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For questions that allow fanciful, creative or imaginative solutions based on or rationalized by real world science, but not necessary limited by real world science. Entirely magical solutions must use the magic tag instead. This tag should not be used with the science-based, hard-science, or internal-consistency tags. This tag should never be the only tag on a question, because this tag frames how a question should be answered, not the topic.
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How can a killer AI convince people to aid it?
The AI’s target species is unknown, but one of the ways it can identify it is that they’ll be hostile to the AI.
Not assisting the AI with its mission is hostile.
The AI is known to be honest in i …
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Orbital Drop Pods: Useful?
Let's consider ICBMs as a starting point. Re-entry time from 100kms is 2mins, and speed is typically 7km/s. Until they start re-entry, they're hard to track, as there's no rocket or re-entry heat. (Da …
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Orbital Drop Pods: Useful?
Is dropping into the sea an option? Whilst an unprotected human hitting the sea at high velocity is pretty fatal, inside a drop-pod might allow a fairly high-velocity landing? (I've not run any maths) …
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Eternal space battle around a planet. But why?
Once a war has gone on long enough, it tends to continue just because the other guys have killed / are killing our guys (see most of the world). Provided neither side has a serious chance or the polit …
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How does one intimidate enemies without having the capacity for violence?
Your species has no weapons, but is naturally toxic to most other sentient life. Or their stress-released pheromones are toxic.
This could be a chemical toxin, or that they emit radiation, or that th …
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How can I justify a Type III civilization using planetary jump drives instead of FTL starshi...
Jump drives are hideously complex to maintain
Because the infrastructure to build and maintain one is huge. The systems to control one require 1000s of people to run. Each world's jump drive company e …
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How can I justify a Type III civilization using planetary jump drives instead of FTL starshi...
Accuracy is related to mass
The accuracy of the jump drive is inversely proportional to the mass. There's a limit to how accurately we can control them; and for smaller objects, this translates into a …
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How can I justify a Type III civilization using planetary jump drives instead of FTL starshi...
Ships are not permitted to have jump drives, due perhaps to:
Jump drives are an artefact of an older civilisation who for an unknown reason built them on planets. No-one is allowed to attempt to pull …
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A clothing material or other method to slow free-fall descent down walls
Expanding foam
An aerosol of highly expanding foam, which they squirt at the ground below them as they fall. They therefore land into a column of foam which dissipates their energy as they land.
The …
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