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Can You See the Universe's Future from a Black Hole's Edge?
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Massless particles that can generate forces?
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Graviton Drive: Is this plausible?
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What would happen if the Moon blew up?
  • MoonDestroyer
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Flashover: A hard sci-fi novel I'm working on
  • voodooattack
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I need to build a planet. Care to help?
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Space Opera: Advantages/Disadvantages of Amphibian Pilots
  • Khatti
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Can a Chaotic Three-Body System Save a Planet from Destruction?
  • Athanasius
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Help with orbital mechanics for an unusual alien planet
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Outcome of remaking the superforce ?
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MONIAC Computer Programming Company
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Schrödinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment on Quantum Mechanics
  • tokajak
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Let's make a list of plausible, habitable exomoons/planets
  • Czcibor
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Oxygen atmosphere without ozone layer
  • Czcibor
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Could the Offspring of a Human and Shape Shifter Possess Shifting Abilities?
  • Ancient1mentor
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Part of the starting of my sci-fi stories
  • alteredmind
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Hypothetical Scenario: Planet with Two Moons
  • Captainscar
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Looking for help with a Ring World Model
  • UbiquitousChe
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How Can a Planet Achieve a 2-Year Orbit in a Habitable Zone?
  • Kelzan
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Historical time and place paradox
  • Mr. Speck
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How to interstellar travel in a very hard SF universe
  • CraigDxHypo
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Tech Support needed for Spaceship
  • DHF
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How would Earth's atmosphere change in the absence of life?
  • axemaster
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What size could habitable planets in the Castor system be?
  • StarCreator
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Questions about moons of the solar system
  • GTOM
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Building a City on New Earth: A Couple's Story
  • caters
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How Can a Water Generator Work in a Firefly Serenity Game?
  • Algr
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Close to Light Speed: Exploring a Wormhole Drive Concept
  • fulltime
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Assistance needed with sci fi novel
  • steve77
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Standard Sci-Fi Battles Using Fluid as the Medium?
  • Maroy
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Questions for a Near-Future story
  • Drakkith
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How small population can maintain contemporary technology level
  • Czcibor
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An asteroid is approaching Earth
  • Logan24
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Can a Dilution Refrigerator Be Used as a Murder Weapon in a Crime Novel?
  • WriterMon
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Question regarding negative atomic numbers.
  • daximusprimus
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Is Dark Energy the Candle Burning at Both Ends in Sci-Fi Universes?
  • M. Bachmeier
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Habitable Binary Worlds, and their characteristics
  • Hainted
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Relativistic effects of a low orbit around supermassive objects
  • Sotnas
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Help w/ Wormholes (Neg.Mass & Subatomic particles)
  • HoppinAllDay
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Find a Fatal Disease for 25 Year Olds with Environmental Causes
  • Enigman
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Breaking the Laws of Physics: The Possibilities of Teleportation
  • JamesNeutron
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Humanoids with Segmented Skeletons?
  • Meluxia
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Science fictiony questions about spacetime curvature
  • StarkRG
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Implosion grenades: do they exist?
  • javascripter
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Your choice of least facepalm-able space travel mechanism
  • Korok
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Static moon question for a book
  • soldierftl
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Lasers, robotics, is that only the beginning, or not?
  • GTOM
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Social changes caused by high level of surveilance
  • Czcibor
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What should I name my teenage sci-fi heroine?
  • AMRpro
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Large-Scale Wave Amplification - Is it plausible?
  • Baffle
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Can a Mercury sized moon support an atmosphere?
  • willstaruss22
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Worldbuilding idea - the edge of survivability
  • MartinV
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Earth-like Sun-Synchronous Planet?
  • Bubchubb2
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Can Quantum Foam Really be Used for Data Storage?
  • havasim
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Can long exposure techniques be used to capture detailed images of planets?
  • nosacz666
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Writing a book and I need some facts if you'd be so kind.
  • Badhorsesmare
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What Properties Does Matter Need to Create Wormholes?
  • Vacuity
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What would happen if a character could split atoms with their mind in a novel?
  • Renee'
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Questions about inhabited moons (or at least one)
  • ARBW
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Fossil energy sources on a young Earth-like planet
  • Czcibor
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Nukes on the Moon - visible from Earth?
  • StrayCatalyst
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Exploring the Physics of Epic Space Battles
  • GTOM
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Maths regarding the dimensions of a force field.
  • Kepler20f
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Obstacles for Life in the Degenerate Era
  • tzaharia
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Transitioning from the Stelliferous Era to the Degenerate Era
  • willbell
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Is Eden Chronicles: Time to Wake Up the Start of a New Sci-Fi Epic?
  • Nimbian
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How Can a Superpowered Character Control Their Abilities to Avoid Catastrophe?
  • chasrob
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Could Ballistic Space Probes Revolutionize Space Exploration?
  • fulltime
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What Equipment and Technology is Needed for Negative Energy Research in Fiction?
  • Rafael300
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Rolling a space plane in the absence of gravity
  • dbaezner
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Future Naming Scheme for Planets and Systems in Our Evolving Universe
  • Omega_Prime
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Powerful Telescope Needed to See Moon's Roadway?
  • Ian J.
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N Body Problem (?) - Solar System Complexities
  • Ian J.
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Can a Nuclear Device Ignite Jupiter's Atmosphere?
  • DHF
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Plausible cosmic event that could annihilate the earth
  • proggprod
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Could Humans Survive Falling into Artificial Gravity Wells in Space?
  • saltorio
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Planatary habitation, red dwarfs
  • ISAWHIM
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It flies Writing a superhero story
  • chasrob
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Your assignment: Design a post-apocalyptic communication system
  • CCWilson
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Star mass/luminosity for a given HZ
  • Ian J.
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BB moving at 0.01% the speed of light
  • Afrobot
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A biological weapon which drains moisture from flora and fauna?
  • Niseam
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Request for comments about over-complication when writing sci-fi
  • Rob Benham
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A question on centrifugal artifical gravity
  • grubbyknickers
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RFC: The believability of a sci-fi concept: Gravity is an element of e
  • rrw4rusty
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Is mind communication the key to preventing disaster in time travel?
  • taxi.adam
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Need verification of physics phrase for novel
  • writer
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I need feedback on a story I wrote
  • jaramsli
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Slowing a Rogue Iron Asteroid: Can it Survive 900 Gees of De-Acceleration?
  • chasrob
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Can Evolved State: Dichotomy Capture Your Imagination?
  • EvolvedState
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What Happens If a Craft Travels Through a Wormhole and Collides with a Planet?
  • UUP
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Exploring the Possibilities of Entanglement Communication in Sci-Fi Story
  • jaramsli
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4+ spatial dimensions and how to manage them
  • Khantazm
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Speculative Question about Pure Fusion
  • DavidCd
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SF Writer's Speculative question on Space Combat
  • SFTechhead
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What type of life could appear on this world
  • willstaruss22
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Star-hopping a way home for a superman; astronomers needed
  • chasrob
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How Did the Lumberjanko Use Hollywoodipedia to Solve His Bean Container Dilemma?
  • Drakkith
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Could a moon orbiting a water-giant planet look like earth?
  • Andreameda
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Looking For Help With A SciFi Movie For Accurate Physics
  • dluciano
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