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What would be the most effective way for a humanoid species made of stone to generate energy to move around?
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How can an evil empire build a fortress that stands for a thousand years?
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Aftermath of a Limited Nuclear Exchange [closed]
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I have a world with two moons, and I was wondering how often they would both be full at the same time
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Could a Luna-based colony successfully revolt against Earth? [closed]
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Could a planet have metalloids but very few metals?
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What kind of alien technology would make space colonization viable?
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Effects of a hypothetical "proton-decay" bomb for a fictional story
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Time dilation on a heavily oblong planet
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How can I design a benevolent, all-powerful deity, and still have a society with day-to-day issues?
Awarded Apr 6 at 5:51
Could ocean and wind currents form on a tidally heated body
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What types of themed maps should I put for my Fictional Planet? [closed]
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Will it be possible to prevent cancer by introducing ECC on genome?
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How would I pull off FTL travel in a universe where inter-universal travel is also widely used?
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Primitive drawing of blood
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What natural forces can cause a volcano to erupt seasonally?
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Conditions of a piranha solution ocean
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Would caves maintain a cool temperature on the hot side of a tidally locked planet?
Awarded Mar 28 at 20:25
Is it possible to have an ocean moon orbit a large ice giant via tidal forces and a greenhouse effect within the moon?
Awarded Mar 27 at 23:05
How long would it take for an area to be repopulated after experiencing a meteoric impact?
Awarded Mar 27 at 12:07
How can the stars be wrong, so that an observer realises they're not in our world anymore?
Awarded Mar 27 at 7:49
What is Plausibility of a Megalodon sized creature attacking a human? [closed]
Awarded Mar 21 at 20:11
How can I make a military that largely enlists spell swords viable? [closed]
Awarded Mar 21 at 3:20
Is it possible to have a species where everyone is both male and female? [closed]
Awarded Mar 20 at 5:27
The rotation of the sun's core doubles in speed every 10 years. How many years before the situation turns apocalyptical?
Awarded Mar 19 at 8:48
Genetic engineering for sea people (false merfolk)
Awarded Mar 18 at 5:48
Why would two factions in a long-running civil war tolerate the existence of a city not controlled by either party?
Awarded Mar 16 at 9:27
Why would a warrior tribe be dependant on a pacifist tribe?
Awarded Mar 14 at 17:20
Alternative methods of blood circulation?
Awarded Mar 13 at 22:22
Would the diet described below sustain a human?
Awarded Mar 13 at 6:05
Steampunk-inspired constructed world tips? [closed]
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Making nuclear weapons almost impossible to build
Awarded Mar 11 at 19:12
How many cultures can a world have without being too complicated? [closed]
Awarded Mar 7 at 20:41
How could forces without metal or plastic face up to conventional forces?
Awarded Mar 5 at 8:58
How would I create a reason for melee weapons (swords, polearms, et cetera) to be used and effective in a science fiction setting? [duplicate]
Awarded Mar 4 at 20:33
How could a light sorcerer fly
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Could mountains form on anhydrous planets?
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Global warming in an apocalyptic future?
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How much can you compress information?
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Can mountains form in rings?
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Why could the militaristically superior dwarves who are the only ones with magic weapons be isolationist?
Awarded Feb 28 at 14:26
How would fire behave in an oxygenless atmosphere with a significant percentage of chlorine?
Awarded Feb 27 at 21:10
In a magic system where smoking live beings boosts your power, is it probable that lung cancer spreads inevitably?
Awarded Feb 26 at 20:16
How would the "Hardness vs Toughness" dynamic of gems apply if it were possible to make shields out of them?
Awarded Feb 25 at 8:27
Could dragons be cold-blooded?
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Fake Legendary Sword in Stone scams, how to make them believable and unpullable in a world of magic? [closed]
Awarded Feb 14 at 14:46
The Tropic of Ice: how cold might it get in a long-lasting planetary ring shadow?
Awarded Feb 10 at 18:38
What can make a person who was not born mute go mute over a single night? [closed]
Awarded Feb 9 at 9:02
What would happen if you walked into a place where time is frozen? [closed]
Awarded Feb 9 at 5:49
Is this a plausible way for an Earth-like exomoon to have earth-like seasons?
Awarded Feb 8 at 17:31
Communism in a World With Magic [closed]
Awarded Feb 7 at 16:05
5km Portal above a Hot and Cold Climates, What happens to the weather of the area?
Awarded Feb 5 at 0:42
What is the strongest earthquake possible without wiping out all life?
Awarded Feb 3 at 16:20
What is necessary for an "Apocalypse" to actually set a civilization (e.g., humankind) back to the stone age?
Awarded Feb 2 at 9:35
Engine most likely to be available in the next 80 years to accelerate a craft at 1g for 4 weeks
Awarded Jan 31 at 17:46
What reasons might day and night be very similar on a planet
Awarded Jan 31 at 13:40
Effects of radioactivity several generations after exposure
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Could a cold-cored planet be protected by a hot-cored moon?
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Scottish Religion Problems [closed]
Awarded Jan 21 at 20:48
Realistic version of White and black magic
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