Activity for user6760
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Is it possible to retrofit white blood cells with neural network technology to fight infection? I have been toying the idea of fusing our white blood cells which search and destroy malicious foreign bodies with artificial intelligence to fight various disease causing pathogens, my worry is that nano machine is just too small to house A.I. otherwise with machine learning that mimics our brain fu... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Despite almost zero energy consumption why does my spaceship scheduled cryostasis in shifts? In the distant future a breakthrough in cryostasis technology can put healthy people into frozen state so that all metabolism halts and cells never age a bit, the spaceship is carrying them across billions of light years hopping between star systems in search of newfound hospitable planet. I am won... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Can cherenkov effect be used for telling how fast FTL spaceship moves? Imagine an alternate universe where FTL do happens, let's just say the inhabitants discovered a hypothetical particles that allows ordinary matter to temporarily be in superposition of any amount of mass including negative value... [I'm drunk don't mind me] Okay straight to the point, there should b... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How to prevent ship's AI from initiating self destruct sequence regardless of captain's permission? Set in a distant future, every interstellar spaceship runs on antimatter propulsion which can achieve fractional speed of light travel. There is a doctrine stating that all spaceships with mass exceeding certain amount are required by law to install self-destruct button and concealed explosive charge... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Can magnetic fauna and flora on magnetic world knows gravity? Imagine an Earth sized planet consists of only ferrous metals, the creatures living on the planet move around like a maglev train basically they interact with the world and among each other electromagnetically. I'm wondering since electromagnetic force is much much greater than gravitational force wo... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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If Earth had a sideways axial tilt (like Uranus), would Earth still have tornadoes? Imagine Earth was hit hard by some force so devastating that Earth now has an axial tilt of 90.0 degrees, a far cry from the usual 23.5 degree. The same force somehow eliminates the Moon. In my story, Earth now obliquity oscillates between 89 to 91 degrees and will remain so for another 13000 baktun ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How can space cop arrest the suspicious spacecraft moving at sub-luminal velocity? Set in a distant future, reports of alien and drug traffickings have been on the rise and there was mounting pressure for Mr User6760, president of intergalactic interpol to resign. The traffickers made use of stolen tech to achieve fractional light speed travel and stealth to evade the space cop, no... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Would making a last ditch effort to skip save the spaceship? Imagine a spaceship entering Earth's atmosphere, it has lost control of its engines and is relying on its reverse thrusters to decelerate before crashing into the Pacific ocean. So in an attempt to save everyone on board from an impending doom, the pilot turned off all the reverse thrusters located... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Why do flying saucers have to spin while flying? Set during the Cold War period, the then-president rented five (5) flying saucers from the extraterrestrial aliens and a few training exercises were conducted in the air space above Roswell. My father was a young US Air Force lieutenant and mentioned he had crashed landed one of the saucers during tr... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How do you send out SOS in space if there is no absolute coordinate? Imagine your spaceship encountered a gravitational anomaly and discovered that you are lost in space, your computer tells you that you are still inside the Milky Way galaxy but it cannot find the Solar system. I think in order to triangulate the spaceship current position we need at least 3 other spa... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How can early people prove that their planet is a cuboid? Imagine a cuboid planet with a thick atmosphere orbiting a star similar to our Sun. The inhabitants are as intelligent as humans and recently discovered the universal laws of gravitation and motion which are familiar to us. How can they determine that the planet is a cuboid? The dimension is 1024 cub... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How does an intelligent race which can only perceives microwave develops written language? Imagine a race of humanoid alien living somewhere in the universe evolves weird sensory organ which can only picks up frequency of light ranging from 800MHz up to 2.5GHz which is in the microwave spectrum. They can hear and talk but how would they read and write? The more primitive the tech the bette... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How can sapient beings engineer transportation and building when they can only count 0, 1 and many? Imagine a species of humanoid beings living on an Earth-like planet somewhere in the universe; they have developed complex spoken and written languages and they can study their own anatomy and the environment. Assuming they are capable to count using 0, 1 and many, how can they construct any kind of ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How to prevent crew from accidentally teleporting oneself outside a spaceship with portal gun? Set in the year 3020 CE, every crew on board has a personal issued portal gun to easily get around the interior of the spaceship. The handheld portal gun can instantly teleport the user along with whatever belonging as specified in the setting to the designated location but unfortunately tragic accid... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How can a dragon take off to the air silently? Imagine a dragon as tall as average adult horse with a wing span of 12m long measuring from tip to tip. I wonder what evolutionary traits or techniques could allow the dragon to lift itself off the ground and fly in the air without making sound audible to a human being? I suspect among these dragons ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Why don't ejectable fission reactors proliferate if meltdown is still a concern? Set in the not-so-distant future, interplanetary travels are the norm. Most spaceships are powered by fission reactors, and accidents do happen due to negligence or flaws in the system. It will probably take decades before we can see high-yield fusion reactors on the market; in the meantime, we just ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Evolutionary advantage for recurve fang in dragons In medieval times, news of dragons attacking the outskirts of the villages is flooding in. The King is losing patience. According to witnesses, these dragons can lift cows and occasionally elephants off the ground. Further inspection on the animals's carcasses revealed that the dragons bite their vic... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How do donut fish eat? Imagine a particular species of eel that resembles the shape of a torus or donut. It is capable of generating an alternating electric current in the water as a form of communication between other donut eels, analogous to a step up/down transformer, and it can deliver a powerful electric shock to stun... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How does a creature evolve to become invisible to night vision goggles? I am wondering if a species might evolve to deceive human technology - in particular, a set of night vision goggles. I imagine it is either cold blooded or it has thick fur - which doesn't trap air - so that warm air pockets don't show up in the goggles. What evolutionary trait is required for such a... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Would cold-blooded dragon be suitable for flying? I am designing a cold-blooded dragon about the size of a house cat with a wingspan of 3 metres from tip to tip. It will climb on top of rocks at noon when there is ample sunlight overhead. I need it to take off vertically and remain several meters high in the air for at least ten minutes to escape fr... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Feasibility of non lethal "x-ray" false-colour vision? One of the powerful abilities of Superman is his ability to make several layers of opaque solid objects translucent to him and only him alone. What plausible future technology would allow us to see through animate and inanimate objects without destroying them or giving them cancer? What existing tech... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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How changing planetary ring affects the migration of terrestrial fauna? Imagine a gas giant as massive as Jupiter has a enormous planetary ring which will expand and contract throughout its orbit around a main sequence star. Then there is a moon as massive as Mars and it has a molten core and liquid water on its surface, usually certain migratory animals on Earth devel... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Is it necessary for spaceships to include reverse thrusters for deceleration in space? Set in the not so distant future, space travel becomes commonplace but is limited within the heliosphere. I'm thinking since it is fuel efficient and more economical to use gravity assist to slow down the speed of the spaceship would reverse thrusters become obsolete? I think maybe adding rocket boos... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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What is the most efficient way of mining energy from a flare star? Set in the distant future, human is transitioning to a type 3 advanced civilization on a Kardashev scale in about a hundred years or two. We have nearly exhausted the energy from our Sun and several other neighbouring main sequence stars, the demand for energy soars exponentially with every star syst... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How to tell if the entire Earth is just a copy? Imagine a visiting alien accidentally spilled a bucket of inverse matter (a substance I made up just now) on the planet Earth and this stuff will annihilate with ordinary matter to produce neutrinos with perfect efficiency, erasing the earth. Feeling remorseful the alien 4D printed the Earth in its... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How do you get steel outside Earth? I'm looking for a more economical and efficient method of making steel for my project Death Star Unlimited, a mega infrastructure orbiting Mars with a mass of 500,000,000 metric ton give or take 1%. Is there any good way to make steel in space within a time frame of a decade at most given immediate f... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How to tell a blackhole from a neutron star covered entirely by Dyson sphere painted in vantablack? In a galaxy far far away... M6760 (I made it up) is an unusually massive neutron star billions of light years away and it is surrounded by a spherical Dyson sphere painted in new improved formula vantablack called Perfect Blackbody 2.0 (trademarked & copy rights) using alien tech of course (actually ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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What is a good reason not to mine a planetary ring? Most planetary rings are rich in water in the form of ice, especially now we are running low on freshwater reserves on Earth. Imagine someone discovered a huge chunk of meteorite consisting of a whopping 100 million carats and decided to auction it and then use the funds to mine the Saturn's planetar... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Overclocking VR Set in the immediate future, social network evolves with the advancement of 10G network and a major breakthrough in medicine. Giant tech companies raced to develop state of the art VR technology which allows user to experience extreme time dilation in a simulation and it includes powerful features su... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Floor is lava, need answer Imagine a tsunami of lava has flash-flooded cities. Oddly enough there weren't eruptions or earthquakes, just a sea of molten rock covering every inch of road, street pavement, what have you. According to a volcano expert, the lava will take at least a year to cool and settle down... BTW every expert... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Is there any way for humanity to cope with perpetual acid rains? All of a sudden, overnight, abruptly, weather forecast guys go on strikes... everywhere is raining nitric acid non stop so that on average the amount reported is 100mm and the pH level is 3 occasionally fall to 1.5. I believe that such a phenomenon would spell the end of humanity as we know it, all ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How to mine a moon made of half uranium and half radium? Imagine one day the moon suddenly transformed into a colossal elephant's foot and we need to get to the moon to obtain sample... Could it be done using modern day technology to mine the uranium for science? I don't need man on the moon just a good sizable sample in the most economic reusable rocket w... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Transporting radioactive fuels Imagine a light spaceship capable of traveling at 0.999c is tasked to tow a radioactive cargo containing millions of tons of polonium and radium, however the container holding the radioactive materials made of 100mm thick concrete with 50mm lead layer tethered by a 10000mm long carbon nanotube cable,... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How to resolve the transporter conundrum in a FTL spaceship? Imagine a spaceship capable of achieving faster than light travel uses several transporters to allow crew members to move around its interior at the constant speed of light. What happens to the crew using the transporter when the spaceship goes to warp 2? BTW warp 2 means twice the speed of light in ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Would it be possible for species to become sapient without using tools? Set in a parallel universe, in a galaxy far far away, an Earth-like planet orbiting a yellow dwarf star with the mass of 1 solar mass. And yes, indeed that planet comes with a natural satellite that seems to be tidal locked but anyhow, could a specie, most probably mammalian would develop sapient int... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Why wouldn't my nuclear spaceships eject spent fuel? In the year 2069AD, a spaceship is transporting hundreds of people in cryogenic sleep to a distant star. The spaceship engine is a nuclear fission reactor and its thruster is based on an ion drive for acceleration. The problem is, why not dump the nuclear waste into the vast emptiness instead of th... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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How to explain day is 10 times as bright but no warmer? Set at the present day Earth, the daylight on average is ten times as bright as today, approximately 111,000 lux at noon for example and subject to geographic and the air quality etc. I am looking for natural or man-made phenomenon that can produce super bright daylight across the equatorial region w... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Is spaceship made of precast reinforced concrete tougher than those malleable alloy? Set in the mid 22nd century AD, a major construction work is being carried out in the orbit of Uranus. The military is developing a cheaper fleets using precast reinforced concrete(PRC) hoping to extend its influence across the outer planets within the solar system, they are betting on the strength a... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How can a long spaceship combat torsion and shear stress while moving in space? Set in the late 22nd century AD, spaceship designs are becoming more streamlined and have longer bodies measuring from the tip at the front of ship to the thruster located at the back of the ship. The longitudinal strength of the body of the space vessel may experience different degrees of accelerat... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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What kind of footwear is suitable for walking in micro gravity environment? Set in the near future, the interior of the spaceship is coated with thin layers of Teflon approximately 10mm average thickness on top of titanium alloy which in case you are wondering it is weakly magnetic. I need the crews to be able to walk around the catladders and platforms instead of floating e... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How does steppenwolf planet generates typhoon? In a distant future, a spaceship was investigating a gravitational anomaly somewhere within a chartered sector in the Andromeda galaxy. A disaster strikes and the spaceship was found marooned on a nomad planet, there is nothing else except the rogue planet and plasma cloud drifting through space. How... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Is there any advantage to have A.I. being able to experience loneliness? Let get this straight being lonely is different from solitude, human is arguably one of the most successful animals ever to walk on two. The secret lies in social interaction, the early humans hunt in group and those that do not participate in teamwork had lower chance of survival. Unfortunately even... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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What is the science of fairy flight? Assume these homo super-dwarf aka fairy and homo sapiens come from a common ancestor, and somehow they evolved a pair of wings and can do vertical takeoff. The average adult is approximately the size of a tennis ball and weights around 58g, they are mammal by the way so how can they hover at the sa... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How do spaceships determine each other's mass in space? Set in the distant future, space travel becomes prominent and cheap. I can imagine each spaceship would have a multitude array of sensors to track distance and relative position in space. Is there a good way to determine another spaceship's mass beside hailing them for specifications? I know we can ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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What could trigger powerful quakes on icy world? Imagine a planet orbiting a star some billions of lightyears away from us, the planet is 4 times the mass of Earth and is covered with ice 100km thick on average. It is believed that liquid ocean exist beneath that thick ice sheet and it could harbour life, any way I like to know how quakes can occur... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How to explain planetary rings pulsating? A spacecraft enters an unnamed system and spotted a gas giant with a pulsating planetary ring, it glows bright intermittently. What natural phenomenon could be responsible for such brilliant display? It would be better if you can explain why the glows only occurs within certain range of the electroma... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Can a high power EMP generator keeps killer robots at bay? Set in the near future, thousands of killer robots resemble those featured in the terminator film, I'm referring to the 800 series model are now marching in as we speaks. I am a sole survivor on a tall mountain and I have put up a powerful emp with effective range of 10km, is it sufficient to deter t... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How can a large fleets maintain formation in interstellar space? Earth is under attack, the empire has gathered thousands of battleships each has a displacement of 500,000 metric tonnes and 20 motherships with a displacement of over 15 million metric tonnes now heading towards Earth as we speak. They are groups in a tight formation around a shield generator which ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How do marine dragons evolve flight without any feathers and no hollow bones? These dragons spend most of their lives in the ocean, however during the mating season they will migrate inland and gather together on a mountain top. Throughout the journey they will cease feeding and fly for hours upon hours non stop until they reached their destination, a few didn't made it due to... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How to make society ravaged by random killing, prosper and remain happy? Set in near future. Human population is at most a hundred thousand. Everyone lives in mountainous regions to escape deadly miasma. The air is infected by nanites which can cause cardiac arrest in humans. All humans are being infected by nanites. The nanites are all connected in a network and would ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |