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Posts by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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 ma...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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 exa...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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...

9 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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 albed...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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 o...

17 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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 comp...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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Q&A 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 d...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Vakus Drake‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Vakus Drake‭

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