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Q&A What single change in history would allow to make the German city of Munich be in modern France?

In our world's 2016, the German town of Munich is part of the country of Germany. Now in an alternate Earth I would like Munich to be part of the Great French Empire (in the alternate year of 2016...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by dot_Sp0T‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dot_Sp0T‭

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Q&A Russia's Alternate Geological History

Since the geological history of the world's largest nation is as big as the nation itself, and since I don't have a master familiarity with Russia's formation over hundreds of millions of years, I'...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A First feasible time to colonize the moon

The first man on the moon was there on July 20th, 1969. After December of 1972, there has not been a person on the moon since. But, what if the missions to the moon had kept on going? By what time ...

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

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Q&A Could Carbon Nanotubes Be Realized Earlier?

Word on the street is that carbon nanotubes may be the future of construction. Apparently, a skeleton of this material would be stronger yet lighter than a skeleton of steel, which could mean exte...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A What American animals would have been domesticated had they not gone extinct?

Here are some lists of North American and South American megafauna that went extinct during the Quaternary. In Eurasia, many species of large mammal were domesticated, most particularly the 'big 4...

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

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Q&A What are the hippos of the Americas?

In a world where man entered North and South America without causing a mass extinction, all of the paleofauna which became extinct ~10,000 BC in the Americas are still around. There are several fam...

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

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Q&A Could the Therapsids Evolve Without the Pelycosaurs?

Here's the scenario: 400 million years ago, a species of lobe-finned fish created tetrapod history as it gulped up air, not water. Fast-forward to 342 million years ago, and one species immediate...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A What would cause turkeys to be intelligent?

In the spirit of Thanksgiving (US) let's tackle a fun one. I'm defining "intelligent" in this situation as "at least on par with hunter-gatherer humans, able to communicate" What natural, environm...

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

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Q&A Could the Industrial Revolution be delayed indefinitely? Or is it inevitable once a certain point in development is reached?

I am considering whether a pre-Industrial civilisation could carry on for millennia on an Earth-like planet without entering the Industrial Age. Of course, regularly destroying everything with pla...

14 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Jnani Jenny Hale‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Jnani Jenny Hale‭

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Q&A An Australia for Egg-Layers (No Marsupials)

Without a doubt, the most iconic mammals of Australia are the pouch-bearing marsupials. You can find less than 250 species in that one island-continent. Marsupials have been around for 65 milli...

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

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Q&A Construction of Large Naval ships - Driving it onto land

So, let's say that through a series of strange timey wimey events, I accidentally jump-start several technological revolutions in the early 1800's. So, at any given time, technology is ~60 y...

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

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Q&A How to design puzzles for an ancient period in Earth history?

I'm writing a Earth history time travel story, and the main character needs to solve puzzles from each time period he visits. I'm going very far back in history and I'm concerned about being able t...

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

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Q&A The Ice-Free British Isles

Looking at the topographical map of the two main islands of Britain--England to the east and Ireland to the west--is looking at two and a half million years of ice sculpting, grinding and melting...

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

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Q&A Point of Divergence to replace Humans with humanoid Bears

I have got a fictional universe, where a humanoid lifeform evolved on earth not from apes, but from bears. The humanoid bears are like humans; they walk on their legs only, wear clothing, have vari...

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

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Q&A If the gravity on earth were different, how would the human body change?

If the gravity on earth was different, how would our bodies change? For this question, assume that gravity was five time stronger (5G) from the beginning of the Earth. Would a human-like body stil...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by CrazySlayaNinjaBear‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by CrazySlayaNinjaBear‭

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Q&A Can I have Gunpowder without having guns?

I was originally going to claim my world has very low levels of sulfur, resulting in a lack of gunpowder and thus a lack of guns. But after realizing how cool things like fireworks and Hwacha are, ...

12 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A How would people with the wisdom of the 7th century describe or explain tectonics

This question is basically related to my former question: What would change if our Earth lacked mountains? (Geology) So in my world people have stopped at a level of wisdom that might be similar t...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Medi1Saif‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Medi1Saif‭

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Q&A Alternate Pangaea

This is the map of our Permian from 300 to 252 million years ago: As you can see, (nearly) all of the continents had joined together to create one massive landmass called Pangaea. To the sharp ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A What would our knowledge of physics look like without astronomical observations?

I always feel like "hypothetical history of science" questions are kind of impossible, but here's a go anyway: Imagine that, for the entirety of human history, EM radiation from anything beyond th...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Malice Vidrine‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Malice Vidrine‭

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Q&A How viable are my glass towers with (Arab-Islamic) Renaissance technology/engineering?

In my alternate history, during the Islamic golden age (in this case, 9th century Arabia - present day Oman), my characters are building a series of glass towers. They are like lighthouses travers...

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

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Q&A Manhattan Project goes really, really wrong

This is for a project where the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from early US atomic bomb tests is somehow much more magnified than the destructive blast- so much so that it destroys electrical devices...

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

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Q&A Effects on human history, culture and scientific development of a rotating moon scenario

Imagine a scenario where the moon is not tidally locked with one side facing the earth but where it is able to rotate about its own axis. This could be due to a larger distance from earth or a mild...

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

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Q&A How could state borders equal major watersheds?

How can I explain, in a believable way of course, that country borders closely resemble drainage divides? They don't always match mountain ridges, which are natural borders "“ as are the rivers th...

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

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Q&A How could 1BC Earth speed up communication across vast distances?

Tech level is early Rome, China, Ethiopia, etc. ~ first century BC. Unlike history, there's peace and cooperation among all the benign monarchies of the whole Earth. But it's hard to get daily co...

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

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Q&A Would dolphins declare war on humans?

Aliens have come to Earth, and decided that the most intelligent life on the planet must live in the water, because it makes up most of the planet. They encounter dolphins and, upon learning to tra...

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

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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 What would we see of a devastating interstellar war between alien civilizations within 1000 Ly?

I have two interstellar civilizations, both of which are extremely advanced and within a few thousand light years of earth. They go to war and make some stars explode in the process. The Combatan...

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

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Q&A Would 100-200 years be sufficient to "erase" past atrocities?

In the particular world that I am working on, I am attempting to build a "utopian" society. A major piece of this society is that, effectively, all historical atrocities have been "forgotten" by th...

15 answers  ·  posted 9y 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 a person with modern knowledge of chemistry and medicine fare in Ancient times?

You were born in Rome, when the Roman Republic was still in power. Your father is an upper middle class merchant and you are (or will be) the sole inheritor of his wealth. One day, a m...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Dider‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Dider‭

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Q&A How could a simple submarine be built using 100 BC technology?

I have some ideas, but I'd like my fictional Roman (100BC) General Mikey (ha) to build a submarine(s). This should be able to navigate in lakes and calm shores of the Mediterranean, succeed in bri...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Mikey‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Mikey‭

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Q&A Alternate Timeline/Universe where the extinction level incident that occurred 65 million years ago didn't happen

Disclaimer : I'm working on the entire pseudo-science thing , so the scientific part of this whole thing isn't made up properly... Certain things have not been explained , this is to keep the post ...

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

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Q&A Humanoid evolution

Background We all know that our species evolve during and after the last ice age, (or is it sufficient to say that they evolve at the end of ice age?). A. Initial Condition Suppose I had another...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Hendrik Lie‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Hendrik Lie‭