Activity for Westside Tony
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Bones for synthetic life Supposing that we can create an entire synthetic being, what material would be best to make its bones of attending to: Weight Strength Durability Reparability Let's set some scenarios: Case 1: The synthetic being is an animal that should be able to reproduce and grow, so it must be able t... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Can a human being live with a continuous stream of blood instead of pulses? For any reason, a human heart is replaced with a pump that instead of pulses provides a continuous stream of blood. It varies the pressure, as a heart does, as needed. Ignore such technical issues as energy, immune system rejecting strange body, etc... Is that viable/compatible with life? What pr... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Lighter swords with huge mass Lets suppose we have a material that is not equal affected by gravity as everything else,I don't care how, anything from dark matter to fairy dust works, but the point is that the weight formula for this material is w = m g d Being d a value between -1 and +1 This material has mor or les... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Electric biology What modifications would be needed for a mammal, bird or reptile to work with electricity? For work I mean mostly think and move, for example it would need to eat in order to repair it's body, grow or reproduce... It's an animal made by genetic engineering. I'm interested in: How to generate/sto... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Can non-Newtonian fluid properties be applied to armor? Non-Newtonian fluids are fluids that exhibit the qualities of a solid under rapid pressure but function as a liquid under long duration pressures. Is it possible, that an animal skin or some sort of plant fiber could exhibit similar properties and becomes rigid on impact but remain flexible when r... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |