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Q&A Teleportation - Keeping momentum on arrival

Warning This question is the first of a series about specific use of teleportation. It will concern only about momemtum and speed: other subjects will be exposed later. Context The story happens...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Ted Pwyll‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Ted Pwyll‭

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Q&A Anatomically correct Panotti

Panotti so called from the Greek words πᾶν and οὖς for "all ears", were a mythical race of people, described as possessing large ears that covered their entire bodies. In the Natural Hi...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A Can mountains ever transition abruptly to plains?

I'm trying to write a story where the main characters discover the wreckage of a spaceship in the fields that border their town to the west. To the east, there's the end of a large mountain range. ...

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

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Q&A Explanation as to how 4 species were wiped out close to extinction?

In my epic fantasy I have four races of creatures which were all hunted down due to their valuable blood which grants the drinker magical abilities (premonitions). After time they all became extinc...

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

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Q&A Security against "truth serum" by means of a drug poisonous in combination with sodium thiopental

The secret police of my fictional country (unoriginally) uses sodium thiopental in medical interrogations, usually in combination with various forms of physical torture. An antagonist (a courier o...

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

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Q&A Time Warp: Modern chemist as court alchemist

Premise The premise is an adept modern chemist is transported back in time and is to serve as the court alchemist to a wealthy prince in the late 16th century. Assumptions: "Transmuting" gold i...

11 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Greenhouse Planet Terraforming - Will a balloon jacket self-stabilise?

Most of what follows is scientifically dubious. I'm looking to clarify one aspect and one aspect alone. A small planet is being terraformed by an alien race who have been doing this for millennia....

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by chasly from UK‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by chasly from UK‭

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Q&A How would crystals be different in hyperbolic space?

Let's say our world is set in a hyperbolic space with a curvature K of −1 per 9 square meters. How would crystals be different than those in our world (assuming that the atoms are the same as the ...

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

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Q&A Semi-accessible continent

I have a bit of a problem. My largest dragons have a flight range of over 1000 miles, but I have another continent that is only reachable by ship significantly closer (just over 750 miles). I can't...

13 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Tanzanite Dragoness‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Tanzanite Dragoness‭

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Q&A How long would a flat Earth last?

As we all know the Earth is flat. Once upon a time a group of explorers set off with the idea of proving that the world was round and that there was a route to the spice islands the other way, but ...

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

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Q&A Can someone help me with ocean currents? I'm really confused

I've been working on a constructed world which started out as the home of an alien race from a sci-fi story I'm writing but just became a pure world building project. As you can see from the map i...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Automatic Utopian‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Automatic Utopian‭

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Q&A Equation to get the size of a crater created by a meteor strike?

Im trying to find the equation to the the size of the resulting crater created by meteor strike when I have the mass, volume, diameter, density, velocity and kinetic energy of the meteor Can an...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user58119‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user58119‭

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Q&A Is intraspecies genetic incompatibility possible?

I'm creating a humanoid species, roughly based on humans. The difference is that not every opposite sex couple of fertile age could produce offspring. The premise of my story is based of some men...

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

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Q&A Are garbage moons possible?

The civilization in question here has colonized the solar system. They have established settlements on most solid planets. Of course, a space-faring people generates plenty of trash, but they have ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Adrian Zhang‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Adrian Zhang‭

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Q&A Getting Three Comets to Synchronize Their Orbits... Occasionally

I'm working on a flintlock fantasy series and I want to figure out how to get three comets with different orbital periods to occasionally all show up at the same time. All three are "great comets"...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Patrick-Leigh‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Patrick-Leigh‭

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Q&A Would experiencing Groundhog Day prove that life was a simulation just for you alone?

There are other Groundhog Day questions and other Simulation questions. I believe this differs from all the others. [This movie features a] ...TV weatherman who, during an assignment covering...

11 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by chasly from UK‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by chasly from UK‭

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Q&A Rock crushing hands, how to make it possible?

A species of humanoid creatures with a strange skull structure and huge horns has somehow immense strength in their hands. The rest of their body seems to be strong in proportion to their weight an...

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

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Q&A What natural event could strip all of Earth atmosphere?

I was reading up on Mars thin atmosphere and was wondering how could Earth becomes like the red planet except it only has only 100 pascal (air pressure) at imaginary sea level? Mars is 600 pascal o...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A What Muscles in the Human Body Could Produce a Flight Stroke?

I have an idea for a story where humans on a low g planet with a dense atmosphere wear artificial wings to fly. I know that muscles they would use to produce a flight stroke would be in the upper b...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by 299 Neandertal Variants ‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by 299 Neandertal Variants ‭

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Q&A Bringing Hot and Cold climates together

I'm building a map for a tabletop RPG (Pathfinder specifically), the aim of which is that my players will be trekking around and visiting interesting places. As part of that, I'd love to portray a ...

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

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Q&A How can a radioactive planet kill most fetuses in utero, but not give everyone cancer?

My setting takes place on a planet that has a very high level of radiation because of reasons unknown to the population. This factor or group of factors are not man-made, but due to some change in ...

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

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Q&A How would a sapient species descended from felids become herbivorous?

In my fantasy world, I have created a sentient species descended from an arboreal felid (it evolved to eat squrriels and small monkeys). They are my elves. The one problem is that I want them to be...

8 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Sengiwizard42‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Sengiwizard42‭

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Q&A Would gas giants work as waste disposal sites?

In my novel, the many moons of Jupiter and Saturn have been colonized, but I'm running into some logistical problems - namely, waste disposal. My first instinct was to dump it on-moon; while this ...

12 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Kabob Maraca‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Kabob Maraca‭

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Q&A Asteroid material that can cause signal distortion

I'm making a hard-ish sci-fi universe where humans colonized nearby star systems and found not one but two civilizations in Alpha Centauri, each at home on a planet orbiting one of the two main sta...

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

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Q&A Let's say a 1 ton (US) sphere of tungsten moving at 99.99% the speed of light hits earth, what happens? As specific as possible

What kind of destruction would it cause? I'm assuming it'd be rather significant, could it shatter a tectonic plate? The crust? How would the oceans fare? Would the planet be able to catch the proj...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Claiming Herald‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Claiming Herald‭