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Q&A How could flightless dragons survive in a world with advanced firearms?

Warning: large pic ahead, scroll down for the text *BenWootten Dragons: Dragons are kinda small, by D&D standards, anyways. They measure 195 centimeters at, what I assume to be, the withe...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A Could organisms live in the rings in a planet?

Think of Saturn. In this book, some people travel to a gas giant with rings and find an ecosystem in the rings of a planet. It has predators and prey. It has plants and animals. Autotrophs and Het...

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

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Q&A How, and for how long, could a permanent storm be maintained on Earth by a stationary mega-structure?

Suppose you had a tower-like mega-structure, rooted all the way into near-infinite geo-thermal energy of the Earth's crust, connected to the ocean such that water is not a limiting factor to the su...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Irving Washington‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Irving Washington‭

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Q&A How could the Tayan keep its victims from moving?

Below the surface of Dalia, there exists a monstrous beast that eats humanoids alive. This creature is called the Tayan. The Tayan is 150 feet tall, and 35 feet wide. It nests itself underground, a...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by DT Cooper‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by DT Cooper‭

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Q&A Flipped over through fourth dimension. When do I start to notice biological problems?

In the middle of the night, while J. Random Human is sleeping, A. Hypersphere picks him hyper-up extremely carefully (so that none of his matter falls out in a direction he doesn't have), flips him...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by notovny‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by notovny‭

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Q&A Bumblebees without Flowers

Just a fleeting hypothetical that crossed my mind. Say that no flowering plants exist. I don't know why - say a world has been terraformed with various Earth species. Bumblebees are present, but fl...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by N Francis‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by N Francis‭

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Q&A Editable map of local stars

I'm looking for a map of stars within a few hundred LY of the Sun. I'd like to be able to add text tags to stars, so I can name them within my SF universe. Then I'd like to be able to rotate the im...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JOHNCH‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JOHNCH‭

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Q&A How can aliens from a different planet move faster when they're on Earth?

What should conditions on an alien planet be like, if the aliens of said planet move 3 or 4 times slower on their home planet than they could if they were to come to Earth? (Gravity, atmosphere, et...

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

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Q&A What Purpose Would a Unicorn's Horn Serve in the Wild?

This famous tapestry shows all the "modernized" traits of a unicorn--basically just a pale-colored horse with a single horn on its head. Of course, single-horned animals do and did exist: ...

19 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Is simultaneous hermaphrodite species stable?

I'm writing a story set in the after the end world scenario. The very few humans who survived the apocalypse in the facilities deep underground, decided that human race is too self-destructive and ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by FutureIs‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by FutureIs‭

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Q&A Is a species that uses males of related species plausible?

I'm worldbuilding a species X that doesn't have males. All members are females. X reproduces sexually using males from related species Z. There it combines the shared chromosomes but passes unique...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by jurulu‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by jurulu‭

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Q&A Can humans evolve to drink blood?

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Plains Nomads conserve water for their animals by men drinking animal blood and women and children drinking milk instead. However, since ingesting any decently size...

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

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Q&A Would an Earth-like planet have similar weather phenomena as Earth

I'm designing an alien planet which is roughly similar to earth (continents, oceans, breathable atmosphere, plant and animal life on it), but i was wondering: Could a planet that is very similar to...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by John Michailidis‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by John Michailidis‭

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Q&A How Long Would Artifacts Last Under the Moon's Surface?

How Long? In the 1960s, unknown to most, the United States set up a secret base on the moon manned by an "extra" aboard each Apollo lander. NASA architects decided that the base must be built into...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Teleportation - Pressure differences

Warning This question is one of a series about specific use of teleportation. It will concern only about pressure and atmosphere. Here are previous question: Teleportation and speed Context T...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Ted Pwyll‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ted Pwyll‭

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Q&A Plausibility of another extremely intelligent species evolving who finds the remains of our existence and emulates our society

I've been thinking on the concept of the human race dying off (the reason doesn't matter), but most of the other living species on the planet survive. Although we die off, the remains of books, the...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Mr. Smith‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mr. Smith‭

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Q&A How would endo-skeletal systems adapt to the atmospheric pressures given?

Surface gravity: 1G Info regarding of altitude, pressure, and atmospheric density: altitude pressure density (meters) (atm) (kg/m^3) 0 17 10 1000 15...

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

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Q&A The Heisenberg Uncertainty Ray - A Hyper-Scanning Doomsday Weapon

From what I know about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, one of its consequences is that when you learn a great deal about the position of a particle, you greatly increase the uncertainty of th...

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

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Q&A Near spherical alien species - How can they move?

The setting On an Earth-like planet but with completely different flora and fauna there is the Great Plain. It is similar in size to the Serengeti National Park on Earth. The Plain is surrounded b...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by chasly from UK‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by chasly from UK‭

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Q&A How would we terraform the moon?

How could we and would we terra-form the moon? I mean, theoretically speaking it should be possible and not too much of a challenge. But i don't know a lot of things, so i'm just not sure. I came ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Deuxz‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Deuxz‭

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Q&A How long to dig through my tunnel?

In my epic fantasy world set in the 1450's there are underground tunnels that literally go across from under the ocean for 700 miles or so. So here are my questions: How long would it take to dig...

8 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by kai Z‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by kai Z‭

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Q&A Is it possible that a species be intelligent and keep their animalistic trait?

As we all know, the brain consumes a lot of energy, so much that we, who has a bigger body and brain only have the same amount of strength as a chimpanzee. So, could a species evolve to develop in...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by A random person no.0‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by A random person no.0‭

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Q&A Is it possible for an organic species to generate a steady magnetic field?

There are some organisms that can generate electricity (eels, for example). And some others can detect magnetic fields and use it for navigation (birds, for example): https://www.nytimes.com/2012/0...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Carlos Zamora‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Carlos Zamora‭

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Q&A Effects of the shadow of a city in the sky?

If there was a city using antigrav to maintain a position over Kolkata, and it had approximately the area of New York City (roughly 300 square miles, or 780 square kilometers), what altitude would ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by G. B. Robinson‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by G. B. Robinson‭

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Q&A Is a solar system around a black hole possible?

Is it possible for there to be a "solar system" of sorts with a black hole and a few suns orbiting around it? Could that system be stable and (if so) would it be possible for some civilization(s) ...

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