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Form of currency where precious metals are difficult to obtain?
Awarded Mar 16, 2016 at 12:33
How will our world change if all men suddenly die? [closed]
Awarded Mar 16, 2016 at 8:38
What if Earth was orbited by a pair of moons like Pluto and Charon?
Awarded Mar 16, 2016 at 5:48
What sort of gas is thick and does not disperse easily in an urban environment?
Awarded Mar 15, 2016 at 22:54
What if the human body was subjected to separate levels of gravity each day?
Awarded Mar 14, 2016 at 16:19
How many worlds would you need to mine in order to make a complete Dyson's sphere?
Awarded Mar 14, 2016 at 4:38
How little water is needed to sustain human habitation?
Awarded Mar 14, 2016 at 1:20
In a world with escape velocity greater than the speed of light, would a civilization be able to reach space?
Awarded Mar 13, 2016 at 19:30
Will an AI supercomputer treat a "code rewrite" as a threat to its existence?
Awarded Mar 13, 2016 at 14:07
How can aliens convince the government of Earth to form an alliance with them?
Awarded Mar 12, 2016 at 8:32
Methanol/Ethanol (other alcohol) based life-form - aliens?
Awarded Mar 11, 2016 at 23:25
How to determine one's position in space?
Awarded Mar 11, 2016 at 21:29
Can a tidally-locked planet have a long term natural satellite?
Awarded Mar 11, 2016 at 16:10
Creating a realistic timekeeping system for a fantasy world
Awarded Mar 11, 2016 at 12:49
How many spaceships would it take to block the Sun from the daylight side of the Earth?
Awarded Mar 11, 2016 at 6:25
No sunlight, just high-energy radiation?
Awarded Mar 10, 2016 at 18:58
How would a civilization similar to earth develop if there were no stars at night?
Awarded Mar 10, 2016 at 1:05
How to determine where the nearest mainland shore is when standing on an island?
Awarded Mar 8, 2016 at 21:21
Is helium 3 lucrative enough to justify the mining of the moon?
Awarded Mar 8, 2016 at 19:19
What would be the future of libraries in the next 100 years of the digital age? [closed]
Awarded Mar 6, 2016 at 3:30
In a war where both sides have time travel would the nuclear MAD apply?
Awarded Mar 5, 2016 at 1:52
What forms of accidents in today's world could cause a landscape to burn for multiple years? [closed]
Awarded Mar 3, 2016 at 14:58
Floating ships on dense clouds?
Awarded Mar 2, 2016 at 22:19
What would the most overpowered abilities be, using a temperature controlling superpower? [closed]
Awarded Mar 2, 2016 at 16:12
Planetary siege
Awarded Mar 2, 2016 at 8:22
What could happen if letters were banned in written form? [closed]
Awarded Mar 2, 2016 at 5:37
How could a libertarian-minded galactic government be structured?
Awarded Mar 2, 2016 at 1:21
Oxygen - 100% plant-free!
Awarded Mar 1, 2016 at 18:58
Potential uses for a neutrino-based weapon
Awarded Mar 1, 2016 at 10:04
Time Resistance
Awarded Mar 1, 2016 at 1:03
The day the modern human era ended [closed]
Awarded Feb 29, 2016 at 10:02
What properties would a world need to allow a highly evolved rapidly adaptive species to develop?
Awarded Feb 28, 2016 at 20:26
Seasonal progression for an Earth-like planet with wobbly axis tilt?
Awarded Feb 28, 2016 at 17:30
Is it possible for a star similar to the sun to only have terrestrial planets orbiting it and no gas giants?
Awarded Feb 27, 2016 at 20:30
How long does it take before dialects branching from a single language become new languages themselves?
Awarded Feb 26, 2016 at 14:33
Fusion candle - getting Earth to Jupiter
Awarded Feb 25, 2016 at 18:01
Hazardous but natural particulates in an atmosphere
Awarded Feb 24, 2016 at 17:32
Social implication of economics based on brain processing power
Awarded Feb 23, 2016 at 11:46
How would elemental magic be used for more than just war? [closed]
Awarded Feb 21, 2016 at 14:45
What kind of house could someone make in a snow covered desert?
Awarded Feb 20, 2016 at 22:28
Zombie army is bad idea. But why actually?
Awarded Feb 20, 2016 at 22:10
Where are the gaps of our knowledge of physics preventing us from building a tractor beam? [closed]
Awarded Feb 18, 2016 at 19:01
Can wind power run heavy weapon factories on Mars?
Awarded Feb 18, 2016 at 13:41
"You have that power too"
Awarded Feb 17, 2016 at 3:23
If an FTL spacecraft entered Earth orbit, how long would it take for humans to build a FTL spacecraft?
Awarded Feb 16, 2016 at 22:45
Character must escape from a CERN/DARPA-like facility - Secrecy
Awarded Feb 16, 2016 at 17:24
Moon occasionally appears much larger in the sky
Awarded Feb 16, 2016 at 14:16
Vanishing oxygen
Awarded Feb 15, 2016 at 10:20
Is it possible for subsequent Civilizations to develop on earth?
Awarded Feb 15, 2016 at 9:18
Human interactions with a sentient biological species it developed?
Awarded Feb 15, 2016 at 8:27
Is this method of controlling population feasible in the contemporary world? [closed]
Awarded Feb 14, 2016 at 17:37
Phonetic overlap between humans and wolves
Awarded Feb 13, 2016 at 18:53
When could space travel (including FTL of any kind) and other tech be common?
Awarded Feb 13, 2016 at 16:38
A planet with a different water:land ratio and [closed]
Awarded Feb 13, 2016 at 8:13
Most secure way to build a government-only back door into my cell phones?
Awarded Feb 13, 2016 at 5:56
How to make this base-10 metric time concept work
Awarded Feb 12, 2016 at 14:06
What would sports look like if human beings could fly?
Awarded Feb 11, 2016 at 23:39
How to survive a 24 hours of heavy lava rain? [closed]
Awarded Feb 11, 2016 at 13:17
What would a ship with an Alcubierre Drive look like?
Awarded Feb 10, 2016 at 6:35
Any reasons for a primal aquatic race to build land-based villages?
Awarded Feb 9, 2016 at 18:01
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