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Boost Your Sci-Fi Writing with Atomic Rockets, Forensics Demystified & More!"
- onomatomanic
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Asteroid invasion
- GTOM
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Free 4D Earth Book
- Hornbein
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Spacetime manipulation vs a fall.
- dendros
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How would air work on the plane of water?
- some bloke
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World-building done well
- Vanadium 50
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New Sci-Fi Writer enthusiast joining from a Gemini recommendation
- Yaoda
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Plausible Physics for a biblical Ark
- Craig-Dunn
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We needed a backstory for our Traveller sci-fi RPG ...
- DaveC426913
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Worm Holes and gravitational microlensing
- eggchess
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Writing: Read Only Have we found an ancient space habitat?
- Al_
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Tidally-locked planets flipping around their axes
- Strato Incendus
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Any plausible non chemical rocket based space launch system on Earth?
- GTOM
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Writing: Input Wanted Limits of detection and interception in space
- GTOM
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Is this the right place for technical review of sci-fi concepts?
- David Lewis
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Red Dwarf Star Systems -- Could they support life?
- Lren Zvsm
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Writing: Input Wanted Looking for story advice on ancient aquatic reptile breeding grounds
- DaveC426913
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Writing: Input Wanted How would an Earth-like Planet fair with a Uranus like moon system?
- DiamondTiara
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Should I write a dream sequence?
- DaveC426913
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Create a human hive mind
- GTOM
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AI Consciousness?
- victoriaperine
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Photon-Foil FTL Drive theory
- DIYEngine235
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Map of a 4D planet
- Hornbein
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Finishing my story
- DaveC426913
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Mechanical Energy Based Civilization?
- bob012345
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A Physics Forum Member in King Arthur's Court
- DaveC426913
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AI and the Human Body
- victoriaperine
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Writing: Input Wanted Effects of Gamma-Ray Burst on Solar System
- Strato Incendus
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Time Patrol from the year 2500 interacting with many universes
- Spathi
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Can Hard Sci-Fi Incorporate Fantastical Elements Successfully?
- kered rettop
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How would gravity on another world influence human lifespan?
- DarthJess
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Civilization in a Red Dwarf Solar System
- Lren Zvsm
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Gasses that can be present on a planet habitable by humans
- capslfern
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4+1D Flight
- Hornbein
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Carrying a body up stairs in a plummeting aircraft
- jcarle
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How could a colony of machines/robots affect a planet's atmosphere?
- Netiger
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Staying under Sun for 9 months straight
- exander
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Writing: Read Only Programs to help with stellar cartography
- sbrothy
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Writing: Read Only Wordlbuilding Detail with Roots in Science
- sbrothy
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Can the Halo Drive Balance Energy in Binary Star Systems?
- sbrothy
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A four foot diameter black hole destroys our Sun
- eggchess
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- Poll
Writing: Input Wanted Designing the Nuclear-Fusion Reactor for my Generation Ship
- Strato Incendus
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Compact highly directional medium wave antenna designs?
- Flyboy
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Writing: Input Wanted Rock-tumbling in reduced gravity?
- Nik_2213
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Writing: Input Wanted Coagulating iceteroidal 'fines'
- Nik_2213
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Writing: Input Wanted How to Handle a Fire Onboard a Generation Ship?
- Strato Incendus
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Writing: Read Only Is Human Virtualization Transforming Alien Warfare?
- sbrothy
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Writing: Input Wanted Increasing albedo of dark volcanic plain
- Nik_2213
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Writing: Input Wanted Number of Androids on Spaceships
- Strato Incendus
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Writing: Input Wanted Sanity check: Alien reproduction
- somegrue
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Writing: Input Wanted "Spacetime Drive" idea for sci-fi series of shorts
- ShadowKraz
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Tracking travel between orbits in a whirlpool
- StealthyRobot404
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Science Fiction Media Representations of Exoplanets...
- sbrothy
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4 foot diameter black hole comes to rest in Kuiper belt - then what?
- eggchess
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Sound of a hypersonic projectile from a rail gun
- TheDeviantSaint
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A planet with yearlong solar eclipse
- yh5598
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Writing: Input Wanted Alien chiral chemistry
- Nik_2213
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Writing: Input Wanted Revisiting the Enzmann Starship Design: A Sixty-Year Perspective
- Strato Incendus
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Writing: Input Wanted A 'failed' Runaway Moist Greenhouse: Need help to model...
- Nik_2213
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Writing: Input Wanted Metal-rich moonlets / asteroids of lone Brown Dwarf sub-stars?
- Nik_2213
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Writing: Input Wanted Can a Gamma-Ray Burst Affect Communication Devices?
- Strato Incendus
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What are the different types of knives and swords in a 4D Euclidean universe?
- Hornbein
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Real Scientists in Sci-Fi: Balancing Accuracy and Offense
- kered rettop
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I am making an alien race and need help with their biology
- ChanYeol
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Implications of communication through quantum entanglement
- GTOM
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The destructive force of a 1,000kg boulder hurled by a catapult
- Journeyman
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Help me come up with shock effect preventing technology (sci-fi book)
- Antitank_Borshch
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Help my Original comic book become more capable
- TevinDoolyrah
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Writing: Input Wanted Turning an interstellar ship around before reaching coasting speed?
- Strato Incendus
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Help, can't visualize a fantasy worldbuilding mechanic
- AtlasSniperma
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Writing: Input Wanted Distance between the star systems Sirius and Alpha Centauri?
- James Pryor
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What Are Realistic Mid-Journey Disasters in Interstellar Travel?
- Strato Incendus
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How noticeable is an interstellar spaceship in cruise?
- snorkack
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Is my fictional Solar System stable and realistic?
- DiamondTiara
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Could Cephalopods Be the Dominant Species in Parallel Worlds?
- Sayestu
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Using ChatGPT to help story building
- sbrothy
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How Do Parallel Timelines Unfold in a Sci-Fi Mystery?
- Sayestu
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Oxygenating a 'primordial' atmosphere...
- Nik_2213
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Awesome story title - now I just need a story
- DaveC426913
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3D space interface to other dimensions
- snorkack
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What would be the implications of a pseudoscientific 5th fundamental force?
- blackhole
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Could 2-D & 3-D & 4-D atoms interact?
- Lren Zvsm
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A 4D HyperEarth: 1000x More Space for Real Estate
- Hornbein
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Creating a Habitable Planet with 3 Moons
- jmhuff
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How Can a Ship Safely Brake in Space Without Crushing Its Inhabitants?
- Strato Incendus
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Habitable planet at L4/L5 of binary gas giants?
- Malapine
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Saltwater Pool/lightning Scenario for computer game
- mkultra
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My fantasy story idea with photon particles
- unsaint32
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Writing: Input Wanted Civilians in Space vs. Professionalism and Military Decorum
- Strato Incendus
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Is there a more elegant way to express eg 14% (Base_10) in Octal?
- Nik_2213
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Super-critical atmospheres that we could tolerate?
- Nik_2213
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Help requested on long-term habitable-zone stars
- AotrsCommander
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How Do You Calculate Travel Time Between Orbiting Planets?
- ckirmser
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Boron on extrasolar rocky planets?
- Nik_2213
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How Does Drag Affect Airplane Dynamics in a Four-Dimensional Universe?
- Hornbein
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Questions about a habitable second moon
- LadiSilverfox
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Writing: Input Wanted Postulating Life on Jupiter's moon Europa
- Strato Incendus
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I fed ChatGPT a bunch of metaphysics and asked for a story proposal
- AllanR
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When writing a third-person limited narrative for an amnesiac, what is...
- Eclair_de_XII
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Can you watch a gamma-ray burst from the side?
- Strato Incendus
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