Posts by motosubatsu
What would be a reasonable prime purpose of this research mission? For what reason would a dozen scientists be sent to the bottom of the ocean for a month? Study of the Xenophyophores down the...
The melding of the tree and building could be an intentional part of the structure - providing structural support for the building around it. This has advantages in terms of growth - the building ...
I think this would be do-able - it might take them a bit longer (in terms of generations certainly!) but it would be do-able, partly because I'd anticipate such a society adapting to their limitati...
My first bit of advice would be to drop the idea of magnets or anything magnetic as being the mechanism. To have it occur "naturally" would involve too many contortions of planetary mechanics and u...
Orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile (AKA CS gas or 'tear' gas) - it won't actually knock them out but it will definitely incapacitate them very quickly unless they happen to have full-face respirators h...
An EMP is probably not the right mechanism here - it will almost certainly result in large amounts of the precious smoke escaping from the sensitive electronics in the servers (and drives) but assu...
Pentoxifylline when co-administered with sodium thiopental causes death by acute pulmonary edema - or at least it does in rats! and is reasonably well-tolerated in most humans, with serious adverse...
