Activity for DVK
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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... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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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 ... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |