Posts by AndyD273
One effect could be the illusion that the craft is moving backward, as the light from the vehicle being close to you reaches you before the light of the vehicle being further away. This would only ...
This is based off the information found in the link provided by Juraj. The answer is 2,862,106 earths in the goldilocks zone How to get 2,862,106 earths in habitable orbits: Rules, they have to a...
This is an addition to Willk's answer; Giant pupils would be a very good start, with the addition that the iris would have to be able to get the pupil small enough to allow function in the dayligh...
The dragons are ruminants with multi-part stomachs. They eat organic material, and in their first stomach burn the material at 800C until it become graphene oxide. In the second stomach the graphe...
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...
Assuming that the dinosaurs survived, and somehow humans also evolved to what be what they are now, so dinosaurs exist alongside humans, humans would have hunted most of them to extinction, or at l...
According to the current models, the possible reasons for a supernova are thermal runaway or core collapse. Thermal runaway is probably your best bet, and happens when the core of the star gets ho...
It depends on what you mean by "reset". If you can somehow reset it perfectly so that all elementary particles are exactly the same as they were at some point in the past, and all input (cosmic rad...
I'm going camping in two weeks and I really don't want to get bit up by mosquitoes. So I want to figure out a way to commit total genocide of all mosquitoes in at least a 20 mile (32 KM) area aroun...
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...
You might need to work up from basic principles, with logic gates and the like. One interesting possibility is their ability to transfer precise electrical charges. A first step would be to figu...
I think it really depends a lot on the lay of the land. If the rainfall increases a lot then low areas with poor drainage would become bogs/swamps. High, well drained areas would probably thrive. A...
Alternative answer; Studies show that sleep is your bodies way of purging out toxins and recharging, though a lot of it is still unknown. Instead of caffeine, what if the plant created an enzyme t...
So this is pretty complicated... Wind is caused by differences in pressure. Pressure is effected by both temperature and moisture. The more moisture, the lower the pressure. If the ice all melte...
Moving things into low earth orbit might be an option. You could make your ten million dollars with only a single delivery to the ISS. The space shuttle cost \$1.5 Billion per launch. Billion. NA...
According to Slashdot (Apparently they are still around), it takes 3 Gigajoules to completely vaporize a body. According to online conversion calculators, it takes .72 tons of tnt to get 3 gigajou...
