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Writing: Input Wanted Ability to influence quantum probability
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Writing: Input Wanted How Close Can Spaceships Safely Approach Black Holes?
  • essenmein
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How many rockets would it take....
  • wetlander
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The World of Aliens: Seeing Beyond Human Vision
  • chasrob
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Writing: Read Only What Does Great Lakes Earth Look Like from Space?
  • JohnWDailey
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Writing: Input Wanted Electrified Water: Feasibility and Applications
  • callie123
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Photovoltaics and time near a black hole (as a key story element)
  • Daniel Sellers
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How long does something exist at relativistic speeds?
  • some bloke
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Super volcanoes and asteroid/comet impacts
  • Monsterboy
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How to Reach a 8.6 Lightyear Star in 60 Years?
  • DeverX
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What do you think of this FTL/time travel engine?
  • aslan227
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Moving in a 2g gravitational environment
  • newjerseyrunner
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Sci-fi author needs advice on building a multi-layered city
  • Thomas Hewlett
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Explore a Peculiar Hollow Earth World: Gravity Possibilities
  • Huggas
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Relativistic speeds - what do astronauts actually see?
  • kiplunk
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What would a wormhole look like from the inside?
  • member 656954
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Plausibility of this meteor habitat?
  • Kiwimaster76
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Superman Protagonist: Skinsuit Capability Up to 4,000mph
  • chasrob
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Writing: Input Wanted World destroying solar storm/binary orbit
  • AidenFlamel
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Writing: Input Wanted Black holes here, white holes "on the other side"....
  • Noisy Rhysling
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Writing: Input Wanted Duration: flights to L-4 point, and 90 degrees Earth orbit
  • Fred Bobo
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Small & Lightweight High Voltage Power Sources: Ideas?
  • timelessmidgen
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Writing: Input Wanted Lunar Orbital Rings: Calculating Height and Rotation for Earth-like Gravity
  • Chatterton
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Slightly More Plausible Barriers Than Force Fields
  • Lren Zvsm
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Calculations for a theoretical planet + a little biology
  • Kiwimaster76
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Writing: Input Wanted What is the fastest route to Earth 180
  • Fred Bobo
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What would you see from inside tubular ringworld?
  • AotrsCommander
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How Can Time Dilation Be Achieved Near a Black Hole in Sci-Fi?
  • Skyler Hooks
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Is the Circular to Elliptical Orbit Calculator Accurate?
  • chasrob
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Writing: Input Wanted Scientific use of Chi/Qi/not so espiritual energy
  • AidenFlamel
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Can docking ships help regulate rotation in a spinning space habitat?
  • dmac257
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Time Snap: Can Physics Make It Sci-Fi?
  • TheQuestionGuy14
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Writing: Input Wanted Submerged Structures in an Ocean World
  • Jason K
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Writing: Input Wanted Would humanoid strength be comparable to elephant strength?
  • caters
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Exploring Time Travel Possibilities in YA Fiction
  • Elon303
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Need help crafting a cataclysm (for SF novel)
  • Howie BL
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Writing: Input Wanted What Makes Great Lakes Earth So Geographically Unique?
  • JohnWDailey
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Build a 1 Million Tonne Cargo Net: Tech & Materials Needed
  • chasrob
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Can a Moon-Sized Spinning Sphere Create Livable Artificial Gravity?
  • Adrovane
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Can gravity from other galaxies affect Earth, and how?
  • pegamin
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How do the Mobius and Klein models illuminate string theory?
  • tatkhj
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Quantum Locking and the Earth's Magnetic Field
  • parkinglot
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Exploring the Personification of Universal Laws in Physics Science Fiction
  • hsdrop
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Writing: Input Wanted Alternative energy sources? How about photons?
  • Willy Pete
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Reality check on SF action scenes
  • GTOM
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Writing: Input Wanted How can a wormhole be relocated and what would happen to objects near it?
  • Michael27
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Writing: Input Wanted Mostly Underground City Stage 1: All on Foot
  • caters
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Infinite pressure on infinitesimal area?
  • Fullmetal_Potato
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What types of illness would be allowed on a generation ship and why?
  • caters
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Surviving a Solar Storm: The Challenges of Monitoring Earth from Mars
  • Chatterton
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Elasticity and light speed vibrations
  • snorkack
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Technological mastery of fundamental forces
  • Khatti
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Martian Independence: Orbital Bombardment Possibilities
  • GTOM
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Photons in Fiber Optics V Solar Sails
  • Tony Montana
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Non-mushroom-cloud hydrodynamics
  • itssilva
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Writing: Input Wanted Longitudinal Waves: Do Devices Use AM or FM?
  • RyderP
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Is it possible to create a quantum bomb?
  • Jaakub
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Constructing an underground cave
  • SIQI
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How Effective is Kinetic Bombardment Compared to Historical Explosions?
  • Rocco the Stiff
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A Question: A novel set in the future
  • Curiose
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Question about vacuum powered projectiles
  • david brouh
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A theoretical flotation device using a vacuum (for a novel)
  • JeffCyr
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What will the post-technological world look like for humanity?
  • Noisy Rhysling
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Black Hole Mass and Energy Requirements for Sustainable Hawking Radiation
  • tomwinwa
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Writing: Input Wanted Can Humans Birth Technologically Enhanced Offspring Naturally?
  • omnipojack
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Exploring Nature's Constants: Manipulating Variables in the Lab
  • star apple
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Magnetic Force Applied to An Object @ d (0,n) (Rail gun on Mars)
  • Rra
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Secondary vs Primary source confusion....
  • Tap Banister
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Interstellar Trade: Value, Resources & Unobtanium
  • GTOM
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Relativity's role in forbidding FTL Information Transfer
  • Swamp Thing
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Climate 300 years after nuclear apocalypse?
  • ToBoldlyKnow
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I'm a private spacefarer in the year 2050. What physics do I need to know?
  • Krunchyman
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I am writing a story involving a hypothetical chemical reaction
  • Conor Sullivan
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Design Alien Skeleton w/ Copper, Calcium & Element: Tip?
  • Yemmy
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Question about the radiation around Neutron Stars or Pulsars
  • Althistorybuff
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How much would a quantum computing network rely on power?
  • Christopheles
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Writing: Input Wanted Using a "disintegrator" to make square corners?
  • Noisy Rhysling
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  • Poll Poll
Writing: Input Wanted Exploring the Possibilities of Ancient-Themed Planets in Sci-Fi
  • GTOM
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Everyday Life in SF: Exploring Realistic Possibilities
  • GTOM
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Artificial Gravity Technology: Creating an Implosion Effect
  • SnakeEater
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Most realistic propelling technologies?
  • Armantium
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What's the Best Invented Yet? Your Opinion Counts!
  • Noisy Rhysling
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A Question About Time Travel & Aging
  • asesena
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How would you design your art planet?
  • Yemmy
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Anti-Gravity Logistics: Pinned to Planet or Beyond?
  • Frost Dragon
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Wasn't there a thread on making living space out of asteroid
  • Noisy Rhysling
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Need help with gravitational lensing issue
  • Dr Wu
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Can an Anti-Matter Blade Cut Through Anything?
  • AlkamlBan
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Information transfer in space - with book research
  • NIKOXXII
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Governance of a colony on a new world?
  • Noisy Rhysling
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Predicting Worlds With Lower Gravity
  • Handerson Tjia
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What could a time machine plausibly look like?
  • ToBoldlyKnow
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Imagining Multiple Ringworlds Around a Star - Is it Possible?
  • Chatterton
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Warping an Average Guy Across Town: Exploring Negative Mass
  • RyderP
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Atmospheric Heating from Meteorite Impact
  • |Glitch|
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Writing: Input Wanted What if sea level rose dramatically?
  • Chatterton
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Writing: Input Wanted Some problem solving -- probe is traveling to Alpha centauri
  • fiction_author
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Is a FTL Drive with a Preferred Frame Enough to Resolve Temporal Paradoxes?
  • Blasp
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"The Menace from Earth" flying sequence
  • Noisy Rhysling
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Exploring the Unknown: The First Inter-Galactic Voyage
  • Noisy Rhysling
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