Activity for AngelPray
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Placement of redundant containment systems? In the near future humanity discovers a spatial anomaly at a point located somewhere between the orbits of mars and earth. This anomaly quickly induces delirium in anybody who approaches it and even seems to have mild (though sometimes severe) reality warping effects on its environs. Notwithstanding ... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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Mating ritual where female chases male? Mating rituals are various behaviours, serving as a precursor to copulation in almost all animal species. In general these serve to aid the females of the species to pick out a mate. They can be interpreted as tests or demonstrations of the male's (mental and/or physical) fitness. Now one example of... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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How to increase the availability and quantity of Mercury on an Earth-like planet? According to this list mercury only makes up 6.7×10-6 % of the Earth's crust (by mass, I believe; though even if it's by number of atoms it's still tiny). I'd like to make mercury sufficiently common on the surface of my world (relatively Earth-like, in the habitable zone, large liquid water ocean... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Is it possible for a creature to regurgitate all waste products in the form of a pellet? I am designing a rather sizable ( 2000 kg) carnivorous predatory species and I want it to expel all the waste it produces in the form of dry, compacted pellets (similar to owl pellets, except of course it would contain more than simply undigestable bones and feathers, and be much larger) that it regu... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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How can a creature's physiology involuntary react to whether a child is being raised or not? I'm designing an intelligent alien species in which child rearing is a very labor instensive and lengthy process (their progeny take a little more than a decade and a half to mature), so much so that: both sexes are equally involved in it parents do not reproduce again until their child has reached... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Logistics of high-quality lifestock delivery for alien megacity? Essentially all the members of an alien species live within a single relatively sparsely inhabited megacity. The city has a surface area of about 30,000km². The species happens to be almost exclusively carnivorous and needs to butcher around 5,000,000 large animals (including big flightless "birds"... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Could the males of a primarily monogamous alien species have antlers? I'm designing an alien species and I want the males to have deer-like antlers. Now I also need this species to have a genetic predisposition (as in it is not just a cultural affectation) to be primarily monogamous (as their progeny require a lot of attention/effort much like human larvae). Of cour... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Writing system of blind, sea dwelling sentients? So let's consider a species of blind, sea dwelling, squid-like aliens. They are sentient, intelligent and highly social. As their societies develop and their available knowledge increases they require a method of storing information without needing to remember it all. These aliens are completely ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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How would first contact be with "post-organic" aliens? Let's imagine that on some planet some clever critters create an AI. Now lets say that while this AI does respect some of the ground rules that were put in place for it, it nevertheless finds numerous loop holes in its design and starts behaving in ways very contrary to its intended purpose. Some o... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |