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| Comment | Post #279503 |
@celtschk because I didn't know they were there. Updated to the codidact question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279503 |
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| Comment | Post #279499 |
@OlinLathrop, why does the specific function(s) of the device matter? The device can do things you only dream about doing right now. The stranger is offering you 30 years of tech advances wrapped up in a convenient little package. Do you buy those advances or not? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279499 |
@Matthew , so your answer would be "Yes, buy it"? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279877 |
So, if you're the CEO of Nokia in 1991 and someone from the future with an iPhone 12 showed up on your doorstep, you wouldn't buy them to see how they work? I find that hard to believe.
I disagree with your second paragraph. No one outside of your top engineers would know that these devices even... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279500 |
Monica, thanks! I found the link to SE part of my profile and have linked it. Happy to be here! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279503 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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How do you establish identity when people can change their appearance at will? Building on the universe established in this question, what happens to identity verification when someone's physical appearance and genetic code are modifiable at any time? Review of universe rules: - All genetic disorders have been eliminated. Children are tested at birth for disorders and t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279502 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Exploration of a 50 mile high mountain My friends and I are building a world with a 50 mile high volcano on it. The mountain is the result of some bored god deciding to play a joke on everyone. Or, some other god got angry and decided to really, for realz this time, bury an unruly city. The legends aren't especially clear on how it got ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279501 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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How do I manage memetic infection while time traveling? Time travel works...just invented, by you. The tests prove it! After many conversations and significant planning, your epidemiologist significant other has approved your plans for time travel, forward or backwards. You are both satisfied that if you do bring back some dread disease, the only pers... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279500 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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What is the best apex predator to thin the zombie herds? A global epidemic of H1Z2 virus has rendered 95% of the population into zombies. The zombies have lost most of their frontal and temporal lobes so the following capabilities are either severely degraded or missing: decisions about right/wrong, suppression of socially inappropriate behaviors, new mem... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279499 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Why buy tech from the future? The Demonstration -- You're a rich, successful CEO/capitalist working in the electronics business. Your R&D division is exceptional and routinely fabs state of the art processors at bleeding edge processes. (If it helps, you're in an equivalent position to the CEO of Foxconn, Samsung or Intel). ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279497 |
@canina Rigorous Science please. I want to minimize handwaving as much as possible. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279498 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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What good are herbivores in an animal army? This is a multi-species animal army with predators of all shapes and sixes, foxes, lions, bears, tigers, leopards, wolves, lynx, eagles, falcons and so on. The herbivores have been excluded from the army because they appear to serve no apparent purpose. They have no talons, no sharp teeth, no abi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279497 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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What would it take to build a ship capable of crossing the Pacific? In my story, I have a small extended family of 30 to 40 individuals ranging in age from 0 to 50 who are on the run from Chinese and Japanese forces in 1400AD. No place in Asia is safe for them. By a series of lucky chances they have found a very quiet location that appears to be untouched by humans.... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279495 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Is it realistic to see satellites moving across the sky centuries after humans stopped space activity? Satellites will still be visible. A couple of characteristics make human satellites easy to see. They are fast and bright. Slow objects are difficult to pick out from the background star field. Faint objects don't emit enough light to be seen by the human eye. Fast Let's see how orbital per... (more) |
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