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At 1.5 g of constant acceleration, how long does it take to get to 0.93c?
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Is a fall into a high-pressure atmosphere survivable?
Awarded Nov 23 at 15:32
Is an almost entirely water-based planet stable enough to stay as a planet for long enough for complex life to form?
Awarded Nov 19 at 19:50
Dam in the Mediterranean
Awarded Nov 18 at 18:31
Would there be ocean currents in oceans of sulfuric acid?
Awarded Nov 14 at 15:11
Is a world where all creatures are blue possible?
Awarded Oct 21 at 3:51
Can a group of assassins help win a war?
Awarded Oct 16 at 3:17
What's the oldest plausible frozen specimen for a Jurassic Park style story-line?
Awarded Sep 26 at 12:12
What kind of planetary conditions would prevent or severely limit air travel?
Awarded Sep 21 at 17:09
What natural material shatters when thrown like a grenade?
Awarded Aug 30 at 14:31
Why would a language spoken by humans entirely lack bilabials?
Awarded Jul 27 at 23:42
How can black magic be prevented from becoming common?
Awarded Jul 27 at 13:04
Can my 3-Dimensional-Space character orbit around a 4-Dimensional-Space planet?
Awarded Jun 12 at 17:31
How Big Can a Habitable Planet Get Before Its Gravity is More Than 0.8 m/s² above Earth's 9.81 m/s²?
Awarded May 20 at 17:06
Could a dyson sphere survive a supernova?
Awarded May 18 at 17:55
Werewolves have the same fur color as their human form's hair color. What gave humans the idea that they're all gray?
Awarded May 16 at 0:03
How can I store energy/data reliably for 300 million years?
Awarded Apr 12 at 16:55
Why stackable magic spells are hardly used in battle despite being the most powerful kind?
Awarded Apr 8 at 14:26
Why do military only use consumable portal scrolls to rather than reusable ones?
Awarded Apr 7 at 6:09
Alternate chemical elements?
Awarded Mar 30 at 18:56
What would the sky look like if there were 100 Sun-sized stars exactly half a light year away from Earth?
Awarded Mar 15 at 20:05
Would anything bad happen to humanity if quantum tunneling stopped working overnight?
Awarded Mar 4 at 0:09
How do telecom companies survive when everyone suddenly knows telepathy?
Awarded Feb 24 at 23:33
Technological development without metal/wood/magic
Awarded Feb 8 at 0:45
Could a planet's tidal forces break an asteroid passing very close to it?
Awarded Feb 3 at 16:26
How soon can we realize that we stopped aging?
Awarded Feb 3 at 2:21
Where in the world can film in a crashed photo recon plane survive for several decades?
Awarded Jan 28 at 18:45
Why would a regiment of soldiers be armed with giant warhammers instead of more conventional medieval weapons?
Awarded Jan 24 at 8:25
Why would humans still duel like cowboys in the 21st century?
Awarded Jan 15 at 16:40
How can a barren island state comprised of morons maintain positive GDP for decades?
Awarded Jan 15 at 2:16
How does 15th century beancurd delivery work?
Awarded Jan 13 at 2:27
How would a black lightning storm work?
Awarded Jan 11 at 1:36
Could negative kelvin be achieved?
Awarded Dec 20 '20 at 23:36
Easily Produced Fluids Made Before The Industrial Revolution - Which Ones?
Awarded Dec 11 '20 at 8:32
Why do the mountain people make roughly spherical houses?
Awarded Nov 24 '20 at 7:35
Asteroids with an atmosphere
Awarded Nov 22 '20 at 16:01
How plausible would a self-aware, conscious viral life-form be?
Awarded Oct 26 '20 at 7:26
Medieval style tactics vs high-positioned archers
Awarded Oct 24 '20 at 14:05
A Decoy Planet made of expanded polystyrene. How big can I make it?
Awarded Aug 28 '20 at 23:27
Grappling hook which attaches to almost any surface and is actually alive, is it feasible?
Awarded Aug 13 '20 at 12:08
How would a society like Europe in the 11th century clean bones for burial?
Awarded Jul 31 '20 at 23:20
How would snake creatures which use uroboros to roll to safety avoid brain damage？
Awarded Jul 14 '20 at 5:26
How to cross a metallic sea?
Awarded Jul 8 '20 at 2:48
How do hardy flowering plants that thrive in low 'g' and thin atmosphere disseminate their seeds?
Awarded Jul 2 '20 at 1:22
Snowball Hopping
Awarded Jun 18 '20 at 6:49
How can space-mines be improved as a viable weapons in interplanetary space warefare?
Awarded Jun 4 '20 at 1:05
Shooting through the earth
Awarded May 27 '20 at 17:25
Why are my caves warm with nobody heating them?
Awarded May 6 '20 at 23:21
Could agriculture still be developed by intelligent species that lack the concept of past and future?
Awarded May 5 '20 at 0:26
What is the minimum and maximum gravity level that nearly all humans can sustain over a 5 year period?
Awarded Apr 29 '20 at 23:56
Is my planet realistic?
Awarded Apr 28 '20 at 17:05
Why would a sleeper ship be designed to only wake one person in case of emergency?
Awarded Apr 27 '20 at 19:11
Is it possible to fabricate decent food from various types of junk and dirt?
Awarded Apr 23 '20 at 9:11
How can I estimate the maximum mass that can be safely handled in low to no g?
Awarded Apr 17 '20 at 21:21
How Would Shoes Look On More Ape-like Feet?
Awarded Apr 12 '20 at 12:55
Could yet unobserved baryons constitute useful building materials?
Awarded Apr 10 '20 at 8:30
Why do flying saucers have to spin while flying?
Awarded Mar 8 '20 at 23:05
Could present-day humanity survive on Antarctica alone?
Awarded Feb 29 '20 at 4:30
How can a dragon take off to the air silently?
Awarded Feb 27 '20 at 0:30
Would it be possible for a humanoid organism to have bones made of a crystal like quartz or diamond rather than apatite?
Awarded Feb 22 '20 at 14:10
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