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Reality Check: Would night-vision be necessary for Paleolithic groups to survive extra long, moonless nights?
Assuming they are equivalent to Middle Paleolithic mankind (around ~60,000 BCE), meaning they have access to trade, clothing, (possibly) projectile weapons and the like. The world in question in ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
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A group of let's say, 2500 people wake up from suspended animation on a world terraformed beforehand to be very similar to Earth. These people, ...
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What kind of deadly ranged weapon can pixies use against humans?
Description of pixies
As heavy as a standard golf ball.
As big as official ping pong ball.
Humanoid but have a pair of wings for flight.
Prefer to live in forested areas.
Eats fruits and insects.
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Earth loses its sun as is sent hurtling through space in darkness. How do humans survive for the next 1,000 years? [duplicate]
Let's say, whether for magical or scientific reasons, Earth and the moon are separated from their star, the Sun, and are sent hurtling through space.
Ignoring the reasons for such an event, how could ...
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How to get attention when being shrunk to size of a flea? [closed]
One evening a group of teenagers got arrested for taunting a queen's guard and was brought to a temporary holding cell, all of a sudden a radioactive mosquito seemingly escaped from a nearby lab bites ...
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Can a high power EMP generator keeps killer robots at bay?
Set in the near future, thousands of killer robots resemble those featured in the terminator film, I'm referring to the 800 series model are now marching in as we speaks. I am a sole survivor on a ...
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How to transport 10,000 terrestrial trolls across ocean fast?
Trolls are about 30 meters tall on average and can weigh anything between 100 to 200 short tons at sea level. They can only be found to inhabit an island somewhere in the Pacific ocean and are in ...
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Could the average human survive if we were thrown back in the wilderness? [closed]
(Okay, first time on this site so forgive me if I'm not clear or too broad)
Short question: Could the average human survive if we were thrown back in the wilderness? And would we be able to re-develop ...
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What would be in a shuttle's survival kit for aliens trapped on a primitive planet?
The scenario: an alien crew has a shuttle landed on Earth in the 1980's. Their main ship is extremely damaged and beyond reach somewhere in the Milky Way. Their shuttle cannot escape Earth's ...
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Could knights navigate a dust storm?
I'm writing a medieval/post apocalypse world stricken with horrible dust storms that last days or weeks at a time. Would it be possible, using medieval technology, to:
protect yourself from such ...
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How to survive and become self-sufficient in the nature?
Brad and his family are tired of society and the concept of money. They want to live a primitive lifestyle. They need a strong, comfortable and cheap refuge that will protect them from the elements, ...
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What are some of the best ways to go off the grid and disappear in modern times if one were a fugitive? [duplicate]
Modern technology can track people through a variety of ways. Cars now are able to be tracked unless so old because of bluetooth technology, GPS, etc. Cell phones (and even land lines) are tappable. ...
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How to "milk" a Rex? [closed]
Continue from https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59315/how-to-defend-a-phone-booth-against-horde-of-zombified-carnivorous-dinosaurs. (This question concludes the time traveling phone ...
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How to search and rescue missing person in the late Cretaceous? [closed]
Continue from How to tour Cretaceous Period on economic class?.
Say one of my VVIP client got trapped alone in the late Cretaceous Period, and his family wish to recover him alive in one piece. I ...
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How to tour Cretaceous Period on economic class?
Supposedly I found a phone booth that can transport user 65 millions years into the past (location fixed at Chixulub just 30 minutes before the announcement of the arrival of the impactor.
Points to ...
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Can I send S.O.S in space with just a conventional cellphone?
The year is 2109 C.E my friends and I were caught in a space disaster when the spacecraft we're in broke apart during a daring escape from a patrolling spacecraft. We stole an antique cellphone (from ...
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How can humans avoid killing any insect?
The world is divided in several factions. Among them : Insects and Humans.
When I say Insects, I don't mean insects : insects are the little creatures with six legs while Insects regroup all social ...
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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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Lonely gods and their planets [closed]
I would like to make a world that follows all of our laws of physics except that every star has a habitable, earth-like planet in its Goldilocks Zone (I love that term). Each planet has a collection ...
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Where would water come from in an underground colony?
A large solar flare event ignites the atmosphere of Earth, but luckily, humans have been preparing for an event like this for some time. We have a fairly large shelter around 2.2 kilometers ...
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Is it feasible to break rock into core components?
In the near future, the last of the human race has been forced to retreat underground due to extreme global warming or some solar flare event.
Vertical hydroponic farms provide the food for the ...
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