Activity for Kronimiciad
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How similar should we expect alien molecular biology to be to that on Earth? I am working out a future scenario in which humans begin to discover alien life; I want their discoveries to be plausible. For example, I've frequently heard that alien life will most likely be carbon-based; because carbon can form so many more molecules than any other element. The question is: Wha... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Alchemy in a Forest In my world, the knowledge of science is largely lost, but many of the practical facts are still remembered. Chemistry morphed back into alchemy. My main character grew up as a peasant in a city's outskirts, and learned alchemy from an old textbook and experimenting on what she could find in the for... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Gravity Propulsion I'm trying to figure out a concept for some sort of super-advanced space propulsion system that works by bending spacetime. As I understand it, planets' orbits are actually straight paths, but they move through a spacetime sufficiently curved that they travel in ellipses around their system's center... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Matter Digitatization? Is there any hypothetical way that a crazy advanced civilization could convert matter to digital form (or energy) and back? How far away might such technology be from our current tech level, if that question can even be answered? (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Ouroboros Wormhole So let's say that some advanced future civilization is capable of creating and manipulating wormholes, and uses a network of wormholes for their FTL transportation. If an enemy gets too close to one of these wormhole stations, they can self destruct by expanding the wormhole so that the whole statio... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Will it be posthumans rather than humans who explore the galaxy? By the time we develop the technologies necessary for travelling between stars, I think it is fairly likely that we would have already developed the technology to digitally augment, edit, and upload our minds. After that point, it's almost certain that transhumans are created, and posthumans shortly... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Could you import enough water into an ecosystem to make a new rainforest? So a rainforest creates a positive feedback loop"”vegetation creates evapotranspiration which encourages rainfall, which in turns encourages more vegetation. If you wanted to badly enough, could you irrigate an area of land with enough water to produce vegetation, so that the vegetation created a si... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Could the principle of the zero point energy universe be used for infinite energy? My understanding of the hypothesis is somewhat hazy, so I probably have gotten something wrong. But as I understand it, the total energy density of the universe is either very small or exactly zero, because all of the positive energy is outweighed by negative energy"”gravity, if I recall correctly. ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |