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Q&A What would be the major differences on our planet and civilization if humans were exclusive insectivores?

Let's say that in a different timeline, humans evolved to eat insects. How would that change the world today Note: Suppose that this didn't have any mass changes on our anatomy and that our species...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by John Michailidis‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by John Michailidis‭

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Q&A Is it possible to have a near tidally locked planet?

I'm working on a story where the characters are stranded on a planet that turns so incredibly slow that it acts like a tidally locked planet, with one side burning and the other frozen. However bec...

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

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Q&A What do Lunar colonists drive in the 21st century?

So I my question is quite simple. With current technology or technology that we are likely to gain this century would it be easier for Lunar colonization programs to develop wheeled vehicles or wal...

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

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Q&A Wasp hives in a walking corpse. Why would wasps do this?

Just a bit of background: one of my favorite zombie causers is from the Dead Rising video game series. In it, the undead are reanimated by a wasp-like insect that lays eggs in a corpse (I think. It...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Pinion Minion‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Pinion Minion‭

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Q&A What practical use would turning Herschel crater (Mimas) into a massive satellite dish have?

Saturn and it's moons, minus a few rogue colonies, are under the control of the Saturnine Syndicate. Long have they wanted to turn Mimas into a communication, technology, and data hub. But I've run...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭

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Q&A Can planes fly on Mars?

My question is very simple, I want to know if the Martian atmosphere is too thin to hold planes up and, if it is thick enough, how high planes could reasonably go. This is considering heat manageme...

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

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Q&A How to wipe out ALL life on Earth, but leave it habitable?

NB: This is not a duplicate of this question, because A) it only asks to wipe out humans, not any other life-form, and B) it insists that one person must survive. The survival of anything is not po...

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

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Q&A How to interface with beings in the galactic core?

Context: So assume there are an unknown number of near-omnipotent/omniscient beings who have been confirmed to live inside of an area of space called the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN). To provide ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Rob Truxal‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rob Truxal‭

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Q&A Logical reason why this creature saves its digested victims consciousness?

So, there is a monstrous creature called the Tayan. It was created many thousand years ago by a hyper advanced race that created it as a sort of biological torture mechanism. It's so huge it can ...

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

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Q&A How effective would an iron sulphide carapace be at resisting small-arms gunfire?

I've been designing a race of humanoids with a thick chitinous arthropodal carapace resilient to small-calibre gunfire and physical trauma that would cripple a normal human being. This carapace is ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Arbiter Elegante‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arbiter Elegante‭

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Q&A Plausible reason for a civilization to not explore their own planet and explore space instead

A civilization of land-living humanoids occupies a patch of land on a continent (patch of land size: a few US States, let's say Montanas) and, without even exploring the continent fully, develops s...

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

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Q&A Cryosleep antifreeze, what possible materials could be used?

In warlords the Hegemony already has practical usage for cryosleep (no clue how it would be enduced just yet) in the medical field and in long voyages, ex: freighter travelling from Uranus to Ceres...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭

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Q&A Localized manipulation of the speed of light

I've recently read Alastair Reynolds' sci-fi best seller, Redemption Ark, where he explored the concept of manipulating an inertial frame overlaid on the quantum vacuum like many of the other funda...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by B.fox‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by B.fox‭

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Q&A Geology on low density planets

I am currently working on a piece that has a planet (about double the size of Earth). It is worth noting that this is a low density planet. Without any other factors (Earth-like atmosphere, same pr...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Ethan Childress‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ethan Childress‭

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Q&A How might kinetosynthesizing "plants" look?

Suppose that there is a moon, orbiting a gas giant, and that gas giant is a rogue planet - it moves freely through the universe, unbound by the gravity of a star. This means that one, the moon will...

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

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Q&A Ringstadt: Can my mountains be what I need them to?

When the old mining town was founded, nobody did think of this ever growing into much more than a coal-mining town. The deposits of iron-ore, aside from the already developed peat bog to the nor...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by dot_Sp0T‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by dot_Sp0T‭

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Q&A Could humans survive off a single food block

Could humans permanently live off a single food-like block, made of various edible materials, which contains all their daily requirements of calories, vitamins, and minerals? Preferably is there a...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user1330162‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user1330162‭

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Q&A What would society be like if sex couldn't be told apart until puberty?

Gender roles have been historically assigned at birth. As soon as parents establish the sex of their children, they are molded into certain social categories. But what if humans didn't display sexu...

8 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by MoholyNagy‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by MoholyNagy‭

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Q&A With light years between us, why talk?

Let's say in the year 2000 we launch a ship to some distant part of the galaxy. If the ship travels with a constant 1 g acceleration for like 28 years (accelerating halfway then decelerating), then...

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

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Q&A Humans as repair drones

The only real advantage humans have over robots is their stamina and fine motor skills. This would make them a cheap and excellent repair drone, but there are certain problems. What biological mod...

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

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Q&A The Biology behind a slime that uses hydrofluoric acid to disable and digest prey.

So I've been working on a low magic world where magic is actually just another form of energy that can be actualized, similar to alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist. Although development has taken a di...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Clay Deitas‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Clay Deitas‭

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Q&A Ringstadt: How sensible is my topography?

Look at you all sitting here. Quite some of you have probably never ventured beyond the outskirts of this city, mayhaps not even past the wall? You've spent your whole lives in this place, but w...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by dot_Sp0T‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by dot_Sp0T‭

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Q&A Could magnetics circuits be invented before electric circuits?

Magnetic fields behave in many of the same ways as electric fields. Could a society develop a magnetic based system of computation before they invent an electric method like modern integrated circu...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Direwolf202‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Direwolf202‭

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Q&A High-atmosphere wind dangers on a rocky planet

What would be a good way to explain dangerous winds on a rocky planet like mars? I'm looking to create a dangerous situation for atmospheric pilots trying to land, specifically for sudden changes i...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Adrian Hall‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Adrian Hall‭

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Q&A How to escape from a Tayan's maw?

So, there is a great beast called the Tayan. It burrows itself into the ground, and eats all creatures unfortunate enough to fall in. The Tayan's throat has muscles that push food down into its sto...

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

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