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Q&A How can a terrorist cult genetically engineer human bombs?

A nihilistic organization founded by a preacher, Solf J. Kimblee, has reasoned that human beings have fallen short of God's true purpose. Since the betrayal by Adam and Eve, all people are born wit...

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

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Q&A How to design an organic heat-shield?

When they started dropping from the skies.. or no, they landed. They were so similar to us, yet so different. Like nothing we would've ever designed or created - but so much like everything Ey...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by dot_Sp0T‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by dot_Sp0T‭

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Q&A Anatomically correct Triceraton

The Triceratons are a imperialistic race of, well, space triceratops' from TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). From what I can gather they breathe nitrogen and judging by their build come from a h...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭

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Q&A Optimal proportions for flying humans?

There exist humans on a world with 35% the gravity of Earth and air five times denser. These people have invented wingsuits with extensions that go past their arms and enable them to fly by flappin...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by 299 Neandertal Variants ‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by 299 Neandertal Variants ‭

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Q&A How can an evil spirit take control of a human body during REM sleep?

I have a friend who is a really nice guy. The problem is that he was born as a half demon. While he looks completely normal, he possesses a spirit inside him called "Amon". This being forces him to...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Incognito‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Incognito‭

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Q&A Can you create a living vehicle fueled by organic material?

In this world, the vehicles are effectively re-engineered insects; enlarged bio-manufactured nervous systems used instead of engines; factory grown lightweight chassis / [wheels]. The fuel station ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Aloysius Anise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Aloysius Anise‭

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Q&A Artificially make people incapable of singing at all (even poorly), but still capable of speaking?

Magic has recently become possible in my story, and singing is the mechanism by which humans use magic. A totalitarian regime wants citizens who can speak, but not sing in any way, even poorly. (Th...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by 007th Bondsmith‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by 007th Bondsmith‭

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Q&A How could it rain oil?

It's 2019 in an alternate steampunk/dieselpunk universe. Population growth, dwindling resources, and the evil overlords have everyone cramped into big cities, toiling away in the hope of something ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by K. Price‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by K. Price‭

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Q&A Can a human born & raised in zero gee survive on a earth like planet for a short while

I've been toying with an idea of a epic space fantasy where a certain area of the milky way is controlled by decedents of humanity that are born, live & die in spaceships, said "ngees" as the "...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by cypher‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by cypher‭

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Q&A Propulsion Systems

In my world, 500 years in the future, my population fits anti-gravity engines to salvaged boats as a form of transport. These transports fly close to the Earth's surface and are powered by a highly...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Lucas A.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Lucas A.‭

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Q&A Are these climate zones somewhat realistic?

I have been slowly losing my mind trying to build a somewhat realistic climate map for a fantasy world I'm building for my book. A geographer I am not... I modeled the climate zones and such after ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Nora R‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Nora R‭

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Q&A What would Define Ecosystems in a "Frozen Moon with Ocean" World

What factors would influence ecosystem development in an ocean on an ice world? It is thought that several moons in our solar system (e.g. Europa) may have significant oceans under their icy crust...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by codeMonkey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by codeMonkey‭

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Q&A Geological Explanation for an Unusually Temperate Northern Mountain Valley

So I'm working on a home-brew D&D setting and I have this idea for the my campaign to take place in a large isolated Valley completely surrounded by mountains. I also had the idea to have these...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Beninja2‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Beninja2‭

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Q&A Could just a brilliant idea advance science by decades, or even centuries?

Inspired by this story, I started thinking. Let's say we have a person, from the modern day, who miraculously gets a superpower: He can rewind time, but retain his own memories. He can rewind all ...

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

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Q&A How could my hard telekinesis work?

So, in my setting, telekinesis is divided into two sub-fields: Soft telekinesis allows for precise manipulation of objects but doesn't pack a punch. Newton's third law is negligible for this type...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A Orbital Resonance & Tidal Locking

I'm building a habitable world tidally locked to a red dwarf star. In order to affect a tide and other weather patterns I was going to have another planet closer to the star that has an orbital res...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by CatoRockwell‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by CatoRockwell‭

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Q&A Feasibility of large and isolated swamp-like enviroment

For my world I would need a really large swamp (or similar kind of wetland). It should be about 200km in diameter, which should be quite possible given a large enough flat terrain and enough rain. ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Nicholas Mazzer‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Nicholas Mazzer‭

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Q&A Weather and climate during the next Ice Age

I have a short story series, it is set thousands of years in the future during the next ice age. Humanity and their governments reside along the equator and in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. B...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Nathan Hopp‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Nathan Hopp‭

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Q&A Will food logistics limit the population of a civilization of obligate carnivores with modern technology?

I'm imagining a world populated with a species of intelligent, social, and "modern" (in terms of technology) humanoids. For the purposes of this question, they and their world can be near identica...

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

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Q&A Increasing potential energy with ability thought experiment

While recently reading a physics textbook and thinking about magic systems, I tried to perform a thought experiment I had problems with concluding, so I thought of asking for help. Here I explain t...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Netsrym‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Netsrym‭

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Q&A How would you build a realistic Le Palm D'Orbit?

I was watching futurama yesterday and the Le Palm D'Orbit struck me as a fun concept. How would you go about building a orbital restaurant like the Le Palm? What kinda shape would allow the space n...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭

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Q&A What's the minimum time that it would take for an advanced species to create an ecumenopolis?

In figuring out the rough timeline for my sci-fi, I've run into an interesting dilemma. As it stands right now, There are about 90 years in between one of my civilizations discovering space travel ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by greenmaster‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by greenmaster‭

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Q&A Is there any advantage to have A.I. being able to experience loneliness?

Let get this straight being lonely is different from solitude, human is arguably one of the most successful animals ever to walk on two. The secret lies in social interaction, the early humans hunt...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A What technology could cause a global black out?

In 2051 a Neo-Luddite movement known as "Amos"/"The Adherents of Amos" detonated some sort of weapon in LEO (low earth orbit) causing a global black out shutting down technology and to a extent mod...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭

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Q&A Can you critique my sea temp map and answer a couple of specific questions?

I'm working on yet another iteration of a world map project. I'd like to ask for some opinions on the sea temperature map I've done: I also have a few specific questions about some areas on the...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by EojjN‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by EojjN‭