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A classical trope of fantasy is lizardfolk, or a similar species by another name (see for instance the Argonians of Elder Scrolls fame). In general, though, we're dealing with:
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I've been thinking of creating a setting similar to that of BattleTech, but set some time around when the industrial revolution is in full swing. This setting would also include bipedal mechs of various sizes, shapes, and weights. When I say mechs, I mean "walking weapons platforms", and not giant human/... |
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I have a setting where a nomadic man lives alone in a forest. Presume the wildlife is similar to a typical subtropical or temperate forest. I had the idea that before he sits down to cook, he would always play music using a small instrument like a flute, a small drum, or something of the sort he could ea... |
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I'm building a setting for a sci-fi RPG. The overall idea is a somewhat grounded in reality universe, albeit impractical and honestly quite silly sometimes.
Somewhat like Shadowrun meets Futurama.
In this setting, one of the world-sprawling corporations is a food-based company called CHECKERS.
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I am writing a scifi novel based roughly four hundred years from now, and it occurred to me that the planets and other objects might not be quite where I need them to be for certain travel details to make sense.
Primarily, Eris and Pluto have irregular orbits that take a *very* long time (558 and 248 ye... |
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So, I have a question that focuses on a character from a show, Spongebob. Sandy Cheeks lives in a reverse aquarium under the sea in Bikini Bottom, in a dome that looks like this 
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Many languages exist on Earth and many languages will also exist in a detailed fantasy world. The influence of some languages will spread over t... |
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**tl;dr: *What adjustments to a "rewind" power allow multiple equally powerful characters?***
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There are many different [models of time travel](http://qntm.org/models). Personally I find it easiest to tell stories using the "fixed history" model, where the past is immutable because it has al... |
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I'm aware that deep sea fish don't actually "explode" when brought to the surface but any air sacs in their bodies would expand and cause them possibly fatal damage.
However, what other physiological problems might occur in a creature that had evolved in an environment of extremely high pressure when mov... |
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What planetary parameters such as plate tectonics and volcanism etc would best encourage the most uneven planetary surface on an earth like planet?
I want a world to be covered in very uneven terrain, the more precipitous the better over 90% of its surface whilst still providing a good place for humans t... |
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Spaceships are a peculiar thing. We've got them in all forms, sizes & colours. They are everywhere and go everywhere else. carrying with them anything from [music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record), over [tractors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_machinery), to [foodstuffs](... |
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So, for a reasonably detailed version of my magic system, go [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33507/how-might-castles-develop-in-magical-world). Because I'm pretty sure no-one went there, it says,
**Brief Overview of Magic**
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This is a multi-tiered question. I have seen these larger questions before, but if I need to separate them out into their own questions let me know.
In my story I have a machine that can manipulate gravity, either increasing it or decreasing it. The how is not important, I want to know what would happen ... |
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Alice is in a rush! Luckily, she [recently divined](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/11252/how-to-catch-a-dream-thief) the location of a pair of **boots of speed ®. How far can she get in 10 hours?**
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In the story i'm writing [Orcs](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/167531/what-evolutionary-pressures-would-lead-to-orcs?noredirect=1#comment524719_167531) have managed to domesticate hyenas possibly even [cave hyenas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_hyena)
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We have all heard what too much CO2 can lead to, but so far the biosphere have never been exposed to too low levels of CO2. But what if it did? And please, this topic has nothing to do with the ongoing discussion about global warming. We are talking about the last ice age and a hypothetical scenario wher... |
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Most dragons (before Skyrim and GoT) had six limbs in total, four legs and a pair of wings.
The question is how would a dragon's forelimbs be placed? It's obvious they have good terrestrial capabilities, without having long noodle legs. But then there's the flight muscle, it needs lots of space and a lar... |
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I am working on an extraterrestrial class of tetrapod-like organisms. To give them an evolutionary advantage, I am considering biological hydraulics to supplement the muscles in the hind legs. Eventually I may ask about more mechanisms, but currently, I am investigating whether or not this would even be ... |
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I was watching Shoddycast's video on the value of bottle caps as currency in *Fallout 4* today, and after having read part of Brandon Sanderson's *Words of Radiance* earlier this morning, my mind started to wander to the possibilities of currency far stranger than either bottle caps or the Stormlight-inf... |
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The species here has three possible genders, "A", "B" and "C" (for simplicity's sake). Each of the three genders can mate with another gender, producing the third gender. In other words, A and B reproduce to form C, B and C together make A, and A and C together form B.
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The purpose of the machine was obvious from the elegant cruelty of its design:
* The seat restraints and the seat's solid, one-piece, gold-colored metal structure made it clear that whatever it did, was intended to be done against the initial will of those subjected to it.
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**I come out of hyperdrive as far as possible from any galaxy. How isolated am I and what do I see?**
My purpose is to carry out a top-secret experiment where space is as flat as possible. For this reason I want to be maximally distant from any large masses including galaxies.
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Imagine an alternate universe where the aborigines' impact on the Pleistocene Australian ecosystem was much less severe than it was in our timeline, and the Pleistocene megafauna managed to survive the sudden changes associated with human arrival in Australia.
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# Premise
On Earth the seas have numerous filter feeding species, large and small, sustaining themselves on the microscopic nutrients and organisms that drift in the current. The largest animal evolution has produced here feeds on some of the smallest. Tropical coral reefs are the go-to example, but as a... |
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My world has a huge crater (4400 miles in diameter) on a world that's roughly earth equivalent (so a circumference of 25000 miles). The native population doesn't need to know how it was formed but it would be nice if the world creator did! Around the edge is a ring of islands, inside and outside there's ... |
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I know some griffins are depicted with bird tails, but in the majority of fiction, artwork, etc. I've seen, they are depicted with lion tails.
I am wondering, how exactly would a lion tail benefit the griffin more than a bird one?
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So my story hinges largely upon a precursor type race centered around a single star system that went extinct tens of thousands of years prior to the modern day. Obviously, the most common way to go about making an advanced civilization of this sort would be to create a Dyson Swarm and move away from plan... |
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Slimes are a common monster we often see in games such as Minecraft, Terraria and Slime Rancher, but it is never explained how such an animal can exist. How could the body of such an animal even exist on land, how could they go about in nature?
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There are several programs available that will generate a random map of an Earth-sized planet, complete with a choice of projections from sphere to 2-D representation.
Are there any available that will generate random maps for a setting like Larry Niven's Ringworld, that is habitable but effectively flat... |
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Here on the stack exchange we talk about dragons... a lot. We have discussed all the factors that would allow dragons to exist and yet, there is a question we have not asked. What evolutionary pressure would lead to realistic dragons?
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What would cause an area to get continuous rainfall (a la *Blade Runner*), and what implications would that have for other parts of the world?
Ideally I'd like to hear about both natural conditions that would cause this, and man-made activities that could result in this as a side effect.
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Imagine a world covered in a shallow sea (usually only 4 metres or less) that has little land, where there is land its in the form of fairly small islands (less than 1sq KM)
This will be populated externally so it doesn't need to be life bearing.
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Just what the title says, I'm trying to understand how ships would be built for seas on low-gravity worlds. I've searched around a little for an identical question but surprsingly turned up empty-handed. Questions like, [How would lower gravity affect motion?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ques... |
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The straits of Gibraltar never quite opened and the entire Mediterranean basin is dry land apart from a few large salt water lakes at the lowest points ~5% by area. The Europe – Africa land bridge has been slowly eroded and is now just 2 kilometres wide and no more than 10 meters high at a... |
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This is a world without humans (so no problems with competition for space, etc.), and where the apex species is a quadruped [obligate carnivore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore#Obligate_carnivores) with an intelligence roughly on par with that of humans on Earth. One major difference is that they... |
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What technology will humanity use the first time it moves a planet?
In the near-ish future, humanity has colonized Mars which has since become self-sustaining and independent, as well as various other solar system bodies. The asteroid belt is a principal source of resources, and a mature infrastructure e... |
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The US Military is publicly preparing to [deploy +100 Kilowatt](http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/10/watch-the-u-s-navys-new-laser-weapon-take-out-two-ships-video/) laser systems on [its potentially vulnerable surface ships (see linked question)](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/26138/do-su... |
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This question is directly related to my last: [What would be the impact of a modern programmer and laptop being dropped into World War II, possibly breaking Enigma?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12129/what-would-be-the-impact-of-modern-program-and-laptop-being-dropped-into-world-w/12... |
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Suppose one constructed a [Bernal sphere](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernal_sphere), similar in design to that described in [this article](http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/bernalsphere.htm) and [this article](http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/bernalspheredetail.htm) at the National Space Society.
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I'm thinking on the colonizing of another planet by humans. The conditions of this planet are quite different from Earth, and particularly the day-night cycle is much larger.
In my fictional planet, the day will last 48 hours. The day-time and the night-time is duplicated, and that means than the proport... |
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A typical cliche that is often used in Anime is that anthropomorphic cats exist. These are basically humans with cat-ears and a cat-tail (see [Plausibility of the Japanese Nekomimi](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58878/plausibility-of-the-japanese-nekomimi) for a fitting picture).
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When building a world, I use one of two approaches: Either figure out the geography or write down the societal history. I can then use the one to influence the other and then move on to the rest of the world.
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The common evolutionary belief is that life originated in water, and that it developed to survive on land later on. Eventually, mammals evolved on land.
Cetaceans, which include dolphins, whales, and other marine mammals, then evolved from land-dwelling creatures, going **back** into the water.
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Other questions have tried to address how big/small towns have to be in order to function, but I'm more interested in approaching it from a different angle: How big would a town have to be to support a given population?
Firstly, let me just clarify that by "town" I really just mean a place where people l... |
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In many SF stories (or fantasy if you replace *science* with *magic*), there is **one technology that is hyper advanced in one specific field**, like robotics in [Real Humans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Humans) or in [Extant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_(TV_series)), but almost nothing els... |
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Well, today I have a fairly simple question. Is it possible for a human to have some sort of birth defect, mutation, disease or something that causes the human body to be unable to produce body heat?
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I am working on developing the cultural framework for my world and I have a singular religion in mind that plays a role in both the story and more relevantly the state of the world. To provide the appropriate level of depth I am trying to define what the religion is, which begs the question: **What makes... |
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There are several varieties of tails that I am interested in:
* Fully Prehensile Tails, able to manipulate objects, carry weapons/ shields (though note they may not be able to *wield* them effectively)
* Flat tails (think stuff like a beaver's, able to make a slapping attack)
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## The Setting
Imagine a generation ship of 10-20 generations (200-400 year trip). The generation ship is divided into living crew and frozen eggs.
Upon reaching the destination & for genetic diversity, the crew must begin gestating these eggs and producing colonists.
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*This is inspired by our third fortnightly challenge, but a question I've had for a while anyways.*
Bones are seriously complex structures. Far more complicated than most structural materials humans use. They are porous, with compact and spongy sections which repair themselves. Bones mostly rely on [Hydr... |
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Would it be possible to raise a piece of land (say the size of Texas or France) from the bottom of an ocean (say, the middle of the South Pacific)? More specifically, would it be possible (given the wealth & technical means), to
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This is a science fiction intelligent alien biology question.
I'm imagining a race of large (around 2m in height) insect-like species on a distant planet who discovered astronomy VERY late in their technological advancement, in fact only after meeting aliens from another planet. This was because of the c... |
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I'm trying to create a world map for my fantasy novel. My problem is that I love designing things, and I'm finding myself bogged down with figuring out how desert A got where it is, and how plain B's temperature is different than plain C, and so on. I've never studied that type of thing in any great deta... |
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Can powered exoskeletons convey the same advantages to animals as they do to human soldiers?
A few years ago we saw stories about the development of legged autonomous vehicles for accompanying soldiers on foot and carrying heavy loads for them. The prototypes tend to look like cows. This did not prove fr... |
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On Earth, [the polar bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear) is [among the most sexually dimorphic animals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear#Physical_characteristics), with males being on average almost twice as heavy as females (Wikipedia claims average weights of 450 kg for males versus... |
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If you wanted to build a space hotel, say with 500 rooms, how many people (excluding hotel guests) would have to be permanently on that space station?
I'm assuming getting into space is safe and unproblematic, yet still expensive and time consuming, so "normal" rich people would book at such a hotel (the... |
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In relation to [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/463/what-is-the-limiting-factor-for-a-plants-growth), what would plants do if they were taken from their environment to another gravity level, in particular zero g.
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Related to: [How would rudder protection against water elementals affect ship's performance](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/206/95) and [How would sails from a fireproof material affect ship's performance?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/263/95)
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Aliens show up in a generation ship. They don't particularly care about living on a planet specifically, and they don't have any interest in conquering Earth for our land or our water or our biodiversity or anything like that. After all, they've been living in space for generations and they would be perf... |
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There are lots of different creatures that are loosely based on wolves. The most prominent one is probably the Werewolf, a mix of a human and a wolf. But there are also others, such as Dire Wolves or Wargs.
The problem is **How much territory of which kind would I need for a pack of Werewolves/Wargs/Dir... |
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I've discovered some ways of coloring the atmosphere through personal research:
* The atmosphere could be colored by particles or colored gases (as on Mars, unless I'm wrong)
* The atmosphere could be more dense to refract more colors.
* The Sun itself could in fact beam a less "colorful" light.
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**Take the Earth-Moon system as we know it.** Now, something causes a large rock to be lobbed in the direction of our moon. Exactly how that happens is deliberately left unspecified; it could be everything from an [Earth-Mars war](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/8954/29), to a rogue planet pass... |
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By that I mean someone who looks roughly like this:
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(Note: the name that is increasingly common to associate with this kind of creature is Lamia. [The mythical Lamia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w... |
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The [Hecatoncheires](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekatonkheires) was the collective name given to three monsters; (Briareus, Cottus and Gyges) who were the children of Gaia and Uranus. They were not only known for their frightful enormity, but also for their ghastly arrangement of one hundred arms and ... |
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It's a fairly well-known fact that reptiles are [ecotherms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectotherm), meaning that they require outside sources of heat to stay warm and metabolize. However, being too hot can cause heat sickness (not fun), and being too cold can trigger hypothermic states where metabolism... |
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I've been working on an alien species for some time that combines several traits I find interesting into a single being. This species is for use in a fantasy story, but I want it to have a hard science anatomical structure so that I could use it in future sci fi stories as well. I will bold the areas whe... |
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Given a monarchy, how far apart can two cities/towns/etc be situated, while still maintaining order and power? Alternatively, think about it this way: given any random settlement area, what is the farthest another settlement could be that the second is still controlled by the first?
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I have a planetary system with a yellow dwarf similar to our own Sun and three habitable planets. I want to hide this system from sight and long range scans in a nebula, a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Can this planetary system exist safely hidden within the nebula or within a pocket of empty spa... |
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This creature was void-born in the farthest depths of time in this Universe. Drawing its energy from electromagnetic radiation, and sealed against the vacuum of space, this drifting creature establishes itself in stable orbits, Lagrangian points, and in the wakes of comets. With the patience of a microbe... |
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Consider centaurs, mermaids/mermen/merfolk, driders/arachne, lamia/naga, and other half-human creatures with similar bodyplans, which I will henceforth refer to as "centauromorphs". They all have a legless human body (which may or may not include the pelvic region) attached to an animal body where its he... |
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My rivers and streams are just about as good as my waterways - that is, not too good. I do know that their paths are impacted by elevation, so I... |
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For purposes of this question, reincarnation works in the following manner:
* The transmissible personality, memories skills, knowledge and experiences of a person shall be referred to in this question as a Soul.
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What I "want":
My fantasy world has lots of volcanos. Deep under the surface there is a root-like form of life predominant. It grows in big bundles and searches for important minerals, gases, fluids, etc. to feed a big network of itself. When an attempt of finding resources has failed, all the roots that... |
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For this question, assume that the planet is Earth-like in almost every way, and is in a system like ours...the distance from the sun, orbital period, rotation, axial tilt, etc is all pretty much the same as Earth now - except this planet's radius and mass are reduced such that the gravity on the surface... |
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In [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/10901/75), I asked about a matter-filled 4-spatial-dimensional universe, with a gross structure defined by my own [answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/12993/75) to that question.
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Time travel on movies and tv always say they were able to tell the year by looking at the
stars. But how?
For example Voyager goes back in 1996 and Ensign Kim says astrometrics puts them in the year 1996. In the movie Timeline they said they sent probes and pointed it's cameras at the night sky and deter... |
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I am writing a plot for a project I am working on, and I need to know if there is a poison that kills/incapacitates quickly (within 1 hour) when eaten, but has little effect upon injection. It needs to be toxic at less than 50 ml. I need it to be ineffective in the blood as part of an assassination plan.... |
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I need to generate some characters for my world, and at the moment, inspiration fails me.
Now, before you reach for the 'Close' link, I'm not asking for the WB community to help me with character design - that's *my* job. I'm looking for character design *resources*.
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In the world I'm making I want to have very large creatures that will later be used in organic architecture as housing for the human equivalent in this world. In order to make this world realistic I am only going to be pushing the creatures to the upper limit of the Square-Cube Law. This has been discuss... |
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Let's say my terrestrial planet has a stable [circumbinary orbit](http://kepler.nasa.gov/images/K47system_diagram-full.jpg "Yes, an orbit like this can be stable according to NASA.") around two suns similar to the [Kepler-47 system](http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews... |
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A generation ship was sent out a long time ago, to colonize a far away planet. However the ship failed to reach its goal due to navigational issues (which also means they didn't have any clue where in the galaxy they actually were, and how to return to earth). They continued the journey in the hope to ev... |
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In 1815 [Mount Tambora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora) erupted throwing so much dust into the atmosphere that the year became known as "[the year without a summer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer)". \*There were a few other mitigating factors but Tambora... |
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In a world I’m designing, one of the eldest extant intelligent species is the Trolls. These are not D&D trolls, but something else. I have a number of basic characteristics for these beings, and am wondering whether these characteristics necessarily imply anything remarkable about their physiology.
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I have two interstellar civilizations, both of which are extremely advanced and within a few thousand light years of earth. They go to war and make some stars explode in the process.
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There was a good question and answer here: [Does mermaid evolution come with buoyancy control?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/30699/does-mermaid-evolution-come-with-buoyancy-control)
But I would like to expand the question. I got off talking with a friend, it got me thinking about mer... |
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My protagonist is an astronomer in a fantasy world.
Ideally, what I want is software where I can specify some properties of this planet, e.g. orbital and rotation period, nearby stars, number of moons, and then visualise what someone would see from the planet's surface.
All the software I've found while ... |
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So I have this tyrannical wizard with absurd powers who is the emperor of a large and powerful empire.
Part of his success is not simply down to his ability to murder people but also his brilliant administrative qualities and how he provides for the people. But he also likes to connect those helpful aspe... |
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