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Q&A Could there be a being made of gas complex enough to be sentient?

Basically, could a gas stick together enough to be internally coherent, and act like animal cells? Or is there zero chance of that happening?

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

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Q&A Feasibility of Cyborg Trees?

I'm writing a thriller story about a group of explorers who traveled to a distant planet in the hopes of finding intelligent life, when the explorers arrived they discovered a planet that was full...

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

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Q&A Feasibility of leaf scorpions

Recently, I've taken a small break to establish a story bound universe, so that these questions can actually prove useful in the future Recently, humanity has discovered a vast earth-like planet,...

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

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Q&A How does a creature evolve to become invisible to night vision goggles?

I am wondering if a species might evolve to deceive human technology - in particular, a set of night vision goggles. I imagine it is either cold blooded or it has thick fur - which doesn't trap air...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Is it possible to introduce life to a planet via preserved organism?

The dominant religion on my world (created by a race of dragon-like humanoids) believes that their species originates from an ancient being that sacrificed itself to defeat a great evil at the cen...

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

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Q&A Way to prove you are human when the Turing test is not sufficient

In a story I am working on there are 5 AI on a space station of varying levels of social, image recognition and general intelligence. At least one is good enough to pass a Turing test and do image ...

28 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Hershberger‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Charlie Hershberger‭

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Q&A What Kind of Bolide Would Chicxulub Be to Create the Bigger Airburst--Asteroid or Comet?

66 million years ago, something brought an end to the long-established dinosaur empire. The pendulum just kept shifting between an asteroid and a comet, astronomical bolides that actually have dif...

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

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Q&A Does life need to start in water, or can life generate on land, or perhaps in air?

Is it possible that life could come about on land if a planet has a dense atmosphere? (This applies to non-carbon based life as well).

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

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Q&A If people were the size of cats, and the land was scaled down accordingly, what would the size of England be?

So imagine people were the size of house cats, and the world's land masses were scaled down accordingly (in volume). In comparison to the original size of the landmass, how big would England be? An...

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

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Q&A Improved lungs?

What needs to be improved or added to the structure (device) of human lungs to be able to filter toxic chemical compounds in the air (for example, in mines the air may contain nitrogen, methane, ca...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by French Thompson‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by French Thompson‭

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Q&A Mountain sized colossal animal--could it survive, and could it move it's body around?

The question is in the title, but I have bolded the main details to reality-check. I hope that makes it easier to read. Details: I had the idea of a fantasy/sci-fi animal that never stops growing,...

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

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Q&A What structures would allow random strangers to perform a musical number?

I am an alien from outer space who is visiting a planet called Earth. The species living here, humans, have a very primitive and strange culture. They seem to spontaneously burst into dance and son...

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

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Q&A Feasibility of creatures with long forelimbs?

I'm working on a novel that takes place in a fictional universe which involves creatures with long forelimbs and short hind limbs. Some of these creatures includes amphibians , reptilians and mamma...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Pierre ‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Pierre ‭

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Q&A Rejoining body parts: How would it work?

Reattaching severed limbs is a recurring theme in many monsters, but never has it been explained HOW they reattach their appendages. I doubt the neurons would magically realign and begin to functio...

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

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Q&A Randomly generating plausible star types for a synthetic galaxy?

I'd like to randomly generate between 1 and 20 million stars for a spiral galaxy resembling our Milky Way. This is of course far fewer than our galaxy (estimated between 150 to 300 billion), but I'...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by John O‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by John O‭

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Q&A Utility-fog wind?

So, I have this draft for a story. It's basically a parody(?) of the fantasy tropes originating from LOTR (the movies) with the twist that we're following the bad guy's lackeys, who he abuses more ...

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

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Q&A What is a realistic outcome of what will happen to the body if all the flammable materials in the gut spontaneously ignite?

I am writing a story where a person suffers from a medical condition where the gut produces too much of a liquid called diphosphane. Diphosphane is pyrophoric past a certain small concentration, an...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Lars Knowles‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Lars Knowles‭

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Q&A Is my river map even remotely realistic?

Hello there, it's my first time posting, so I'm sorry if I'm going against formatting. I'm making a continent for a fantasy setting, and have been firstly focusing on geography. This continent s...

11 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by James Baxter‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by James Baxter‭

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Q&A Which developmental pathway makes more sense?

So, I thought I had the hunger related bioluminescence for my Keplerians figured out. That once the hunger hormone reaches a certain threshold, the hormone receptors on some cells of a bioluminesce...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Caters‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Caters‭

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Q&A How to have hollows with complex plant and animal life on a planet

This is a slight continuation of my other post where I was trying to create realistic hollows with weather due to temperature changes due to bio minerals called Hearthstones. I was wondering if pla...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by anthony gutierrez‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by anthony gutierrez‭

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Q&A Would cold-blooded dragon be suitable for flying?

I am designing a cold-blooded dragon about the size of a house cat with a wingspan of 3 metres from tip to tip. It will climb on top of rocks at noon when there is ample sunlight overhead. I need i...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Ideal Materials for Laser / Energy Weapon Defense

In most future sci-fi settings, it is apparent that laser weapons (or as Star Wars likes to call it, blasters) and energy weapons in general would have replaced most standard ballistics for main in...

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

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Q&A Emotion to replace fear

I want to make an alien species evolve without fear, or atleast not fear as we know it. Intelligent life, as I understand it, requires fear to encourage an organism to keep itself alive. What emo...

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

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Q&A The One Problem With Terraforming and Colonizing a Super-Earth

Many people are excited with the idea of super-Earths--rocky, habitable exoplanets greater in mass, density and diameter (because I'd prefer to go the whole way than stop at the halfway point) than...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Where do hydrothermal vents form inside icy ocean worlds?

Context: In a near-future version of our solar system, humans have established multiple underwater colonies on Jupiter's moon Europa. Many of these outposts are situated next to hydrothermal vents ...

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