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General Q&A about worldbuilding and other speculative developments that can be extrapolated from science.

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How do I manage memetic infection while time traveling?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 hours ago by Olin Lathrop‭

time-travel information
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What is the best apex predator to thin the zombie herds? [closed]

0 answers  ·  last activity 1 day ago by Canina‭

fauna zombies
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Exploration of a 50 mile high mountain [closed]

0 answers  ·  last activity 1 day ago by Canina‭

space technology exploration
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How do you establish identity when people can change their appearance at will?

0 answers  ·  last activity 1 day ago by Green‭

genetics identity governance
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Why buy tech from the future?

0 answers  ·  last activity 1 day ago by Green‭

technology economy time-travel near-future
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Is it realistic to see satellites moving across the sky centuries after humans stopped space activity?

1 answer  ·  last activity 1 day ago by Green‭

space satellites
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How to Convince Humans to Allow a Machine Take-Over

8 answers  ·  last activity 8 days ago by celtschk‭

society intelligence artificial-intelligence robots
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How efficient can a Dyson sphere be?

1 answer  ·  last activity 13 days ago by celtschk‭

physics dyson-spheres megastructures energy materials
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Is a genetically modified human with a much higher height plausible?

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by Razetime‭

evolution humans
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Wings going from locomotive purposes in juveniles to sexual purposes in adults, plausible?

0 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by Lundin‭

evolution sex species
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How do I realistically keep my large mammalian predator hidden from other pack hunters.

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Lundin‭

biology creature-design mammals abilities
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Magnet strong enough to rip the iron out of your body feasible?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by DonielF‭

biology magnetism electromagnetism
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Plausibility of "multi-type transmissible animal cell tumor" to form more complex structures.

0 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Cazadorro‭

medical animal tumor cell
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How to make an animal which can only breed for a certain number of generations?

13 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by James Jenkins‭

biology science-based
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How to Terraform a Dead Earth

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Olin Lathrop‭

science-based terraforming science-fiction alternate-earth
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Restricted Directions for an Alcubierre Drive?

2 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by lsusr‭

science-based spaceships science-fiction
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Would a 200-Pound Dwarf Still Need to Wear Clothing?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by pnuts‭

biology science-based adaptability humanoid alternate-earth
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Avoiding Incidental Ion Drive damage to Following Vehicles?

2 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by dmckee‭

space-travel ion drive
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Why would merfolk have hair?

21 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by PinoBatch‭

reality-check evolution creature-design merfolk hair
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Would a huge amount of asteroids hitting Earth change its rotation speed or destroy the planet?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by HDE 226868‭

asteroids earth
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Are geographically typed planets realistic?

5 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Canina‭

reality-check planets geography
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Is this planet's atmosphere stable and reasonable, and anything to keep in mind for lifeforms living in it?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Canina‭

atmosphere reality-check
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How to explain a mermaid's tail morphing into legs and vice versa?

4 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by PinoBatch‭

underwater merfolk fantasy-races
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How to go from a free person to a slave

11 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by PinoBatch‭

science-based psychology slavery
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How should I create my Merfolks to make them landbased?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by PinoBatch‭

biology underwater merfolk
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Earth where all of Equidae went extinct via Ice Age... - Effects

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by PinoBatch‭

reality-check science-based fauna
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Does the sun being blocked affect electricity?

6 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by PinoBatch‭

science-based natural-disasters electricity
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3D Printer / Replicator : Raw Materials and Distribution Cables

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by manassehkatz‭

science-based technology science-fiction
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Oh crap, it's 2020ad, and the Earth is about to explode! Can we make it to the stars?

9 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by manassehkatz‭

apocalypse space-colonization
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"Life post-Singularity", or "How to survive without Instagram"

15 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by wizzwizz4‭

society computers artificial-intelligence near-future singularity
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Competently Mobile Photosynthetic Animal?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Cazadorro‭

biology science-based plant animal
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Can a organism control its metabolism and the heat it's generating?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by wizzwizz4‭

biology xenobiology
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Is it possible to create a beam of non-relativistic neutrinos?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by dmckee‭

physics technology relativity particle-physics
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How fast would strange matter conversion go?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by HDE 226868‭

science-based physics quantum astrophysics
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Black as color of magic

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Aliza‭

vision colors
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What would this nebula look like from a planet?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

science-based stars nebula light
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How can I safely brighten my secondary star?

5 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

science-based stars light
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How do seasons work in a binary system (planet orbits one star, not both)?

5 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

planets science-based stars light
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How much does my secondary star heat the planet orbiting my primary star?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

planets stars
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What conditions would cause an extremely dense (dark) coniferous forest to grow?

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Olin Lathrop‭

climate forestry ecology
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Can velocity drift be used to calculate a radio wave source's distance from Earth?

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

astronomy radio
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Cruelty Free Vampirism [closed]

6 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

biology society alternate-history vampires science-fiction
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Does crossing a wormhole happen instantaneously, or with the course of time?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ArtOfCode‭

science-based wormholes transportation
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How could a bad random number generator explain baryon asymmetry?

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

science-based physics antimatter computers
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Inverse orbital direction

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

planets orbital-mechanics
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What if the Planck constant was exactly zero?

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

physics quantum
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Could there be something like the Higgs field which gives particles their energy in a similar way to how the Higgs boson gives particles their mass?

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

science-based physics energy science-fiction quantum
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Why do flying saucers have to spin while flying?

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

spaceships technology aliens flying-machines
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What would the sky view be like of a final stage massive merged galaxy?

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

astronomy galactic
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Do seasons occur on a tidally-locked planet?

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by HDE 226868‭

astronomy planets seasons astrophysics tidally-locked
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