Posts by Andon
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...
It is precisely those diseases and bacteria that make the brain need to be visible and, potentially, accessible. The bacteria and diseases attack the brain from the outside in, and they leave disc...
OK. So. Here's the assumptions I'm making with this answer: Humanity has figured out how to transfer their minds into robot minds These (base) robot bodies are on par with human bodies, in terms ...
As @vodolaz095 mentioned, this isn't something that could happen quickly - @John O's answer points out a lot of the issues that show up there. There is a parasite that does something marginally si...
The apocalypse has come! Everything is dead, and I do mean everything. People. Animals. Plants. Don't ask how, I'm not entirely sure. Let's assume this town is in an out-of-the way area as far as ...
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 ...
When they died matters The universe likes to keep things in balance, but the universe - not being sapient - is quite dumb about it. So, a body that dies of old age at 80, 90, etc years old will ta...
Farming and direct choice It is a lot easier to farm plants than it is to farm animals, and easier to store them as well. You don't have to feed the dried apples you have in your storehouse over t...
Astrosynthesis is a nice generator that could fit your needs. It's a paid-for program, but it also has a 14-day trial so you can see what it has. It lets you generate stars as well as show them on...
An acre is, with rounding, a square with a side length of just under 210 feet. With 53 worms per acre, each worm has about 820 ft/sq - Or, a square with a side length of just under 29 feet. Dispe...
A concept I've encountered a few times is aliens with "vastly" different biology than terrestrial creatures. In this case, I'm interested in replacing the parts that use oxygen with something a bit...
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...
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...
Assume Humanity was really wrecked by some malignant force, and a group managed to escape and find a habitable planet and 'settle' it. They weren't able to bring along much in the way of advanced t...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
