Questions tagged [technology]
For questions about the creation, use, and application of all types of technology.
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How to compromise block chain force shield? [on hold]
Set in the distant future, a notorious terrorist group infamously known as "51 Crew" is planning an ambush near the orbit of Thebe, Jovian moon. In the next few hours an armoured shuttle holding a ...
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self-charging pcp airgun
In my story idea the main character is given a pcp airgun with a sort of self-charging mechanism in order to commit certain covert operations by assasinating certain individuals. (don't ask he was ...
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How to detect gyroswords
So, in the land of futuristic feudalism, the board of sword duels has a dilemma. During a duel, one of the duelists added put gyroscopes in his sword. He claimed this was to improve his balance, which ...
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Could a pump jet be made in the 15th-16th century? [on hold]
With the knowledge required, could the pump jet be created for use in ships in the given timeline? If not, what other forms of engines can be made in said timeline that can power ships without the use ...
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What kind of footwear is suitable for walking in micro gravity environment?
Set in the near future, the interior of the spaceship is coated with thin layers of Teflon approximately 10mm average thickness on top of titanium alloy which in case you are wondering it is weakly ...
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Can a one-dimensional blade cut everything ? (chainsaw) (Sword)
I was thinking in a character who has a...kind of Steam powered Chainsaw, and a sword, what make them special is because the blades of the chainsaw are one-dimensional, same with the sword, they are ...
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Ancient Egypt - Primitive Blockchain Technology
Premise
The goal is to implement a bronze age version of blockchain in ancient Egypt to introduce a layer of security for the royal tombs.
Tomb raiding was rampant, and at times even the legitimate ...
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Low-efficiency fusion propulsion?
I'm working on a fusion rocket concept for a hard science fiction setting. I'm envisioning laser catalyzed Proton-Boron reactors (low waste heat, aneutronic, 100% of their output being He4 Alpha ...
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Antimatter internal combustion engine
I have an idea for an extremely crackpot engine design for a future society I may incorporate into my story.
What would happen is individual antihydrogen molecules injected into the center of carbon ...
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What benefits would translucent full body armour do for immortal beings? [on hold]
Set in present day Egypt, a race of immortal humanoid beings were seen with a translucent body armour covering from head to toe. They come in peace and harbour no ill intents, that said their kind of ...
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Is there any advantage to have A.I. being able to experience loneliness?
Let get this straight being lonely is different from solitude, human is arguably one of the most successful animals ever to walk on two. The secret lies in social interaction, the early humans hunt in ...
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Humans have energy, but not water. What happens? [closed]
Suppose that through a "hand-wavium" genetic engineering coupled with nanotechnology the humanity was able to develop a body battery.
How does this work? It provides enough energy for the human body....
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Could another species overtake us technologically? [closed]
Is it possible for another of Earth's species to catch up and overtake us technologically over the next million years or so? Assuming we survive that long as a species and our technology stagnates ...
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In the late 1940’s to early 1950’s what technology was available that could melt a LOT of ice?
In my story I’ve devised lore where Greenland becomes a US territory, and they begin populating the region. It initially just served as the hub for numerous military bases and airbases, but eventually ...
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what would happen if technology advanced? [closed]
what would happen if the production of technology advance faster making it hard to live?what would happen if the production of technology advance faster making it hard to live?what would happen if the ...
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Tactics for society with indestructible material
I'm thinking of creating a society with an indestructible material at its disposal, with molecular bonds impossible to break once it has been synthesized and cast. How would a society using this ...
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How do spaceships determine each other's mass in space?
Set in the distant future, space travel becomes prominent and cheap. I can imagine each spaceship would have a multitude array of sensors to track distance and relative position in space. Is there a ...
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Unearthing a landfill 50-100 years later [closed]
I am working on a post-apocalyptic world with relatively advanced small-scale militaries. In what ways are landfills useful as sources of rare earth metals, glass, or other materials?
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Mostly ...
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How would one optimize conventional modern weapons for fighting robots [closed]
Pretty straight forward
What kind of conventional firearms would be best for fighting armored and unarmored robots. Is any particular round effective at destroying electrical components or motors? ...
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Logistics of a hovering watercraft in a fantasy setting
So in my fantasy world, there exists a substance that (when applied to the surface of an object) repels water in the same way a very strong magnet would. This allows boats to hover above the surface ...
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Regenerating Fuel Cell
I'm working on a powered exoskeleton design for my universe and I had an idea about how to power it.
It works in this cycle:
Water enters an electrolyzer powered by a massive betavoltaic battery ...
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which problem can be solved by virtual world technology [closed]
can we use this technology to do scientific experiments(example : making The Large Hadron Collider, New medicines's reactions against virus and bacteria.)
maybe you can make the argument that the ...
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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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Could a technologically advanced civilization be possible without digital computers?
I've noted an interesting trend in Netflix, specially on Sci-Fi and hero series.
The worlds often have these aesthetic characteristics:
Computers are rare, very big or non existing
Phones, but ...
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Could a Civil War tech society reverse engineer modern weapons/vehicles?
This is a continuation of my other question How does a mid-19 century military combat a modernized one?
So, let’s say our USCA was able to destroy those damn meddling Bunkerites once and for all. ...
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In a post-apocalypse world, with no power and few survivors, would Satnav still work?
Assuming:
there was no power, so there was no web/internet
you had a mobile phone (one of the smart ones, not a basic one) powered by solar
the phone had maps downloaded on to its memory card (so you ...
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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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I have two cellphones that are exactly the same, SIM card and all, and I make a call on one of them. What happens?
Say I had a cellphone, let's call it cellphone A, and made a perfect copy of it - SIM card and all - and let's call this one cellphone B.
If I were to call someone on cellphone A, what exactly would ...
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What was the range of Greek Fire? [closed]
As stated above, what was the range of this Byzantine superweapon and could it be modified to increase its range? If so, how would the Byzantines have done it?
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Alternate aircraft configurations - would any of them be valid substitutes for conventional tailplanes?
So I'm incubating a few alternate histories in my head. Many of them will butterfly away the Wright Brothers and many other familiar parts of history, and at least one has aircraft development as a ...
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How can merfolks stream video in a way much similar to our WiFi but underwater?
Right now merfolks are totally envious of us watching a live stream video of cat(fight) via WiFi or satellite internet, ok ok I get it's not the speed but its latency... Urrrr. Nevermind that I ...
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How could someone calculate all potential outcomes of an action?
In my universe, some individuals possess the capacity to assess all outcomes for an action. As you can imagine, this is very useful.
The only way I can think of a plausible way to make that happen is ...
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1800's gatling gun as aircraft gun [closed]
I understand that by ww1 lmg's were already made and was far superior than the 18th century gatling but as stated above, if an 1800's gatling gun was to be mounted on a ww1 fighter for use in both ...
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Removing an item from a weight-sensitive pressure plate without triggering alarm [closed]
A character in one of my stories wants to steal a valuable artifact from a museum. The artifact is on top of a sensitive pressure plate, which is configured to trigger an alarm if the weight changes ...
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Is there a technology capable of disabling the whole of Earth's satellitle network?
Machine-based communication (and navigation) relies extensively on satellites. In the future, with the massification of 5G, more and more reliance will be put on satellites (e.g. the Internet of ...
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Steam engine in the 14-15th century
If the world then already had the knowledge required, could an earlier variation of the steam engine be made during this timeline? If it could, how effective would it be for use in early locomotive?
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How could a hive-mind without true individuals create technology?
Imagine a species in which the ego never developed. There is no self-direction. This species is always making noise, however, and it is through this noise that the society itself experiences the ...
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Evolution adapted to technology
...kill every protohuman who tries to leave the African continent.
This comment made me think about one question.
Suppose you have robot guards, like futuristic lasers, who just shoot at any landing ...
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What would a Scientific based way of making a person Similar to Marvels “Spider-Man” [closed]
The Question
How would someone scientifically emulate Spider-Man powers without altering the human genes?
The Limits
No genetic engineering (except on spiders for their silk)
Technology level is ...
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Gadget: Insect wings
(Related to Human Dragonfly wings)
Context
The mutant thread is back. For more context, see my previous questions.
One of my character is a "subtle" mutant (no outward sign) that has an affinity ...
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What kind of near-future technology would enable extremely quick, mostly silent, communication between soldiers?
My book is about a near-future socialist insurgency. Think Che Guevara. Che Guevara won with only 22 men by garnering support of the local population. I've read his books and can't say I see many ...
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Would system virtualization technology play a role in future space colonization and can we observe its roots today? [closed]
If I asked the same question for operating systems, I'd say I am quite confident that some descendants of Linux could be there for a very long time.
Today, while Linux is used in embedded IoT devices,...
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What is a feasible long way transportation system with technology up to 1699?
Exposition
One of the biggest Problems my Renaissance city with 2.7 million inhabitants is facing is how two get food from outside the city fast enough to the populous before being spoiled.
The ...
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Could dwarves do without wood?
Wood has, historically, been used, and still is, to make a great variety of things. Indeed, this material has many qualities, the most relevant being:
Commonplace: in most places in your typical ...
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A purely mechanical bell in a clock tower that automatically rings gradually faster on a specific night of the year
This question pertains to the videogame The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In this game, the bell from the Clock Town clock tower can be heard from pretty much anywhere in the world at certain times, ...
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How could the elevator at The Wall be powered?
In the show Game of Thrones there is this thing called The Wall. It is a monstrous, 300 mile (≈ 483 km) long bulwark consisting of a fortified ice wall that is 700 feet (≈ 213 meters) high (check the ...
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Aeolipile vehicle in the 14-15th century [closed]
If this was ever invented, how effective would it be? And how can it be improved upon to perhaps be the first steam train?
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What would be the most viable form of lighting in future bladerunner-esque cities? By viable, I mean widespread and efficient [closed]
Neon has been around for a very long time in cyberpunk narratives. LED seems like the way to go according to some of the responses - any other viable candidates?
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Camel guns/ zamburak
How effective are these guys? And could they somehow be considered the predecessor to the modern tank just as the horses of the medieval age were?
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Could the 14-15th century world build a tank/AFV?
Using technology already available to them at the time, could the 14-15th century world create a somewhat effective tank/AFV that could either be used to move artillery quicker around the battlefield ...
