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Q&A Can Earth be isolated from a settled Solar System?

I was considering Kessler syndrome, however this is not a long-enough duration and I'm unaware of a way to prolong it for the course of several millennia. I don't want Earth to be destroyed, just...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Wax‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Wax‭

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Q&A How can an American town keep itself secret and isolated?

A town dating back to the late 1880s in northern Wisconsin has a dark secret that must be kept hidden by as few people as possible. How can this town keep itself isolated and off of maps during the...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Nathan Hopp‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Nathan Hopp‭

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Q&A What is a realistic growth rate for a space colony?

I am starting a theorycrafting thread in a video game forum. It deals with the creation of a Hegemony created by the descendants of a colony ship that was cut off from returning to Earth (wormhole ...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Kbomb123‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Kbomb123‭

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Q&A Can a person who gained immunity to a disease become an infectious carrier?

If a person is sent out of their hermetically sealed community and in the process becomes immune to a deadly disease. When the person returns will the immunity make them a carrier and infect/kill a...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Cherry‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Cherry‭

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Q&A How to maintain a closed environment for one person for a long period of time

Background: In the early 2020s a magical life-extending "elixir" is created but is in short supply. However, a very reckless individual steals most of the US's supply and drinks a sufficient amount...

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

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Q&A What would a country need to survive isolation?

What can a country do to become self sufficient in isolation and can it improve its technology as fast as countries such as the USA, Japan, or Russia?

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Hegao‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Hegao‭

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Q&A How could a human civilization have happened to live underground, in Antarctica?

Let's assume a human civilization have been living for centuries, nay millennia, in a very large cave, not too deep under Antarctica - deep enough not to freeze, but shallow enough not to die becau...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Ctouw‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ctouw‭

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Q&A Living on an Isolated Peninsula - Animals

This is one of a series of questions centered around how an isolated group of people would survive. Each question focuses on a single aspect of survival. Details about the peoples' situation are be...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Thomas Myron‭

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Q&A How to bring water and heat to an isolated and poor mountain village with extremely low costs?

The village background: It is located at an elevation of 2,119 m (about 6,952 feet) above sea level with a population of about 1,800. It has a continental climate with Oceanic influence. Summers ...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Hamza‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Hamza‭

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Q&A What would be the likely cultural development of colonies after long periods of isolation from the motherland ?

2035 a human population on Mars of 500 (mostly workers i.e.: miners, biologists, medical staff, engineers, etc. Most of the colony is underground with above grou lead bunkers. They have an establis...

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

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Q&A How would a group of average people learn to behave in a simulation where a god-AI forces extreme plot devices on them for 10 years?

Let's say that a secret laboratory creates a simulated miniature universe- in which modifications to people, places, and their 'state'(say age, gender, powers, DNA composition, among other things t...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M. Froman‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by M. Froman‭

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Q&A How do I isolate a city?

Is it possible, the world being as it is for a city to be isolated completely from the world? Assume technological advancements to be the same as they are today. Would such a scenario be feasible...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Malhar Khushu‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Malhar Khushu‭

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Q&A What would happen to a human Galapagos?

What would happen to a human settlement on Earth, on some deserted island, that had no contact with the outside world for a thousand years? Something like a human version of the Galapagos islands, ...

8 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Scimonster‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Scimonster‭

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Q&A Purpose of a small group isolated within a planet

Suppose a planet/space station is a hollow sphere, and in the center of this sphere is a smaller sphere. This sphere would be solid, with grass and dirt like Earth. The only thing holding this smal...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by erdekhayser‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by erdekhayser‭

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Q&A What would be required for a completely self sufficient 1 man habitat?

For the sake of this question, let's say that there would be a space mission that would send one man on a 40 year journey that will require him to be in a completely self sufficient habitat for the...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

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Q&A What would have to happen in order to force us to live in the ocean?

What kind of a scenario would have to occur in order for human beings to seek survival on the sea floor? It could be man made or natural, ice age or heat apocalypse, sudden disaster or gradual coll...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Clean Ogre‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Clean Ogre‭