Posts by Mr Bumble
Rather than copying the list of resources to here, I suggest that interested parties browse the answer to this previous question (A list of worldbuilding-resources?) where an humongous long list of...
First, the object hits: The Atmosphere. Earth's gasses and most other like-fluids as we know them would exert pressure and friction on any incoming objects, the objects would heat-up on the surfa...
Kugelblitz. If your weapon is mass/energy then yep you are in the right territory. If it's matter in a particular configuration (a complex piece that took hundreds of thousands of work-hours to ma...
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...
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...
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...
Bi58, with a little help. An alloy of bismuth and tin in the proportion 58:42 known as Bi58. by itself has a melting point of 138 °C (280.4 °F), but doesn't by itself have suitable properties to...
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: ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
