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Posts by PinoBatch‭

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Q&A 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...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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 sho...

posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&A 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, wr...

16 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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 int...

posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  edited 3y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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...

posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  edited 3y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  edited 3y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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 brainwa...

posted 9y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  edited 3y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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...

posted 8y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&A 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 tu...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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 preced...

posted 8y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  edited 3y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&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, merpeo...

posted 8y ago by PinoBatch‭  ·  edited 3y ago by PinoBatch‭

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