Scientific Speculation - Posts tagged transportation

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Does crossing a wormhole happen instantaneously, or with the course of time?

2 answers · last activity 5 months ago by ‭‮edoCfOtrA‭

science-based wormholes transportation

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Euro-American Maglev Railway - Transit without stopping

9 answers · last activity 6 months ago by ‭Prahara‭

science-based transportation transport

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Planning intra-city public air transport

4 answers · last activity 7 months ago by ‭PentalimbedP‭

science-based cities transportation aircraft transport air

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How can sapient beings engineer transportation and building when they can only count 0, 1 and many?

6 answers · last activity 8 months ago by ‭user6760‭

aliens mathematics transportation engineering transport

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How would aliens abduct an entire nation of millions from a planet?

7 answers · last activity 8 months ago by ‭LukasExemplar‭

space travel society technology space-travel economy transportation science-in-society transport

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How to hide a spaceship visiting Earth?

4 answers · last activity 8 months ago by ‭Mendeleev‭

space science-based spaceships ships transportation transport

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How to ride a fish?

4 answers · last activity 10 months ago by ‭BloodyNightStalker‭

fauna construction materials transportation transport

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Transporting radioactive fuels

4 answers · last activity 11 months ago by ‭user6760‭

space society spaceships ships transportation radioactivity radio science-in-society transport

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What kind of transport infrastructure would there be in a new planetary colony?

4 answers · last activity 12 months ago by ‭Sunyatasattva‭

science-based economy transportation infrastructure transport

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Practicality of a ship-sized twisted-rubber engine

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by ‭Monty Wild‭

reality-check science-based materials transportation transport age-of-sail

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Civilization on an Earth-like planet without using waterways for transport

2 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by ‭Snowbody‭

earth-like science-based technology civilization earth transportation transport

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Could a non sentient land animal evolve an innate knowledge for making boats?

5 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by ‭Anders Gustafson‭

biology evolution science-based fauna transportation transport

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What would it take to make catapults a alternate way to travel?

6 answers · last activity about 1 year ago by ‭Jwrecker‭

science-based technology near-future transportation future transport

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An infinite train circling the planet that never stops

13 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭Yuriy S‭

reality-check science-based physics transportation engineering transport

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Victorian long-distance express transport?

8 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭A Lambent Eye‭

logistics transportation engineering victorian-era transport

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Is it possible to use a planet's magnetic field for transportation?

5 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭OneSurvivor‭

science-based magnetism transportation electromagnetism transport

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What is the cheapest way to move large amounts of trade goods to orbit?

5 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭knowads‭

science-based economy trade transportation transport

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Making airships\blimps\dirigibles the dominant form of air transport

11 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭cypher‭

science-based airships ships transportation modern-age transport air

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How to safely derail a train during transit?

22 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭A Lambent Eye‭

physics transportation engineering infrastructure transport

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What would a steam locomotive look like if steam power became yet again the main type used in rail transportation?

11 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭vsz‭

science-based technology transportation transport

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Would it be feasible to have a wolf as a mount?

8 answers · last activity over 1 year ago by ‭weakdna says reinstate monica‭

reality-check fauna transportation transport

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How long would it take for nuclear energy to become adopted in a world on the brink of collapse?

1 answer · last activity almost 2 years ago by ‭Cuervo77‭

technological-development energy transportation city corporations transport

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How would technology adoption of Lithium Air battery work?

2 answers · last activity almost 2 years ago by ‭Care_Bear‭

reality-check energy chemistry transportation transport

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Speed of water jet driven by 300 bar

2 answers · last activity almost 2 years ago by ‭rwallace‭

science-based transportation transport

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How would a species in one dimension with its own properties go to another dimension with slightly different properties?

3 answers · last activity about 2 years ago by ‭Mansoor Ahmad‭

physics races alternate-worlds fantasy-races transportation dimensions transport

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Construction of Large Naval ships - Structural

4 answers · last activity about 2 years ago by ‭CaptClockobob‭

science-based alternate-history history transportation transport

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Simulating gravity in a gravity-less universe

4 answers · last activity about 2 years ago by ‭mario_sunny‭

planets physics gravity alternate-worlds transportation transport

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How could a stone age tribe of merfolk tame blue whales?

1 answer · last activity about 2 years ago by ‭Seraph Myrmidon‭

technology fauna time transportation prehistoric-times transport

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What pockets should Spider-man use?

7 answers · last activity over 2 years ago by ‭Sydney Sleeper‭

materials transportation engineering clothing transport

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Reasons why air travel isn't feasible, but ground travel is?

20 answers · last activity over 2 years ago by ‭Brian Lacy‭

atmosphere planets magnetism transportation electromagnetism transport

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Train-World: The shatterpated machinations of Spoorcaneers - Tossing & Turning

3 answers · last activity over 2 years ago by ‭dot_Sp0T‭

transportation engineering transport

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Sailing without wind, but with strong currents

9 answers · last activity over 2 years ago by ‭Legisey‭

water physics transportation vehicles transport

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What is the viability of trains on planets covered in water?

17 answers · last activity over 2 years ago by ‭Evren Yungjello‭

geography technology transportation vehicles transport

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Ergonomically correct eagle riders in the modern age

6 answers · last activity over 2 years ago by ‭Mindwin‭

science-based avian transportation modern-age transport

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For goods, do you need a human if you have reliable AI driving?

6 answers · last activity almost 3 years ago by ‭Inferry‭

intelligence artificial-intelligence near-future transportation future transport

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How closely should be placed industrial centre / NIMBY from urban centre?

3 answers · last activity almost 3 years ago by ‭Shadow1024‭

science-based cities near-future transportation future transport

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How fast a current can ancient water way travel overcome?

4 answers · last activity almost 3 years ago by ‭Slarty‭

earth-like science-based earth history ancient-history transportation rivers transport

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Can a Society of Barbie Dolls Make a Network of Aerial Cable Cars?

1 answer · last activity about 3 years ago by ‭Lot-Of-Malarkey‭

reality-check technology transportation engineering transport

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How to get down Valles Marineris

7 answers · last activity about 3 years ago by ‭System‭

mars transportation engineering transport

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Feasibility of a Synthetic Buoyancy Bladder, Used in the Air

4 answers · last activity about 3 years ago by ‭Zxyrra‭

physics technology transportation transport

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What level of manufacturing would a "mining world" possess?

7 answers · last activity about 3 years ago by ‭Haem‭

space colonization space-colonization transportation transport

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The impacts of the Moon's limited gravity on the design of a Moon city's transportation network

6 answers · last activity over 3 years ago by ‭James‭

moons cities gravity near-future transportation future transport

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How long would it take for cooperating insects to transport a grape-sized rock from Finland to South Africa, in an efficient way?

2 answers · last activity over 3 years ago by ‭Fred the John‭

geography transportation insects transport

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Forming the "useless coast" -- i.e. no shipping allowed

10 answers · last activity over 3 years ago by ‭Shalvenay‭

environment geography science-based transportation transport

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Could self-driving light rail/subway/tram trains be much shorter (fewer cars) than systems where trains need drivers?

5 answers · last activity over 3 years ago by ‭Shadow1024‭

reality-check science-based cities transportation modern-age transport

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Proxima Centuri - Traveltime

1 answer · last activity over 3 years ago by ‭Magic-Mouse‭

space travel space-travel transportation transport

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Energy Transfer Through Space Without Adverse Affects

4 answers · last activity over 3 years ago by ‭mkinson‭

magnetism electricity energy transportation electromagnetism city transport

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Would spacecraft 's trafficators be necessary?

6 answers · last activity almost 4 years ago by ‭user6760‭

space travel spaceships space-travel ships transportation far-future future transport

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How might I overcome settling air in a superdeep tunnel?

1 answer · last activity almost 4 years ago by ‭guy‭

atmosphere transportation transport

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Construction of Large Naval ships - Driving it onto land

8 answers · last activity almost 4 years ago by ‭CaptClockobob‭

science-based alternate-history history transportation transport