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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
  • Ryuu
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FTL, avoiding time travel issues?
  • justsomeguy
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A fun thought experiment: the science of electric superpowers
  • choopie
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The correct usage of self driving cars in SF
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Multiverse & Time Machine Physics
  • Vitaly Verlov
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The Darth Vader/Dr. Doom Builder Book List
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Can some bright spark help me? Colour of Light vs Time
  • AlanMC
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How can the lift produced by animal wings be calculated?
  • Necronox
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Anthropomorfic Fundamental Forces
  • BalcaenDimitri
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What is the role of realistic physics in military science fiction writing?
  • Kyuuketsuki
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Parallel computing, AIs and the cloud
  • Czcibor
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Radioactive Decay: Alien Element Unstable Isotope
  • Ogi
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Creating Time Machines for Advanced Civilizations: A Plot Device for Writers
  • Artribution
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Klown Kar Planet: Last Days Before Tidal Lock
  • DET
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Help With Time-Travel Short Story
  • skujesco2014
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Need help with astronomy details in a book.
  • DHF
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Consequences of denser atmosphere on Earth-like planet
  • Czcibor
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Looking for assistance on writing project
  • UKDisasters
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Properties of X Element for Sci-Fi Story Writing
  • Ogi
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Stealthy Orbital Re-Entry for Combined Arms Warfare
  • johnandersoni
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Ship to ship combat with an unknown invader
  • novaprime
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Sweet Spots in Gravity Wells for the purposes of fiction
  • Grarr McGrarr
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Transmission rate of grey goo across the universe
  • newjerseyrunner
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Underground biosphere, what can be the possibilities?
  • GTOM
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What animals are good example of natural enemy in PA setting
  • Graw
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What Political System Best Suits a Rebuilding Society on a Distant Planet?
  • Czcibor
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Universe Building: Exploring Ideas & Questions
  • Durakken
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Future time measurement units for a tidal locked exoplanet
  • Czcibor
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How long would it take to travel to Eris?
  • Karl Coryat
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What Is the Correct Term for an Astronomy Lab Without Its Own Telescopes?
  • DHF
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Need help figuring out a possible fusion engine
  • DHF
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Help for Screenwriter on Stan Lee project
  • Neil B
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A realistic mine turned in to an underground city
  • Czcibor
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Writing Sci-Fi Story: Creating an Alien World - Help Needed
  • Ogi
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Crime Story Help: Frozen Blood Dagger?
  • Sciolet
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What is good time for Earth to begin new evolutionary cycle?
  • Graw
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Total security communication system
  • Czcibor
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How would Earth look like without life in 1000 years?
  • Graw
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Need assistance with orbital dynamics questions
  • Kkelloww
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The longevity of man-made objects and structures
  • leroyjenkens
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What could you tell me about this planet?
  • cbrons
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Properties of a fictional super element/metal
  • cbrons
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Help with a novel: uses of a time gradient?
  • Zmunk
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Can closed wing aircraft take off as hydrofoil
  • Czcibor
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Speed, acceleration, distance, time question
  • texasman1979
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Is this idea remotely possible in the distant future?
  • Zeedr
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Logistics of Lasers as Weapons in SF
  • Hello_Jack
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How to change the earth's atmosphere to chlorine based?
  • scifiwriter88
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World-building for fantasy story
  • UKDisasters
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Planet w/ various atmospheres/colors/suns?
  • petey0707
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Feasibility of hiding a colony within NGC 6543.
  • krsnik
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How can we protect against laser weapons in future warfare?
  • Khashishi
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Exploring Energy Shields in Star Wars Fiction
  • dontbearrogant
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Could Genetics Enable a World Where Only Women Reproduce?
  • jk22
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We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....
  • jimmylegss
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Habitable zone for binary star systems
  • dbaezner
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The Bible -- no, the other one....
  • Jeff Rosenbury
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Complex Genetics: 15 Possible Alleles for Height Priority
  • caters
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Weakness of Death Star: A Space Opera Scenario
  • GTOM
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Breaking through Kain, the legacy of Kain vampire
  • Physics quest
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Ground effect for blended wing body turboprop planes
  • Czcibor
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Best planetary composition for flight
  • slarty
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The Aesthetics of impossible or unreal physical phenomena
  • Riccardo Lardi
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Telescope probes and warp track
  • Durakken
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How to quickly survey an exoplanet before colonization?
  • Czcibor
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Realistic help for a fictional plan?
  • Durakken
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Can Magnetic Beams Enable Faster Space Travel?
  • caesartherome
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Physics-Friendly Super-Speedster
  • The Great Hippo
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Can Aliens Perceive Time as a Dimension?
  • hatfair
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Writing fiction, steam power, hydrogen internal combustion engine
  • lesah
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I want to pour a Sol sized bucked of water on the sun
  • evictor480
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Overpowered technology and Murphy's law
  • BluePepper
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Advice needed about rocket performances
  • Dr Wu
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Killing Earth with a cosmic flashlight
  • AmoebaMan
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Designing a Fantasy World - physics advice needed
  • CordaHed
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Dense exoplanet atmosphere, choice zeppelin vs. plane
  • Czcibor
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Girl Hit Wall with 110 lbs Force After "Falling" Sideways
  • Jenifer
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Concept Design/Comic Project Help
  • Duckwagon
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Could You Avoid Objects Traveling at Near Speed of Light?
  • bballwaterboy
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Is Reflective Fiction a Potential Problem for Starships at High Speeds?
  • dbmorpher
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Planet with dense neon atmosphere and streams of CO2
  • Czcibor
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Could an Exomoon Survive Permenant Shade from a Gas Giant?
  • thursdaypostal
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Split someone into Subatomic Particles?
  • Mynameiscommon
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Can a Dragon Direct Lightning If It Can't Create an Opposite Charge?
  • RJ Ashby
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Does a Jerrycan Full of Oil Float or Sink?
  • Pidah Kloos
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Magnetosphere and space dust problems
  • AotrsCommander
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Designing Spacecraft for Hard SF Battles & Piracy
  • GTOM
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Interstellar Travel: Exploring Nearby Stars with Advanced Technology
  • Chinspinner
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Dyson slingshot & Neutron stars
  • Iulian Ionescu
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How to get really deep depresion on an exoplanet?
  • Czcibor
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Ocean in the Sky: Exploring a Hypothetical Scenario
  • Bruno Carbone
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Brand New Elements in the Same Old Universe
  • Khatti
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Properties of a supernatural element?
  • cbrons
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A Space Ship with 3 main power sources
  • Tony Montana
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Physically plausible explanation for artificial supernova
  • Prospero1
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Theoretically, how much energy would it take for a wormhole
  • The Un-Observer
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Can black hole be used in hardish science story?
  • Czcibor
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Designing an environment inside the ice crust of an exomoon
  • B-McKinley
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