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Q&A How can I make the supporting pillars of an underground city less obstructive?

Node is the last active city of the lizard people. Node was built to be a self-sufficient city and a nexus of an interconnected bunker system. It was a vanity project from the peak of the lizard em...

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

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Q&A How could an underground city hide its existence for potentially thousands of years?

After the fall of the lizard empire, most of the lizard people fled to Node to avoid genocide (This is in the Lovecraft universe, racism is mandatory). In short order, this former bomb shelter beca...

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

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Q&A Without modern electronics, how could you determine your longitude, latitude, and altitude while lost deep underground?

Brief setting notes: it's a "basically earth" type situation, a spinning ball of rock in space with the same size and gravity and atmosphere and magnetic fields and everything else. The main diff...

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

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Q&A How long can 400 people survive in an underground facility if they had to seal off their heat vents?

Assume the surface of the planet is experiencing ice age conditions and the facility was designed to keep the occupants alive for 6 months. An emergency forces the permanent closure of all Heating...

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

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Q&A Air Pressure in a Purely Underground Setting

I'm working on a completely flat, underground world, where "world" means "universe" rather than the equivalent of "planet". Here's what I have so far: The world is a flat, apparently infinite (in...

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

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Q&A Realistic look for subterranean humanoid race

So i have been playing around with the idea of a world that due to its orbit (it is both quite a bit away from it's parent star and due to its orbit permanently between two much bigger planets) has...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Blue Devil‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Blue Devil‭

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Q&A How to safely construct deep underground harbors on a Snowball Earth?

A radical shift in the Earth's orbit has made the Earth much colder, with all the oceans freezing over, and the atmosphere liquifying and falling as rain. Humans live deep underground in areas of h...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by ak7‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ak7‭

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Q&A What are possible ways of underground humanoids developing eyes?

I'm thinking about underground humanoid cvilisation without knowledge about outside world and how could they have eyes? Known fact is that a lot of animal living in dark don't need eyes. (cave or...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Adam‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Adam‭

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Q&A How deep can underground tunnels be within the scope of science?

If the Earth's interior was not hot and liquid, how deep could we dig before the tunnels collapsed by the pressure or the air became too pressurized to be breathable? In other words: how deep can u...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Irigi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Irigi‭

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Q&A Could a Dwarven Civilization Exist?

Could a Dwarven society as described by Tolkien mythology actually work? Dwarves for the purposes of this question are short, stout, bearded men and women who live primarily underground. They have ...

11 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Mike Nichols‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mike Nichols‭

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Q&A How can Dwarves produce honey underground?

I have often heard/read/watched in fantasy about dwarves drinking mead and lots of it. I recently learned that mead is made from honey which requires bees and flowers which require sunlight. I doub...

12 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Nikolay Arabadzhi‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Nikolay Arabadzhi‭

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Q&A What would the physical effects be to Elves if they began living underground?

Background: An Elven nation that once thrived for thousands of years as a predominantly agricultural race was forced underground because of unexplainable occurrences of extreme weather conditions ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Will Robinson‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Will Robinson‭

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Rigorous Science Where would water come from in an underground colony?

A large solar flare event ignites the atmosphere of Earth, but luckily, humans have been preparing for an event like this for some time. We have a fairly large shelter around 2.2 kilometers undergr...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by QuiquÈ…‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by QuiquÈ…‭

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Q&A How long can a human stand to be underground?

How long can a man survive underground without going insane? A traveler is buried under stones in a cave system. His only sources of food are mushrooms and creatures that live in the caves. Some o...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Edward Constantin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Edward Constantin‭

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Q&A Underground Atmosphere

I have a terrestrial planet that is similar to Mars in many ways, a desert-like surface, thin atmosphere, and inhospitable to large flora and fauna as we know it. This planet has ceased tectonic ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thalassan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Thalassan‭

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Q&A How to create a sunny atmosphere without an actual sun?

I have a large underground fantasy world which is only accessible through the Mariana Trench. I'd like to do a day/night cycle and have have a bright, sunny atmosphere part of the time, but I'm not...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Guest‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Guest‭

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Q&A How might clouds be produced in a large underground fantasy realm?

I'm attempting to give my fantasy world weather/clouds, (some might be light-producing to add to other light sources, so if there's a scientific way to do that, please give it to me). There are mul...

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

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Q&A Can fiber optic cables be used to pipe sunlight into an underground bunker for growing plants?

One major problem with living underground is you lose all of that wonderful energy provided by the sun. This energy is useful for many things including growing plants for food. A window is effectiv...

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

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Q&A How is infra-vision any good?

Supposing a world like the Underdark, full of civilizations that developed and live their lives completely away from the light of the sun. In the typical D&D type setting, these creatures have...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by kingledion‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by kingledion‭

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Q&A Anaerobic Fungal or Plant life

The Dark Warlock Susie has heard of a cave system with a lethal density of argon that is protecting a burgeoning monster population. In the interest of beefing up her security, Susie wants to recre...

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

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Q&A Could humans dig out a 20km tunnel through quartzite by hand?

The dwarves in my world are humans who starting digging caves in the Maumturks and Twelve Bens in Ireland during the Iron Age, and eventually connected the caves via tunnels rather than trudge acro...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Philip Rowlands‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Philip Rowlands‭

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Q&A Where would a dense population of human beings live underground?

By that, I don't mean what type of structures, I mean under which part of the Earth? It's an extremely densely populated nation. As densely populated as many major cities - think Hong Kong and more...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by nondelicate‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by nondelicate‭

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Q&A Climate of an underground world

I am creating a board game that requires an underground cavern world, with huge pipes that pump air for the civilization living there. The underground region is at about 35-40 degrees north latitud...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Made_in_2004‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Made_in_2004‭

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Q&A How thick should the roof of a large cave be to safely build a city on top of it?

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) features a giant (and I mean stupidly big) cave under a large and busy metropolis. Nobody is aware of its existence, which means that at least since the city's founding (...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Notiophilus‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Notiophilus‭

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Q&A How could a planet have zero surface caves?

What could cause a planet to naturally have zero caverns with surface openings apart from small impact hollows in the sides of craters and crevices carved in cliffs? To be specific, zero large ca...

9 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Noble‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Noble‭

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Q&A How could a human civilization have happened to live underground, in Antarctica?

Let's assume a human civilization have been living for centuries, nay millennia, in a very large cave, not too deep under Antarctica - deep enough not to freeze, but shallow enough not to die becau...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Ctouw‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ctouw‭

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Q&A How to live underground for 1000 years?

How could humans survive underground for centuries? People have built multiple underground facilities around the world to prepare for a catastrophe. Just to be careful they overcalculated their res...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Dirgeful Zero‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Dirgeful Zero‭

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Q&A Is it practical to build dirt scrapers instead of skyscrapers?

Buildings are often build on the ground into the sky. Would it be conceivable if instead, we build down into the ground instead? We wouldn't have to worry about wind then. I think we could go farth...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by PyRulez‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by PyRulez‭

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Q&A How could an airborne disease only survive undeground?

The orcs in my world are humans who have been infected by two different diseases: An airborne mutagen that permanently denatures their myostatin receptors, which prevents their muscles from being...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Philip Rowlands‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Philip Rowlands‭

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Q&A Cartoon vs Real Life Bores?---(Pointy vs Flat kind)

Yes, I know that this is quite a BORING question (get it ;) ), but I really DIG this kinda stuff (no really). If you have watch an action children's show or a cartoon of some kind, we have all see...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by John Hon‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by John Hon‭

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Q&A Mine easily turned into underground nuclear shelter / city

For story reasons I'd like to have a mine which exploited part was turned in to a nuclear shelter, for the city built above. Later, the nuclear shelter was utilized effectively as an district of ci...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Shadow1024‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Shadow1024‭

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Q&A Why might humans abandon the surface of their planet in favor of a subterranean existence?

In a future with great scientific advancements in architecture, engineering and science (where all three work together to create solutions to many problems that city planners, architects and civil ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Fin Gallagher‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Fin Gallagher‭

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Q&A Would a black population whiten over generations because of living underground?

This questions came to me after some discussion on my previous one about a civilization living under Antarctica. I somehow have the feeling this is a dumb question - sorry if it is -, however I ca...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Ctouw‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Ctouw‭

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Q&A Expanding occupied underground habitations safely?

I have a colony of humans living underground in man-made catacombs on another planet. They are, essentially, digging/blasting as they go; they did not create a complete underground city first and ...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Underground Solar Interaction

In my WIP (webcomic in progress) mentioned in my other posts, there is an earth-originated colony based on an alien planet in a semi-post-apocalyptic society with limited technology and resources. ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A How far underground could a human civilization be before it is unsustainable/inhospitable?

For a civilization like this, firstly, I would like to know what dangers there are, e.g: radiation, cave-ins, temperature. I also want to know about the sustainability of this colony, power I'd ima...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Orfby‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Orfby‭

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Q&A Wouldn't building down make more sense when colonizing a dead planet?

Most science fiction stories has humans building large domes on the surface of planets like Mars or the Moon. But wouldn't it make more logistical sense to dig down and build down into the planet?...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by bowlturner‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by bowlturner‭