Posts by Amadeus
+1 to AngelPray comment. OTOH, if as specified it is just a sped up version of the normal healing process; then things like amputation and other surgical changes will still work, the doctors just n...
edit: The OP allows plants, but no trees. Actually this is reasonable; woody trunks may well be an evolutionary response to predation and trampling by early animals; the fact that many trees can su...
If you have mercury; you have a lens: Put it in a dish and provide a low spin, it will form into a parabolic lens that focuses sunlight. Large lens = hot hot focal point. The dish can actually be j...
Well, to make a desert planet habitable, you will need oxygen, unless your 1870's cowboys live in domed towns, which seems incongruous. Humans need to breath oxygen! You will also need water (could...
Behind a star or planet would be a good place; not in orbit but powered to remain behind it from the perspective of some other POV. However, any kind of "behind" implies a single direction or locat...
I will propose a novel, two-pronged scientific solution. [electrical, biological] Bear with me for the first part, I will explain! Part 1 Lots of natural chromium, lead and mercury, perhaps titan...
You cannot get there faster than light (from the perspective of the places you are traveling from and to, if they are [nearly] at rest with respect to each other (meaning even if they are both movi...
I upvoted Dutch and did not think anything else was needed; but in response to commentary I will add on. Is Joe able to spot it? This is an unqualified YES. Amateurs spot new asteroids and com...
Any scientific reason would have to be in the make up of wood itself: See The Chemistry of Wood. Perhaps because wood was living cells; something the cells produce; everything from sugars (like in...
Heavy Metals. The heavy and rare elements can be produced in Supernova; things like Gold, Platinum, etc. There are other ways, but precisely how isn't important. But, they can produce them in mas...
You are incorrect. There is no "terminal velocity", that is a term used with air resistance (or it can apply to fluid resistance) when the amount of acceleration (due to gravity) is matched by the...
If the dark green is supposed to be forested area, it seem unusual to me to have a desert border it so tightly in the lower left quadrant. In my experience, desert transitions to mountain or rock, ...
I upvote some of the above. One answer not mentioned: ensuring there is nothing wrong with the star. I presume a galaxy spanning civilization knows a great deal more about stars and how they work ...
In the realm of simple magic: Great White Shark patrols. The magic is to give the sharks a predisposition for patrolling the shore; they can go off to hunt for food, but the magic means they just ...
Yes. But it might not be satisfying... In particular, you can have two co-planets orbit each other (by all rights the Earth Moon system should be considered co-planets; the Moon is larger than mos...
Like Humans Are: I'd expect them to be rather weak and inept in the wild, former prey for bigger, stronger, more vicious animals, big brained that gained their dominant status through better insigh...
Mice may already be "sentient", meaning self-aware and reasonably intelligent. They show Empathy. Here is more info on the sentience of mice; it is from PETA, but what they are showing is all pro...
OP Q: just how much processing would be done on the mining planet before the end result is shipped back to the homeworld? Presumably all of it; to reduce both the size and mass of the "end res...
You are mistaken about autism; my grandson has it. He has no problem with memory at all; in fact one aspect of his autism is difficulty in learning language (he did not start speaking until about 4...
It provides a social life, and people enjoy doing things and doing them together. The product is not the point, producing it is the point. Sure, my wife could get a robot to tend her garden perfect...
I upvote a4's wormhole tech; but note that a wormhole could be small enough (atom sized or molecule sized) to just let a stream of photons through. In such a case, the visor is just a regular LCD ...
Shape the ship! Make it like a needle, with a very long (mile long) prow. Various materials are harder than diamond (See Here), I would suggest something like #1, carbyne, at 200 times the strength...
Is it possible that in our solar system or galaxy there is such a civilization so higly developed that we are "ants" unable to even be aware of their presence, in this very moment? Yes...
Most likely not. Like our own transistors in real life, Human neurons have already evolved to the very edge of being as small as they can be and still function without being overwhelmed by electric...
After reading Cort's impressive answer; I'd offer an alternative, to "nearly" perfectly sealed. Construct a cover that fits over the ship; as close as possible with the constraint of being only two...
