Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »

Posts by knowads‭

4 posts
50%
+0 −0
Q&A How big would a farming spaceship have to be to support a country-sized population?

In the Mass Effect Series, the Quarians have a population of 17 million individuals and they get all their food from 3 massive "liveships." I'll round this down to 5 million individuals supported b...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by knowads‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by knowads‭

50%
+0 −0
Q&A Scientific Theories for Personal short-range teleportation.

The world I am designing contains several ancient artifacts that among other things, share the common trait of allowing users to short-range teleport (think the Blink ability from Dishonored). The ...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by knowads‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by knowads‭

Question teleportation
50%
+0 −0
Q&A Allowing rural, isolated societies to maintain certain industrial capabilities?

My society/area is set in a isolated wasteland where the primary income of people is ranching. However, I want my people to be able to at least be able to maintain technology at a 1916 level (the r...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by knowads‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by knowads‭

50%
+0 −0
Q&A What is the cheapest way to move large amounts of trade goods to orbit?

Given a world with similar size and atmospheric composition to Earth that has a commodity export, be it grain or oil etc, that has trade with other planets, what would be best way to orbit massive ...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by knowads‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by knowads‭