Activity for PinoBatch
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| Comment | Post #275795 |
"Is [thing] realistic?" is to science-based worldbuilding as code review is to programming. SO split code review to a separate SE site, but we probably won't need to. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #219607 |
Post edited: UTF-8; dinglehopper |
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| Edit | Post #215692 |
Post edited: update links; remove mention of closed online store; RIP Tiffany Yorks and Shiloh Pepin |
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| Edit | Post #211927 |
Post edited: Update outbound links |
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| Edit | Post #211925 |
Post edited: fix encoding; remove mention of closed online store; RIP Tiffany Yorks |
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| Edit | Post #211273 |
Post edited: Fix broken links |
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| Edit | Post #207522 |
Post edited: HTTPS for Life After People Wiki |
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A: Why would merfolk have hair? Long hair is inherited from the common ancestors of humans and merpeople. In-hair-itance As whales evolved from an ancestor of the hippopotamus and manatees from an ancestor of the elephant, merpeople evolved from an ancestor of humans. Thus merpeople are a hominin species with aquatic adapted ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: How to explain a mermaid's tail morphing into legs and vice versa? Give them legs. They could be separate from birth and just covered with a swimsuit. Or they could be joined at birth and separate during puberty. These follow somewhat from some... Real life precedents Sirenomelia Tiffany Yorks, Shiloh Pepin, and Milagros Cerrón were born with a rare conditi... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How would shell-headed children retract their bodies? On an Earth-like planet, I'm imagining a bipedal sapient species whose juveniles have a largely hollow head so large that they can retract the whole body into the head when frightened, the way a turtle or snail can retract into its shell. They lose this ability when the rest of the body grows rapidly... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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A: How can people naturally become smaller? Parents don't want their kids to die of cancer or diabetes. Nor do governments want to spend billions treating these conditions. Laron dwarfism is a genetic condition that causes the growth hormone (GH) receptor to work less efficiently. The resulting insensitivity to growth hormone, or "GH resistanc... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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A: How to go from a free person to a slave To break people, recruit them into a cult. Steven Hassan has written several books about the mind control practiced by destructive cults. The acronym BITE refers to Hassan's four factors of brainwashing: behavior control, information control, thought control, and emotional control. Behavior ... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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A: How should I create my Merfolks to make them landbased? Would it be possible for a water based animal to swim with a tail that was structurally just human legs fused together? If mermaiding is any indication, yes. Real-world mermaids are humans who wear a swimsuit that covers both legs and ends in a monofin that functions as a fluke. The monofin ... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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A: Earth where all of Equidae went extinct via Ice Age... - Effects Civilizations without mounted cavalry are less likely to develop trousers. (See "Q: Why Do We Wear Pants? A: Horses" by Alexis Madrigal and "Cultural Evolution of Pants" by Peter Turchin.) So you'd have more cultures where men wear the kilt or a long tunic, even if only because it improves their sper... (more) |
— | about 9 years ago |
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A: Hydra regeneration explained with science An article recently posted to Cracked, "5 Fantasy Beasts That Wouldn't Work (According to Science)" by Justin Crockett and Nathan Murphy, points out that a hydra might collapse under the weight of its heads: The hydra can have as many heads as it wants, but it still only has one body, and it can ... (more) |
— | about 9 years ago |
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A: Does the sun being blocked affect electricity? "We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky." -- Morpheus, The Matrix Electric power generation works by converting other forms of energy into electric power. Depending on how long sunlight is blocked, many of these other forms of inpu... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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How could a human-descended race appear to be all-female? A group of behaviorally modern humans was cut off from the rest of the earth-like planet. At the time of the separation, humankind had reached a technology level including cattle ranches, brass, writing, and cities. (Same cataclysm, different ark.) About four millennia later, they were contacted agai... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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A: Humans born without legs: how would they thrive? Per Robert Harvey's suggestion, I've made a community wiki for near-answers found in "disposable" comments. Rowanas wrote: Running wouldn't be much of an issue. While their stride would be shorter, running on the palms of the hand shouldn't be much more difficult then running on the balls of the... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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Humans born without legs: how would they thrive? or, Anatomically Correct Weebles A group of behaviorally modern humans was cut off from the rest of the earth-like planet millennia ago. (Myths hold that the separation occurred four to five ka BP, once humankind had developed cattle ranches, brass, writing, and cities. Archaeology is inconclusive a... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |