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Q&A Anatomically Correct Nanaue

The Nanaue (there is no wiki link) is a Hawaiian creature of myth. It is a shark with arms and legs. It can live in both the ocean and on the land. So how do I create the monstrosity that is, the l...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A How to explain a mermaid's tail morphing into legs and vice versa?

I know a tadpole can do this transformation, given enough time, so what about mermaids?

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Werewolves

Could werewolves exist in a realistic world? All that is required for an accepted answer is the ability to change shape over night. Bonus points will be awarded if you can explain a bite spreading...

11 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Earth where all of Equidae went extinct via Ice Age... - Effects

Assuming that all Equidae went extinct at around the same time as the American Equidae on OTL (Original TimeLine) Earth, 8000 BCE, and in the same way, via Ice Age... What would have changed for ea...

3 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Malady‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Khajiit

Behold the Khajiit; Born from the insanely popular game series, Elder Scrolls, the Khajiit are a race of cat people who live in hot jungles. From the moment I saw this race, I fell in love with ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Minotaur

We all know what the minotaur is and what it looks like, a buff man with the head and tail of a bull. But could this creature evolve? Could it even exist? If a Minotaur could exist, what environmen...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Anatomically correct Arachne

In the fantasy culture it's not uncommon to find Giant spiders with the upper body of a human. There are many variants as the spider body having only 4 legs and the upper human body have 2 additio...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Charon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Charon‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Cerberus

Cerberus was a three headed dog, commonly depicted with a collar and tail of snakes. Such an organism is quite difficult to justify, but how can such a creature appear that way? Is there a realist...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Anatomically correct Ent

The tree small giant creatures resembling people usually with beards are present in many fantasy stories, but that's it... it is fantasy. From a scientific viewpoint how would such creature even ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Charon‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Charon‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Murlocs

So Murlocs. I'm referencing Murlocs from World of Warcraft since I never actually found any other novels or games that have them. Described as a bipedal, amphibious, intelligent, aggressive[Still ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Skye‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Skye‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Graboid

From the movie Tremors, behold the graboid: These are vicious, SUV to bus sized sandworms that have acquired a taste for human flesh. They are known to "swim" through the earth really fast too. ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Renan‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Renan‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct King Kong

In the media myth of King Kong, there exists a gorilla; 50 feet tall. The largest great apes ever to exist were Gigantopithecus Blacki which, stood up to 9.8 ft, and weighed up to 1,190 lb. While t...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A How to survive and become self-sufficient in the nature?

Brad and his family are tired of society and the concept of money. They want to live a primitive lifestyle. They need a strong, comfortable and cheap refuge that will protect them from the elements...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Seraph Myrmidon‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Canina‭

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Meta Shouldnt this question be moved instead of closed ?

I'm a little disappointed that How can Single Vision lenses slow myopia for adults too? was deemed off topic. Can anyone explain to me why? It is indeed science speculation, it should be on rigoro...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How Could Golf Change in a Low-Gravity Environment?

Most likely golf's influence is going to be narrow, and possibly contained in one planet where it is part of their culture. If that one planet where golf is a culture manages to colonize the other...

posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 1y ago by deleted user

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Meta Should we remove "What would X sport in space look like ?" questions

Do posts like (What would X Sport look like in space?) belong in this community? It has nothing to do with science, some physics at best, and even then, only to a certain degree.

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A Digging Depressions in seafloor to create artificial islands in nearby areas

Should digging Depressions in seafloor to create artificial islands in nearby areas be sustainable And by the way, was it widely done somewhere in this planet already?

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Pastychomper‭

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Q&A A hair product which is both a lipid ointment and a gel

Nivea have developed a hair product which I personally found very special among this filled-with-generic-stuff market of products, which is named in German "Creme-Gel": I find Nivea's Creme-Gel sp...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A What are Some House Games for Free Fall? [closed]

Living in space can be boring. What are some good home games for people living and working in free fall? I thought of a few - Bocce : in this variant the size of the jack and the player balls i...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  closed 2y ago by Canina‭

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Meta Is this the right name for the site?

I don't think Science has anything to do with 90% of the question asked in World Building, simply because most of them ignore key aspect of science. That said, I think the name should be "Speculat...

posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Meta How can we grow this community response

I do agree, a pool would be an easy and simple way to determine a new name, that everyone agrees with. Why is there even Science in the name ? It's World Building not Physics xD

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Rigorous Science What would one experience travelling through an invisible Krasnikov tube, and how much could they be used to cut travel times?

What would one experience travelling through an invisible Krasnikov tube? A flat piece of paper doesn't quite lie flat, and the walls on your ship are under considerable stress (unless the ship's...

posted 5y ago by wizzwizz4‭

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Q&A "Life post-Singularity", or "How to survive without Instagram"

The Story The year is 2027, singularity happened. A powerful AI (let's call it Eve) was created. In a matter of days, it escaped the control of its creators and hacked all the computers of the wor...

14 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Babika Babaka‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by wizzwizz4‭

Question society computers artificial-intelligence near-future singularity
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Meta How can we grow this community response

It's no good sharing that opinion here, they started by trying to make this community all about speculation on science, then added World Building and everything got confusing, I don't know whether ...

posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Meta Should we remove "What would X sport in space look like ?" questions

I've refrained from vote for the following reason, science is too broad for ANYTHING to be out of scope, Physics is science, biology is science, rocks are science, food is science, everything is sc...

posted 1y ago by deleted user

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