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Q&A Why haven't scientists found evidence of humans interbreeding with aliens?

In my alternative universe, Atlantis was a real city that existed, although it wasn't called Atlantis or founded by humans. Atlantis or rather, Dosham was a city on an isolated landmass in the nort...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Arbiter Elegante‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Arbiter Elegante‭

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Q&A How long would could a mars rover remain intact?

The year: Sometime a long time from now The place: Mars Little Bobby Colonist is going to play out in sand dunes beyond the edge of the domed city where he lives. Terraforming efforts over the la...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by enpaul‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by enpaul‭

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Q&A When will the last unambiguous evidence of mankind disappear?

Humanity just disappears tomorrow, let's say it is like the Thanos-snap but it kills everyone. How long until the last unambiguous evidence of our existence disappears? What was this last relic? Th...

12 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TheDyingOfLight‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by TheDyingOfLight‭

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Q&A Natural uncovering of desert ruins

My world has a semi-nomadic people that inhabit a vast sandy desert. Underneath this desert lie the ruins of an enormous metropolis -- a city that was abandoned tens of thousands of years ago. In ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Harm van den Brand‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Harm van den Brand‭

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Q&A How Long Would Artifacts Last Under the Moon's Surface?

How Long? In the 1960s, unknown to most, the United States set up a secret base on the moon manned by an "extra" aboard each Apollo lander. NASA architects decided that the base must be built into...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A How long would a body be preserved in a sealed coffin in space?

A spacefaring people buries their fallen heroes in space. The bodies are adorned in uniforms (fabric), equipped with the weapons they carried in life (mostly aluminium, steel or polymer, but contai...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Quadratic Wizard‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Quadratic Wizard‭

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Rigorous Science How fast can dungeons be covered and how low can they sink?

My plot is to have temples,castles and cities built on top of the remains of previous structures repeatedly to create a multi-level underground dungeon. My goal is to figure out how many levels thi...

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

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Q&A What prevents Dungeons from collapsing?

One of the ideas I've had for a story is to have million year old subterranean buildings/cities/temples which have younger architecture built on top of them, resulting in a "dungeon" which would be...

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

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Q&A What is the best practice for (alien) archaeology?

We're a lovely, ethical, near-future population of Earthlings, and prepared to begin terraforming Mars (yes, I went there: set it aside). We have just stumbled on remnants of an alien civilizati...

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