Posts by Mr Bumble
In my part of this (Earth-like) world, there is a stable community of completely isolated pre-industrial humans, numbering perhaps 1,800. They live at an altitude of (at least) 25,000 feet (7620 m...
How do marine dragons evolve flight without any feathers and no hollow bones? Symbiotic Rocket Power. Symbiosis is defined as: any type of a close and long-term biological interaction b...
The principle of the Two-Edged-Sword. The nanites were created for a purpose, to cure disease, prevent the ravages of ageing, to heal minor wounds and eliminate cancer and autoimune conditions. Me...
Plants come in many colours anyhow, Chlorophyll making the base colour green for most, other pigments occur naturally too; Carotenoids - ranging in colour from yellow/brown to dark green, Betalain ...
S-Waves The idea here is that instead of moving through the water like sound or EM waves, the waves here are generated in the ocean floor in the Local Comms-Node, and come out to whomever wants to...
I recommend the Procoptodon: A giant cousin of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Attribution Wikipedia 2019 Licence a genus of giant short-faced kangaroo living in Australia during the Pleistocen...
A Snowball Earth is a global condition (which may have occurred many times) in which the temperature everywhere on the surface was, for extended periods (up to tens of millions of years), below th...
How to design an electrical grid for a flare star planet? Initial discoveries about electricity on such a planet may lead to a circumspect approach to this sort of thing, because of the unpred...
How do steampunk civilizations get lifting gas? What you want is "Synthesis gas". It's what all good fellows with a hunger for flight and adventure need. How shall I make this gas you ask? Wel...
You want to know how close your planet would get to a supermassive black hole. The Planet wouldn't get near the black hole itself. Not even near the Roche Limit. And I'll prove it. The vicinity...
How long a human being could live with stem cells? Science-based and the science-fiction tag, hmm. If the science is right and with some restrictions, perhaps forever barring physical assault...
Traveling outwards from the Earth in plastic bags in a tube, it would survive minutes, 'till the bags heated up in the solar radiation, burst and the whole of the inside of the tube was filled with...
AtmospheriPrisonEscape's answer in this thread gives us the equations needed to calculate velocity at any particular orbital height: Any small mass $m$ orbiting a large mass $M$ has its centrif...
How can a person be kept alive while being periodically drained of blood? The way the question is framed by the context that you've given leads me to show this: My answer is speculative and in no...
What you have described is a chemical battery and a thermo-electric heat pump all neatley packaged as a sponge. Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in So...
Nearby Supernova. Dr. Mark Reid, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics stated: "¦ were a supernova to go off within about 30 light-years of us, that would le...
What is the maximum G-forces someone can stand COMFORTABLY? I posit that in order for someone to experience comfort that they must remain conscious, so the method by which people are transport...
I'll deal with the ambiguity in the question by providing options. What if a creature such as you propose evolved characteristics found in more primitive Earth creatures, how about "What if: It ca...
Can a character perform telekinesis with energy manipulation? Perhaps. The answer could be yes, but only conditionally upon the character being able to manipulate: Dark Energy dark energy...
How hard would it be for humans to colonize an exoplanet with a size significantly different than that of earth (but otherwise suitable for life)? Let's deal with low-gravity exoplanets fi...
The host takes what it needs - except the essential element that the Symbiote needs a constant supply of. The Symbiote's alien biochemistry means the same things the host needs are sustaining - bu...
How to create a genetically high IQ population while avoiding regression to the mean as much as possible? To avoid the leveling drift (regression to the mean) in a population, what you need to do ...
Can I have a glacier on a tidally-locked shallow-sea planet? Yes. One of the outer system planets, somewhat like a large Jupiter could be a small star: It takes a little over .08 of a solar m...
Would a society with two different species that can interbreed be viable? Sure it's possible, by a number of processes the most obvious being hybridisation. The process by which two distinct speci...
At an atmosphere 20x denser than Earth's and with gravity 0.85x that of Earth, could organisms which have the traits above float by means of a huge bladder of hydrogen gas, producing the hydrogen v...
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