Posts by James Jenkins
Yes and No. Yes: Therefore, strong enough magnetic fields have the ability to deform and even break objects. When a magnetic field gets stronger than about 500,000 Gauss, objects get ripped to pie...
It is an interface issue. Your technology has one step that converts the brain to computer data Reading out the personality and memories of a person from their brain requires that the brain is...
Until about 6,000 years ago, the population of the living people in the world was 4, with none dead. Then Cain murdered Able, prior to the birth of Adam and Eve's third child Seth around 3900BC. ...
Crude Oil, is a term used to describe petroleum products harvested from geological formations beneath the Earth's surface. As a fuel they maybe called hydrocarbons, hydrocarbons can be found/creat...
This has been done in a smaller scale in The Integral Trees (1984) by Larry Niven The story occurs around the fictional neutron star Levoy's Star (abbreviated "Voy"). The gas giant Goldblatt's ...
Of the existing answers I like this one by Aos Sidhe best, but I would probably do it slightly differently. Make your animal susceptible to a poison/virus which causes infertility. The poison sh...
It is not practical, you would need to launch the bullet/projectile with enough fuel to: Stop its forward movement Start movement in reverse Slow down and stop when it got back. At each step ...
The cold side would need to be a near desert, or in a few hundreds of years all the water would be trapped in the ice on the cold side. You would need some way to keep the moisture on the warm sid...
The two existing answers address difficulties in converting the energy imparted to the satellite by the trebuchet into an orbit. You have limited resources, but don't clarify what resource are av...
