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Posts by Thesaurus Rex‭

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Q&A How long would an array of mass drivers take to terraform Mars by transporting CO2 from Venus?

So I've always assumed Mars never had enough available CO2 on-site for terraforming, something that new research seems to have confirmed. But my ideas have always relied on getting CO2 from altern...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭

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Q&A What practical forms can a "branch-tailed" organism have?

So, I made the slight mistake of worldbuilding by starting off with just a planet's local sentient species and working from there. This species, the Trillek, have a more or less theropod appearanc...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭

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Q&A Alternate aircraft configurations - would any of them be valid substitutes for conventional tailplanes?

So I'm incubating a few alternate histories in my head. Many of them will butterfly away the Wright Brothers and many other familiar parts of history, and at least one has aircraft development as a...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭

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Q&A Hygienic footwear for prehensile feet?

Prehensile hands have the advantage of not having to constantly touch anything they don't have to - with the exception of things like doorknobs. Feet don't have that luxury, and so in a sense will...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Thesaurus Rex‭