Activity for Delirium‭

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Question	—	Evolutionary adaptations in sensory organs among wildlife in sandstorm? What possible evolutionary adaptations could you foresee in the sensory organs of wildlife in an environment beset by a nigh-permanent sandstorm? e.g. in the case of vision, ways to protect the eyes from sand, as well as to enhance their vision in that specific low-light scenario. Secondly, what a... (more)	—	over 4 years ago
Question	—	A clothing material or other method to slow free-fall descent down walls I'm working on a military sci-fi piece that involves a lot of exo-skeleton enhanced, well, parkour -- for lack of a better term -- and was wondering how to deal with descents from great heights. The characters want to traverse a city while remaining as high above the street as possible to avoid hos... (more)	—	over 4 years ago
Question	—	Human labor required to setup automated mining outpost on faraway planet? Glossing over the technological implications of interstellar travel, what sort of human labor might still be required in a future where we are capable of setting up nigh-fully automated endeavors on faraway planets? For example, a commercial mining outpost on a faraway planet operated by mostly auton... (more)	—	over 4 years ago
Question	—	Physiological changes necessary to scale an insect's size up while maintaining a catapult jumping mechanism and jump/body ratio? I understand that one does not simply scale up the smallest of creatures to the size of megafauna without violating basic physiological constraints like the square/cube law, among others; so what would have to take place to take a grasshopper and enlarge it to the relative size of a grizzly bear (in ... (more)	—	over 4 years ago
Question	—	Feasibility of a massive and nigh-permanent sandstorm? In my military sci fi story in which a squad of private contractors have to contend with hostile creatures reliant on scent and mechanoreception to hunt, I wanted to keep the sci-fi 'hard' and plausible as I could--within the context of a story about space marines fighting space monsters of course--a... (more)	—	almost 5 years ago