Mindwin‭

Lets take a 60km radius island where the people have access to early XXI century technology. The whole island was planned and artificially built, so it has no mountains or otherwise bad/sterile ter...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Mindwin‭

Evil Wizard got his hands on a Handwavium Wand, and wished the Earth's magnetic field no more. Now the surface is vulnerable to solar wind, solar radiation and cosmic radiation. How long will it ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mindwin‭

Since Tolkien put people riding on giant eagles in his books (or maybe even before that), the imaginarium of riding the winds on the back of magnificent birds has generated a plethora of images and...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mindwin‭

Twenty years ago, a 40km diameter alien saucer came to Earth, and stopped 2km above the Atlantic ocean, somewhere near the midpoint between Casablanca, Morroco and Natal, Brazil but over internatio...

9 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Mindwin‭

It is a somewhat common limitation of spaceships in some universes, that they cannot go underwater. They can land on the planet, take off into orbit, hyperdrive into the next star system, but they ...

22 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mindwin‭

While only counting seasons and years, but not weeks or months, how far can human civilization progress? Can they reach the middle ages? Or is the invention of the calendar such a cornerstone of ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mindwin‭

We all know about Rain Shadow - And if you don't now you do - and that the inner side of a mountain as compared to the ocean would be drier. Now a worldbuiding problem going around that phenomenon...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mindwin‭

Exactly what it says on the tin. Kleeber the warrior is wearing a gambeson and carrying the standard adventurer's gear (leather backpack, 100ft of hemp rope, bedroll, spare clothes, waterskin, dry ...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mindwin‭

A super-reactor was created by SRE, Inc (Super Reactor Energy), and it can provide as much clean energy as needed. There's no way to copy it or make another. It operates without problem or fuel - t...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mindwin‭

Nowdays we have biometric doors that can scan your eye, palm, fingerprint, ear, etc, etc... But all of them rely on electronic readers and computers to match the sample against the stored pattern....

19 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Mindwin‭

Previously on the same setting (: How close is too close for a human habitation to be near an erupting volcano? What factors could delay the rescue of a small group of survivors on a Pacific volc...

10 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mindwin‭

A XX century researcher time traveled back into the prehistory. He is not in danger of death or anything, but he has only energy to attempt one jump. He must jump back during the sunrise either i...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mindwin‭

Bob the time traveler has a problem. He went to 75,000,000 BC to get some dinosaur eggs (don't ask) and his time machine re-combobulator broke and a big chunk is missing. Fortunately he can still ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mindwin‭

The year is 2035 and Channel 55-KYED decided on a new reality show. the XXI century knighthood games. It will be your basic renaissance faire re-enactment of medieval combat but since they are doi...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mindwin‭

Time traveler here, stranded in the year of 1019 AD, medieval ages. Location: europe. While I can still access and post on web forums because my temporal transmitter has a 1Ky range, I have a broke...

20 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mindwin‭