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Setting: "One Big Lie" Sci-fi RPG The lies in this setting are an extension of relativity with a couple of extra dimensions allowing for FTL/Backwards Time Travel, and Thaumons. Thaumons (Magic B...

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I want to use a handwavium gravity field generator on my spaceships, but this has several problems. Generating gravitational fields of peculiar shapes is not a difficult thing to do in this settin...

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I am writing a sci-fi setting with space travel. In this there is an alien world important enough to require that I put thought into the ecosystem. Unfortunately, due to plot reasons, the usual me...

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By request, these are the two previous questions in this "series": Low Voltage Lightning and Alien Nitrogen How To Make Lightning I recently asked a question about lightning storms on planets. O...

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An alien world with a significant amount of tall metal trees allows lightning to occur at lower voltages than usual. How low could that voltage be pushed and still break apart Nitrogen molecules i...

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I am running a sci-fi RPG. One of my players (the Engineer) has expressed interest in having a gold hammer. This seems pretty ridiculous to me as gold is soft and softness doesn't seem like a qua...

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If you have ever watched Tintin: Or played Minecraft: Then you may have dreamed, as I have, of an ecosystem dominated by Fungal life. As part of a Hard Sci-Fi RPG I'm running, I'd like one of th...

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EDIT: As it turns out the method I had thought of using to combat aging doesn't work the way I expected. As such I have rethought this question in more vague terms. New Question: Using current hyp...

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Okay, so I have a sci-fi setting in which there is a form of FTL travel. Imagine the universe(all three/four dimensions of it) was stretched out onto the surface of a sphere. Now assume that ther...

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Was wondering if anyone with physics knowledge could tell me something about desert worlds. If the surface of a planet was mostly a fine sandy material (e.g. Sand) then could tidal forces cause th...

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I've had a look around the internet and the only real classification system for planets seems to be the one from Star Trek, which I don't want to use. The real groups that planets fall under seem t...

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Imagine a world with time travel, got it? Good. Now imagine that time has multiple dimensions. Time has its OWN dimension of time, along which it can evolve. This is called hypertime, or "w" (As i...

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I have this race of space-dwarves and I need to make them homeless due to technological hubris of some kind: for plot reasons. I think that if they were to attempt to build some kind of Dyson sphe...

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So, normal humans can tolerate up to 4g of acceleration. If I had the tech to freeze and thaw people, would being frozen aid in tolerating high-g forces, or would the brittleness of your froz...

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