Activity for Michael Stachowsky‭

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Question	—	What is my breathable atmosphere composed of? This planet's atmosphere has oxygen at a partial pressure that is breathable to humans, and the rest of the atmosphere is, at least, not made up primarily of Nitrogen (that is, it's not just Earth's atmosphere with marginally different partial pressures). The atmosphere must be breathable for at lea... (more)	—	about 5 years ago
Question	—	Would having more than two sexes decrease the number of individuals required to have a sustainable population from a genetic perspective? On a world made up of many small islands, each island cannot support a very large population. Although sometimes individuals from one island make it across the ocean to another, this is usually a rare event. I read once that a genetically diverse population of about 5000 humans would be required to... (more)	—	over 5 years ago
Question	—	How could a hive-mind without true individuals create technology? Imagine a species in which the ego never developed. There is no self-direction. This species is always making noise, however, and it is through this noise that the society itself experiences the world. Every individual member of the society hears the noise generated by those members closest to it ... (more)	—	almost 6 years ago
Question	—	What would be the consequences of a proto-human species that could generalize but not abstract well? I define "generalization" as the ability to put things together into groups based on common characteristics. I define "abstraction" to be the ability to articulate what those characteristics actually are (I'm open to choosing new words for those concepts). For instance, I know that apples, cheese, ... (more)	—	over 7 years ago
Question	—	What would be the consequences of a world that has only one dominant species of non-oceanic animal life? I have a world that has unexpected lifeforms detected. There are to-be-revealed reasons for it, but the way the ecosystem is set up is: Microbial life is abundant everywhere There is a single species of plant form that has colonized the land There is a single avian species that feeds on those plan... (more)	—	about 8 years ago