Activity for Vakus Drake
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How to create fictional earth ecosystems with lots of megafauna which can plausibly coexist? Ecosystems like the african savanna have lots of megafauna which to some extent compete with each other for the same prey/vegetation, but still coexist just fine. So how do I construct similarly diverse terrestrial ecosystems, while ensuring I don't have too many large carnivores, or any megafauna s... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How big could dinosaurs get with super strength and durability? On this parallel earth all vertebrates received the ability to efficiently produce super strong materials from readily available minerals/nutrients in the mid Triassic. The specifics of these composite organic metamaterials aren't super important just that: The metamaterials are of comparable den... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How could indestructible materials be used in power generation? Background: In this scenario assume technology is initially equal to our own, but a method is discovered to render material indestructible. The affected material is treated as requiring infinite or arbitrarily high amounts of energy to break any of its bonds whether they be nuclear or chemical (this... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Hottest possible terrestrial planet I recently read this article (http://www.space.com/5985-hottest-planet-discovered.html) about a hot Jupiter that orbits it's star about once a (earth) day. This and remembering how high of an albedo Venus has (inefficient if you want to maximize temperature) made me think about how hot you could make... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Entirely too much mana from the heavens Time period is renaissance, with the most powerful culture being in a area geographically similar to the middle east. So a cleric was trying to combat a drought in his kingdom using the power of a solar eclipse, he invoked great divine energies to accomplish this. However he went a bit overboard with... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Effects of a warp field based super-speed power While something like a warp drive is a staple of ftl technology in sci-fi, I wonder how this sort of spatial warping would operate on a smaller scale on earth. The idea has occurred to me to have a character with gravity and antigravity powers try to warp distance. This distance warping wouldn't ex... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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Technological applications of light only wormholes For this question I'm assuming a utterly infeasible technological breakthrough suddenly makes wormholes technology possible. However there is a major catch, the 2D "windows" as they're called don't allow through matter or gravitational pull. The "windows" can be opened for about a half a million USD.... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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Parallel universes, mirrored My question regards mirroring, specifically what you would expect from a universe that was mirrored from the perspective of our own, regarding its interactions with our own. The mirroring works exactly, well like a mirror, so handedness is going to be switched it seems on many things. The universe i... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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What would the effects be on a earth-like planet if the magnetic field was much stronger The hypothetical world is for all intents and purposes earth or very close to it. So what would the effects be if the magnetic field were either stronger from the start of the planet, or if the magnetic field suddenly became much stronger on a existing planet. I already know that the planet would r... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |