Amadeus‭

I would suggest a large flying predator with a straight, thin, sharp horn. For evolutionary support consider a swordfish or narwhal tusk. The predator is evolved for a sneak swooping attack from ...

posted 6y ago by Amadeus‭

Say that the run-up acceleration to FTL has to be about 10% of light speed, that FTL depends upon a discovery involving a violation of symmetry in the Lorentz contraction (a consequence of relativi...

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Obviously you need stable orbits long enough for evolutionary forces to take effect (millions of years), but clearly that could be possible with a large moon and some smaller moons; to emphasize th...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

As mentioned; we already know there are rogue planets and possibly even black holes out there. Is the fleet in question cover an area the size of Jupiter? Why wouldn't the better explanation be t...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

If you want a "realistic" time travel "anyone" could plausibly do, you will have to look at the gaps in modern physics. New Scientist magazine (out of the UK) recently listed 11 things modern physi...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

To answer the question directly; I don't think it is possible "intelligence" was "brought" by anything; as an earlier answer details, the evidence is overwhelming that intelligence arose slowly ove...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

I know you (the OP) have settled on commercial reasons; but in reading the setup I imagine privacy and/or military advantage could be at stake. The inhospitable environment make for a natural "moat...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

There is plenty of material in the earlier answers to make them nearly comprehensive; so while I agree with those earlier answers, I will only expand on a devil's advocate view for the fun of it: ...

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There is only one possible route; which I will describe below, but otherwise your conditions make the task impossible; unless "largely indistinguishable" means "difficult but not impossible" to dis...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

I'd say, kill some small percentage of the children, too, like 20%: Say any and all women that are pregnant when they are first exposed to the disease, pass it on to their fetus; but the immune sys...

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A) Consider the human tongue; a long boneless appendage, muscular, that (in some people) can manipulate finely enough to tie a knot in string (perhaps holding one end in the teeth, I don't know). ...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

How about "The Meek Inherit The Earth"? They could be the only large animal species left on their planet; so they eat plants and invertebrates like worms. There were aggressive species at one time,...

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I work in the AI field. The fictional shows are not realistic, the authors do that for the sake of creating a powerful enemy that seems unstoppable, so the puny humans can be heroic in the eyes of ...

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I think it is fair to assume that the more time there is before a random event, the more likely it is the random event will turn out differently. Why? Because the world is governed by Quantum Mech...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭

It depends on the size of the asteroid. For something the size of the Earth or moon, where gravity is generated, a molten mass will differentiate with heavier metals descending to the center and li...

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