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Q&A How might a group (with an electrical engineer) restore downed power lines post-apocalypse?

One of the issues with doing this is that righting the pole is not enough. They're likely working with 11kV or even 33kV lines (depending on the country, but it'll be in this ballpark), which are u...

posted 6y ago by Arkenstein XII‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arkenstein XII‭

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Q&A What requires more destructive energy? Destroying a planet or splitting a planet in half

So a bit of study has already gone into answering this question. To blow up a planet into tiny rubble Death star style, it would take 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy. The ent...

posted 6y ago by AndyD273‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by AndyD273‭

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Q&A Creating flying cities

My first bit of advice would be to drop the idea of magnets or anything magnetic as being the mechanism. To have it occur "naturally" would involve too many contortions of planetary mechanics and u...

posted 6y ago by motosubatsu‭

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Q&A What adaptations would make humans better climbers?

One of the best adaptations for climbing is simply length of arms and legs (arms may or may not be necessary depending on the type of climbing). For example, my daughter was a great climber when s...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Aliens performing successful medical procedure on humans at first contact?

DNA DNA may be a key. If they are DNA based and have sufficiently advanced technology, they may be able to use a single cell from a human to decipher their entire DNA structure and meaning, includ...

posted 6y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Aliens performing successful medical procedure on humans at first contact?

It only depends on alien intelligence and technology for scanning and examining the bodies. The human body (like any other animal's body) is a self-sustaining machine, the parts have functions, a...

posted 6y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Amadeus‭

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Q&A How can sharks be domesticated to become man's best friend?

I don't think real-life sharks have that level of intelligence. But maybe I'm wrong or we can just assume that the sharks in your world do. What do humans offer the sharks? Dogs became domestica...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Aliens performing successful medical procedure on humans at first contact?

If there are a few injured humans and we presume their injuries are different (they could be related, like everyone has a broken bone but in a different place) then the humans can help the aliens h...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Habitable zone around a Blue Supergiant

Ok, so using Rigel as an example: Rigel has a luminosity of 120,000 sols, so for a planet to receive the same insolation as the Earth does around the sun, it would orbit at a distance of 346.4 AU....

posted 6y ago by Arkenstein XII‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arkenstein XII‭

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Q&A Potential causes for generational deafness in space colony

First, I'll say that it would be a lot better to have your characters descend from or be raised by capital D Deaf people. This way you get an established Sign Language (which can morph like any la...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A How can an individual that consumes the biomass of others not experience any weight gain?

The host takes what it needs - except the essential element that the Symbiote needs a constant supply of. The Symbiote's alien biochemistry means the same things the host needs are sustaining - bu...

posted 6y ago by Mr Bumble‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mr Bumble‭

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Q&A What is the most plausible way to rule out string theory?

First, I agree with L.Dutch; so I am avoiding duplicating that answer! String Theory is already defeating itself; there have been two books written on the problems within it. Not Even Wrong (The F...

posted 6y ago by Amadeus‭

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Q&A How can you safely extend childbearing age if menopause isn't a factor?

Okay, your science is WAY off. 1) While it's true that women lose a fair number of eggs from their ovaries every month, well beyond the number of mature eggs that are released, your actual numbers...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Realistic geological and chemical composition of an edible planetary surface

Many soils are already edible. Clay. In fact, clay is harvested and purified as a nutritional supplement. It doesn't add nutrition but it is used in that manner...you can eat clay to help deto...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Is this map realistic/believeable?

It looks decent, though I agree with Blade that the mountains suddenly stopping side to side is odd. At most they should continue into the ocean to form either lowlands that aren't inhabitable, se...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Detecting objects around other stars

Transit simulation I simulated the transit of your spaceship in front of a Sun-like star. Besides the dimensions of your ship, I made the following assumptions: A roughly circular orbit, with se...

posted 6y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A In a single-continent world, what could cause hydrothermal vents?

You can have tectonic plates even on a water world, that is still "land" under there, you just have enough water to cover it all. In your case, any tectonic plates carrying enough land to break t...

posted 6y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Amadeus‭

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Q&A Can the Sun lose enough mass that Saturn's current velocity becomes escape velocity?

A naive first calculation The formulas for orbital velocity and escape velocity are $$v_o=\sqrt{\frac{GM}{r}},\quad v_e=\sqrt{\frac{2GM}{r}}$$ I get $v_o=9.6\text{ km/s}$ for Saturn. For this to e...

posted 6y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A How do you non-catastrophically reduce the mass of the Sun by half?

There are a number of ways a star can lose mass, and I think it's worth talking about them: A normal coronal mass ejection may contain $\sim10^{-18}M_{\odot}$, which is also extremely low. Eta Ca...

posted 6y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A How would anthropomorphic, but arm-less, snakes or eels hold things?

Could they have pouches on their torsos that allow them to carry things? These could be there via evolution, genetic engineering, surgery, or something less invasive. A mouth and/or a prehensile ...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Are there any plausible 'alternative' methods of planetary formation?

Gravitational instabilities There's actually a second idea for planet formation that's been around for some time (see Kuiper 1951). It requires the nebula hypothesis, like accretion, but it's a to...

posted 6y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A How can I ensure my Evil Tower is always stormy?

It may be a good year for Evil Overlords, but I want you to take a moment out of your busy day to consider the welfare of those whose lives (well, OK, "existences") are not going as well as yours. ...

posted 6y ago by BobJarvis‭

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Q&A Life on planets near quasars

AGN structure and emission Let's talk about the structure of an active galactic nucleus like a quasar, and the types of emission we see from it. The classic unified model of an AGN consists of a s...

posted 6y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A If I were to travel back in time to Medieval Europe, do I carry any diseases that they weren't immune to, and would I kill them accidentally?

The only modern contagious disease I can think of that wasn't around then is HIV. But you'd probably know if you had it, and it's not easily transmitted (unprotected sex, and not all kinds, and sh...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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Q&A Space vacuum food preservation

In the book The Martian, the main character accidentally freeze-dries his entire potato crop after an atmospheric breach. This is an author who did meticulous research. The potatoes were complete...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭

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