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Answer A: Why would my species expose their brains through a glass dome?
Rule Of Cool. Plus, only the rich aliens do this - your average everyday Joe Six-Pack alien can't afford the surgery. And it has to be done after the skull has grown to full adult size - or done multiple times - so a child alien who's got a skull window is definitely the product of rich, status-consc...
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over 4 years ago
Answer A: Why can't my huge trees be chopped down?
They can't be cut down because they're bottle rockets writ large. Their core is a form of solid rocket fuel. As long as an unripened tree is safely encased in their stony bark they're 99.99999% proof against being touched off unintentionally - even a direct lightning strike is unlikely to affect them...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: How can I ensure my Evil Tower is always stormy?
It may be a good year for Evil Overlords, but I want you to take a moment out of your busy day to consider the welfare of those whose lives (well, OK, "existences") are not going as well as yours. There are those who are down on their luck, who wonder if they'll be there to wake with another dawn, wh...
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about 6 years ago
Answer A: Plausible hypothesis on why gravity might fail on earth
Alien Transportation System OK, this one sounds a bit "space opera"-ish, but you can probably dress it up and make it pretty. Aliens from an alternate dimension/universe/what-have-you use "our" dimension/universe/etc as a convenient way to travel great distances in "their" dimension, because the ma...
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over 6 years ago
Answer A: Why would two humanoid species be physically unable to touch each other?
They both live in swampy environments, each exudes a delightful-smelling musky lubricant that allows them to slither through their environment and protects them from contact with the potentially nasty things that live there - and each species slime is both disgustingly stenchy and a deadly toxin to t...
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almost 7 years ago
Answer A: Reasons for my dark ages world to have no horses at all
Religion. The horse is a beautiful and holy creature, sacred to the great god OoomphaLoompha, who once incarnated as such and impregnated the Great Turtle Goddess Iki, who took a couple minutes off from her job of holding the world upon her back to give birth to...but that's not important here. What...
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about 7 years ago
Answer A: Can I Have A Destroyed Civilization with No Ruins?
One way would be to do something similar to how Michael Moorcock ended the world of Melnibone' and the Young Kingdoms at the end of Stormbringer - and in a battle of the gods, it really doesn't matter who wins - the world will be toast (and since it'll be rebuilt by the victors, who get to write the ...
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about 10 years ago