Activity for Skye
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Would giant worms cause environmental damage? Gargantuan carnivorous worms with layers and layers of flesh rending teeth are a pretty common sight in some science-fiction stories. They tunnel through earth and sand as fast as a car, sensing the vibrations from prey before launching itself at them from below. However, I have always wondered whet... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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How would a creature produce and store Nitroglycerin? This question began due to a certain fictional monster. Where it was stated to be able to secrete explosive goo activated by its saliva, which would coat its boulder-like arms and explode when smashed against the ground (or human whichever works best).This creature has nothing to do with the question... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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How would or could a creature with a crystalline sail evolve? I recently came up with a lizard that had a sort of crystal-gem like attachment on its back. The problem was finding a way for such a thing to have evolved to have a largish crystal on its back. The lizard is around 2 metres long, has a height of around 1 metre tall, probably carnivorous, could sta... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Would a Complete combustion flame breath cause more destruction than a Incomplete combustion flame breath? That title is really long... but the essence of this question is basically asking whether a complete combustion flame would be more destructive(burn things faster? and spread faster?) than a incomplete combustion flame? Say if a dragon, any dragon, doesn't matter in this case decided to wipe a villa... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Is superhuman durability biologically possible? I have read about protagonists who get smashed through buildings, going through earth's atmosphere from space onto earth's surface unharmed , get launched across the sky and smashed into concrete. Generally coming out relatively injury free with only some scratches. Obviously, it's impossible for a ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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The pros and cons of a quadrupedal human over a bipedal one? Assuming a human had 4 legs and could perfectly use them for walking(they are a bit like centaurs,who have the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse). Would they have any advantages over normal bipedal humans? What kind of disadvantages would they suffer from? I would assume that they ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Why do people in Cryogenic sleep not wear clothes? In a lot of science-fiction stories, there are people who hibernate of sorts in cryosleep. Basically something like the person's body is stored in a container which is then chilled at really really low temperatures so that they can wake up at a much later date. Disregarding whether the person could h... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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What would cause a ground-dwelling race to evolve for flight? Currently coming up with a race that lives on floating islands. They are a still primarily stuck to the ground and I intend for them to be able to fly. Or else they are really gonna be stuck on those islands forever. However, I can't come up with a good reason for them to need nor evolve to fly. Th... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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How a giant floating landmass might affect the weather? I'm building up a world with floating islands. They don't move much and generally stay around the same area. However, would this affect the weather? Essentially, I have giant floating rocks in the atmosphere(similar to earth) which will not go higher than 14 km above sea level. The mechanics behind ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Anatomically Correct Murlocs So Murlocs. I'm referencing Murlocs from World of Warcraft since I never actually found any other novels or games that have them. Described as a bipedal, amphibious, intelligent, aggressive[Still capable of negotiations] race residing along coastlines, lakeshores, and riverbeds. Murlocs have bul... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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How to realistically explain a creature that eats dreams and nightmares? Inspired by Can we use science to explain a creature that feeds on emotion? I was wondering if we can somehow use science to explain how a creature that devours dreams and nightmares might have came about. Well it seems that dreams are images, ideas, emotions and sensations, nightmares are dreams ... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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What would allow an epidemic on the scale of the Black Death to happen again? The Black Death, which claimed an estimated 75-100 million lives, was one of the most devastating events that is still well known today. What conditions would allow the plague to spread and kill on a larger or equal scale as the Black Death now or in the foreseeable future? I am looking for natura... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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What kind of poison can an octopus carry to kill a person via skin contact? I'm am developing a creature, what I want to create is a giant octopus that is able to utilize poison. I would like it to shoot it from its beak if the poison is in liquid form, or emit the poison through pores on its skin in a gaseous state. I have no specific method in mind for the poison to kil... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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If our world was on a turtle... then how big would the planet the turtle is living on be? This sounds really stupid, but I'm trying to think of a way to make World Turtle work. And what I got after 5 minutes of careful deliberation, would be that the our earth would have to be 'flat' on the back of a giant turtle. And since I don't want mythical space turtles, I'm gonna presume that they ... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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What happens when a mini star forms and falls on earth? Disregarding the fact that we can't create a 'star' on earth, what would happen when a mini star is created on earth with some hocus pocus, technology humanity developed 4 billion years later and Einsteins with a death wish, and Murphy's Law strikes and the star goes critical? The star has a diamete... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Would a 'World Tree' be feasible in real life? A livescience.com article claims that trees can reach a theoretical height of 400 to 426 feet (122 to 130m). This is due to the tree being unable to carry water up to the top at that certain point due to gravity. It also claims that at a certain height, leaves (or, in the case of redwoods, needle... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Metal Armour vs lightning strikes? So I'm thinking about having my race of lightning wielding rabbits wear metal armour. The first one that came to mind was gold. And then a quick Google search later told me gold is one of the best conductors of electricity in the world. I have also read some novels where they say that metal armour we... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |