Posts by Mr Bumble
Paranoid Schizophrenia. The brain is malfunctioning, it perhaps contains a brilliant intelligence or valuable information, but the dopamine receptors respond abnormally. The artificial brain to w...
No. Tidal locking near a black-hole (which you'd need for your effect to remain in one place on your planet) is impossible because of: Magneto-rotational instability Black holes exist in an extr...
As I see it you have 3 issues here: Gravity. Normally sodium circulation would occur because of a temperature/density gradient which facilitates convection to carry it through the heat-exchange...
This answer stands as an historical artifact, obsolete because of an edit to the question's tags. Energy-rich minerals of unknown composition from the surface of Mercury. Mercury, the planet has ...
You couldn't just replace the Magnesium directly without making other changes. Taking beryllium as the first example. In Plant-like organisms there are at least two different types of Chlorophyll...
Laser Syntered Regolith First the dust and rock on the surface of the Moon would need to be passed through sieves, to enable the grade of material suitable for printing to be fed to the printer he...
Even if they survived Zeiss Ikon's way, there's not a hope of surviving this: The neurons in the brain don't get replaced over this sort of time period. It is widely understood now that new neuron...
Whilst not strictly relevant to this question, the questions and answers may interest the curious: this is the 4th in a series of question here - 1, 2, 3. My population (in excess of 500,000) und...
A Collision at relativistic speeds with a PBH. A primordial black hole, according to Russian Physicists: Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich and Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in 1966 first proposed the ...
Aethir. Known to the ancients of Greece, Aether (after a god of the same name): pure upper air that the gods breathe... According to Epiphanius, the world began as a cosmic egg, encircled...
Edited. - as per edit to the question. Assuming the Current model of the universe. Fore: nothing, because - Photons blue-shifted beyond the furthest reaches of the EM spectrum (way beyond human p...
Light and thus Energy. This probably will happen as a result of natural phenomena involving Earth's magnetic cycles. The current dust storms on the moon - referred to as "Moon Dust Fountains" tha...
The key is in the ecosystem you're taking with you. Organic tech. I contend that it's about an integrated system, not just about one aspect of that system. The floor is a Tapestry Lawn: Attr...
St. Anthony's Fire A fungus also known as ergot, found on rye grains and in rye bread containing a natural LSD substance. The convulsive symptoms from ergot-tainted rye may have been the sou...
Since you're in charge, the best way to go might just be squishy. Cephalopods.: nervous system of cephalopods is the most complex of the invertebrates Best to work with a species that has hu...
Possibilities: There are many possible developments in tech which would allow this, (OK , first, going along with the question's assertion that the freezing process has already occurred - thus exc...
Sure, it's called convergent evolution. analogous traits arise when different species live in similar ways and/or a similar environment, and so face the same environmental factors Natural...
They do on Earth, so why not. Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) [...] trees has evolved to make best use of the environment in which each species occurs. Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) bark offer...
A tale of envy. Hippos. The Ishisonga remembers swimming as a cub: it loved swimming, it would dive beneath the water and feed on the lush and delicious water-weed, reveling in the cool splashy g...
I give you two choices depending on use: Mortician's wax: Mortician's wax is a cosmetic wax used by morticians to cover injuries on dead bodies. The wax imitates the properties of human skin...
No. You can deduce certain things about a person from their physical appearance, hair colour, skin colour, eye colour - will all give you clues to certain genetic markers that they will carry. Yo...
No. Not even in the form of dimethylmercury. This extremely nasty organic compound was being carefully used by professional toxic metal researcher Karen Wetterhahn when a few small drops of it t...
How could indestructible materials be used in power generation? Energy storage. If you can spin a flywheel to relativistic speeds on indestructible bearings using electromagnets (in vacuum), ...
This is the third in a series of 5 (at this point) questions. It's not relevant to this question, but for anyone who's curious this was the first, this the second. Conditions for this question are...
The strength of the race is shared amongst all Eldar, such that when one Eldar dies, their strength is bequeathed to all of the fair-folk, ther lifespan and any magical or fay abilities (eg. glamou...