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A group of robbers in the Old West (of America) are planning a daring heist. They intend to rob a newly commissioned train on its maiden trip across the country. This train will have an upper-class...
Exhibit A: The apex predator of my world, one that can both fly and swim under water. This deadly monster employs 4 limbs - they act as wings in the air, and fins in the water. It hunts for gam...
I got pulled into 1885, just like Doc and Marty (Or I'm one of them, assuming I can get IP rights :)). I need to go back to the future, which means that I need to get my Ford Pinto time machine up ...
This is the follow-up question to How could an underwater civilization develop electricity?, as mentioned there. In that question, I never addressed how my civilization could have discovered/used ...
In analogy with a skydiver, a culture has developed an extreme sport called "tornado-surfing". Essentially, a thrillseeker hunts down supercells that might create tornadoes and lets themselves be s...
Over the last few months I have created a fictional character who is very rough and dominant. One of his specialities is to stare down rivals, and hide his own feelings. I wanted to give him a spe...
All of the launched human habitable space stations in orbit around Earth (such as the International Space Station, are very spindly and brittle as of current day. In a idea I'm contemplating that ...
In a magic setting, a stereotypical "cold fire" might be a deep blue color but otherwise look just like a normal fire, consuming some materials and radiating cold. In reality, this is not possible...
If projecting on the moon is realistically very hard to achieve for an individual or a group of people, how would you project films on the night sky? One instance I was thinking was flying four dro...
So in many a fantasy world mountains, or in some cases a particular mountain that play an important role in the story. Maybe it's the seat of the gods or hosts a hidden Shangri La, you get the i...
I actually have a couple of questions here. My dragon is very small, just about 3 meters long from beak to tailtip, 20 kilograms, with a 5 meter wingspan. A bit like a velociraptor-sized Rahonavis...
What is the best dinosaur to have as a pet, if the goal is to have it do tricks? It all started as a joke among us, the idle children of the technocratic class that effectively, in all but name, t...
One of the main problems with creatures that they have tentacles instead of manipulating paws or hands. This isn't a big problem for developing sapience, but it is a problem for entering the realm ...
This question has some close votes but has been edited/clarified, and has attracted more comments and discussion over the possible answers, and the geometry has overshadowed the actual question bei...
My premise is that a bay-like body of water empties into a sea via a waterfall. Specifications: The sea is roughly the size and shape of the Mediterranean. The tributary body of water is around 2...
In my world human(oid)s are not born anymore, they are grown in pods which mirror the conditions of a natural womb. Children are educated before birth and are "born" as fully mature adults with a ...
Is there any way to make a planet with a corkscrew orbit (like this) that could host a sci-fi civilisation? It'd be amazing if there was a way to make life arise naturally, but colonize-able works...
In my answer to my own question, Physical laws for a matter-filled universe, I detail the gross physical laws that would shape my four-spatial-dimensional matter filled universe. Given a slowly ex...
I'm working on a planet that has very similar conditions to earth. Now, I had the idea of animals having four (or even more) lungs. Would that be possible (I imagine there must be a possibility to ...
In our universe, the energy of the sun generates heat and light. This helps keep the earth warm enough for life and drives much of the earth's climate. Warmth slowly bleeds off into the coldness of...
The Hecatoncheires was the collective name given to three monsters; (Briareus, Cottus and Gyges) who were the children of Gaia and Uranus. They were not only known for their frightful enormity, b...
I have a group of settlers that live on top of an animal, and I want his skin to be their mode of communication. In the morning, information is transmitted through chromataphores in the skin changi...
I am working on a world and I have run into a minor roadblock. The world is altered such that one of its polar regions is constantly facing the sun and the other is always facing away. I figure tha...
What kind of phenomenon do we need to achieve that kind of destructibility. If possible not a chemical based lasers but i'll welcome all of the answers
A world I am developing requires that only approximately one quadrasphere or quadrant (1/2 a hemisphere) of the planet be occupied. I would like the north and south extremes to be outside anything...
