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A dark matter creature discovers an alien spacecraft
- Noisy Rhysling
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Writing: Input Wanted How can a speedster compress time in a localized region of space?
- Brilligtove
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Watching sports through a Neuralink in my sci-fi story
- GTOM
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Returning from Geo-stationery Orbit
- Chatterton
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What happens to rock disintegrated by a weapon in a cave?
- Noisy Rhysling
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Super-Earths around binary dwarf stars
- RyderP
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Need a fact check on the end of the world
- DHF
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Earth's climate in 100-200 years
- GTOM
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Living on the far side of a tide-locked moon
- Chatterton
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Can a Single-Stage Spacecraft Exit Earth's Atmosphere?
- LaurelAnnyse
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Could an Outsider Understand the Physics of Basketball?
- Chatterton
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Could this [fantasy] planet be scientifically possible?
- Oliva
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Figuring out which stars an exoplanet's poles point to
- Chatterton
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Industrial revolution before the Iron Age?
- GTOM
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Writing: Input Wanted Design of large rotating asteroid interior space
- mikin8tor
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How would lower oxygen affect the greenhouse effect?
- Ettina
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How Might an Alien Species Use Codeine in Their Biochemistry?
- Ettina
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Writing: Input Wanted Baby care customs right after labor, Reasonable?
- caters
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Equation for plasma wave/light speed travel?
- Scott_10438
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What should I look into for this project?
- JeffCyr
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Writing: Input Wanted Heat and friction from decelerating everything around a moving character
- AidenFlamel
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Effects of high voltage & current on a large volume of water
- Eric Willems
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Hijacking a John Varley misdirection
- Noisy Rhysling
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What Pet Would You Choose for Space Travel?
- Noisy Rhysling
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How to portray counterfactual quantum communication in a sci-fi story
- GTOM
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Writing: Input Wanted An overheating energy source (for a sci-fi story)?
- dbaezner
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How often does the moon orbit intersect with sunset?
- Chracatoa
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Reality check on superhero power
- chasrob
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Blast Waves in a Room: Impact on Standing Behind Large Machine
- GTOM
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Aliens land on Earth on April Fools' Day
- Noisy Rhysling
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Gender neutral until 5 years, how could it be?
- caters
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Research for Science Fiction Story
- Bradley Morrison
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How to destroy a Planet, or 100% of the life forms on it
- frostysh
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Writing: Input Wanted Evil Free Parker: Law & Social Order in a Satirical Sci-Fi Scenario
- Algr
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Are asteroid collisions as dangerous as they seem?
- caters
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Traveling through the Interstellar Medium
- Dr Wu
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Can three planets be arranged so only two pairs see each other?
- Kumustaka
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Plasma cannons and other SF weapons
- GTOM
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FTL communication via quantum entanglement for sci-fi story
- Aaron1947
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The Decay Rate of a Hypothetical Antimatter Container
- iHaveQuestions88
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Microwave-heated plasma particle accelerator for interstellar propulsion
- Andy SV
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Rare mineral to power dark energizers in a sci-fi story
- dbaezner
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What type of alien haven't you seen in sci-fi stories?
- Noisy Rhysling
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What would an antimatter engine be like?
- jostpuur
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Ability to produce an energetic plasma
- SciFiWriterGuy
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My ballistic trajectory on the Moon looks wrong
- stationheister
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Writing: Input Wanted Does a Nuclear Blast Create a Vacuum Effect Toward the Epicenter?
- Slim Pickens
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Planetary tidal locking of Close Binary Red Dwarf Stars
- Althistorybuff
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Force needed to hold a star in a 25-hour circular path around a planet
- TopQuark_
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How Can Electromagnetic Waves Translate into Audio Frequencies?
- The Echo
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Writing: Input Wanted An Alternate to the Siberian Traps
- JohnWDailey
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A Series of Exoplanets in Our Solar System
- JohnWDailey
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Spintropics and Magnetic Acceleration
- VNV
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How Does Chaos Theory Influence Time Travel Narratives?
- Justice Hunter
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Writing: Input Wanted Eleven Inner Planets--What Will Earth's Ice Ages Be Like?
- JohnWDailey
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How Does Great Lakes Earth's Geography Differ from Our Own?
- JohnWDailey
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How Can I Control Buckyballs Using Electrostatics in My Novel?
- Hoverdasher
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Two of my nonsense short stories
- unwillingly ignorant
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Does a massless ship retain inertia in a mass cancellation field?
- Jeffdawgfan
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Building a Dyson Sphere around a Class-B Star
- Khatti
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Is there a possibility that time loops exist?
- Kevin Anderson
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Can X-ray radiation from solar flares kill astronauts without warning?
- Dr Wu
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How can a singularity be used to prevent the formation of the Moon?
- Noisy Rhysling
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Exploring the Mysteries of Space Warps
- schonovic
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How Can a Comic Character Manipulate Weight and Heal Rapidly?
- BJ420
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Writing: Input Wanted A small SciFi comic loosely based on the sixth day movie
- farolero
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What if physics were formulated from an accelerated reference frame?
- Ontophobe
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Terminology for cross-gender telepathy ability
- Noisy Rhysling
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Earth rotation speed if it was tidal locked to the Sun
- MKP81
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Making fictional economies consistent with political systems
- GTOM
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Gravity Defying Ships Cause Time Dilation and Paradoxes?
- Ghost117
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Can advanced species defend against kugelblitzes?
- newjerseyrunner
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Deducing planetary properties from its calendar?
- Spiralbound
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Power Scaling for My Fictional Universe
- BriniaSona
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Life-bearing Jupiter-sized world with 1g and 24-hour days
- Oracle1
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What if Gravity could be controlled?
- MittyWalter
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3D map of the universe to 400 light-years for sci-fi route planning
- rrw4rusty
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Writing: Input Wanted How would a larger star affect a habitable world's sky and orbital period?
- Tesagk
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Using UV beams to destroy ozone in a sci-fi story
- beethelzarb
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Science question for story I'm writing
- High Priest of Sol
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Can high barometric pressure supplement low gravity?
- Gary0509
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Divining the God Globe: Uniting to Spread the Words of a Super Jupiter
- Noisy Rhysling
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Writing: Input Wanted How to make a compass needle spin endlessly using magnetism
- scifiwriter888
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Writing: Input Wanted How far into the Milky Way before familiar stars vanish from the sky?
- G.K. Masterson
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Writing: Input Wanted Terminal velocity for armored soldiers re-entering from orbit
- VNV
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Medical crime story on an asteroid with engineered bacteria from Mars
- GTOM
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How can you negate impact force?
- VNV
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Writing: Input Wanted Can extreme pain cause paralysis?
- caters
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Writing: Input Wanted Is it useful to have 2 stomachs?
- caters
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What "woo" would you build into a story?
- Noisy Rhysling
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What's a good gravity substitute?
- Noisy Rhysling
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What do you expect from a sci fi novel?
- Docscientist
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How far can we go with space drives and the third law?
- Lothlorien
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Find Total Force of Explosion in Asteroid Mine Shaft
- Tris Fray Potter
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Asteroid impact crater size for California destruction event
- Author_X
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Story ideas you're free to use or adapt
- Noisy Rhysling
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Advice on Quantum Physics for Novel Writing
- Boltar
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Enhancing Human Abilities: Challenges and Possibilities
- GTOM
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How Can Aliens Approach Earth Unnoticed Using NEOs?
- Noisy Rhysling
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Generation ships v. hibernation ships?
- Noisy Rhysling
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