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How would you have a space ship set out on a journey to a distant planet, but find themselves arriving back home without realising it?
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What are reasonable densities for terrestrial planets?
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Shooting mass (people) into a blackhole to keep a spacestation in orbit?
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Can humans learn unique robotic hand-eye coordination?
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Venting Fusion reactor plasma to create a plasma shield?
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What change in China's history after the Korean War is needed to made the Democratic movement in 1989 a success?
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Could adding more phosphate groups to high energy molecules such as ATP meaningfully increase the amount of energy they carry? [closed]
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How would a civilization of marine life avoid human detection?
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How do I nerf a magic system empowered by emotion? [closed]
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A tool that draws the borders around settlements automatically [closed]
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How could a winged human hide very big wings [duplicate]
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What change in the nutritious regime are needed without organic limbs
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Non-falling world
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Does this hard magic system have well-defined limits? What sounds exaggerated or vague about it?
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how can you accelerate the fusion cycle in high mass stars?
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Technological development without metal/wood/magic
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Will life exist on Earth if it stops rotation? [duplicate]
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What are various ways to gain influence over a nation primarily using economics?
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What would a functional plutocracy look like?
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How can a city-state keep their monopoly on firearms
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Is My Oceanic Super-Earth with steam/water vapor atmosphere plausible?(Closed)
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In what way could a small, non-magical force hold a castle against a larger, magically-abled force?
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How could vampire culture inspire self-sacrificial “species patriotism” in people not born into it?
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If you lived 5,000 years, would you notice the continents moving?
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How long would it take for earth to dry up?
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Horseback Travel in an Unpopulated Pacific Northwest
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Would the internet be intact in 3021 without human maintenance?
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Could Uranus have a solid surface due to its internal composition and lack of internal heat?
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How to Build a “Believable” Fall of Civilization? [closed]
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Introducing Television/Cellphone tech to lower tech society
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What would the flora of a floating continent be like?
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How would a society dominated by mercenary companies work?
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How to protect a secure compound breached by a small modern military?
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How functional/versatile would airships utilizing perfect-vacuum-balloons be?
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Creature design - low gravity high atmospheric density world
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Would having only 3 fingers/toes on their hands/feet affect a humanoid species negatively? [closed]
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What would happen to nuclear plants if all the electric stuff would just overload and burn out?
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Does anyone know of a stellar map that gives the distance between the nearest systems? [closed]
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How would a theoretically perfect language work? [closed]
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How to design religions for a species built around logic [closed]
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Lowest tech level to blow up the solar system
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Civilization in a giant Flood plain continent?
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How and why would there be stretchy humans
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This is going to sound insane but… can we eliminate numbers+arithmetic from math? [closed]
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How to best do a Rock->Paper->Scissors city states with Technology->Military->Religion being the over arching theme in a fantasy setting
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How would my creatures detect presence?
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How much trouble would a great depression era rural county have with settling a late cretaceous Montana/Wyoming?
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If Earth was converted into energy by antimatter-matter collision would the energy “destroy” the observable universe?
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How would dolphins evolve manipulators and what/where would they be?
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What sort of work environment would require both an electronic engineer and an anthropologist?
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What pressures would lead to the evolution of merfolk?
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Localized snow storm
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Could medieval people make an electric motor?
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Could a species give birth to smaller babies than humans but have larger brains as adults?
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Could a world exist without autotrophs, but have heterotrophs?
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I need a systematic way to consider all crucial factors when building different kinds of near-future cities
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Horror World Problems [closed]
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What might block satellite communications (or make them very hard to use)
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What properties are needed for magnets to levitate a whole city 2km above a planet's surface?
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