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What single change in history would make rear steering cars a standard?

answered Aug 4, 2022 at 12:24

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How does Santa keep locations updated for all of his gift recipients?

answered Dec 19, 2022 at 6:49

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What is the best handheld/portable weapon for a person who is 1 inch(2.5 centimeters) trying to take down an 6 foot man?

answered Apr 25 at 4:59

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Could bioengineered trees grow high explosives?

answered Jan 19 at 12:08

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What is the largest possible gun a man with super strength can use?

answered Oct 21, 2022 at 8:02

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How does a government that uses undead labor avoid perverse incentives?

answered May 31 at 7:18

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Would a lizard-mounted cavalry be effective against pikes?

answered Jun 15 at 6:57

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How far in the past could a highly-trained survivalist live?

answered Nov 28, 2022 at 6:40

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What are some reasons for the population of a small, relatively unremarkable area to suddenly boom?

answered Jul 10 at 5:57

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Would a star's spectroscopy be stable enough on approach to use it as a navigational reference from a great distance?

answered Sep 4 at 19:20

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How would vision be affected by eyesockets placed diagonally from each other?

answered May 18 at 7:27

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The abundance of which material would provide the most improvement to world economy?

answered Nov 18, 2022 at 7:23

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Justifying why a nanoassembler can only produce inorganic things

answered Jan 15 at 6:09

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A laser-propelled starship loses its decelerating beam; what options do they have to slow down?

answered Jan 26 at 9:14

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Questions about Moon Phases in Fantasy World

answered Sep 29, 2022 at 7:52

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How long can a shattered Dyson Ring support life?

answered Feb 8 at 7:48

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What's the maximum thrust to weight ratio of a photon rocket?

answered Apr 17 at 11:13

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How Do I Contain Hydrogen Gas With Pre-Modern Technology?

answered Aug 1 at 5:43

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Is it possible for a fairly large community to remain hidden in Scandinavia until the start of the 20th century?

answered Sep 29, 2022 at 11:11

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What Are the Pitfalls of Using Diamonds as Currency?

answered Sep 11 at 4:23

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Why might advanced digital computers be unusable on my planets?

answered Nov 24, 2022 at 6:47

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Is there any way to justify very different levels of technological development within a few thousand miles?

answered Jun 15 at 13:03

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Designing barrier to stop only non-hooved animals

answered Aug 31 at 7:01

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Long distance travel by non-motorised rolling vehicles

answered Mar 9 at 23:24

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Using gravimetry to detect cloaked enemies

answered Jul 14 at 7:17

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How many children could a human have in one pregnancy (with safety being no concern)?

answered Jan 16 at 4:06

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How to safely contain dinosaurs in the early 1900s?

answered Jan 19 at 8:59

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Virus extinction at the snap of a finger. Can life on Earth continue to exist normally?

answered Jul 14, 2022 at 13:45

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How can I deliver 4 x10^19 kg of hydrogen to a planet in 30 years?

answered Jan 9 at 6:55

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Can we make a tokamak explode?

answered Feb 10 at 8:29

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What single change in history would make rear steering cars a standard?

How does Santa keep locations updated for all of his gift recipients?

What is the best handheld/portable weapon for a person who is 1 inch(2.5 centimeters) trying to take down an 6 foot man?

Could bioengineered trees grow high explosives?

What is the largest possible gun a man with super strength can use?

How does a government that uses undead labor avoid perverse incentives?

Would a lizard-mounted cavalry be effective against pikes?

How far in the past could a highly-trained survivalist live?

What are some reasons for the population of a small, relatively unremarkable area to suddenly boom?

Would a star's spectroscopy be stable enough on approach to use it as a navigational reference from a great distance?

How would vision be affected by eyesockets placed diagonally from each other?

The abundance of which material would provide the most improvement to world economy?

Justifying why a nanoassembler can only produce inorganic things

A laser-propelled starship loses its decelerating beam; what options do they have to slow down?

Questions about Moon Phases in Fantasy World

How long can a shattered Dyson Ring support life?

What's the maximum thrust to weight ratio of a photon rocket?

How Do I Contain Hydrogen Gas With Pre-Modern Technology?

Is it possible for a fairly large community to remain hidden in Scandinavia until the start of the 20th century?

What Are the Pitfalls of Using Diamonds as Currency?

Why might advanced digital computers be unusable on my planets?

Is there any way to justify very different levels of technological development within a few thousand miles?

Designing barrier to stop only non-hooved animals

Long distance travel by non-motorised rolling vehicles

Using gravimetry to detect cloaked enemies

How many children could a human have in one pregnancy (with safety being no concern)?

How to safely contain dinosaurs in the early 1900s?

Virus extinction at the snap of a finger. Can life on Earth continue to exist normally?

How can I deliver 4 x10^19 kg of hydrogen to a planet in 30 years?

Can we make a tokamak explode?