User Gryphon‭ - Scientific Speculation

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Rigorous Science Incoming Rogue Planet! When do we see it?

So say there was a rogue gas giant about the mass of Jupiter that, unfortunately, happened to be headed directly at Earth (or at least close enough to knock it into an orbit incompatible with life)...

2 answers · posted 6y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 6y ago by Gryphon‭

Question space planets earth

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Q&A What would this nebula look like from a planet?

It all depends on the scale and surface brightness of the nebula. For instance, the famous Orion Nebula is 1,344 light years. The Orion Nebula is a fairly bright nebula. However, if we replaced ...

posted 9y ago by Gryphon‭

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Q&A Biological Blimps: Propulsion

A while back, I asked this question about the plausibility of giant floating whales and received an excellent and high-scoring answer from Dubukay demonstrating that, given the assumptions that Dub...

11 answers · posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question biology creature-design flight light

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Q&A Maximum Personal Time-field Speed?

One day, you suddenly get superpowers! Whoo-hoo, you can speed up or slow down the flow of time for yourself. This means you can run faster than a jet, right? So you decide to test it out. You ...

8 answers · posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question time survival time-manipulation

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Q&A Scaling Up Internal Mass Drivers?

Internal mass drivers are a potentially useful space drive, due to the ready availability of reaction mass (you can use anything from spare parts to literal dirt as a propellant, assuming you have ...

3 answers · posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question space travel reality-check scaling space-travel rockets

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Q&A Methods and Feasibility of Antimatter Mining?

Say 200-300 years in the future, humankind has colonized much of the solar system, using a combination of laser thermal drives and solid-core nuclear rockets (fusion never really panned out). Sudd...

9 answers · posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

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Q&A Flash-heating humans

I'm working on a version of wormhole-based FTL travel, and one of the side effects of passing through the wormhole is going to be instantaneous heating of every molecule of the thing passing throug...

3 answers · posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question biology temperature survival

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Q&A Flash-heating spaceships

I'm working on a version of wormhole-based FTL travel, and one of the side effects of passing through the wormhole is going to be instantaneous heating of every molecule of the thing passing throug...

2 answers · posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question space spaceships temperature ships

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Charybdis

Is there a realistic way that a Charybdis-like creature could evolve? Starting with roughly earth-like biology, what is the closest plausible creature to the mythical Charybdis that could exist? ...

5 answers · posted 9y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question reality-check evolution creature-design mythical-creatures

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Q&A How could a creature get off a planet without technology?

Imagine a spacefaring creature, one that colonises star systems, and then shoots some of its kind on to another system (the mechanism for doing this doesn't matter). The question is, how could thi...

8 answers · posted 9y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question space biology creature-design xenobiology life

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Q&A How deep would a bunker have to be to prevent significant radiation seep?

Thousands of years after a nuclear war that killed all life on the surface of earth, the descendants of the humans who fled to bunkers emerge... How deep would these bunkers have to be to prevent ...

4 answers · posted 9y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

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Q&A What changes to a planet would be necessary to allow the realistic flight of a gryphon with a human rider?

How would a planet need to be changed (gravity, air pressure, air makeup, etc) to allow for the realistic flight and take off from a small hill of a gryphon with a human rider? You can assume the ...

5 answers · posted 9y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question biology planets flight light

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Q&A Earth becomes a rogue planet - how long can Iceland hold out?

Inspired by this question and my comment on one of the answers. If the earth were flung out of the solar system, it would rapidly become far too cold for any unprotected life to survive on the s...

2 answers · posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

Question planets rogue-planets survival

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Q&A Plausibility of Floating Whales

Ignoring the plausibility of their evolution and sources of food, could a whale-like creature which internally consists largely of hydrogen bladders/gasbags realistically stay aloft? If these cr...

8 answers · posted 9y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

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Q&A Viability of Fixed-Wing Biological Flying Creatures?

How plausible are naturally-evolved, biological, fixed-wing flying creatures? Could such a creature plausibly evolve in Earth-like conditions? If so, what method would it be most likely to use fo...

11 answers · posted 8y ago by Gryphon‭ · last activity 7y ago by Gryphon‭

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