Posts by F1Krazy
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 ...
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...
I wasn't sure about making this an answer, but @Alexander convinced me. Your AI may be hyper-intelligent, but it lacks the creativity to construct an entire civilizational structure from scratch. ...
Resonance. You know that trick where opera singers can shatter a wine glass? They do that by singing at the glass's resonant frequency, causing it to vibrate until it shatters. The same principle ...
By being an island arc volcano. You seem to be referring to hotspot volcanoes, which are fed by abnormally hot regions of the Earth's mantle. As the continental plates drift by overhead, the area ...
I'm current planning a story which includes a race of diminutive humanoid aliens, one of whom crash-lands on Earth. They're fully sentient, and have the same average intelligence level as humans. T...
I feel like the answer to this one is already in the question. It was created many thousand years ago by a hyper advanced race that created it as a sort of biological torture mechanism. You'r...
This question was originally posted in the Sandbox. It's set in the same world as this question, but is not related to it. I have a speedster character whose top speed is Mach 2. She holds back ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
@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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
