Posts by AndyD273
Set up walking paths equipped with rails. It could look something like a walker, possibly with straps to hold you down, and tied into a rail system. Each time you take a step the walker and strap...
Make them sweaty. Bit of background: SpaceX is redesigning their Starship Super Heavy (aka BFR) to be made from stainless steel, and plan to have it sweat as a heat shield. The basic concept is th...
Like sharks replace teeth. The plates can be put on the armor in an overlapping scale pattern, with one plate visible, and another above it, protected by the overlapping scale. If a scale takes a h...
Weave a mesh basket like a tea infuser out of channelium with a long chain or wire handle. Put the stone inside the channelium basket. Use the handle to lower and raise the stone into and out of w...
So a bit of study has already gone into answering this question. To blow up a planet into tiny rubble Death star style, it would take 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy. The ent...
This would not naturally work the way that you describe. Saturn has rings because the ice and rocks that make it orbit the mass of the planet. Without that mass, say if Saturn were to fall into a ...
There are a few things that you'd need to be able to clone a creature. One thing is a sample of intact DNA. If stem cells can be acquired to get it this would be better, as mature cells are specia...
The holes could work similar to a hole tone whistle, which is the principle used for a whistling tea pot. The basic idea is that a stream of air is directed through one hole, and a short distanc...
Going a bit more out there, say the aliens have discovered undeniable proof that the simulation theory is actually true. And they have figured out how to get access to some of the API from inside ...
My first thought was that the saying that we're "99.999% empty space" would easily solve this problem. The atoms would just push each other around a bit, and the parts that intersected the wall wou...
By teleport, could you say that they manipulate and/or fold space? Meaning the clerics could potentially take an internal area of the body and have it accessible from the outside without opening th...
In humans the pleasure is from the right combination of electrical and chemical signals getting to the right parts of the brain. In these beings it could be essentially the same thing. Males rele...
So you want the siege to go on for a while. So here are some things that are in the defenders favor: The attackers can't try too hard because they don't want to blow up the station, and if they...
The Common Swamp Anemone Like its cousin the sea anemone, it is more animal than plant. The "bark" is a rough leathery skin, with lots of folds and wrinkles just like a swamp cypress. It's flesh h...
One thing is if they don't or can't easily read body language or subtle expression. In the Expanse books the people who live in the belt have a lot of hand gestures for things like nodding, shrugg...
So, to get a couple comments out of the way first, I'm not really sure why you would want to rob the train from another train (except for the rule of cool), especially since they are traveling so s...
So they essentially look the same, minus the ears, live the same length, have the same magical aptitude... Am I right in understanding that you just want it to be like different dog breeds? If so t...
So I build a city on the ocean floor out of handwavium, Bioshock style, but I want an easier way to get there besides taking a boat to the middle of nowhere and then getting into a submersible. I...
Assuming there is a possibility that the inhabitants had full molecular nanotechnology, it could be an underwater version of a utility fog. Basically lots of little 12 sided nano machines, with ...
It's deactivated Grey goo, Smartdust, Programmable matter, Computronium, or something like that. Basically trillions of nano machines that at some point in the past ate the planet and converted i...
Mining on the moon would remove some mass, but I don't think you'd notice. First mining on the moon probably won't involve strip mining and hauling all of the material away. Instead rock will be du...
One of the moons is the size of Earth's moon, and has a semi-major axis of around 413,277 km. This gives it 12 orbits a year. The moons orbit is such that it is full while it is in the constellatio...
So the first question. If the microbe doesn't have to exist on Earth already, then there is no reason for it to not be possible. Just say that this super microbe does exist, and when combined with ...
If you mean to grow on the outside of the building, like a climbing vine, I think the answer is probably yes. Oxygen is one of the limiting factors, but the bigger one is heat, since a frozen plan...
Most vertibrate life on earth follows a 4 limb body plan (in this instance, the wings are two limbs and the legs are the other two). There are a number of mythical creatures with 6 limbs; Pegasus, ...
