Scientific Speculation - Posts tagged science-fiction

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Q&A How to Terraform a Dead Earth

1 answer · posted over 1 year ago by Enfield‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Restricted Directions for an Alcubierre Drive?

1 answer · posted over 1 year ago by FlyingLemmingSoup‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by lsusr‭

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Q&A 3D Printer / Replicator : Raw Materials and Distribution Cables

3 answers · posted over 4 years ago by Durakken‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Cruelty Free Vampirism [closed]

6 answers · posted 4y ago by Douglas‭ · closed over 1 year ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A 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 · posted almost 2 years ago by Aeroan‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by HDE 226868‭

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

1 answer · posted over 1 year ago by Dave Driver‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by HDE 226868‭

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

0 answers · posted over 1 year ago by ProjectApex‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by ProjectApex‭

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Q&A Cons of Antimatter Weaponry

6 answers · posted over 1 year ago by Dawnfire‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Dawnfire‭

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Q&A Could complex Precambrian life be possible?

1 answer · posted over 1 year ago by Daikyu Maryu‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Daikyu Maryu‭

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

2 answers · posted over 1 year ago by SKKennell‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by SKKennell‭

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

7 answers · posted over 1 year ago by scriptyshake‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by scriptyshake‭

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

3 answers · posted over 1 year ago by TheDyingOfLight‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by TheDyingOfLight‭

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Q&A Would Alcubierre Drive Technology Allow for Artificial Event Horizons?

1 answer · posted almost 2 years ago by FlyingLemmingSoup‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by FlyingLemmingSoup‭

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Q&A Cylindrical radiators on spacecraft?

2 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by zertofi‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by zertofi‭

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

5 answers · posted over 1 year ago by Ralph Bolton‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Ralph Bolton‭

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

23 answers · posted over 1 year ago by Delirium‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Delirium‭

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

3 answers · posted over 1 year ago by chase leffers‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by chase leffers‭

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

3 answers · posted over 1 year ago by Noam Josephides‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Noam Josephides‭

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

3 answers · posted over 1 year ago by rek‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by rek‭

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Q&A Space-based black hole weapon effects

6 answers · posted over 1 year ago by Demigan‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Demigan‭

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

3 answers · posted over 1 year ago by chase leffers‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by chase leffers‭

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Q&A Weakspots of a Humanoid Iguana

3 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by sjzjjdjdjsn‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by sjzjjdjdjsn‭

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

5 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by In the name of the story‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by In the name of the story‭

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Q&A Specific gravity change for my world

0 answers · posted over 1 year ago by NRJohnson‭

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

4 answers · posted over 1 year ago by LukeN‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by LukeN‭

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

1 answer · posted over 1 year ago by Julia‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Julia‭

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Q&A 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 · posted over 1 year ago by bigboi‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by bigboi‭

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

4 answers · posted over 1 year ago by Delirium‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Delirium‭

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Q&A What would happen if someone could remotely manipulate atoms?

1 answer · posted over 1 year ago by Strivs‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by Strivs‭

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

4 answers · posted over 1 year ago by TIM FENNER‭ · last activity over 1 year ago by TIM FENNER‭

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Q&A Powertrain for mid-19th century mecha

7 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Ryan Williamson‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Ryan Williamson‭

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Q&A Science of Green Lantern and solid light constructs

1 answer · posted almost 2 years ago by Strivs‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Strivs‭

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Q&A What FTL models are appropriate given my constraints?

5 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by John O‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by John O‭

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Q&A How do I explain the evolution of slug people?

1 answer · posted almost 2 years ago by Pierre ‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Pierre ‭

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Q&A Solar expansion and habitability

3 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Dee‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Dee‭

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

20 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Rhysing‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Rhysing‭

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Q&A Could yet unobserved baryons constitute useful building materials?

4 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Vincent‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Vincent‭

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Q&A Planet with double the orbital period of Earth

4 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Julianne‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Julianne‭

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Q&A 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 · posted almost 2 years ago by RJ0001‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by RJ0001‭

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

1 answer · posted almost 2 years ago by user6760‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by user6760‭

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

1 answer · posted almost 2 years ago by RobotPQ30‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by RobotPQ30‭

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Q&A can spacecraft heat be 'vented' with entangled particles?

3 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Daikael‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Daikael‭

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Q&A What technologies could be made with the manipulation of quarks?

1 answer · posted almost 2 years ago by Shawn‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Shawn‭

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

3 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Hewholooksskyward‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Hewholooksskyward‭

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Q&A In what conditions could whales fly?

6 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by System‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by System‭

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

1 answer · posted almost 2 years ago by Delirium‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Delirium‭

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

7 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Primordial‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Primordial‭

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

3 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Primordial‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Primordial‭

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

5 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by In the name of the story‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by In the name of the story‭

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Q&A Relativity, Time Dilation and multiple reference frames

3 answers · posted almost 2 years ago by Budders‭ · last activity almost 2 years ago by Budders‭

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