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Q&A Insect Mind Control

So I am making another insect themed character (I can't help it insects are just so amazing to me❤️) and I want this one to be able to control insects from a distance. I have some ideas (Pher...

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

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Q&A Would it be safe to assume that solid core nuclear rocket technology advances?

Solid Core Nuclear Thermal rocketry has existed for a while and I was thinking about using it as the primary propulsion in my setting. Now most Solid Core rockets still have fairly long transit tim...

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

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Q&A Could a blimp be powered using thunderstorms?

Could a untethered blimp be built strong enough to with stand a thunderstorm? Could wind generators be placed on it to transfer turbulence of shifting wind into wind power? Rain could be collected...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Muze the good Troll.‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Muze the good Troll.‭

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Q&A Would Vesta Be A Suitable Spot For Colonization

So I was thinking of using the asteroid Vesta as one of the many asteroid colonies in my future solar system. Is it a viable candidate or is there any "problems" with it. The colony would be made o...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by The Imperial‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by The Imperial‭

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Q&A Heat regulation in an asteroid base powered by a small nuclear reactor

So, I'm writing about the siege of an asteroid base. This asteroid is near the outer edge an asteroid belt at the solar radiation equivalent of Saturn's orbit from its star (although the raw distan...

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

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Q&A Can I program nanobots to behave like sperm and fool an egg?

In short I'm looking at creating an artificial sperm smart enough to fertilize an egg and develop into an embryo, so that would mean the sperm must have some means of carrying information similar t...

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

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Q&A Earth Orbits a K-Type Star. What Would the Visual Scenery Look Like?

To clarify on the title, K-type main-sequence stars--shortened as "orange dwarves"--are subjects of excitement for astronomers and astrobiologists. Why? They emit enough radiation to provide a...

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

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Q&A Adapting organs, How would they adapt?

Okay so I get that for flexibility I need no bones. My octopeople do live on land so they do have lungs. But they are more amphibious than we are. So here is my proposed life cycle: Pregnant octo...

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

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Q&A Effects of gravity upon weather?

So there are loads of things that are taken into account with weather from geology to water currents to axial tilt etc. But i am wondering what the effects would be on weather on planets with varyi...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by AYoungRabbit‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by AYoungRabbit‭

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Q&A Realistic alien skies on screen

Is there some astronomical / physics reason why it would (or would not) be realistic to have more than one "larger-than-Earth-moon" object in an alien sky as backdrop to a movie or tv show? In oth...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Jerome Wiley Segovia‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jerome Wiley Segovia‭

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Q&A Is there a liquid that could protect a human inside it from impact?

I am trying to figure out what kind of liquid, if any, can be used to severely impede or slow human motion without killing or severely damaging their bodies (IE if after being submerged in this liq...

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

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Q&A How CAN we scale up living creatures to be giant sized?

Piggybacking on this question: Can you simply scale up animals? how CAN we scale up living creatures to be giant sized? What would need to done to make truly giant animals (Dragons, Kong, Godzilla,...

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

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Q&A Proxima Centauri's flare: effects on a terraformed planet

Imagine that, in a thousand years, the star system of Proxima centauri has a planet located in its goldilocks zone that has been terraformed by earthling settlers. We do not really know what the b...

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

Question terraforming
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Q&A What would the psychological effects be on a child who grew up knowing they could never really get hurt?

(This question goes more in depth from a previous question.) Imagine This: The "Black Box" is a mind vault for a few humans who created it, the humans wanting to survive a nuclear war happening...

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

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Q&A Species with non-sexual dimorphism

Imagine life evolving on a planet. First creatures crawl out of the ocean and start colonizing the land. Then one of the species gets into such conditions where it needs to specialize in two differ...

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

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Q&A The plausibility of a mind-controlling and genome-altering pentastomid

CONTEXT/EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY A book that I'm currently writing called Surge features an enemy faction called the Degenerates that are heavily inspired by the Scythians (Indo-Iranian horse nomads t...

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

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Q&A Mammal producing spider venom

Could a human be genetically engineered to produce a less fatal form of the Brazilian Wandering Spider's Venom? I have been told that many things that insects can do do not function in humans for v...

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

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Q&A Which kinds of food would no longer be available if plants stopped producing pollen?

In my fantasy pre-industrial world pollen production and plant reproduction has been disabled by some sort of curse. The curse has a limited geographical span, but the region affected is very larg...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by SFVT‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by SFVT‭

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Q&A Is it possible for a planet to orbit a binary system at the same speed as the stars themselves?

I know next to nothing about astrophysics, but I've read a few Wikipedia articles, and it seems like a "normal" kind of binary system includes two stars of similar mass orbiting a common center. I...

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

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Q&A Could knights navigate a dust storm?

I'm writing a medieval/post apocalypse world stricken with horrible dust storms that last days or weeks at a time. Would it be possible, using medieval technology, to: protect yourself from such...

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

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Q&A Max humanoid physical strength

EDIT: There were some great answers here, and I realize this is a kinda broad question, but I'm accepting Monty Wild answer as it provided me with the info I needed to push this forward. Now I have...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Santiago Pacheco‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Santiago Pacheco‭

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Q&A Is it possible to have a sun with visible phases or cycles?

Is there a scientifically plausible way for a habitable world to have a sun that undergoes a regular, dramatic, and easily observable change? One comparable in visual impact to an event like a sola...

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

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Q&A Air routes around a "hurricane eye" on a tidally locked planet

On a tidally locked Earth-like planet a big part of long distance air routes would have to approach the hurricane eye and some may even benefit from it. On Earth aircraft are able to save time and...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Shadow1024‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Shadow1024‭

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Q&A Abstract Graphics for indicating emotions

What kinds of abstract colors, shapes, and other compositional elements could be used to indicate various emotions? My story features an artificial intelligence that's embodied in an industrial pr...

10 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JDługosz‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JDługosz‭

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Q&A How could a biologically engineered body dump toxins from the blood stream?

Through a short amount of research it seems most blood is cleaned in the liver and most toxins are neutralized before being passed into urine or the bowels. If this is how most toxins are excreted ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by William C.‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by William C.‭