Activity for MedwedianPresident
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Can 2019-nCoV be altered to be carried by the wind? After surveying customers about their new product, 2019-nCoV™, E.V.I.L. Inc. realized that many of them would pay for an upgrade which allows for the virus to be carried by the wind itself in order to negate hygiene measures that are currently being taken against it. As such, the evilest brightest e... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Why should astronauts grow and eat Caulerpa taxifolia, the world's biggest single-celled organism? Caulerpa taxifolia, an algae species popular with aquarium owners, is the largest single-celled organism known to us as of today. It is notable for being able to regenerate from any part of the body and shows structures mirroring normal plant organs, with RNA differing throughout different parts of... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Security against "truth serum" by means of a drug poisonous in combination with sodium thiopental The secret police of my fictional country (unoriginally) uses sodium thiopental in medical interrogations, usually in combination with various forms of physical torture. An antagonist (a courier of smuggled goods) who is detained by them and injected with a thiopental-based serum suddenly dies befor... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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An animal that is physically separated into multiple parts One of my fictional planets (which is largely terran in nature) is notable for an unique animal. Said animal is a dangerous predator that is notable for several things: It is physically separated into three parts: one "hunter", one "digestor" and one "reproducer". All three parts share the same DNA... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Realistic geological and chemical composition of an edible planetary surface We all at some point in our childhoods thought that the moon is made out of cheese. As such, I thought: under what circumstances can a planetary surface form in such a manner that it is edible (and ideally, nourishing) for human beings? Since the idea of something like this was never (according to m... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Thousand Plate World: Formation I have found this idea on a discussion on /r/worldbuilding. Anyway, the premise is as follows: The planet is earth-like in terms of size and mass. The planet has a very large amount of small, active, mobile tectonic plates (several hundred to several thousand). My question here is: How could a ... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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The language of Duckburg: Calisota German My Calisota, which is located in the north of what we know as California and largely resembles the universe seen in German-language Disney comics (Lustiges Taschenbuch), except for the absence of anthropomorphic animals and the presence of humans in turn, largely speaks German due to the German herit... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Microgravity BBQ setup The development of microgravity cuisine is an interesting topic, especially when it comes to transferring simple processes like the successful thermochemical processing of muscle tissues (e.g. barbecuing of meat). A man, who is a butcher and owns a small restaurant, and his friend, an astronaut qual... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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30km deep canyon in Central Europe Let's suppose that there is a canyon, several hundred kilometers in length, stretching from Leipzig to Geneva and reaching the depth of 30 kilometers. It is up to 60 kilometers wide, cutting through the Thuringian Forest, separating Franconia and Swabia in half and forming an abyss between the Alps a... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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How can perpetually-gliding lifeforms develop space travel? Malgrovian gliders inhabit the middle layers of the atmosphere of Malgrov, a gas dwarf. They spend most of their life gliding, preying on giant balloon-like floating lifeforms. When they get older, they slow down and begin falling. The two brown things on the top are egg sacs that are covered by a ... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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How would a 30-kilometer tall mountain on an Earthlike planet look? Let us take an earthlike planet. Approximately same radius, atmosphere and climate. Now let us create an approximately circular, paleovolcanic mountain approximately 30 kilometers in height and 150 kilometers in radius, not dissimilar from Olympus Mons. The crater's radius is 20 kilometers and its d... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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How could Earth be propelled into a further orbit? In my story, technologically advanced aliens create a "white hole" at the center of the sun that constantly spits out matter (hydrogen) from a parallel universe, increasing the star's mass quickly. Then, they leave without a trace. The sun is now destined to turn into a red giant in the matter of mil... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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How would a decrease in intelligence as a punishment be carried out? An ideal punishment for evil scientists or geniuses would be a judicially mandated, deliberate decrease in intelligence. Let's say that a judge ordered a person's IQ to be decreased from 200 to 110. How would the sentence be carried out? Note that the sentence does not mean turning a genius into an ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How would deafening as punishment be carried out? Blinding, amputation and other punitive mutilations have been used effectively in the past; however there are no accounts of deafening, e.g. removal of one's sense of sound, being carried out. How would a judicial deafening sentence be carried out using simple technologies and techniques? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Can a human be used as a living bee hive or ant hill? My question is: Can a human be used as a living ant hill or bee hive, e.g. have insects living inside themselves under the premise that they (the human) are completely immobilized? "Living hill or bee hive" means that the insects burrow tunnels construct structures within the human. (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Could a plant grow on a restrained, living human? My question is: Could a macroscopic (e.g. visible) plant grow on a living human, provided that the human is completely immobilized? (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Modern Scaphism Scaphism, also called "The Boats", was one of the yummiest and funniest most horrific and gruesome execution methods in Human history, invented by the Persians. The condemned would be tied between two boats and left in a swamp, being force-fed a mix of honey and milk and have the mixture smeared on h... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Using Polonium in a WMD A gram of vaporized polonium can kill more than a million people and thus is the most potent poison known to Man. Having read this article, my crazy dictator immediately assembled the most experienced (and craziest) WMD engineers of his country and tasked them with developing a Polonium-based device ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How to induce artificial gangrene? A crazy dictator is once again bored of the most gruesome execution methods invented by the leading torturers and doctors of the country. He tasks the employees of his favorite torture center with inventing various methods to effectively artificially induce diseases such as cancer on healthy individu... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Execution by Earthworm We are talking about those comrades who come out on wet autumn days - you're right, normal earthworms, Lumbricus terrestris. Playing an important role in ecology, earthworms stand at the lower end of the food chain. Your task is: to come up with a plausible execution method which employs earthwo... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Geography and Appearance of an nitrogen/ammonia planet The planet in question is this one. Approximately three quarters the size and half the gravity of Earth, an atmosphere 25% as dense as the Terran one which mainly consists of Nitrogen with small percentages of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide. Orbiting a Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf, at the outer rim of th... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Water replacement on a world with a nitrogen-rich atmosphere The planet in question is this one. The atmosphere mainly consists of nitrogen and is approximately a quarter the density of Earth's; I chose surface temperatures ranging from -50°C to 0°C. I need a compount which effectively "replaces" water on this planet. Any compounds similar to Water in their... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Sky color on a planet with an atmosphere consisting mainly of nitrogen A planet approximately 70% the size of Earth with a surface pressure of approxiamtely 0.25 bar at sea level. The atmosphere consists of the following gases: Nitrogen (98%) Oxygen (1.5%) Carbon monooxide and dioxide (0.5%). The planet orbits a red dwarf at the outer border of the habitable zone, w... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Ideal torture machine: The Anatomizer I have read in a book review of "Fallen Angels" that a high-tech torture machine, which "administers drugs and medical attention while busy cracking teeth, flaying skin and breaking bones" and "renders one's anatomy and is henceforth called "The Anatomizer"" used for "ritual punishment" is described ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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An Alternative Earth: Warmer Siberia This question concerns this Alternative Earth. To make a certain fictional country which occupies the northern part of Russia more interesting, I want to make agriculture feasible in Siberia and to increase the population density of this region. This will require several climatic changes. Let's sta... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A method to cause maximum pain to a human I am currently searching for a new execution method to be used in my fictional psychotic dictatorship. After introducing methods such as decompression, boiling, surgical torture (being dissected alive without anesthesia) or slow dissolution in acid, the dictator is still not satisfied, saying that "t... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Water-based computer We all know that electrons behave like flowing water, e.g. that electric currents behave like water currents. We also know that modern computers use electric currents to carry out mathematical and logical operations. My question is: Can a computer (a machine that is able of at least carrying out b... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Nitrogen oxide atmosphere: Breathing masks So, I've got a planet with this atmosphere. The composition is: 60% NO 20% NO2 10% N2O 5% N2 5% O2 traces of CO, CO2. The surface pressure is 0.7 atm, temperatures range from -30 to +30 degrees Celsius. Temperature and pressure do not bring up any problems, but the composition of the atmosphere ... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Color of a nitrogen oxide atmosphere I've got a planet with a very special atmosphere. The properties are as follows: Surface pressure = 0.7 atm Composition: 60% NO 20% NO2 10% N2O 5% N2 5% O2 traces of CO, CO2 My question is: What would be the color of the sky/of the atmosphere? (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Nitrogen oxide atmosphere We all know that Titan has an atmosphere that consists mainly of N2. What I want to have is a planet with an atmosphere that consists mainly of various nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2, N2O). My questions are: What could lead to such a situation? Could such an atmosphere even develop? Could the atmospher... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Most effective method to prolong the life of a single person? Let's assume that the dictator of a large and rich country is approximately 70 years old, and that signs of old age are showing, meaning that his death is not very far. Let's assume that the people of the country want to keep this person alive for the longest possible period at any price. Let's assu... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How to effectively slow down a ship about to shoot through the Solar System at 0.6c? Suppose that our random heroic brave interstellar expedition is returning to Earth from Alpha Centauri at 60% of the speed of light, but there was an accident in the nuclear reactor, forcing the captain of the ship to jettison the whole propulsion section in order to evade the nuclear explosion. The ... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Blue Cryovolcanic Planet Everybody, even those who are complete beginners in the field of Astronomy, know Io, the cryovolcanic moon of Jupiter that looks like a burned pizza with skin cancer. Volcanoes constantly spit out sulphur in various forms and compounds, which gives Io its characteric coloring that consists mainly of ... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |