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Q&A How to plausibly reanimate a person?

What hypothetical scientific procedure could be used to reanimate someone who is brain dead. I am aware that it is possible to bring someone back if they are clinically dead which is where a vital ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DEMI‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by DEMI‭

Question death life
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Q&A How Would I Believably Wipe Out an Entire Planet's Population and Culture Without Destroying Said Planet?

In my story, there is a planet. The planet's name is not really important for the sake of this question, so we're going to refer to it as "dead planet". Background: Dead planet is entirely hot d...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by The Weasel Sagas‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by The Weasel Sagas‭

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Q&A Possibly of achieving prolonged immortality

Death, most if not all of us fear it. However, it may be possible to postpone death for a while, and hopefully entirely. One major way of postponing death for awhile is through the biological route...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by RotNDecay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RotNDecay‭

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Q&A Is it possible for the body to turn to ash upon death

Say you see a fellow human walking on the street, nothing special, nothing new, but suddenly, BLAM, they're dead. You reasonably run away from the scene out of fear, but when you look back, the bod...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by RotNDecay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RotNDecay‭

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Q&A How can communication with ancestors be explained without magic?

The world I'm currently writing is an alternative Earth with Space Age tech that advanced much faster than our Earth because of Ancestral Guidance: In the middle of every graveyard, there is a pa...

15 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Nzall‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Nzall‭

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Q&A Would a corpse look different on an interstellar spaceship?

I'm writing a murder mystery set on an interstellar starship. Context: The victim was found dead in a zero-gee chamber inside the ship. The ship is in interstellar space and traveling at around h...

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

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Q&A How many years before enough atoms of your body are replaced to survive the sudden disappearance of the original body's atoms?

A magician summons a person to the material world to be their servant. Their body is not made from true atoms per se, but is some kind of force projection. In most ways though, they act as a perso...

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

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Q&A How might dragon remains be turned into a jewel?

Background: I have typical dragons: Huge, scaly, winged, and fire-breathing. I also have dragon magic, but I'd prefer answers not to draw on this too much. In my world, a planet similar to earth, ...

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

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Q&A How can my android "die" permanently?

For this sci-fi story/world hat I'm building, I'm introducing my androids which, while having intelligence closer to a human, are still just machines in nature. Theoretically one can destroy the bo...

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

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Q&A How could a mummy come back to life?

What conditions would have to happen to re-animate a mummified person to come back to life with consciousness fully restored? What would the conditions of the mummification be and biological/techni...

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

Question biology humans death
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Q&A Dead on Mars: Surviving Bacteria

I'm interested in the introduction of bacteria on Mars. If a small base were set up with attempts to maintain some sort of sterilisation protocols, but all the humans died on that base a) what woul...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Hmars‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Hmars‭

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Q&A How long does it take for biological matter to decay in space?

I have been looking up a few different theories lately. And one of those is the idea that intelligent life cannot exist for any long period of time without eradicating itself or being destroyed by ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Obelisk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Obelisk‭

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Q&A How long would it take a body to decay and the bones to fall to the ground from a tree?

Death occurs in extremely high humidity and an average temperature of 23 C (~75 F), both of which continue for six weeks. At that time, temperature begins to fall over the course of eight weeks to...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Stephen‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Stephen‭

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Q&A How long will it take for the amount of living to exceed the dead population?

The current world population is around 7 billion living people and 107 billion dead people. Since the population is increasing steadily and faster than ever, I was wondering if we could ever reach ...

9 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by roberrrt-s‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by roberrrt-s‭

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Q&A How long can a preserved human body last before turning to dust?

Some Context The setting is a fantasy world with lots of magic where Liches exist. A Lich is "born" through a series of complex, dangerous and horrific rituals that a mage casts upon himself over...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Magus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Magus‭

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Q&A Are there physical laws making this kind of revival impossible?

AFAIK, inanimate bodies and life forms are in the end a large set of subatomic particles (and atoms, and molecules) and energy. Unless my basic knowledge of Physics fails me, you can return a parti...

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

Question physics death
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Rigorous Science Would one atom of antimatter be lethal if annihilated inside the brain?

I am dealing with a dystopian story that tries to come up with some kind of total surveillence or control from higher authorities. The authorities threaten to kill those who disobey them by simply...

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

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Q&A How to survive the heat death of the universe?

The eventual heat death of the universe is an awful time to be alive considering you wouldn't have long left after the last star finally fades away. In this scenario there is a small group of about...

26 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Gorp‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Gorp‭

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Q&A How long would people live in the US if an immortality treatment was available?

Very narrow question: assuming an immortality treatment keeping people at a biological age of a fit 30's, free of infections and cancers & ruling out death by aging, how long would people live ...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by JDelage‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JDelage‭

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Q&A What is the least expensive way to annihilate humanity?

Suppose an evil genius (in 2015) wants to kill as much of humanity as possible. But he's on a budget; despite his years of stealing priceless historical artifacts, and despite having been selected ...

30 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by The name's Bob. MS Bob.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by The name's Bob. MS Bob.‭

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Q&A How do you capture this magical critter?

[Critter's descriptions] (D1) appearance closely resembles a cat (D2) no bigger than a dog (D3) toothless (D4) strange claws to climb any surfaces (D5) powerful hind legs can sprint like a cheeta...

11 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Ancient cryogenics

It's a few years from now, and an incredible breakthrough in medical science has occurred that allows doing an in-depth 3D analysis of a deceased person's body, allowing their brains and bodies to ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by forest‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by forest‭

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Q&A How would a universe in which death is impossible work?

In a parallel universe, death is physically impossible so nothing can ever die but this universe has lots of life. It is also physically impossible for any life form in this hypothetical universe t...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Anders Gustafson‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Anders Gustafson‭

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Q&A How long would it take until we realise that people stopped dying from natural causes?

This would only comprise death by natural causes, no accidents, suicides, homicides etc. As Wikipedia says: A death by natural causes is one that is primarily attributed to an illness or an ...

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

Question earth death medicine
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Rigorous Science Preserving the dead

Suppose there is a culture on earth that sees dead bodies as holy items and letting them decompose is a sin. I have seen many examples of mummies preserved so well that they almost look like their ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by totally not rick sanchez‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by totally not rick sanchez‭

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Q&A Dead bodies on a partially terraformed planet : Would they rot or dry?

The planet in question is Earth-like in size and composition and orbits a Sun-like star. Its atmosphere is less than 5% Oxygen and plants (lichens, some grass and river vegetation) have started col...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Babika Babaka‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Babika Babaka‭

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Q&A What if smoking suddenly became much more lethal?

A"¦ well, dream"¦ of mine: what if smoking suddenly, overnight, became immediately lethal? To be more specific, this is about "active" smoking; bystanders aren't affected. To make things more inte...

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

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Q&A How would radical vegans/animal rights activists kill all the animals (to prevent them from being eaten)?

This is a terrible planet for animals to live on, with all the humans around. Someone should just put all of them down. There is a group of radical vegans/animal rights activists that want to kill...

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

Question fauna death
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Q&A A Very Selective Tragedy

I need to find a way to explain away the simultaneous quiet deaths in the night of a couple of thousand people worldwide such that (were this the only thing to happen, of course) nobody would ever ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by AdamHovorka‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by AdamHovorka‭

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