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The Frozen Star - Can U-238 reactors be used as a energy source for 10,000 years?
I was watching this Minecraft Animation video based on a scientific concept about what would happen if we froze the Sun - What happens if we Freeze The Sun- Portrayed by Minecraft.
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Forest fires for heat
I am writing a work of fiction in which, circa 2030, the global average temperature of the Earth falls by 150C (~270F) over the course of five months. This upends the way societies work as people ...
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What could lead to everyone on Earth becoming gay, and the human race facing extinction because they believe they can't reproduce?
I'm interested in creating a (humorous, satirical) science-fiction short story wherein the protagonist repeatedly claims
if everyone was gay, the human race would die out.
Then (somehow) one day... ...
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What are the easiest/most suitable fruits and vegetables to grow in an apocalyptic scenario?
My story is set in a sort of apocalyptic world, the main characters live in an old house and they’re too afraid to go out as there’re creatures hunting them. They obviously still need to eat so my ...
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Can you survive in a pub cellar for a week? [closed]
This is for research for a kaiju horror story. I'm toying with it being set in an English pub cellar (like that of a Wetherspoons) as the surface is crawling with newly emerged kaiju, the plot ...
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How would Europeans fend themselfs in a Zombie apocalypse? [closed]
Most of zombie apocalypse movies, series, comics, etc. are set in the United States, but how an outbreak look like in European countries? Would it be different at all?
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Why might someone be the last person alive in the galaxy? [closed]
I'm writing a science fiction story about a man who has to rebuild civilization from the ground up after all intelligent life in the galaxy is destroyed. (Using gene samples, seed banks, etc.). But I ...
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How big would an asteroid have to be to destroy 99.9% of the human population? How would the remaining survive? [closed]
Let's say that a mega-asteroid is heading towards Earth. I want it to destroy essentially the entire population except maybe a few million people around the world. Now, I know that for an asteroid of ...
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How to destroy a galactic level civilization and still leave behind primitive survivors?
Basically, the problem is I want to leave behind isolated pockets of survivors. Also, I want these survivors to be a primitive culture - current real world level - compared to the original ...
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What survivable events would make Earth least inhabitable?
I am interested in events that would so radically change Earth (for the worse) that it would be near uninhabitable for humans. The event may or may not be deadly to humans, but the world it leaves ...
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How to not get killed while in an enemy country? [closed]
So, on a prototype deep sea submarine, a group of soldiers (sailors?) are on a mission to test out the new craft, when a nuclear war breaks out between two superpowers. They are out in the middle of ...
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How many people can can a self sufficient city, protected by a magical barrier, fit per square mile?
The city of Sanctury has been holding back the volcanic apocalypse for 174 years, and has grown to 60,000 people. The question is, if everything needed for life is grown within the city, how many ...
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Would a trench filled with mercury stop zombies in their tracks?
Set in the 13th century middle ages and there is a zombie apocalypse, I own a castle surrounded by a trench of width 50m and a depth of 50m filled with 25m deep of mercury. The zombies are similar to ...
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Is it possible for humanity to completely annihilate itself?
Is it possible for humanity to completely annihilate itself? By that I mean there cannot be one survivor left and the annihilation must be caused by humanity itself with current technology (no crazy ...
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Project Modern Apocalypse Fortifications
Lots of people ask where should you go in an apocalypse, but I have a different sort of question. In a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by WW3 (nuclear warfare, anarchy and the like) If you were in a ...
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What noticeable impacts on a human body if every ocean turns into dead sea? [closed]
Suppose the salinity of all the ocean in the world rivals the dead sea, using time lapse to illustrate how would an average healthy adult human being is susceptible to the aftermath of inhospitable ...
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How could a small fantasy world survive hundreds of years of darkness?
Setup: A small fantasy world -- with about three cities, five sizable towns, typical medieval technology, a low amount of magic, and some typical monsters living in the uncivilized parts -- is plunged ...
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What kind of land transportation can be used for plowing through hordes of zombies?
Set in a zombie apocalypse world somewhere in Chennai, India.
News report shows an estimated 90% of the population here has turned into zombies overnight, soldiers setup a human chain perimeter ...
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The World's in Perpetual Winter. How Long Can Humanity Survive?
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March came and went, but the snow continues to fall on earth, even in Sudan and Brazil. What was once thought of as a miracle of Christmas has begun to cause problems. Winter came ...
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Apocalypse To-Do List [closed]
Note : I've read some questions dealing with post-apocalyptic scenarios ( fuel and what next after apocalypse? ) and one on a apocalyptic situation, but I'm more interested in what to do immediately ...
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Working together to create a zombie Outpost
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This is not about creating the perfect zombie refuge or about what items are needed to create one. Considering that zombies are killing people left and right, and the people who have ...
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How will humanity cope when Earth's atmosphere is being robbed?
I'm planning to write a story whereby scientist had predicted Earth will be hit by a colossal coronal mass ejection (estimated at least a thousand times stronger than the perfect solar storm a.k.a ...
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What size of near-earth asteroid could break up in the atmosphere to do sufficient damage to a city without destroying it?
I need a meteor to deliver an extraterrestrial algae-like cellular life form to an urban environment/city.
The meteor needs to be far enough that it will not impact the Earth and will not cause ...
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What problems would one have to face if one is the only person left alive? [closed]
Suppose that due to unobtanium instability one wakes up tomorrow to realise that one is the only person left alive. Every other life form except for humans is left intact. Let's assume that all ...
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How to survive the heat death of the universe?
The eventual heat death of the universe is an awful time to be alive considering you wouldn't have long left after the last star finally fades away.
In this scenario there is a small group of about a ...
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What would happen if magnets stopped working?
I asked a similar question earlier: What would happen if electricity stopped working?. But I was also thinking about what would happen if magnets stopped working. This question is very related to what ...
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Most effective strategy for surviving the zombie apocalypse? [closed]
It's happened! The undead have risen and as more of us die, more of them appear. That crazy neighbour with the doomsday shelter doesn't seem so crazy now does he? Bet you wish you went to his meetings....
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Nuclear apocalypse in a nuclear submarine
You're a sailor on (in?) a brand-spanking-new Virginia-class nuclear submarine. You just set sail a couple of weeks ago, and were doing some routine exercises in the North Atlantic (about 500 miles ...
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The end will come at Midnight! [closed]
So, an alien life-force has laid down an ultimatum, every media outlet on the planet earth received this one message.
The end will come at midnight.
It's ignored, treated as a hoax by just about ...
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How to find freshwater?
Set in the early 21st century AD, the entire world is hit by a massive flash flood. The entire surface of Earth is covered by water with an average depth of 300 meters, and less than 10% of the human ...
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How to prepare for a huge asteroid strike?
The scenario is the following: a civilization with technology level similar to humanity's current, on a planet similar to Earth, shall be hit by a massive celestial body in approximately one year.
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Bitten by zombie
Imagine surviving in a modern day densely populated city where there is a recent zombie outbreak...
The cause of infection is identified to be a type of fungi, this fungi contains a unique unknown ...
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