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John Dallman
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Programmer for a large ISV, SF fan and gamer.

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How to tell a clone apart?
Sep 22, 2016
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How can humans coexist with an intelligent carnivorous species?
Aug 13, 2016
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Could we reach the earth's core using today's nuclear arsenal?
Jul 4, 2016
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How would someone hide an asteroid in the void of space so only they could find it?
Jun 23, 2016
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My star will explode as a supernova. What can I do in order to ensure that my planet survives that?
Jul 16, 2016
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Why would space traders pick up and offload their goods from an orbiting platform rather than direct to the planet?
Jul 31, 2022
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Humanity after 100 million years?
Jul 25, 2016
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How can the stars be wrong, so that an observer realises they're not in our world anymore?
Mar 24, 2024
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How to protect shops in the medieval era against thievery?
Sep 14, 2016
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How might an astronomer discover they have been transported 50 years in the future?
Jul 14, 2020
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Should the hard-science tag be retired?
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Why didn't the US and USSR jam each other's early-warning radar?
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Why did the Germans use the Enigma machine rather than the far superior "Lorenz" cipher machine?
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How was it back then in 1984, when the Apple II had color, and the new Macintosh didn't?
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How did the USSR manage to innovate in an environment characterized by government censorship and high bureaucracy?
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Back in the late 1980s, how was commercial software for 8-bit home computers developed?