Andon‭

Is it realistic - No. Very, very much no. Planets all form from the same disk, so having one moon be antimatter while everything else is regular matter is... not exactly plausible. There are a smal...

posted 7y ago by Andon‭

A synchronized orbit like you described is, simply put, not possible. For every orbit, there is a set speed for that orbit. No faster and no slower. Gaining or losing speed changes the orbital pro...

posted 7y ago by Andon‭

Water is, generally speaking, incompressible. It doesn't act like other liquids, at least not until you treat is as though it's already at absurd compression as it is. I highly doubt that water wou...

posted 7y ago by Andon‭

Watch this overly gratuitously destructive video of some poor normal capacitors. Those are low-voltage low-capacitance capacitors. And they still have a decent amount of force to them. A high-vo...

posted 7y ago by Andon‭

Related to a previous question which focused more on surviving on such a world. This presumes a significant advancement in technologies - that is, to 1940s-1950s level technology. There are some d...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Andon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Andon‭

The dwarves can keep the bees in the caverns, but provide them with suitable exits. You have your beekeepers on the upper levels of the cities. You'll need ventilation somehow to allow for your ci...

posted 7y ago by Andon‭

A few of my previous questions have mentioned that the colonists to this world will be scrambling to get whatever foods they can grow, because the planet's fauna is largely nonexistent (There's sea...

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Absolutely nothing That is, more accurately, that nothing has stifled their progress, and their civilization is right where it naturally would be. Well, natrually other than the fact that they wer...

posted 6y ago by Andon‭

Scenario: A colony of 20,000 is founded, and has no access to any further inhabitants. Assuming this colony is humans of varying traits (genetics such as skin color, eye color, etc) with no single ...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Andon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Andon‭

Use a MOOSE Or, rather in this case, a COOSE, but that sounds less cool. MOOSE stands for Man Out Of Space Easiest. The general concept is a teadrop-shaped device, but it's inflatable. Deflated, ...

posted 6y ago by Andon‭

I want this world to have two things, typically on the complete opposite end of geological timescales: Land fauna is incredibly "Young" - Pretty much nothing larger than a "large" insect (Some li...

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Prototaxites. Giant, finger-shaped mushrooms. Painting by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History. These monsters existed before trees did, and while there are a few theories on whethe...

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Aqua power is going to be the easiest to harness, especially with the (Personal opinion: Ridiculous) restriction of no mining. Without any organized industry (Opinion the same as the above), you c...

posted 6y ago by Andon‭

Say we have a planet, similar to Earth, which has deposits of a naturally occuring superconductor. Perhaps have it about as common as deposits of gold - Moderately rare, but occurs in veins as oppo...

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The biggest problem with spacecraft is weight. You want things to weigh less and less. So, your halflings have a natural advantage in spaceflight. This means that, while it seems you are fighting ...

posted 5y ago by Andon‭