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Exploring Different Worlds in Storytelling: Political Systems and Economies
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Living on the far side of a tide-locked moon
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Fossil energy sources on a young Earth-like planet
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What would a 500-year-old abandoned city on the coast look like?
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At what speed can a person jump in zero g?
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What types of illness would be allowed on a generation ship and why?
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What will the post-technological world look like for humanity?
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Can increasing the speed of light lead to more efficient photon rockets?
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Epidemic on an Asteroid Colony: Medical Crime Story
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Fastest Nonmanned Spacecraft Possible?
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A Question: A novel set in the future
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Superman Protagonist: Skinsuit Capability Up to 4,000mph
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Exploring the Alcubierre Drive: Tachyons & Exotic Matter
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I need to prove a superhero.
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How Hyperspace Time Variances Could Affect Commerce
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What would you see traveling faster than light?
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Can an Anti-Matter Blade Cut Through Anything?
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Planet w/ various atmospheres/colors/suns?
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Is Kindle X-ray Worth the Extra Work for Authors and Readers?
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What is the role of realistic physics in military science fiction writing?
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(How) would we detect a passing-by relativistic object?
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Gravity Defying Ships Cause Time Dilation and Paradoxes?
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Writing: Input Wanted Superhero powers from manipulation of spacetime & mass
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The Effect Of Biological Immortality On Technology And Society
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Maths regarding the dimensions of a force field.
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Docking spaceships to ring habitats
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Wood as a precious resource on spaceships
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What should I look into for this project?
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Writing: Input Wanted T rex pack with a mysterious egg in their nest
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Gravity vs Light: What's the Turning Tide of Battle?
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Crime Story Help: Frozen Blood Dagger?
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Theoretical Time Travel: Explaining the Possibility
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Overpowered technology and Murphy's law
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A realistic mine turned in to an underground city
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A Series of Exoplanets in Our Solar System
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Time Travel Theory: Exploring Particle Entanglement
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Exploring Transhumanism Through Sports: Neuralink Experiences
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What Would A World With Life and Vinegar Oceans Be Like?
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Is a FTL Drive with a Preferred Frame Enough to Resolve Temporal Paradoxes?
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Writing: Input Wanted How can a wormhole be relocated and what would happen to objects near it?
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Rare mineral to power dark energizers in a sci-fi story
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A theoretical flotation device using a vacuum (for a novel)
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How Fast Could a Saturn 5 Rocket Travel in Outer Space with FTL Mechanics?
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Writing: Input Wanted Scientific use of Chi/Qi/not so espiritual energy
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If you are moving in a ship at FTL, could a pilot react at FTL?
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Surviving a Solar Storm: The Challenges of Monitoring Earth from Mars
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Exploring the Impact of Ocean Depths on Global Climate
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Is Venus the key to economic success in our solar system?
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Is this description of a black hole accurate?
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Outcome of remaking the superforce ?
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What are the dangers and jobs of living in the asteroid belt?
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What happens if you sail through gravity waves?
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Does a Jerrycan Full of Oil Float or Sink?
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How much would a quantum computing network rely on power?
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Design Alien Skeleton w/ Copper, Calcium & Element: Tip?
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What's Worth Fighting For And The Logical Conclusion Of All Conflict
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Realistic help for a fictional plan?
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How would one publish a non-mathematical theory?
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Help requested on long-term habitable-zone stars
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Accuracy of a stellar collision event
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Non-mushroom-cloud hydrodynamics
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Constructing an underground cave
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The interior design of the central trunk of a ring spaceship
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Writing: Input Wanted What is the fastest route to Earth 180
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Would an Earth with two moons the size of Luna work?
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Creating Time Machines for Advanced Civilizations: A Plot Device for Writers
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Writing: Input Wanted Can extreme pain cause paralysis?
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How could you see an image without photons? (imaging systems)
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Writing: Input Wanted Is Using Jedi in My Sci-Fi Book Title Legal?
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Relativity's role in forbidding FTL Information Transfer
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Too Much Stellar Flux: Fixing a 25-year old Problem
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Is this idea remotely possible in the distant future?
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Is a Self-Building 'Seed' Ship the Future of Space Travel?
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Crazy idea: How to destroy the earth
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Objections to Previous Time Traveler's Conventions Needed
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Sweet Spots in Gravity Wells for the purposes of fiction
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How Can Science and Physics Contain Fusion Ignition?
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What happens if I speed up an Apollo group asteroid?
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I'm a private spacefarer in the year 2050. What physics do I need to know?
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Equator of a Planet with Four Spatial Dimensions is a 4D Torus
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Writing: Input Wanted What Makes Great Lakes Earth So Geographically Unique?
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Could Localised Variations in Physics Occur?
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Can a Moon-Sized Spinning Sphere Create Livable Artificial Gravity?
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What's kind of damage could this weapon do?
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Need help crafting a cataclysm (for SF novel)
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Equation for plasma wave/light speed travel?
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How Does Chaos Theory Influence Time Travel Narratives?
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Information transfer in space - with book research
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Spintropics and Magnetic Acceleration
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Need a fact check on the end of the world
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Number of Decks on a Rotating Habitat
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Can Free Story Snippets Inspire Your Next Novel?
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The real 2020 as a 1980s science fiction story?
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Writing: Input Wanted Can Humans Birth Technologically Enhanced Offspring Naturally?
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Writing: Input Wanted Any food-stuffs good for decades with totally non-metallic packaging?
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Why did the FTL Drive fail and strand the aliens?
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How to get really deep depresion on an exoplanet?
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Question about the radiation around Neutron Stars or Pulsars
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I have a strange question.... a different way of calculating the atomic weight
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Quantum Communications: Emergency Calls & Mars-Earth Connectivity
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