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Q&A Would a flying superhuman leave a contrail behind?

I'm writing a speculative fiction story that includes superhumans, and I'm trying to get some of the specifics nailed down. Several of my superhumans have the typical powers of flight, usually able...

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

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Q&A Most cost-effective way to fence in an alien wildlife preserve

As a linguist aboard a terraforming mission, you arrive at a new planet. The planet, orbiting a G2V star, has copious amounts of wildlife and some sentient lifeforms. However, you, interpreting an ...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A Post-Apocalyptic Earth. Escape from Warehouse Moon

In its heyday Earth was a great interplanetary trading post on account of its low gravity moon which was used as a warehouse for all kinds of goods. The Moon was covered almost entirely in large w...

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

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Q&A How would aliens test humans for empathy?

500,000 people have been kidnapped from all over the world by aliens. The aliens want to see if humans have empathy, and they can't understand our languages, as we speak they hear just random nois...

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

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Q&A How far can a human see?

I'm asking this question as a reference for use in worldbuilding when developing world size, atmospheric content, or alien optometric abilities (aka, vision). While I'm specifically asking two q...

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

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Q&A Can my mermaids work?

Looking to how I can make Nagas and Mermaids able to exist and evolve in my story, I came across this post which explains how Nagas could evolve from humans: Anatomically Correct Naga In the top a...

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

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Q&A Swimming in space. What is the mechanism?

A large (compared to Earth life) species of creatures live in space. They gain energy from interstellar dust and starlight. How they do this is a separate question so not relevant here. However the...

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

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Q&A Can a 15km, rapidly-spining asteroid go undiscovered until the asteroid belt is being actively explored?

What I want to know is if an asteroid about 15 KM in diameter and roughly double that in length, spinning at a significant speed, could go undiscovered until a crew of an asteroid mining ship happe...

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

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Q&A Could a Superhero with radio wave powers hear the radio?

Is it was technically possible for a superhero that senses radio waves (like low frequency EM) to "hear" the radio? This superhero senses radio waves a bit like we can see visible light, though n...

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

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Q&A How can you safely extend childbearing age if menopause isn't a factor?

The chance of conceiving quickly does depend on a woman's age. Women are most fertile between the ages of 20 and 24. The average person is born with around 300,000 eggs and steadily loses the...

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

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Q&A Devising the rationale for forced Mind Uploading?

I'm currently working on a story involving a refugee group of people escaping their society, which has made uploading a copy of their consciousness in to a virtual reality system obligatory. Howeve...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by ani ben‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by ani ben‭

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Q&A How much does the ecosphere weigh?

So, we've gone off to another star system and decided to build a Dyson bubble--a continuous statite, supported by radiation pressure, surrounding a star--with a surface gravity of 1g to live on. N...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Logan R. Kearsley‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Logan R. Kearsley‭

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Q&A If an alien had evolved on a planet with 10 times Earth's gravity, how far into Earth's Ocean could they dive?

Let's assume that this hypothetical alien crawled out of the identical primordial ooze to the point where they share significant genetic similarity with humans, and due to either evolution or outsi...

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

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Q&A How could a species have naturally developed metalic looking hair?

The key idea in the concept of metallic hair color is the word "metal." Metal is shiny. Metal is iridescent. Metals come in a range of finishes from warm gold to icy silver. Metallic hair colors,...

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

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Q&A How can an individual that consumes the biomass of others not experience any weight gain?

An artificially created organism called a symbiote has escaped from a research facility and has infected a human host. It has given this human new abilities, including super strength, speed, durabi...

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

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Q&A Extremely heterogeneous life

All life on Earth is surprisingly homogeneous from a biochemical point of view. Every organism known to us is primarily built with carbon-based molecules that also contain hydrogen and oxygen, main...

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

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Q&A How is infra-vision any good?

Supposing a world like the Underdark, full of civilizations that developed and live their lives completely away from the light of the sun. In the typical D&D type setting, these creatures have...

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

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Q&A Could people of the 14th century create an inline engine for use in aircraft and vehicles?

If an expert of some kind travels back in time to the 14th or 15th century with modern tools and machines that don't require power to work and if he were to past on the knowledge of modern technolo...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Eric clifford‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Eric clifford‭

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Q&A What would it take to create insulin in the post-apocalypse?

In post-apocalypse fiction, diabetics, if they are ever even mentioned, are typically portrayed as utterly, irrevocably screwed. In fact there was a pretty cynical example in Dies The Fire (a book ...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Jason Clyde‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jason Clyde‭

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Q&A How can I create a mechanism for ejaculatory control in males?

Ejaculation is the discharge of semen from the male reproductory tract, usually accompanied by orgasm. It is the final stage and natural objective of male sexual stimulation, and an essential compo...

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

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Q&A Moon take off without rockets

Take-off in a craft with rockets allows a gentle acceleration that doesn't kill the occupants. Given that the Moon has no atmosphere: Is there any current technology that would allow safe takeoff ...

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

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Q&A Would it be possible for mammals to evolve blue blood?

Ever since I found out about the green blooded skink, I have wondered if it's possible for other blood colours to evolve among vertebrates, specifically blue in mammals.

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Drk Lord Stan‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Drk Lord Stan‭

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Q&A Logistics: How to move humanity onto a spaceship that is being built from planet Earth?

Humanity builds a spaceship to leave Earth. For eight billion people or so, that vessel has to be gigantic. Using the metal from Earth's core for the construction and the biosphere to create a habi...

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

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Q&A An animal that is physically separated into multiple parts

One of my fictional planets (which is largely terran in nature) is notable for an unique animal. Said animal is a dangerous predator that is notable for several things: It is physically separated...

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

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Q&A How would a steam powered machine in one place provide power to towns that are far away?

I am building a work in which steam plays a vital role. I would like to include the idea that much of the power for the people is being provided by a central machine that is isolated in one place b...

9 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Slowfanz‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Slowfanz‭

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