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Magnets For some reason your aliens developed a strong magnetic field that they are constantly emitting. Your humanoids use this to attract prey, either by forcing them directly through the magn...

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If I genetically modified a human to have a foxtail of roughly 1 metre length through the use of handwaved genetical engineering - would this have an effect on his diet? Of course an additional ap...

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You need to constantly threaten those humanoids from the back - for example big silent owls and manual tasks that require a lot of time The eyes need to provide an advantage for these humanoids, s...

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Mutation Starting from our current evolutionary state the first step is a sudden mutation to have some form of tail again. This one can be very small and doesn't need to have any real effect. Se...

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No, this would not work The problem is the angle at which other creatures, such as your astronauts, are looking at the creature. The far closer lights from the predator would appear to change thei...

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It's called cleaning symbiosis This is definitely a viable idea. To give you some information from the linked Wikipedia article: Cleaning symbiosis in our nature Cleaning symbiosis is a mutu...

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Your dragons are vegetarians and have a lot of different stomachs - just like cattle To cite from the Wikipedia article on cattle (emphasis mine): Gut flora in cattle include methanogens that ...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭

Spaceships are not supposed to withstand a lot of external pressure Have a look at our sister site Space.SE and the question Do spacecraft have similar structural integrity requirements as submari...

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The problem is that a simple head won't fly - it needs some wings. And that is exactly where those "entrails" come into play. The "entrails" are really a form of wings that allows your creature t...

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Time flies are attracted to temporal paradoxes. The name implies a small fly, but in reality they are brutal, quite big and carnivorous. Ever wondered why there are no time-travellers around? Gue...

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Money - a very macabre version of streaming You could for example make a live television show that sends every duel happening across the world. Think about it like Twitch where you can watch peopl...

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We give the minds some hobbies to do We have lots of people who have literally nothing else to do than think. That will probably be boring for quite a few of them. Why don't we put them to us-... ...

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A common misunderstanding about theories in general is that you can prove them, when in fact you will never be able to prove a theory - you can only ever falsify a theory. There is simply no way to...

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There is exactly one important cell - the Core The Core is what coordinates the super-healing. Every other cell is unimportant and will simply die when cut off from a "normal" body. They can't rea...

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Humans are yummy They prefer the taste of human flesh over the flesh of rodents that crawl around everywhere. Especially when munching on humans that are well off and can therefore afford to be cl...

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