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Q&A Chlorine Trifluoride-producing microorganisms

This isn't going to happen, for a number of reasons (all of which boil down to "It's dangerous, and these bacteria will kill their hosts"). Organic materials may "spontaneously ignite" when they ...

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

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Q&A Relative Super Powers

Greater endurance/stamina: A thicker atmosphere/higher oxygen levels Try a thicker atmosphere - or rather, a planet where the humans largely live at higher elevations. Altitude training is useful ...

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

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Q&A How would a building handle being submerged?

The building structure may do OK, but the devil is in the details Gary Walker gave a good comprehensive description of what will happen to the structural materials - wood, brick, steel, etc. But t...

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

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Q&A 5km artificial planet, with same gravity as on Earth

A first approximation Let's calculate surface gravity. Assuming an object of density $\rho$ and radius $R$, the surface gravity is $$g=\frac{4\pi}{3}G\rho R\tag{1}$$ For a white dwarf, $\rho\sim10...

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

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Q&A Can I trigger supernova artificially?

According to the current models, the possible reasons for a supernova are thermal runaway or core collapse. Thermal runaway is probably your best bet, and happens when the core of the star gets ho...

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

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Q&A What materials would be needed to build a homemade spaceship, in the apocalypse?

Don't build a rocket ship. Build a good ol' fashioned airplane. He doesn't need a rocket ship. While Elon Musk is saying BFR can be used for point-to-point travel on Earth, the resources needed to...

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

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Q&A Human Evolution if Dinosaurs never died off

Assuming that the dinosaurs survived, and somehow humans also evolved to what be what they are now, so dinosaurs exist alongside humans, humans would have hunted most of them to extinction, or at l...

posted 6y ago by AndyD273‭

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Q&A What software could I use to simulate my world's sky?

Astrosynthesis is a nice generator that could fit your needs. It's a paid-for program, but it also has a 14-day trial so you can see what it has. It lets you generate stars as well as show them on...

posted 6y ago by Andon‭

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Q&A Why might obesity be seen as attractive in their culture?

I actually believe there are real-world Earth cultures you can draw inspiration from here. So you want a culture where hard work is considered a virtue, but you also want that culture to see being...

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

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Q&A What are the effects of slicing the Earth in half with a particle beam?

Practical issues with the whole cut-a-planet-with-a-beam idea. Your fundamental problem is that if you dig the trench by sequential applications of a beam with shallow penetration the time scale i...

posted 6y ago by dmckee‭

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Q&A Trans-humans: neural chip implants and the Dunning-Kreuger effect

Pure Knowledge != Knowing What To Do With the Knowledge The effect will be in some ways better and in some ways worse, but it certainly won't go away. Knowledge of a domain is not the same as know...

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

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Q&A Could an advanced alien race prevent the death of the universe?

Going a bit more out there, say the aliens have discovered undeniable proof that the simulation theory is actually true. And they have figured out how to get access to some of the API from inside ...

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

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Q&A How could an alien mine exist under a planet's surface without humans detecting it from above?

An underground mine would remain undetected pretty much without any special precautions. Assuming they're not using heavy explosives, or anything like that, just drilling and excavating. The groun...

posted 6y ago by viila‭

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Q&A Music Dragonfly via Perforations in Wings

The holes could work similar to a hole tone whistle, which is the principle used for a whistling tea pot. The basic idea is that a stream of air is directed through one hole, and a short distanc...

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

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Q&A Could an advanced alien race prevent the death of the universe?

This is a very deep question and from a formal scientific basis we indeed do not have adequate information to formulate an answer. However the Hindu philosophy (and some others) instructs us that ...

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

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Q&A What mechanism can prevent super-healing heroes from accidentally budding?

There is exactly one important cell - the Core The Core is what coordinates the super-healing. Every other cell is unimportant and will simply die when cut off from a "normal" body. They can't rea...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A How to estimate a star's heliopause?

Deriving the radius The heliopause is a place of equilibrium, where the ram pressure from the solar wind is equal to the pressure of the interstellar medium (ISM). There are a number of sources of...

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

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Q&A How to create an annual celestial event for a world

One of the moons is the size of Earth's moon, and has a semi-major axis of around 413,277 km. This gives it 12 orbits a year. The moons orbit is such that it is full while it is in the constellatio...

posted 7y ago by AndyD273‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by AndyD273‭

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Q&A Why can an elf never become overweight?

Hyperthyroidism It is a pathological condition caused by over-activity of the thyroid gland. The symptoms include Weight loss, sometimes significant, may occur despite a good appetite. There is ...

posted 7y ago by _X_‭

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Q&A What are some factors that would induce random, but temporary, bouts of unconciousness?

Narcolepsy is a pathology that lists sudden events of muscle collapse, akin to fainting, or seizure attacks, among its symptoms. As far as we know today, it does not seem to be entirely due to exte...

posted 7y ago by _X_‭

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Q&A Could sweet and hot peppers come from the same plant?

This could serve as a defense mechanism. Fruits are designed so that there's plenty of sugar for the seed when it grows, which gives it a better chance at survival. Even when an animal eats the fru...

posted 7y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A How to keep my colonists primitive?

Absolutely nothing That is, more accurately, that nothing has stifled their progress, and their civilization is right where it naturally would be. Well, natrually other than the fact that they wer...

posted 7y ago by Andon‭

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Q&A Could modern sharks adapt to live in deep water?

Yes. There are sharks that live quite deep in the ocean; the goblin shark and frilled shark, for instance, have been known to live over 1,000 meters below sea level (Wikipedia claims great whites ...

posted 7y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A Drop capsule shape

Use a MOOSE Or, rather in this case, a COOSE, but that sounds less cool. MOOSE stands for Man Out Of Space Easiest. The general concept is a teadrop-shaped device, but it's inflatable. Deflated, ...

posted 7y ago by Andon‭

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Q&A How do I design the solar transit of a hot Jupiter?

Why are transits so rare? Essentially, you want a low relative orbital inclination. A body's orbital inclination is the angular difference between its orbital plane and a reference plane. In the ...

posted 7y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by HDE 226868‭

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