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For questions about humans as we know them or slightly changed, their physiology, psychology, politics, society and goals.

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Is it possible for humans to evolve to eat something like wood or stone or something similar?

Termites 'eat wood' by passing the raw cellulose to symbiotic bacteria in their gut to turn this into sugars. A human could in theory be changed to do something similar with these bacteria. The body …
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What's to stop people from returning to the known lands?

Land use by men is just so much different that there is a fundamental difference between how the humans use the land and, say the elves. …
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If the North and South Poles' ice melted instantly, what would be the effect on humans and o...

The ice near the North Pole is floating, so no sea level rise would result from that. The South Pole melt would only have an effect if it reached the ocean. If it was a sea near the South Pole, no ef …
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How can people naturally become smaller?

Howard Fast wrote a story "The Vision of Milty Boil" where a developer started making cheap housing with shorter and shorter ceilings. He also started mass adverts promoting shortness, made movies fe …
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How can the imperial roman army keep the dinosaurs in check?

The Romans can easily make Caltrops. Dinos get sore feet, and stay away from Romans.
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What will remain from an eco-friendly civilization after 10,000 years?

The obvious answer is there would be a whole mess of recycling nanotech instruments springing into action to reclaim any waste. These would remain, presumably working on animal waste, and we would ha …
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How would a human society be different from ours if our feet were also hands?

So it would be a profound difference that would likely lead to the proto-humans remaining a localized species and not spreading world wide. …
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What is the least expensive way to annihilate humanity?

Start a website where you can ask or answer strange questions. Call it "QueueExchange". People will get too engrossed to remember to breed. End of Humanity in a generation!
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