Activity for Douglas‭

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Question	—	Cruelty Free Vampirism 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 Bosons) are a class of particle that can be "programmed" by tuning their mass such that they decay in a r... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	In a world without aging, how do we age? 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 hypothetical methods of radical life extension as a basis, in what manner would age manifest in a human's a... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	The soil of mushroom island 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 the Continents of Quilon-3b to be dominated by Toadstool Trees and Fungal Flower Fields and Mushroom Marsh... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Is there an actual use for Gold Tools? 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 quality you'd look for in a hammer. However, this got me thinking, are there any types of tool used nowada... (more)	—	about 7 years ago
Question	—	Storms in Space 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. One of the answers mentioned the idea of lightning between planets, and whilst I don't think that itself ... (more)	—	about 7 years ago
Question	—	How To Make Lightning 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 methods for advancing the nitrogen cycle aren't good enough, and to get more nitrogen oxides into the air,... (more)	—	about 7 years ago
Question	—	Non-Spin Artificial Gravity 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 setting. We have graviton generators and space-time sheet modulators to create gravity fields of all shapes an... (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	Low Voltage Lightning and Alien Nitrogen 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 in the atmosphere? (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	G-Forces and Cryo Sleep 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 frozen body lower your tolerance? Maths is not required, but encouraged. What I would like to understan... (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	How to blow up a star by accident? 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 sphere and then it collapsed into the sun it could add enough mass to the sun to make it go nova or fizzle o... (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	Will This Violate Causality? 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 there is no way of traveling through space FTL but it is possible to rotate towards the centre of the "spher... (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	Where does the Temporal Protection Agency get its intel? 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 in w,x,y,z,t). Now imagine a WH40K style world-government for humanity, that wants history to stay EXACT... (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	How Would An Advanced Race Capable of Colonization Classify Planets 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 to be messy and unordered and I don't like it. I'm looking for a way of categorizing planets into variou... (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	Is it possible to have a planet with sand tides on deserts? 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 the whole desert to flow like a slower, dustier ocean? The idea came when watching the huge waves on a pl... (more)	—	over 7 years ago