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Posts by dsollen‭

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Q&A How do you find a mate when everyone looks amazing?

personality, and intellect, to name a few important criteria. Physical appearance is only one of many factors we use when choosing a mate, and arguably in the modern era it is less important to th...

posted 8y ago by dsollen‭

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Rigorous Science Is non-manmade pandemic a realistic threat to modern first world?

Inspired by this question, and my own answer to it: Avoiding galactic pandemics. World ending pandemics are a common disaster/after-the-end story trope, I'm trying to determine if plausible, and h...

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

Question biology modern-age
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Q&A Evolution of communication system for dispersed pack to orginize their kill without other predators being drawn to the scene by the calls?

This is a follow up to the creature 'griffins' I sort of created here: Anatomically Correct Griffins The idea of the final griffin was a small tree based species that will leap down on much larger...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Rigorous Science Is there a reason that females passing on more than 1/2 of their genetics to the child would be unlikely to evolve?

On the earth today most animals use a two sex mating system where male and female provide the same amount of genetics to the resulting offspring, despite the fact that in many cases the female prov...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsollen‭

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Rigorous Science Death from old age has stopped, but fertility window is the same. What is the new population equlibrium?

I'm imagining a near-future world where a process can be undergone that will halt all future aging of the body, but the approach causes infertility. Those undergoing it will not have (biological) ...

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

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Rigorous Science Why would a male marsiupial agree to accept responsibility for carrying half of his mate's joeys?

I'm looking to create a species of marsupial that is heavily K select, which is to say they put significant effort into raising their young after birth (both of them :P ) in which both the male and...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by dsollen‭

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Rigorous Science How similar to earth could a planet which experiences a permanent day be?

I want to play with the idea of a sapient species evolving on a world where at least part of the world experiences a permanent day. The obvious way to doing this would be where part of the world f...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Rigorous Science Modern technology during WW2, can it be powered safely?

Imagine someone from the modern day somehow gets transported back in time around the same time of WW2 without warning ahead of time. He has with him a laptop, graphing calculator (and a hand full ...

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

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Rigorous Science Viability of using randomly generated electronic radiation to mask the disposition of a fleet from passive scanners with electronic 'white noise'?

Lets say I have a space fleet flying to attack an installation. The enemy knows I'm coming but not my numbers or exact disposition. Since I'm moving much slower then C the light from my fleet wil...

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

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Rigorous Science Method to share genetics beyond traditional sexual reproduction

It seems that my ability to create interesting creatures is limited by the need for sexual reproduction, which is absurdly useful, but also rather limiting, method of sharing genetics. I acknowled...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by dsollen‭

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Rigorous Science Low-tech inertial dampener options

As mentioned in this discussion: How to keep humans pilots instead of AI in sci-fi future? the ability to handle G forces is a limiting factor on what pilots can do. Some of my solutions to addres...

8 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A If humans were transplanted to a different Earth-like world that they didn't evolve on, how would they deduce how they came about?

I have a world where prehistoric humans were kidnapped and transported to another world. This other world is Earth-like, with mammals (also transported from Earth then later diversifying into othe...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A What effect would it have on the human psyche to be able to observe, but not interact, with other humans for an extended length of time?

I had an idea for a character that was stuck in a ghost-like state for a length of time after an accident. During this time, they would have very limited ability to interact with the rest of the w...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A In a 'Zootopia' situation who's in power, the Elephant or the Mouse?

Imagine a situation kind of like Zootopia with many different creatures all living in one environment, some significantly larger than others. These species aren't necessarily furries like in Zooto...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A What would a near-human level AI still struggle at?

Plenty of stories have done AI's before, but many of them feel unrealistic. If you make an AI that is as smart as humans, but with faster reaction speed and ability to process and calculate certai...

18 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Evolution of a tree-based predator that threatens to kill/eat prey unless prey feeds it?

This is a very closely related question to my previous: Evolution of tree-dwelling species that will help predators find prey if prey species doesn't give it a bribe? The premise is the same, a t...

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

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Q&A Evolution of tree-dwelling species that will help predators find prey if prey species doesn't give it a bribe?

I had a rough idea of a species that has a tendency to blackmail other species into feeding it. The concept was a tree-dwelling species, a larger one that has few predators among the trees to worr...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A How to justify evolution of a sapient hermaphrodite species

I'm looking for a very grounded evolutionary justification for the existence of a hermaphroditic sapient and social species, preferably roughly mammalian but not mandatory, which is not as easy as ...

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

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Q&A How to ensure repayment of investment from space colonies in an information economy?

Imagine a world in which earth has started to colonize other worlds slowly, though the expense to send ships to other worlds is extremely high, and without FTL drive it takes some times to create a...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A How long would it take to artificially breed sapience into apes?

Lets say that, for some reason, humans decide to breed true sapience into one of the great apes (chimps or bonobos). They start to use active selective breeding to encourage increased intellect an...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Methods to ensure gene flow in species with seperate sapient and non-sapient lifecycle

I'm retouching the idea discussed in detail here Evolution of species with seperate sapient and non-sapient forms?. I like the discussion had there, but want to focus in on one specific question, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Can a sapient species evolve that needs little or no sleep?

Humans sleep more then nearly any other creature (true sleep, not low-activity like cats and sloths), and are some of the only true sapient species on earth. Many other intelligent, or nearly sapi...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Would a modern culture in which parents can decide the sex of the child have an even number of each sex?

Imagine a species that evolved almost identical to our own, except for one difference. A child's sex is not decided by the presence of a Y chromosome, and all embryos have the potential to evolve ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Can a human fighter pilot fully grasp 3 dimensional frictionless movement in space?

My answer to this question essentially came down to the pilot being in a sphere with anything large jutting out of it. Some of the arguments made against me I feel are true if we assume fights like...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Evolution of species with separate sapient and non-sapient forms?

This question is inspired by the last paragraph of my answer here: Negating the negative effects of childbearing (A follow up question to this can be found here: Methods to ensure gene flow in spe...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by dsollen‭