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100% YES It s called an updraft tower. You can actually even do that on earth in the Deserts (solar updraft towers). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower On Venus you wouldn't even...
TL;DR: the mechanical issues of a biological gun would be very, very difficult to overcome. If they were overcome, the energetic costs of firing sufficiently large projectiles at sufficient speeds ...
What L.Dutch said, plus whatever process is making the hull rotate is making it act like a turbine from a wind or hydro power plant. From a certain point of view, the whole outside of the ship is a...
Stabilization by gyroscopic effect, plain and simple. A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gûros, "circle" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientati...
Be Flexible With What Counts as Wings Your griffons are four legged as the common depictions show, but rather than wings separate from the limbs instead there is a gliding membrane like that of a ...
Reduced Jaw Muscle The brain of primates is slightly smaller than the brain of a human, which is thought to be the main reason for the intelligence gap between the species. The reasons why a monke...
Paranoid Schizophrenia. The brain is malfunctioning, it perhaps contains a brilliant intelligence or valuable information, but the dopamine receptors respond abnormally. The artificial brain to w...
It is an interface issue. Your technology has one step that converts the brain to computer data Reading out the personality and memories of a person from their brain requires that the brain is...
It turns out there's something very much like this, right next door to Earth. Observe the topography of Mars: (Image courtesy Wikipedia; larger version here.) The large blue areas in the northe...
Tandem repeat mutation disease and genetic anticipation. Some genetic diseases occur earlier and earlier with each generation. Most of these diseases are caused by mutations in genes with tandem ...
The encoding would need to be in the individuals phenotype and control the expression of individuals gametes on entering sexual maturity. That way when two generational limited animals mate and th...
Polyploidy. I don't think the telomere approach will work at all. If it did, we would have died out. Or rather, would never have existed. Short telomeres are a normal thing, happens to everybody (...
Depending on just how far back you go, there was a time the CMB was in the visible spectrum. However, in the era you're talking about, this is not the case, and compared to starlight and the primar...
My novel involves time travel from the modern day to New Kingdom Egypt (14th century BCE). My characters bring home with them large quantities (equivalent of a handful of grocery bags) of jewelry....
In many fantasy worlds, giants are as intelligent as human beings and others races that they either avoid stepping on or step on regularly. However, due to the square cube law, giants have a limit...
Humans are not the fastest mammals on the planet, but for very long distances (more than 40 kilometers) we can overtake any species living on land. Except some dogs. The best runners on ultra-long...
I've been working on designing how an ammonia-ocean world might work and I've settled basically everything except one. I cannot for the life of me find any sources that actually provide a decent wa...
I did some research recently for a story on the physical feasibility of some aspects of living in the Saturn cloud deck, and wanted to share it. Please, however, if you have alternate approaches,...
It's not that much about density I'm not an astrophysicist, I love reading about space and would love also to have a real awesome hard-science answer to this question, but while reading up on it t...
Well, this is easily answered, but first we need to get a few assumptions stated. First, let's assume that all stars are the same size as our sun, about 5 light-seconds across (I'll use ls often in...
There's a relatively easy way to calculate this number. Compare your moon's parameters to ours and multiple those differences Size Start with out Moon (diameter 2,156 km) and compare to your moon...
In order to record video and audio it would need to be calibrated for each person and would need to intercept quite close to the ears and eyes, most likely to the relevant nerves themselves. This i...
Yes but you have to violate one of your conditions. Acceleration To launch from Earth, your acceleration must exceed Earth's gravitational acceleration. So assume an acceleration of 1.1 g (with...
I'm sorry, but you need to change your story. I think you can, and I hope you do: from a dramatic standpoint, it's a hell of a good tale in the making. However, you have set your protagonists up t...
I know this question has been asked in similar places, but I'm after a specific part of the problem. Assuming the following: Perfectly flat, infinite world Earth's atmosphere Sun directly overhea...
