Posts by Cyn
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...
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...
A meteor strike. Meteor Crater formed in a fraction of a second as 175 million tons of limestone and bedrock were uplifted, forming the mile-wide crater rim in the formerly flat terrain. ...
Very plausible. One example is the Feather River of California. The West Branch and Middle Fork combine at the top of Lake Oroville, which is a long skinny lake running north/south. At the botto...
Firefly lanterns are a thing. Even children can do it! Put any males that arrive into your lantern. At least 40 fireflies per lantern should give you plenty of light. Release them, unharmed,...
No, it's not possible. A true allergy is mediated by histamine (released by the mast cells) and involves an "immune system-mediated adverse reaction to food proteins." (Or to non-food proteins in...
FOOD As others have mentioned, food isn't an issue. You have fish and you have seaweed. You can farm fish and also do things like grow oysters on strings. Some vertical farms on the boats could...
The impractical part is that you would need to grow an entire human being (or all the pieces of one in a single unit) just to get one organ. A patient in need of an organ would either be put in...
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...
Humans already are able to have ears halfway there. In most people, protruding or prominent ears are caused by an underdeveloped antihelical fold. When the antihelical fold does not form ...
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...
I'm guessing that your question about endorheic basins is about the buildup of salt and other minerals. Certainly there are many aquatic animals who live in fresh water and many that live in salt ...
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 ...
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...
With substantial training and practice, a tongueless person can learn to speak again. Intelligibly. Your characters may choose not to do that though. Also, I frame challenge your assertion that ...
Mutism is the inability to speak, not the inability to make any sounds with the mouth. Your character could become mute from a variety of causes. Willk suggests a laryngectomy, which would certai...
Pig skin Pig skin is already used on humans as part of skin grafting. It is generally only used as a temporary graft until a more permanent one is ready. From a 1964 article, as the process was ...
Muscle plasticity is not the same thing as regeneration. Muscle plasticity is defined as the ability of a given muscle to alter its structural and functional properties in accordance with the...
The spring emerges from a local cave which has been filled / caved in by a past civilisation, since the water is secretly heated by engineered means. Any society that can create engineerin...
