Activity for Zoltán Schmidt
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Developed, highly advanced metropolis short on exotic foods I have this setting, about an advanced city state in the middle of a sparsely inhabited wasteland/grassland type area. This state has the 90's level tech on consumer level, and a wide range from 90's to nanotech future on the industrial/governmental level. The grasslands provide fertile soil, ideal... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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In a post-modern world, can meeting new people mean preference over local communities and/or families? Gonna be hard to put it to words, especially because of the rather broad scope of my question, but I think it can be a proper submission here. Here on Earth, regardless of the period and location, in the majority of occasions, the most fundamental unit of society was somehow related to bloodline. Mo... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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What are the feasible means of keeping a space station existing and operational for thousands of years? In my space western setting, I went nuts with the time scale, so now I have a faction living entirely in space stations (with planets used for transit and agriculture, but that's irrelevant for now), which is about 5000 years old. How can people keep their space station preventing from falling apart... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Would it makes sense for an intelligent race originated from snakes to possess the ability of hearing? I want to explore the possibilities of an alien species not much unlike that of known to Earth: snakes going through evolution in a way that made them able to reach the intelligence necessary to use tools and form civilizations. With arms and legs, of course, which implies that this species may have... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Life on planets near quasars To be very-very simple: The very main setting of my world is a very special and very small galaxy, the galactic core of which is a quasar - with the "iconic" light beam in the middle, serving a special and iconic object for the cultures living within the galaxy. According to a Redditor, these are e... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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Should immortal women have periods? Mod Note: Some people may be squeamish about this subject, please keep all responses clinical rather than vulgar. So, in my world, I try to play the "immortality" trope with twists that make it suitable for my imagination. So, to understand the question, let me give you precise details: These imm... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A literally enlightening beam of knowledge At the center of my small (one million star maximum) galaxy, there is an incredibly enormous light pillar, originated from a ridiculously huge super-construction. The stars orbit around the giant object as if it was a supermassive black hole. I want to justify its existence with the following: Se... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Which current networking protocol would be the optimal choice for very small FTL bandwidth? Possibly a dumb and outsider question, but my knowledge in the basics of computer networks is terrible. Imagine the possibly not too original concept, that humanity somehow manages to transmit data instantaneously, defeating the vast distances of space - however, it is possible for very small data p... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Entropy of the afterlife My world is based on the concept of afterlife, with a twist: people who died in other worlds are resurrecting in mine. Once in the afterlife world if they suffer another lethal injury or condition then they resurrect within the very same world, being unable to escape. However, I try to stick to the ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Would small stores' selection grow indefinitely in a space colonization era? Even now, in 2016, if you take a look around in a 7-Eleven or any European counterpart of similar small shops, you can find a comparably huge selection. In fact, this applies to large counterparts (e.g. Wal-Mart in USA or TESCO in Europe) as well: even at the very basic products of human life like br... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Earth-like moons orbiting around a gas giant I have a world idea (and definitely not the only one with such an idea in which the main location is a moon of a gas giant, that has life like on Earth. What are the effects of the presence of the gas giant in "global" scale? (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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Are brain augmentations capable of interfering with orgasm? Implants and/or augmentations in human brain are widely shown in fiction: improving and/or enhancing certain functions of the brain by artificial means can have nearly endless possibilities. All of these, of course, and I assume, are related to certain regions of the brain - and their working mechan... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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How much electric charge are dermis cells able to contain? I'd like to justify a lightning man in my world, and I have a theory that by some sort of magic, his cells in the dermis (middle layer of the skin - okay, for simplicity, don't count hair) are able to attract, keep and "hand down" electrons. Is it realistically possible? If not, what circumstances p... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Ultraviolet bioluminescence Bioluminescence is badass. It involves living beings emitting bright light in the visible spectrum. Would it be, though, possible that a lifeform emits UV (ultraviolet) light? Does it occur in reality, maybe? What are the requirements for it to happen? (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Why certain (sub)cultures would reappear in a far future? In my world, I want to create cultures resembling cultures of old Earth ages. This applies both to state structure and culture. (e.g. ancient Egypt revival) Since this does not happen spontaneously, I ask you: what causes subcultures and cultural traits to appear? Hippies appeared because of war (V... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Do separate races (not species) automatically portray a racist world? Food for thought from /r/worldbuilding: If the dominant race (typically human) of a given world, without any other context, has a huge cultural diversity, then is racism surely going to appear? If this question is answerable, what are the general factors that contribute to the racism? (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Would post-traumatic stress disorder exist identically in a pre-industrial warfare setting? I'm not into psychology, but I've heard a lot about veterans who have committed suicide, went crazy, became addicted or have their lives ruined in other ways because of the shock they lived through the warzone. The constant exposure to danger, explosions, filth, blood, human remains and such are in... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How would the terrain of a desert be impacted by abnormally-frequent lightning strikes? As usual, another interesting scientific question, taken from /r/worldbuilding. Would it mean any difference for a desert, where the amount of threatened objects is so low? Or would it form the geology and in general, the scenery somehow? (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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What kind of paradigm can keep multimedia and mobile communication separated? Today, our smarthphones can provide enormous amount of services: Internet access, both via browsers and embedded applications (e-mail service, social media client and so on), listening to music, taking pictures...and of course, calling each other since it's a mobile phone, eventually. Assume a world... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Would a person with high voltage outfit (or skin) be able to fly? Assume there's a human being who can keep a strong electric potential near to (or on) his skin. Is it possible to use the air-ionizing property, or similar ones solely or mostly solely based on this potential to create lifting power and/or to decrease impact on landing? If yes, how stable it is? Wh... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Are intelligent races necessarily diverse? Experience shows me that some people dislike when a given world has monolithic species. By this I mean the planet has one culture, language, empire or purpose that unifies all of its member. Most that dislike this idea claim it is not realistic, judging from humanity and Earth. Since it's not obvi... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |