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In another question, Are flying plants possible?, a point was raised that because of the square-cube law, a large, hollow, spherical plant could fly by having the air inside be a little bit hotter ...

5 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jetscooters‭

Would it be practical to use a "squirrel suit" and sacs of buoyant gas for deceleration from a free fall as opposed to a parachute? Furthermore, once the sacs have been inflated, could the person i...

4 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jetscooters‭

I know that with a vacuum, you'll be able to gain a whole lot more lift than with any gas. I'm just wondering how you'd do it. What would be needed to make a vacuum balloon as opposed to a hot-air ...

4 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jetscooters‭

How dense would the atmosphere of a theoretical planet have it be, in relation to Earth's atmosphere, to fly with, say, a 10 to 15 foot wingspan? Math is acceptable and encouraged, and a set of art...

1 answer  ·  posted 10y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Jetscooters‭

Is it possible to have a planet that is both bigger than Earth and weaker in terms of gravity? I've got an idea about it being less dense, but I don't know what to do about its magnetic field. I ne...

5 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Jetscooters‭

I'm wondering what adverse effects might be felt by someone from a planet with, say, 80% of Earth's gravity and a denser, but breathable, atmosphere with a higher concentration of oxygen visiting a...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jetscooters‭

Ok, so I'm making a setting where people have colonized various objects in the solar system and out of it. One thing I know I want to include to flesh it out a bit* is a sport for low-gravity envir...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jetscooters‭

Assuming an average, fully developed adult man, what sort of changes could be made to his genome that would have a noticeable effect on his mind or body? To the best of our current scientific knowl...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jetscooters‭

What would, roughly, a scientific research station look like on a gas giant? Use Saturn as a baseline. The station would float because of a "balloon" carrying nothing. Vacuum is the lifting "gas", ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jetscooters‭

So I'm writing a story set in the close(ish) future(say 2130), and space debris is starting to be a real problem. Stations in orbit are constantly having to maneuver out of the paths of orbital deb...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Jetscooters‭

So I'm writing a story that takes place in Saturn's atmosphere, and I've run into a bit of a problem. You see, I wanted it to be possible to have some pretty badass scenes with sci-fi fighter jets ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jetscooters‭

Many fantasy stories involve some variation of a dragon, and while there's a lot of variation in whether or not they fly, if they can breathe fire, how magical they are, etc., the strength of drago...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Jetscooters‭

So I'm designing a world where the air has its own ecosystem, separate from the one on the land, because sky whales are cool. However, I'm having trouble figuring out what the plants and other prod...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Jetscooters‭

Would a spoked, rotating torus work as a method of colonizing space? If so, how feasible would it be? As in, what would be the cost, where would we get the materials for it, how fast does it have t...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jetscooters‭

So I'm writing a setting featuring asteroid mining à la Deep Space Industries, where the material mined is used for construction in space rather than brought to Earth. To maximize efficiency, I'm ...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Jetscooters‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jetscooters‭