Activity for HolocronCollectorâ€
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Which natural resources could warrant interstellar conflicts? Imagine a distant future in which humans' descendants have scattered throughout the stars, settling wherever they can. Some planets and moons are resource-rich paradises, while others are barren wastelands with little to offer other than common minerals and metals. In sci-fi, spacefaring peoples of... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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What could cause my millennium-long ice ages? Here on earth, it takes about 90,000 years for major ice sheets to build up, and another 10,000 for them to collapse, resulting in 100,000 year cycles of major glaciation, from what I understand. Would it be too far fetched to imagine a world where this happens at a much faster and more regular rate... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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What could possibly power an Alcubierre drive? I understand that in order to compress and expand spacetime, an Alcubierre drive would require some sort of "exotic matter" with a negative energy density. Is that sort of exotic matter purely hypothetical? If not, what would it look like? How would it behave? Is it related in any way to antimatter?... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |