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Essential Castaway Equipment for Endor: Star Wars Universe
  • Noisy Rhysling
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How do we equip our pioneers on new worlds?
  • Noisy Rhysling
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Gravity vs Light: What's the Turning Tide of Battle?
  • BalcaenDimitri
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Why did the FTL Drive fail and strand the aliens?
  • Claude DeBris
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Physically plausible explanation for missile based space combat?
  • GTOM
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Designing a world based of the four Greek elements
  • Djambo Hayward
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Time loops, black hole and time dilation.
  • AlgoJerViA
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Strangest hypothetical objects in space?
  • Nerophysics
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Methods of leaving Earth in the distant future
  • leroyjenkens
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Is this description of a black hole accurate?
  • Nerophysics
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What happens if you sail through gravity waves?
  • Nerophysics
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Do Mars' Lagrange Points Exist Near Phobos and Deimos?
  • Dr Wu
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Objections to Previous Time Traveler's Conventions Needed
  • whitsona
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Drawing dark energy from space as a power source
  • dbaezner
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How to Calculate Peak Speed and Time Dilation for a Relativistic Spacecraft?
  • MelissaBlaze
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Writing: Input Wanted Spacecraft One Alpha 10: Energy, Materials & Protection
  • Clever Penguin
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Space Traffic Control: intercepting signals in space
  • Dr Wu
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Working on the rough draft of a novel, mind if I ask some....
  • Flakes
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Writing: Input Wanted The Immortal Gene: Uncovering Biological Immortality
  • Clever Penguin
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Writing: Input Wanted The temperature at which flesh burns
  • striogi
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Writing: Input Wanted What would it take to crawl out of a black hole?
  • MichaelLujan
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What's kind of damage could this weapon do?
  • newjerseyrunner
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What would you see traveling faster than light?
  • newjerseyrunner
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Time dilation/difference between 2 planets
  • KiltedNinja
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Would an Earth with two moons the size of Luna work?
  • Noisy Rhysling
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The visuals of a kinetic bombardment
  • Sugarteeth
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The Internal Consistency of Collapsing Realities
  • CuriousMeow
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Doing a project, need some insight to some physics things
  • Jiku Araiguma
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What would a 500-year-old abandoned city on the coast look like?
  • Liam A
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Writing: Input Wanted Kepler Db & D#: Binary Planets & Moons
  • caters
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Writing: Input Wanted Feasibility check for double planet system
  • AotrsCommander
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Writing: Input Wanted Can Humans Survive on a Generation Ship with Alien Protocols and Dinosaur Mates?
  • caters
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Accuracy of a stellar collision event
  • newjerseyrunner
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How long would it take to inhabit the universe?
  • Jonathynblythe
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Exploring the Alcubierre Drive: Tachyons & Exotic Matter
  • Travis Fleming
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What background would a time machine inventor need?
  • calikazam
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Unconventional Strategies for Defeating a Robotic Army in Urban Warfare
  • GTOM
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A rational design for a personnel airlock
  • Noisy Rhysling
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What are good time travel theories to use for Science Fiction?
  • scy
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Writing: Input Wanted Designing drone army defence for a loosely populated planet
  • Czcibor
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Radio and other electronic signals in space?
  • striogi
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Writing: Input Wanted Designing a space ship and with the dust shield
  • DHF
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Wanted: Brainstorming Partner for Permanent Global Blackout
  • Caitriona
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Stone age to modern age in less than 10,000 years
  • caters
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Yet another writer in search of a catastrophe
  • ddilamarter
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Writing: Input Wanted T rex pack with a mysterious egg in their nest
  • caters
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I need some science fiction help
  • DCR
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Short term irradiation nuclear weapon
  • be082
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Speculative; map of Lakes region w/ much higher water levels
  • JQP
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Fusion of human brain and nanobots, what can be its hardness level?
  • GTOM
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Political and High-Tech Thrillers
  • Khatti
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Creating Habitable World Like Keplar 47: Tips & Advice
  • Pquery
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Can Free Story Snippets Inspire Your Next Novel?
  • Noisy Rhysling
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What colors and attributes could alien flora & fauna have?
  • Rickswan
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Is Dwarf Planet Eris Potentially Habitable?
  • Katherine Sherman
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Tunnel your money and your checks for free?
  • Eidetiken
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A question about a uranium enricher plot device in a game
  • Adraasa Kynuei
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Writing: Input Wanted Exploring Morphing Powers in Kepler Bb: Wilderness Survival Grade
  • caters
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Realistic Space Pirates in Hard SF
  • GTOM
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Writing: Input Wanted Humanoid 8 Teats: Benefits & Risks Explored
  • caters
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An acceleration and distance question
  • Gardenman
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Biological life as hard as iron?
  • Kepler20f
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Advanced devices made with no knowledge
  • Martin0001
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Is a FTL communicator more plausible than a time machine or a preferred frame?
  • wolram
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Writing: Input Wanted Nuclear Plants -- In the event of a 50% population collapse
  • G.K. Masterson
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Need help with the 4 fundamental forces of Nature
  • nx74205
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Can You Measure Electricity Without Probes?
  • 3301
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What are the hazards of a non-rotating planet?
  • BilboBombadillo
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Exploring Hard SF Tactics in Space Combat
  • GTOM
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Can anyone give me the equation symbol for a singularity please
  • Mark Childerley
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Where is the closest, safest route and location to find....
  • Kilo Vectors
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Time Travel Theory: Exploring Particle Entanglement
  • Slakjak1215
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What are the dangers and jobs of living in the asteroid belt?
  • GTOM
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Exploring the Possibilities of Parallel Universes: Seeking Help
  • daniel valern
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Are Fictional Eclipses Limited by Scientific Cycles?
  • Lapsangtea
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Fictional star and planet system
  • Suprihen
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Fiction hypothetical about axial rotations
  • Lapsangtea
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Thought Experiment: How would life on Earth have developed if....
  • Dan Allred
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Girl Born with 'Divine Genes' in 2033 Begins Last Month of Fifth Grade
  • Jenab2
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Story where a scientist definitively proves there is no god
  • Khatti
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I have a strange question.... a different way of calculating the atomic weight
  • Dave Barak
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Time Manipulation/Stopping Time Question
  • heatengine516
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Crazy idea: How to destroy the earth
  • vin300
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What is the Best Choice for Evacuating a Civilization on Kepler Bb?
  • caters
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Is Kepler Bb's Unique Solar System the Most Complex in the Universe?
  • caters
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Humanoid Evolution: Dragon-Like Adaptability & Development
  • caters
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Can Earthquakes Create New Volcanoes?
  • caters
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Exploring the Impact of Ocean Depths on Global Climate
  • JohnWDailey
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Theoretical Time Travel: Explaining the Possibility
  • novella
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Bigger Planet, Same Gravity -- Different Density?
  • scifiwriter888
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Future Professions: What Will We Do in the Automated Economy?
  • GTOM
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Altering the Milankovitch Cycles
  • JohnWDailey
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Exploring the Ending of 2010: Odyssey Two and Its Mysterious Monoliths
  • DHF
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FTL Communication in an Interstellar Civilization
  • greswd
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Asteroidal Bombardment in Space Warfare
  • schonovic
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Tachyons, the Double Slit Experiment, and a bit of Fiction
  • StephenCutter
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Realistic demon physiology and weapons against them
  • Rickswan
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The Physics of dragon flight possible
  • Silvershade
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Screenwriter pleading for help....
  • tdimes
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(How) would we detect a passing-by relativistic object?
  • xpell
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