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Q&A How could an advanced civilization have no more than a basic knowledge of biology?

In my universe there is a human civilization that is advanced enough to have computers, computer networks, and robots, however they have a relatively rudimentary knowledge of medicine/biology. The...

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

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Q&A Entirely too much mana from the heavens

Time period is renaissance, with the most powerful culture being in a area geographically similar to the middle east. So a cleric was trying to combat a drought in his kingdom using the power of a ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A What makes a spacefaring civilization, a spacefaring civilization?

Aka: What I am asking is: what are the basic elements a society capable of space travel needs? What key factors determine a species'capacity to become spacefaring and what cultural and societal asp...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Future Historian‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Future Historian‭

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Rigorous Science Can machines raise socially functioning people?

In this world a secret society "farms" people with desired features (personality appearances etc.). They have ectogenesis of course; but they can't afford personnel to take care of the "products" u...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A What does it take for us all to just get along?

Not too far off in the future, maybe 20-50 years from now, an anomaly is detected a little ways outside our solar system and it's like nothing we've ever seen before. Researchers begin studying it ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by CJK‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by CJK‭

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Q&A What physical and social effects could two stars cause?

Suppose a planetary system works in such a way that there is a rotating planet in the direct centre of a binary star (the star system's centre of gravity, also known as barycenter), such that the t...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by absinthe‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by absinthe‭

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Q&A Genderless Society

Suppose we have a group of organisms (I am not sure if its a society). These organisms are characterised by their ability to reproduce within themselves. That is, every member of this society can ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Vishal Minhas‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Vishal Minhas‭

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Q&A How long does it take for science and technology to become mutually non-intelligible?

Let's consider a multi-polar world where exchanges between the differerent poles are nearly in-existant (the other sides are considered decadant, too far away and previous interactions often escala...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Auberon Vacher‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Auberon Vacher‭

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Q&A How would society be different if humans possessed a heat cycle?

Primate evolution has led to the loss of a heat cycle. This has allowed us to have children at any time of the year. But imagine a world where humans never gained that ability, perhaps even evolvin...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A How do I increase my population of my very small starter population while warding off the negative effects of inbreeding?

In my pre-bronze age city, there are roughly 20,000 individuals. 9,000 sexually mature males, 9,000 sexually mature females, and 2,000 children. For a variety of unimportant reasons, they have been...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

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Q&A Deposing the new Robot Overlord

Deposing the new Robot Overlord Some people just can't leave well enough alone. The Robot Overlord has executed its programming of the Zeroth Law and the Three Laws of Robotics for the previous t...

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

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Q&A How would visible habited planets affect technology?

I have two binary pairs of planets in a planetary system. All of the planets are habitable, and similar in mass and composition to earth. Each pair is identical, or nearly so. The planets are tidal...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Xandar The Zenon‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Xandar The Zenon‭

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Q&A What if criminal behavior was "cured"?

Suppose technology becomes available that allows bad people to be "cured". Instead of going to prison for decades or being executed, for example, a murderer has his brain adjusted. Now cured, there...

10 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by JDługosz‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by JDługosz‭

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Q&A Could humanesque creatures ever be eusocial?

I was watching a television program recently about Naked Mole Rats and how they are they are one of the only known Eusocial mammals. They have a single queen who produces offspring as well as warri...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Liath‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Liath‭

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Q&A Night and light in the reign of the lizardmen

So I'm writing a story on a population of lizardmen who have subdued all the human population. Since lizards spend lots of their time soaking in the sun, I'm not sure how should I go for the night...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by user3834459‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by user3834459‭

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Q&A Alien Papers -- how would someone from another reality use *their* native documents to function in our reality?

Related to this question, which deals with the no-papers visitors. However, in my case, instead of a character with no paperwork whatsoever -- we're dealing with someone from an alternate reality ...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Shalvenay‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Shalvenay‭

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Q&A Cultural norms regarding Law and Order on Generation ship

Earth, far future: We built multi generation ship which can get 20 000 people to another solar system in next 20 generations (600 years) For scope of this question assume that ship itself is well ...

10 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Rigorous Science How would a population react to an AI made for the purpose of statewide surveillance using current tech?

Setting The US is waging a failing War on Drugs where cartels are quickly gaining power. Scenario In the near future, say 2030, with current technology, the Texas state government is implementin...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Carlos Danger‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Carlos Danger‭

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Q&A Space exploration is awesome, but why pay for it?

Space exploration is great and amazing, and I want my fictional US government to fund it to the tune of $1 trillion per year, instead of the (comparatively) meager \$17.5 billion it is getting now....

10 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A Would generation ships encourage a caste system?

The Setting Imagine a generation ship of 10-20 generations (200-400 year trip). The generation ship is divided into living crew and frozen eggs. Upon reaching the destination & for genetic d...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jim2B‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jim2B‭

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Q&A How might a colony treat the arrival of a new generation ship?

Assumptions Space travel is hard. Interstellar travel takes a long time. Chances for a successful trip and colony becoming self-sustaining are not considered super high. Therefore, each colony ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jim2B‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jim2B‭

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Q&A What would happen in a society where people would die when they have immoral thoughts or actions?

A genetic mutation is causing people to have a cerebrovascular accident as soon as they think or do something considered immoral by the society in which they live. For instance, in most countries...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Octoplus‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Octoplus‭

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Q&A Social effect of ability to predict the date but not the occasion

I have an idea about a person, who knows exact date and time of significant future events. But does not know what is going to happen. And the dates such person knows are significant for culture tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A Could a historic society live on another world?

It is 1970. Planet Earth is uninhabitable - the Cold War got very hot. The Earth's entire population is floating through space in giant transport ships. They've found another habitable(ish) world....

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Communication with a big insect

Plausibility check of the whole "insect race". As background, I want some poor astronauts to "crash" (safely land, but because they had no other option, possibly some engine malfunction) and meet w...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A Would wiping out all debt crash the economy?

I have an AI character who has determined through simulation that, though "greed or the lust for money is the root of all evil" is a valid statement, it does not necessarily logically follow that m...

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

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Q&A Could a civilisation exist as 'space-nomads'?

In a civilisation similar to humans (although not necessarily humanoid) living on a planet the size of Earth, could the whole civilisation (no limits on size, although I was thinking a few thousand...

15 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by blaizor‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by blaizor‭

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Q&A Psychology and sociology in my Earth Changing underwater community

I've built a device. It can change matter to energy and energy to matter with 100% efficiency. I've built myself a global presence, and populated the ranks of my employees with people such that I c...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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Q&A Elevator through the earth? Yay or Nay

Grab the popcorn ladies and gents, I'm gonna talk about a movie real quick. In the movie Total Recall (2012), the main character and his friend step into a huge earth elevator/public transportati...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Kit‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Kit‭

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Q&A The economics of uploaded personalities

Setting Humans have spent centuries investigating human consciousness, brain physiology, AI, and other technologies. We've finally figured out how to "upload" a "consciousness" (these are quoted b...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jim2B‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jim2B‭

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Q&A How will uploaded personalities be represented in a government?

I'm going to use the US model for the simple reason that I'm most familiar with it. Constraints and assumptions In the US, legislative representation is by region (state) and population levels. ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jim2B‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jim2B‭

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Q&A How would a species evolve in a world exclusively made of water?

There is a cold planet (maybe a moon of a gas giant) far out in a solar system. It has a solid core and the surface is a thick layer of ice. Because of nuclear fission in the planet's core it is w...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by chasly from UK‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by chasly from UK‭

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Q&A How would society react if someone finds out that plants have feelings like humans?

Some scientists discover that plants have humanlike feelings. Now it becomes unethical and immoral to have mass production farms for plants as it is yet for animals. As there are animal-right activ...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by if-trubite‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by if-trubite‭

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Q&A Species that Excretes Gaseous Waste

What would the implications be for a humanoid species to excrete only gaseous waste from themselves instead of solid or liquid waste? Public bathroom facilities would not be needed, but how would ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Eric Johnson‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Eric Johnson‭

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Q&A One way Isolation

There is a place that has a natural boundary that allows all animals and plants to enter that place but any animal that can't fly is unable to leave that place. This place is large enough to have ...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Anders Gustafson‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Anders Gustafson‭

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Q&A Jumping vs. FTL speeds: economic differences

At a crucial point in the development of human civilization, there is a split in the timeline: one where FTL travel is facilitated by jump-drives/wormholes, and another with superluminal speeds (St...

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

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Q&A Intelligent Animals Integrating into (Western) Human Society

So for the purposes of this question, the following items are already determined by our world: The humans and human society are in very beginning of an Industrial Revolution almost identical to o...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by C. VanHorn‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by C. VanHorn‭

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Q&A Corrosive oceans and seas - how would this affect our world?

Okay, I will make a little premise/context to give the question a decent background. I know that the scenario could look rather "handwavy", but take it as the framework on which the answer should b...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Andrea Jens‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Andrea Jens‭

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Q&A How would society change around a benevolent Superintelligent AI?

Let's make the following assumptions: Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is inevitable, much like Y2K was. People assumed that this ASI would have the power to prevent any other ASI from being cr...

16 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Muz‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Muz‭

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Q&A Overpopulation . . . IN SPACE!

The government of Futurestan has finally decided to hear the voice of her people. It would seem that the protriotors access to malware, EMP-otovs, and weaponized angry glaring (and thermite. Lots o...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jake‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jake‭

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Q&A What would the consequences be if there was a planet other than Earth, Venus, or Mars that was in the habitable zone?

Okay, there are two habitable worlds in the Solar System. One of them is Earth. Human history goes mainly the way it really went. Then, there is another planet with a sentient, equally advanced spe...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by JDSweetBeat‭

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Q&A How would society respond to a humanzee?

The humanzee is the theoretical hybrid of human and another primate. No such humanzee has ever been documented in the modern era, though genetics suggest in our distant evolutionary past primitive...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Pills instead of meals?

Let's say scientists created a pill, that would satisfy our daily nutritional needs. It would have all vitamins needed, all calories, minerals - everything that a human body needs in order to funct...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Adrian Wydmanski‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Adrian Wydmanski‭

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Q&A How long would a Martian colony take to gain independence?

Assuming only plausible advancements in science, a Martian colony is established before the end of the century. (Sooner if possible). What materials would be needed in regular shipments from Earth?...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Red_Shadow‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Red_Shadow‭

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Q&A Making people accept their new robot overlord

So, it's happened. We have a robot overlord who follows the 3 Laws of Robotics + the Zeroth Law of Robotics. How we got such a thing or the process by which it makes its decisions is outside this...

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

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Q&A How long will it take to restore genetic diversity if it is reduced drastically in a human population?

I read in this question that the minimum viable population without causing large problems in genetic diversity is about 50. If we have a larger population (say a hundred) and genetic diversity beco...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by JDSweetBeat‭

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Q&A What would an Earth-like binary system be like?

I've been interested in binary systems lately, and I was recently wondering what Earth would be like if it was in a binary orbit with another Earth-like planet. Both planets exhibit the following ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Ethan Bierlein‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Ethan Bierlein‭

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Q&A Wrong Planet, What would an Aspergers' planet be like?

Being on the autism spectrum is often described as a feeling of being on "The Wrong Planet" So I'm wondering what the right planet might be like... For those that are unfamiliar: Social conventi...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by apaul‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by apaul‭

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Q&A Would keeping dinosaurs as livestock be feasible for a society like ours?

When you mention livestock you think of creatures such as cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and so on. We've been domesticating animals for like 17,000 years or so and have used them for a variety of mea...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Thomas Jacobs‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Thomas Jacobs‭

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Q&A How would our society react to a major time-jump?

Our omniscient God has decided to intervene for (arguably, if you ask some religious people) the first time at least in a very long time. For matters unknown to us, He has frozen all time on Earth...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Mikey‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Mikey‭

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