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High energy laser vs supervelocity missile
- GTOM
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Writing: Input Wanted Ability to influence quantum probability
- cube137
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Writing: Input Wanted How Close Can Spaceships Safely Approach Black Holes?
- essenmein
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How many rockets could launch simultaneously to evacuate Earth?
- wetlander
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Alien vision shifted into infrared: would colors look different to them?
- 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 Could a charged stream electrocute boats without boiling away?
- 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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Gravity in a hollow Earth RPG world with dense center
- 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 as white holes in other universes
- Noisy Rhysling
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Writing: Input Wanted Flight duration to L4 point and 90-degree Earth orbit with constant 1g acceleration
- Fred Bobo
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Small, lightweight high-voltage power source for a story
- timelessmidgen
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Writing: Input Wanted How high and how fast should a lunar orbital ring spin for Earth 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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Can I make a time skip forward 20 years scientifically plausible for my story?
- 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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Can superluminal travel create time dilation for YA fiction?
- Elon303
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Mini star spawning and dying on a planet's surface
- Howie BL
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Writing: Input Wanted Geology of Great Lakes Earth, an alternate world dominated by lakes
- JohnWDailey
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Can you build a net for 1 million tonnes of iron chunks at 2g acceleration?
- 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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Personified universal laws as characters in sci-fi
- 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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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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Science fiction novel set in a post-singularity future
- Curiose
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Can vacuum pressure accelerate projectiles heavier than a ping-pong ball?
- 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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What happens if you adjust fundamental constants of nature in a test area?
- star apple
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Magnetic Force Applied to An Object @ d (0,n) (Rail gun on Mars)
- Rra
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Do author interviews and official sourcebooks override what's shown in fiction?
- Tap Banister
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What goods are valuable enough to transport between star systems?
- 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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Alien skeleton with copper, calcium and which element?
- Yemmy
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Can planets around pulsars recover after moving away from radiation?
- 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
Writing: Input Wanted Using ancient Egypt as the cultural basis for a sci-fi planet
- GTOM
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How would everyday life work with 3D printers and robots?
- 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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Does time travel aging follow biological or clock time in a TARDIS scenario?
- 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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Gravitational lensing focal distance formula for interstellar signals
- 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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How much negative mass to warp an average guy across town?
- 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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