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Hi, I'm new here. Well, new here specifically. I joined SE almost 9 years ago. I would rather hang out here than SE because the QPixel license is AGPLv3 and it seems we are in the process of for...
Interesting question, Sleipnir approves. The short answer is, it sort of depends on your creature's body design. From the reading it sounds like you are describing something that would function s...
Given the example of the development of the scorpion, it started out as a segmented worm with a pair of legs/swimming paddles per segment. These legs later developed into a variety of appendages, ...
There's at least one paper suggesting the reason for four limbs is because of the way embryos develop. Basically, an embryo's cells develop early on into three layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endo...
I would say yes. There's already a real-world element that does at least the first three and its name is uranium. Naturally occurring in the universe, rare though. Yep. In fact it's one of ...
When we did the initial import from Worldbuilding SE, we also inherited the tag set from there. This leaves us with some tags which are (should be) redundant on Scientific Speculation. I primarily ...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
An average human masses 60Kg. The largest bird ever to fly, Argentavis, massed about that much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentavis So it seems reasonable that flying creatures the same weig...
Would it be possible for multiple types of "cancer" cells (or at least host foreign animal cells) to work in unison to create new structures? Normal cancer, inasmuch as there is such a thing, ...
I have some interest with this site, but if I want to ask something, I'll need to properly figure out if it's suitable to post it in SciSpec CD. Considering that this site is different from a site...
If ... Keratin ... can make human hair straighter, is it biologically sensical ... that ... Keratin supplements ... could make ... hair straighter? No. Hair is already made of keratin. People wi...
There are multilevel automated food plant farms in existence that are artificially illuminated. Sure they may use skylights but they have many times the growing area so the plants are not getting ...
How loud is this waterfall, and what extent of deafness are we talking about? Assuming some similarity to human hearing a prolonged or repeated exposure to volume over 85dB can cause hearing loss: ...
This is probably impossible, but your question leaves off necessary detail to know for sure. If the point is to be able to glide for "a few minutes" after jumping off something tall, then we need ...
I've fixed the most obvious failures in SQL. Beyond that... the posts are now UTF8, so fixing the encoding retroactively is difficult if not impossible - if there are other common bugs please let m...
For those who don't know: while this site was being proposed, I raised some issues about not importing questions with the [magic] tag. After some discussion, I feel like we reached a consensus that...
Two months ago the question was asked: Do we want to keep the [science-based] and [reality-check] tags?. A month ago the same user asked: Are there tags we should remove from all questions...
For the sake of a fictional story, you should be thoroughly aware that the author is playing as a god. The laws are what you want them to be, and what you say happens is what happens. I am not awa...
"How would" has no answer The question "How would wrestling change" is unanswerable. There are many different ways in which a sport could change in a new environment. As with most sports, "wrestl...
Neopanamax beam is just under 52m, with a height of just under 60m. Let's give it about 50% margins on each side, and that give you 100m between bridge supports. A suspension bridge with a 100m spa...
You ask about fluids, but have already shown that this works in air or some gasses. If you are asking specifically about liquids (a subset of fluids), then use the right liquids. You need somethi...
Express mtDNA-specific cytidine deaminase in oocyte mitochondria. Mitochondria are cellular organelles which, among other things, convert hydrocarbons like glucose into fuel that the cell can use,...
In most quantum field theories$^{\dagger}$, we have a quantity called the Lagrangian, from which we can derive information about the behavior of our system. It consists of a number of terms represe...
What you are asking for is unrealistic. 3000 kg is huge. That's over four times the mass of a typical rhinoceros, for example. Being really large like that lets it bully its way to some other ani...
Yes. By restricting the directions it can travel in, you can create an Alcubierre drive that can't be used as a time machine to create paradoxes. The simplest way to do this is to pick a single fra...
