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Question Redneck Critters?
I've been considering the term 'redneck', which is described by Google's info engine as coming "from the back of the neck being sunburned from outdoor work." As I've grown more involved with the Redwall community, I've started considering what an equivalent term may be for furred creatures in the siz...
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over 7 years ago
Question Death-Breathing Dragon
I recently learned about a chemical known as chlorine trifluoride. This utter abomination of chemistry reacts to almost everything, setting glass, sand, asbestos, and rust on fire (to name only a few), and can only be loosely contained in a fluorine-treated metal container (the fluorine layer must no...
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almost 8 years ago
Question Every Cloud Has A Silver Composition
"Every cloud has a silver lining." The saying is fairly well-known, but I was musing on it while staring through a cloud bank, and I started to wonder: What kind of hellhole would a planet have to be to have clouds made out of literal silver vapor? The first thing that comes to mind is that for silv...
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almost 8 years ago
Question Do critters need parachutes?
Al's been working on his power armor, and has started thinking about combat drops. He'd considered parachutes to facilitate this, but then he thought of the Square-Cube Law and had a thought: are parachutes really necessary? Now, the question is a bit more than just that. He's not the only critter o...
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over 8 years ago
Question What are the ramifications of exoskeletal powered armor for a rat?
Al is a rat. He is also an engineer of quite a high caliber. He has developed a suit of power armor, with a movement-assisting exoskeleton that greatly increases his strength, speed, and endurance. Now, the physical ramifications of such a suit on a human have been explored before, but what I want t...
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over 9 years ago