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In the near future mankind could well permanently settle on the Moon. Whether for research or mining or just good old fashioned novelty is irrelevant. The colony includes: Large domed structu...
I'm considering a story where an exploration is devised to explore a binary system containing a black hole; the choice is Cygnus X-1, with its companion supergiant star HDE 226868. It would likely ...
Horny and Hungry "You're like a father to me." "Yeah, I wish you were dead, too." "Thanks, Dad!" I have a world in my stories in which the inhabitants evolved from a race that practices s...
I am building a story where there is a rogue AI. However, that AI was under the governance of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction...
I'm looking for something that would prevent humans being able to establish the use of satellites on an alien planet, but also would not prevent humans from living on the planet, or life developing...
I'm considering a situation where, in a certain environment, there are two specially adapted (to the environment) animals, a predator and its prey. I'd like, for the purposes of a story, for both...
There is a village is going to be punished by a GOD so the snowy mountain around it will be melt in few days (All the snow will be melt in 1-2 day max). The mountain is about 3,000 meters high, cov...
The world will going to be the homeworld of an hairless feline humanoid race, but I want to see the plausibility of this scenario?
I have a story that requires travel through a wormhole. I know the basic requirement to go through a spherical wormhole would be that the object must be smaller than the wormhole diameter. Assume t...
I want to contrive a scenario in which 23rd century humanity faces a dire crisis due to an extraterrestrial von Neumann ecology that rapidly consumes Nitrogen as a part of its life cycle. So rapidl...
The first man on the moon was there on July 20th, 1969. After December of 1972, there has not been a person on the moon since. But, what if the missions to the moon had kept on going? By what time ...
From what I've seen, a floating habitat about 50 km above the surface of Venus is feasible--the atmosphere is dense enough that breathable air is a lifting gas, and that would be about the height f...
The organism is human-like in that it is intelligent, sentient, and has a humanoid figure. On its planet, the species has access to a massive source of organic energy unlike anything on Earth. Esse...
I am looking for a number of slow accumulative poisons say over a 6 month period that is detectable in autopsy and would slowly but surely kill the patient. The poison would be hopefully something ...
We have a fleet of sub-light speed generation ships and associated engineering devices/ships. Their original world can no longer support their species, and they must move to survive. The fleet of c...
I've been working on my story planet and have come up with an unlikely but possible scenario to help explain some of my stories origins as well as myths and folklore. Over the last day or so, I've ...
It doesn't have to be a rock, in fact it would probably be depleted uranium or even some crazy material like neutronium.
Since fire doesn't burn under water aquatic alien sophonts will use alternative technologies. The question is, which alternatives to fire can they use? I am interested in all aspects of fire, (hea...
In an effort to accurately map and predict earthquakes and tectonic plate movements, scientists wish to insert sensors through the earth's crust and into the upper mantle. Through some Excel wizar...
Okay so I just got off an episode of Gotham where this electrician villain dude uses shock therapy to reprogram people to do his bidding. Then I remembered that the brain operates on a sort ...
The way the Earth travels is dependent on the gravitational influence of matter that surrounds it. This question is of how/if we can prevent or reduce certain objects effects on Earths movements th...
I'm aware of hard radiations from space can wipe out life but I believe that would also causes the planet to be inhabitable for a period of time. Is there any other kind of energy that could destro...
The idea is that a species very similar, but not related to humans have evolved on a different planet and are living in a medieval society. Humans from Earth must be able to live on this planet wit...
One of the answers to What could make a star green? describes a living Dyson sphere made of photosynthetic, plant-like material. What type of star or star system is ideal for a plant-like Dyson sp...
Inspired by this question. Imagine a sea of liquid helium. Some people like to use submarines, but we've got a better plan. Jet-Skis. Impeller pumps are used in jet-skis and can also be used to ...
