Monty Wild‭

Consider a group of humans at a bronze-age to early iron-age technological level colonizing a new earthlike planet. There is just one difference - there exists on the planet something which change...

10 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Monty Wild‭

Is it possible that a large, multicellular, naturally evolved organism with an advanced intellect on the order of a human's could have evolved to pass on its knowledge and memories in a fashion tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monty Wild‭

The Snakebot of Doom - now dubbed Jormungandr by the first humans to encounter it and survive - is busy steamrolling New York into rubble, having first nuked the capitols of every member of the Nuc...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Monty Wild‭

While asking another question about Jormungandr, the Snakebot of Doom, a point was made that it is so big and hot that it might produce its own weather effects. To that end: Jormungandr is 446 me...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Monty Wild‭

Consider the following situation: Over the last 2 to 3 years, all the world's birds and bats outside of those in human captivity or domestication have stopped getting sick; sick - even terminally s...

12 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Monty Wild‭

The time: January 27th, 2017, 7:00 AM local. The place: New York City and environs. Jormungandr, the Snakebot of Doom, has just finished steamrolling New York City into something more closely res...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Monty Wild‭

In a near-future sci-fi world, I described a disease with the following characteristics: Affects human female children (not necessarily exclusively). Is a neurodegenerative or similar disorder,...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Monty Wild‭

In which wilderness area on modern-day Earth would it be easiest for a lone human to survive year-round? What resources are available there and what tools and skills would be necessary? What is t...

15 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Monty Wild‭

I was considering this answer I wrote: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/21374/75 It got me to wondering... if we had a flying sailing ship with a twisted-rubber energy storage device that...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Monty Wild‭

Vertebrate tooth enamel is made from Hydroxylapatite, however this need not be the only material available that an alien species could use to make teeth or tooth-like structures. Given that an ide...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monty Wild‭

The Biblical story of the Flood describes how over a period of 40 days the earth is flooded so that the peak of the highest mountain is 15 cubits/22.5ft/6.858m below the new mean sea level. The fl...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Monty Wild‭

In How large a bioengineered mobile lifeform could exist on Earth?, I asked how big my nanoassembled war beasts could be, and it was suggested that I make my question more specific. I am designing...

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Many authors describe worlds with higher gravity than our own, from whence super-muscular aliens originate. However, as we increased the size, mass and surface gravity of a world; there would be p...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Monty Wild‭

Our universe is described as having three physical dimensions, plus one time dimension, where the eigenvalues for the physical dimensions are all the same, but the eigenvalue for time is opposite (...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Monty Wild‭

My heroine has been stabbed - run through the abdomen by a foot-long dagger - and is bleeding to death. She is currently crawling toward her salvation through a very cold place. She is magically ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Monty Wild‭