Posts by Mr Bumble
Some yes, some no. There are alternative pathways laid out below: If you're going to grow a clone for replacement parts, you need stem cells. These can be found in one of a few ways: Day 2 or ...
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...
Yes, but not from the link in the question. According to the link in the question, Carbon Dioxide can be used to produce an energy storage medium in a rudimentary way, a bit like the chemical prod...
The planet's life-forms have gone through several stages: Natural development, natural environmental factors such as repeated ice-ages and extinction level events have produced over a significant...
Tool use (a prerequisite for developing technology) comes in all shapes and sizes: Corvids wield sticks with their beaks. Attribution - Science news Some animals have developed specialist tool...
Any way you want. It depends on the energy you have available. To not tether them requires that you have thrusters of some kind to enable them to maintain position (ie. not crash into the planet)...
Like M-Blocks. In this clip you will see them performing extraordinary maneuvers twisting, jumping and walking. This part 45 seconds in shows them interacting nicely with each-other. They use mag...
Rule of law and transparency. (What's in a name.....) All magic-users have magical-names (one each), either given them by others or chosen by themselves (more accurately, they need to find out wha...
The Gods determined that taboos must be broken. Just as in Greek mythology, the Sphinx - Σφίγξ- was most often depicted as female with a human head, a lion (or other great cat) and wings: ...
Is it possible for an organic species to generate a steady magnetic field? Hemochromatosis: The human body cannot rid itself of extra iron. Over time, these excesses build up in major organs...
Why would ants unearth pieces of gold? What evolutionary purpose would this behavior serve? It makes their chimneys work better. The workers gather the gold and bring it to the colony. The ...
How to create a sunny atmosphere without an actual sun? Marianas Trench. What you have is one continent sized sheet of the Earth's crust being forced under extreme pressure beneath another in...
All the Eldar have personal immortality and a stake in the shared consciousness of the Eldar species. Their population is maintained at a stable and optimal level according to their science and the...
When an asteroid or comet impacts the Earth, the energy released mainly depends on the mass and velocity of the impactor. Using your figure of 100m diameter, an angle of 90 degrees (ie. coming st...
The organism first erodes bedrock into verticle shafts, tens of meters deep. Through a series of complex metabolic processes it begins to generate a build-up of waxy deposit at the bottom of the s...
Is it possible to hide a base in the Kuiper Belt? I believe so yes, but with certain provisos: Since it is known that: Scientists estimate that thousands of bodies more than 100 km (62 mile...
What kind of biological characteristic does a human being need to achieve great speeds? Let's look at a human athlete for comparison. (If you ignore that it's cyclists in this case.) The best tra...
What would make radio transmission unfeasible on a planet? Fierce Geomagnetic Storms. A non lower-atmospheric solution is a very active sun that releases more or less continuous flares which ...
What would a death by extreme water pressure look like? Cort Ammon's answer is quite correct, as is Andrey's. I'll add a bit more science and some idea of visuals. 1000 metres depth. The pressur...
Asteroid material that can cause signal distortion. Antimatter clusters at the Heliopause Physicists have long puzzled why there is so little apparent antimatter in the universe - surely equa...
How Long? I concur with the other two answers in that everything could be potentialy functional if sufficientley shielded from hard radiation and strikes by macroscopic particles. However we need...
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