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Posts by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Could a Tidally Locked Moon Ever be "Unlocked" via Artificial Means?

Premise The motivation as to why one would want to give a tidal locked moon a spin is out of the scope of this question. I only want to focus on the feasibility. Suffice to say there could be a fe...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arash Howaida‭

Question space technology
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Q&A Can a Planet's Magnetosphere be Strengthened Artificially?

Premise One of the many conditions needed to support life (as we know it) is a planet with a surface protected from deadly radiation from a sun or even other sources. In the grand scheme of things...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A What Factors would Likely Govern the Degree of Similarity between Intelligent Aliens and Humans?

Premise Let me begin by citing the intellectually charged and equally comical banter between physicist Brian Cox and "Doctor Who": (aliens appear on console) Dr. Who: "That's a silent; yo...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Could Non-Baryonic Matter Ever Support Computer Architecture?

Premise In a world set 10^40 years from now, or in cosmological decade 60 (a cosmological decade is a long term measure of time such that each successive increment represents a ten-fold increase i...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Pure Bio vs Pure Cyber Trans-Humans - Would they be a Good Match for Each Other?

In this world, there are two trans-human species that are emerging at the same time. They vehemently despise each other and conflict is fast approaching. I would like to make the struggle between t...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Sabotage of Biosphere after Doomsday Event

Premise After an unfathomably powerful mass extinction event ALL life (fauna, flora, even extremaphiles and microbes) have died off. The Earth was then sterile for an undetermined amount of time. ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭

Question biology apocalypse
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Q&A What Natural Forces could Make Intelligence/Technology a Disadvantage or at Least Inferior to Something Else?

Premise I'm creating a pre-history world to attempt to demonstrate an alternative sequence of events. I would like natural forces to somehow make natural selection view intelligence/technology as ...

24 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A How Effective Could we Expect a Subliminal Programming Facility to Brainwash People be in the Near-future?

The current technology around this subject is somewhat hard to gauge. For obvious ethical reasons, there is not a lot of empirical precedents. Also, given that it's subliminal, it is by nature diff...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Making Fortifications Viable in the Arms Race Again

As the title suggests, I'm trying to make the bunker viable in the arms race again. Note that does not mean it has to be indestructible. While some may contend that the bunker will lose the arms r...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭

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Q&A Best/Realistic Way to Acclimate Astronauts to Zero G

I'm trying to provide a somewhat realistic explanation of how astronauts were able to overcome the harmful physiological effects of prolonged zero G exposure. As of 2017, issues include: bone/calci...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭

Question space reality-check
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Q&A Unlimited Stellar Fusion Thought Experiment

As far as we know stars have a limited fusion cycle. Once they fuse elements up to the element iron, there is no subsequent energy that can be released through fusion, given the inherent atomic str...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Arash Howaida‭