Posts by Cyn
Losing two liters of blood in and of itself is life-threatening but would not necessarily cause someone's death (assuming this is an adult human or someone with a similar blood volume). Exsangu...
Cigarette butts are composed of tobacco (which is usually highly treated and contains toxic additives), wrapping paper, and cellulose-acetate filters. The amount of each will vary depending on bra...
It's a food intolerance Whether a true allergy (histamine mediated reaction using IgE, IgG, IgA, etc), a metabolic issue (lactose intolerance, celiac disease, etc), or a reaction without a known c...
San Nicolas Island San Nicolas Island is part of the Channel Islands of California. The weather is lovely year round (some rain but no extremes of temperature). (By Lencer - own work, used:Googl...
Run tests via in vitro fertilization Use multiple women at multiple fertility clinics to make sure the process works in at least a few of them. You can use any woman who is just about to ovulate ...
Give them prehensile feet 4 fingers on each of two hands. 4 toes on each of two feet. The feet don't even have to be fully prehensile. Just usable enough that they'd think to count them. After ...
Saliva is a nice clean DNA sample. Ditto cheek cells. You don't need anything more complex to get. Since these are on the inside of the body, they won't have other DNA from touching things. You...
The bioluminescence can be a vestige of when the creature's ancestors lived in very dim caves or caves (or other spaces) that were dark part of the time while they were awake. While they still had...
Starfish Prime's answer is very good, but there are a couple elements to the analogy that wouldn't be present in your circumstance. While SP is aware it's an imperfect analogy, I want to directly ...
Because of sea monsters/treacherous tides/other impassable conditions, the castaways are unable to safely leave (they might have tried and been turned back). There is a way out but only the villag...
Question: Would a modern-day teen, trained in using the north star for directions when camping/hiking, notice a difference in how the "north star" (Polaris) works when transported suddenly to 1350 ...
A good choice is a Mediterranean climate. A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by dry summers and mild, wet winters. The climate receives its name from the Mediter...
The short answer is: Yes with magic, no without magic. Wouldn't you rather have a magical bowl that is always full with fresh nutritious food, perfectly matched to the species that approaches it? ...
No. The mass extinction you're hoping for"”no plants and only microscopic animals"”is impossible from these conditions. At the point that humans left the planet, it was possible for animal and pl...
It's not the same as "smelling" it, and as far as I can find, there are no studies testing this ability, but there are countless stories about cats (and sometimes dogs) who saved their human famili...
One approach is to look at shoes used by people with upper-limb amputations or who were born with missing upper limbs. While your characters are not human and may or may not have partial or full u...
You will likely have an easier time if you pick a Slavic language that uses a Roman alphabet. Like Czech or Slovak (which are very similar to each other). Then you don't have to deal with the unkno...
I'm going to address the pricing model. The hourly rate workers get in India is much lower than minimum wage in the United States. But it varies a lot depending on skillset. Here you need worker...
Breath that causes disease Though the source says "venomous," you do not specify the "disease." What about breath that causes vomiting? If it smells like human vomit that does cause a lot of peop...
Build that fence! Most estimates state that a family of 4 needs 2 acres of land to be self-sufficient. That's the upper limit I've seen (with a couple exceptions). It's a lot more efficient when...
Treat the wand like it came from a blacksmith's forge While some blacksmiths don't use gloves at the forge, others do. And they generally wear them for very short exposures to heat (a wand goin...
The ones that can. Your viable dog population is going to be a fraction of the total. If the humans leave their dogs behind in the cities, they are (mostly) not going to leave them locked up indo...
Our bodies are 1-3% bacteria by weight. Bacteria is vital for our functioning; killing it off has consequences. All cultures (except our very modern one) have special foods and activities that su...
You'll want to start with technology that produces light suitable for growing crops indoors. Grow lights exist of course but they're awfully energy intensive. With near-future technology you'll h...
It's a retrovirus A retrovirus is a type of RNA virus that inserts a copy of its genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell. Such viruses are ...
