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I am positive to a merger and I think perhaps a rebrand of this site so that is sorts below a Worldbuilding one would be the best way to go. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ is already an ...
You are quite right. This has been fixed, thank you for pointing it out.
It is said that in dense rainforests, only 1% of sunlight (sometimes less) reaches the forest floor, which greatly restricts the types of plant and animal life that can survive there. My (limited) ...
In a world where pollution and population have drastically reduced the effectiveness of sunlight to grow food, would light-panels be capable of completely replacing the sun? The problem I'm trying...
I know that this is a bit silly, but I want to make a calendar for my world and I'm really worried about having to do leap years and such to ensure continuing accuracy. Inaccuracy isn't an option;...
One way to achieve this would be to simply change the structure of Earth's magnetic field. At the moment, the field is that of a large magnetic dipole, with the field produced by the motion of flui...
Yes, nuclear fission is reversible. Actually, it's more like fission is the reverse of fusion. Fusion is what stars do. Mostly stars fuse hydrogen to make helium. Fusing light elements releases...
A speedometer is a gauge or device used for measuring instantaneous speed of moving vehicle roughly speaking, so for example the reading shown on the speedometer of a car parked at road side displa...
I'm currently designing a world where the inhabitants see the Aurora Borealis on an almost nightly basis almost all the way to the equator. The lights are so strong they rarely see the stars beyond...
Yes. All plants require free oxygen, and any (part of a) plant that is not actively photosynthesising has to obtain its oxygen from its environment. We owe our oxygen supply to the fact that, on a...
What I need is a substance which could have been mixed by an alchemist and is as gold-like as possible. How about gold itself? Bear with me, here: While there are a lot of things that look ki...
I'm interested in giving a conworld moons orbiting in a Laplace resonance, like the inner Galilean moons of Jupiter. Here are the constraints I believe hold for moons in a Laplace resonance (orbit...
I'm speaking as a regular user here despite that "staff" label next to my name. Scope is decided by communities, not imposed from above. I think science-based questions about sports, like golf in...
[science-based] almost certainly should be removed - I think we can safely assume that a site called Speculative Science is going to require science-based answers across the board. If an post's not...
That's a lot of questions all lumped together in one, and as I don't have an hour or two to write up good answers for each of them, short ones will have to do for now. There are 500+ tags, app...
It's not black at all, it's not even light (or maybe even any other wavelength of photons) at all, but something about the magic interferes with the ability of our rods and cones to interact with l...
Since manipulation of the brain is prohibited and illegal modifications are assumed to be reliably caught, the obvious way to check someone's identity with biometry would be by checking their brain...
No matter what mechanism your animal uses for running its systems from sunlight, you still have the fundamental limitation of sunlight power per area (insolation). Solar insolation at earth's dista...
It doesn't make much sense to talk about transmitting "keys" when the encryption is analog. Since you want to stay away from digital, the encryption and decryption will need to be done in analog h...
In the "Scientific Speculation FAQ" page, at the section "What are the different categories for?", the categories are described as: Q&A is for general questions. Researched Q&A is for que...
Drastically. For one thing, pinning your opponent's shoulder to the mat is no longer possible. Very different criteria would be required to determine winning. The different objectives would in t...
Kind of depends on whether you mean water as in H2O molecules or water as in state of matter = liquid. The amount of liquid water will naturally vary a lot depending on seasons and warmth. We know ...
It looks like you will have uplift, frequent earthquakes, and volcanos in the lower part of your island where three plates are jamming together. In the northern part, the plates are spreading. Yo...
Before launching the site, we had a discussion on Codidact Meta about naming the category we currently called "Researched Q&A". Other possibilities we explored included "Hard science", our sta...
A back of the envelope calculation suggests that you need a velocity relative to the CMBR of more than 0.9c. (1mm microwaves blue-shifted to 570nm light typical of yellow dwarves) This is a proble...
