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How would a sentient species without technology derive General Relativity?
Awarded May 14, 2024 at 15:48
A lightning bolt strikes the White House. How much power would it require so that its exuded energy can ignite the entire landmass of the USA? [closed]
Awarded May 14, 2024 at 7:18
Is carbon-223 theoretically possible? [closed]
Awarded May 12, 2024 at 23:48
How realistic is a communist hardboiled detective? [closed]
Awarded May 11, 2024 at 8:20
Why wouldn't the world have advanced warning of a significant asteroid/comet strike?
Awarded May 7, 2024 at 21:27
Why would two neighboring kingdoms fight over an island? [closed]
Awarded May 7, 2024 at 6:16
How does a bipedal amphibian use its legs in water?
Awarded May 5, 2024 at 3:45
Efficient method of storing energy in a near-future, semi-hard sci-fi game
Awarded May 1, 2024 at 13:26
How would a predator adapt to prey on sapient species?
Awarded Apr 30, 2024 at 10:20
Colonizing a frozen Waterworld
Awarded Apr 28, 2024 at 6:26
How long would a crater/mare on the Moon be glowing red and visible from earth?
Awarded Apr 27, 2024 at 16:02
Plausibility of humans turning into mythical creatures at random
Awarded Apr 25, 2024 at 17:48
How long would it take for nature to reclaim a completely abandoned city?
Awarded Apr 22, 2024 at 19:06
Alternative methods for heat management(short and medium term)
Awarded Apr 22, 2024 at 17:03
What would mice use as raw materials for clothing?
Awarded Apr 22, 2024 at 12:57
Subtle clues that an AI is smarter than it appears [closed]
Awarded Apr 22, 2024 at 4:10
How practical would it be to use a handgun-knife hybrid weapon?
Awarded Apr 21, 2024 at 21:40
Is there a reason why computers of the 1920s-1980s look the way they do? [closed]
Awarded Apr 19, 2024 at 8:08
Are humanoid cetaceans evolutionarily possible?
Awarded Apr 19, 2024 at 7:25
What materials and building techniques would a Late Medieval-Renaissance city use next to an ocean?
Awarded Apr 19, 2024 at 0:26
What are the climatic consequences of existing on a planet with a dense and fairly cold atmosphere?
Awarded Apr 18, 2024 at 17:08
Surface Hot-springs on an Icy moon
Awarded Apr 18, 2024 at 14:16
What would be the most effective way for a humanoid species made of stone to generate energy to move around?
Awarded Apr 18, 2024 at 0:26
How can an evil empire build a fortress that stands for a thousand years?
Awarded Apr 15, 2024 at 16:52
Aftermath of a Limited Nuclear Exchange [closed]
Awarded Apr 14, 2024 at 4:33
I have a world with two moons, and I was wondering how often they would both be full at the same time
Awarded Apr 13, 2024 at 7:50
Could a Luna-based colony successfully revolt against Earth? [closed]
Awarded Apr 12, 2024 at 22:52
Could a planet have metalloids but very few metals?
Awarded Apr 12, 2024 at 17:18
What kind of alien technology would make space colonization viable?
Awarded Apr 11, 2024 at 7:06
Effects of a hypothetical "proton-decay" bomb for a fictional story
Awarded Apr 8, 2024 at 13:51
Time dilation on a heavily oblong planet
Awarded Apr 8, 2024 at 1:27
How can I design a benevolent, all-powerful deity, and still have a society with day-to-day issues?
Awarded Apr 6, 2024 at 5:51
Could ocean and wind currents form on a tidally heated body
Awarded Apr 6, 2024 at 2:31
What types of themed maps should I put for my Fictional Planet? (Sorry for making it opinion based) [closed]
Awarded Apr 6, 2024 at 1:06
Will it be possible to prevent cancer by introducing ECC on genome?
Awarded Apr 4, 2024 at 22:08
How would I pull off FTL travel in a universe where inter-universal travel is also widely used?
Awarded Apr 2, 2024 at 21:32
Primitive drawing of blood
Awarded Apr 2, 2024 at 1:34
What natural forces can cause a volcano to erupt seasonally?
Awarded Mar 31, 2024 at 6:42
Conditions of a piranha solution ocean
Awarded Mar 29, 2024 at 23:19
Would caves maintain a cool temperature on the hot side of a tidally locked planet?
Awarded Mar 28, 2024 at 20:25
Is it possible to have an ocean moon orbit a large ice giant via tidal forces and a greenhouse effect within the moon?
Awarded Mar 27, 2024 at 23:05
How long would it take for an area to be repopulated after experiencing a meteoric impact?
Awarded Mar 27, 2024 at 12:07
How can the stars be wrong, so that an observer realises they're not in our world anymore?
Awarded Mar 27, 2024 at 7:49
What is Plausibility of a Megalodon sized creature attacking a human? [closed]
Awarded Mar 21, 2024 at 20:11
How can I make a military that largely enlists spell swords viable? [closed]
Awarded Mar 21, 2024 at 3:20
Is it possible to have a species where everyone is both male and female? [closed]
Awarded Mar 20, 2024 at 5:27
The rotation of the sun's core doubles in speed every 10 years. How many years before the situation turns apocalyptical?
Awarded Mar 19, 2024 at 8:48
Genetic engineering for sea people (false merfolk)
Awarded Mar 18, 2024 at 5:48
Why would two factions in a long-running civil war tolerate the existence of a city not controlled by either party?
Awarded Mar 16, 2024 at 9:27
Why would a warrior tribe be dependant on a pacifist tribe?
Awarded Mar 14, 2024 at 17:20
Alternative methods of blood circulation?
Awarded Mar 13, 2024 at 22:22
Would the diet described below sustain a human?
Awarded Mar 13, 2024 at 6:05
Steampunk-inspired constructed world tips? [closed]
Awarded Mar 13, 2024 at 0:11
Making nuclear weapons almost impossible to build
Awarded Mar 11, 2024 at 19:12
How many cultures can a world have without being too complicated? [closed]
Awarded Mar 7, 2024 at 20:41
How could forces without metal or plastic face up to conventional forces?
Awarded Mar 5, 2024 at 8:58
How would I create a reason for melee weapons (swords, polearms, et cetera) to be used and effective in a science fiction setting? [duplicate]
Awarded Mar 4, 2024 at 20:33
How could a light sorcerer fly
Awarded Mar 4, 2024 at 19:47
Could mountains form on anhydrous planets?
Awarded Mar 4, 2024 at 18:00
Global warming in an apocalyptic future?
Awarded Mar 3, 2024 at 5:47
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