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Writing: Input Wanted Spacecraft One Alpha 10: Energy, Materials & Protection
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Space Traffic Control: intercepting signals in space
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Working on the rough draft of a novel, mind if I ask some....
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Writing: Input Wanted The Immortal Gene: Uncovering Biological Immortality
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Writing: Input Wanted The temperature at which flesh burns
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What's kind of damage could this weapon do?
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What would you see traveling faster than light?
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The visuals of a kinetic bombardment
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Doing a project, need some insight to some physics things
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What would a 500-year-old abandoned city on the coast look like?
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Writing: Input Wanted Kepler Db & D#: Binary Planets & Moons
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Writing: Input Wanted Can Humans Survive on a Generation Ship with Alien Protocols and Dinosaur Mates?
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Accuracy of a stellar collision event
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How long would it take to inhabit the universe?
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A rational design for a personnel airlock
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What are good time travel theories to use for Science Fiction?
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Writing: Input Wanted Designing drone army defence for a loosely populated planet
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Radio and other electronic signals in space?
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Wanted: Brainstorming Partner for Permanent Global Blackout
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Stone age to modern age in less than 10,000 years
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Yet another writer in search of a catastrophe
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I need some science fiction help
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Short term irradiation nuclear weapon
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Political and High-Tech Thrillers
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Creating Habitable World Like Keplar 47: Tips & Advice
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Can Free Story Snippets Inspire Your Next Novel?
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What colors and attributes could alien flora & fauna have?
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Tunnel your money and your checks for free?
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Realistic Space Pirates in Hard SF
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Writing: Input Wanted Humanoid 8 Teats: Benefits & Risks Explored
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An acceleration and distance question
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Biological life as hard as iron?
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Advanced devices made with no knowledge
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Is a FTL communicator more plausible than a time machine or a preferred frame?
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Writing: Input Wanted Nuclear Plants -- In the event of a 50% population collapse
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Need help with the 4 fundamental forces of Nature
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Can You Measure Electricity Without Probes?
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What are the hazards of a non-rotating planet?
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Exploring Hard SF Tactics in Space Combat
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Can anyone give me the equation symbol for a singularity please
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Where is the closest, safest route and location to find....
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Time Travel Theory: Exploring Particle Entanglement
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What are the dangers and jobs of living in the asteroid belt?
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Exploring the Possibilities of Parallel Universes: Seeking Help
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Are Fictional Eclipses Limited by Scientific Cycles?
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Fictional star and planet system
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Fiction hypothetical about axial rotations
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Thought Experiment: How would life on Earth have developed if....
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Girl Born with 'Divine Genes' in 2033 Begins Last Month of Fifth Grade
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Story where a scientist definitively proves there is no god
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I have a strange question.... a different way of calculating the atomic weight
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Time Manipulation/Stopping Time Question
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Crazy idea: How to destroy the earth
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Is Kepler Bb's Unique Solar System the Most Complex in the Universe?
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Humanoid Evolution: Dragon-Like Adaptability & Development
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Can Earthquakes Create New Volcanoes?
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Exploring the Impact of Ocean Depths on Global Climate
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Theoretical Time Travel: Explaining the Possibility
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Bigger Planet, Same Gravity -- Different Density?
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Future Professions: What Will We Do in the Automated Economy?
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Altering the Milankovitch Cycles
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Exploring the Ending of 2010: Odyssey Two and Its Mysterious Monoliths
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FTL Communication in an Interstellar Civilization
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Asteroidal Bombardment in Space Warfare
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Tachyons, the Double Slit Experiment, and a bit of Fiction
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Realistic demon physiology and weapons against them
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The Physics of dragon flight possible
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Screenwriter pleading for help....
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(How) would we detect a passing-by relativistic object?
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Decelerating warp drives: How to detect them?
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Need help with a planet....and other questions
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Need a Little Help With Gravity--just hypothetical & theory
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FTL, avoiding time travel issues?
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A fun thought experiment: the science of electric superpowers
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The correct usage of self driving cars in SF
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Multiverse & Time Machine Physics
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How can the lift produced by animal wings be calculated?
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Anthropomorfic Fundamental Forces
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Parallel computing, AIs and the cloud
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Radioactive Decay: Alien Element Unstable Isotope
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Creating Time Machines for Advanced Civilizations: A Plot Device for Writers
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