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What effects would the instant release of large amounts of light have on the air?
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How big could a land-dwelling arthropod get if it wasn’t limited by oxygen consumption?
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How can I justify that dunes keep drifting and cannot be stabilised?
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What is the ideal way for a superhuman to carry a mortal?
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Weather and climate of tidally locked, inhabited moon with oceans
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Fantasy Races relations with humans [closed]
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Using telekinesis to minimize the effects of g force on the human body
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Could the Romans transport a Live Octopus from the East African Coast to Rome?
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How to map small and dense floating islands?
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Why would krakens go to the surface?
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What materials are industrially useful, stored in barrels, and explosive?
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How to mitigate the economic impact of immortality?
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What would make an atmosphere green?
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Is it possible to have earth like planets in Jupiter lagrange points?
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View from a ship with an Alcubierre Drive
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Stellaser Part I: Trial by stellar Fire or The best design out of three for a solar powered 5 Petawatt laser?
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Major Mountain Ranges...Minus the Ice [closed]
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How could octopus-like creature evolve to live on land?
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Can Bluebeard's Blue Beard be Genetic?
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In a world with magic that can be used to create fireballs cast from a persons hands, could setting off a fireball underwater create temporary oxygen?
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Can a nuke be safely destroyed mid-flight without triggering its explosion?
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Why can't my biopunk nation's advanced biotechnology be reversed-engineered?
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The Carbon Atoms in Your Body Turn into Silicon Atoms -- What Happens Next?
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How to Generate World Map for Minimal Distortion? [closed]
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How to construct atmospheric pressure belts for my world?
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Effectiveness of lasers of different wavelengths in space combat
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What geographical changes does Canada need to have a far larger carrying capacity?
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Can a cube-shaped(ish) world have uniform(ish) gravity when composed of ideal materials?
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Developing a scientifically accurate species of dragon-like humanoids
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What gases could be present in a viable atmosphere for humans?
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Reality check: energy source for power armour
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Is it possible for life to exist on asteroids?
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How long would it take to build an underground city?
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict? [closed]
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What mechanism could cause a person not to cast a reflection?
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What would T-Rex cavalry be used for?
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Will The Cluster World hold onto an atmosphere for a useful length of time without further intervention?
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Disabling a cart while moving
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Computers without semi-conductor technology
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When and how do winds and currents form?
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The mass of an economically feasible non-microscopic traversable wormhole
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Why would an entire biosphere evolve to reproduce with three parents instead of two?
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Could a ion thruster work in atmosphere with enough energy?
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With dunkle-like Jaws, how long could the neck be?
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What theoretically workable weapons are the best for ship-to-ship combat in space?
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How would Merfolk make a solar oven
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Is it medically possible to give someone super strength with gene editing?
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Is is plausible that we could have neuronal maps of human brains without mind uploading being possible?
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How far above a forest fire or conflagration would you need to be, to not burn alive?
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Under what pressure/temperature conditions could ammonia or hydrogen fluoride play the role of water in an alien ecosystem?
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What is the largest distance at which a Cube-world is distinguishable from a spherical world?
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Area denial organism for pre-industrial human beings on Earth
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Putting oxygen on the Moon - the easy way
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Fairy battle tactics
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What would something as hot as the sun do to its surroundings on Earth? [closed]
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How could I have a mountain range that completely bisects my land mass?
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A creature afraid of the light
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Plants or animals lighter than air [duplicate]
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What would be the ideal blade for puncturing pressure armor?
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Useful spider tanks [closed]
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