Posts by Andon
The DoomFleet returns! And this time, it's with a more "Conventional" weapon - That is, projectiles with an antimatter core. Ultra-simple explanation is they have a "small" amount of antimatter in...
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 ...
There's a really simple solution here that I'm surprised nobody has touched on. You simply have it in really northern or southern latitudes, and have the planet have a minimal axial tilt. Orient t...
From my understanding of geology, the answer is Yes. This is, of course, discounting anything to do with maintaining the facility over such a time period. The biggest issue that I can see is plate...
Without knowing why you want this, it's hard to give a proper answer. As Will mentioned, direct electric boiling is possible, and indirect condensation is also possible. It's incredibly inefficient...
It's incredibly impractical to attempt to harvest a nebula. Density of a Nebula is somewhere between 100 and 10,000 particles per cubic centimeter. Really, really young nebula can have about 1,000...
In a previous question, I established an area that creates megastorms. Unlike a bunch of my other questions, this one is incredibly straightforward: Just how deep does a submarine (Or aquatic life...
Solar Sails. Without any sort of compressed gas, chemical reactions, or flywheels, the only way you're going to get a spacecraft to move is via something outside. A human simply cannot provide any...
Our AI in question inhabits a synthetic brain housed in an organic and genetically modified human body (With a few other cybernetics). This body/brain combination was the result of a black project ...
Say we're on a ship traveling between the Milky Way and Andromeda. We decide to stop and take a look out our space-windows. What do we see? I'm presuming that the Milky Way and Andromeda would bo...
Welcome to the Black Cauldron. The Cauldron of Storms, even. It's a sunny day now, perfect for fishing. Just not here. There's no boats on the water. The weather can go bad, quickly. And anything o...
Population Growth As @c.z. touched on, digital minds are just that - digital minds. If you clone a mind, that's all it is - A clone of the original, or originals. It wouldn't be unique. Adding a bi...
I'm (slowly) working on a semi sci-fi world, set in a WWII-ish tech level (Semi sci-fi being how they got to this world). Except in this world, aircraft have developed significantly later, and batt...
Alien AI DoomFleet has a mission: Destroy threats to their creator. They do this by detecting the signature of FTL drives, going to the system, and blowing everything up, up to and including the ho...
I imagine it'd sound a lot like the sun or a star would, but it wouldn't necessarily be extremely loud. Most sound comes not from the fusion reaction, the fission reactions, burning coal, or whate...
We're in a military space cruiser, designed for in-system patrolling. We're selected to test out a prototype FTL drive. The initial tests are supposed to be short-ranged in-system hops. A disaster...
Lying on their back, on a bed made of some form of comfortable and supportive material, I'd say it's likely that they could survive. The bigger problems come from laying on your back for two days:...
So. Black holes are hard to approach. Time gets a little, shall we say, funky as you get closer. And then, of course, there's the tide. They'll tear a ship apart quicker than anything. I won't even...
You are, in essence, talking to yourself. So you need to make a set of rules that you'll follow. Let's say we have the rabbit in a long cage, and we use Morse Code to communicate with ourselves. We...
A simple extremely high orbit, such as the aptly named Graveyard Orbit - These orbits are really high and designed so that the satellites will be there for a very, very long time. An orbit should b...
Round objects would be preferred. They'd probably hold cups from the bottom. That would change how their things would be designed more than anything else. They'd like things like stick shifts and l...
Imagine a meta-human, one engineered to be immortal. A combination of cybernetic enhancements, genetic engineering, and other scientific modifications have made it so this human will not die from a...
So, here's the setup. Spaceship emergency lands on a habitable planet in the middle of a desert. Being a desert with decent wind movement, the ship quickly ends up being buried under the sand. A f...
Short answer: All of the above. Throw it at all of the walls, see if it sticks. Try to find people who are in-the-know about whatever this discovery is to verify it and use their clout. In reality...
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