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For questions that ask if a given concept is consistent, or being used consistently, in the context of the referenced world rules. Answers should say yes or no, with supporting info. This tag should not be used with the science-based, hard-science, or science-fiction tags. Comparisons to the real world should use the science-based tag. This tag may not be used alone. This tag may not be used with the science-fiction, science-based, or hard-science tags.
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How can I prevent wizards from "spreading their royal oats"?
I believe the only effects of it to be a reduction in birth rates, since conceiving a child would be detrimental for the father until it's birth (/death?) which would usually be 9 months, a significan …
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Natural Metre Bar
A large femur (thigh-bone) of an individual creature.
Bones are relatively weather resistant and can last for a long time, so a particular femur off of a historical hunt may be passed on, similar to …
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The Ancient Guardian
In my world there is an old human guarding something of great significance.
All chemical reactions in their body have been slowed down to a microscopic fraction of what is deemed usual*. Once the pea …
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Consistent units are one of the most important inventions to the modern age.
Before standardization, one used natural units such as 'feet', but these all varied from person to person.
My world abide …
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Floating cities with a new superconductor
Assuming you can the rocks 'hover' (not entirely unimaginable), you can have your technology level as low as you'd like, as long as they have the means to build weather-proof shelters on these rocks a …
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How to catch creatures that can predict the next few minutes?
In the end, any predators must be able to outwit these creatures. This would come in the form of planning further ahead than the creatures can see their consequences.
Say, for example, one has a nest …
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Closest Proximity of Oceans to Freshwater Springs
I am trying to wrap my head around the geography of a settlement in my world.
The settlement is situated along the coast, along a river roughly 500m wide with temperate mixed forests surrounding it, …
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Seasonal Shade-Plant
There is a forest in my world with a special property: All the trees are optimised to shade as much as possible during summer and give as little shadow as possible during winter, to regulate the tempe …
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What is the best design for docking onto a rotating space-station?
In the distant future, space-stations use centrifugal force to emulate gravity, effectively being a cylinder (or something similar like a wheel) spinning around a central axis at high speeds.
A space …
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A disease with an incubation time of 18 years kills all adults after its "timer" goes off. H...
Although I can't think of anything that would be 100% effective at the age of 18, perhaps a hormone-based solution might do the trick?
The disease feeds/is stimulated by sex hormones such as estrogen …
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War between human/animal shapeshifters and humans
You could have all sorts of reasons, including any of the following:
The shapeshifters are a stark minority, allowing them to be overwhelmed by numbers.
The shapeshifters are initially captured as i …
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Is elastic wiring feasable?
Coiled wire such as that used on old-fashioned telephone sets (as below) (I cannot for the life of me find a Wikipedia article mentioning this kind of cord) allow a limited amount of flexibility, but …
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Can a large hemispherical planet be stable? [duplicate]
I had a vision of a planet twice the size of earth sliced in half like an apple by an invisible force, one half drifting away from the other into eternity.
Unlike the planet Earth, it did no longer …
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Is elastic wiring feasable?
Since wireless does not seem to be the ultra-high-broadband solution of the future (according to recent 5G cellular network results), wires seem the only way to go for a data-intensive future.
The di …
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