
[Question] [ A soft and vulnerable intelligent underwater species, you can consider them closely related to Earth's octopus - in the way chimps are closely related to humans. Consider that clothing is often worn for: * Status * Warmth * Modesty and, if possible, should last at least 3 months within sea-water without ...
[Question] [ The proximate cause of the [Anglican Church's split from the Roman Catholic Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Church_of_England), which retained more vestiges of Roman Catholicism than other major early Protestant Church denominations, was the desire of the King of England to divorce h...
[Question] [ In the [MARS](http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/mars/episodes/power/) series of *National Geographic*, an organisation is steadily colonizing Mars by sending a handful of people every few months. However, these aren't ordinary people, of course; they are top-notch scientists of all kinds that have a ...
[Question] [ [Cerberus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus) was a three headed dog, commonly depicted with a collar and tail of snakes. Such an organism is quite difficult to justify, but how can such a creature appear that way? Is there a realistic way that Cerberus could evolve? A list of all of the Anatomical...
[Question] [ For the purposes of this question only, I am making the following definitions: * Cell: a microscopic, membrane-bound subunit of a living organism. * Living organism: an entity composed primarily of biological macromolecules that eats, reproduces, and evolves. Everything on Earth that is ***unambiguously*...
[Question] [ In the desert, the major factors of survival are water, food and temperature. I have a city in a desert where the first two are covered by a nearby river and agriculture from that river, but would it make sense to build a city underground to beat the heat? Or would it be better to adapt the species livin...
[Question] [ I'm trying to work out a design for an isolated monastery populated entirely by sentient undead, and having trouble working out what would need to be there. If the entire population is vitally challenged, that means no need to eat or drink, and maybe sleep. So you wouldn't need a dining room, and you wou...
[Question] [ Is it possible for an organism to evolve to biologically generate its own nuclear power? If so, how would this evolution occur? [Answer] ## They already have I'm not kidding. [Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5899/275.abstract) (alternate [wiki link](https://m...
[Question] [ I'm designing a computer game in a fantasy setting with dwarves who need to produce steel. This is a very traditional Tolkein-esque fantasy world at a relatively "middle ages" level of technology (no gunpowder for example). Detailed production chains are a big focus so I'm trying to keep things somewhat ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Evolution of giant floating mammals](/questions/34892/evolution-of-giant-floating-mammals) (6 answers) Closed 7 years ago. I have read about flying sharks that hunt birds and great monstrous flying whales, so I would like to know how a whale could conce...
[Question] [ Pennyless Joe, the broke archeologist, finds an old pawn shop selling something curious. A ceramic vial labeled "Groundhog Day Potion". It's a bargain for $1.99. (He buys it, because he is not quite that broke). Pennyless Joe is very intelligent (though not financially savvy) and well versed in archeolog...
[Question] [ > > If you were to do a plane or world where music interacts with everything and instruments are essentially able to influence reality based on how they are played, what would be the practical difficulties? Where might such a world fall apart, and what would you suggest as caveats to prevent that from h...
[Question] [ In a world inhabited by primitive hunter-gatherer humans and dragons, one of the most respected trial by fires is to hunt a dragon by jumping through their mouth and killing it from inside the stomach. Understandably, the survival rate of such a trial is not high. However, the question arises, how big wo...
[Question] [ I'm imagining a world populated with a species of intelligent, social, and "modern" (in terms of technology) humanoids. For the purposes of this question, they and their world can be near identical to us, except they are obligate carnivores. I think this may be a mildly controversial point, but it is my ...
[Question] [ Dear Royal Council Member, It has come to our attention that the natural sources of magic are starting to dwindle, and as a result we will start to phase out our reliance on magic. Before long, magic will be outlawed completely to try and preserve whatever magic is left. We will be pushing the developmen...
[Question] [ On Earth we don't really notice many effects of the Earth spinning, apart from the day-night cycle. It took a long time for people of Earth to realise that it even was spinning, but there are measurable effects (differences in gravity, [the Coriolis effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force))....
[Question] [ How would the history of American colonization by Europeans differ, if the Native Americans were immune to the new diseases? From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States): > > Even before the European settlement of what is now the United States, Native Americans s...
[Question] [ I would like to destroy a Dyson Sphere so it leaves big chunks of scrap metal with no habitable zones left, but still with enough structure to hold building-sized blocks. The destruction shouldn't be man made. Sphere Description (ordered from the sun to the outer layers): 1. Habitable Zone: cities, agric...
[Question] [ I'm working on a story right now where darkness plays an important role, and I had the idea to set my story on a rogue planet, a planet in perpetual darkness because it has no sun. However, from what I understand, heat and energy in this kind of system is hard to come by, which could make things a little...