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Can You See the Universe's Future from a Black Hole's Edge?
- adtsang
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Massless particles that can generate forces?
- Karma000
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Graviton Drive: Is this plausible?
- voodooattack
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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?
- Void Heart
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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
- AotrsCommander
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Outcome of remaking the superforce ?
- davidsirmons
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MONIAC Computer Programming Company
- gusty737
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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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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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