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Would a huge amount of asteroids hitting Earth change its rotation speed or destroy the planet?

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

1 answer · last activity 10 months ago by dmckee‭

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Why would a race constantly deafened by ambient noises still hear?

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

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Is it realistic to see satellites moving across the sky centuries after humans stopped space activity?

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How efficient can a Dyson sphere be?

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Centripetal Burn in Orbit

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Magnet strong enough to rip the iron out of your body feasible?

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

1 answer · last activity 10 months ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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What Factors Could Cause a World to See "Northern" Lights Much Closer to the Equator?

4 answers · last activity 11 months ago by Canina‭

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

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Avoiding Incidental Ion Drive damage to Following Vehicles?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by dmckee‭

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Competently Mobile Photosynthetic Animal?

1 answer · last activity 10 months ago by Cazadorro‭

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Restricted Directions for an Alcubierre Drive?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by lsusr‭

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Why would merfolk have hair?

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Is the Caspian Sea becoming smaller since the industrial revolution?

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How do I manage memetic infection while time traveling?

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

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Would a 200-Pound Dwarf Still Need to Wear Clothing?

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What would the sky view be like of a final stage massive merged galaxy?

1 answer · last activity 11 months ago by HDE 226868‭

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

13 answers · last activity 8 months ago by James Jenkins‭

biology science-based

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Black as color of magic

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vision colors

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Is a genetically modified human with a much higher height plausible?

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evolution humans

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How large would be the habitable area in a tidally locked planet?

2 answers · last activity 11 months ago by Mister Onion‭

planets

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Do seasons occur on a tidally-locked planet?

4 answers · last activity 11 months ago by HDE 226868‭

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How long would a planet that losses its gravity take to break up?

1 answer · last activity 11 months ago by HDE 226868‭

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How fast would strange matter conversion go?

1 answer · last activity 10 months ago by HDE 226868‭

science-based physics quantum astrophysics

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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 11 months ago by HDE 226868‭

science-based physics energy science-fiction quantum

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What if the Planck constant was exactly zero?

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physics quantum

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Interstellar internet use cases, or "What if the internet was mail-order?"

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space internet

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How do seasons work in a binary system (planet orbits one star, not both)?

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Are geographically typed planets realistic?

5 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Canina‭

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The evolution of neon kittens

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What impact is required for a visible (from Earth) ejecta plume on Earth's Moon, and would the Moon survive?

3 answers · last activity over 4 years ago by Canina‭

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How can the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram be used in star building?

3 answers · last activity 11 months ago by HDE 226868‭

astronomy stars

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

0 answers · last activity 7 months ago by Lundin‭

evolution sex species

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Keratin biosynthesis and human hair straightness/smoothness

1 answer · last activity 25 days ago by Olin Lathrop‭

hair

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Effects of not growing up?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by Olin Lathrop‭

biology

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How feasible would gliders or the like be on a flat plain, with no cliffs to launch from?

6 answers · last activity 11 months ago by AlexT‭

science-based technology

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Could my leviathans exist?

1 answer · last activity 11 months ago by icewar1908‭

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What needs to be changed about the plate tectonics of my world?

1 answer · last activity 11 months ago by devendoo‭

geography map-making tectonics

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Can a galaxy be formed from a black hole?

3 answers · last activity 11 months ago by 01e5Dk‭

space reality-check black-holes galactic

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biologically or anatomically is there a problem with this type of double mouth or jaws?

5 answers · last activity 11 months ago by Li Jun‭

biology reality-check science-based creature-design anatomy

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Is radar better than visible light in deep space?

8 answers · last activity 11 months ago by Willk‭

space light

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Guns in space with bullets that return?

12 answers · last activity almost 2 years ago by Greenie E. - Reinstate Monica‭

travel physics space-travel firearms

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How could a civilization detect tachyons?

5 answers · last activity almost 2 years ago by Cereza‭

space science-based physics communication faster-than-light

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Inverse orbital direction

2 answers · last activity 11 months ago by HDE 226868‭

planets orbital-mechanics

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

4 answers · last activity 11 months ago by HDE 226868‭

astronomy radio

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Does crossing a wormhole happen instantaneously, or with the course of time?

2 answers · last activity 11 months ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Do Alcubierre Drives Mandate Time Travel, or Just Allow it?

1 answer · last activity over 1 year ago by FlyingLemmingSoup‭

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