Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »

Search

Advanced Search Options

To further refine your search, you can use additional qualifiers such as score:>0.5. For example, the search score:>=0.5 created:<1y grammar would return only posts mentioning "grammar" that have a score >= 0.5 and were created less than a year ago.

Further help with searching is available in the help center.

Quick hints: tag:tagname, user:xxx, "exact phrase", post_type:xxx, created:<N{d,w,mo,y}, score:>=0.5

Filters
13.1k posts
 
50%
+0 −0
Q&A What Could Aliens Do To Devolve Humans With A Germ Line Virus?

The Objective Lots of questions at this site consider how humans could be enhanced with genetic engineering. But, if you are an alien, you may have the opposite priorities. These aliens are civil...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Could life develop above a planet's atmosphere?

Imagine a planet with extremely low density, and thus low gravity and an equivalently thin atmosphere, but a very active and strong magnetosphere that prevents solar radiation from destroying compl...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A What would be the effects of a Shkadov Thruster be in a binary star system

What would happen if there was a Shkadov Thruster in place around a single star in a binary star system? I don't care about the moving stars thing. I just want to know about what would happen in th...

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

Question
50%
+0 −0
Q&A A moon that is hard to orbit

I had a dream last night where I was coordinating a space program for an Earth-like planet, with a Moon much like our own. The Moon in the dream had an annoying quirk... The space program kept se...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Amoeba Skeletal Structure

So I am making these giant(human sized) amoeba-like aliens and to have something this big it requires a skeleton to maintain shape and to support its body but also needs to be flexible so it can do...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Iron-rich rogue planet that is 12x Earth's mass collides with the Sun; now what?

So this planet enters our solar system from the 'south' pole at 30 kilometers per second. A bit faster than the first Interstellar asteroid ever discovered. Of course, it plunges into the Sun's ph...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Why would spaceships still have acrylic/glass windows when force fields are cheap and reliable?

Force field technology has come a long way. The latest energy-efficient engines can guarantee stable energy output in any situation, making force fields extremely reliable and very cost effective c...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user6760‭

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Creating a Scientifically Semi-Valid Pseudo-Arthropod Primate Part 2: Exoskeleton Mimicking Amour plating

Other questions from this thread: Question 1 Question 3 Oh my that title is a mouthful, but as a parody of the super solider questions and as an efficient way of organizing these questions I wil...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A What would be easy or difficult to do with the power to directly control light?

Without going into too much detail, let's say someone has a superpower which gives them "control" over actual, physical light: Photons, electromagnetic radiation, what have you. This power requires...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by User6257‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by User6257‭

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Advantage of luminescent eggs?

For example, a quote from one of the Witcher 3: Blood and Wine's side quests says The eggs themselves are a sight to behold, luminescent. The man (hologram) is referring to giant centipede eg...

22 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by DeepDeadpool‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by DeepDeadpool‭

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Anatomically correct akaname

In Japan, there is a legend about scuzzy little creatures known as "akaname". These things are said to have a humanoid shape, red skin, stringy black hair, and long slimey tongues. They are said to...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A What's the most plausible way to bio-engineer an underground ecosystem, without photosynthesis, to produce oxygen?

Here's the full question: What's the most plausible way to bio-engineer an underground ecosystem, without using photosynthesis, so a mine system would not need an active air exchange system? (It w...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A How high in altitude could a fog reasonably exist?

Background: I am designing an RPG world where the main characteristic is that a large fog has covered the entire fantasy planet. At the time the fog was released it was a mutating killer fog that ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Richard Miller‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Richard Miller‭

Question weather planets
50%
+0 −0
Q&A How would a big cat evolve to climb on and jump between ruined modern buildings?

So, in a post-apocalyptic setting, when humans have gone extinct and their cities fell into ruin, I was wondering what animals might evolve to conquer the ruins of our cities. Notice: I know that ...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Anatomically correct vampires

Part of the Anatomically Correct Series. I think we're all familiar with the traditional vampire: pale skinned, blood suckers that drink blood through their fangs and have an aversion to sunlight ...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Which star to send a Colony ship

Assuming our current knowledge of exoplanets which star would you send a colony ship. Assume you a maximum range of 40 light-years. Earth is no longer habitable so the ship is simply playing the n...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Star-d‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Star-d‭

Question planets
50%
+0 −0
Q&A What can cause the formation of a water canopy above the Earth's surface?

Here is a link to the water canopy theory. My question is: how this water could end up there, high above the surface? I was thinking about two possibilities: a comet spreading ice/water as it pa...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A How could a Jovian cloud-dwelling race develop space flight?

I have been wracking my brain with this one. I'm writing a story where a number of alien races who are unable to leave their homeworld for one reason or another send probes into space out of sheer ...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Looking to optimize the atmospheric gas mix and pressure for humans for minimal cellular degeneration

To build another world, I would want a perfected atmosphere that would sustain the air cycle and yet optimize a decreased cellular degeneration. i.e.: increase quality and length of life. Would ...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A How to make the Earth red again?

An alien entity fell in love with Earth a long time ago. When he came back to her, she looked different. He would like to return Earth to her Hadean eon when she was much hotter. This entity has ...

9 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Drag and Drop‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Drag and Drop‭

Question planets earth
50%
+0 −0
Q&A How would a two-speak language evolve? (Spoken and Sign-Language)

So I'm creating an original world with a number of creatures, and original peoples. One of the peoples has a two-speak language. One element, the base of the language, is based off of local mytholo...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Is there any plausible way that my fictional island could be inhabited by animals from African and Indonesian origins?

Okay, now this question is a bit random. But, I'm planning for a possible book project about a 2019 expedition to an undiscovered island. The island is near the northern tip of the Ninetyeast Ridg...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A How would a plant adapted to living at -23 degrees Celsius keep ice from clogging its stomata?

Full version of the question: How would a plant adapted to living at -23 degrees Celsius keep the water vapor it transpirates from flash freezing to the surface of/within its leaves and clogging it...

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

Question flora
50%
+0 −0
Q&A Alternative options to change sex-based characteristics in a non-modern world setting?

This question has received a major rewrite and restructuring but is still the same original question. Please see this meta-post, where I asked for advice on how to refocus this question. While I ...

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

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Can you create a small atmosphere with giant walls?

Can you create an atmosphere on a celestial satellite by using giant walls? Perhaps assisted with some means of technology? In a story I am creating I want to create something different from the no...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Dayton Saragosa‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Dayton Saragosa‭