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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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What would make the moon flicker?
Maybe it was a trick of the light or a strange cloud, or just not enough sleep. A couple nights ago I could have sworn that thin crescent moon flickered.
Which led to an interesting question - what …
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What cataclysm could make an entire interstellar species extinct?
Because you're beings are spread out over such a large area, external causes are really not going to be feasible on that scale, unless you somehow localize them (all within a galaxy, with no method of …
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How might you detect a "life sign"?
Scanning for life signs seems to focus on self-aware life forms, no matter how primitive. You don't usually hear "scanning for life signs...only deer and whales."
In this answer I'm assuming we're r …
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What would a habitable moon most probably look like?
Let me preface this by saying that there are two good books for starting places: What if the Moon Didn't Exist (especially comments related to construction and history) and The Grand Tour (which gives …
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We finally have a weapon to win the war against the aliens. We don't know how to deploy it
Seeds.
They take a bit longer to deploy but they're easily portable, and a little engineering and pink light should make them grow pretty quickly. They have the added bonus of being easily concealabl …
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How could a sentient plant evolve and what conditions would be required for this evolution?
My starting place was to determine what made a sentient plant different from an animal (maybe I'm dense? Took me a while). Here's a starting place for differences between the two. http://www.mcwdn.org …
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How to make a realistic 'giant'
Robert Wadlow, 8' 11" might fit your bill. The picture on wikipedia (below) makes his nearly 6 foot father look diminutive.
Of course, his untimely death points out some of the potential problems wit …
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