Posts by ArtOfCode
I'm really having trouble here. Let me outline my thinking: The First AI This is my major problem. If the first shackling AI is weaker than the next, which is weaker than the next, and so on, the...
tl;dr: It can't be done. Meteors and all the various different classifications of them (meteorites, meteoroids) are small. The sun is big. More importantly, the sun is hot. If a meteor is heading ...
Planets can die, but it either takes a lot of energy and effort, or is very boring. Boring Planets can just stop working. As stated by some other answers here, if a planet has no life on it and i...
This method would work, almost without doubt, on humans. There would always be some doubt in their minds as to whether the universe was real, so they would probably not kill everything. Probably. ...
This is my opinion on the topic. There is another point of view, as demonstrated by Tim B, but if you want to include humans in your story then perhaps this will help. The question posed recently ...
To expand on a point Sempie made, the colour of the ground determines how much light it reflects. White is the best reflector; black absorbs. This is why a black car will be hotter on the outside t...
Plants survive the night by producing excess energy during the day. This excess they then convert to starch and store. Research shows that chemical reactions in the plant's cells then calculate, ba...
Problem 1: Food This is the major contributing factor to the size of the biosphere. Humans need to consume around 2,250 calories per day (averaged between men and women) to sustain themselves, and...
Why would they live on a planet? These robots, with sufficiently advanced AI, could have a pretty advanced social system. They could have community leaders, followers, criminals even (if the progr...
You've touched on the major points already: vitamins and skin colour. They are linked to an extent. Vitamin D is the major vitamin we get from sunlight. It's partly a "happy vitamin" in that it pr...
As you say, the most sought after materials are the rarest. You also correctly assume that the rarest materials are often those with the greatest molecular mass. This is because it takes a much, mu...
I remember a book I read several years ago now, involving the Voynich manuscript. The basis was it was not decodable in any way - until a university student who happens to know symbols of another a...
First and foremost, not everyone would be able to survive. Much of it depends how quickly this warmup happens: if it's quick and the ice melts very quickly, people on the coast aren't going to get ...
You could certainly try. A less sensible method, if your local astrotech store sells them, is to get hold of a mass transporter and a matter inversion matrix (though in many timelines the latter c...
First and foremost, everyone would not be infected, let alone die. Look at Brazil and Peru and the tribes of the Amazon, many of whom still haven't been contacted. Since they have no human contact,...
It would be brilliant. 30% oxygen atmosphere would mean that our human bodies have more available oxygen and would take more in in a single breath; this means that we would be able to respire faste...
This method seems a bit extreme... if you want to destroy Earth's politics but keep their culture, there are far easier methods. However, some solutions anyway: Nova Bombs In Andromeda, all Commo...
Plausibility To answer your implied question about the possibility of this high pressure: Jupiter's surface has a pressure of 100 times the Earth's. Cosmically, pressures this high are trivial: th...
In any epidemic situation, there are a few important steps to work through: Contain Treat Learn Containment Fortunately for the rest of the world, Britain is an island. That takes care of a fa...
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