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I would say yes. There's already a real-world element that does at least the first three and its name is uranium. Naturally occurring in the universe, rare though. Yep. In fact it's one of ...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Canina‭

Yes and no. A volcanic eruption can cause all three of the things you specified, but I'm not certain it can cause all of them at the same time. A "Great Winter" lasting three years The erup...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

For one of my projects, I'm developing an inhabited Earth-like world, with the key visual difference being that much of the land is purple, instead of the brownish colour it is on Earth. My questio...

13 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by F1Krazy‭

Electrical failure. The ship's communication system is, presumably, powered by electricity. Interrupt that supply, and boom, comms are down. If the same electrical supply is used to power a bunch ...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

As I mentioned initially in the comments: no. To the best of my knowledge, the mass of an object only affects how much energy is needed to get that object into a specific orbit. It doesn't affect t...

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Get hold of some poison dart frogs. Careful when handling them: they're among the most poisonous creatures on the planet. Get hold of some dead sheep/cows/virgin females/whatever your dragon's pre...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

Let's break this down into the individual requirements. The moon would be 12000 kilometers wide, so it is big enough to have its own small magnetosphere. That's nearly twice the diameter of...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

Let's break this down a bit. What conditions would render disposable heat sinks necessary? As has been noted already: combat and stealth. Radiators can be damaged, and will give your ship a n...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

@Amadeus' answer is incredibly in-depth, but I'd like to look at it from the opposite direction. Let's say we did program our AI like you suggest, taking the feelings of humanity and the needs of t...

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Is it possible to create a room-temperature solid made from 100% human blood? One of my stories features a girl who has the passive ability to block the superpowers of anyone in a 100-meter radi...

12 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

(NOTE: I started writing this answer before @amflare posted theirs, and before @AlexP posted his comment.) The existing answers do a good job of demonstrating that you can build a city on the side...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

People do discover it. They just never report back. It's one thing to sail all the way to a new continent. It's quite another to land there, chart the territory, and then sail back home again to t...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

Since your planet orbits a red dwarf, the light hitting it from the sun will be mostly red. And since its atmosphere is quite thin, the light won't be scattered as much and the sky will appear quit...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

Here's a rare, but plausible scenario that nobody seems to have thought of yet: Meteor Strike We're already tracking all known comets and meteors in case any of them have even the slightest chanc...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by F1Krazy‭

It's a combination of several factors, most of which have already been mentioned but I'll put them all together anyway, with some helpful analogies. 1. Aesthetics/Rule of Cool For this I'll use t...

posted 9y ago by F1Krazy‭