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How to Terraform a Dead Earth

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 days ago by Olin Lathrop

science-based terraforming science-fiction alternate-earth
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Restricted Directions for an Alcubierre Drive?

1 answer  ·  last activity 24 days ago by lsusr

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3D Printer / Replicator : Raw Materials and Distribution Cables

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by manassehkatz

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Cruelty Free Vampirism [closed]

6 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by HDE 226868

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Could there be something like the Higgs field which gives particles their energy in a similar way to how the Higgs boson gives particles their mass?

1 answer  ·  last activity 2 months ago by HDE 226868

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How long would a planet that losses its gravity take to break up?

1 answer  ·  last activity 2 months ago by HDE 226868

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What are the most likely effects of a human(oid) shape moving at Mach 50 to the surrounding environment?

0 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by ProjectApex

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Cons of Antimatter Weaponry

6 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by Dawnfire

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Could complex Precambrian life be possible?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Daikyu Maryu

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If the Earth would break apart, how likely would the large debris stay in orbit?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by SKKennell

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With as much scientific accuracy as possible, how would chemicals injected in one's body be removed?

7 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by scriptyshake

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Is this a reasonable way to enforce a ban on exotic weapons in an interstellar setting?

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by TheDyingOfLight

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Would Alcubierre Drive Technology Allow for Artificial Event Horizons?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by FlyingLemmingSoup

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Cylindrical radiators on spacecraft?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by zertofi

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Most Likely Way to Protect Against Infectious Disease When Visiting Other Planets?

5 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Ralph Bolton

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A clothing material or other method to slow free-fall descent down walls

23 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Delirium

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What adaptations would a tree need to survive an area with monthly fires?

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by chase leffers

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Adopting a new calendar for a multi-generational space journey [Generations Novel]

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Noam Josephides

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What is the best form of powered vehicular flight within a McKendree habitat?

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by rek

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Space-based black hole weapon effects

6 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Demigan

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What would happen if the mass of air around earth doubled?

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by chase leffers

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Weakspots of a Humanoid Iguana

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by sjzjjdjdjsn

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How would one detect a black hole when there are no more light sources for it to refract?

5 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by In the name of the story

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Specific gravity change for my world

0 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by NRJohnson

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What laws of physics would need to be broken in order to travel in space faster?

4 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by LukeN

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Do chemicals from nuclear reprocessing waste remain radioactive? Are they flammable?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Julia

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a tribe of neanderthals survive on a tropical island off of the coast of india into the modern day. how might they evolve?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by bigboi

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Human labor required to setup automated mining outpost on faraway planet?

4 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Delirium

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What would happen if someone could remotely manipulate atoms?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Strivs

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What super-dense solid could be produced in large quantities using only Earth's atmosphere?

4 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by TIM FENNER

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Powertrain for mid-19th century mecha

7 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Ryan Williamson

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Science of Green Lantern and solid light constructs

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Strivs

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What FTL models are appropriate given my constraints?

5 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by John O

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How do I explain the evolution of slug people?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Pierre

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Solar expansion and habitability

3 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Dee

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Is there a way for someone to be un-cloneable?

21 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Rhysing

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Could yet unobserved baryons constitute useful building materials?

4 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Vincent

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Planet with double the orbital period of Earth

4 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Julianne

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I'm formulating a planet that has silver dust on its surface, and ideally has rivers of mercury flowing on it, possible? Human survival not necessary

3 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by RJ0001

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Can cherenkov effect be used for telling how fast FTL spaceship moves?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by user6760

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If Earth had a smaller second moon, what would the sky look like?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by RobotPQ30

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can spacecraft heat be 'vented' with entangled particles?

3 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Daikael

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What technologies could be made with the manipulation of quarks?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Shawn

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Is it theoreticaly possible to phase shift between alternate universe and/or realities?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Hewholooksskyward

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In what conditions could whales fly?

6 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by System

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Physiological changes necessary to scale an insect's size up while maintaining a catapult jumping mechanism and jump/body ratio?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Delirium

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What would be the maximum distance from which a space ship could physically see a planet?

7 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Primordial

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How would normal colors be affected if a planet's atmosphere was green?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Primordial

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A "time capsule" that can last for trillions of years?

5 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by In the name of the story

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Relativity, Time Dilation and multiple reference frames

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Budders

space travel science-based physics space-travel relativity science-fiction
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