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Posts by user6760‭

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Q&A How would an interstellar spaceship's speedometer work if everything else is moving?

A speedometer is a gauge or device used for measuring instantaneous speed of moving vehicle roughly speaking, so for example the reading shown on the speedometer of a car parked at road side displa...

14 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A 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 fat...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A 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...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 e...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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. ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 ...

20 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 e...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 displa...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 ...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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 ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A How can merfolks stream video in a way much similar to our WiFi but underwater?

Right now merfolks are totally envious of us watching a live stream video of cat(fight) via WiFi or satellite internet, ok ok I get it's not the speed but its latency... Urrrr. Nevermind that I sin...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A How to explain one side of Super Earth is smoother than the other side?

A spaceship flew across an unclassified region of the Milky Way galaxy and found a Super Earth in an unnamed system. The planet is almost twice as massive as Earth and is orbiting fairly far away ...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Why bother programming facial expressions for artificial intelligence if humans are bad at recognising them?

Set in the near future, robots and mankind coexist amicably due to the great technological advancement in robotics and artificial intelligence. They are everywhere and some took a human form. All o...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Would it be more efficient to build fleets in orbit?

My Dino theme park business didn't end well and I reluctantly fall into depression and decided to go into suspended animation to seek a cure. 200 years later, a lady claims she works with the milit...

9 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A What natural event could strip all of Earth atmosphere?

I was reading up on Mars thin atmosphere and was wondering how could Earth becomes like the red planet except it only has only 100 pascal (air pressure) at imaginary sea level? Mars is 600 pascal o...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Permanent flag for space pirates

Space is filled with all kinds of things that are unkind to cloth, such as dust and radiation, and they are the reason why sticking a nylon national flag on the moon isn't permanent. In my world I...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Why would spaceships still have acrylic/glass windows when force fields are cheap and reliable?

Force field technology has come a long way. The latest energy-efficient engines can guarantee stable energy output in any situation, making force fields extremely reliable and very cost effective c...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Can I program nanobots to behave like sperm and fool an egg?

In short I'm looking at creating an artificial sperm smart enough to fertilize an egg and develop into an embryo, so that would mean the sperm must have some means of carrying information similar t...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Why would any interstellar starship still bother with streamline body design?

Let's not debate whether is there any friction while traveling inside vacuum space and assume all ships can brave a perfect storm brewing inside the giant molecular cloud. OK let's get down to busi...

26 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A How do solar eclipse(s) work(s) in a binary stars system?

Say a terrestrial planet is orbiting two stars as if they're a single gravitational well.(I haven't worked out the distance yet as I still on the phone...) I don't need the planet to be habitable b...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by user6760‭

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