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I think it is totally plausible for there to be planets with a single kind of terrain. For this to happen, the whole surface of the planet must be at roughly the same temperature (unless you're tal...
Everything might be pitch black. Because there would be an infinite number of orbitals in each molecule (instead of discretized solutions to the Schrodinger equation (i.e. Hamiltonian) you would h...
Machines are not in a hurry, impatience is one of those inferior human traits the machines want to eliminate. Therefore it is not necessary to have humans give up their life; it's sufficient to jus...
The same way you convince humans to accept pretty much anything: panem et circenses. Give them a comfortable(ish) life; public safety; fun entertainment. Some elements of the former, preferably in...
Preamble Lets start from the beginning here. The Alcubierre drive is a result of general relativity. This has what's known as a metric. Minkowski spacetime (lets call this 'flat') has the metric ...
I would suggest a large flying predator with a straight, thin, sharp horn. For evolutionary support consider a swordfish or narwhal tusk. The predator is evolved for a sneak swooping attack from ...
To accurately answer your question, you might need to use a stellar evolution code, either doing your own modeling or looking up existing data tables. I'd recommend the MESA code for the former app...
Elon Musk to the Rescue If you asked this same question 10 years ago, I would be as pessimistic as many of the other answers. But this is 2020. The Falcon Heavy is in production. Starship is on the...
Background: So this Kurzgesagt video talks about quark stars, and how two of them colliding could send strangelets flying towards Earth or the Sun. Now it's been said that since, theoretically (as...
First of all, in no way do I have advanced knowledge of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or any other necessary scientific concept for a full understanding of this question. Secondly, this is p...
This isn't "my" site, so I don't really care what you do. Take this as an observation from a bystander. It seems to me you're trying to put a rather fine point on two broad classes of questions. ...
This appears to be a data error related to imported questions. The question was imported with four answers on 2020-05-04. On 2021-03-02, a script deleted zero-score answers from accounts that wer...
The Milky Way and Andromeda will collide a few billion years in the future. Stellar collisions will be rare because - as Douglas Adams put it - "Space is big. Really, really big." In the galactic d...
If the alternative economics is sufficiently well specified and can be at least somewhat scientifically analyzed, then I think this is OK without seeing the specific question. An easy pitfall woul...
Under "Making a Good First Impression", a few mechanical notes from someone just making the transition from WB.SE to Codidact - Question titles should probably be at the top of the page, inste...
A young B-type star (with a mass of about 10 M
The issues here are largely the same as with the Outdoors site, including the imported content. My answer to your question in Outdoors mostly applies. A few differences to note: The recent rash ...
There is no real issue here as far as I can tell. This was your comment: Fix that ridiculously long line that needs to be scrolled. You could write it as a list, for example. Currently, this post ...
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...
In this question I asked about the possibilities of what a boundary might be like, with emphasis on the storytelling. Now I'd like to investigate what a hard boundary would mean in quantum mechani...
I'm working on a computer program which generates realistic planets for worldbuilding purposes. I've run into an issue with calculating my planets heat loss. While radiogenic and tidal heat generat...
Given the existence of neon kittens with: the internal properties and mentality of normal kittens bioluminescent fur. What evolutionary process outside of intentional human breeding/gene manip...
In many science fictions we see planets which are designated by a particular terrain type. For example, Dagobah is a swamp planet, Tatooine is a desert planet, and Kamino is an ocean world. Howeve...
Dragons are a grand classic of fantasy. For this question, let's assume we're talking about the following stereotype: hatches from an ostrich-sized egg and can grow to mountain size if nothing l...
This question builds off Information Exchange In Space and How would interstellar internet work?, and specifically uses the communication system I developed here because of this. In a summary of t...
