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Posts by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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 lif...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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 t...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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 seco...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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 ...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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 thei...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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...

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Q&A 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...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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:...

13 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by king of panes‭

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Q&A 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 ran...

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Q&A 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 ot...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by king of panes‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by king of panes‭