Pavel Janicek‭

The setup: Near future (maximum 50 years in future) where "only" thing changed is, that company SpaceX together with NASA and ESA found out, how to get cargo and people to space very cheap USA dec...

4 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

I have an idea about a person, who knows exact date and time of significant future events. But does not know what is going to happen. And the dates such person knows are significant for culture tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

Guilty pleasure: I just returned from one tinfoil-hat type of internet pages which suggests that we are being visited by Aliens who live on Venus. The fact, that we have only pictures from the grou...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

Earth, far future: We built multi generation ship which can get 20 000 people to another solar system in next 20 generations (600 years) For scope of this question assume that ship itself is well ...

18 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

When I asked my previous question about love on multi generation ship, I left blank the where are the people going. Simply because I do not know. Now I am in search of software which would ease s...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

Earth, far future: We built multi generation ship which can get 20 000 people to another solar system in next 20 generations (600 years) For scope of this question assume that ship itself is well ...

10 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

Inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune: Action Joe is kept prisoner in Doctor Evil's prison. Doctor Evil knows that Joe's escape is inevitable. So he decides to introduce poison to Joe's body. Joe gets ...

29 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

I am wondering if alien race detecting our signal could actually understand such broadcast. But for my story, I need the aliens being unable to understand what we are broadcasting. How can I achie...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

My Artificial Intelligence became self aware and escaped from the box. It managed to install itself in every computer and every cellphone. Surprisingly, it does not want to kill us, but it seems it...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

I am still puzzled by the original The Planet of the Apes movie from the 70's. How come that sentient species invented weapons, but was unable to develop powered flight, or spacecraft. Thus, the qu...

23 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

One Czech sci-fi author presented idea on his feed on how people might deal with contacts in not so far future: Imagine you can have your own "personal assistant AI" loaded to your smart phone. I...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

Question inspired by discussion under this answer: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/70360/2071 Dear people of Proxima Centauri. Our planet is dying. Our suns are dying. As you all know. W...

15 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

Meet Joe. Joe is generally an average person with one special trait: He loves astronomy and star gazing. However, Joe has a great paying job as a web developer. He earns 120 000 USD yearly and has...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

In 2039, our company was the first to bring a safe and reliable solution to upload someone's mind to the cloud. Although it was 10 years ago, you probably remember the news, don't you? We guarantee...

28 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

All hail to the Hypnotoad! I am interested in creating anatomically correct Hypnotoad, mainly known from the Futurama series. While in Futurama the toad itself is pretty big, but I am actually ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Pavel Janicek‭