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Q&A Noticing a space-fight or, A muzzle-flash on the deep

It's Earth, the modern day"¦and in the out there, there is a fight going on. Two vast space-empires duel for survival, locked in hateful combat. Clashes of fleets and individual spaceships are the ...

10 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Marky‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Marky‭

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Q&A Can a space station theoretically maintain an orbit around two separate astronomical bodies? Switching between the two cyclically?

Would this type of orbit be possible to achieve without external forces being applied? Is it possible at all? I have little to no background in the sciences so please explain like I'm stupid. Thank...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by H. Mallory‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by H. Mallory‭

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Q&A What political structure would develop within an interplanetary civilization?

Conquest and discovery has been an important part of developing the global political structure of today's Earth. After we expand and settle other planets, whether within the same solar system or n...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by neph‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by neph‭

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Q&A Learning a new language without any reference

In my world the characters find themselves in a new land. They do not understand the locals nor do the locals understand them. How could these characters learn to understand the locals withing a mo...

8 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by L. T.‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by L. T.‭

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Q&A What possible scientific reasons could there be for a vampire to only be killable via wooden stake to the heart?

This excludes metal stakes, knives etc. to the heart, it's not the bleeding out that's the issue. Just for some reason, a wooden stake to the heart ends a vampire. Why? Assume the type of vampire ...

23 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Jose Dzireh Chong‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jose Dzireh Chong‭

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Q&A What could limit geographically a resource such as an ore to a specific spot on a planet?

In a world naturally formed where some magic exists but is mainly used by sentient species, I'm trying to come up with a more or less scientific way to explain how this special, rare ore (going to ...

19 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by CageyCat‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by CageyCat‭

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Q&A What is a poison that can be given to a comatose patient that requires another character to get an antidote?

Basically, I need one main character to be comatose and the other one trying to save him. The antagonist has to give the main character a specific time period to jump through hoops or whatever to g...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Elle Harte‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Elle Harte‭

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Q&A Could a human with a regenerative factor use (and get addicted to) drugs such as alcohol, narcotics, stimulants, etc.?

I'm working on a sci fi story with bio-punk elements in it (such as gene manipulation). This has brought up a problem with one of the sub plots, however, as I am unaware of whether or not an extrem...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Devon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Devon‭

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Q&A Pumping blood turned into power

How could we use our own heart which pumps our blood, to potentially charge devices such as a cell phone?

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by MakeItWork‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by MakeItWork‭

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Q&A Treatment of mental illness in a dystopian society

I am writing a sci-fi novel, set in a 1984-style dystopia, so a society which is obsessed with order and surveillance where non-predictable behaviour is punished. My protagonist is a person with a ...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Bobby Marinoff‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Bobby Marinoff‭

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Q&A In a post-modern world, can meeting new people mean preference over local communities and/or families?

Gonna be hard to put it to words, especially because of the rather broad scope of my question, but I think it can be a proper submission here. Here on Earth, regardless of the period and location,...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Zoltán Schmidt‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Zoltán Schmidt‭

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Q&A To what extent is maturation of the adolescent brain a matter of time versus experience?

I'm aware the brain--especially the portion concerning planning and judgement--isn't matured until around the mid-20s and that the brain's structure is sensitive to environment. That said, let's as...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by System‭

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Q&A How would relatively cheap and abundant (but not free or limitless) electrical energy at an up-front cost impact society?

A group of scientists has been slaving away largely in obscurity for two decades, with very few publishable results. Suddenly, one of them has an epiphany, which turns out to be instrumental to ena...

11 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How could repeated exposure to another person's DNA be dangerous for a person

I want to create a world where tying yourself to a single partner would be considered irresponsible because it is potentially deadly. The more often two people come together and exchange DNA throug...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Gladiator Kittens‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Gladiator Kittens‭

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Q&A Biologic advantage of magnetoception

Humanity is often said to have 5 senses, but this isn't entirely accurate. This is one question of several in a series I am asking regarding going beyond the 5 senses. Magetoception is one of the...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Erin Thursby‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Erin Thursby‭

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Q&A Is there any Rubber/Latex source that could have been used by Europeans prior to the discovery of the Americas?

I was imagining a scenario where an 21st century engineer accidentally finds himself transported through time to early Renaissance Europe. Realizing that no help or rescue is on the way, he decides...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Redbud201‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Redbud201‭

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Q&A How long would it take for an independent group of space settlers to take over a planet?

I see a lot of media describing large space colonies, and am curious as to how they got there. I'll admit, I'm mostly inspired by Interstellar here. So here's the scenario: A group of 600 settlers...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Jim Wu‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jim Wu‭

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Q&A The color of breathable planetary atmospheres

Is it plausible that a planet can be breathable despite the color of it's atmosphere? My story takes place in an alternate reality in which what people thought the Solar System was like in the 50s,...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Galactic5‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Galactic5‭

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Q&A Human colony on distant planet system with very short day-night cycles

I need a planet where the day cycle is short, in particular 16 hours. I read What determines the length of a day on a planet? and Is it physically possible for a planet to have seasons of different...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by adonies‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by adonies‭

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Q&A Economic systems for micronations in space

What are possible economic systems for use within a space-based industrial settlement? The different approaches are to be weighed by the competitve advantages they offer to their respective commun...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JDługosz‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JDługosz‭

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Q&A Why are interstellar colonists lone rangers?

The time is The Future. Humanity is spreading throughout the stars, aided by the invention of Schwarzschild gates. The gates allow for FTL travel by tearing open wormholes in space. There are thre...

19 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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Q&A Is it possible to have a Society to evolve into a industrial age society without discovering gunpowder

I want my world to be set in early to mid Industrial Age but for various reasons that I won't go into here I don't want there to be any gunpowder based weapons. Is it possible for a society to adv...

10 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Bryan McClure‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Bryan McClure‭

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Q&A How small of a planet can sustain life as a desert planet?

I'm writing about a small desert planet (about the size of pluto) that humans can live on. Is this possible?

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by pin-up enthusiast‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by pin-up enthusiast‭

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Q&A How to avoid FTL as a plot device?

Many SF stories feature faster-than-light travel as essentially a trope: Roddenberry has stated☡ that the Enterprise travels at the speed of plot. As an allegory of the south seas, or some throw...

15 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JDługosz‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JDługosz‭

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Q&A Would a base on the moon (military or otherwise) actually prove useful?

I watched Independence Day: Resurgence the other day. In it, Earth's first line of defense is a lunar base (that gets blown up), followed by an orbital satellite network (that gets blown up). Now...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by RenegadePizzaGuy‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by RenegadePizzaGuy‭

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Q&A What ecosystems and possible sentient creatures would form in subterranean pockets?

I am building a science fiction universe, and I am currently thinking of many different unique sentient alien species that would populate the galaxy. I have thought of a rocky planet with Earth le...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ntchapin‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by ntchapin‭

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Q&A A "Rational" explanation for psychic/psionic abilities

For what I'm working on, humans (some humans, anyway) develop the abilities to communicate telepathically, move things with thought, possible premonitions, maybe psychic projection (but that might ...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A How would human societies change after being confined on large interstellar transport ships for several generations?

I want to build a world populated by humans descended from colonists from Earth who have traveled a long distance and time to arrive (say, 80 years.) They come to this new Earth-like planet in doz...

10 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by akaddoura‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by akaddoura‭

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Q&A Could a giant battery serve double duty as a sadistic acid bath?

Setting: In a fantasy setting much like World of Warcraft (where huge liberties are taken regarding the level of technological sophistication), an evil emperor rules from a castle in which there ar...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Aldaine‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Aldaine‭

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Q&A Significant day-to-day impact of having eyes on palms of hands?

I'm creating a world my protagonist will visit with humanoid inhabitants that have a peculiar feature: their eye sockets are in the palms of their hands, not unlike the Pale Man Pan's Labyrinth. ...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user1717828‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by user1717828‭

Question biology society
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Q&A What would be the effect of introducing genetically modified chimpanzees into human society?

I'm reading this article on speech in animals, and it made an interesting claim: chimpanzees and other non-human great apes posses the anatomy needed to vocalize words, they just don't use it to do...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by ckersch‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by ckersch‭

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Q&A How would living underground (bioluminescence) affect a humanoid race?

I'm writing a story set in a Middle Ages type setting (Game of Thrones, LOTR style). In the story, I have a race of people who are "faeries", based off of Celtic legend and lore. They're associa...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by miffed.muffin‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by miffed.muffin‭

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Q&A How can a race express an Expanded Sense of Time?

Traditionally we recognize 5 Senses in humans, but in building an alien race for my world I wanted to go beyond that. This is the first in a series of questions. This one is: How can a race express...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Erin Thursby‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Erin Thursby‭

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Q&A Are lithotrophic animals possible and if so how?

A class of organism, lithotrophs, use minerals (inorganic substrates) for energy conservation/reducing equivalents in biosynthesis. However such organisms on Earth are limited to single-celled pro...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Dider‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Dider‭

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Q&A How does an ordinary person announce major discoveries?

While this is a hypothetical question, I am actually looking for a 'real-world' answer. This is my first time here, so please let me know if I should ask it somewhere else. So, let's say I am an o...

11 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Seth‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Seth‭

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Q&A How many objects could you fit around a Lagrange point?

Specifically, how many 5 to 10 kilometer asteroids could you fit around the Earth-Moon Lagrangian points? Does the number change depending on which Lagrange point it is?

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by J. Purdie‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by J. Purdie‭

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Q&A How to explain no increase in suicides after proof of a happy afterlife?

A scientist creates device that allows some degree of communication with the afterlife. The communication is very difficult and the dead can only pass small bits of information on, so there is a lo...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Bryan McClure‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Bryan McClure‭

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Q&A Space colonization becoming economically recoverable

One of the big problems by manned space exploration and colonization, that it's insanely expensive. Building a colony on other celestial bodies - since it's impractical to bring back the acquired r...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by b.Lorenz‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by b.Lorenz‭

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Q&A What conditions are believable for a racial society majority to accept a racial minority, and those to reject them?

What conditions are believable for a racial society majority to accept a racial minority, and those to reject them? I have two races. One is a racially pure majority and the other is a mixed breed...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by linuxfreebird‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by linuxfreebird‭

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Q&A Will majority of population dismiss a video of fight between two supernatural beings?

This question is inspired by discussion in the comments of the question What kind of supernatural powers don't break the masquerade? TL;DR Suppose you want to create a world where beings with supe...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by slobodan.blazeski‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by slobodan.blazeski‭

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Q&A If we were not limited by money, could we build science research submarines that are as large as military submarines?

I was wondering if we could create science research submarines that are as large as military nuclear submarines. This is because I have not seen any large research submarines they all seem to be sm...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by nexusoflife‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by nexusoflife‭

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Q&A Can you get modern levels of health care, with no steam engines and no electricity?

Can you get modern levels of health care, with no electric technology and no steam technology? Both electricity and steam are possible. Physics is the same as real life. Like... No Cavities No ...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Malady‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Malady‭

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Q&A Gravity Differences

If two planetary bodies were tidally locked to each other (e.g. pluto and charon) then could there ever be a situation where the smaller of the two bodies had the 'heavier' gravity? Could you ever ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by R. Tierney‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by R. Tierney‭

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Q&A Sexual Cannibalism in Advanced Races

Horny and Hungry "You're like a father to me." "Yeah, I wish you were dead, too." "Thanks, Dad!" I have a world in my stories in which the inhabitants evolved from a race that practices s...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Charles Cole‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Charles Cole‭

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Q&A Would pressure be a viable way to make a forcefield or reflective device?

I was recently learning about pressure in my high school science class. I will admit that I am not extremely well educated in the subject and thus this may be an extremely stupid question. But anyw...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Jamie1234‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Jamie1234‭

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Q&A What would it take to be an Illuminati-like group?

Conspiracy theorists love to talk about a group called the Illuminati that pull the strings of world events. While there have been several real (and many more imaginary) Illuminati groups, what wo...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Green‭

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Q&A What conditions may lead to an intelligent civilization employing only bio-machines?

Suppose a civilization in which every possible appliance is a bio-machine. There are automobiles, but each one has a human-like head under the hood. Each datacenter is a bunch of over-grown brains....

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Anixx‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Anixx‭

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Q&A Could a branch of canine creatures (instead of apes) evolve into humanoid animals?

What I mean is: instead of a "rat" evolving into primates and those tree hugging primate becoming bipedal great apes, imagine a "rat" evolving into a dog-like or cat-like animal, then that animal b...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ferimosi‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Ferimosi‭

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Q&A What could an individual contribute to society other than labor?

Modern education teaches citizens that the point of an individual in society is to contribute labor. In a world with limited natural resources, we use this idea to measure an individual's worth in ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by KFox‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by KFox‭

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Q&A what would the scientific name of an angel like creature be?

A human-like creature that doesn't have gender, can not procreate, and was engineered by humans. My story is stuck with a creature that is not possible in real life; I just went from science ficti...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Spartacus9‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Spartacus9‭