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Q&A Feasibility Check- Is aquaculture a possible food source for my civilization

Inspired (loosely) by societies like the Gunditjmara and natives of the Pacific Northwest, I always have envisioned a system of aquaculture for one of my concultures, though agricultural studies a...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Antarctica07‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Antarctica07‭

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Q&A Can this world invent gas cylinders early?

QUESTION I'd like a nation in the world I'm working on to be able to transport natural gas and hydrogen, for fuel and possibly ballooning. Natural gas pipelines and cylinders were first invented i...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Random‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Random‭

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Q&A An alien world with medieval level technology and some sort of mechanism or mode of space travel

The title says it all. How would one go about creating a planet with aliens that have medieval grade technology (windmills and carts and stuff.) No high level technology. However, I want the aliens...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Quavo Twinkletoes‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Quavo Twinkletoes‭

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Q&A How long could someone survive in "Sky cell" like prison?

In the fiction, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, one high castle in the mountains, the Eyrie, has so-called sky cells. Those cells are left open to the cold sky. The Eyrie is 600 foot/180 m...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Kepotx‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Kepotx‭

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Q&A Could a solar flare create terrestrial areas of background radiation?

Inspired by this question from yesterday. Solar flares can give off a large amount of radiation, but on Earth this is typically absorbed before it reaches anywhere but the poles, and even then on...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Random‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Random‭

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Q&A Artificial sky and sun for underground and remote colonies

I has this idea for quite a while. I searched for information on the internet but I could see no reference. All searches gave results on the same idea but the effect was not what I'm looking for. ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Christmas Snow‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Christmas Snow‭

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Q&A How to design a super-earth that is 80,000 km in circumference?

My question is the following: How could I design and/or justify a habitable planet that is 80,000 km in circumference? The planet should: Be habitable Have a gravity similar to earth's Have act...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ThomasEvenor‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by ThomasEvenor‭

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Q&A A ribcage capable of surviving the bite of a Tyrannosaurus Rex

What existing material (e.g. 410 steel, no unobtanium) and what thickness should the ribcage of a creature (of humanoid size and shape, let's say it's a genetically-engineered human) have, to survi...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Hankrecords‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Hankrecords‭

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Q&A Can liquid nuclear fuel be injected and ignited like petro from a fuel injector?

[![enter image description here][5]][5] Model Lightcraft under laser power While sadly the funding for this research has not been forthcoming, there have been proof of principle flights and ope...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Muze the good Troll.‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Muze the good Troll.‭

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Q&A How can I ensure that a supercontinent has fertile ground away from coastal areas?

In this world, the continents never split off from each other. They stayed connected into the one giant landmass called Pangea. Humanity developed on this supercontinent, separated by landmarks ins...

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

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Q&A Keeping One's Figure - Myostatin Regulation

Background: I am working on a super soldier transhuman/posthuman concept for my fictional world. It takes the base human genome then uses genetic engineering to augment, delete, enhance, add, and ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Eso Di‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Eso Di‭

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Q&A What fruits and vegetable could people grow 6 000 years BC?

Considering a civilization that was here far before everything we know of, lets say around time of Gilgamesh. Warm climate, almost no winters, near the ocean with enough rivers, and people being ab...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by neko‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by neko‭

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Q&A How could it be possible to exert gravity without mass?

Some of what I read in How could a 4D organism influence events in our world made me think in a different direction about a question I asked before. I'm trying to create a large sphere shaped fiel...

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

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Q&A In a world 2x the size of earth would sentient aquatic life be more probable?

The idea is in a world with 2x the gravity (which follows from 2x the size), gravity would have less an impact in the oceans. Does that follow?

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Todd Hoff‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Todd Hoff‭

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Q&A What would make a place always misty?

What would cause a place to be always misty? It is in a Fantasy setting, but I am looking for a feasible explanation.

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ajnatorix Zersolar‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Ajnatorix Zersolar‭

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Q&A Climate of an underground world

I am creating a board game that requires an underground cavern world, with huge pipes that pump air for the civilization living there. The underground region is at about 35-40 degrees north latitud...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Made_in_2004‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Made_in_2004‭

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Q&A Is it reasonable for electric generators to come before steam engines?

Let us develop an industrial electric motor from first principles. Alessandro Volta developed a battery whose ingredients were copper, zinc, seawater, and imagination. These ingredients have been ...

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

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Q&A Conjoined Planets?

I was wondering if two bodies could be physically connected to each other such as the ones in the art I have attached. Is there any realism to it? Original art by Dave Melvin

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Rangoon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rangoon‭

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Q&A Likely warning time for extinction event asteroid

I'm looking for a science based answer based on current technology. Given that we do commit some small amount of resources and time to searching for stellar objects, with our current technology, ho...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JBiggs‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JBiggs‭

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Q&A Do different angles of strike affect the destructive power of an asteroid?

I'm looking into the destructive power of a 5km asteroid strike, a bit smaller than the k-Pg event. How does the angle of the strike affect the destructive capability of a land-based impact. For e...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

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Q&A Inducing a Solar Flare

Is there a way to induce a solar flare / coronal mass ejection (CME)? For instance, could a very tight glob of charged particles reconfigure the the Sun's corona leading to this type of event? Is ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Englishman Bob‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Englishman Bob‭

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Q&A What kind of evolutionary pressure might lead to plants that send out a tight beam of ionizing radiation

While pondering "Can radioactive moon affect life on a planet?", I got to wondering about plants that send out a tight beam of ionizing radiation. What kind of evolutionary pressure might lead to s...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by hkBst‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by hkBst‭

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Q&A Could resonance be used to break free an object covered in ice?

This article references breaking ice through resonance, but is not specific enough for my case: Resonance method of ice destruction I have a situation where I would like a robot character to break...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Wayzgoose‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Wayzgoose‭

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Q&A 30km deep canyon in Central Europe

Let's suppose that there is a canyon, several hundred kilometers in length, stretching from Leipzig to Geneva and reaching the depth of 30 kilometers. It is up to 60 kilometers wide, cutting throug...

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

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Q&A A human 10x faster at thinking or reacting than the quickest human; could they catch an arrow?

Let us say that someone is 10 times faster at thinking or reacting than the quickest human, assume that they can survive these feats and their muscles can perform them and their senses detect them....

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Christopher Void‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Christopher Void‭

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