Activity for Cyn
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A: How can sharks be domesticated to become man's best friend? I don't think real-life sharks have that level of intelligence. But maybe I'm wrong or we can just assume that the sharks in your world do. What do humans offer the sharks? Dogs became domesticated because humans offered them warmth by a fire, the protection of a pack when finding a dog pack might... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: What adaptations would make humans better climbers? One of the best adaptations for climbing is simply length of arms and legs (arms may or may not be necessary depending on the type of climbing). For example, my daughter was a great climber when she was younger and loved those huge indoor rock walls, as well as outdoor climbing. But she was limited... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Whence unicorns? If they aren't necessarily equine, and can have things like cloven hooves, why not have prehensile hooves? Prehensile hooves don't exist in the real world, as far as I know, but then, neither do unicorns. The moveable parts can be the actual hooves, or soft portions protected by the hooves as they ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How to broadcast Earth's position to someone in the future? Are you able to send graphics? Or print them. If GPS coordinates may not be meaningful in 1000 years, why assume that your use of English will be? (Or any current language) If they can find the earth itself and if they can make use of an instruction such as "look for the big island" then they cou... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How much medical information could we gather from a wrist-worn device? I will add that, in addition to all the Western Medical readings you can have, you can also do ones from Traditional Chinese Medicine. The pulses provide a lot of information about the state of the body, though the diagnoses do not neatly map on to Western diagnoses. There are 3 positions on each w... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Is this map realistic/believeable? It looks decent, though I agree with Blade that the mountains suddenly stopping side to side is odd. At most they should continue into the ocean to form either lowlands that aren't inhabitable, seasonal land, or a natural harbor/barrier for ships. Think Florida Keys. Or Indonesia. (Be sure to tur... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Mechanism for high geographical change but not killing everything If the cataclysm focuses on the center of Europe, and the landmasses surrounding it pull in to fill the gap of what was destroyed, then you should have surviving people, animals, plants, etc in those outer sections. I'm imagining something like the center being sucked down into oblivion and the rest... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Space vacuum food preservation In the book The Martian, the main character accidentally freeze-dries his entire potato crop after an atmospheric breach. This is an author who did meticulous research. The potatoes were completely fine, just not as tasty and they could no longer grow and divide. I'd say freeze drying using the no... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: If I were to travel back in time to Medieval Europe, do I carry any diseases that they weren't immune to, and would I kill them accidentally? The only modern contagious disease I can think of that wasn't around then is HIV. But you'd probably know if you had it, and it's not easily transmitted (unprotected sex, and not all kinds, and sharing blood, stuff like that). And of course cold or flu viruses, since they mutate often. (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How would anthropomorphic, but arm-less, snakes or eels hold things? Could they have pouches on their torsos that allow them to carry things? These could be there via evolution, genetic engineering, surgery, or something less invasive. A mouth and/or a prehensile tail could put items in and out of the pouch. This would allow them to travel carrying an item with the... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Can a character raise a T-Rex from an egg and have it be tame? It depends on how intelligent the t-rex is. Wolves and lions, for example, can be tame if raised from birth. But black widows can not be. We don't really know how smart our historical t-rexes were, though its size points to decently intelligent. And it's not clear if the t-rexes in your world are... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Disease that targets only teenagers The blood-brain barrier is more permeable during various points in development, notably infancy. But also in adolescence. If the disease affects only people with high levels of sex hormones and a more permeable blood-brain barrier, that will hit teens. (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Plausible way to curse humanity to a pre-industrial society? Instill a terror of fire. Either all fire or anything more than a cookfire (if some fire is necessary due to climate, wild animals, etc). If it's all fire, food is either eaten raw or lightly cooked in the sun (including dehydration for food storage). The idea is to stop the society from forging m... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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