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Q&A Is a creature that within minutes can melt a block of ice with its hands feasible?

Imagine a planet where there are extremely cold temperatures and water can be found only in frozen state. To cope with harsh conditions the creature evolved so it can melt ice with its body surfac...

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

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Q&A Is a single sex species feasible?

I've seen a lot of questions on here about the possibility of more than two sexes but I've found nothing on the possibility of only a single sex. The closest thing I've found is isogamy, is there a...

10 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Axolotl‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Axolotl‭

Question evolution sex
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Q&A Fusion thrusters on a planet. Problems with temperature and radiation!

I'm really in doubt if a fusion thruster could be used inside a planet (populated places). As i saw in the TV show "The Expanse", their fusion engines are really, really hot, hotter than the surfac...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Felipe Andrade‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Felipe Andrade‭

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Q&A What type of black hole/rip in the universe would swallow the solar system within 1-10-100 years?

If an FTL experiment created a black hole or keugleblitz within 100 au or less of our sun, what would it's post creation statistics have to be to consume the majority of our solar system within 10 ...

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

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Q&A A fruit that electrically shocks you

I want my world to contain a fruit that electrically shocks you to the point where it's painful, whenever you bite into it. Now, there are many organisms in nature that produce sensations similar t...

16 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Riley‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Riley‭

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Q&A How do you check if a room behind a door aboard a spaceship has an atmosphere/pressure?

How do you check if a room behind a door aboard a spaceship has an atmosphere and pressure? This is so that you would not accidentally open a door to a room which is open to space. I imagine ther...

23 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by rluks‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by rluks‭

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Q&A Why would species leave the habitable zone on tidally locked planet to go live in the hot region of the planet and/or the cold one?

Imagine a tidally locked planet that revolves around the star at just the right distance that a habitable zone can be formed in between the scorching desert side of the planet and an icy desert sid...

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

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Q&A What Could Cause Humans To Fracture Into Many Multiple Species?

There are thousands of species of spiders on Earth. Ditto insects. And, prehistorically, there have been times when there have been several, or even half a dozen species of hominins in existence on...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ohwilleke‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by ohwilleke‭

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Q&A What changes in the skeletal system should be needed to support a head that is 8 times larger?

When I was in the process of designing a human with a head that has 8 times the amount of brain matter than a normal one. I came into a problem. What kind of neck muscles are capable of lifting a ...

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

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Q&A What is the deadliest acid a hypothetical biological creature could utilize as a weapon?

There are a lot of acids in the world, many of them present in biological creatures. Humans, for instance, have hydrochloric acid in their stomachs. What I'm wondering here is just how nasty it cou...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Palarran‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Palarran‭

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Q&A Would an asteroid of similar size to the one that hit 65 million years ago cause humans to go extinct?

Could humans sustain life after a k-t like extinction event? I know that a long lasting winter was a side effect then, but humans have technology to protect against cold. What other effects of an a...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Dibran Joe‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Dibran Joe‭

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Q&A How to extract an object from 200 miles below the surface of the planet Mercury?

In Stephen Baxter's science fiction Novel Ultima humans discover mysterious "kernels" which allow high speed space propulsion units to be built. The problem is that these kernels are only to be fo...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Slarty‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Slarty‭

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Q&A Parallel worlds with changing gravity and magnetic fields

I'm working on a story that has several worlds but I focus only two of them now. World A is our present, world B is a fantasy-ish one which is very similar to ours but evolution has been different ...

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

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Q&A Which is initially more favorable; large or small settlements in a new planetary colony?

I have a question that concerns a story I am writing and I hope it is a valid one to ask. But in my story, several groups of colonists, each arriving on different ships at relatively the same time...

13 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Noah‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Noah‭

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Q&A Is a bioluminescent analog to hemoglobin possible?

I'm working on explaining away the existence of a planet whose entire ecosystem is based upon bioluminescent creatures, and I've been wondering if there could be a reason for their blood (or other ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Gresh1234‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Gresh1234‭

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Q&A Could a large radio telescope survive interstellar spaceflight?

I recently came across Could pulsars really act as "lighthouses" to help in interstellar travel?, asked a week ago. The author was trying to figure out if pulsars could be useful for interstellar F...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A Signal language, how long can we stay in touch?

I'm working on a universe where FTL exists but arrival times can be unpredictable to say the least. On average FTL trips are conducted at 4C but ships can take much longer to arrive than that speed...

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

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Q&A Life without Nitrogen

On Earth life has six fundamental building blocks for life with them being Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur. (1) Those elements of help make up more complex life through a...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ferret Civilization‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Ferret Civilization‭

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Q&A Transmissible diseases in a multi-species society

My world - basically Earth all along, unless told otherwise - is populated by humans and few fantasy-based "races" (actually, species - any interbreed offspring, if possible, is infertile): elves, ...

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

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Q&A What level of technology would be necessary to allow a worldwide system of massive canals be built?

Following up on my Martian canals theme from this question and assuming the canals can be constructed, I would now like to ask what level of technology is required to do that. The basic problem Th...

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

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Q&A Hot north and cold south?

I'm trying to create a world that has a equator-like climate in the north pole and the same arctic south pole. I have done some research already but there are a lot of things I don't know but the h...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Nubian Nauzicaa‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Nubian Nauzicaa‭

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Q&A How Can I Make A Bipedal Insect?

I've been conceptualizing a species of intelligent insects. They would have 6 limbs, they can fly, but they walk bipedally. I've been thinking of having them get down on all limbs of they need to g...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Lot-Of-Malarkey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Lot-Of-Malarkey‭

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Q&A How would the human eye need to change in order to see in low light without any changes to physical appearance?

In my world there are humans who have undergone a mutation from being exposed to a certain kind of magic. They have not realized they have been mutated until they start noticing that they have the ...

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

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Q&A Reasons for my dark ages world to have no horses at all

I am writing a fiction set in the 'dark ages', a pre-industrial, pre-gunpowder world. On Earth that would be no later than 800 AD, but this doesn't have to match Earth. There is no magic, and I won...

23 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Amadeus‭

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Q&A How do I grant superheroes gravitational manipulation, justified scientifically?

Superheroes! Everybody loves them! (Though maybe not as much as magic.) The point is, I have a world with super heroes in it. I have a pretty good system of power granting, and have basically divid...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by No Name‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by No Name‭