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Often in science fiction, we see aliens enslaving humans for one reason or another. This is a trope I'm attempting to repurpose, but before I go any farther, I'd like to ask: what possible motive or means could aliens actually have for enslaving humans, particularly enslaving humans and taking them to la... |
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A year ago, feline mammalian space pirates, a remnant of a collapsed civilization, conquered earth with their advanced technology (their civilization was Kardashev type I) and built a megacity on the continent of North America. The pirates killed 90% of human population but spared the lives of the rest. ... |
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TLDR: **How can a 100-strong hive mind utilise our superpower in order to generate \$1billion as fast possible?**
All 100 of us share a common mind and can think as one. Instant, undetectable, thought transfer. None of us are rich, but we're all currently employed in low-paying jobs. Must keep low profil... |
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Characters with powerful telekinesis are portrayed as being able to exert a superhuman force using only their minds. For example, they can throw a car.
Based on what I remember from high school physics, throwing a 2000 kg vehicle to 10 m/s requires an impulse of 20000 N⋅s. But Newton's 3rd Law states tha... |
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In Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" a nineteenth century character finds himself in medieval England and shortly manages to build all the "modern" inventions: from steam engines to Gatling guns.
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I'm the mayor of a large city, and I'm up for re-election. My poll numbers have slipped after a recent scandal (don't ask), so to make up ground, I need to appeal to my most vocal constituents: evildoers. In particular, they want me to take on the issue of superheroes.
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So I had a funny idea, somewhat based off the cow in the *Restaurant at the End of the Universe* in the *Hitchhikers Guide*. You know the one—that wants to be eaten and whose only purpose in life is to be consumed.
Plants already have a variety of similar survival solutions: to my knowledge most fruit is... |
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*Dear NSA intern reading this post, I don't actually intend to start a coup*
*Dear @DasBeasto - we'll be the judge of that. - NSA*
Consider a country pretty much exactly like modern day America. The government (allegedly?) has their nose in everything that happens online. However, online communication is... |
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In sci-fi and fantasy artwork, I often see a city built on top of or incorporating waterfalls:
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James Gurney's **Dinotopia** (above) is an egregious example with "waterfall towers". When the city is... |
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We are situated in an scenario like the Terran cold war in the 1980 era. I am the omnipotent dictator ahem.. president of the "good" side.
Recently my research team completed some breakthrough in a revolutionary new sensor technology that relies on an, until now, totally unknown physical force. That tec... |
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I'd like my earth-like world to have a naturally formed narrow strip of land that bridges a major sea. Now, before anyone rushes off to comment about island chains and land bridges, I'll add that I'm looking for unusually long, thin, and well, road-like formation.
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**READ ME FIRST**: There seems to have been a great deal of misunderstanding stemming to equal parts from the words I chose for this question as well as the human nature of only seeing what one wants to see. In order to make the goal of the question clearer to the user I've spent some time investigating ... |
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I'm a genius inventor who's managed to come up with a drug that increases the occurrence of rational behaviour over 400% among human beings. This drug makes humans more likely to communicate effectively with others and make plans rather than rushing into situations that will be difficult to get out of an... |
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I am currently orbiting Jupiter, the rent is pretty cheap and the view is magnificent.
However, my former electricity provider refuses to connect me to earth's grid for petty reasons like "are you insane?" and "how did you get there anyway?" Still, my electricity requirements are pretty high as I wish to... |
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This has been puzzling me, because if the human half needs human nutrients, then suckling from the human nipples makes sense. But the horse half needs different nutrients, so which set of nipples makes most sense?
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The [Starmakers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula) are vast. Stars are their seeds, supernovae their hatching. Unimaginable millennia pass before they even begin to blink at their neighbours, and they do not die, merely pass along their experiences to the next generation (unlike [some cosmic beings](... |
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As society advances, technological discovery adds more and more to our accumulated knowledge. As such, scientists need to learn more and more to get to the point where they start exploring the boundaries of our knowledge. Sir Isaac Newton for example never had to take Calculus in college.
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Imagine a world like ours, with humans that have a soul which passes on into a new human body, taking the memories with it. They get accessible during puberty, gradually. as the number of humans is increasing, if no old soul is available, a new one is created.
We all know, knowledge is power. Older souls... |
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I want a whole city to be on drugs secretly, so they don´t know they are drugged by their government.
The city is about 2 billion people and roughly structured like a Makropole from the Warhammer 40k universe. This means:
* Many levels
* 4 classes (Lower, higher, worker, and government class)
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I recently read the following xkcd strip:
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I was dismayed, because I've been working on a short story centered on the sociological impacts of a near-future society where a minori... |
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This is kinda a followup question to my earlier question about magical mirrors: [Magical internet - unique addressing system](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32778/magical-internet-unique-addressing-system)
Two months ago, I discovered an ancient house in the middle of woods. As I scrol... |
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In my world I've created an alloy that can melt at low temperatures and solidify at high temperatures. This got me wondering, is something like this actually possible/does it exist. With most materials, of course, bonds are broken between individual molecules and atoms at high temperatures which creates ... |
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During the era of the Soviet Union, Russia was a much scarier nation: The [Cold War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War), the [Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis), and the [Space Race](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race). No one can deny these were major ev... |
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The obvious WWII alternate history question is [how could the Axis have won](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/30758/what-single-change-would-have-given-the-best-chance-for-the-axis-to-win-world-wa). Let's try something different this time.
The [Battle of France](https://en.wikipedia.org/... |
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A new girl moves into town with her eccentric parents who are self-proclaimed, professional vampire-hunters. They, for some reason, are completely convinced that their new neighbor is a vampire, but so they were of the previous 10 'new neighbors' who all turned out to be completely normal people. Not eve... |
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The year is 3030, and robots have finally become better than humans at everything.
Not just standard tasks we would think of a robot being good at, but *everything*. Manual labor. Math. Robot design. Art. They've even become better than humans at providing counseling to humans who are sad that they've be... |
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Is there a real life chemical or compound that exhibits the characteristics of stereotypical movie acid?
From what I know of most acid, it is usually clear or just a little cloudy, but I'm looking for a substance suitable for a TV supervillain.
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I know there are many historical accounts of soldiers trying to cross a body of water and drowning, but this got me thinking how much of this was due to panic, lack of swimming skills, water currents and how much was this due to the weight of their armor and their equipment.
I know for a fact that you ca... |
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Recently, my neighbour upset me. I have discovered that he plans to somehow improve his trebuchets to throw nasty things across the river. I told him that my pig-mounted cavalry will attack him.
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I don't have any pig-mounted cavalry... yet!
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I'm currently working on a conworld that has never had any contact with Earth, and I'd like to create words for iconic gemstones, such as [rubies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby), [emeralds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald) and [sapphires](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire).
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Since I haven't found anything like this yet. I was reading a novel and it talked about how some people created a 'Artificial Virtual Reality World' where the denizens were Human Artificial intelligence. Which to put simply, they reproduced earth in virtual reality with all the humans who can think for t... |
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I'm creating a full-fledged galactic republic, in a galaxy not so very different from our own. It's designed to encompass the majority of the stellar systems in the galaxy, including some of the globular clusters orbiting outside the galactic plane. I'm aware that [a galactic government of any sort](http... |
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In this world, a few hundred years have gone by since the invention of the first computer and the field of CS has been developed to the point were people are hardly aware hardware exists. Most people are raised in a environment were virtual reality and networks are built upon so many layers of abstractio... |
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First of all, yes I'm Australian, and yes I am using a kangaroo to type this up.
If you take a look at Australia, it's a pretty sad place geographically. Very flat, very dry, mostly desert and for the majority of it, mostly poor, arid land that isn't farmable or inhabitable. Now, the root cause of all of... |
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I'm a supervillain. I have no name, but you can rest assured my intentions are dubious and always result in general harm.
My biggest problem these days are these pesky superheroes keep finding my lairs and destroying them. Now I may be rich, but these places are expensive, and I hate having to constantly... |
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To My Trusted Advisors;
It has now been six months since the founding of Puzzleville around the entrance to the magic-filled Labyrinth of Wonders. As expected, adventurers from around the world have braved the subterranean depths to extract the countless artifacts left behind by the maze's builder, the e... |
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Let's say I somehow got transported to medieval times. I have my phone, laptop or other devices with rechargeable batteries, but I forgot to take my solar chargers. Luckily, my every device is powered by standard micro USB cable, which I happen to have with me. I know that USB uses 5V direct current, fro... |
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[65 million years ago](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous), a mass extinction event (likely caused by the [Chicxulub Meteor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater)) wiped out the dinosaurs, and their remains were hidden from us for millions of years.
Humanity was not around at the time, and... |
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Faster than light travel is a *really cool* thing to have in sci-fi settings. It allows humans, in relatable time scales, to travel the galaxy and see a variety of worlds. It allows for conflicts spanning not just a solar system or perhaps a solar system and its nearest neighbors, but huge sections of th... |
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Your mission, whether or not you choose to accept it, is to design the perfect refuge from the zombie apocalypse.
Starting assumptions and constraints:
* The zombies will be slow (walking) zombies (aka *The Walking Dead* zombies) and not
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Linked but not a duplicate of [this question.](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/14709/how-would-advanced-aliens-protect-themselves-from-idiots-with-ftl)
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During the last Star-Wars movie, I was dumbfounded by the sheer stupidity of admiral Holdo's move, during t... |
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The setting is mid-medieval in technology, vaguely European. There exists no magic in the setting except what is explicitly defined in this question (which all relate to dragons).
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Jellyfish are... weird. They're clear, slimy, and can sting after death. Sounds perfect for experimentation, so let's weaponize them!
Consider a hypothetical world where jellyfish are extremely common and you can get them cheaply anywhere, and there's an extreme fascination amongst the human population w... |
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The McDonald's fast food company is the world's largest restaurant chain which prides itself with offering (almost) the same standardized menu all around the globe...
...*this* globe.
When humanity colonizes Mars, how large would the population of the colony need to be in order to provide all the infras... |
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[There are reasons why we can't walk through walls.](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/126512/why-doesnt-matter-pass-through-other-matter-if-atoms-are-99-999-empty-space) Using magic, though, those difficulties fall away. In fact, for a wizard in an otherwise-almost-magic-free world, walking th... |
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**This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information.
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The most commonly used word in english is "the" accounting for about 6% of all the words being used. The second most common word is "be" account for less than 1% of all the words used (see [ngram viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the%2Cbe&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smooth... |
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Say we have a group of space travelers who have been frozen inside a sleeper ship for an enormous amount of time that left when Earth was recognizable. When they thaw out and reach their destination, they land on a planet which has only one super-continent and possesses a desert ecosystem which evolution... |
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In a world I am building, the day lasts longer than the year, 9 times longer in fact. The native people of this world have been forced to migrate around the world, both avoiding the scorching desert of noon and the freezing winter of night. This world is otherwise rather unremarkable on the surface. Outs... |
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Imagine that due to an excess amount of handwavium, my world has humans ranging from only a couple of inches, to around 20 feet. Society has evolved to include people of all sizes into the workforce and cities (a la Monster's Inc or Zootopia) but after the industrial revolution hit, a problem arose. How ... |
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He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows you when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so the NSA wants him to take.
Santa Claus' intelligence collection systems are state of the art. The NSA has approached Santa Claus about partnering, but Santa Claus declined due to *ideological reasons... |
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**I'm having a very hard time justifiably spending lots of time building a world of my own.**
On one hand-- I express myself very creatively, and even browsing through this site gives me a plethora of ideas.
However, whenever I start to consider what a world might look like, despite my fervent desire t... |
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So the U.S. President (or some other country's leader) is strollin' along. I blast him with a duplication ray gun (secret service must have been snoozing). There are now two of him. How does the world react?
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Many people know that our blood is red because it is iron based. Many people also know that blood is blue or green if it is copper based. I'm wondering what color blood would be if it was let's say aluminum or tin based? How could I achieve white or black blood?
Colors I'm curious about
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As usual I write stuff like any professional fictional writers do, my protagonist worships a deity calling herself "The Expensive One" and she bestowed a flawless full body diamond armor which comes with a sword also made entirely of diamond.
In return, my protagonist must purge the land of the poor: an... |
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Even though [text-based terminals still see specialty use cases](https://ux.stackexchange.com/q/101990/7062), modern general-purpose computers generally run graphical software and have a graphical user interface (GUI). This includes everything from low-end cell phones and some computer peripherals like p... |
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Humans are savage creatures. This is indicative in the way they get rid of bodily waste. Squatting over a glorified hole in the ground or aiming their spear tip toward the same hole and hoping for success is a matter best left to barbarians with no dignity or self respect. For this, you are to be pitied ... |
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How could a Faster than light drive be limited to only travelling between different solar systems, and not within a solar system? I don't really want to allow travel between planets in the same solar system using FTL or allow things like Kinetic Weapons to be equipped with FTL to destroy a planet by slam... |
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Let's say that Vegetarianism is banned in my country and meat eating is mandatory. The technology is modern. Stuff like Tofu, Quorn and other things that can make vegetarianism more popular are banned and considered contraband drugs.
The punishments are the following (but differ by region, sometimes bein... |
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You installed a strange browser you found in the deep web that works similar to any other. You soon discover something really amazing. That browser shows the state of any web page or online app 5 seconds in the future.
You make some tests.
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This relates to a world in which there is **no magic** and only medieval technology. The ruling and religious classes want to convince the general populace that magic exists.
For example a sword-smith has been tasked with making a 'magical' sword that can only be drawn by 'the chosen one'.
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Many sci-fi machines and robots have glowing eyes, though there's no apparent reason why any such thing should be the case. One possible example is something like a cat's eye, where light is sometimes reflected in the dark but that seems unlikely for a digital camera.
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My 7 year old son and I have pitted the Elves against the Dwarfs -
The Elves control the sky - they have airships, gliders in their cloths that enable gliding from airship to airship, and bridges between the airships.
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I don't like the direction where mankind is going. We spend more resources to build tools which allow us to watch cat videos than on curing cancer. One day I decided to say enough, and leave this grim place.
The plan is to gather around 500 people who want to leave the planet with me, then help me to gat... |
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It's a fairly common legend that trolls turn to stone when exposed to daylight, and I was thinking about using such a creature in a story. I'm searching for a plausible way of justifying such a weakness - there's nothing similar existing in nature that I know about.
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Making vocabulary for a language isn't too difficult (at least, not as hard as it might seem at first!). You can come up with some simple patterns of letters and syllables, and work off of those to create myriad words.
One problem I encounter is that even if I come up with a good system of vocabulary, th... |
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## BACKGROUND
*A corruption has seized hold of the land, turning great swathes of it into a poisonous waste that humans may only enter at their peril. Perhaps all who enter the waste grow sick or go mad, perhaps terrible beasts lie in wait, all that can be known is that evil has taken root in the earth.*... |
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Inspired by [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/95043/why-would-a-staff-increase-the-magic-power-of-a-wizard), [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/91717/how-would-it-make-sense-that-spellbooks-or-grimoires-teach-only-one-spell) and [this questio... |
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Humans have grown fat, complacent and cock-sure of the certainty of future progress, arrogantly expecting to [build minds in their own image](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6340/the-challenge-of-controlling-a-powerful-ai). They even dream of building themselves a city, [with a tower th... |
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The security of public key cryptography relies on computers not being able to generate anywhere near 2256 guesses per any reasonable time length. The obvious implications of a computer this powerful would be that Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies would be hacked immediately. But what other less obvi... |
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Set in the not so distant future, we find a habitable planet very much like our own. The only downside is that it's around 500 years of travel with our current technological capabilities.
We have to assume a few things in this hypothetical scenario:
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This is about a world which is quite similar to Earth in many respects. It has continents, oceans, mountains, fjords, humans, and every other property Slartibartfast might be more or less proud of in his work.
It *also* has a species of wilderness-living, large (roughly between the size of a large dog an... |
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No magic exists in this setting beyond what is explicitly described in this quesiton. The setting is vaguely European medieval. The question centers around a town large enough to support a nobleman complete with his keep.
The town knows that shapeshifters live in the wild. The populace has yet to determ... |
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I'm trying to come up with a flag for a fantasy city I'm designing, and it got me thinking about how flags are designed in general and where they draw their inspirations from.
For the most part, I believe that most flags are simply based on cultural/regional sources. Like for instance, the flag of a chr... |
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## The Setup
A while back, I read an article in which the author compared the rise and fall of civilizations in the universe to a forest.
In the forest, small plants come into being, grow, and die over relatively short time spans. Living in the shadows of much larger trees, these small plants compete wit... |
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It should not resist 50 cal bullets, but an armor which could protect a creature from the US standard issue rifle, for example. Here are a couple of things the armor needs to do:
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Let's start with [Sanderson's-first-law](http://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-first-law/). Although I like reading stories with soft magic, this is not question about them. I would like to work with hard magic - the magic bound by strict rules.
So far in either the literature or games (RPG, strategy, p... |
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I'm just your average person. Not rich, or particularly skilled at anything. Until a few days ago, when (for a reason I can't disclose) I got some amazing superpowers: I can fly, I'm completely invulnerable to any kind of damage and lift pretty much anything.
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In the nation of Xenqu, a hereditary monarchy has ruled for centuries. The Xenquan society is in a medieval period, although the recent invention of paper and the increasing use of gunpowder may signal the start of a period of relative industrialization.
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I'm going camping in two weeks and I really don't want to get bit up by mosquitoes.
So I want to figure out a way to commit total genocide of all mosquitoes in at least a 20 mile (32 KM) area around the campsite.
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Cancer works by making cells split and reproduce at an accelerated rate, slowly and painfully killing the afflicted. Its true weapon lies in its ability to surpass the immunity system.
As far as I can tell, no matter how the cells of an alien work, there is no way to make them immune to this. So I must ... |
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This is partly a Skyrim-inspired question, but also relevant to a story I'm trying to flesh out.
In this world, magic and necromancy are perhaps not commonplace, but certainly not unheard of. Walking dead such as zombies, wights, and skeletons are reasonably common - if you leave a corpse to stew long en... |
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Is it possible for a planet in our part of the galaxy to have a night without stars?
I'm looking for some kind of natural phenomena that would hide the stars, but allow the sun to rise and fall as normal. The atmosphere and day/night cycles should be unaffected.
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I have a tribal merfolk society, living on and near a volcanic island, that is also inhabited by humans.
The problem that I can't seem to figure out is: how would they dispose of their dead?
Wouldn't sinking the bodies in waters around the island have negative effects on local marine life?
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**Me**
You might call me evil but the facts are I deserve to rule all of the world, everyone & everything in it.
**What I already have done**
For years I have worked in the shadows (as much as you can call owning one of the largest corporations in the world as "shadows") & now have a network of 1024 full... |
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The problem: If somebody fires a (kinetic) gun on a spaceship, the bullet is likely to penetrate the hull and cause a host of problems.
I want to incorporate spaceships and fighting on them and in them, boarding action and all the other fun stuff in my current project. How could you solve this?
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The idea of a truly masterful swordsman capable of taking on dozens of average swordsmen by himself (sometimes even above average!) is a pretty common depiction in fantasy media.
A recent example I can think of is Barristan Selmy from A Song of Ice and Fire, who supposedly could have taken on a room ful... |
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The setting; there’s a large population of merfolk living in the ocean, and a developing seafaring human nation on the neighbouring coastline.
These merfolk are entirely aquatic. They have gills and not lungs, they would suffocate if removed from water. They can survive on the surface only as long as the... |
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Today a weird guy with a pointy hat offered me and my friends to play a game: We will all travel back in time, to a random date somewhen from the antiquity to modern times. We will have a limited amount of time to do whatever we want before returning to our current world. After that time, each of us trie... |
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If we accept that dragons are *big* and they hoard gold and gems (and don't make or mine these baubles, themselves), **how do dragons physically manipulate and transport human/elf/dwarf-sized coins and jewels back to their lairs?**
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I'm in the process of creating my own language, and so far, I've built a basic vocabulary set of about ~200 words. From here, however, I'm somewhat unsure as to what vocabulary I should work on adding first. Obviously creating a language with the vocabulary of a full natural language, with hundreds of th... |
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Shapeshifters are creatures which are able to, based on will or some sort of external stimuli, change between different forms while still remaining the same individual. Sometimes they retain the same personality, sometimes the different forms entail different personalities as well. A common example from ... |
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For a story idea in my head to work on paper, a character has to be able to fluently and eloquently speak a common language, to the point of being able to turn a phrase or make plays on words naturally, but they must not be able to comprehend that same language in written form.
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The question is pretty straightforward:
**Why would two species of predator with the same prey cooperate?**
I am looking for answers in the following context:
* Limited food supply, which means scarcity of prey and food
* Non-compatible species of predators which can not reproduce with each other
* Local... |
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Assume a passenger aircraft were left undercover for a very long period, perhaps thousands of years, in a damp, arboreal environment. How much of it would survive? Which parts would remain intact, and which parts would decay? What would it take to get it airborne again?
How long could it reasonably survi... |
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