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Living on the far side of a tide-locked moon
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Can a Single-Stage Spacecraft Exit Earth's Atmosphere?
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Could an Outsider Understand the Physics of Basketball?
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Could this [fantasy] planet be scientifically possible?
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Figuring out which stars an exoplanet's poles point to
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Industrial revolution before the Iron Age?
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Writing: Input Wanted Design of large rotating asteroid interior space
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How would lower oxygen affect the greenhouse effect?
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How Might an Alien Species Use Codeine in Their Biochemistry?
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Writing: Input Wanted Baby care customs right after labor, Reasonable?
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Equation for plasma wave/light speed travel?
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What should I look into for this project?
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Writing: Input Wanted Is Friction Relative? - Exploring Time Manipulation Super Powers
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Effects of high voltage & current on a large volume of water
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Hijacking a John Varley misdirection
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What Pet Would You Choose for Space Travel?
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Quantum Communications: Emergency Calls & Mars-Earth Connectivity
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Writing: Input Wanted An overheating energy source (for a sci-fi story)?
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How often does the moon orbit intersect with sunset?
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Reality check on superhero power
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Blast Waves in a Room: Impact on Standing Behind Large Machine
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Breaking news: Aliens land on Earth. But....
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Gender neutral until 5 years, how could it be?
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Research for Science Fiction Story
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How to destroy a Planet, or 100% of the life forms on it
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Writing: Input Wanted Evil Free Parker: Law & Social Order in a Satirical Sci-Fi Scenario
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Are asteroid collisions as dangerous as they seem?
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Traveling through the Interstellar Medium
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Three Planets I See Large and Small....
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Plasma cannons and other SF weapons
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Quantum entanglement: need ideas for creative writing....
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The Decay Rate of a Hypothetical Antimatter Container
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So I have this idea .... Synthetic mas
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Rare mineral to power dark energizers in a sci-fi story
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Food for thought: What type of alien have you NOT seen ....
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What would an antimatter engine be like?
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Ability to produce an energetic plasma
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My ballistic trajectory on the Moon looks wrong
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Writing: Input Wanted Does a Nuclear Blast Create a Vacuum Effect Toward the Epicenter?
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Planetary tidal locking of Close Binary Red Dwarf Stars
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Help with the physics of a fictional geocentric solar-system
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How Can Electromagnetic Waves Translate into Audio Frequencies?
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Writing: Input Wanted An Alternate to the Siberian Traps
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A Series of Exoplanets in Our Solar System
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Spintropics and Magnetic Acceleration
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How Does Chaos Theory Influence Time Travel Narratives?
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Writing: Input Wanted Eleven Inner Planets--What Will Earth's Ice Ages Be Like?
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How Does Great Lakes Earth's Geography Differ from Our Own?
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How Can I Control Buckyballs Using Electrostatics in My Novel?
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Two of my nonsense short stories
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Writing a Novel....Have a quandry/qustion
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Building a Dyson Sphere around a Class-B Star
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Is there a possibility that time loops exist?
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Still confused about solar flares..
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How can a singularity be used to prevent the formation of the Moon?
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Exploring the Mysteries of Space Warps
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How Can a Comic Character Manipulate Weight and Heal Rapidly?
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Writing: Input Wanted A small SciFi comic loosely based on the sixth day movie
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Inertial Privilege: Reframing Physics for Accelerated Frames
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Help with a new term for gender specific telepathy please
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Earth rotation speed if it was tidal locked to the Sun
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Exploring Different Worlds in Storytelling: Political Systems and Economies
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Gravity Defying Ships Cause Time Dilation and Paradoxes?
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Can advanced species defend against kugelblitzes?
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Deducing planetary properties from its calendar?
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Power Scaling for My Fictional Universe
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Got an astrophysics/ astrodynamics question....
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What if Gravity could be controlled?
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I need a 3D map of the universe out to 400 ly....suggestions?
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Writing: Input Wanted The role of cosmology on a world....
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Amateur author seeking help on attacking ozone layer
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Science question for story I'm writing
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Can high barometric pressure supplement low gravity?
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Divining the God Globe: Uniting to Spread the Words of a Super Jupiter
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Writing: Input Wanted A Magic Compass & Real Magnetism
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Writing: Input Wanted Travel to an Alien Sky: Far in Milky Way?
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Writing: Input Wanted Extraorbital Atmospheric Re-Entry: Terminal Velocity?
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Epidemic on an Asteroid Colony: Medical Crime Story
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How can you negate impact force?
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Writing: Input Wanted Can extreme pain cause paralysis?
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Writing: Input Wanted Is it useful to have 2 stomachs?
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What "woo" would you build into a story?
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What's a good gravity substitute?
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What do you expect from a sci fi novel?
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How far can we go with space drives and the third law?
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Find Total Force of Explosion in Asteroid Mine Shaft
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Backstory Help: Asteroid Collision in California
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Sporadic Thoughts & Ideas: Use or Not, You Decide
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Advice on Quantum Physics for Novel Writing
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Enhancing Human Abilities: Challenges and Possibilities
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How Can Aliens Approach Earth Unnoticed Using NEOs?
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Generation ships v. hibernation ships?
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Writing: Input Wanted How to Get Heart Specific EKG for My Kepler Bb Humanoids
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Essential Castaway Equipment for Endor: Star Wars Universe
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How do we equip our pioneers on new worlds?
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Gravity vs Light: What's the Turning Tide of Battle?
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Why did the FTL Drive fail and strand the aliens?
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Physically plausible explanation for missile based space combat?
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Designing a world based of the four Greek elements
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Time loops, black hole and time dilation.
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