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How would temperature extremes from summer to winter vary from ours if an Earth-like planet had an orbital period 4 times that of Earth?

Trish

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11 answers

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Underground tunneling without spoil piles

Pica

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modified 2 hours ago

5 votes

12 answers

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Is it feasible that cars would be made with a central driving position?

Richard Kirk

13.7k

answered 3 hours ago

5 votes

2 answers

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Is my map believable?

IMP9024

2,938

answered 7 hours ago

9 votes

3 answers

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A Glass Window in an Underwater City

CommunityBot

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modified 8 hours ago

4 votes

0 answers

163 views

Fire in a Hydrogen Atmosphere

Gault Drakkor

5,119

modified 12 hours ago

1 vote

4 answers

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How useful (if at all) would these extra arms be?

Pica

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answered yesterday

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0 answers

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Why would a creature have this sort of societal structure?

L.Dutch♦

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modified yesterday

8 votes

6 answers

807 views

Talking to Animals

Mark Major

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modified yesterday

11 votes

4 answers

2k views

The Apollo program on an alternative moon with greater surface gravity

Trish

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modified 2 days ago

8 votes

9 answers

2k views

Best vehicle for ascending & descending a super deep valley [closed]

virolino

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answered 2 days ago

5 votes

1 answer

491 views

What kinds of phonemes can a race with penguin-like barbs be able to make or not?

Escaped dental patient.

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modified 2 days ago

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0 answers

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Looking for a worldbuilding concept I saw online in 2023-2024 [closed]

congtubaclieu

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asked 2 days ago

29 votes

17 answers

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What can be used as reliable, easy-to-understand and hard-to-rig source of entropy for Victorian Age random number generator?

Nuclear Hoagie

15.1k

modified Jul 14 at 19:02

1 vote

3 answers

225 views

Could an alien plant composed of purely stem cells, be very adaptable?

Robert Rapplean

18.8k

answered Jul 14 at 18:42

6 votes

1 answer

345 views

How magnitude affects angular diameter/resolution

Gene

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modified Jul 14 at 16:03

3 votes

3 answers

206 views

Thermodynamics of extremely rapid growth in large/complex animals

Thibe

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answered Jul 14 at 13:09

-3 votes

0 answers

120 views

When will earth become over populated [closed]

Jeremy Lingle

5

asked Jul 13 at 17:06

1 vote

1 answer

179 views

How could I get two characters who speak different languages to the point where they can effectively communicate without a translator? [closed]

FlightDeck0112

647

answered Jul 13 at 4:07

15 votes

1 answer

2k views

How far can a nerve signal travel before it lost its information?

philipxy

105

modified Jul 13 at 2:29

15 votes

3 answers

4k views

Could robots live in Antarctica?

Rhymehouse

6,104

modified Jul 12 at 19:58

5 votes

6 answers

587 views

Ice Dragon Breath

Pica

7,749

answered Jul 12 at 19:23

13 votes

12 answers

2k views

If I can manipulate the fundamental interactions, how do I disintegrate humans without causing nuclear explosions?

Loren Pechtel

31.4k

answered Jul 12 at 16:30

8 votes

5 answers

911 views

How do I track details in the organization of a complex world?

Sherwood Botsford

10.7k

answered Jul 12 at 16:19

13 votes

7 answers

2k views

How would modern historians reconcile with a past age where magic existed?

actual_kangaroo

171

answered Jul 12 at 4:07

4 votes

1 answer

293 views

How far would the stellar wind of a Wolf-Rayet star contract a neighboring sunlike star's heliopause?

SRM

26.5k

modified Jul 11 at 5:02

3 votes

4 answers

325 views

Uses for horse manure?

Nosajimiki

111k

modified Jul 10 at 13:11

15 votes

5 answers

2k views

Weapons of the Hardwood Forest Rangers

Monty Wild♦

75.2k

modified Jul 10 at 6:58

1 vote

2 answers

276 views

Psychological effects of a monster raised in a laboratory [closed]

Pica

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answered Jul 10 at 6:04

0 votes

0 answers

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Do digitigrade legs on a human-sized biped make sense? [closed]

Prometheus

708

modified Jul 10 at 3:20

1 vote

4 answers

303 views

How would you counter air magic with fire

Nicol Wollaston

614

answered Jul 9 at 18:27

1 vote

2 answers

354 views

Running a motor on electricity derived from magical lightning?

Thibe

943

answered Jul 9 at 17:20

18 votes

4 answers

4k views

What latitude of Earth will avoid mountain collisions for a flying island?

Nosajimiki

111k

modified Jul 9 at 16:28

0 votes

2 answers

195 views

How could a United States citizen safely & successfully sell a very powerful weapon? [closed]

TheDemonLord

40.2k

answered Jul 8 at 21:24

7 votes

1 answer

309 views

Roughly how big could the tidal range be on a human habitable Earth analogue world?

Prometheus

708

answered Jul 8 at 8:36

9 votes

7 answers

2k views

How to build the largest possible zeppelin with ancient tech?

Pica

7,749

answered Jul 8 at 8:24

1 vote

1 answer

227 views

The power plant of the ark ship in the form of a black hole

Prometheus

708

answered Jul 8 at 5:05

23 votes

15 answers

7k views

The Bean Gun. Is it plausible?

Klyis

3,722

answered Jul 7 at 22:21

8 votes

4 answers

1k views

How could it be possible for an alien eukaryote (or multicellular organism) to survive above 50 Celsius (113 Farenheit)

Pica

7,749

answered Jul 7 at 19:46

6 votes

4 answers

2k views

are there any theoretical alterations (whether genetic or mechanical implants) that could be made to the human lungs to suit thinner atmosphere?

jcaron

208

modified Jul 7 at 17:31

-1 votes

2 answers

154 views

Effects of Pluto-sized asteroids orbiting Earth colliding with moon after fragmenting?

Prometheus

708

answered Jul 7 at 1:47

0 votes

4 answers

231 views

Could a pre-industrial society go through the Demographic Transitions?

Cadence

39.3k

answered Jul 6 at 5:59

17 votes

10 answers

4k views

Are there any natural forms of communication as robust as speech/vocalization?

Vylix

11k

modified Jul 5 at 17:37

3 votes

1 answer

116 views

Speed of Tectonic Plates on a Super Earth

Monty Wild♦

75.2k

answered Jul 4 at 3:46

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