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Make them sweaty. Bit of background: SpaceX is redesigning their Starship Super Heavy (aka BFR) to be made from stainless steel, and plan to have it sweat as a heat shield. The basic concept is th...
With sufficient effort, this could be done. It would require the manual alteration of the orbit of each asteroid. Bear in mind that the total mass of the asteroid belt is around 4% that of the moo...
Not with light pressure. You need 300 megawatts of radiation flux for each Newton of force on the object (equivalent to the force exerted by a ~100 gram weight). However, you can use microwaves as...
One major advantage that octopodes have in colonising the land, is that they can already make short stints out of the water without any specialised equipment. This is very much not true of humans i...
Schmell gets the snow. Man, does it get the snow. You think it snows where you live? You should see the snow in Schmell! To walk around on all the deep, white, frozen precipitation, it helps to...
Real World (TM) sea turtles might not have teeth, but they do have esophageal papillae that are quite gruesome to look at, but help the turtle snare and consume jelly fish. These hard, spiky proj...
The biggest impediment to metalworking without fire is getting the metal to forging temperature. Even the easiest to work metals, such as lead and tin, require temperatures around 300 C and 200 C ...
The surface of the moon is covered in an exotic lifeform with an exceedingly rapid lifecycle. Colonies of this lifeform grow to cover large portions of the lunar surface in as little as 12 hours, c...
Get a lockbox. These things are sturdy and not something you could break open with a hammer. You have better tech than modern-day Earth though, so you can use even stronger materials. Somethin...
Sorry to be a bit of a spoil-sport, but... Moore's law doesn't apply. Moore's law is the recognition that semiconductor complexity (in integrated circuits) increases at a particular rate. The ve...
Water cannot remain fluid at the pressures of a terrestrial planet's core. However, it doesn't need to for your setting to be viable. The planet's crust could simply possess large, deep aquifers th...
One possible solution, is that your species have abandoned sexual reproduction entirely in favour of reproducing clonally. They are all derived from a database of genomes that were at some point in...
All the Eldar have personal immortality and a stake in the shared consciousness of the Eldar species. Their population is maintained at a stable and optimal level according to their science and the...
Earth-like Desert planets are entirely feasible. In fact, models have suggested that such a planet could enjoy a habitable zone that extends much closer to its host star than a more aqueous one cou...
How to create a sunny atmosphere without an actual sun? Marianas Trench. What you have is one continent sized sheet of the Earth's crust being forced under extreme pressure beneath another in...
Could a gorse bush provide for food? Yes, they can not only provide food, they can provide for food. But not just that, they have the potential to support a whole culture in many ways: The T...
I would make it part of the cochlea. Either as a separate organ or as an enhancement of the cochlea. The nerves, ducts, and other parts of the cochlea are very small and delicate and you wouldn...
Probably not all in one go, but along the way why not have some fun, save your job and give the Emperor something to smile about. Say you have a sixteen space tugs to work for you - first thing fi...
What is the minimum and maximum distance for a planet to be in the habitable zone of an average sized (not biggest, not smallest) Red Dwarf star? Flattening out all sudden magnetic and lum...
Nearby Supernova. Dr. Mark Reid, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics stated: "¦ were a supernova to go off within about 30 light-years of us, that would le...
What you have described is a chemical battery and a thermo-electric heat pump all neatley packaged as a sponge. Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in So...
Note: The OP clarified the question in such a way that completely changes my answer. I am leaving my original answer below for reference, as it works well for a similar creature that doesn't have ...
AtmospheriPrisonEscape's answer in this thread gives us the equations needed to calculate velocity at any particular orbital height: Any small mass $m$ orbiting a large mass $M$ has its centrif...
So you want a less eroded version of the Appalachian Mountains? If rain (and humidity) come from the ocean, mountains will not stop areas between the ocean and the mountains from getting that rain...
Your Dragons communicate largely using infrasound as a means to transmit across long distances. Similarly to Elephants, Hippopotamuses, Rhinoceroses, and even Alligators, these organisms find util...
