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For questions that require plausible (better than suspension-of-disbelief) answers based on Real World science that are not necessarily constrained to the known limits of Real World science. Contrast with the hard-science, science-fiction and internal-consistency tags. This tag may not be used alone. This tag may not be used with the science-fiction, hard-science, or internal-consistency tags.
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If you could remove or add protons from an atoms, would they instantly turn into a different...
Different elements have different orbital shapes and configurations, and different arrangements that can be made. In general elements in the same family have about the same chemical properties. By rem …
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Mosquito Armageddon
Most answers that will kill a large number of mosquitoes would also cause a lot of collateral damage to other native life in the woods you go to. Some would cause collateral, irreversible damage to hu …
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What feature could divide the world in two halves and what would be the climate implications?
In the 18th century there were no airplanes, so the o ly way across the old world and the new world was by ships.
If the oceans were overtaken by some bacteria that secreted an acid gas, such as HCl, …
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Could a moon that orbits a gas giant be always facing the sun? And could the gs giant cover ...
If you mean that this moon has one face always facing its star, then just have a look back at Uranus. With an axial tilt of almost 100 degrees, each hemisphere receives constant sunlight for 42 years, …
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How to build a trap to last the ages?
Troll the dungeon raiders
Death is just too liberating. Whether it comes fast or slow, it will lift you out of your suffering.
Psychological damage, though, can last for multiple incarnations.
Make su …
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Parachute equivalent when there is no ground
Pet pterodactyl
Just take one with you wherever you fly. The beast may perch inside the vessel. Incidentally, if you Google for images of "pterodactyl rider", many results as of now seem kinda dieselp …
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Most efficient way to break up planets for material harvesting
I was trying to work this out and the best solution I could think of on my own is the oldest technology ever: banging rocks together. As you suggested:
What about destabilizing the orbit of a moon an …
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How would a human be affected if plant DNA was injected into their system?
I will suppose you mean gene injection through genetic therapy, possibly CRISPR-Cas, not merely dropping naked DNA on the blood stream.
Well, we already have plant genes.
Plants and animals have a com …
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What would be the most realistic reason for mutant powers
Some people are realistically born with abilities that most of the human population lacks. Top of mind, I can think of:
Ambidexterity, the ability to have fine motor skills on both sides (i.e.: can n …
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The Emperor's New Palace
It's not the materials
It's the location. Most of the ISS is made of things readily available on Earth; Yet it was so expensive to build because of its privileged location (and harsh conditions).
Havi …
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The sea is acidic and infested with decomposers. How would this world work?
There was an era during which trees would mostly not decompose. It was the Carboniferous. The wikipedia article for it says:
The large coal deposits of the Carboniferous may owe their existence prima …
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The wizards burned the earth for a minute at 60 ºC, what happens to the world?
What happens to the atmosphere?
Remember when God asked Michael to make the dinosaurs meatier, but Mike made them a meteor instead?
Most species died as a result of the ensuing impact winter. But ma …
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What is an alternative way "plants" could have evolved to collect energy from the sun beside...
Stars like the Sun emit gamma rays. In a planet where the atmosphere allows x rays and gamma rays to hit the surface, organisms can use melanin to harvest energy from the radiation.
There is a fungus …
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TImeline of Rogue Earth
I have seen a video from Kurzgesagt that goes into some details about what would happen should the Earth be flung outside the solar system. It says that by the time Earth's altitude relative to the su …
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Would the sunset look similar to ours on a floating-island earth?
I am going to suppose the atmosphere is much like ours too.
As Michael said in his answer, there might not be a truly dark night. There would also be other bizarre effects.
One thing about our atmos …
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