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For questions dealing with how sentient beings interact with each other in a community.
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why would a priesthood only accept young children into its ranks?
The priesthood has a specialized sacred language that they use for ritual and internal communication, distinct from the mundane languages of their world. Incorrect pronunciation during a ritual would …
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Tomorrow is Groundhog Day... For everyone. How does society respond?
Their contribution to society will be to place wake-up calls to a few memorized numbers each morning.
Someone who lives near a fabric store and has a car will be in the early phone tree. … Society could operate either on informal barter, or on a "currency" with accounts managed by people who have both very good memories and very good reputations for honesty. …
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How to Justify Less Developed Air Power Despite Modern Tech?
You mention magical abilities of ground forces. Make one of their abilities be to change air pressure and wind direction within some range of their location. That would make early aircraft very danger …
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What sports would a horse play?
Grazing. We don't think of it as a sport, but I am sure your fun-loving sapient equines would turn it into one, or several.
There would be speed contests for finding a particular plant. There would b …
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How else could you organize a ship's crew?
With a nod to Cordwainer Smith and the concept of a go-captain, one could have different officers for different phases of a voyage.
One captain would be in charge of maneuverings close to land and in …
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How could world civilization lose the knowledge of a global event?
I suggest reading Isaac Asimov's 1941 novelette "Nightfall". It is very similar to your plot, depending on an eclipse that happens once every 2,000 years causing a global catastrophe. Civilization nev …
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How can I prevent the invention of skyscrapers?
Before the culture learned to mass produce steel, there were a series of terrible fires in tall wooden apartment buildings. Being more humane than the Roman empire, the rulers reacted by decreeing tha …
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