Activity for king of panes‭

Type	On...	Excerpt	Status	Date
Question	—	What would cause male and female insectoid aliens to become highly dimorphic and live in different environments? Something I was working on in the past involved a species of sentient insectoids. The idea was the two sexes usually live in two very different environments and rarely come into contact with the other one, except for when they meet in a sort of 'middle ground' to mate. Consequently, they look to ou... (more)	—	almost 8 years ago
Question	—	Group-minded alien species create alien human hybrids- why? The aliens in question aren't of a hive mind in the strictest sense (instead of many drones answering to a leadership caste each organism acts as one cell, all of them are essentially 'the same rank'). They have studied humans from afar, even covertly abducted the odd one for experimentation. Assumin... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	Is there any real potential advantage to having two hearts? One common way sci-fi writers try to make their aliens seem more 'alien' is to give them an extra heart. This has been done for example in Babylon 5, Dr. Who and Alien Nation among others. But: Would a humanoid (note: in this question humanoid only means two legs, two arms, one head, all in ascen... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	Manhattan Project goes really, really wrong This is for a project where the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from early US atomic bomb tests is somehow much more magnified than the destructive blast- so much so that it destroys electrical devices all over the globe (for the moment how is a mystery). The questions I have about this include the follo... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	How to put new spin on 'tribes living in the treetops' From the answers I received in my previous question explaining why a humanoid society couldn't live atop giant mushroom caps, I have considered going back to my previous idea of them building their villages in the higher portions of great forests- however I'm looking for a way to keep this from comin... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	Could a humanoid species live on top of massive growths of fungi? Something I'm working on- originally I intended for this particular species to build cities up in the treetops of massive forests, but that's been done before. So I considered maybe they built their villages on mushroom caps the width of islands on Earth. Would the fungal growths be too soft to supp... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	A "Rational" explanation for psychic/psionic abilities For what I'm working on, humans (some humans, anyway) develop the abilities to communicate telepathically, move things with thought, possible premonitions, maybe psychic projection (but that might be a little too far out for what I have planned) and I'm looking for an explanation to how these abiliti... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	Unusual reproductive method for a particular species Basically, it starts as a variation on the seahorse, once the ova are fertilized within the mother the embryoes are drawn back into the father who then carries them to term (there's actually a second, more gruesome stage to the process but that's probably a question for another time.) How w(c)ould th... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Spacecraft pulled by the moon The idea is- as the moon is passing over, the pull of Earth's gravity on immediate area surrounding the spacecraft somehow temporarily cancelled out (still working on the how) and the craft falls toward the moon. After clearing Earth's atmosphere the craft's thrusters (or other means of propulsion) d... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Nitrogen-Oxygen Gas Giant Assuming such a stellar body is even possible, could human or animal life (also assuming they have a way to avoid being pulled toward the planet's core) breathe its outer atmosphere? Would such life be crushed by the atmosphere's pressure? (more)	—	over 8 years ago