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How best to transport Uttarkuru Firestones in bulk
Uttarkuru Firestones are magical rocks that occur only on the continent of Uttarkuru, that look and weigh much like irregular pebbles of polished haematite.
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How Do I Contain Hydrogen Gas With Pre-Modern Technology?
I finally figured out how my alchemy system works. The problem is, when my characters perform alchemy, they release loads of hydrogen gas. Why? Well, basically, they will take an object and cause ...
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How safe would deep-sea investigation of a nuclear battleground be?
Jormungandr, the snakebot of doom, is no more. Its remains are lying on the bottom of the sea in the Aleutian Trench to the south of the Rat Islands, where it was nuked to pieces by three hundred ...
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Ideal way to deactivate a Sun Gun when not in use?
I came across one space weapon, known as the Sun Gun, which uses a concave mirror on a satellite to concentrate sunlight onto a small area at the Earth's surface, making a hot beam of death. ...
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Would making a last ditch effort to skip save the spaceship?
Imagine a spaceship entering Earth's atmosphere, it has lost control of its engines and is relying on its reverse thrusters to decelerate before crashing into the Pacific ocean.
So in an attempt to ...
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Physical consequences and safety concerns with magic light spells? [closed]
In a lot of settings that have magic, there's usually some kind of spell that creates a magical light. Often these spells are hand-waved as being completely safe (e.g. it's not actual light and just ...
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