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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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How to accelerate living things really fast without killing them?
Alcubierre drive
Use a bubble of opposing expanding and contracting spacetime to push/pull your travelers. Since the local reference frame is isolated from the gravity noise of the rest of the univer …
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A huge transparent wall permanently separates two civilisations - what can it be made of?
Magnetic Barrier
A very, very, very strong magnetic field would be both entirely transparent and impervious to all materials*. Because it's not a static surface it will always remain perfectly clear …
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If our universe were a simulation, what could a bug look like?
You can clearly see geometric artifacts from the texture mapping on the top of Saturn (the designers never intended us to look there):
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Is a sword that deflects bullets feasible?
Jedis (and Sith) don't really have superhuman reflexes, at least in a regards to intercepting blaster fire.
"The average for these things is just 34.9 m/s (78 mph). This is in
the ballpark of a …
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Plausible materials/chemicals for a sentient blob creature to be made out of
Thixotropic substances have highly variable viscosity. As they are stressed their viscosity changes dramatically. When the stress is removed they change back to their default state.
If your blob was …
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Vibrations weakening spaceship
Perhaps the spaceship was assembled with a thixotropic adhesive.
A thixotropic fluid is painted onto the various ship structural components and is ordinarily completely solid and inert (you don't eve …
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