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How soon after first contact could an advanced civilization make large financial transactions on Earth?
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When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
Awarded Mar 22 at 11:19
Why is Hyperspace more hostile to computers than human brains?
Awarded Mar 22 at 9:19
What's the most likely "post democracy" form of political government?
Awarded Feb 28 at 1:42
Can a NASER be used as a weapon?
Awarded Feb 13 at 19:41
Why would a language created by humans lack both the /s/ and the /z/ consonants?
Awarded Feb 11 at 0:51
Can a civilization be reduced to the Stone age by a conventional war?
Awarded Jan 28 at 11:27
What disease affects only the non-peasants?
Awarded Jan 13 at 17:42
What's the smallest reasonable natural planet or moon with Earth-like surface gravity?
Awarded Jan 10 at 13:01
How are militaries supposed to communicate if they completely shut down wireless communication because the other side can intercept all of them?
Awarded Jan 6 at 14:16
Why is my Dark World so dark?
Awarded Dec 23, 2022 at 20:36
How would winds behave on a tidally locked planet?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 21:00
Why would my species expose their brains through a glass dome?
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 17:46
How far in the past could a highly-trained survivalist live?
Awarded Dec 10, 2022 at 23:20
Is it viable to have a school for warriors or assassins that pits students against each other in lethal combat?
Awarded Dec 8, 2022 at 19:16
Would a radio made out of Anti matter be able to communicate with a radio made from regular matter?
Awarded Dec 7, 2022 at 17:02
Is a planet-sized magnet a good interstellar weapon?
Awarded Dec 3, 2022 at 16:11
How difficult would it be to reverse engineer a device whose function is based on unknown physics?
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 16:27
In a world conquered by villainous creatures, how can a church exist that condemns them in dogma?
Awarded Oct 25, 2022 at 20:36
What would an "excessively sober" dwarf look like if they need alcohol to function?
Awarded Oct 24, 2022 at 17:41
If a patch of desert were magically displaced to the middle of a forest, what would happen to the whole forest after certain periods of time?
Awarded Oct 24, 2022 at 3:33
Would armour made of spider silk work?
Awarded Oct 10, 2022 at 7:06
Can I get away with lowering gravity so that the usual solar masses in our universe are simply planetary masses in the setting's universe?
Awarded Oct 6, 2022 at 14:55
Could crystals grow on living things?
Awarded Sep 29, 2022 at 12:50
How could the lottery and gambling work with accurate fortune tellers?
Awarded Sep 25, 2022 at 21:51
How would a medieval village protect themselves against dinosaurs?
Awarded Sep 23, 2022 at 6:05
Playing cards in zero-g
Awarded Sep 23, 2022 at 0:27
How to prevent humans from being killed by alien diseases?
Awarded Sep 22, 2022 at 21:26
How can an alien civilization mostly stay as a Monarchy but still be advanced enough to travel around the Galaxy?
Awarded Sep 14, 2022 at 17:26
In a fantasy world where people can ride monsters and fantastic beasts, why does the horse still remain in active duty?
Awarded Sep 13, 2022 at 16:26
Is it biologically plausible for a land animal to drink saltwater and not drink freshwater?
Awarded Sep 2, 2022 at 22:21
How to reignite a sun?
Awarded Aug 31, 2022 at 20:20
How to kill an alien with a decentralized organ system?
Awarded Aug 25, 2022 at 20:57
Could robots live in Antarctica?
Awarded Aug 20, 2022 at 23:56
How can a hive mind secretly monetize its special ability to make lots of money?
Awarded Aug 19, 2022 at 11:16
Would a purely agricultural world exporting its production be sustainable when it comes to water?
Awarded Aug 18, 2022 at 13:28
Why would space traders pick up and offload their goods from an orbiting platform rather than direct to the planet?
Awarded Aug 2, 2022 at 1:45
The Earth is teleported into interstellar space for 5 minutes. What happens?
Awarded Jul 27, 2022 at 18:47
Can a human colony be self-sustaining without sunlight using mushrooms?
Awarded Jul 26, 2022 at 12:27
Why would a creature both have carnivore teeth and side-facing eyes?
Awarded Jul 19, 2022 at 12:20
What would be the least physics breaking way to travel at light speed or faster?
Awarded Jul 16, 2022 at 23:26
Why do supervillains feel compelled to tell heroes their plans?
Awarded Jul 16, 2022 at 3:31
Why have my intelligent pigeons not taken over the continent?
Awarded Jul 14, 2022 at 23:50
How would you make a door that could still be opened a million years later?
Awarded Jul 13, 2022 at 20:21
Are generation ships inherently implausible?
Awarded Jul 9, 2022 at 11:51
Best way to smell-proof a revolver in 1998?
Awarded Jul 3, 2022 at 15:11
Best Way to Style Ridiculously Long Hair (for magic purposes)
Awarded Jul 2, 2022 at 18:49
Is it more efficient to send a fleet of generation ships or one massive one?
Awarded Jun 29, 2022 at 14:34
Tree Shape on a Tidally Locked World
Awarded Jun 22, 2022 at 19:30
Can Communism become a stable economic strategy? How?
Awarded Jun 21, 2022 at 9:26
Why can't immortals use the "make humans ignore this" symbol as an invisibility cloak?
Awarded Jun 16, 2022 at 11:48
How much force would be required to destroy the Earth
Awarded Jun 8, 2022 at 8:41
Effect of Modern Firearms on Dinosaurs
Awarded Jun 1, 2022 at 22:43
Why would vampires sire vampires of lesser blood than they have to?
Awarded May 12, 2022 at 16:12
What is a Giant's Diet?
Awarded May 10, 2022 at 23:27
What would prevent the genocide of a legitimately dangerous race?
Awarded May 6, 2022 at 21:35
Could a hive mind work for a non-insectoid species?
Awarded May 6, 2022 at 0:15
Would ritual cannibalism of the dead lead to issues with disease?
Awarded May 4, 2022 at 21:47
What job could someone do better with super-strength, but without actually revealing that they have it?
Awarded Apr 27, 2022 at 12:48
Listening to Your Computer - Infering Software Use via Acoustic and Electronic Noise
Awarded Apr 20, 2022 at 6:27
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