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Q&A How to prevent people from ever using the Founder Titan again without rendering it inoperable?

So, If you're familiar with the anime GATE (not to be confused with Stein's Gate) or A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, you probably know what's going on and why I have a boiling hatred t...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A What measures to put in place to reduce airlock being used for murder?

Consider a futuristic world where space travel and colonisation of the solar system's planets is an everyday reality. In space vessels, the airlocks are used quite often to execute people. It's fai...

18 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by rluks‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by rluks‭

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Q&A How to encrypt the activation signal for my kill-switches to make them impossible to hijack

Dragons are awesome, but they're still vulnerable thanks to their low-numbers and a certain type of people... So, to prevent those from killing even a single dragon I came up with the wedding ring...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A What could prevent concentrated local exploration?

In my world there is a village with a hot spring, the only one on the entire island. The spring emerges from a local cave which has been filled / caved in by a past civilisation, since the water i...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by A Lambent Eye‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by A Lambent Eye‭

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Q&A What items from the Roman-age tech-level could be used to deter all creatures from entering a small area?

Please assume the following: There is a item on the ground and I want nothing but bare earth touching it. I cannot move the item myself. The item is impervious to fire. I cannot afford to guar...

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

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Q&A Ancient Egypt - Primitive Blockchain Technology

Premise The goal is to implement a bronze age version of blockchain in ancient Egypt to introduce a layer of security for the royal tombs. Tomb raiding was rampant, and at times even the legitim...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Carrington Event Shield

If a nascent colony world can be wiped out by a geomagnetic storm on a scale similar to the Carrington Event, what could the colonists build either in space or on planet to protect their electronic...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Electrocyte‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Electrocyte‭

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Q&A Locking an old spaceship from the outside?

I know it may be a bit of a silly question and not really something of great importance to a story, but how would you secure a spaceship when you leave? For example; when the Millennium Falcon lan...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Jai1814‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Jai1814‭

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Q&A How to use a certain technology to communicate with colonies but keep the how-to a secret?

I'm building a world for a role-playing game campaign using the Stars Without Number system. Some background information first: Stars Without Number Original Setting: In the original story prov...

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

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Q&A Smartphone camera resolution can image a human retina: can we save retina biometrics?

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ "“ April 2, 2019 "“ Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced that the new, award-winning Galaxy S11 and Galaxy S11+, which have been recognized by smartphone reviewers worldw...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JBH‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JBH‭

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Q&A Would the need for control limit a superintelligent rational agent's expansion in the universe?

My thoughts go like this: I postulate a superintelligent rational agent, that is given, or assumes, control over its mother civilization. I call this agent "the Ruler". I postulate that in order ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Elias Hasle‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Elias Hasle‭

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Q&A Reliability of Planetary Quarantine

Setting: In the future universe, with technologies based on real science that we know that theoretically can be implemented (though not feasible with today's technologies) and sub-light travel, a h...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Stephen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Stephen‭

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Q&A Could a civilization without access to computers have cryptography?

There's a person who has enough working knowledge of our current real-world methods of cryptography (e.g. knows how a few modern algorithms work and could implement one or two from scratch). That ...

12 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Sigma Ori‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Sigma Ori‭

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Q&A If I have multiple identical AI Oracles that can answer only Yes or No, can I play them against each other to detect a treacherous turn?

On an air-gapped supercomputer in my basement, there's a self-improving prediction machine "” a so called Oracle "” that knows everything that is on the Internet but cannot send any data outside. (...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Eckhard Fuhrmann‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Eckhard Fuhrmann‭