Activity for Uncle Tres
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Why might Androids be designed to rewrite their programming? Let's say that in the future, artificial humanoid computers [Androids] are built to serve as a workforce. Why might a company designed these androids to rewrite their own programming? In such that they are able to adapt to new scenarios and add, remove, or replace their own code? (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Could Servals be trained to hunt The Serval is a fairly muscular, dog sized African wild cat. While doing research on them for other worldbuilding purposes, I began to think that these animals could make great hunting pets, if they had been domesticated. So I have two questions; one, is it possible for a stone age civilization to... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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The Physiology of people living on a world with 9 year days I have a world with days lasting 9 years. The inhabitants of this world have taken to migrating across the globe to avoid the deadly night, keeping themselves in a sweet spot. One of the biological quirks of the people living here is that sleep isn't a thing. Similar to dolphins, they sleep with only... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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Anatomically Correct Huddle I love the game Inside. Like its predecessor, Limbo, it is a game where you cannot fight; only running and hiding are allowed. The game ends however, with you coming across a large ball of meat strewn with arms, legs, heads, even whole torso's. Below is the description from the game's wikipedia T... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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What evolutionary history supports sapient felines? So, I have a story in which all of humanity flee's the Earth. The reason as to why they left is out of the scope of the question. After they leave, I want for the domestic house cat (or some other small cat) to develop sapience in the new human-less world, but how do I justify this? What evolutionar... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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What temperatures could I expect to find on a world with a 9 year day? I am working on a world where, instead of 24 hours, a day lasts 9 years. On this world the land far exceeds the oceans, to the point where the bodies of water are simply massive lakes (a la the Caspian Sea). The inhabitants of the world are forced to endlessly migrate across the world as a result of ... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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Can a Vertebrate have an Assassin bug-like Proboscis? One of the strangest and most effective weapons in the wonderful world of arthropods in the proboscis of the famed assassin bug, with even the head of the insect working as part of the weapon. The "bite" of an assassin bug is a four step method. First, the bug impales the exoskeleton of its prey w... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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How can I explain rainforests in a world with little, localized rain? On the world I am building (Let's call it Bob for simplicity's sake), the days last 9 years. As a result of this, the living beings on Bob must migrate across the planet to avoid the encroaching night. Now, obviously if Bob had continents like Earth, this would be impossible for animals (like the one... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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How do I justify viral zombies not dying out? Viral zombies, that is zombies that are alive, are much more terrifying than their undead equivalents. While they lack the required headshot of their undead brethren, they are faster and often smarter. One disadvantage they do have is that logistically speaking, they will die out before they can bec... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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How do I make the tardigrade sapient? For those that do not know, the tardigrade is a microscopic animal that can survive: extreme heat extreme cold extreme levels of radiation lack of water indefinitely lack of food indefinitely and even the vacuum of space Tardigrades can be found on every continent including Antarctica (rare fo... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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What would the dangers of a cholera based zombie virus be? A common trope in zombie mediums in to base the virus off of rabies. While this choice does have some obvious reasoning to it, it has been long over done. Relatively recently, The Last of Us came out and broke away from this by basing their virus off of chordyceps, more commonly called the ant zombie... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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What would weather look like on a world with a 9-year day? In a world I am building, the planet's days are longer than its years, with a single day taking 9 years. In all other ways, this planet is similar to Earth, but are there other differences I am missing? Weather has played a massive role in history and science. It creates jungles; it creates deserts.... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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What is the botanic equivalent of the digestive system As part of a series on plant animals, plantimals if you will, I am now asking about the digestive system, that is the mouth, stomach and intestines. All known animal life has some kind of digestive system, but what would a mobile plant's look like? How would a plantimals digestive system work? What ... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Anatomically Correct Slimes Slimes are a common monster we often see in games such as Minecraft, Terraria and Slime Rancher, but it is never explained how such an animal can exist. How could the body of such an animal even exist on land, how could they go about in nature? As we have seen in the games these animals populate a s... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How do I explain checkpoints without magic? Checkpoints have been a staple of video games for decades and are almost as old as video games themselves, but how? These little tiny features have made a huge difference in the way we play games, allowing us to restart at a fair point or reload a checkpoint if we so desire. How, using science, not m... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How can I communicate with a collective consciousness? A world, I am building, had been flooded, causing a species of fire ant that makes ant rafts to evolve a collective behavior, ditching anthills and becoming an ant-hill (I'm not sorry). Over thousands of years, the flood waters receded and the clustering behavior of these ant-hills remained, creating... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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What is the botanic equivalent to ears? As part of a series on plant animals, plantimals if you will, I am now asking about ears. All surface life has them or some sort of equivalent to them and with good reason. Other than sight, hearing is the most crucial sense. But what about plants? While it has been documented that plants can hear, ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How would people living in eternal day learn that stars exist? In a world I am building, the day lasts longer than the year, 9 times longer in fact. The native people of this world have been forced to migrate around the world, both avoiding the scorching desert of noon and the freezing winter of night. This world is otherwise rather unremarkable on the surface. ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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What is the botanic equivalent to eyes There have been many questions of moving, floral animals, most of these focus on their intelligence, but what about their sense of sight. I fail to understand how a botanic based alien would be able to see, theoretically they could evolve them from the very start as light patches, like animals did, b... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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If all zoo animals were set free, which ones could adapt In this scenario, all the humans on earth have disappeared, except for Fred. Sure, Fred is sad that everyone that exists is dead but him, including his friends and family, but he doesn't let that get him down in the dumps. What did get the former PETA supporter, Fred, sad was all the zoo critters. So... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Could mollusks become extremely large? In a brand baby spanking new world I am building, appropriately named Escargard, punningly named by the AndyD273, mollusks have become the dominant form of life. Resulting in aliens similar to those below But sadly the longer I thought of such a scenario, the less likely It became, while many moll... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How many elves does Santa need to enslave to make toys for the kids? Santa keeps his elves under horrid, appalling conditions. Working everyday of the year for little pay in the freezing cold of the North Pole. But just how many elves does he need? How many elves would it take to build enough toys for 2+ billion boys and girls across the world? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Giant Planetary Ring Bases, are they feasible? Giant Planetary Ring Bases (or GPRB's) are space stations built on planetary rings or are artificial rings themselves, such as Starship Troopers' Luna Base But are these super stations feasible? Assuming the ring is 30 by 30 meters all the way around the planet, would it be realistic to build such... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Anatomically Correct Mokèlé-mbèmbé The Mokèlé-mbèmbé (meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers") is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture. It is often described as looking like a small sauropod, with a body roughly the size of a hippo. Obvio... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How to evolve purely pacifist intelligence In a previous question on my purely peaceful, 100% pacifist species, I asked about how to remove all defining characteristics for sexuality yet still retaining sapience. As was pointed out, I had asked the wrong question about these beings. I should have been asking how a 100% pacifist species could ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How can I prevent a cube world from going spherical Cube worlds are cool and many people like them but unfortunately, they are less than feasible. Does this have to be this way though? What factors could lead to the creation of a roughly cube shaped world? What could prevent it from going spherical? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Can a one gendered species evolve sapience In a world I am building, I want the primary species to be 100% peaceful. The best way I have thought of for doing this post-sapience is to remove all identifying traits (skin, eye and hair color, proportions, and even gender, etc), creating a unified image of their species. The problem I have found ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Could the Hoatzins wings evolve into arms The Hoatzin is a jungle bird whose only remarkable trait, other than looking fabulous, is that their wings have fingers. Is it possible that these wing fingers could evolve into arms? What about legs? What pressures would lead to such an evolution? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Feasibility of Space Nets Space nets are a theoretical space organism designed by Tim B, to quote him: Imagine a life-form shaped like a giant net. It gathers space dust into itself to grow, using light from stars both to power its growth and for propulsion as a massive light-sail. The strands of the net are far ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Anatomically Correct Slenderman Slenderman is unarguably the most iconic creation of the early internet. It has led to games, stories and even books. But is his design evolutionarily possible? What evolutionary pressures would lead to the slender figure and abilities of the slenderman? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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What is the botanic equivalent to the circulatory system? There have been a few questions on mobile plants on this site and even more on their intelligence, but one that has not been asked so far is related to the lifeblood of creatures: blood. Inside of Earth plants, the circulatory system is less complex, as the organism does not need to move. But surely ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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On aliens, how do they speak? A common problem I have with modern science fiction and fantasy (Halo, Mass Effect, Narnia etc) is that the aliens and animals are somehow able to speak in perfect human speech. How does an alien or animal manage to speak in the the phonemes humans are able to? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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What is the botanic equivalent to muscles A plethora of previous questions have queried the existence of botanic (plant) intelligence and they all have created good solutions, but their still remains a even bigger problem to even the dumbest sentient plant: movement. The closest solution to the problem of plant muscles that are plant based a... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How do merfolk develop agriculture Let's say that a race of aquatic merfolk have managed to achieve sapience, they are basic hunter gatherers, living in relatively shallow waters of up to 100 meters deep. As I have begun designing their culture I have ran into a road block, how does such a species develop agriculture? After all, very ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Meeting other sides of a cube world, cheapest method? Lets say that somehow a cube world came into being, on an axial tilt around its sun, four of the sides are in-habituated by intelligent life, one of these sides (relatively) quickly realized that their world is cubic and wondered what exists on the other sides. After thousands of years they have deci... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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What are the effects of constant daylight on plantlife On a world I am building, the day/night cycle last 9 years, meaning that there are interesting forms of life. Plants are the most interesting of these living things, which have many interesting forms of keeping themselves alive. The problem is that I am unaware of what the effects of 4 and a half yea... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Could ships in space use a Steam Engine? When in space, the amount of force required to move goes down drastically, due to the virtual lack of drag. In this environment, would be feasible for engines in space (more specifically belonging to generation ships) to use steam? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Could aliens naturally evolve synesthesia? For all who are unaware, synesthesia is a condition in the brain where two or more senses are connected; for example being able to see sound or hear color. Of course they do not actually see color or hear sound, but their brain connects their sense, so they attribute certain sense to other senses. ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How long could life survive The Night? The Problem In a world I am building, the days are 9 years long, this means 4 and half years of cold darkness following 4 and a half years of blistering daylight. I have asked questions on this Year long Day world before, but now I have a new thought on the night side. In an environment with little... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Maximum size of an exoskeletal creature On a world I am building, I have a species of creatures that evolved from crustaceans. The problem is that while they have an exoskeleton, they also live on a world with the same gravity as Earth. I have thought of a few solutions, from an extra internal skeleton to internal exoskeleton partitions to... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Can my habitable planet have a habitable moon? So let's say that I have a world with a moon, you know kind of like we do on Earth. But with life on the planet, is it possible to find life on the moon? In the artifexian video on habitable moons, he suggests that they could only exist as moons of a gas giant, but gas giants are hard to justify life... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How do I cheaply move things into space? Building things in space is a massive benefit as the weightlessness and lack of stress means the only restraint is the amount of resources available for construction. But therein lies the problem, how do we move things economically into space? Assuming 22nd century technology or less, what is the ch... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How can I determine the Lifespan of a Species Age varies vastly even in just the vertebrate world, from the 2 years a rabbit has to the over 170 year old Seychelles giant tortoise, who is still going. Obviously, Lifespan will determine population, cultural views on age and most importantly, the amount of knowledge a person can learn and teach. ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Could I hope for swarm intelligence to lead to collective consciousness? I recently decided to revisit an older scenario I came up with, Ant-hill world, but I have been hitting roadblocks, both old and new. One of the bigger roadblocks is the evolution of such an odd multiple bodied animal. On of my current thoughts are related to Swarm intellegence, which is the collec... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How do I make oxygen for a generation ship? On a generation ship, the people living on it need oxygen, lots of oxygen. More than they can realistically carry, thus a generation ship must be able to create breathable air from relatively common materials and elements found in space. How does a generation ship provide oxygen to the people insid... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Planet of the Aves: Tool use On the planet of the Aves, birds have evolved to dominate the Earth instead of mammals. Of the thousands of species in this world, both on the ground and in the water, the only one to develop sapience are a species of flying birds whose ancestors are the New Caledonian Crow. As I design this species... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Planet of the Aves: New Nests On the planet of the Aves, birds have evolved to dominate the Earth instead of mammals. Of the thousands of species in this world, both on the ground and in the water, the only one to develop sapience are a species of flying birds whose ancestors are the New Caledonian Crow. As I design this species... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Anatomically Correct Minotaur We all know what the minotaur is and what it looks like, a buff man with the head and tail of a bull. But could this creature evolve? Could it even exist? If a Minotaur could exist, what environmental pressure would lead to its evolution? A list of all of the Anatomically Correct questions can be fo... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How can I Determine the Caloric Intake of a Species? Caloric intake varies vastly even in just the world of mammals, from the hundreds of pounds of leaves an elephant eats everyday, to the small amount a sloth eats. Obviously, caloric intake is important to how actively a species hunts or moves about. Is there a good solid way to figure out the calori... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Can I have Gunpowder without having guns? I was originally going to claim my world has very low levels of sulfur, resulting in a lack of gunpowder and thus a lack of guns. But after realizing how cool things like fireworks and Hwacha are, then I noticed that the problem I have isn't with gunpowder, but with guns. Is there any way that I can... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |