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Question Plastic and oil eating microbes apocalypse part 1 - How fast can they spread?
Plastic is a huge problem in our lives. One of the ideas is to engineer plastic eating bacteria or fungi. Experiments already begun, and accidents already happen: a team of international scientists illustrate how they created"”by accident"”a new enzyme capable of breaking down plastic bottles. ...
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almost 6 years ago
Question Safely exiting zero-tau capsule
Setting is 20 minutes into future - everything is as we know it, or as we can reasonably predict, except the zero-tau capsules. Capsule is a thin mesh of Unobtanium connected to a portable Handwavium reactor. When turned on, time inside does not flow. Details "by the numbers": It is unclear if tim...
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about 6 years ago
Question Can a radioactive moon affect life on a planet?
This question is meant as a reality check on this answer to The land grows evil and corrupted ... but why? Radioactive moon in a nearly geosynchronous orbit. It slowly kills or alters all life exposed to it, but it doesn't hang perfectly still in the night sky. It travels very slowly, cir...
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almost 7 years ago
Question What's the biggest reasonable natural planet or moon with Earth-like surface gravity?
Sister question to: What's the smallest reasonable natural planet or moon with Earth-like surface gravity? - I want us to have both upper and lower bounds for 1g planets available for authors. We all know that equation for surface gravity is $$ g = \frac{4\pi}{3} G \rho r $$ So if we want Earth-li...
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about 7 years ago
Question Is there a way to have coal but not oil?
Reading this answer I realized that for my purposes I don't really want a fully steampunk world. All I want is lack of cars and planes as we know them, and lack of oil, or inaccessible deposits of oil, would work like a charm. Still, I do need access to coal for my world, mainly to have steel industr...
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over 7 years ago
Question What's the smallest reasonable natural planet or moon with Earth-like surface gravity?
We all know that equation for surface gravity is $$ g = \frac{4\pi}{3} G \rho r $$ So if we want Earth-like surface gravity of $ g = 9.81 $, then the equation for radius is $$ r = \frac{3 g}{4\pi G \rho } $$ where $\rho$ is mean density of a planet. So what's the smallest radius, or highest den...
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over 7 years ago
Question Could a gas giant with layer similar to Earth atmosphere exist?
Imagine a world like ours. Gravity, atmosphere, sky... just nothing solid down there. At least not anywhere close. Would it be possible? I know this is similar to this question. So to specify what I mean: I'm not asking if a gas giant could be naturally created. All I want to know is whether it cou...
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over 9 years ago