Posts by Canina
Let's look at the (rather poorly named) FAQ page in the help center which tries to specify in a bit more detail than the few words of a site name what the site's scope is: Scientific Speculation...
That's a lot of questions all lumped together in one, and as I don't have an hour or two to write up good answers for each of them, short ones will have to do for now. There are 500+ tags, app...
As I see it, the operative word in answering the question you're asking here is speculation. Now, of course, it's almost impossible to capture every nuance in a site name, which is why we have a pa...
Myself, I think that all sciences are in scope on this site. (We're already barely getting any traffic; artificially restricting scope further probably won't help much with that.) The way I see it ...
You are quite right. This has been fixed, thank you for pointing it out.
NASA's Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters by Goebel and Katz, JPL, March 2008 discusses the issue of current ion drive beam focus limits (along with many other matters rele...
When we did the initial import from Worldbuilding SE, we also inherited the tag set from there. This leaves us with some tags which are (should be) redundant on Scientific Speculation. I primarily ...
When we did the initial import from Worldbuilding SE, the [hard-science] tag was handled specially and routed to the Researched Q&A category while removing that tag, but its siblings [science-b...
The way I see it for now (and I reserve the right to change my mind in response to discussion in response to this :-)) All of these points are valid for both questions and answers in the standard ...
It looks like something went wrong during the import, causing imported posts to get the wrong character encoding. I fixed one at https://speculative-science.codidact.com/q/225476, but have come ac...
I would suggest simply closing them as off topic. Deleting the questions seems a little heavy-handed for now, but we should indicate to visitors (and people who might want to answer them) that a p...
For the purposes of this question, let's use the definition of nanotechnology from the tag wiki excerpt: "technology that works with sizes of less than 100 nanometres". An EMP can vary in frequenc...
We occasionally get questions and answers that discuss how close to each other planets can be and still meet some criteria. For example, this answer to the question ''Habitable'' planet close to a ...
Yes, there is likely a way, though I will admit I'm not sure how much of the desired about 20x difference it will get you. By the time you get into those mass ranges, the strength of the bones, ten...
The short version is that it depends entirely on the manner in which the moon disintegrates, or more specifically the energy thus imparted on the resultant fragments. I'm assuming here that the ma...
(Do you need it to be strictly an absolute operational altitude?) The easiest approach (no pun intended) might be to go with something similar to what airliners on Earth do. While for the passenge...
Sorry to be a bit of a spoil-sport, but... Moore's law doesn't apply. Moore's law is the recognition that semiconductor complexity (in integrated circuits) increases at a particular rate. The ve...
I want a world in which animals roam the wilderness on four legs, yet at least some of them are able to do the kind of carrying and fine handling of objects done by humans. The planet is superficia...
Suppose that there is an alien spacecraft travelling towards the Sun. This spacecraft is similar in design, size and power output to Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 as they were immediately after launch fr...
It's a commonly held misconception, but you really don't need a lot of gravity to retain an appreciable atmosphere. Conversely, gravity alone is no guarantee that a body will have an appreciable at...
Since you say in a comment that you're willing to settle for a combination of tamper-evident and write-only unless tampered with, as opposed to strictly tamper-proof (which indeed is a much harder ...
I actually believe there are real-world Earth cultures you can draw inspiration from here. So you want a culture where hard work is considered a virtue, but you also want that culture to see being...
That's plenty possible. In fact, if you're willing to fudge your requirements just slightly, it could easily be the case for Earth's moon. Let's look at the equation for orbital speed, also known...
Do it the way NASA did it in the 1960s -- with ropes and pulleys! No, really. I distinctly recall seeing a video clip, but can't recall exactly where, of how Apollo astronauts trained for walking ...
Jane was different from the other kids. While all the other kids were playing with fire, Jane played with ice. Now, Jane has grown up and is an accomplished scientist or engineer in your discipline...
