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Are asteroid collisions as dangerous as they seem?
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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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Planetary tidal locking of Close Binary Red Dwarf Stars
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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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Building a Dyson Sphere around a Class-B Star
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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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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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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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