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Q&A Lunar cycles for a two moon planet (one of which is smaller and orbits the first moon)

My planet, is roughly as big as Earth, but has two moons. The first moon, Luna, is essentially the same as Earth's moon, but the second, much, much smaller moon, Selene, actually orbits Luna. Sele...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by The Imperial‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by The Imperial‭

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Q&A Marine Animals best suited for domestication?

What marine or brackish water animals would be best for domestication attempts by a semi-aquatic civilization? Bonus Points for those that get me pet/domesticated sharks!

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

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Q&A How to make a bear resistant to Medieval weaponry?

In my story there will be animals that are incredibly strong and resistant to injury. To better understand how to design my creatures, I'm asking for help understanding how to make the Eurasian Br...

21 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by P.Lord‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by P.Lord‭

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Q&A Classification of types of Civilization

In a Galaxy where there are numerous Earth Like worlds, and FTL Travel is possible but only by a small number of species, possibly only by Humans, perhaps they just happened to get there first. In ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Blade Wraith‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Blade Wraith‭

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Q&A Designing venom glands for an elephant: misting

Laugh all you like, you won't be laughing when it sprays you with its jade trunk of death. Info I figured out that I wanted an elephant that sprays poison (not acid) out of its trunk a while ago ...

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

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Q&A What materials would be needed to build a homemade spaceship, in the apocalypse?

So, out in Kansas, in the DEC Oil Refinery, a group of people, called simply the Disciples, have set up a community. From the outside, it seems like a utopia, one where man and mutant get along pea...

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

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Q&A Feasibility of a mainly forested planet

I have a small planet with a Radius of 3,900 kilometers and a density of 8.9 g/cc. It has an extremely Earth-like climate and has been extremely volcanically and geologically active in the "recent"...

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

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Q&A Which direction of slightly tilting the Earth will be most destructive?

I am a vengeful scientist who crash-landed on your Earth. While I was repairing my space ship, I had to obtain nourishment by consuming organic matter, and visited a local nutrition warehouse your ...

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

Question reality-check earth
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Q&A Multiple moons but only one of them is tidally locked to its planet?

A habitable planet with multiple moons, only one of which is tidally locked to the planet: is this general scenario possible? I understand that tidal locking takes a very long time to happen. So ...

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

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Q&A Metal-Feathered Macaw Viability Part 2: Best Wing Shape?

More posts from this thread are here: Metal-Feathered Macaw Viability Part 1: How Can It Fly? Info See this previous question to learn about the premise. We now know, via this amazing answer, ...

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

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Q&A What would the effects of zones of differing gravity be on a large volume of open atmosphere

My question has to do with living inside a spaceship, which is mostly made up of a force field containing a breathable, earthlike atmosphere. There is a constant outward pull of something like 0.3 ...

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

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Q&A Chlorine Trifluoride-producing microorganisms

Quick Context Basically I need one of my charaters to produce a lot of chlorine trifluoride, but human biochemistry wont allow that, so I was going to get a micro-organism to do the job and produc...

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

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Q&A Could a world exist with a distinct line of changing temperatures between the hemispheres?

I'm trying to create a world where there's an equator-like divide running along the axis(?) of the planet and the two hemispheres are perpetually different in terms of temperature. Basically, I wan...

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

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Q&A Massive Meteor Net?

Premise Suppose a world has no other means to deal with a potentially devastating meteor impact than creating a net on the planet. Their hope is that the massive net will catch the meteor and slow...

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

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Q&A Do moons determine the speeds at which tides move? Is there a limit to this speed?

I'm writing a short story that takes place on an imaginary planet that is 88% ocean. The planet has two moons and one continent that is regularly flooded under 500 to 1500 feet of water. The tides ...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Anthony Worman‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Anthony Worman‭

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Q&A Creature Design Challenge- Extreme Gravity Flying Vertebrate

If you were tasking with creating a genetically engineered flying creature, capable of full powered flight on a (newly terraformed) planet with a surface gravity almost twice that of Earth's, do yo...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Aquar1animal‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Aquar1animal‭

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Q&A How plausible would a fully aquatic bat be?

So, it turns out that bats are actually pretty good swimmers; several species of bats have been reported swimming, and they're far more capable and agile in the water than they are on land: https:...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Aquar1animal‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Aquar1animal‭

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Q&A Viability of Fixed-Wing Biological Flying Creatures?

How plausible are naturally-evolved, biological, fixed-wing flying creatures? Could such a creature plausibly evolve in Earth-like conditions? If so, what method would it be most likely to use fo...

11 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Gryphon‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Gryphon‭

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Q&A Relative Super Powers

The origin of Superman is fairly well known. A baby is sent to a planet and gains super powers from being in the environment (technically the sun, but I believe you catch the gist). I'd like to mak...

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

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Q&A Reasons why AI/mind-uploaded humans would run long-term anthropological experiments on biological humans?

I'm having a bit of trouble with this one. I'm trying to justify why a once scientifically advanced human outpost on an alien planet went the way of the Planet of the Apes and became a schizophreni...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Z. Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Z. Schroeder‭

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Q&A Looking for ideas for a world that requires some earth based mineral to be released into its atmosphere to render it non toxic to life as we know it,

Im busy wrtiting a Space Opera and was going to utilise the "hypothesis", or whatever you call it of an ancient civ mining gold here and utilising it to disperse into its atmosphere, in turn either...

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

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Q&A Are reproductive and excretory systems inherently linked? Could life evolve differently?

As far as I have been able to determine, the majority of life reuses the same plumbing for reproductive and digestive/excretory systems. In fact, the anus is believed to be derived from the male go...

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

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Q&A Under what pressure/temperature conditions could ammonia or hydrogen fluoride play the role of water in an alien ecosystem?

From my understanding, many of the features of water that make it very important for Earth's ecosystem are a result of oxygen's high electronegativity, which results in hydrogen bonding. As nitrog...

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

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Q&A Starting with a map of current landforms, how can I write the geographic history of my planet?

The current worldbuilding project I have is going to be detailed - very detailed. It's about the life of an alien planet called Nemo 4, and I want to chronicle the evolutionary history of that lif...

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

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Q&A Could excessive fracking over long periods of time cause tectonic plates to shift significantly?

Trying to create a future earth which has been thoroughly abused by the excesses of modern capitalism. Extreme weather, rising sea levels, massive droughts, that sort of stuff. My question is: c...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Cassidy Taylor‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Cassidy Taylor‭

Question environment physics