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**Could a creature carry its own ecosystem around with it? What traits would it need to make this viable?**
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Assuming that
* the planet is 20 light years away (so back and forth trips
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* we have no clue whether there is any edible life forms on the new
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I've never tried building a world before. That is, I haven't tried to put it on paper. At most, it's just day dreaming.
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I'm looking for help hiding a small colony. Imagine a few families, definitely less than 100 people, living in a small community together hidden from the modern world. They use 19th Century technology and seek to remain hidden.
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Building my sci-fi setting deciding what's the in-universe answer to the [Fermi-paradoxon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox), the reason why the universe still seems to be empty of K3 civilisations despite its age, has been quite important to me. I've settled on the notion that a species wit... |
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So one of the biggest quirks of the world I'm building is that, along with supernatural powers suddenly becoming real in modern day, the human race is granted multiple separate opportunities to voluntarily transform themselves into exotic and never-before-seen humanoid species. Periodically, for the firs... |
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My facial skin is allergic to any fabric so I never put on a mask. My alter ego is called Stack Man. One of my special ability inherited from my Kryptonian dad is the fringe; this is the most amazing power one can ever dream of except invisibility.
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Is it possible to build a clock that will be immune to relativistic effects on the passage of time? Can a clock exist that will always display the time of the place in which it was set? For instance, if we built the clock on Earth, then put it on a spaceship which accelerated away from the Earth at a sig... |
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I have found that, every time I try to make another humanoid species, they end up as basically just humans with extra abilities. For example, I tried making a race of dark-elves once, and they ended up basically as humans plus night vision and camouflage abilities. How can I make it that humans are bette... |
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So I have a really long space-flight section of my story with all necessary requirements for preserving the crew is in place (hypersleep etc.)
But one thing went into my mind with preserving other necessary products like food and best of all... Medicine.
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I'm creating a continent for a story I'm developing. I was just wondering if this map looked realistic from a geographical point of view (weather, city placement, environment, etc.)? Thanks for any help you can offer!
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In a post-industrial collapse scenario, what would be the most effective methods for contraception? Situation is a small scale civilisation with limited access to industrial materials and tooling but have solid understanding of science and anatomy.
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Just out of curiosity, could a large constrictor such as a python or a boa evolve to rely on camouflaging itself as a branch, with the right colouration and positioning, in the jungle canopy and ambush its prey (prey such as primates, rodents or birds etc).
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In the world as we know it, it seems like political power is almost always consolidated into a single axis (Lancasters vs Yorks, Republicans vs Democrats, Conservative vs Labour, etc). **This, in my opinion, is boring.**
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I am looking to have a Tunnel drilled through a world and deal with the physics of What happens in the centre of a planet, what happens with the heat at the core and whether it is faster to travel through a planet. However I'm interested in a reason for doing this?
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Imagine someone who could do everything [Lars Andersen](https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk) can, but with even more accuracy and power, in addition to being very strong and athletic and being able to do it with a heavier bow and faster arrows.
Is it plausible that in the modern world, this person could, or rat... |
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I'm doing research for a space opera with some hard sci-fi elements. One faction does use radiators (dusty plasma particles held in magnetic fields- which would create the effect of glowing wings on warships) for their starships, while I'm thinking another faction would use something else so I'm open for... |
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In a context where downloading the brain of a person has or is about to become possible, there is a problem looming at the horizon: once there is a copy, there is the chance of getting multiple copies.
While the possibility of having hundreds of Mozart, Chopin, Einstein, Fermi, Picasso and so on is surel... |
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Altheia is the City of the Copper Folk. Its bishops and wise dictators believe that copper is the metal of gods, a holy item given to Altheians as a gift for their religious behavior.
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One day, on the faraway world of not-medieval-Europe, someone discovered that a type of stone could be made to float. A decade or two later, there are flying castles, built out of and/or on a foundation of said floating stone.
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In my fantasy world, I have created a sentient species descended from an arboreal felid (it evolved to eat squrriels and small monkeys). They are my elves. The one problem is that I want them to be herbivores. So I would like someone to help me figure out why a carnivore descendant would do this. This wo... |
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In my Fantasy/sci-fi universe there exists a lighter than air gas, that is non-flammable, while having density similar or even smaller than hydrogen (I will post some questions related to this gas in the future). This gas, combined with light and strong materials used in universe, permits making big airs... |
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I have a race in my world that in most respects is comparable to a human, perhaps not in form but certainly in function.
One of the key differences between humans and this species is a **lack of opposable thumbs.**
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Imagine an Earth-like planet with oceans that are comprised roughly 50/50 of heavy water and normal water. My understanding is that while heavy water ice sinks in normal water, it would float on heavy water. But would it float completely below the surface in an ocean that is a mix of heavy and normal wat... |
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Monsters are creatures infused with (and mutated by) Chaos Energy, which both grants them "magic" and a sixth sense called, appropriately enough, [Chaos Sense.](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/213594/impact-of-chaos-sense)
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How and with what would fairies build their houses? They need them because of the ridiculous number and variety of predators targeting them and the unforgiving weather.
However, I don’t know with what they would build them, and how anything that they build would hold up. Their houses need to have roofs a... |
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Many questions on this site mention how difficult it is for merfolk to develop technologically, as there's almost nothing but rocks and kelp to work with. My solution to this is that they use these rocks to build sea-spires that put them right in the center of maritime trade. These spires would essential... |
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**Disclaimer:** This question, unlike my other tree related question, was brought about by pure whimsical daydreaming. I also threw the term "evolve" around a lot, I should clarify that what I asking is would it be feasible not if it would be likely.
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It's earlier in the Cold War and tensions between the two superpowers are extremely high. Both are flying regular sorties of fighter craft and strategic bombers loaded with nuclear weapons near the other's border.
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In the near future, screens and technology will be implanted in us so we do not need to have another physical device. When a person is in prison, they are not allowed to have access to technology and other resources without permission. How would this be handled if the technology was implanted? Would it b... |
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Moreover, could a culture of microorganisms form a collective hive-intelligence similar to ants or bees? I'm trying to design a scientifically plausible hive-mind, and I'm trying to decide whether the best option is to merely utilize tiny aquatic insects with the conventional type of hive-intelligence di... |
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Eyes that constantly emanates light, either just the iris and pupil (resembling a tapetum lucidum reflection, but visible from any angle) or the whole eyeball.
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I'm not talking about stuff like radiation and mutations. I'm talking about mechanics (for now).
Necessary effects:
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I had an idea to make cockatrices "realistic" (as in make a bit more sense) for what ever reason the noble cockatrice has evolved to use other species eggs for its own. It does this by "sitting" on usually a chickens egg. When it does this it inserts it's own embryo into the egg.
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I'm developing a tree that has a peculiar fruit. Instead of having water in said fruit, there is nothing but sugar. The tree pumps sugar into a hollow orb which slowly "bakes," caramelizing into an amber shell of stained-glass sugar. This caramel shell fruit contains tiny seeds. What's more, to protect t... |
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In SpartaNova, there is a flat base income tax rate of 70%. For each year of military service that a (potential) citizen performs, his or her future tax rate is decreased by 10% if the service occurs during peace time and by 15% during wartime if in a non-combat role, and 25% during wartime if in active ... |
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Set in the modern day, I was wondering about a possible scenario in which some hackers gain control of many satellites, probably including those specifically for defense purposes, in order to wreak havoc on many cities around the world. What kind of satellites are the easiest to hack, and how can the hac... |
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A bit of mythology:
In the beginning there were two dragons fighting for dominance of the universe: one of light and one of dark. This battle had gone on forever. Both dragons were tired of the battle, and wanted to end their eternal struggle. The Dark Dragon powered up to unleash an attack that would en... |
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The [Mokèlé-mbèmbé](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe) (meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers") is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture.
It is often described as looking like a small sauropod, with a... |
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As discussed in [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/5158/maggots-at-a-party-how-would-alien-races-dine-together) certain social activities such as eating could be hard to support between alien species with very different dietary requirements and eating customs. What social a... |
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I am trying to piece together a world where a country has two territories. One territory is very far away from the other. Between the disjoined lands are long stretches of hostile enemy territory. Having distant territories is hardly a novel affair; the Romans, Persians and Ottomans boasted va... |
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I've always liked living spaceships, but it seems to me that the animal kingdom would make far inferior spaceships to the plant kingdom. With that in mind, what does this tree-ship have to be made from to:
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Ever since the keyboard/mouse combo really took off in the early 80s there has really been no satisfying replacement since--at least for complex/precision tasks such as computer programming and graphic/industrial design.
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Let's take a look at the [major cities of the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city):
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In many cultures I have seen in the world circular currency was what they used in medieval times. I have seen very few cultures that used rectangular currency even for a short period of time. The question here: is there a reason that so many cultures used primarily circular currency? And is there a reaso... |
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Something I realized not too long ago about a spacefaring society is that while a lot of technology is going to feel advanced, a lot more is going to feel ancient just because of all the hurdles it has to overcome in order to work in the first place. One example of this is communication.
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I'm writing a sci-fi book where the main method of travel involves collapsing a star into a black hole by putting a satellite equipped with some sort of handwaving mechanism into orbit around the star. The satellite can then direct a beam of energy with a cross-sectional area the size of the black hole i... |
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The species in question that can survive in the vacuum of space for extended periods of time (say months). They can feed on stellar radiation and have an innate sense of orbital dynamics. They come from a planet with several moons and they frequently travel from the planet to the moons and back, and occa... |
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Is it possible that, through any plausible history of alien life, and any plausible method of propogation for a self-replicating spacecraft, that the universe, as seen from present day Earth, could be inhabited by self-replicating spacecraft that have gone feral and settled into distinct niches like plan... |
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In this scenario there are two spacefaring empires, each with a handful of solar systems under their control. The two empires have been adversaries for millennia.
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I want to create a planet with a deep gravity well, say about 12G at the surface. At first I wanted the planet to have either no atmosphere or a very thin one. But I want this to be as close to realistic as possible. So, would a planet be guaranteed to have a thick atmosphere with a gravity well that dee... |
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Would heavier clothing solve the problem of bone and muscle loss in Martian gravity? It doesn't have to be a perfect solution, I just don't want my Martian colonists to be total wimps compared to Earthlings.
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I'm working on a fantasy/sci-fi story set on Earth but in the far future. Hundreds of millions of years from now, after the rise and fall of many civilisations, the world has gone back to a medieval-like society, but relics can be found from ages past that are capable of amazing things: hovercrafts, lase... |
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A quest line in my game features the kidnapping of someone from *The Hotlands* to an area known as *The Ice Hills*.
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The setting: A pre-industrial fantasy setting where magic is probably available, but not necessarily (*outside the god's capabilities anyway*). There are known to be different Gods, with different personalities, in charge of different aspects of human life. These Gods can physically affect the world in c... |
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One thing I've always had trouble with when building a world is developing cultural myths and beliefs that feel unique and special from Earthly culture. Specifically, animals' meanings. In Christianity, for example, a snake is a symbol of evil. In America, the eagle is a sign of freedom, Etc. I need my m... |
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So imagine any typical post-apocalyptic world, recently cast into their misfortune. A very large percentage of humanity has been killed, leaving a very large stock of property to be looted. I suspect that food and fresh water are the very first trade goods than anyone would care about. But as time progre... |
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For context, there is a planet that is kept isolated from the larger civilization of star systems it should be connected with—in terms of communication. A base population is already present on the planet. On the remaining celestial bodies of this star system are a third party’s personnel, transport, etc.... |
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I have many ideas for fantasy/sci fi races, and one that I kept coming back to is a species with bones that are based on an element other than calcium.
Is this possible and what would a good element be?
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In the near future (next few decades) a giant spaceship is detected as it decelerates on its way into the solar system. It heads for Earth orbit, but a few weeks before reaching Earth, it veers away and ends up in orbit around the sun not far from Earth, about 10 times the Earth-Moon distance.
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Because of an error in the interpretation of the Mayan calendar I just discovered, I know now that Earth will be destroyed on March 13, 2021 at 11 o'clock in the morning, time zone of Palenque.
I could rent a small time machine and will travel to the past to save the human species by achieving a self sus... |
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In my story, a portal is opened from the Earth to an alternate world. However, this world is toroidal in shape and has a surface gravity equal to that of Earth. It rotates around an axis that goes through the center of the circle perpendicular to all major radii, and its day/night cycle (assuming that it... |
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I'm working on a story set in a generation ship traveling through the stars. Its propulsion is a solar sail, which will accelerate it over many decades to a substantial fraction of the speed of light. However, its inhabitants need power for electricity, and don't want to use nuclear power (or [radioisoto... |
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A time traveller wants to save medieval Europe from famines by introducing the potato. The plan is, on first sight, simple: Just bring potatoes back with a time machine, and convince people to cultivate them.
Now he can make only one time travel, and bring a limited number of potatoes with him (say, abou... |
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To go to space and mine asteroids is expensive, but it is known that meteorites contain rare minerals in the core that are easy accessible because of the smaller diameter.
The expensive material that is in the center of the asteroid is expensive because it is rare. But when the mission returns to earth w... |
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It is not hard sci fi, but I need something plausible.
A spaceship falls on a planet and destroys itself. The area surrounding the wreck becomes highly radioactive. It can be because of the leak of radioactive fuel used to propel the ship; or because of the radioactive cargo the ship was carrying; or be... |
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In many Science Fiction books and games, there are worlds or planet-like objects that are rings that orbit (or float around in space) (some examples being the Halo (from **Halo**) or the Ringworld (from the book called **Ringworld** by Larry Niven).
After reading through a lot of the **Ringworld** book,... |
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I would like to know what would happen if a new virus arose which could not be cured and which managed to escape the infected areas (and any quarantine zones). In order to scope this question **I'm not interested in how humanity would adapt** I want to know about how the infected rates/death tolls over t... |
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In my future setting on Earth (or an Earth-like planet; haven't decided), the fields of robotics and AI have taken off and we have intelligent, ambulatory robots. (They were initially thought of as machines, but, as is common in such settings, they have advanced and they are considered "human-equivalent"... |
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Take a large spacecraft. I'm thinking about 1,000,000 metric tons and 3,000,000 cubic metres, but I don't think a factor of 10 either way would change things.
The ship is heavily designed and capable of atmospheric flight. There are *technobabble* FTL and STL drives. The ship can maintain several G for s... |
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It's well established that the [human body](http://www.space.com/23017-weightlessness.html) does not do [well in zero gravity](http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast02aug_1/). Symptoms such as fluid loss, muscle atrophy, bone mass loss are well known. Less well known problems exten... |
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In my world, I would like to have a certain configuration and I wonder if it's plausible or not.
There is a continent with a climate similar to the Amazonian basin, covered by a very dense forest. This climate covers much of the continent. It is inhabited by natives tribal societies scattered around. Th... |
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I have a character that has the ability to slap people into next week (give or take a few days). The character has two people with them trying not to get caught by the government. Assume they are both trained in the killing and maiming arts (shooting, punching, stabbing, etc). This character can also kin... |
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A few years ago, an old map started circulating around the internet from 1850 with a proposed [Western District of Columbia](https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/492-western-dc-haunt-of-superman-simpsons-and-presidents) located in western Kentucky, across from the real Illinois town, named in a bout of wish... |
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I'm having trouble figuring out the various biomes for my planet. I have extensively read the [post](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1353) on "Creating a realistic world map - Cur... |
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This question is inspired by the answer for [another question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/184081/79119).
What changes in technological development after the World War 2 could have led the telex machines to be more popular than telephones, worldwide (especially in underdeveloped countries),... |
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So the setting is that we are several hundred years in the future, and scientists are sending humans to the surface of Venus in reinforced vessels similar to submarines or whatnot. We will assume that the tech to pull this off exists in this universe, as that's not what I'm asking about.
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In a world where people worship different gods and have different principles, how does a government assimilate those gods (make them coexist without one god being superior)?
Clarification: I'm asking about how the government would guide and enforce it and maybe the prerequisite. Oh, and the gods don't ac... |
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This is my first question on this site, which I recently found and can’t get enough of.
In many time travel scenarios, the machine is static in space. My question is how to explain this. For example, in HG Wells' works, it's always in the same location. I’m referring the earth rotating around the sun, a... |
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In my fantasy universe, there is a disc-shaped world that has a flat surface that has roughly the same atmosphere as Earth (see [this](https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/flat-earth-1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all)); the atmosphere moves along with the world. There is no gravity in my universe - rath... |
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I plan to have dragons in my fantasy setting and wanted to figure out just how much force their wings would need to generate in order for them to fly.
Rules for dragons in this setting:
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In designing a hard magic system, I would like to keep things consistent with the laws of thermodynamics (as many do) since, if I don't, I fear I may accidentally create a way for mages to create infinite energy. Also because our intuitions about how energy work are, whether or not people realise, heavil... |
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An infinitely long cylinder, made of planetary matter with an average radius roughly equivalent to the average distance Earth's equator has to its center, orbits around a parallel, infinitely long cylinder made of solar matter with an average radius roughly equivalent to the average radius of Earth's sun... |
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I'm heavily ignorant when it comes to mathematics and just science in general, but I have thought of four habitable planets, all of them revolving around a K-type sun. They're all colonized by humans, and i'm trying to come up with the geography and size of each planet. I would love it if anyone could lo... |
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We all know that modern internet forum users, unlike your average social media frequenter, are skeptical and they often dismiss extraordinary claims as fabrications. We all also know that these platforms - and their cousins (imageboards, IRC rooms and the like) for that matter - often have a diverse and ... |
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My setting is low-fantasy (weird stuff happens sometimes, but it's rare enough not to have a real impact on everyday life). It focuses on a specific kingdom.
This kingdom is supposed to be a typical small kingdom from the middle ages. It would be something like 10,000km² big, with a standard population.
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I have an idea for a planet that orbits two stars. These starsslowly orbit each other, have equivalent masses/sizes, and while one is slightly red, the other is slightly blue. When I talk about the color, the stars are primarily white, with slight tints, just enough to notice. A year is about as long as ... |
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In my world human(oid)s are not born anymore, they are grown in pods which mirror the conditions of a natural womb.
Children are educated before birth and are "born" as fully mature adults with a standard education ready to join society.
How long would this process take? I assume that artificial growth c... |
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