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Q&A Best Rocket Engine for a 12 Light Year Journey?

I'm writing a Colonization story, and I'm trying to determine which propulsion system would be the best option. The destination is Kapteyn b, 12.76Ly from Earth, and our 40K colonists will be in Cr...

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

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Q&A Oxygen producing metabolism

What kind of realistic oxygen producing reaction used by life could exist in a carbon dioxide / ammonia atmosphere? There are also many volcanoes, either immersed or not, water oceans and you can e...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Jean-Abdel‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jean-Abdel‭

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Q&A What are some ways to explain why a ghoul feeds exclusively on humans?

In "The Thousand and One Nights", the ghouls were vile tricksters and ravenous flesh eaters. They kidnapped victims and lured lustful men to their doom by taking the guise of beautiful women. Somet...

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

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Q&A Why would human operators have to be close to the drones?

So, in this world, the future's wars are fought by drones and recruit teenagers with attitude, who control and repair drones in a temporary base near the front, and are frequently targets of surpri...

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

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Q&A Fantastic gas, part 2: what would be the source of a subterranean gas that's not organic in origin?

Natural gas comes can be found in the underground, but its origin are the organic rests of a long time ago. However, my gas doesn't come from dead trees or anything like that. So what's an alternat...

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

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Q&A What is a plausible reason why the creature keeps its victims alive in this stomach?

On planet Dalia, there exists a creature that supplies Dalians with horrific fear. The Tayan. Tayan is similar to the Earth pitcher plant, and employs similar methods to capture prey. XENOBIOLOGY...

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

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Q&A Is it possible an ice line from pole to pole in a tidally locked Earth-like moon?

I am aware that there are a lot of answers explaining the fundamentals of a tidally locked "Earth-like" moon around a giant gas planet. For example this one: Habitable moon of a gas giant: working ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Carlos Zamora‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Carlos Zamora‭

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Q&A Increasing structural integrity on Phobos, is it possible?

In Warlords, Phobos is comparable to Ellis Island for Mars with its surface being home to many decent sized colonies and space ports (making use of the close proximity of Phobos to Mars) that facil...

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

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Q&A How would I create a planet with exaggerated aurora?

I want to create an earth-like planet with massive aurora, visible during the day, and from the equator. How would I go about doing this? Do I increase the strength of the planet's electromagnetic ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Jaiden Lang‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jaiden Lang‭

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Q&A Roller skating powered armor?

One common problem with powered armors is their limited endurance. This could be remedied with electric roller skates as an efficient and faster way of locomotion, capable of maintaining its speed ...

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

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Q&A How much would unbreakable bones help with fall damage?

If a subspecies of human had bones that were made of an almost unbreakable material (let's just ignore any adverse effects this might have) how much would these bones help them to survive falls? ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Sydney Sleeper‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Sydney Sleeper‭

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Q&A How to cause a surge in large carnivore diversity, roughly 5-7 million years hence?

I have had an idea for a possible story, where the protagonists are some kind of future, sapient hominid descendants (Not descended from humans; bonobos or gorillas or something). The main premise...

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

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Q&A I need a way for a NASA spaceship to be able to dock with the hatch of an alien ship

I need a way for a NASA spaceship to be able to dock with the hatch of an alien spacecraft. The alien ship is automated so there's no communication, and being alien, the hatches on both ships shoul...

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

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Q&A Spaceship Emission Security

In my military scifi novel the military is, obviously, very concerned with security aboard its spaceships. They don't want other people to be able to receive any information about what happens on t...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Morfildur‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Morfildur‭

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Q&A How to distinguish the different phases of the day when the sun rises and sets multiple times?

Obviously there would be a lot of small (not to mention a couple large) changes humans would need to get used to on a planet that rotates much faster than Earth. The biggest one I'm concerned about...

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

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Q&A Determination of reasonable volcanic island height from area?

My islands (in the world I'm building) were formed from a volcanic hotspot. I want to build realistic islands, so I was wondering how tall volcanic islands are generally in relation to their area. ...

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

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Q&A What would it take for an island to sink and rise yearly and naturally

So I'm writing a book and need help to better explain this island that sinks, more on that in a moment as I give you the basic build of the planet... First, its a world on a very tilted angle. the...

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

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Q&A What kind of climate would a planet with a 49-day orbit have?

I'm using Kapteyn-b for a story, which orbits its red dwarf star every 49 days. It's almost 5 times larger than Earth, though I've made a couple changes to the observed data to make it more plausib...

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

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Q&A What technology must exist for a space station to rely on magma to generate energy?

This is a fairly simple question with a likely rather complicated answer. Basically, I worldbuilding a planet that has become a complete wasteland of ash, rock and flowing rivers of magma. The civ...

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

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Q&A What is a usable formula for determining the necessary strength of a planet's magnetic field for it to be habitable?

To my understanding, part of the reason life is able to exist on Earth besides its ozone layer is due to its magnetic field, which protects the planet and its life against solar winds and keeps the...

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

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Q&A Are competitive sports an effective way to change my Spartiates' life perspective?

I am creating a world in which a society exists that is heavily inspired that ancient Sparta, specifically with a focus on Spartiates and their military education, the agoge. A character in the sto...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Mr.J‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mr.J‭

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Q&A An iron rain to starve a planet

I have a generic Earth like planet, same atmospheric composition, and the same oceanic composition. The crust of this planet is predominantly silicon based but plenty of iron, nickel and copper. ...

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

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Q&A Could a tetrapod evolve from a hexapod?

I'm thinking of an alien alien world that has a vast biosphere. Now the creatures of this planet have evolved to be hexapods though there are a few creatures that are tetrapods (only have four limb...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by John Michailidis‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by John Michailidis‭

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Q&A Can I produce a true 3D orbit?

I've been doing a little research (including reading Howard Curtis' Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students) because I want to build a solar system with a planet that has a true three-dimensiona...

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

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Q&A How do I calculate the amount of sunlight a planet gets?

I'm working on a planet and I want to know what is the maximum amount of sunlight my planet gets in lux (for Earth It's 120000 lux). My planet orbits an M4V class red dwarf that has a mass of 0.2...

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