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World with frequent lunar eclipses?

4 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by DVNO‭

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Is there a way for someone to be un-cloneable?

20 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Rhysing‭

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Plate tectonics required to create a area where the land "grows" very rapidly, very often?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by nighthawk‭

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How large could sea creatures grow on a terraformed Ganymede?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Wax‭

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Could yet unobserved baryons constitute useful building materials?

4 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Vincent‭

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Using a melon organ on land. Plausible?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by ProjectApex‭

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How could medical petrification work?

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Planet with double the orbital period of Earth

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How can antibodies induce a demigod transformation?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Incognito‭

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How close an orbit could you get to Earth with a planet-sized object/ship without severely disrupting Earth's orbit?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by DWKraus‭

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Durability of materials in ideal conditions

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by rwallace‭

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Acid-spitting dragons

4 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by user3556983‭

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Is it possible for a planet to have an area saturated with lava but at the same time is still habitable to humans and other lifeforms?

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by In the name of the story‭

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Does the humanoid body plan necessitate sapience to be viable?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by icewar1908‭

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Genetics and Population Dynamics of a 7-sex system

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Ettina Kitten‭

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Genetically engineered bionically enhanced insects in lieu of robots

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Rusty‭

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Giant caves. How do they form?

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Seraphim‭

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The Serina Series: Episode I: Cats

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Do dead human bodies have a particular smell?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by user2352714‭

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I'm formulating a planet that has silver dust on its surface, and ideally has rivers of mercury flowing on it, possible? Human survival not necessary

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by RJ0001‭

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What would a house, designed to accomodate a dragon, look like?

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Could a centaur eat something that is poisonous to humans but not horses?

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by AshaC33‭

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Giant planet renders one side of its moon deadly, the 'shadow side' habitable. How?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by N. Bleac‭

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How Would I Believably Wipe Out an Entire Planet's Population and Culture Without Destroying Said Planet?

5 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by The Weasel Sagas‭

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Life develops on a moon left in darkness?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Greenie E. - Reinstate Monica‭

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How would three small moons, rather than one large one, effect an earth-like planet?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Puck‭

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How can a "magic" mirror flash blind people?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Technological "dungeon" designed to last for millennia

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Bogdan 705‭

science-based technology dungeons

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A Mammal with Electrical Defenses

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by user3556983‭

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Would serial killers be a thing In a world where duels to the death are perfectly legal?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Jordy McCroquette‭

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Can cherenkov effect be used for telling how fast FTL spaceship moves?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by user6760‭

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If Earth had a smaller second moon, what would the sky look like?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by RobotPQ30‭

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Language that cannot be divided into words?

20 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by lirtosiast‭

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I need a spacecraft to be pulled into the sun's gravity!

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by zengun309‭

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Could ocean and wind currents form on a tidally heated body

0 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Samantha Clark‭

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can spacecraft heat be 'vented' with entangled particles?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Daikael‭

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Where can you find berries that eat people from the inside out?

4 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Clockwork Parzival‭

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What is the minimum and maximum gravity level that nearly all humans can sustain over a 5 year period?

4 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by galactic_analyzer‭

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Evolution of flying skulls?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by bio‭

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A tiny fire-breather

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by user3556983‭

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What would happen if a black person used genetic modification to turn off the MC1R gene?

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Sabrine Crystal Santos‭

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Adjusting to the Sound of a Waterfall

5 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Halfthawed‭

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Werewolves and sense of smell, what is reasonable for them to accomplish with it?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Demigan‭

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Hematophagic Organism Body Size

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Thalassan‭

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How could Ice Spikes naturally occur?

4 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by DigiAB‭

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Possibly of achieving prolonged immortality

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by RotNDecay‭

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So, how do I put the extra muscle, needed for flight, into a large flying creatures like dragons?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by Mephistopheles‭

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What's the largest a canine could realistically get?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by icewar1908‭

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What aquatic life would utterly deplete the soil of a specific nutrient?

3 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by user72058‭

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How do I calculate the total time dilation experienced by an accelerating ship?

1 answer · last activity about 1 year ago by Starsong67‭

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