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How would wormholes and teleportation affect the passage of time? Time is not a constant, Albert Einstein proved that much. Time dilation is a difference in the elapsed time measured by two clocks, either due to them having a velocity relative to each other, or by there being a gravitational potential difference between their locations. In the vast universe we can ... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Could a creature carry its own biome and be self-sustaining? Could a creature carry its own ecosystem around with it? What traits would it need to make this viable? These self-sufficient creatures are native to planet which is for the most part frozen and covered with snow with a thin atmosphere that allows a lot of radiation through. These conditions don't ... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Would a biological interface be of any use in a computer? Would a computer using biological components as an interface be any good? Would that protect it against hacking? Or provide more complex processing? The way I'm going with this is that computers are at risk of getting hacked when they connect to the network. However as I understand biological compu... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Could an organism formed from a tumor be viable? What properties and side effects would an organism have if it were formed entirely from cancerous cells? Scientists collected a sample of a tumor from a patient for studies. Once cultivated the cells roughly resembled and embryo. For further studies they decided to grow them in a bioreactor to see t... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Neodymium magnets as nanoparticles bonded with atmospheric amide to create a magnetic 'air curtain'? Amide bonds are extremely stable and their half-life for hydrolysis in neutral aqueous solution is estimated to be seven years. Amides bind to metal ions through the carbonyl oxygen. Neodymium Magnets Are a type of rare-earth magnet comprised of an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron. They were devi... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How could a human society survive in areas with average annual temperatures below -30°C? I ask this question because in my fictional world, I want to create extremely cold, populated areas, especially in Northernmost areas, but I noticed that in our real world, regions with less than -30°C average temperature by year are usually uninhabited. But in my fictional world, I would want to ma... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Modified stem cells as a resuscitation serum after death by cyanide poisoning? In large doses, the body's ability to change cyanide into thiocyanate is overwhelmed. Large doses of cyanide prevent cells from using oxygen and eventually these cells die. The heart, respiratory system and central nervous system are most susceptible to cyanide poisoning. With that stated, I plan on... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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What would the flora and fauna be like on a planet with the most competition? The most violent planet My setting has a lush rainforest planet, which houses some of the most feared animals in the galaxy. The abundance of food would make competition tougher and tougher over millions of years of adaptation. What kind of creatures could survive in such unforgiving conditions? Are there any survival tacti... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Adaptations for an ice planet? My planet is a frozen world. Roughly the size of earth and in a perpetual ice age. The planet has very cold temperatures at night and during the day its surface becomes very bright. The intense solar radiation means that every night its beautiful landscape is illuminated by auroras. There is some ge... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Iron-age tools, is there a way to extract heavy metals out of a creature? Assume a location which is heavily polluted with dust of several types of elemental metals (copper, silver, nickel, cobalt etc) or their respective oxides and salts (whatever is stable in humidity and air). It's in the water, in the dirt, basically everywhere. All organisms consume it with their food... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Adapting to a sonic world A planet much like Earth orbits a star much like the Sun, but with one difference: the energy from the star is magically transformed into sound within the planet's atmosphere. There is no longer starlight, only starsound. Every point on the planet is still bathed with an equivalent amount of energy, ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Is it realistic to have a livable planet with a quarter the size of Earth, but with the same gravity? So in theory, I would want this planet to have the same everything as earth besides the radius (and anything that affects how radius plays into gravity). I know the density of this Planet X would have to be quite high based on some quick number crunches. But I'm not sure how realistic this would be. ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How many people would you need to pull a whale over cobblestone streets? A whale, lets say a humpback (40 tons) has to be pulled about 250 m from the port to the town square. The road is classic cobblestone. People put hooks into the whale meat with ropes attached and pull, dragging the whale body. How many would I need? I calculated the rough number of people to lift 1... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Why is transplanting a specific intact brain impossible if it is generally possible? In the near future Science Fiction novel I am writing, the personality and memory of a person are transferred to an artificial brain after a fatal accident, creating an artificial intelligence with the personality and memories of an actual person. Reading out the personality and memories of a perso... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Deadly virus going extinct - "grey goo" a solution? With the evolving global warming and thawing of permafrost, an ancient deadly virus begins to spread from Siberia across Eurasia, affecting domestic animals first and mutating quickly onto the rest of the fauna. First symptoms were found in people too and with insects like bees nearing to extinction,... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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If a planet has 3 moons, is it possible to have triple Full/New Moons at once? In the story I created, the Kingdom of Oneirou has 3 Moons--Artemis, Rahu, and Zorya--all of which have their own independent lunar cycles. However, it's officially stated as early as Chapter 2 or 3 that, once a year [each], all 3 Moons' phases are synchronized to Full Moon and New Moon. Let's say,... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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What items from the Roman-age tech-level could be used to deter all creatures from entering a small area? Please assume the following: There is a item on the ground and I want nothing but bare earth touching it. I cannot move the item myself. The item is impervious to fire. I cannot afford to guard the place 24/7. But I can come back from time to time (maybe even daily) to check. EDIT: Dimensions: T... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Can a planet's rings be so thick that someone inside them can't see out? For a SF story I'm wondering how thick a planet's rings can be? When viewed from the inside, can the ring material be so dense that visibility would only be a couple of meters? What would it take to form a ring this thick, moon collisions, etc? (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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How would shapeshifters be affected by their abilities? So I have a race of shapeshifters in my world, and in order to change shape or make adjustments to their body (grow wings, arms, tails etc.) They rearrange the atoms in their body, probably through magical means. Greater changes require more energy to move the atoms around, and can also be rather pa... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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How long would it take people to realise some rabbits are sapient? Set in modern day, a small warren of rabbits randomly achieve sapience in an unremarkable, rural countryside. These rabbits become capable of thinking and self-reflection, as well as advanced teamworking and organisation. They could use tools, but its difficult to craft or hold anything with paws. Ot... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Let's float an island on an astrophysical jet An astrophysical jet is a stream of particles emitted by matter falling into an supermassive star/black hole, travelling at up to 80% the speed of light. A troll with a portal gun (which places portals instantly) wants to have his house floating above the ground (with his garden) just by using a sm... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Dragon shapeshifting and memory mechanism Dragons are biologically immortal creatures that have evolved the most versatile sexual reproduction in existence, they can morph through a cocoon into any other species from the animal kingdom that posses a brain in order to reproduce with other species and spread their genes globally. A dragon mor... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Rock crushing hands, how to make it possible? A species of humanoid creatures with a strange skull structure and huge horns has somehow immense strength in their hands. The rest of their body seems to be strong in proportion to their weight and height, just like normal people, but their hands are strong enough to crush rocks. Yet their hands are... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Can mountains ever transition abruptly to plains? I'm trying to write a story where the main characters discover the wreckage of a spaceship in the fields that border their town to the west. To the east, there's the end of a large mountain range. Basically, the town's built into the side of the mountain. Does a mountain range have to be preceeded b... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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What is the most pratical/feasible method to replace the human digestion apparatus? Objective: Replace the human digestion apparatus (stomach, guts etc) From my basic understanding the human body needs food, because it needs ATP (energy unit, some kind of sugar(?)) or you could say high enough (but not too high) blood sugar at most points in time, correct? Assume you have sufficen... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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What is the minimum size for the Sun? How small could our Sun be and still "burn" with nuclear fusion and emit the same spectrum of light and other radiation as the real Sun does? Edit: The goal is to have a small sun inside a huge vessel, such as an O'Neill cylinder. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Dimensions of an O'Neill cylinder with gravity and coriolis force like surface of Earth What would be the diameter and rotational speed of an O'Neill cylinder on the inside surface of which centrifugal and coriolis forces are equal to "gravity" and coriolis force on the surface of Earth at sea level? Notes: "Gravity on Earth" (in quotation marks) here means the sum of gravitation and... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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How can spacecraft manufactured on the moon be powered? Background: The moon has been selected as the base for human space exploration. Rather than ship tonnes of material out of earth's gravity well, interplanetary spacecraft and space stations will be manufactured on the surface of the moon and launched from there. A level of industrial capacity allowi... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Logistics: How to move humanity onto a spaceship that is being built from planet Earth? Humanity builds a spaceship to leave Earth. For eight billion people or so, that vessel has to be gigantic. Using the metal from Earth's core for the construction and the biosphere to create a habitat, building the spaceship more or less uses up all of planet Earth. But how do you get all the people... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Make slimes great again, but how? Slimes are seen as merely base-level enemies which don't really challenge the heroic main character, the Chosen One. My question is how to make slimes incredibly powerful without using magic. They must be able to defend themselves from knights as well as easily killing most foes, even a tiger. Wh... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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How would aliens test humans for empathy? 500,000 people have been kidnapped from all over the world by aliens. The aliens want to see if humans have empathy, and they can't understand our languages, as we speak they hear just random noises coming out of our mouths. Scientifically speaking what is the most effective way for aliens to meas... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Arms without wrists The human hand can be flexed at the wrist, extended and even abducted or adducted while the forearm can also be twisted in supination or pronation giving the illusion of the wrist twisting. All of these movements are necessary for all basic human functions. But what if the there was not such thing... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Giant shoulders Many fictional characters,specially in the anime art have shoulders bigger than any other upper body muscle. Normally the obliques,chest and latissimus dorsi are the biggest muscles in the upper body but in anime the shoulders are actually bigger than the head. These are the proportions I'm talkin... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Climbing up on running water I remember playing this game back in 2010-2011, and In minecraft if you found a waterfall you could actually swim it up vertically, it was difficult but possible. Does this apply to real life to, could a human being with muscles big enough actually swim up on falling water? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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History without resource driven wars Usually when a population overgrows it expands in search of new land and if the fields are virgin and empty they become farmland and cities, but if the fields are already occupied and the resources are already being used, then the overgrown population usually prefers engaging war in an effort take ov... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Burning Down Chicago The year is 2100. Internet 3.0 has arrived, with an ubiquitous Internet of Things. Even your wedding band has a fingerprint scanner to make sure it doesn't get stolen. An evil AI has been developed and is determined to kill everyone; however, people are still active enough that it can't make any prep... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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My protagonist can see UV light. What will she be able to see that others can't? So in my world interdimensional travel produces UV light. However, there are obviously other things which produce UV light/reflect it and look different. Being a non-physics person, can someone explain what looks particularly different when viewed with UV light? Some ideas I have are that the night ... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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How much time would humanity have to cure complete male infertility? And what is the risk-minimizing strategy? Imagine that all men in the world became infertile right now. (This would apply also to all new born boys for as long as no cure was found.) How much time would humanity have to find a cure (or lift the curse, if the reason is magical)? Think of using already existing frozen embryos (no new ones cou... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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How would I gain energy from a rotating planet? A rotating object, especially something as large as a planet or a star, has kinetic energy. However, my question is how would you go about harvesting the energy the object has from rotation to go towards other purposes such as powering several thousand space stations? I'm making a hard science fictio... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Justifying why a troll's skin would turn to stone in sunlight It's a fairly common legend that trolls turn to stone when exposed to daylight, and I was thinking about using such a creature in a story. I'm searching for a plausible way of justifying such a weakness - there's nothing similar existing in nature that I know about. For background; I'm visualising t... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Would an explosion or energy discharge permeate to other spatial dimensions? Let's assume there are more than 3 spatial dimension, for example 4 (the 4th not beeing time, but spatial) Would a common energy discharge, explosion etc. affect the 4th dimension? I am not sure if the answer would be speculation, since the 4th spatial dimension is theory right now, or is it? Ther... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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How do I calculate the amount of sunlight a planet gets? I'm working on a planet and I want to know what is the maximum amount of sunlight my planet gets in lux (for Earth It's 120000 lux). My planet orbits an M4V class red dwarf that has a mass of 0.22 M☉, radius of 0.16 R☉ and a temperature of 3000 K. The planet's semi-major axis is 2.3 AU. Please... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Could a humanoid species, very similar to humans, evolve arthropod eyes? If so, how would that affect them? Specifically, arthropod eyes that are neatly in their respective sockets, much like the human eyes. Could that work? (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Kidnapping Fire-Slugs I have a slug that I need to kidnap. Not an ordinary garden slug; this slug is special. This slug's slime is violently reactive with the atmosphere on my planet, and explodes into flame on contact with the air. The slug breathes oxygen, but doesn't need very much (or else it would suffocate). It also... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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How might an economy in which multiple planets are involved function? I created the above illustration to help convey my meaning, here is what everything means so that you can read it effectively: E = Earth V = Venus M = Mars The dots in the lower left hand corner represent the asteroid belt. The small circles close to the circles with letters in them are meant t... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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What is the highest and lowest comfortable average temperature on a planet? I want to write about a planet that has a high average temperature, but low enough to be comfortable. Just because of curiosity, I would also like to know the lowest comfortable. Additional Info: Comfortable in my sense means survivable for a long period or indefinitely without much protection/in... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Is there anyway life could survive a nuclear apocalypse realistically? The only such media I've seen is Fallout, which is obviously highly fantastical. I mean, they mutant animals and irradiated zombies running around! But realistically, is there anyway that life could survive in a highly irradiated world? Humans could possibly survive in shelters. Most surface life ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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How to make changes to a human person's DNA actually be expressed in the individual's phenotype A flaw very often pointed out in your run of the mill genetic terror story is the instant effect of genetic changes. What would it take for a specific change in the specimen to actually appear (near) instantly? Example: I (well not really me, you know right) want to engineer a human individual t... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Stationary trinary system I am creating a world in which a civilization has achieved advanced spaceflight and has begone colonizing other planets in their solar system that is similar to ours, but with more planets. However, the twist is that this entire civilization is like a test subject. A sort of "Truman Show meets micro ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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Can two stars orbit each other but each have their own planets in stable orbits? I'm aware that 'tatooine' worlds don't make good habits for planets, normally. From what I've read, either a planet has to orbit one star really closely, or orbit both stars from a really long distance away. I envisioned a kind of double solar system, where there are two stars that are close enough ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |