Activity for RandySavage
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How long can a human body function at safe levels in slightly higher and lower gravity? I have a number of alien species from different planets with gravity between 0.5g and 1.75g and I wanted to have groups of each of the species to exist together in a space habitat. As pointed out to me in a previous question, having multiple levels in a rotating habitat would be a way to go as it sho... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Could a galaxy of Nicoll-Dyson beams hit a single target? This was an idea for a flashback as I pick up my story around 100 trillions years from now at the point where star formation is ceasing and the red dwarf and stellar remnant era begins. Now living in an era where abundant stellar energy is decreasing my characters in an almost comedy moment look back... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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What percentage of stars would need to become Shkadov thrusters to move the whole galaxy? The advanced civilization in my story is trying to reach as many galaxies as possible in the next few billions years before the expansion of space has sent those galaxies permanently out of reach without some form of FTL travel which my story does not have. I plan to have von Neumann probe-like self... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How would a biological brain be updated with its digital memory? In my story characters can go into perfectly simulated virtual worlds where their memories have been replicated down to the individual neurons and their protien structures. In these worlds time passes at a much slower rate meaning they can spend years enjoying fantasies, studying and training whilst ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Could habitable planets form in an ultracompact galaxy? I am wondering if habitable planets could form around stars in super dense dwarf galaxies. There are some super dense galaxies such as M60-UCD1 and M85-HCC1 which can have a typical distance between stars of 1/20th of a light-year, compared to the Milky Way's average of 4 light-years between stars. ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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What would the sky view be like of a final stage massive merged galaxy? What will be the view of the sky and the distances between stars, living on a planet or in a habitat in a super galaxy that has merged with all its nearby galaxies in its cluster, at a time in the future when everything else has expanded beyond sight? There are artist impressions of what the sky wou... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How to keep internal organs functioning within an exoskeleton suit in different gravity levels? This question answers the issue I was wondering about of how well an exoskeleton suit could help my characters move as normal in higher and lower gravity Could a robotic exoskeleton give humans Earth like movements on a high gravity planet? The issue many member brought up is how the internal organs... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How to discretely sustain a plasma life-form? I have some plasma life forms that have evolved within the photosphere of a star and also capable of existing on a neutron star and the ergoshpere or accretion disk of a blackhole. This lifeform could be contained within high powered magnets, such as in a tokomak fusion reactor but I am wondering if... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Mechanics and structure for an artificial giant creature? I originally wanted to create giant land biological life-forms but the square cube law is limiting me to sauropod body sized creatures so another element of my story is artificially enhanced biological creatures and full robotic creatures. I am wondering what would be the best internal structure for... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How long and where could an antimatter object survive in space? Are there any areas of space where an antimatter object, the size of a small house could survive without coming into contact with any or extremely minimal amounts of matter? I had assumed in all areas of space the object would come into contact with enough dust and gas to make it explode/ disappear ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Scientific explanation for extreme fighting strength I was wondering if there is a scientific way to explain how my characters are capable of extreme levels of strength when engaging in combat. My characters are biological but have implants that allow them to create energy attacks, such as electricity, lasers, plasma and chemical attacks of poison, us... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How could space life deal with the cold? I am workin on an ecosystem based on life within the rings of a planet. I will create creatures from single celled organisms, to algae/ lichen, plankton/worms and scales of predators leading to large lifeforms. Saturn's rings have their own atmosphere mostly comprised of oxygen and water is abundant... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Could a creature use both infrasound and ultrasound? I was thinking of a creature that uses ultrasound to echolocate and infrasound to communicate with its species. The current idea is a dog-like creature that hunts in packs, due to a large avian predator they developed infrasound to communicate at a pitch that cannot be heard by the predator and thei... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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sentient to nonsentient lifecycle This was an idea I had for an alien life form but i thought it made so little sense for a science-based story that I didn't further it. The idea is a tree-like life form that instead of bearing fruit or releasing its seeds to be caught by the wind, the seeds or fruit were a mobile sentient creature,... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Design for an AI built spaceship In this futuristic setting an AI being has built an interstellar spaceship solely for itself, no humans or other life forms will be needed to maintain it or be passengers. Because of the AI being, the ship will have some elements of design similar to a human ship, for story driven purposes but those... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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A plausable explanation of how life is created with digital DNA I recently read that not only would a creatures digital DNA need to be stored but its mitochondria and microbiomes DNA needs to be stored. A previous questions answers mentions epigenetic structures, the mothers womb and correct hormone balance, the enzymes and amino acids needed for the cells growt... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Can multiple space habitats be joined by tubes? I wanted to create an extremely large space city which will be made up of many different large space habitats of ringed and cylindrical varieties. Although each habitat will contain its own city or environment I wanted the collection of all habitats to seem like a city, rather than just a collection... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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How would a bird's flight change entering the zero gravity axis of an O'neil cylinder? This question on space stack begins to tackle how a bird could fly inside an O'Neill cylinder, https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/27665/can-birds-fly-inside-an-oneill-cylinder. Here is the video mentioned in the question of birds attempting to fly in zero G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Arachnid fingers Is there a way arachnids legs could have finger like appendages at their ends in a way that makes sense for their structure and wouldn't look like a cheesy design? This creature wouldn't be insect like in that it has an exoskeleton, as scaling up insects to the size I am after wouldn't work, so the ... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Humanoid hummingbird I was wondering what anatomy would allow a humanoid creature, where the height of the body is around 4 feet tall, to be able to fly like a hummingbird. I have read that scaling up a hummingbird even by a little may not be possible as they are constantly flapping their wings and adding more mass woul... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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How can I create strong structures with a drone swarm? Continuing from my previous questions about a swarm of millimetre-sized drones, I want them to be able to interlock or by some method form into strong functioning structures, like a gun or a baseball bat, then disassemble back into a swarm or another structure. I had thought they could interlock, an... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Can I make my drone swarm quieter or Silent? I have a character that achieves an ability similar to scattering and reforming or elemental swarming by controlling millimetre sized surveillance drones to morph into different shapes or disperse back into a swarm. The drones will use a flapping winged method to fly similar to insects. Is there a... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Would this drone structure work? I had an idea for a swarm of tiny drones, the smallest being as small as fairy flies at 0.15mm long, that could form into shapes and structures, even mimic the shapes of living creatures. They would form into a 3d skin, with the inside of the shape being hollow. Assuming they have the level of accur... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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How large can a flying insect get and still be able to walk upside down? Given the perfect environment, denser atmosphere, oxygen rich, maybe lower gravity, how large can a flying insect get and still be able to walk upside down on a surface? This question starts to tackle it but doesn't give a definitive answer plus the OP states a particular weight which may be too hea... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Which of these options is more achievable for a biological creature? I have an alien species similar to a caterpillar, the original idea was that the creature could eat different materials, digest them then combined with a very sticky liquid created in its body, it could spit it out in strings to form different structures. Other than eating wood I originally wanted i... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Artificial lighting for a closed O'Neill cylinder I am struggling to picture what placement of artificial lighting I should use for my O'Neill cylinder design for the daylight hours, a strip light along the centre of the cylinder would obstruct the view of above scenery and take up space and any other designs I can think of wouldn't provide even lig... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Design Criteria for non humanoid aliens anatomy I am trying to find out if I have thought of the correct anatomy requirements for designing non humanoid alien species. I am designing as many different biological species as I can with the aim of their anatomy being as far from humans as possible whilst still meeting the criteria. The aim is that t... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Land running Octopoid anatomy This question is based off videos of octopi running using their tentacles curled under and their body raised from the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qzi88k3aM I saw this question Anatomy of a walking octopoid but it is the specific running motion strong enough to lift the body up that I ... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Manufacturing a new propulsion method mid journey I have an interstellar ship going from earth to a nearby star system using current technology and chemical fuel. The ship has been created and is being managed by a self sufficient android. The android has high levels of processing, learning capabilities and can re programme and upgrade itself. Equi... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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How can a being that can create electric attacks use targeted lightning storm strikes? I found one question that deals with how to make lightning from clouds strike a target person, Can we make lightning strike a certain person? but I am looking for something that doesn't involve technology as the story is super powers science-based, there is an answer that suggests using a laser to cr... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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What anatomy would a human-like character need in order to produce in its body and spit/spray from the mouth a variety of liquids? I want a character to be able to spit/spray from the mouth many different liquids created within the body. Liquids would include a strong acid, flammable liquid, strong poison/nerve agent, a sticky glue like substance, and I am sure there will be more added at a later date. There may be different ve... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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How can i get around power limitations due to battery size? My story has a few androids and some beings that can manipulate electricity with their bio battery electric organs and I want these characters to have the ability to shoot powerful lasers, plasma projectiles etc but I am unsure how they could store that much power to allow them to do repeated attacks... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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How much energy could be stored in an average human body using electric organs? I have been playing with the ideas of electricity generating/attacks for my characters using either electric organs similar to electric eels or some sort of bio battery using bacteria that produce electrons. I was wondering to what limit electrical energy of this form could be contained in a battery... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How much energy would a character need to disassemble and reassemble thier matter? I wanted to have characters that can control energy and matter, so Dr Manhattan came to mind as a great example of a character that does that. Information on him says that he has complete awareness of and control over atomic and subatomic particles, due to him being an intrinsic field representation... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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How can compressed air jet from a characters hands? I was wondering if there is a way to have a person with added organs and systems to be able to shoot jets of compressed air out of their body without them needing a giant gas bag or massive lungs? Having read other questions theres some great suggestions on how to biologically explain how a characte... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |