Posts by Amadeus
If the ink knocks them out for only a week, then perhaps the Ko'dor don't want the victim dead, they wish to temporarily impersonate a person of power or influence and make some momentous decision ...
The big problem I see for survival is not energy, it is growing plants for food and feed. The dark side is going to turn into a desert, no grass or crops or trees or any photo-synthetic life is goi...
I would go with commmunal pods, just out of financial and space efficiency. Consider the difference between 250 individual cars, and ten buses. Most city buses have 55 seats; you could have just 5 ...
Biology cannot predict lifetimes ahead accurately enough to make this work. If I have a population of 500 adult males and 500 adult females in a field, and resources to support another 100 persons...
I don't think you can extrapolate from centenarians. As Jimmy Stewart once said about age, "after 70 it's patch, patch, patch." I don't know anybody that has made it to 100, but several in their 80...
Nothing says the orbit of your planet has to be as close to circular as the Earth's. All orbits are elliptical, with the sun at one of the two foci. (Even a circle is an ellipse, it just has both f...
Your massive maglev train is, obviously, levitated and accelerated by (electro) magnets, and must be many times the mass of the spaceship. The energy to power those magnets must come from somewher...
It only depends on alien intelligence and technology for scanning and examining the bodies. The human body (like any other animal's body) is a self-sustaining machine, the parts have functions, a...
First, I agree with L.Dutch; so I am avoiding duplicating that answer! String Theory is already defeating itself; there have been two books written on the problems within it. Not Even Wrong (The F...
Consider camouflage colors, for desert, forest, water, city, or whatever environment they do most of their hunting in. Splotches of the most common colors found in such environments. Although splot...
Biological lifelong pair bonding (monogamy). This is rare, but does happen. At least one reason males seek dominance in a society is to increase their access to mates, and thus have more children ...
As several answers say, this is impossible. One solution is to (very early in the book) attribute the construction to a previous advanced civilization with mystery tech capable of this feat. A mor...
Speaking as a scientist, it would not preserve my sanity to believe the world and all the people in it were a simulation for only me. It would quite likely make ME a simulation too! (Particularly i...
I think this is option #3. There is a problem with centrifugal gravity, rotating things want to rotate around their center of gravity; so if the weight is not distributed quite evenly around the r...
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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