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Posts by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A 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 mag...

7 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A 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, w...

4 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A 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,...

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

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Q&A 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 ma...

1 answer  ·  posted 10y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A 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...

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

Question space technology
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Q&A 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 ...

9 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A 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 ...

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

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Q&A (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 ...

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

Question explosions
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Q&A 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, w...

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

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Q&A 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 m...

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

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Q&A 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 fo...

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

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Q&A 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: "HELL...

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

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