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[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/13318/edit). Closed 5 years ago. [Improve this question](/pos...
[Question] [ Related: [Could a Dwarven Civilization Exist?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9947/could-a-dwarven-civilization-exist) Background: A Dungeons and Dragons world (for all intents and purposes, Tolkein lore is close enough) in which a group of colonists far from home are building a new ci...
[Question] [ If there was a medieval society where magic was only taught within royal and high ranking noble families, would this cause the society to stagnate? I mean, a lot of technological developments (but not all) have resulted in more balanced and progressive societies. Would the fact that the 'high born' noble...
[Question] [ Note: this takes place in a world populated by humanoid bears, where the population density in Siberia is much higher. The northern part of Russia is taken up by a country called Medwedia. As said before, Medwedia takes up the northern part of Russia in our universe; both countries span eastwards up to t...
[Question] [ So, I understand that human skin color is based on the distance from the equator, but would it be possible to evolve skin to be a non-natural color such as green, pink, blue, purple, ect? Perhaps if it would not be possible on Earth, would it be possible on another planet with a different climate? What g...
[Question] [ If you've read [Chronicles of Ancient Darkness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_Ancient_Darkness), you might get the reference. In that story, the protagonists, after fulfilling their duty, decide to journey over a large mountain chain to explore the other side, another forest landscape. Besi...
[Question] [ It is somewhat common knowledge in the worldbuilding community that larger planets leads to smaller land creatures, because larger planets means more gravity gets bigger and that makes it harder to become big from the square-cube law. However, water is different than land. Water creatures can become way ...
[Question] [ # Info I've created a pine tree that stabs its needles into people. Here's the way I did so: Using genetic engineering, my fictional scientists inserted keratin-producing genes into a pine tree (gymnosperm, a clade of plants that while fruitless have complex reproductive systems and vascular tissue) embr...
[Question] [ I'm playing with the idea of an alien race that uses ammonia, not water, as a solvent and breathes hydrogen. This is mainly because I want it to combust when exposed to our atmosphere. However, I want to know if this is a believable concept, i.e. not a dumb idea. [Answer] Using ammonia as a solvent wo...
[Question] [ [This question about genetics](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/13540/3407) (not required reading) contains the phrase "science of a Type II civilization." This got me to thinking: although we intuitively know what this means, does this actually tell us anything? After all, the only requirement ...
[Question] [ From [this chart](http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/startypes.shtml) it appears that the star types closest to our own are K-type (oranger, a little cooler, and less than half as bright) and F-type (bluer, a little warmer, and much brighter). If I want to place an "earth-like" pla...
[Question] [ **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. I am...
[Question] [ From my understanding, many of the features of water that make it very important for Earth's ecosystem are a result of oxygen's high electronegativity, which results in hydrogen bonding. As nitrogen and fluorine also have some similar properties (High electronegativity, hydrogen bonding, stable hydrides,...
[Question] [ Modern level tech equivalent. Planet with 3 times higher atmospheric pressure, but partial pressure of oxygen is comparable to this on Earth. Gravity is insignificantly higher than good old 9.81m/s². Guns are designed to be used by humans against humans. I want to adjust gun caliber to fit local level. ...
[Question] [ The pangolin is a fascinating creature. Belonging to the only group of mammals with scales, they are arboreal and are not hindered by them in any way. However, these animals have a very complex evolutionary history. The majority of mammals had a different evolutionary path. What factors in early mammal h...
[Question] [ I am working on developing my world's history. Great people help give a world flavor. From profanity to holidays to religions and nations, great people can be the lynchpin on which the pendulum of history swings. With this in mind I find it important to include them when developing my world's history. S...
[Question] [ We like the moon. It's close, you can see your home from there, low gravity well, so you get easy mass drivers to orbit for fleshing out your spacer economy, plus [you can do fun things in pools](https://what-if.xkcd.com/124/). [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qTQyL.png)](https...
[Question] [ In my space-fantasy WIP I intend to make heavy use of [Arcologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology). But I don't have any real information on their layout or the "plumbing". Leading here me to look for answers. 1. What are some likely shapes that an Arcology would be built in. 2. What would be the...
[Question] [ If the Earth's interior was not hot and liquid, how deep could we dig before the tunnels collapsed by the pressure or the air became too pressurized to be breathable? In other words: how deep can underground tunnels be and still be scientifically plausible? [Answer] **Problems for humans** The deepest...
[Question] [ Inspired by this other [question concerning large fantastical creatures](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9856/cohabitation-with-large-creatures), I came up with this question. Suppose that a human could tame a dragon, what would the dragon population think of humans, and what would huma...
[Question] [ This question is somewhat inspired by the number of "time bubble" questions that have been popping up on the site recently. If a real "time bubble" with a large enough time distortion factor existed, entering or leaving the bubble would mean certain death, as parts of the body on the fast side of the bub...
[Question] [ Part 1 here: [Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/106292/creating-a-scientificly-semi-valid-super-soldier-part-1-skeleton/106308#106308) Part 2 here: [Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 2: nervous sy...
[Question] [ We've had questions on constructed languages (conlangs) before--their inventories, sound changes and phonotactics--but we rarely if ever talk about the grammar change. When designing a naturalistic conlangs grammar, you usually base it off of actual languages and mix/match features to find a balance you ...
[Question] [ Island culture usually takes one of two really basic forms: 1. small, loose knit, widely distributed populations with a unifying shared culture across a large number of small islands. [Polynesia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia) for example. 2. denser populations on larger landmasses that border...
[Question] [ The Ents broke off from the rest of the civilization many aeons ago, and their main means of communication has evolved to the point where **instead of words, they use fully immersive and lightning-fast induced hallucinations**, which replaced all other forms of communication. > > The image flooded her s...
[Question] [ Let's assume that there is a magic that can push information directly into people's brains. However, that magic has some limitations: * It can only "push" single sentences of 15 words or less * With a thought, the person can "expand" the text and give the reader more information * It only works within a ...
[Question] [ I'm creating a fictional world which includes tree dwelling octopuses that thrives in swamps and tropical rainforests. I'm wondering what evolutionary pressures could lead to the rise of such creatures. ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/729VL.png) [Answer] Predators in a mollus...
[Question] [ I'm the DM for a D&D campaign, set in a sort of "realistic-fantasy" setting. There's monsters and magic and stuff, but there's not enough of that for the average medieval community to see much more than the odd zombie attack or passing griffin. Last session, one of the PCs came into possession of a large...
[Question] [ Something in orbit around an inhabited planet blasts it with a hefty dose of gamma rays/x-rays/something else, killing everyone within a relatively short time frame (hours or days) but leaving no obvious trace of what has occurred. When offworlders turn up a week later to find out what happened, they fin...
[Question] [ **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. Supp...
[Question] [ I have developed a 2D space trading game, yet in the final stage of the development of the game engine, I am struggling to find the optimal size of my planetary system(s) and the maximum velocity of my spaceship. Setting the correct dimensions is crucial for the further development of the project, as it ...
[Question] [ Consider yourself a decision maker for a fledgling space infrastructure project. You've been tasked with establishing the first few extraterrestrial colonies for your species. What aspects of the Solar System's moons make them more (or less) attractive than other bodies (like comets, asteroids, and/or ai...
[Question] [ From what I can tell, pulsars emit light in beams from the poles of the pulsar. Would it be possible to construct something to get energy from a pulsar's beams of radiation? Or is this as idiotic of an idea as... erm, an idiotic idea. (I am not good at metaphors.) Would this be easier than building a Dys...
[Question] [ > > ...It's paradox. They left us these technological marvels, yet with all their might and knowledge they failed to prevent their own doom... > > > Excerpt from a lecture by the *High Historian of Berlin Falls* --- Welcome to *a* future. Mankind has brought doom upon themselves, their cities have be...
[Question] [ Santa's reindeer are pretty awesome. They can stand on arbitrary planes (giving the illusion of flight, the reindeer are actually running on n-dimensional hills) and can dilate time in a bubble around Santa without tidal effects tearing holes in the universe. This lets Santa and the sleigh make as many t...
[Question] [ Would a creature similar to semi-aquatic slime mold living on a mostly freshwater planet with shallow seas be able to build technology to the extent that modern humans do? Assuming that each individual cell in the slime mold had a form like that of amoeba in the genus *Chaos* and had organelles that effe...
[Question] [ We all know how the story starts: > > He woke up in strange room, not remembering who he was or how did he got to the room. But that was not his problem. Problem was the first writing he saw: "HELLO, I WANT TO PLAY A GAME" > > > The thing is, what kind of drug could Joe Average eat to let him forget ...
[Question] [ I'm looking for a way to render a large percentage (30 to 50%) of Earth's human population infertile in about 10 years. Medicine and tech levels are approximately where they are now, maybe slightly more advanced. * Sterility is permanent. No medical advances in the next 30 years will be able to undo the ...
[Question] [ When you look at the history of earth, the last ice age had major impacts on the flora and fauna of the world as well as biological migration. If I am creating an earth-like world and am developing a history for it, does that history need to include ice ages? Are they a forgone conclusion in the way eart...
[Question] [ Some Science fiction stories have generations growing up on Mars would be a lot taller 7'+. **How would growing up on a much lower gravity planet affect a mammals size?** I understand bone density would likely be an issue. **What are the other health concerns?** [Answer] For mammals, things like hei...
[Question] [ This is my first post on these forums, sorry if I've accidentally overlooked any rules or etiquette. Please let me know if more detail is necessary or would be helpful. This question is about a specific species in a setting I'm developing but I'd like to know if the concept is possible before getting int...
[Question] [ **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. Epim...
[Question] [ I have a binary system. The primary star is F- or G-class; the secondary is K-class, 20AU away, and in a small reflection nebula (suggested [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/25204/28)). A planet orbits the primary in the habitable zone. [This article](http://www.solstation.com/habitable.ht...
[Question] [ Are there realistic circumstances that a planet would be accelerated (either artificially or naturally) to the speed at which relic radiation becomes so blue-shifted that the planet is illuminated so as if it were in a habitable zone? I also wonder the following: * Will such planet be in constant danger ...
[Question] [ I'm building an alien world for a game mod, and want to avoid any blatant mistakes from a world-building perspective. The world has three moons visible in the night sky - two on one side near each other, while the third is on the opposite horizon. When viewed from the equator (my main landmass is tropica...
[Question] [ The BBC in the UK are currently screening a archaeology series exploring the idea that the [Neolithic peoples in the Orkney Isles](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08819tl) (North of Scotland) were the cultural capital of the British Isles. There's evidence to show that the high standard of culture preda...
[Question] [ In the book *Dune* by Frank Herbert. Arrakis is a desolate planet composed entirely of deserts. Water is a precious commodity due to its rarity. The Fremen have found ways to live on its surface, despite its seeming lack of habitability. My question concerns the following: ***Could a planet with an atmos...
[Question] [ I have been sporadically building a particular world, mainly by developing its cultures with events (often paralleling Earth history) and individuals, rather than shaping the cultures beforehand. One problem I have come across is that my map's scale might be rather odd, partially as I am unsure of how to...
[Question] [ ### Background / Rationale Many fictional worlds feature sapient herbivores, but rarely spend much time considering how their tools and technology would differ. In the course of writing my story, however, I've come across one point of particular relevance... Most herbivores (due to predation) have much w...
[Question] [ I have a scenario in my world's history that is causing me a pause as it seems...improbable to the point where I am not sure it makes sense/breaks suspension of disbelief. A great empire arises via conquest. The catch is that each nation in this scenario has a military skilled in a particular type of com...
[Question] [ I am trying to design spacecraft with realistic mass estimates, so that I can "accurately" design fuel requirements and calculate potential speed. Obviously the mass of a ship is going to vary widely based on in its dimensions and purpose (a 500m long freighter will have a very different mass than a 500m...
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[Question] [ Space is full of radiation. When doing long stays in space, no matter whether it's a generation ship on its journey to a new colony, a research ship exploring new worlds, a freighter delivering goods, or simply a space station outside the protective magnetic field of earth or another planet, the people o...
[Question] [ Having looked at some of the questions regarding creatures with more than four limbs, I've found some useful info, like the idea that additional limbs increase stability while requiring more brain power to coordinate. This helps me imagine how a fictional group of hexapodal animals could evolve. However,...
[Question] [ Part 1 here: [Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/106292/creating-a-scientificly-semi-valid-super-soldier-part-1-skeleton/106308#106308) This question is about a complete rebuild of the nervous system. The question as p...
[Question] [ **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. Nobo...
[Question] [ We love turtle worlds. We already have a question about turtle planets : [How do I prevent my turtle from collapsing under its own gravity?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1359/how-do-i-prevent-my-turtle-from-collapsing-under-its-own-gravity) but let's scale it down. I would like to ha...
[Question] [ **Question: Are there are any serious biological or evolutionary plausibility issues with separating the energy storage/production function from the production of structural/regulatory biomass?** **Background**: In terrestrial life biomass is initially produced by plants which produce carbohydrates and r...
[Question] [ Planning and writing a sci.fi story with Space Navies(tm), and I realize that I'm tempted to wonder why you need more than three of four people punching buttons and pulling joysticks to move a ship and fire the weapons. So, obviously there are more roles to fill, I realize (and of course you gotta consid...
[Question] [ Al is a rat. He is also an engineer of quite a high caliber. He has developed a suit of power armor, with a movement-assisting exoskeleton that greatly increases his strength, speed, and endurance. Now, the physical ramifications of such a suit on a human have been explored before, but what I want to kno...
[Question] [ For the sake of this question, let's say that there would be a space mission that would send one man on a 40 year journey that will require him to be in a completely self sufficient habitat for the duration of the trip. What would be required for him to be completely self sufficient, and not need any ext...
[Question] [ **This Query is part of the Worldbuilding [Resources Article](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143606/a-list-of-worldbuilding-resources).** --- One crucial aspect of the climates have been left out so far, deep water circulation. It's the major force driving the heat transfer form the eq...
[Question] [ # Info I'm designing a prehistoric-dragonfly that has little holes or perforations in its wings. When the wind flows through them, they make music (the viability of flying with these wings will be covered later.) By prehistoric I mean a dragonfly the size of a hawk, with a slightly more complex, modified...
[Question] [ So, I'm working on building a state (kingdom to be more precise) as part of my world, and as part of that exercise I want there to be some contact between characters in said world and the legal system, so I need to define to at least some degree what that state's legal/governmental system is like, how it...
[Question] [ In most languages, the linear concept of time has led to similar concepts of past/present/future. Now, suppose that we have a human or human-like society in which time travel is fairly common, and it is possible for an individual to travel forward or back in time on occasion, including making contact wit...
[Question] [ How would one make a flat bubble stretched between two sides of a triangle that can withstand pressures up to at least 0.25 pounds per square inch? If it goes higher that's fine, as long as it still could be popped with a finger without much difficulty. If it requires special properties for the structure...
[Question] [ What is a plausible way to have a micro-scale containment system that prevents excited nuclear isomers from decaying? ## background A [nuclear isomer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer) is an excited state of an atomic nucleus. This is energetically mid-way between chemical energy and what we ...
[Question] [ Set in the 13th century middle ages and there is a zombie apocalypse, I own a castle surrounded by a trench of width 50m and a depth of 50m filled with 25m deep of mercury. The zombies are similar to the TV series *The Walking Dead* and I hope by now you have already seen it. It seems that I'm the sole s...
[Question] [ Parallel universe, human in this alternate Earth are innumerate at least; they do not have a sense of counting or quantifying if you will. I am wondering since these primitive humans are beginning to speak intelligibly and forming what looks like a hierarchical structure, how can they then elect a new le...
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[Question] [ I’ve been working on a story where terraforming robots are sent to another world and the colonists come along later. Originally, I had the new world be extrasolar, but for other plot reasons, I’m wanting to move it to Mars. One problem: I want the results of the terraforming to be something of a surprise...
[Question] [ In my world, magic and technology have a weird relationship. While they do combine and help advance growing civilizations, they can also inhibit each other. For example, if there are healing spells, medical technology may stagnate. Or, if electric generators become popular, big businesses will ignore alt...
[Question] [ High tides and low tides are caused by the moon. The moon's gravitational pull generates something called the tidal force, which causes Earth and its water to bulge out on the side closest to the moon and the side farthest from the moon. These bulges are high tide a, and non-bulge regions are low tides. ...
[Question] [ Picture an alternative history Second World War Paris. The Third Reich must destroy the Notre-Dame de Paris, and the inhabitants must prevent this. The French do not have access to anti-air weaponry (non-weaponry defences are permitted), the Third Reich has bombers. Due to sabotage efforts and the primit...
[Question] [ In my futuristic narrative, nations at war have invented a fabric just a bit heavier than cloth, that **effectively stops any small arms fire**. This huge leap in technology made gunpowder-based small arms useless. Large calibre anti-vehicle guns are still effective because of their sheer power and explo...
[Question] [ In a world where Gods exist, a god "x" one and only job is to maintain some kind of machine or system that oversees the creation of hero of the eons. Every eon, all gods gather and play a game called "Apocalypse" to relieve their boredom. When Apocalypse started, all kinds of "Apocalyptic event" ideas fr...
[Question] [ What is the best choice when it come to deciding which animal to breed to be a perfect assassin? The animal must be smart enough to understand which person to kill and which not to. The animal must also be smart enough to find their victims. How does it work? The government leaves an object hidden som...
[Question] [ So, in my world, the human’s UEN military mainly uses conventional firearms as their primary infantry weapons. However, they do have one non-ballistic weapon: the heavy, shoulder mounted M/DEW-96C Laser Cannon- this device can fire devastating pulses of high energy laser beams at targets, and is mainly u...
[Question] [ Supposedly Adolf Hitler had in his possession a blueprint of a working atomic bomb. Its destructive power is estimated to be similar to or on par with "Fat Man" which was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. With the bomb ready by April 1945, how could the Nazi leader use it to rewrite[1] WW2 and dominate Europe...
[Question] [ On the world of Thirdrock, the humans there practise group marriage: one to three women marry one to three men, with a maximum of four people in the marriage (or occasionally five under rare and temporary circumstances), and at a minimum one male and one female. The men are not married to each other, and...
[Question] [ I am writing a book set in a parallel universe where English is not the dominant language and the dominant language is a complex polysynthetic language that makes use of a complex system of word declension using affixation that contains both agglutinative and fusional structures. While the dominant langu...
[Question] [ The more I look at it, the more my world seems to resemble the world of Avatar the Last Airbender, but instead of benders I have casters which are capable of unique talents (combat magic, enhancements, healing, psychics, elemental control, energy control etc.). At the current state of development, the wo...
[Question] [ The question is self-explanatory. In my novel, there is an evil sea goddess that wants to destroy the world. I want to emphasize that she wants to destroy the world completely, in a way no plant, animal, human being or bacteria could survive. She has water magic, what means she can control all water that...
[Question] [ So, in the relatively-far future, humans, in their endless quest for immortality, develop a form of mind uploading. This involves scanning the brain, cell by cell, and creating an electronic model of the neurone patterns in which all the information about the subject, their memories, likes and dislikes, ...
[Question] [ In a book I am writing, one of the countries I am writing about has a militarized society, but also a strong sense of universal weapon ownership, to the point that more people in the society have actual tanks than cars. Public transportation is very popular, but even still, personal ownership of tanks by...
[Question] [ Historically, swords were most often worn at the hip in either a sheath or a scabbard. The purpose of a sheath or scabbard was primarily to cover the blade to prevent the wearer from injuring themselves or people around them whilst walking around. It also serves a secondary function of covering the blade...
[Question] [ In the good old days, the space pirates used tractor beams to reel in unsuspecting merchant vessels before robbing them. Recently reports of them cohorting with the rebel army soon spread across the entire neighborhood star systems in the report they were specifically stated using military-grade teleport...
[Question] [ I've been grappling with a story for a while, involving a scenario where gravity starts to fail. The goal of the story is mostly how people react to the knowledge that the world will end. But, I also wanted to include some sort of scientific group that is trying to figure out why. Are there plausible rea...
[Question] [ How would a standard Roman human army fight a smaller army composed of skeletons? The skeletons are strategic and will reassemble if you cut pieces off. The skeletons came from the army, and retain their combat skills and weapons (most likely gladius and scutum shield). However, if you pulverize their bo...
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[Question] [ **The question, before you get into the rest of this textual abomination: with all of the context, objectives, and design features mentioned below, is an ultra-heavy tank a resource-efficient means of killing zombies in an [CBRN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBRN_defense) (nuclear/biological/chemical/ra...
[Question] [ So, the nuclear apocalypse happens, 90% of humanity dies off, and most survivors live in small subsistence farming communities. The technology stagnates around the mid 1680-ish. Most communities only rarely see caravans and traders come through, as settlements are often few and far between. In the settl...
[Question] [ This is my first post here, but here we go: I have been creating an alien world for a while, and the sentient species on it is very canine-like. They have a canine body, legs, and head, and the only difference is that they have two prehensile tails (due to a beneficial mutation a million or so years ago)...
[Question] [ You have an independent space station, it's in a place that is convenient as a jump point for space ships, so it gets visited. What makes a station like that valuable other than the obvious fuel and R&R for the visitors? (Also, where does the station even get fuel? In my worlds, ships travel via hyperspa...
[Question] [ I've got a post-climate change world where summer temperatures make most of the planet uninhabitable, and the vast majority of the population lives in tightly-packed apartments either in buildings or underground, without direct access to the outside world to dump heat. The rich have large estates in isol...
[Question] [ This is set in the modern day but in a parallel universe. As usual we have a food crisis and climate changes, etc. Imagine a serial killer was finally arrested and sentenced to death, as the country still practices capital punishment. It supposedly is a strong deterrence and sends a powerful warning ag...
[Question] [ # tl;dr: what issues would cause more risk than reward for a civilization to settle a fertile, heavily forested area; bonus points for less magic / historical examples / it being a threat > > *My son, venture far beyond the Seas of Steel,* > > *and pacify the steppe, summit the mountains.* > > *Bu...
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[Question] [ **Full disclaimer : I acknowledge full well that in real life hybrid weapons are completely silly and impractical but I'm currently writing a fantastic-ish story where power fantasy is a key element. This hypothetical weapon will be more of a trick / makeshift weapon rather than a replacement o conventio...
[Question] [ In my setting I need to have a dungeon where people cannot use guns or other gunpowder weapons. The reason can be anything: it's impossible to bring guns in, guns don't work inside the dungeon, using a gun is unsafe for the shooter, anything. I originally thought about a flammable gas being released in ...