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Q&A How feasible would be smallish (1km radius) space station / artifical planet with something dense in the middle for gravity and energy

I was wondering about feasibility of small 'shell' world build around something very dense, like black hole or some 'artificial mini star' that could also be source of energy, and of course gave us...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Raksha Cat‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Raksha Cat‭

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Q&A Non-Spin Artificial Gravity

I want to use a handwavium gravity field generator on my spaceships, but this has several problems. Generating gravitational fields of peculiar shapes is not a difficult thing to do in this settin...

9 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Douglas‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Douglas‭

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Q&A How would a humanoid race differ physiologically if it stored excess dietary calories in a form other than fat?

I'm thinking primarily in terms of the macronutrients, carbohydrates and proteins. I know that fats are 9 calories per gram and both proteins and carbohydrates are 4 calories per gram, which makes...

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

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Q&A Internal micro-heating and Vanadium Dioxide muscles

So Vanadium is present in fossil fuel reserves, and in present in some organics on earth, I figure that if a planet was rich enough in Vanadium a species could ingest it, then the vanadium could be...

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

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Q&A How to manage water in a city 2500 feet below sea level?

In my Pathfinder RPG campaign setting I have two continents separated by an isthmus. An artificial canyon carved through the isthmus from one ocean to another divides the continents. The canyon i...

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

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Q&A How could an organism chemically need sex?

Although (as far as I've seen, I haven't done in-depth research) the original/older version(s) of the succubus legend just have them as demons who seduce you, more modern interpretations seem to ma...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by C. R. Yasuo‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by C. R. Yasuo‭

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Q&A What is the smallest change that would allow an Earth-like planet to have atmospheric COâ‚‚ levels of several percent?

Start with a planet just like Earth as of today (whatever today means when you are reading this). For simplicity's sake, disregard mankind's continuous spewing of greenhouse gases into the atmosphe...

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

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Q&A Star-devouring creature

What I am imagining is some sort of gargantuan beast that encloses a star with its monstrous jaws and then feeds off the rays released by the sun to power itself. I am curious what kind of creatur...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by DevourerOfStars‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by DevourerOfStars‭

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Q&A How can a creature's physiology involuntary react to whether a child is being raised or not?

I'm designing an intelligent alien species in which child rearing is a very labor instensive and lengthy process (their progeny take a little more than a decade and a half to mature), so much so th...

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

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Q&A Would A Life Cycle Involving Horizontal Gene Transfer Be Viable?

Horizontal gene transfer via retroviruses that change an organism's germ line DNA exist, even in humans, and account for a minority but not insignificant portion of the genomes of many, if not most...

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

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Q&A Multiple Methods Of Reproduction

There are many organisms that sometimes reproduce asexually and sometimes reproduce sexually (even snakes and sharks!). There are also a fair number of organism that reproduce sexually but have a ...

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

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Q&A Building a non-human cyborg out of amoebas

I am creating a planet which is similar to earth (but slightly smaller), with similar climates and resource distribution. It is inhabited by 3 races, one of which are humans, and the other relevant...

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

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Q&A Is it possible for two symbiotic lifeforms to be born from the same egg?

Firstly, I'm not looking for an organism that gives birth to two separate species (like a human that gave birth to a human baby and a puppy) as I'm fairly sure that is impossible (though feel free ...

11 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by adaliabooks‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by adaliabooks‭

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Q&A Possible cause of a world without flying animals

Consider an earth-like world without any flying species. What could be the possible (I'm looking for a physics or chemistry/biology answer) cause of this? Set aside trivial solutions as "rando...

14 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Noldor130884‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Noldor130884‭

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Q&A How can I create explosions without using oxygen?

TL,DR: Kinetic weapons are great at taking down shields, but can't take out the hull. I need an explosive that works in a vacuum to take out the hull. Nukes are out, since they'll hit the atmosphe...

13 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Aric‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Aric‭

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Q&A Does mass affect orbit size?

My question refers to a capital ship. Ideally, the ship wants to stay as low as possible. Does the mass of the ship affect its possible orbits? If so, what is the lowest orbit possible for this shi...

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

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Q&A How can my race combine kinetic weaponry with high explosives?

My race use a weapon which has the same dimensions and mass as a kinetic rod. The difference is that it's also a high explosive. It explodes after impact, causing the already weak structure to be b...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Aric‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Aric‭

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Q&A Possibility of a ceramic based armour

In a world similar to us, but in which an evil mastermind is trying to create an armour to force their country into submission. Our villain is trying to make it out of a ceramic composite. What wou...

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

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Q&A Could coral float?

I've been thinking about worlds like Keplar-62e, thought to be covered in deep oceans, and wondering about floating reefs. Could a bio-structure substantially similar to terrestrial coral hold eno...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ash‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Ash‭

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Q&A Can we exterminate all insects by creating insects with an adaptive immune system in the lab?

As suggested in this article, the evolution of the adaptive immune system didn't actually give vertebrates a huge benefit, it just led to an escalation of the arms race between vertebrates and path...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Count Iblis‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Count Iblis‭

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Q&A What's the plausibility of making a body part invisible?

I have a humanoid character with wings, made possible by a little fictional magic, but I'm trying to keep it as scientifically correct as I can. All right, so she has wings, but walking through bu...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Rasul‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rasul‭

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Q&A What would happen to the rest of the world if I raised the temperature of the poles?

I want the temperature of the earth's poles to be higher so that they have a temperate European climate with yearly temperatures averaging 15-20 degrees Celsius. What will the climate of the rest ...

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

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Q&A What's wrong with moving cables for a Space Elevator?

Ok, Space Elevators have fallen out of the limelight, sorry for them, but the concept is intriguing just the same, so here it goes. One of the worst problem space elevators face is the fact that t...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ZioByte‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ZioByte‭

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Q&A How deep could we bury the world in artifice?

I've been reading a few books lately, principally the Warhammer 40,000 descriptions of Earth and the Night's Dawn Trilogy, and it's got me wondering just how far down we could bury a planet under a...

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

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Q&A How would nuclear fallout affect the oceans?

I'm trying to build a setting in which humankind would have no other choice than to live underwater to survive. Suppose there was a nuclear war in which a huge part of the human population died, ...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by neondrop‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by neondrop‭