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2 votes
1 answer
239 views

When would a cannon be a quick weather device if you put a sock in it?

5 votes
3 answers
841 views

How to make a hybrid mapping system for aircraft on barren planets without celestial or compass use?

-6 votes
4 answers
252 views

What would break equality? A virus made millions of people live to 120 healthy years, but not all, could they still be "equal" under the law? [closed]

-4 votes
3 answers
175 views

What are the best blackmail and extortion paths for haberdashers in post-apocalyptic Victorian cities? [closed]

6 votes
4 answers
691 views

What are the parenting options available to species that reproduce by fragmentation?

4 votes
6 answers
2k views

What AI force strength would be needed to defeat modern humanity? [closed]

0 votes
1 answer
189 views

Designing a catamaran as workable masted airship for swashbuckling on the maindecks

1 vote
1 answer
98 views

Fluvial systems: Are they necessary for human survival in domed cities on waterless planets

11 votes
8 answers
4k views

The Topography of Madness: Why would my lighthouse be designed with noisy, maddening switches? [closed]

3 votes
3 answers
692 views

The Wheeler-Feynman Handshake as a mechanism for determining a fictional universal length constant enabling an ansible-like link

3 votes
2 answers
82 views

Believably Enhancing Actuator Machinery Performance through Ground Detection Techniques in Articulated Mechanical Racehorse Hooves

2 votes
3 answers
221 views

What industrial exoplanet machine would serve as the best escape vehicle from a remote secure stronghold?

-1 votes
6 answers
1k views

How could an AGI have legal protections in an our current society? [closed]

2 votes
4 answers
757 views

Can a society completely erase all memory of a predecessor culture’s collapse in only three generations? [closed]

4 votes
3 answers
193 views

How could a two-legged chariot horse gallop?

4 votes
4 answers
213 views

How long to bring a machine into a cooler climate without damage?

5 votes
2 answers
272 views

Lighting system for early submersibles such as the Nautilus

4 votes
1 answer
435 views

Anatomically Correct Mi-Go

6 votes
8 answers
1k views

What would a modern fortified castle look like?

8 votes
8 answers
2k views

Why can’t the everyman get housing without the Lords of America?

-1 votes
2 answers
446 views

Origins of the Feudal Lords of America?

4 votes
2 answers
173 views

Is a universal land and launch spacecraft theoretically possible?

8 votes
4 answers
3k views

Can a brain in a jar be killed or have a reduced lifespan from psychological trauma alone?

9 votes
6 answers
3k views

Does a Hell train running on brimstone have a smokestack?

5 votes
5 answers
348 views

Getting around in Hell when you can't fly?

4 votes
3 answers
305 views

Can this town gain ecological advantage from their limnic explosion region?

3 votes
1 answer
164 views

What geometry would an artificial sun take in a domed city?

0 votes
2 answers
239 views

How big would a gravity storage need to be for a city’s electric needs?

12 votes
7 answers
2k views

How can this prison induce Stockholm syndrome?

1 vote
5 answers
291 views

What socio-economic pressure would cause humans to depend on an interstellar resource? [closed]