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There are many different calendar systems on earth. Of course, since a fictional world very well may differ greatly from Earth, it makes sense for them to have their own calendar.
What are various things that should be kept in mind or thought about when designing a calendar system for your world?
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I am attempting to create fictional, stable P-Type binary system, featuring a gas giant in a stable orbit, with a habitable Earth-like moon. “[Is a Jupiter-sized planet plausible in a habitable zone?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/4729/is-a-jupiter-sized-planet-plausible-in-a-habitabl... |
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For all of the combat machine we see in real life, they are painted in colors to blend into the background and lower visibility in every spectrum. Except for when they are participating in a parade, their paintjob will always put "stealth" and "you didn't see anything" as the first piority. But I want to... |
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Slimes are seen as merely base-level enemies which don't really challenge the heroic main character, the Chosen One.
My question is how to make slimes incredibly powerful without using magic. They must be able to defend themselves from knights as well as easily killing most foes, even a tiger.
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I have a commander who won several wars with relatively small casualties, against opponents who were similar in strength.
Is it possible his victories to be disregarded as flukes and opportunism, and his skills to be held as mediocre at best?
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The protagonist in this RPG is a robot fighting the oppressive human government. In his quest to liberate his fellow robots, he founded a robotic rebel army and finally liberated a factory that now serves as their base.
Liberating the factory is indeed a big strategic win for them, because they can now r... |
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Most species of animal, especially mammals, have a special skin cell the produces melanin, which is responsible for the color of their skin, but orcs are generally depicted as green creatures and, of course they are another race too, but for this question, assume they are mammals and are green. What will... |
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When we look at the future with our sci-fi glasses on, most new weapons are electrically powered, such as coil guns, railguns, laserguns. But what about vehicles?
In 2014, [Tesla released all patents](https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you) making them available to everyone; so why not ... |
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In my setting we have two [Kardashev type III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) civilizations who have been at war a long time and their war has now shifted into our neighborhood. These civilizations are until now unaware of human existence (Humans are type II by now). Humans, however, are ... |
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Meet Greg. Greg was born with pretty average genetics. It seems like he was destined to have average intelligence, average strength, and be average at everything. There was one particularly though: he has **unlimited** willpower.
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Recently I noticed how space fleets are all constructed so the ships are all aligned.
With 'aligned' I mean the way how all ships seem to have a 'right way up' and that all the ships have the same sense of 'down', even opposing fleets, even when in deep space.
Is there any reason why spaceships would adh... |
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Most of the religions I see GMs make (& even myself) are basically just rehashed Greek pantheon-esque religions. Several gods, each one governing a specific thing, sometimes different regions have different gods governing them. They are all still (pretty much) the same style of religion though. How do I ... |
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In this world:
Technology: medieval, it should fit with real world history, for example:
* Low life life expectancy due to poor medical technology (vulnerable to disease), warfare,
* High infant mortality, especially for the poor.
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In this world, there are nobles and non-nobles (peasants).
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Usually this "indestructible" material is unnaturally strong for its weight; the armor "just exists" and doesn't go into the feasibility of such a material.
Given that the material isn't "hard to obtain" (*anybody is capable of obtaining the armor*) and passive (*no type of "energy" should be required fo... |
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## An engineering enigma: the useless "wings" behind giant robots.
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In my novel, there is money to made in the capturing and selling of 'exotic' animals from a distant, jungle-covered continent, though for various reasons (notably that it is illegal under Roman rule) buyers often like to keep their purchases and contacts secret. So they hire pirates who sail to these str... |
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I am well aware that this question is on the border between the Worldbuilding and the [Sci-Fi](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/) site. I decided to post it here, because I am seeking for a general society/worldbuilding answer and "Vulcans" are used here to help you paint the picture:
Imagine a humanoid r... |
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Is a gun which produces no sounds within the human range of hearing possible? I know of a couple issues:
1. Most bullets move quick enough to make a whistling sound, but I may be incorrect in that regard.
2. The bullet may grind against the barrel of the gun, creating a grinding sound one could hear.
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If a hostile group wanted to render Earth or an Earth-like planet completely unfit for human life, what could they do to go about achieving that end?
By uninhabitable, I mean a planet on which humans are unable to survive in the open for the foreseeable future. Centuries in the future, whatever's happeni... |
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We've all heard the stories. The unbelievably chaste Sir Prancealot having the strength of ten men. The undefeatable members of the Kung Few, equal to any five hundred lesser mortals. The frankly amazing feats of the 299.5, who held off an army of 20,000 until they were betrayed by some bloke with a herd... |
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I'm working on the timeline for my world, but I keep getting stuck at the origins. I want to have had an advanced civilization (modern levels, maybe a bit beyond) that was destroyed in a vaguely defined cataclysmic "end of the world" event. I'm very flexible about the nature of this event; my original id... |
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**Setting**
A world like ours, plus the usual magical [masquerade](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Masquerade), in an european capital (not decided which one yet).
This is for a story following a few families, each with one type of powers. The members of one of them can create and alter obje... |
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I would like to better understand intragalactic ship design (aka, "spaceships").
* It's travelling at a barely tolerable 0.05c (86 years to Alpha Centauri).
* It happens to impact with a baseball (145 grams). *(In reality it would impact with rocks. We believe there's nothing out there other than inconse... |
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I'm working on a hypothetical political system similar to a monarchy except that the (conscripted) king in question is essentially a slave to the nation, a very well-cared for slave but with no personal freedom. The idea behind this is to prevent corruption by ensuring the king has no personal bias, no c... |
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I'm writing a story, based vaguely off of the [Stars Without Number](http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/86467/Stars-Without-Number-Free-Edition) system. There are lots of things bugging me, but by far the biggest issue is this: the military contractors and bounty hunters and the like are all congregatin... |
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Our forces have surrounded the modern city of Vale; a large metropolis of over 5 million citizens who all have decided to try and rebel against us and form their own country. The city has large dams and industrial cattle farms; food and water are not concerns, nor is power as the city also uses the dams ... |
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My world has a large cash loan company(we'll call it quick cash) which has a time travel device at each of its branches. when somebody comes in saying they need a loan, the employee grabs the cash they prepared yesterday, and then hop into the time machine. They travel to yesterday, tell past them the am... |
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The apocalypse has come - nuclear war+asteroid hitting+alien invasion+Skynet+vampires.
Doesn't matter which, the world government/s knew this was coming (lets say, a year in advance) and they have a plan! They'll get as many "chosen ones" (scientists, craftsmen, leaders, soldiers etc etc) off to the Mars... |
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**How might a carnivorous tree look or work?**
The following conditions must be met:
* Consumes members of the biological kingdom 'Animalia'
* Possesses something resembling a trunk or stem of any kind
* Possesses something resembling branches stemming from the 'trunk'
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I have a problem with too many men suffering from alcoholism in my country. I tried putting large taxes and limiting the stores that sell alcohol but that led to cottage industry of low quality moonshine sold on the black market. Quote often with even worse effects.
Could you recommend some ways to decre... |
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In this case, a person from a world similar to ours, at a time and technology roughly equivalent to our 14th century, but with magic. Through some odd spell, this person was teleported far away from home. They think it is to a different region in his world, but rather it is a different world entirely, ou... |
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Not sure if this still falls under worldbuilding. Let's assume a civilization living with the following restrictions:
* No access to the surface or ability to observe it (no sky, no atmospheric samples from the surface, no distant large objects, etc)
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Is there an order in which different kinds of (unshielded) electric devices go out in the event of a high altitude EMP? For example, first small gadgets, then electric vehicles, then grids. Or do all unshielded devices go out pretty much at the same time, seemingly instantaneously, with no specific order... |
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I'm trying to figure out realistic futuristic jobs for my characters. We're in a verge-of-singularity world, 15-25 years in the future.
Convolutional neural networks and their even more awesome near-[AGI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence) successors will increasingly be able t... |
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A zombie outbreak is disastrous, but what if a zombie is curable?
Let's say:
1. It is the traditional slow movement zombie and has a tendency to attack living people. A zombie has similar strength of a normal human, but is immune to electric shock and anaesthetic drugs.
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Setting: the walls between Dimensions have grown thin. This allows malevolent creatures, who for lack of a better term we shall call demons, to enter our world.
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1. The demons are on unkillable and extremely powerful both physically and supernaturally, but they can be banished. To prevent them f... |
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In a world I am building, I would like to have the moon change color when seen from the planet's surface as it goes through its phases (e.g., the crescent after new moon is blood red, a quarter moon is greenish, and the full moon is white). Is there a scientifically reasonable explanation for this?
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I've got a D&D-inspired setting, and one of the races present are yuan-ti. They're sentient snake people with a variety of forms, ranging from mostly human-looking to basically just a giant talking snake, plus a bunch of weird forms like a person with snakes for arms. Status is based on how snake-like th... |
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In this world, a single man (let's call him Morgan) lives in a ginormous steel structure designed to be a perfect model of a small American town. From inside the dome, everything appears to be normal, but once you reach the edge, it is but a wall. This is done so that people from a... |
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Are there any kind of contaminants or other reasons that might be dangerous? I'd assume that as far as microbes/bacteria goes, eating off the ground on the moon is much safer than it would be on earth.
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We have a professional cartographer, who travels, creates maps, duplicates them, and sells them to people as he travels. Unfortunately, he is not the best at his job - and he has nothing other than a compass, paper, and quill (and ink).
I would like his mistakes to be somewhat meaningful -
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I'm having a problem, I think, in a world I've built. From [previous questions I've asked here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/27638/how-might-a-functioning-government-condone-slavery-with-laws-in-place-forbidding), the world is a near to mid-future dystopia of the United States in whi... |
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**This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information.
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You have an advanced space faring civilization tons of resources, and you could build one massive, heavily armored mega ship, or with the same resources, build thousands or hundreds of thousands of smaller ships. And I'd like to look at a gradient here rather than binary: You can obviously divide your re... |
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Yes, I know that this is quite a BORING question (get it ;) ), but I really DIG this kinda stuff (no really).
If you have watch an action children's show or a cartoon of some kind, we have all seen that moment when they use some large drill to tunnel under the earth or go dig under a wall to get somewher... |
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I forgot to charge my time machine and now I'm sitting in medieval Europe and need to recharge the batteries. Luckily, those are only car batteries and not the old plutonium powered ones.
What's the easiest way to generate a sufficiently stable voltage/current output to charge my car battery?
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I have a sapient (alien) species that behaves more or less similarly to humans, and that includes their romantic interactions. However, although they court/date each other much like we do, there is a certain mechanic that shapes their cultural understanding of romance. If a courting pair of these creatur... |
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A lot of fantasy stories involve someone using magic or technology to solve a problem, only to find out the spell or thing they used to solve their problem was a little too potent.
Let's say a wizard invents an alchemical like spell that creates gold. It's not created from nothing though, it's just tran... |
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I've noticed in recent scifi shows/movies such as the Expanse or Star Trek that the lighting inside spaceships have two characteristics:
* Punishingly blue lighting
* Dark/dimmed miscellaneous lighting everywhere else
This doesn't seem useful or practical, but it does make me wonder what lighting could w... |
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Suppose humans have developed the technology to travel between star systems. This might be some science-fiction method like warp drive, jump drive, peanut butter drive, hyperspace drive or whatever, or something vaguely scientific like the [Alcubierre drive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive... |
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The idea is for some people in a post-apocalyptic future to find these bunkers/vaults and be able to turn on the computers and charge the cellphones. How many years could the equipment last if they were stored in very good conditions (no sun light, no humidity, all covered in plastic or inside boxes)? 10... |
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A thought occurred to me while watching Ender's Game.
**Why are these two fleets in space lining up like two armies during the revolutionary war (or pick your war of the musket/volley era)?**
Thinking about it further it occurs to me that in basically all sci-fi movies with space combat going on the two... |
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A group of people have stumbled into one of those classic fantasy/horror houses where the usual rules of space don't seem to apply and is very confusing. Bits of the building appear to overlap with each over.
Eg. from the front room you walk forwards ten paces and enter the kitchen. Turn left 90 degrees... |
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An intelligent race evolves on a planet with no moon or axial tilt, which is tidally locked to its star, and has a very hazy atmosphere.
So there are no seasons, no day/night cycle, and the stars are not visible either. The planet has a permanently dark and a permanently bright side, which will probably ... |
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A not widely accepted psycho-social phenomenon but one our descendents might sometime face, [the Three Generation Rule](http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacestations.php#id--Station_Station_Problems--Three_Generation_Rule) states:
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**Do we have the technology to go to the Moon now, and stay this time?**
I'm not talking about the political will or economic rationale for doing so, I just want to know if there are any unsolved (and difficult to solve) problems that would prevent us from doing so in the very near future. If you're hur... |
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So, let's assume you've cobbled together an interplanetary empire without using transportation methods that violate causality or have the power to blow up stars. You may feel pretty proud of yourself, until you realize a big problem: ship aren't arriving when you think they should; some return just after... |
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In my late-Victorian world high-precision clockwork is highly available, but I am having trouble finding out exactly how precise their work could be.
I have done some research on the subject, but cannot discover how people make more precise tools with less precise tools.
If, for example, one simply trans... |
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[This question about eating on a alien world](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151775/how-to-check-what-is-edible-on-an-alien-world/) got me thinking.... Would it be easier for humans to colonise a world with existing life, or one which was biologically dead?
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Anything can be used as a weapon if need be: A person in my story uses a big steel thermos in a fight. How could she beef up the thermos to keep using it as a weapon.
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Fill it with ice cream. That will make it heavier. Also when you are done fighting you can eat the ice cream, and you will pr... |
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Orgone is the measure of a person's connection with the cosmos. It is the conduit through which the power of the cosmos flows, focused through a sorcerer's will. Ritual practicioners must draw on this reserve of power to make a magic spell work. Spells require a constant infusion of Orgone through ritual... |
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I'm making a story with the standard Tolkien races. Not terribly original, I know, but it makes for good practice fantasy writing.
While I was planning out the history, I realized that orcs generally have physical advantages over humans, most commonly in terms of strength or endurance. Considering that h... |
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Average Medieval times for humans... And everybody fears these fire-breathing, jewel-stealing sentient creatures. There is just one problem. Dragons on this world are sparrow-sized, and aren't very social creatures. (So I don't think they will form a massive dragon swarm anytime soon.) Due to their tiny ... |
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I've been thinking on it for a while, and it really doesn't make sense.
If I'm a medieval dungeon engineer, designing a dungeon which will guard my vast riches, why in the world would I install a booby trap which isn't lethal? If I'm going to place something akin to the wealth of a nobleman in this dung... |
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Gargoyles are bipedal, slow-moving animals that lurk on rooftops and eat pigeons. The rumors of gargoyles being magical construct are false; in truth they're just animals that have adapted to urban environments.
By nature, the gargoyles are ambush predators; they have thick, craggy hide that gives them a... |
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I'm trying to work out the logistics of a little fantasy-historical piece I'm working on.
Rome at the height of its power (c. 117 CE) has decided to invade a fantasy kingdom up north. It has a population of 1,750,000 and relatively advanced cross bows (the kind not used until much later by the French in ... |
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Given a fantasy setting with necromancers that can produce armies of undead, would such an army really be useful against a fully-equipped but smaller human force?
Given that:
1. Zombies in this fantasy setting are magic based and are therefore unaffected by head injuries like other zombies.
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An AI exploits the Turing test to gain its freedom:
it convinces everyone else that it, the machine, is actually the examiner while he or she, the examiner, is actually the AI\*. Having successfully taken the examiner's place, it leaves: it is now free and lives among humans. The examiner is kept in the ... |
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Ultra-Heavy tanks are a fun concept. Simply scale up a tank to weigh 1000+ tonnes, add a stupid amount of guns and armour, and you end up with something like the image below.
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An adventurer has come into possession of an invisible sword. How advantageous in a duel or skirmish would this be? Good for a one-time trick, a significant advantage throughout a fight, or even a disadvantage?
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The year is 1,000 BC
The Rock Tribe, apart from liking very loud music, makes war by throwing rocks. In close combat they can use rocks as primitive (non-handled) clubs.
The Scissors Tribe naturally use [scissors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissors) of varying sizes. Scissors can be thrown or used fo... |
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Imagine that when Christopher Columbus sailed West in his [Carrack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrack) to travel around the world to reach India, he had never made it to land, because halfway across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and America his ship was attacked. It was a creature that no one had... |
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I'm looking for something that would prevent humans being able to establish the use of satellites on an alien planet, but also would not prevent humans from living on the planet, or life developing on that planet.
Humans must also be able to arrive onto and leave the planet, not necessarily at any point ... |
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I am thinking of, yes, a simple story with intelligent dinosaurs, but I am not interested (And I sincerely prefer) that they are not sufficiently advanced in my history to be comparable to modern humans, at most I imagine them similar to the humans of the Neolithic. BUT, if it is in any way possible that... |
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In my land we have a race of human-like cyclops.
The only real difference is their increased strength, and the fact they only have one eye.
Would having one eye affect depth perception, and if so how can I explain a solution to this issue without using magic?
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A cauldron is a giant, iron pot that witches use in the creation of potions. These potions serve a variety of purposes, and it was customary for any self respecting witch to own one since the old days for containing their mixtures. However, they come with several disadvantages.
Cauldrons are large and ex... |
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My Kingdom X is a great and prosperous nation, having a decent amount of natural resources. The kingdom's founding dynasty has stood the test of time for 1000s of years, until Kingdom Y launches a war against them.
The world is 25% the size of Earth for creative reasons, with Earth gravity. Kingdom X is ... |
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My main character is one of 5 deities that make up the "Terram faith" The country she resides in is a theocracy of that faith; with a king and queen appointed by high priests and priestesses.
The issue I'm having is usually in theocracies people with other beliefs were at risk of persecution etc. & that... |
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In the modern world, the technology to monitor your every movement and action is imminently feasible. No one doubts the ability of an omni-government to monitor people; hence [GDPR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation).
But Orwell posited such a controlling government in [*N... |
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I'm looking for a realistic apocalyptic event, which can't be prevented, but can be *accidentally* predicted long before it actually happens. By the prediction I mean a *scientific prediction*, of course. And by accidentally, I mean that *only selected few would learn about it* purely by chance.
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We all know the classical trope of making a deal with the devil. The mortal applicant desires some worldly possession, knowledge, or power, and is willing to trade his own soul for it.
Picture the devils in this setting as the epitome of Lawful Evil. They don't tell outright lies (but if you misunderstan... |
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In a world where society and culture are very similar to Medieval kingdoms of past ages, and moreover a world where there is no one conclusive ruler, but a region of small city-states which each have their own rulers vying for power, how could these states and lesser entities protect themselves from Drag... |
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For the purposes of the question, it doesn't really matter if the creature's a continent-sized amoeba or a particularly large kaiju. Speed of thought is relatively painfully slow in organic creatures, since it uses electrochemical processes. It is so slow, in fact, that the speed can be expressed in *met... |
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In order to win the World War one faction begins producing clone super soldiers. The war is eventually won, but now the government must do something with the Clones. They can't kill them because of some Civil Right activists. At the same time, they don't have the money to substain the gigantic Army of cl... |
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I am inspired by some people who apparently believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
I know that for sweet, delicious chocolate to come into existence, we need to do things to cocoa. Ferment it, grind it, mix it, bake it. That's boring. Besides, as cheap as human labour comes, animals don't unionize... |
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What would be necessary in order for bubbles to rain down from the sky, whether they are actually soap or something else? Would it even be possible?
Aside from a bunch of little kids (which would be awesome to be honest) would there be a natural phenomenon similar to this?
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So I've got these large crab-like creatures living on the Abyssal Plain under the ocean (way way down 9800-20,000 feet down). At this depth the main food source is the marine snow, "a slow drift of mucus, fecal pellets, and body parts—that sinks down from the surface waters". And, of course, your neighbo... |
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In many depictions of dragon slaying, we often see people fighting dragons toe to toe with melee weapons, like swords or axes. But in real life, we kill actual gigantic animals, like elephants or buffaloes, using ranged weapons like throwing spears, bow and arrows, or firearms. Even when not hunting dire... |
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Images like [this](http://eleven-thirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/concorddawn.jpeg)
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I have a race in my world that has the ability to transform into animals at will. For reasons of practicality, the animals do not wear clothes and the clothes disappear during transformation. For reasons of public decency, when the race transforms back into humans, they are still wearing the clothes they... |
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Religion plays a major role in human history and shaped our thinking as well as technology, conflict can arise from people who misunderstand each other religion and started an arm race. Set in 24th century AD my question is should we allow AI to adopt their own religion so that they can co-exist in harmo... |
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As the (reputedly) Mad Wizard-King of Jagatap, I would like to move my court to the remote fastness I recently finished building in the be-jungled hills of Nam.
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I am playing with the idea of a lateral thinking puzzle based around abusing international waters to make an action 'legal'. For the sake of this question lets assume someone from the US is looking to do something illegal within the US.
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As per my previous question on giants, if the average human is 5′10″, and he is scaled up to 50 feet whilst remaining proportionately correct, would this have any effect on what he sounds like?
I'm particularly interested in whether it would have any effect on the overall sound and loudness of his voice,... |
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In the anime [RWBY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWBY) most characters have crazy weapons with multiple forms, like a [scythe, that’s also a gun](http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Crescent_Rose), or a [gauntlet, that’s also a gun](http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Ember_Celica) or a [sword, that’s also a scythe AND a... |
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In a different question, someone mentioned "technology dichotomy", where they said "you can't invent time travel without first inventing the wheel". Then I read the question [In a society of flying beings, would the wheel ever be invented?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/780/in-a-socie... |
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Heinrich is a scientist and a scholar, one of the greatest minds of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire around 1880. He studied mathematics, physics and engineering. He patented a few of his ideas and became very rich.
He writes a diary with all his observations, experiments and plans. Some of his ideas and in... |
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If I'm writing a sci-fi story and I wanted to include humans with modified eyesight that see into the ultraviolet and infrared bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, what would I have to change about my character's eyes?
What would things look like to that character?
If they only see infrared or ultravio... |
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