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Generation ships v. hibernation ships?
- Noisy Rhysling
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Writing: Input Wanted How to Get Heart Specific EKG for My Kepler Bb Humanoids
- caters
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What essential equipment would castaways need on Endor?
- 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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Big bang inside a wormhole time machine and its gravitational effects
- 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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What would traveling through a supermassive black hole feel like?
- 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 systems, materials and defenses
- Clever Penguin
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Detecting spacecraft at distances of dozens of AU using radar
- Dr Wu
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Transmitting data and power with focused hydrogen atom beams between planets
- Flakes
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Writing: Input Wanted What methods would biologists use to find an immortality gene?
- 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 Generation ship protocols: reproduction, training, and alien oversight
- 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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How would tachyons and exotic matter make the Alcubierre drive work?
- 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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Permanent global blackout scenario for sci-fi story set 200 years hence
- Caitriona
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Stone age to modern age in less than 10,000 years
- caters
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Universal catastrophe detectable at quantum level for sci-fi plot
- ddilamarter
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Writing: Input Wanted T rex pack with a mysterious egg in their nest
- caters
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Designing a galactic standard time system based on rotation
- 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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Building a habitable world in a binary system like Kepler 47
- Pquery
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Can Free Story Snippets Inspire Your Next Novel?
- Noisy Rhysling
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How would alien life evolve differently on other planets?
- 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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Metallic archaea uranium enrichment feasibility in Metal Gear Solid V
- Adraasa Kynuei
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Writing: Input Wanted How should humanoids prepare to morph into large animals?
- caters
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Realistic Space Pirates in Hard SF
- GTOM
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Writing: Input Wanted Would communal nursing work for humanoids with multiple births?
- 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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Magic system based on manipulating the four fundamental forces
- 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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Hard SF tactics for defending a planetary colony from orbital assault
- GTOM
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Symbol representing a singularity for sci-fi writing
- Mark Childerley
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Mining gold and platinum in space by 2100
- Kilo Vectors
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Can entangled particles send information back in time via gravitational waves?
- Slakjak1215
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What are the dangers and jobs of living in the asteroid belt?
- GTOM
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Writing a story with branching timelines from every decision
- 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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How would evolution differ if Earth's axis had no tilt?
- 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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Using atomic weight ratios for alien communication
- Dave Barak
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Time Manipulation/Stopping Time Question
- heatengine516
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Can Earth be thrown into space at escape velocity?
- 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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How would dragon-like humanoids evolve and develop on Kepler Bb?
- caters
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Can Earthquakes Create New Volcanoes?
- caters
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How would deeper oceans affect global climate and currents?
- JohnWDailey
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How do closed timelike curves enable time travel in general relativity?
- 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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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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