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A list of worldbuilding resources

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Is it possible to kill all life on Earth?

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10 answers
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Does my shipboard computer slow down as I approach light speed?

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14 answers
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Can I produce a true 3D orbit?

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19 answers
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How can Santa defend himself?

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5 answers
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What are the safety margins for destroying a planet from space?

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Is it realistic to believe an apocalyptical setting can last 500+ years?

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10 answers
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Is there any material today that could withstand the impact of a baseball at 0.05c?

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10 answers
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Managing heat dissipation in a magic wand

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13 answers
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What does the view outside my ship traveling at light speed look like?

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13 answers
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What is Santa's defense against an unlawful withholding of welfare charge?

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22 answers
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My magic system "pays the price" by drawing its energy from the future: should that affect luck, heat, or life?

34 votes
9 answers
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How would prolonged use of augmented-reality combat gear affect soldiers?

28 votes
5 answers
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Plausibility of an Implausible First Contact

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3 answers
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Are there physiological traits common to all tool-building species?

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Would it be reasonable that vampires cannot drink just any blood type save O-? [closed]

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4 answers
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Is there a habitability zone between the primary and secondary stars of a binary star system?

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4 answers
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Navigating storm fronts in space

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3 answers
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What would the night sky look like for a world on the upper plane of the galaxy, near its rim?

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4 answers
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Is it possible to make high-compressive-strength cement on Mars?

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13 answers
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In a world of groovy super spies, how would a spy cross a ravine?

12 votes
7 answers
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Is there anything about photons and/or space-time that would allow the detection of an energy-based attack from a distance of ten light seconds?

11 votes
2 answers
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Would interplanetary transmissions in the Wolf 359 star system be detectable by Earth?

10 votes
2 answers
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Habitability of a world inside a dark nebula

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6 answers
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What technologies might lead to or support "perfect recycling"

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4 answers
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Feasibility of a purely mechanical grayscale "computer monitor"

9 votes
2 answers
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Reality Check: Controling time to produce velocity

9 votes
4 answers
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Smartphone camera resolution can image a human retina: can we save retina biometrics?

9 votes
6 answers
969 views

Can a collision with a neutron star make a planet via the can-o-snakes method?

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7 answers
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Could an astronaut in a near-future space ship survive transit through our asteroid belt?