Activity for Pavel Janicek‭

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Question	—	Anatomically Correct Hypnotoad 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 interested just in having a toad which uses hypnotic abilities to catch its prey. This is my addition... (more)	—	about 6 years ago
Question	—	How to monetize uploaded consciousness? 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 guaranteed that your mind would be able to wander through the artificial world for at least 50 years. The thing ... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Can a dedicated amateur astronomer spot a rogue asteroid? 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 a fully remote job, which has only two requirements: Joe needs an internet connection For legal purpo... (more)	—	about 7 years ago
Question	—	Reasons to pack weapons on interstellar mission? 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. We found out that nearest stellar system just 4 lightyears away has G2V star. And not only that. We think... (more)	—	almost 8 years ago
Question	—	Why do we keep smoking in distant future? You gotta admit. That roguish guy you just met at space bar looks cooler with cig in his mouth. Not only he always shoots first, but also he manages to do so while puffing awesomely looking clouds of smoke. The problem is obvious. This is not galaxy far far away, nor long time ago. It is our solar s... (more)	—	almost 8 years ago
Question	—	Neural network used as "doping" A genius programmer (someone with initials PJ) created a neural network aimed to provide the best results in running marathon for human. Thanks to Google deep dream project, this programmer also realized what each of the cells in his neural network does and how the neural network actually works. In... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	Is it plausible that current insects will evolve sapience? Scenario: In my Evil Overlord plan, I release a poison into the wild which should kill all humans. However I made some sort of mistake in my poison design and I killed all Vertebrates bigger than 0.5 cm. The poison under discussion is a plot device, made out of unobtainium and handwavium. It works j... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Would people give up social contacts to their personal AI? 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. It knows what you want and what you do not. It can mimic "you" to the outside world: It can pick up you... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	What could prevent a sentient species from going to space? 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 question is: What could prevent a sentient race from going to space? Assume an earth-like planet, and hu... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Short term effects of being able to find perfect soul mate 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 wants us to make happy. This AI installed an app to every phone: "Find your true love" app which will ... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	What can cause the aliens not to understand our signal? 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 achieve that? Background about the aliens: They are sapient species and able of space flight They can use ... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Poison which constantly needs to be treated by antidote to not get killed 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 his antidote in his daily food rations. Once Joe stops eating antidote he should die, regardless of how... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Cultural norms regarding Law and Order on Generation ship 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 built and it will indeed be able to carry people and material to its destination and technology wise, th... (more)	—	almost 9 years ago
Question	—	Software to ease my interstellar travel calculations 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 some calculations. Example: Say the ship is travelling to a system which is 35 light years away. The bas... (more)	—	almost 9 years ago
Question	—	Society rules for marriages and love on multigeneration ship 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 built and it will indeed be able to carry people and material to its destination and technology wise, th... (more)	—	almost 9 years ago
Question	—	If Venus mission finds life, will we shift our attention from Mars to Venus? 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 ground from the seventies make it bit spooky (and argument for the site) Anyway. Real question starts here.... (more)	—	almost 9 years ago
Question	—	Social effect of ability to predict the date but not the occasion 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 that person is inside: Example: That person knows exact date and time when new president of USA is going t... (more)	—	almost 9 years ago
Question	—	How deep can the ocean plausibly be? I want to have planet with as deep an ocean as plausibly possible. How deep can I go given these restrictions? Planet must be in habitable zone of a star Generally, planet should support life Size of planet not decided, but I have general idea of something "really big" (Jupiter size and bigger) I d... (more)	—	almost 9 years ago
Question	—	Drug which lets you forget everything We all know how the story starts: He woke up in strange room, not remembering who he was or how did he got to the room. But that was not his problem. Problem was the first writing he saw: "HELLO, I WANT TO PLAY A GAME" The thing is, what kind of drug could Joe Average eat to let him forget almo... (more)	—	about 9 years ago
Question	—	How long can Joe go without liquid water? I am mad scientist and I captured Average Joe, who is not average only in one remark: He is person not to be missed (I double checked). Otherwise he is healthy male, around 30 years old, with no food allergies (I also checked) I kidnapped this Joe and locked him inside controlled experiment: He is i... (more)	—	about 9 years ago
Question	—	Design me a Mars drone In this question about a Mars battle set up in 2100-ish, we decided, that the best battle devices would be drones. In that setup the whole "drone" thing was hand-waved, but I would like to know if it is doable: Year: 2040-ish Setup 6th mission to Mars. We want to discover more area by having drone ... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Cheapest way to fake the Mars landing Darmstadt, Germany, current day: All ESA members meet on super secret meeting. They had it enough with NASA and want to claim their first place in space. How do they want to do it? Landing manned mission on Mars first! "Err... Do we have money for that? We have to bail out Greece first." Says the Ge... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	How will people approach person beamed from a past? Question inspired by movies Minority Report and Her The year is 2050, USA: The future is "realistically optimistic": We, the humans, have steady progress in computers and AI: We use wearable AI, which can communicate with us using natural human language. We also use self-driving cars and hoverboard... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	(How) Can I make directional nuclear blast? Scenario: Last line of defense. I want to prevent anyone from reaching a highly guarded building. Such building is in the middle of top secret, heavily guarded military area (think of Area 51). I want to make sure, that if my military base gets attacked, I have a way to protect my utmost secret hidd... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Faking first contact I am super-rich person with a net worth of 32 billion US dollars. Part of my business is being contractor for NASA and SpaceX (so I have knowledge about space technology). I already own my island and have people working for me, willing to fulfill any of my wishes. After I realized that killing every... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Buying Jupiter for the price of a space station Imagine alien prospector wanting to build "space highway" through our solar system. There could be another route, but the one leading to our system is "the best" Such prospector also wants to use Jupiter orbit as "space gas station, with bar". Jupiter could be used not only because of its gravitatio... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Hiding own space program Question inspired by movies You only live twice and Moonraker: I am Evil Overlord at his best: I am super rich person with net worth of 32 billion US dollars. I already own island and I am making money also by selling space technologies to SpaceX and NASA (so I have knowledge about the tech) Suppo... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Multigeneration ship pet Earth is dying. We mis-managed it and brought the whole ecosystem to the edge of total collapse. About 50 years ago, we decided to move humankind to another planet, and now we are almost ready. A big, multi-generation ship is in orbit around Earth. It will hold a billion lucky people. The rest of ... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Dangerous salty creature killing the triffids This question is inspired by book The Day of the triffids and this question Russia and USA have never been really "friends", lets admit it. So we will not be surprised, that one of them (pick your side) secretly developed "The triffids" - plants which can move, produce loads of seeds and such seeds ... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Prison in space 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 decides to build a space prison. Because - it would be nearly impossible to escape from it. Now the questi... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	Can we actually "blow up" the sea? Reading questions of How much TNT needed to blow up Mount Everest and the Moon - and especially the comments below it, I have to ask it: Can we blow up the sea? Detonating atomic bomb undersea may look cool but for any sea-level attacks it is not proving anything extra. And It does not "blow up the... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	Making the First contact Visiting the Worldbuilding site plays with my creativity and imagination. So I am going to describe the dream I had: I am member of a different (alien) culture, from a different star system. Also, I am an explorer. Living on the edge, adventure seeker. The other day, I made a trip around the galaxy... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	Disease treatable by zero-G Background story: In near future (max 10 years from now) mega-rich person suffers yet unknown disease. He obviously employs every doctor possible and spends loads from his fortune on researching, what is wrong with them. The scientists come up with some time-delaying solution: Such disease has littl... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	Communication with a big insect Plausibility check of the whole "insect race". As background, I want some poor astronauts to "crash" (safely land, but because they had no other option, possibly some engine malfunction) and meet with my insectoid race. But... How would they communicate? I will put you in the situation. Imagine th... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	What would make real life "undo" possible? Inspired by comment under this question "Darling, does this dress make me look fat? QUICKSAVE "Uhm ... no?" WRONG ANSWER, WANNA TRY AGAIN? We all dreamed about having possibility to redo something in real life. There are movies around it but they seem to be all based in pure fict... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	How would a Martian colony be able to celebrate Christmas? Accept that we had a reason to go to Mars, managed to build a colony there, and what we found on Mars is valuable enough to ship back to Earth. There is now a self sustainable colony living under the domes, all made possible because we found out how to make water out of rocks and ice on Mars, and reg... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	Is a Jupiter-sized planet plausible in a habitable zone? We lived through loads of questions regarding aquatic races, so buckle up, I am going to gather some ideas around insectoids. The homeworld and race This race lives on a planet which has lower gravity than Earth (0.8 g) The planet is hostile in environment, so an exoskeleton is the best evolutiona... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago
Question	—	What could make an insect race intelligent? TL;DR: I want a society which behaves as a hive. Is it plausible and how to achieve this? The setup: Different planet in our universe. In other words: Normal, physical rules apply, there is no magic involved. I would like to have plausible explanation for everything. Bonus: Because This is around c... (more)	—	almost 10 years ago