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Question How can I get my DeLorean to 88 miles per hour without a train?
I got pulled into 1885, just like Doc and Marty (Or I'm one of them, assuming I can get IP rights :)). I need to go back to the future, which means that I need to get my Ford Pinto time machine up to . . . well, you know, 88 miles per hour. The thing is, I don't have a train handy, and the car can't...
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about 9 years ago
Answer A: How to Convince Humans to Allow a Machine Take-Over
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 addictive form. A vast majority of population will accept (and thus politically enforce, either via dem...
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about 9 years ago
Question How would human society develop if humans had gills?
Imagine a species (the cause is largely irrelevant - could be alien meddling for all I know) that is Homo sapiens in all except one detail: they have additional organ which is kind of like gills - allowing them to breathe under water. Note that the species has no other aquatic adaptations: can't s...
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almost 10 years ago
Question What's a plausible way for a three biological sexes setup to develop for a dominant intelligent species?
It's easy enough to figure out how a species might evolve a third biological gender in general (e.g. some sort of asexual drones/workers, ala insects). But what I want to build is a system where the species evolved 3 "real" sexual genders, where all three take active part in sexual reproduction. Wh...
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almost 10 years ago
Question Cosmological consequences of a world with super-high refraction and atmosphere opaqueness
Disclaimer: the overall idea of the world as presented is basically lifted from Strugatsky Brothers "Inhabited Island". The details of the question are for a derivative work in that universe. Imagine a planet whose atmosphere has an unusually large refraction, resulting in the observer getting the i...
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about 10 years ago
Question Would a civilization that is trying to colonize a landless world be able to do so?
Would a civilization that is trying to permanently colonize a landless world with no atmosphere (think Europa's sea) be able to do so? Permanence matters - it means you can't simply build domes that contain atmosphere as they would not survive for millenia. You need a civilization for which aquatic ...
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about 10 years ago
Question What is the likelihood that inhabitants of an alien planet similar to Earth geologically would have races?
First off, let's get definitions out of the way: A "race" here is defined as stable, heritable, phenotypic, clearly visual distinction between large demographic groups living in different geographic areas - but all of whom actually belong to the same biological species (e.g. can freely and effortles...
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about 10 years ago
Question How would Earth-Mars trade work with a Musk-like colony?
Let's take a world that is based heavily on Elon Musk's specific ideas of Mars colonization, to whit: Launch technology from Earth evolves to be to A 1,000,000 member colony is established on Mars within 100 years. No major new technology/science is developed (no antimatter drives, room temerature...
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about 10 years ago