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Question How Could a Disease that Lowers the Intelligence of Humans to Non-Sapient Levels Exist?
I am curious if there is a way for a disease to negatively effect the intelligence of humans;reducing them to non-sapient ferals in the end. I am curious what such a disease would need to do to effectively achieve this and how it could originate. The disease,parasite,etc can be naturally occurring o...
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over 5 years ago
Question How Long Would Interstellar Expansion Take at Our Current Population Growth in This Circumstance?
FTL (Faster than Light) travel exists,taking around 88 hours 48 seconds to travel 1 light year. FTL communications also exists and takes only 53.28 seconds to travel 1 LY (Light Year). Jumps longer than 10 LY at a time have not been tried,with the safe range being considered around 5LY due to the gre...
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almost 6 years ago
Question How long does it take for biological matter to decay in space?
I have been looking up a few different theories lately. And one of those is the idea that intelligent life cannot exist for any long period of time without eradicating itself or being destroyed by outside influences. My question assumes all hypothetical life that may exist within 30LY of Earth died ...
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almost 6 years ago
Question Is a Selective Breeding Program to Create Enhanced Humans Plausible?
The idea is that the concepts of DNA, inheritance, and micro-organisms were discovered significantly earlier in history. Roughly 50 years after the founding of Alexandria as a city state in 332 B.C., Greek scholars ended up developing the first microscopes. During their studies of human anatomy, they...
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almost 6 years ago
Question What would the effects be if all power grids connected to nuclear reactors abruptly suffered catastrophic failure?
To be more specific, I mean what if every wire, every power cable and transformer on the connected grids to the nuclear power plants all ruptured at once. The transformers literally exploding, the wires and cables tearing open; while the plants themselves became unstable due to sudden extreme power f...
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almost 6 years ago