Questions tagged [microscopic]
For elements of worlds that are only visible with a microscope, or invisible to the unaided eye.
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Could aquatic aliens use bubbles in microscopes?
In the subsurface oceans of a fundamentally Europa-like moon, (covered in ice, but with an interior warmed by tidal heating etc.) a race of sapient aliens has evolved. These aliens are very interested ...
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Can a gas grenade contain microbots that can grow inside a person's lungs?
In a war, can grenades spew out gas that contains nanobots that if breathed in, clings to human lung cells, then expands up to 100x their size? This gas is absolutely packed with these bots, and they ...
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Implanted device in human body that can transmit over long distance
Previously linked question (which is closed but already has answers).
Say we have a type of implanted device in human body (say, ear) used to communicate over a distance. I am thinking about a ...
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Remote listening device inside human ear and powered by the body
Some related (but not the same) questions:
Listening (eavesdropping) device that can be put into victim's ear? (which is closed because of the need to focus)
Microphone implanted in and powered by ...
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Considering a sentient species which is at the physical scale of chemical molecules, what would their higher limit of observation be?
This sentient species survives at the molecular scale and is capable of manipulating their environment by ingesting/ engulfing their environmental molecules and electrodynamically manipulating them ...
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Can 2019-nCoV be altered to be carried by the wind?
After surveying customers about their new product, 2019-nCoV™, E.V.I.L. Inc. realized that many of them would pay for an upgrade which allows for the virus to be carried by the wind itself in order to ...
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What would architecture and cities be like in a world were everyone was shrunk to the size of a mouse?
I have been thinking about a world were everyone is shrunk to the size of a mouse, or at least the size big enough to ride a mouse, and I was wondering what are your ideas about what cities and ...
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How would extraterrestrial diseases not infect other extraterrestrials/us? [duplicate]
Developing my universe more and I've been considering a lot for it. One of these is diseases from other planets with life. Organisms of any size vary greatly in this universe.
Some of these ...
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How powerful a microscope could my pyromancers make?
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In the antiquity of my world, a college of pyromancers attempted to create stronger magnifying lenses so that they could apply their ability to control heat to ever more finely detailed ...
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What would slow down the march of an army of a million microscopic men on a microscopic capital? [closed]
Stemming from This question ,and That information
War has broken out in my world after 750 years of relative peace. After four years of back and forth fighting, the Marisari, now a nation weary ...
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What would the fastest way for microscopic humanoids to spread across the world?
As part of a series of questions that I've been doing about microscopic humanoids ...
In my world, there are a race of microscopic humanoid organisms (0.3 mm - 0.33 mm). They live in a variety of ...
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How might microscopic humanoids capture an ant mound? ( series )
As part of a series of questions that I've been doing about microscopic humanoids ...
In my world, there are a race of microscopic humanoid organisms (0.3 mm - 0.33 mm). They live in a variety of ...
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What strategy would tiny humanoids need to raid an ant mound?
As part of a series of questions that I've been doing about microscopic humanoids ...
In my world, there are a race of microscopic humanoid organisms (0.3 mm - 0.33 mm). They live in a variety of ...
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How might a race of microscopic humanoid organisms clear and maintain a humans only safe zone? [closed]
As part of a series of questions that I've been doing about microscopic humanoids ...
In my world , there are a race of microscopic humanoid organisms ( 0.2 mm - 0.22 mm ) . They live in a variety ...
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What weapons would be effective at a microscopic level?
As part of a series of questions that I've been doing about microscopic humanoids ...
In my world , there are a race of microscopic humanoid organisms ( 0.2 mm - 0.22 mm ) . They live in a variety of ...
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Would primitive weaponry be useful when scaled down to microscopic size? ( series )
As part of a series of questions that I've been doing about microscopic humanoids ...
In my world , there are a race of microscopic humanoid organisms ( 0.2 mm - 0.22 mm ) . They live in a variety of ...
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What tiny animals pose a threat to the survival of microscopic humanoids? (Series)
In my world, there is a race of microscopic humanoid organisms (200 μm - 220 μm) who live on land in a neotropic suburban area. They live on plants, leaf-litter, trees, rocks, etc.
Given this ...
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