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How durable would a human have to be to run at mach 30
I have a character who is supposed to be able to sprint at a maximum speed of mach 30, or 10290 meters per second. I want to know how much heat would be generated by a human running at such a speed ...
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Do I need to add other passive defenses against my character's (human) lightning superpowers?
I want to give one of my characters the ability to shoot lightning from their fingers.
How do his ability work? The process itself consists of ionization through the psychokinetic movement of air ...
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What would I call a human “litter”? [closed]
So I have a humanoid race that gives birth to 7-12 kids at a time. What would I call this? I call it a litter in my head but that’s for non-human animals and it would be very weird for humanoids. If ...
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Review my idea : an endoceres-like tripod scavenger
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It is a squid-like creature that is 10-50 cm in hight, with a pointed cone made of calcium carbonate facing upward taking up around 90% of its hight. It has 3 legs that it uses to walk ...
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Can there be another American Civil War Due to Immigration? [closed]
This was a great question and answer. I got a lot of insight from the answers supplied by others here.
What sort of violation of American rights would cause a civil war?
I am wondering what would ...
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Would a barbed sword be off-balance/practical
So here's my idea: a sword with a sharp triangle of metal coming off the tip (which is flat, by the way). This is a broadsword, so it's two-handed and pretty heavy. I haven't settled on the length, so ...
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The Anu Project, #1: What would the mass of a Gas Giant have to be to support 25+ Moons?
Overview:
The Anu project is a series of questions about a Gas Planet that puts the Giant in Gas Giant, as well as its extensive collection of Moons.
World Summary:
The world in question follows a ...
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Anatomically Correct Kasai Rex [closed]
The Kasai Rex is a large theropod-like cryptid supposedly living in Africa (couldn't find an english wikipedia page for it). I would like to know how such a creature could exist and what reasons it ...
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What would it be like on a habitable planet tidally locked to its moon?
Let's assume there's a habitable planet with a moon similar to ours. Unlike the Earth-Moon system, where only the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, both objects are locked to each other.
What would ...
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Why would chemical weapons never be used in a science-fiction setting?
Chemical warfare isn’t a modern invention. How old it really is depends on what your definition of the term “chemical warfare” is, but archeological evidence of the first use of poisonous gas dates ...
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Miedeval-tech society on a planet orbiting a black hole- how? [duplicate]
Something I'm working on where a space-faring culture sends a ship to observe a planet inhabited by life including humans at a medieval tech level- then I got the idea that instead of a 'traditional' ...
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My crab-like creature underneath a 5 km thick ice: Please review my idea
Please review my creature
This is a member of the phylum xivapoda (14 legged in Latin) in this world and is very crab-like, with the exception that it is up to 10 meters tall measured from base of leg ...
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What can cause (military) rank DEflation instead of rank INflation
We've all heard the jokes about there being more admirals than ships in the fleet and we've all cracked quips about North Korean Flag Officers running around absolutely covered in medals. We've ...
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How to not get blood on you in close-quarters combat?
The pre-industrial humans of my world have noticed that if you intentionally do violence to someone and some of that person's blood gets on your person (including what you're wearing), a fairly ...
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Black holes as explosives
I realize that there have been other posts on this topic, but I'm going to try and go basic. We know that eventually a black hole will release a lot of radiation (aka explode-ish). but my question is ...
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