Activity for socrates
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What event would kill most of the worlds population at the SURFACE, but spare everyone at the altitude of a commercial jetliner? I want a realistic event to occur that kills the majority of the Earth's population. However, the nature of this event must not effect humans or machinery currently flying at high altitudes (those of passenger airplanes). The event can be singular or be multiple events occurring simultaneously arou... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Natural subterranean cave formations on Mars Is it possible that subterranean caves do/have existed on Mars? We know of the past existence of water on Mars. Which region (if any) of Mars would we likely find/expect to find a cave system below the surface? (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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What sorts (if any) of edible fungi (or other species) can survive lowlight conditions? Basically, in the event of a blotting out of the sun á la an impact winter, what sort of food source (if any) could be used to sustain humanity? In my universe, underground/makeshift greenhouses would not be infeasible, but more desirable would be the ability to farm some sort of edible food on the... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How dark would an impact winter really be? How dark would it be living in an impact winter? Where would an asteroid have to hit earth to cause an impact winter? gives a great breakdown of the effects of an impact winter, but I'd like to know some more specifics about just how dark it would really be. (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Impact Winter: light as a commodity For those unfamiliar, An impact winter is a hypothesized period of prolonged cold weather due to the impact of a large asteroid or comet on the Earth's surface. (Wikipedia) In my world I want light and light sources to be a commodity. This means that the atmosphere must be sufficiently dense su... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Methods for drug intake/delivery My world is largely based around the production and consumption of 'drugs', chemicals which have physiological affects. Given the variety of drugs in the world, I am looking for alternate ways of consuming them. There are the standard ways, of course: smoking, snorting, suppositories, oral consumptio... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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What size of near-earth asteroid could break up in the atmosphere to do sufficient damage to a city without destroying it? I need a meteor to deliver an extraterrestrial algae-like cellular life form to an urban environment/city. The meteor needs to be far enough that it will not impact the Earth and will not cause sufficient alarm. The meteor needs to be inconspicuous enough that a city would not be evacuated upon ap... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Ethics and malevolent, omniscient AI A concept in ethics (specifically, Kantian ethics) is that a perfectly rational being, without dependencies, will not act immorally, because immorality itself is an irrational concept, only effected by the inclinations, desires, dependencies, and needs of a limited being (such as humans). If we ass... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |