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[Question] [ In this world, there are these inhabitants that have the belief that all animals and plants have souls and sentience. Animals (including themselves) were born/created long long ago from plants and would one day at death, return to the plants. Each tribe of these inhabitants is situated in a forest, and a...
[Question] [ **Setting**: close to present day. Aliens in ships about the size of the Pentagon are detected at about [10 AU, moving at about 100km/s, and will therefore take about 6 months to arrive](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10AU%2F6%20months). Realistically at least one country will want to destroy them,...
[Question] [ Suppose there is a species similar to humans, but with the difference that their eyes change color based on their emotions. For example they would turn *red* to signal *anger*, *pink* for *lust*, *rust* for *rage*, *black* for *gloom* and so on. In this type of setup: Is it possible to lie undetected? ...
[Question] [ A shaman society secret to normal humans, in the late 2000s era where phones and the internet exist: why and how would they still put to work their black feathery friends? They were crucial before all these fancy shmancy phones and the world wide web stuff came around, but now a Samsung flip phone can do...
[Question] [ I just want to know if there is any purpose to having a water navy in a sci fi universe where you don’t really worry about countries on your own planet attacking you, since you’re the only one there. I just realized that perhaps I should talk about technology, as this could help. The technology is not as...
[Question] [ What are some plausible reasons why an advanced, futuristic society would still have a sizable agricultural/rural component, and a significant rural population? This hypothetical civilization is significantly more technologically advanced than modern wealthy 21st century societies, and can presumably gro...
[Question] [ Starting off, these domesticated herbivores, much like cows, exist on a terrestrial world 15-20% larger than Earth. With a higher gravity of 11.2 G, Earth-like atmosphere, and if it existed in our solar system, would be positioned behind Earth like Mars but 1.5 AU from the Sun rather than Mars 2.0 AU. La...
[Question] [ The Union (it was the only name that would translate for so many species) has found a really nice super-weapon/life-form: intelligent grey goo. It's a massive swarm of drones each about 8 feet by 4 feet that do what grey goo does best, break down other things and make more of itself. Every drone in this ...
[Question] [ My search did not turn up anything on this site, which kind of surprised me. So here we go: * Late Iron Age (think roman) backdrop * There are augmented humans, really good fighters. They would be able to fight up to [NOT REALLY MY POINT, A LARGE NUMBER] "normal" combatants at the same time and win, give...
[Question] [ I thought the answer would be simple and maybe it is, but it's just rattling my brain. If there was a planet 100 times the circumference of Earth, assuming everything is similar to Earth, 1 day (1 rotation) is 24 hours (therefore the planet will be spinning faster than Earth?) so I was wondering: Would ...
[Question] [ Under what circumstances could a civilization that was roughly 100 years in advance of present day American society have a strong cultural awareness of "monsters" that included myths and legends, and various taboo about areas that the creatures were said to inhabit, or things that you should avoid doing ...
[Question] [ Most hand-to-hand weapons are already streamlined for the obvious reason of minimizing air resistance. But would the same design work for underwater warfare? My story has a character who is exceptionally skilled in fighting in an underwater environment; he has extensively trained underwater and has the a...
[Question] [ In a post-apocalyptic world, monster-like creatures have taken over most of the planet, and twenty years later, only a few clusters of humanity still remain with somewhat functioning governments, and with "towns," as in places with apartments/buildings that have barely functioning water and electricity a...
[Question] [ Artificial wombs have become a luxury in society, allowing them to forgo the burden of carrying a child for nine months. Originally, this was an expensive process that currently only the wealthy and privileged can afford. However, big corporations such as Amazon, General Motors, etc, have also taken an i...
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[Question] [ In my fictional planet, forests grow not on soil, but on vast spongy mats of fungi. Traditional Earth-like feet would struggle to get grip on the squishy ground, so most megafauna taxa have feet like blades that cut into the fungus. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eDC1Q.png)](h...
[Question] [ I have an OC, who was born with this one-of-a-kind condition. His immune system is abnormally strong, invincible really. He's incapable of getting sick, or dying of bacteria, viruses, venoms, poisons, drugs, chemicals, alcohol, radiation, basically any outside substance that can be consumed or injected. ...
[Question] [ I've got a society that worships their ancestors and frequently consults their spirits for advice through necromantic rites. I've decided that rather than burying or burning their dead they would instead keep the bones in the temples as an aid to summoning their ancestors spirits. However they wouldn't w...
[Question] [ Question inspired by discussion under this answer: <https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/70360/2071> Dear people of Proxima Centauri. Our planet is dying. Our suns are dying. As you all know. We found out that nearest stellar system just 4 lightyears away has G2V star. And not only that. We *think* ...
[Question] [ > > As he neared the outskirts of the city the canyons of multi-storey buildings lined with coffee- and tea-houses gave way to the large squat shapes of factories, storage-halls and other industry. If it weren’t for the ramps leading below ground, or the occasional slid-apart roof of a shipyard revealin...
[Question] [ In the climactic final battle Faction A engages Faction B on Faction B's planetary base, both in orbital and ground combat. Realizing they can't win, Faction A activates a device that transports and traps the entire planet in what can be compared to a pocket dimension. So basically **the entire planet v...
[Question] [ I recently came up with an interesting idea for a power: glitch power! I originally thought the idea was great until my brother brought up a valid point: what is there to glitch? Normally glitches are coding errors, but this power is supposed to work in the real world, so there is no code. At best this p...
[Question] [ There's two opposing forces acting against each other in a covert intelligence war. The names here are substituted to protect myself. **The United States of Eagle** - High technology, overtly bound by ethics and reportability **The Confederation of Crow** - Mediocre technology level (think of your gene...
[Question] [ Imagine two groups of people exploring the same location, but at different times. For convenience, think of the group exploring first as the "ancestors" and the group exploring later as the "descendants." It is easy to invent ways for the ancestors to affect the descendants. For example, they leave treas...
[Question] [ In my setting, a near-human species attempts to invade modern-day Earth. With a few, very strange, outlier exceptions they are limited to WWII-era technology, and cultural/societal restrictions keep them from adapting and improving beyond this. The exceptions are the absolute minimum necessities that all...
[Question] [ I'm ready to reduce a certain amount of scientific rigor for a good story. In my world, some person invents a theory of everything. Is there a way that scientists would test the theory, to prove that its right, instead of some scrabbled equations? From my limited understanding, neither string theory nor ...
[Question] [ I don't want those annoying villagers to hurt my new friend, and so I will give him some metal plates on top of the skin on his limbs and torso. I can only think of using a metal that won't oxidize and also pinning the plates to the bones. What complications could arise from this? Is there anything else ...
[Question] [ A character of my story is in the following situation: He is in the middle of a forest and has lost his way out. He wants to be sure to keep straight on and not to move in a circle. * He has no compass * The sun and stars do not exist, just diffuse light. * A second person is with him, they have no spec...
[Question] [ In my alternate history (1800s), I have troop hiking through tropical sub-Saharan Africa. For plot reasons, I have man-killing mosquitos, but I also have a plant that exudes CO2 and other attractants. These flowering plants are placed in the room at night to attract the mosquitos away from people. Evolu...
[Question] [ I'm looking for the perfect kind of apocalypse that not only can kill great parts of the people on Earth leaving the survivors spread in little primitive groups across the world ,but can also avoid the possibility of humanity arising again too soon. I need something that other than killing people, someth...
[Question] [ Jormungandr, the snakebot of doom, is no more. Its remains are lying on the bottom of the sea in the Aleutian Trench to the south of the [Rat Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Islands), where it was nuked to pieces by three hundred approximately half-megaton thermonuclear warheads, 288 of which ...
[Question] [ I am writing a story about an extreme meritocracy that applies artificial selection and eugenics to humans. This society (called Sophia) views intelligence as the most important trait to have. Almost everyone in Sophia does whatever they can to maximize the knowledge, brainpower, and wisdom of themselves...
[Question] [ Overall setting -- "loosely future Earth," say a hundred years from now, with plausible levels of realism (doesn't have to be perfect, but should feel familiar and match intuition). Climate change was not averted, sea levels rose, technology fell back somewhat (due to reductions in population, social uph...
[Question] [ On earth, most animals live decades, and only a handful over 100 years. What has led to such a 'short' lifespan across the board? Assuming there may be other carbon-based life forms similar to that of earth on other planets, would they also be limited to shorter lifespans, or is it possible to have a spe...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story at the moment where a griffin has imprisoned a lord while taking his castle as a new roost. Almost all the lord's men and servants have been disposed, therefore any kind of government in the region collapses. The griffin doesn't establishment any rule or government of its own, it just...
[Question] [ So, I decided to change subjects... for a little while. I also have werewolves (they don't transform, though) in my meta-setting. Now, they're very much humanoid, though more wolflike in other areas than what you usually see in horror movies, especially their heads. Think of something like this: [![Drawi...
[Question] [ I am currently building a world where one of the most powerful countries/kingdoms is much known for its exploration and architectural culture. To be really short, exploration is a noble profession for its citizens, and they organize trips regularly. The ruling family puts a loooot of money in those few-m...
[Question] [ Starting from 435 A.D., a race of sea-faring giants has made land-fall in Eurasia and is raising hell. Due to socio-political pressures in their island homelands in Polynesia and Australia (constant warfare over limited land, internal displacement, overpopulation, etc.), these giants have emigrated west ...
[Question] [ A professor of mathematics is sent back in time to a post-Neolithic farming village. They accept him as their wise man, and he spends 30 years teaching them all he knows about mathematics until he dies. The ancient people preserve most of this knowledge in stone carvings and baked mud tablets, and contin...
[Question] [ So hypothetically, what would be the best "hiding" locations for societies/organizations that seek to avoid contact with the rest of humanity? In other words, where would be the best place (geographically), on Earth, to place an isolated, uncontacted, and unknown society? Assume that any technology reali...
[Question] [ I'm worlbuilding a low fantasy inspired by the dark ages something like 6th to 9th century in our world. The geography is completely different with one supercontinent containing almost all the landmass. And plenty of states & tribes inspired by those in our history: Phoenicians, Mycenaean, Han, Dravidian...
[Question] [ Imagine your spaceship encountered a gravitational anomaly and discovered that you are lost in space, your computer tells you that you are still inside the Milky Way galaxy but it cannot find the Solar system. I think in order to triangulate the spaceship current position we need at least 3 other spacesh...
[Question] [ A colony of space travelers makes their way to their new home planet. After landing and establishing their base camp, a wood worker begins to cut down trees and notices that none of the trees have more than 12 rings. Curiously he explores the country side for several days and can find no trees with more ...
[Question] [ Would it be possible for a nation with 19th century to very early 20th century technology and history and hot desert climate to utilize solar power for electrical generation as a substitute for coal or replace the use of coal in any other way? There is not an abundance of national coal, however, rivers a...
[Question] [ I was thinking of an organism that lives its entire life in interstellar space * It eats, defecates, moves, grows, ejects eggs, attracts mates, and has sex in interstellar space. * It has skin that pressurizes its insides so that its insides are pressurized even when the organism lives in the vacuum of s...
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[Question] [ This question pertains to the videogame *The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask*. In this game, the bell from the Clock Town clock tower can be heard from pretty much anywhere in the world at certain times, when it rings at regular intervals to announce the fall of night or the break of dawn. However, each '...
[Question] [ This question relates to an attack on a biological space vessel. My vessel is a space station made from wood, with an oxygen-rich atmosphere inside it. It is under attack and the attackers have decided to "burn" through the wood and let the air inside escape. **What will happen when you heat the outer su...
[Question] [ I often read a light novel that tells a story about a person who is transferred from their high tech modern society Earth to a fantasy land. These persons often have some expertise in modern science such as computer programing, chemical engineer or maybe even they have a military experience, but most oft...
[Question] [ In claims of true free market enterprise with an anarchist type 'government' (meaning none), how would the different forms of slavery be avoided? Granted your neighbor who watches your dog when you go on vacation isn't likely to kidnap your children and sell them, but in a society where money is the ulti...
[Question] [ Yes, I know the answer for this is "no, that's unrealistic and ridiculous," but magic in my world may just change that. You see, mermaids have the (super)natural ability to create and manipulate seashells (and pearls, but that's outside the scope of this question). Now, I've decided that mermaids will us...
[Question] [ ## Background A previously subjugated population flees a region, settling in an extremely remote location and remains isolated for a few hundred years. The population, upon fleeing, speaks the same language as their subjugators. **What is the likelihood that the languages remain comprehensible between th...
[Question] [ **Some background:** My interstellar civilization(s) have fled our home Solar System, spreading throughout the nearby systems in the [Orion Arm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Arm). They possess [FTL](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faster-than-light#Adjective), but for plot reasons, they have only j...
[Question] [ Assume you have an inhabited O'Neill or McKendree-style cylindrical habitat or ship designed to move between star systems—[not unlike Rama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama). What are the major advantages and disadvantages of orientations A and B below? [![A: propulsion along longest ax...
[Question] [ Various forms of magic exist, and they are used in different ways for different effects. One involves scribing runes onto an object to provide it with magical properties. This allows for enhancing these objects in ways that would not normally be possible. A sword that lights on fire for example, or a rin...
[Question] [ What could cause a planet to naturally have **zero** caverns with surface openings apart from small impact hollows in the sides of craters and crevices carved in cliffs? To be specific, zero large caverns and cave systems with openings on the surface. *(Subsurface caves could exist. BUT if anyone has a...
[Question] [ I am back in a 'shrinking/being small is neato' phase, so I have been thinking about things at small scale. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3csCn.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3csCn.png) Anyway, my question is what would be the best choice of weaponry for a 1 inch tall man th...
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[Question] [ The SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) foundation is an organization devoted to the containment of scps: dangerous supernatural anomalies or individuals that pose a threat to humanity's existence. It functions as a privately owned entity, receiving funding and support from wealthy donors and governments arou...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ In my previous question, I brought up a hypothetical society where children aren't raised at all by their biological parents. Instead, the children are taken care of by hospital staff for the first year of their life. Then, children ages 1-5 are taken care of by daycare staff. Finally, children from the ...
[Question] [ Assuming technology within the next century or so, what would it take for aircraft to fully replace naval vessels such that a navy and air force could almost merge? While surface vessels and carriers seem like they could potentially fall to higher endurance aircraft and possibly something more exotic lik...
[Question] [ **Context :** my fictional universe is set in a time period akin to the european Middle Ages/Renaissance. Think of the 1400s-1500s for reference. In most aspects (political, social, industrial etc.) my fictional universe closely resembles real life 15th century Europe, with two important clarifications: ...
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[Question] [ My question stems from [What would a space fighter look like?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12354/what-would-a-space-fighter-look-like/12369#12369) After reading through @dsollen's question [can a human fighter pilot fully grasp 3 dimensional frictionless movement in space?](https://...
[Question] [ I'm aware of the property of the number $2520$. It's divisible by all integer numbers from $1$ to $10$. One of the factorizations of $2520$ is $7√ó360$. It came to my mind to make a habitable planet that revolves around its star every $2520$ days. It has $7$ months (also the number of days in an Earth we...
[Question] [ I wasn't sure which StackExchange I should ask this question, but since the story I am writing is basically a historically inspired fantasy, I decided to present it here. The story in question is supposed to be a fairly short pirate adventure set in a Bronze Age world. My protagonist is an admiral from a...
[Question] [ Imagine that you are president-for-life in a third world country in the 60's. USA supports you because you are staunchly anti-communist but they are growing impatient with your heavy handed dealing with the opposition. In order to put some constraints on your power USA gives you an ultimatum to make a co...
[Question] [ Finally, I have done it. I have bought a large and beautiful four bladed windmill. A [smock mill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smock_mill) to be precise, really high and all functional. There is the whole ancient machinery in it, completely operational, I have tested it, just put sails on the blades and...
[Question] [ Assuming spacecraft are using contemporary propulsion technology, and are engaging in a dogfight in outer space (whether they are manned, drone, or autonomous), would the movements of the craft be abrupt and jerky, or smooth and graceful? [Answer] To expand on Cort's comment. Propulsion in space is to...
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[Question] [ **Acceptance Criteria** I am looking for an explanation that allows for a reasonable purpose for *both missiles and drones*, but I will accept answers that try to dissuade me from either. Adding additional armaments is permitted within this technology base within reason. Ships should not be overly armed ...
[Question] [ Let's say a global law has been passed in the year 2000 that disallows any projectile, explosive or otherwise long distance weapon or put differently, only allows variations of melee weapons. Thrown weapons (like throwing stars) are also banned. The reason for this was that weapons became more and more w...
[Question] [ Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Humans require energy (food) to operate, but that energy must return back to the environment one way or another. If given an unlimited supply of handwave material which does not absorb/emit any energy whatsoever, could we construct a box where humans could live ind...
[Question] [ Robots are just an advance programmed devices which does the task which are ordered to them via codes. Is it even possible for a highly advance robot to interpret and learn human emotions? **Update**: **From the suggestions from various comments-here is the more elaborated perspective of my world** Time:...
[Question] [ The year is 2020. The aliens have sent a message to the dominant race of earth, the humans, that they have a weapon of mass destruction, a giant laser beam that can blow through the earth and everything in it. However, these space-dominant aliens have to abide by a law: If 10 individuals of the dominant ...
[Question] [ Basically title. You can't light a fire to cook your food because everything's all wet and there's no air you see. But can you take some raw meat, apply an electric eel to it for 20 minutes, turning once, until the flesh is white and the juices run clear, then serve. The scientific question is whether th...
[Question] [ One of the cities in my world, known as Kerkapeze, is situated in a location I just realized I'd have to be very creative to justify: it lies on a narrow plateau between two high but very small mountain ranges nowhere near a plate boundary. Here's some screenshots of the city (which I spent waaaay too mu...
[Question] [ I have a solar system containing multiple planets, most having an intelligent species inhabiting it. To keep a common peace, they created a large government system to help stop territorial wars between planets for uninhabited planets as well as trade between each planet. But to do this I need to come up ...
[Question] [ What would be the best way to send energy that is generated outside the Earth's atmosphere, possibly in the asteroid belt (nevermind the means), so that it can be used on the surface of the planet? Let's say solar power generation. With enough mirrors you can get really high output. The energy thus "gath...
[Question] [ Assume in the very near future almost all rail transportation would return to steam-powered locomotives. To define it exactly, I mean solid fuel is burned inside the locomotive, which boils water, which is in turn used to drive the locomotive. Assume no economic or societal collapse, or at least not a to...
[Question] [ It is not a good start for a story if the protagonists kill each-other on sight when they first meet. Unfortunately, my protagonists are very likely to do just that. They do need to defend themselves against nature, rivals and the police while they carry on their not quite legal activities. But there is ...
[Question] [ To elaborate a bit further: let's say there's a planet in which some higher power installed several giant "domes" where people live. Each of these domes, which are the size of a small city, contains a totally different primitive civilization, with different traditions and even languages. Each dome city i...
[Question] [ What are the requirements for such an endeavour? I am making a novel where the protagonist is reincarnated into a medieval society. His plan is to push forward technology into the modern age. He starts out as an Earl by the way [Answer] I made a slightly snarky comment earlier on the question, but I d...
[Question] [ I'm going to jump straight into a very small description of the world my first novel-thing is build around. It's an Earth-like planet orbiting a binary star. Climate is slightly more extreme than on Earth (think colder winters, hotter summers) and the ~800 million inhabitants adapted quite well to it. Te...
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[Question] [ Consider planet Earth in a distant future. Human technology has advanced, although it still respects the currently known laws of physics. I am trying to build a story where: * An Event makes it so the whole planet Earth, or at least a significant portion of its surface, is **shattered into debris that go...
[Question] [ The question is about stopping arrows fired as a barrage by an army far away. You control fire, and suddenly blast the entire barrage of arrows with fire hot enough to incinerate the wood in a matter of seconds. Would the not-completely-molten arrowheads still be able to roughly reach the target (a movin...
[Question] [ What would be the best way in which to genetically modify (or create through some other method) an animal which breeds normally for a certain number (50?) of generations before becoming sterile? Generations 1-49 would be normal, but generation 50 should be unable to breed. [Answer] I think you'd have ...
[Question] [ I've already talked about this world in [How would criminals be punished in a world where everyone can teleport?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/203394/how-would-criminals-be-punished-in-a-world-where-everyone-can-teleport) > > Everyone in this world from the age of 5 can teleport to ...
[Question] [ Note this is postulating that this starts from Stone Age. 'Mate' is defined as penile-vaginal sex with ejaculation. Requirement starts at puberty. People know when it starts, how long they've got, the general info that this death-clock resets by sex, and they are also killed, via magic. Cannot be circumv...
[Question] [ I am developing a culture for a species that lives in freshwater. They are solidly stone/bone-age, so no issues with "how do you develop metallurgy underwater?" and so on, but I would like them to be able to develop writing. Carving rock is possible, but that seems overly cumbersome to become a normal me...
[Question] [ As a school project, I am designing an extraterrestrial animal, and I would like to include a multiple-hearted mammal-like organism. Is there any set of circumstances in which having 3 hearts would be beneficial to a mammal-like creature, such as the hematocrit or possibly the complexity of the organism?...
[Question] [ So I have seen some [fictional characters](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Lancer_(Fate/Zero)) dual wield spears or would it be wielding twin spears? While it was done with [Implausible fencing powers](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImplausibleFencingPowers) using polearms, I would like to kno...
[Question] [ Related to [How would a weapon act if it negates the effects of gravity for itself?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/27907/how-would-a-weapon-act-if-it-negates-the-effects-of-gravity-for-itself) I'm in the middle of building a fantasy world with one core component – a reasonably rare ma...
[Question] [ Assuming a spaceship with artificial gravity was possible, would it be possible for it to have an extremely short range, like a few feet. So you'd be able to have a ship with 1g but not have it attract every other ship in a 1 or 2 mile radius around it? Please excuse the crudity of this render, I didn't ...
[Question] [ A scene in my story involves the main character encountering a crashed spacecraft while collecting firewood for his village, and keeping it a secret for several months. The spacecraft is about 20 meters in length, and has among other things an Expanse-style fusion drive, meaning fuel and delta-v are most...
[Question] [ Rather than creating an entire world for my worldbuilding project, I was planning on adding an additional continent to Earth. Since the largest “empty spot” is in the South Pacific and one of my goals was to create a temperate continent with minimal disturbance to the rest of the world, I’m planning on p...
[Question] [ I've done a bit of research and small bodies of water don't have significant tides, even the Mediterranean doesn't have particularly large tides. So how can I get bigger tides on a small body of water? The sea in question is, for simplification sake, on what amounts to a floating continent. I'm not entir...
[Question] [ Set in the 18th to 19th century A.D. the industrial revolution started uncontrollably and began to take its toll on nature; more trees have been felled and rivers dried to make way for rail tracks. Many mythical creatures such as fairies and the unicorns were driven out of their home which was once a maj...