Posts tagged bio-mechanics

If your blood pressure ever falls below the ambient atmospheric pressure would it be possible for you to bleed. Because if blood pressure was less than that of atmosphere air would move in if you g...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Suhrid Mulay‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Suhrid Mulay‭

I was thinking of a set of life forms that originates from neutron superfluid inside a neutron star. So these life forms are not made of atoms but are made entirely of neutrons. How might this li...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Anders Gustafson‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Anders Gustafson‭

I was reading more Laundry stories and just went through Equoid. The humorous "Procurement Specification" got me thinking. In a rational SF approach (as opposed to magic), imagine a civilization d...

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

I have a group of settlers that live on top of an animal, and I want his skin to be their mode of communication. In the morning, information is transmitted through chromataphores in the skin changi...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Justin Alexander‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Justin Alexander‭

The Settings: A pod of nanobots stranded on earth-like barren planet orbiting sun-like star. Assume no life form has formed on the planet, and nanobots popuate the planet. Could they evolve compl...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Hendrik Lie‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Hendrik Lie‭

If humans were to vanish completely from the Earth rapture-style, other primates would possibly slowly evolve and eventually take our place (in a few million years?), since they have both the basic...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭