Activity for Jason Clyde‭

Type	On...	Excerpt	Status	Date
Question	—	Would it be feasible to determine whether or not a humanoid species is fertile in less than a week? So, as one of the many, many consequences of modern day humanity being given access to a runic magic system by an unknown party, nearly the entire human race discovers one morning that they've been given an entirely separate body they can shapeshift into and out of at will. This species is largely hu... (more)	—	about 5 years ago
Question	—	Ultimate fate of someone falling out of a skyscraper in warped gravity At the climax of my story, most of the people on the planet have the way they interact with gravity magically altered. Until a week passes or they die (whichever comes first), instead of being pulled towards the planet, they get pushed perpendicular to it, falling west instead of down, while everythi... (more)	—	over 5 years ago
Question	—	Would skyscrapers tip over if people fell sideways? Suppose that for some reason gravity magically changes, but only for people. While this goes on, instead of gravity pulling people down, it pushes them East. To be clear, it's just people. Not animals, not objects, and not their buildings. People fall east, but everything else falls to Earth like nor... (more)	—	over 5 years ago
Question	—	What would it take to create insulin in the post-apocalypse? In post-apocalypse fiction, diabetics, if they are ever even mentioned, are typically portrayed as utterly, irrevocably screwed. In fact there was a pretty cynical example in Dies The Fire (a book about technology magically ceasing to function forever) where there was a Mormon couple who both had dia... (more)	—	almost 6 years ago
Question	—	Does the body keep growing or maturing in any way past adulthood? (Edited for clarification) The general popular conception of how aging works is that your body grows and develops, reaching completion at some point in your late twenties or early thirties, and then all subsequent changes to your appearance from that point onward are attributed to your body slowly b... (more)	—	almost 6 years ago
Question	—	Would the collapse of civilization make turning into a vampire and colonizing the ocean floor a sane idea? One idea I've always wanted to try writing is the concept of vampires exploiting their lack of a need to breathe and generally low-maintenance biology to escape the brunt of the sun's rays by living underneath the sea, and the opportunity to use this idea in my current story has recently presented it... (more)	—	over 6 years ago