Worldbuilding

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Can you build a relativistic clock?
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How would electronics develop without petroleum/plastic? Particularly computers?
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How can a species be fine with digesting poisons and toxins?
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Magic as a programming language [closed]
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What would make airships viable economically?
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How would the government cover up a nuclear war? [closed]
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How would one create a strange matter bomb?
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How good would a formation of pikemen & archers be against mounted archers?
Awarded Nov 29 at 20:52
Could Megaflora Sustain Permanent Settlements?
Awarded Nov 29 at 1:58
Feline rider's position: reclining, seated or Prone?
Awarded Nov 28 at 18:52
What makes small-scale private star-harvesting profitable?
Awarded Nov 28 at 14:33
How tattered can membranous wings get before flight becomes impossible?
Awarded Nov 27 at 13:26
How NOT to Turn Volkshalle Into a Rain Factory
Awarded Nov 27 at 5:42
Parasitoid wasp targeting humans: which tissue would they target?
Awarded Nov 25 at 18:55
What would a mountain and desert made out of diamond, glass, or a see-through fantasy material look like?
Awarded Nov 24 at 16:27
What is the best term for a species that originated on another planet?
Awarded Nov 24 at 15:05
Could a Time Traveller prevent the Civil War in the United States?
Awarded Nov 24 at 14:26
how can traditional forms of white magic compete against black magic?
Awarded Nov 23 at 13:16
Where a King's Guard member and his family live? [closed]
Awarded Nov 22 at 20:50
What would happen if time travelers brought assault weapons to 17th-century Ireland?
Awarded Nov 22 at 5:34
Avoiding time travel or causality stuff
Awarded Nov 21 at 10:26
How long would it take humans to notice a civilization on Venus?
Awarded Nov 21 at 7:32
How could Reverse Mountain (One Piece) exist? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 20 at 17:57
Can a device that causes memory loss be created with near-modern technology?
Awarded Nov 20 at 9:51
How would plant control powers/magic work?
Awarded Nov 17 at 20:50
A man wants to create a bomb shelter in a small cave on his land, but there's no visible water source, except a dripping wall. What to do?
Awarded Nov 17 at 19:56
How heavy does a "city" for two thousand people need to be?
Awarded Nov 17 at 17:43
Would it be possible to make a brass/wind instrument with a jet engine as the source of airflow?
Awarded Nov 17 at 16:01
Could genetically engineered mint take over the planet?
Awarded Nov 17 at 14:58
How could magic slowly be destroying the world? [closed]
Awarded Nov 17 at 2:51
How does one calculate the tidal heating of a satellite?
Awarded Nov 16 at 18:56
If Earth's Core had ALL Of the Heavy Metals
Awarded Nov 15 at 19:20
What considerations would have to be made for a spacecraft with minimal-to-no digital computers on board?
Awarded Nov 15 at 16:27
How does a species with three "sexes", where only two needed are at a time, determine the sex of its offspring?
Awarded Nov 14 at 20:34
How might a science-fiction world's technology advance faster than our own? [closed]
Awarded Nov 14 at 14:07
How long does it take for islands to form after an underwater volcanic eruption?
Awarded Nov 14 at 3:10
Is There a Lower Limit on the Size of Fusion Reactor?
Awarded Nov 13 at 22:25
How would the maternity cycle of a Fairy work?
Awarded Nov 13 at 19:16
How would computers develop in a society where a Cherokee-like language is the dominant lingua franca?
Awarded Nov 13 at 13:17
Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
Awarded Nov 12 at 12:57
Can nuclear intercontinental missiles be launched into space to destroy asteroids menacing Earth?
Awarded Nov 12 at 8:02
A different artificial gravity: Ultradense material
Awarded Nov 11 at 3:25
A Decoy Planet made of expanded polystyrene. How big can I make it?
Awarded Nov 11 at 0:21
What would be a way to make uploading a mind into a computer an actual transfer instead of just making a copy?
Awarded Nov 9 at 19:49
Could aquatic aliens use bubbles in microscopes?
Awarded Nov 9 at 18:49
Is it possible to melt and accurately mould LEGO plastic using only neolithic technology?
Awarded Nov 9 at 10:34
Necessity of army and navy in a space warfare setting
Awarded Nov 9 at 5:57
What would absolute nothingness look like?
Awarded Nov 9 at 3:51
What is the habitable zone around my star?
Awarded Nov 8 at 21:20
General rule to spacing towers on a medieval city wall
Awarded Nov 8 at 1:32
How long would the southern hemisphere survive after a nuclear war that, while intense, was limited to the northern hemisphere?
Awarded Nov 7 at 14:34
Can an airforce be developed in secret?
Awarded Nov 6 at 13:56
The practicality of mail armor cloaks
Awarded Nov 5 at 22:06
Finding real world historic examples of cultures/organizations/tribes to represent Elves
Awarded Nov 4 at 16:56
What would it take for a spacecraft to travel to the sun's nadir and stop?
Awarded Nov 3 at 20:57
What would it take for a country like Bangladesh to become a super power?
Awarded Nov 3 at 18:35
How spread apart were cities, towns, etc. in the Middle Ages given food production capabilities [closed]
Awarded Nov 3 at 4:08
What evolutionary pressure would lead to parrots or crows developing human-tier intelligence?
Awarded Nov 2 at 20:25
What's the feasible upper size for a medieval country?
Awarded Nov 2 at 0:42
If mammals with paws were to evolve to have human hands or fingers what would their paws/pads look like if they still retain it?
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