Posts by AndyD273
I believe that an EMP attack would do what you want. 8-10 bombs launched on scuds from container ships and set off in low earth orbit, evenly spread around the north and south hemispheres, would ta...
So in general terms, if the planet was like Earth in size and atmosphere, but had an orbit of .8 AU's instead of 1 AU, then the planet would have an average surface temperature of Kelvin: 322, Cels...
Start with pulsar planet like the ones that formed around the pulsar Lich, but a little further out and tidally locked so that it becomes something like a hot eyeball world: Set the planet at ...
So you set it up like a drug trial. First phase is really small, maybe 10 people to get dosing figured out. Maybe use some underprivileged people who would like a place to sleep and some money. If ...
The gate could be deep in a frozen arctic wilderness, like it is near the north pole, where there is just snow and ice and nothing else. No minerals, no land, no plants or animals. Natives could st...
A paper I found suggests that the sunlit side might not be a burning desert as long as the planet isn't to close to the star. Basically the difference in heat between the light and dark sides woul...
Honestly, this kinda depends on a lot of factors: Size of the plates, distance from the star, orbital period, to name a very few. The suns surface is 12,000 times bigger than Earths, meaning if e...
Assuming that you are right that a large moon could actually gets Mars tectonic and magnetic system working again... (which is an interesting idea) So after merging Phobos and Deimos and getting th...
So having the toughest skin would allow for reentry. Getting out of the atmosphere and moving through space is another matter, but this is your creature in your world that you are building. If you ...
One thing I can see working is a forced marbling of society. You see it all the time with immigrants; they move to a new country, find people with a shared background, move into the same communiti...
So a very dense/heavy gas like sulfur hexafluoride has the ability to support the weight of objects, like a boat floating on invisible water. So you could have creatures that live on the surface, a...
If it has a mane like a lion, this could be your heat shield. If it flaired out like a large umbrella and was made of a thin membrane or possibly fur, then it would block its body heat from whateve...
So you have to look at the different ways that energy is created. Most of the power plants we have boil down to something turning a turbine, which creates electricity. Coal, nuclear, etc all work b...
Several scientific theories predict the presence of extra higher dimensions. Physics has validated (or at least not falsified) a 4 dimensional (3+1) model of space-time, and if string theory is cor...
Humans are basically warm bags of slightly salty water. If an exo-bacteria can grow on your skin, there isn't much stopping it from growing inside your body. Your immune system could give it prob...
As far as I can tell, the habitable zone around a red dwarf is less than .5 AU, and is going to be very narrow. The exo-planet Gliese 581 g is right in the middle of the habitable zone of the st...
The benifit of the O'Neill cylinder is that you can get spin gravity by rotating it. The Alien universe has artificial gravity, so space stations can be more like the one in the picture without h...
Farming would look a lot more like herding. This would be interesting because you could drive your crops to market, let them out to pasture, etc. Picturing cropboys driving potatoes from Idaho to ...
Possibly by detecting resonance on a membrane through nerve signals. Sound is vibrations in the air, and when those waves run into things you get vibrations. Human skin is sensitive to sound to...
So after some consideration, this is what I've come up with. Sort of a half plant half animal hybrid similar to a sea anemone. Maybe slightly more mobile like a sea slug. It would have a wide ...
Neutronium probably isn't the material that you want to use if you want to keep it even slightly plausible. It can't exist outside of a neutron star that has less than 2 solar masses squeezed into ...
Yes, in theory. Gravity assist braking is a thing The problem is the speed. Going that fast you'd need to do a lot of maneuvers in order to lose enough velocity to enter orbit around the sun, a...
One evolutionary path is if the fungus communicated using EM signals. Electrical synapses use electricity instead of chemicals to communicate with each other. This typically means that they have to...
There isn't a reason why not. Computers communicate with just 1 and 0. DNA has 4 chemical bases, and humans have around 3 billion base pairs. There are sections of human DNA that are left over f...
Some of the things they could do are modern takes on ancient techniques. For instance crop rotation and allowing the land to rest once in a while. We know that if you plant the same crop year af...
