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Writing: Input Wanted Metal-rich moonlets / asteroids of lone Brown Dwarf sub-stars?
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Writing: Input Wanted Would humanoid strength be comparable to elephant strength?
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The destructive force of a 1,000kg boulder hurled by a catapult
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Two of my nonsense short stories
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What Happens If a Craft Travels Through a Wormhole and Collides with a Planet?
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Exploring the Possibilities of a Martian Prison Break During a Solar Storm
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The real 2020 as a 1980s science fiction story?
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Gender neutral until 5 years, how could it be?
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What is the Best Choice for Evacuating a Civilization on Kepler Bb?
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Writer looking for help in space
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Find Total Force of Explosion in Asteroid Mine Shaft
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Lasers, robotics, is that only the beginning, or not?
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Description of a nuclear EMP event
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Fiction hypothetical about axial rotations
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Unraveling the Mystery of Harry Stephen Keeler's Webwork Plots
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Implications of communication through quantum entanglement
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Boron on extrasolar rocky planets?
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Writing: Input Wanted World destroying solar storm/binary orbit
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Writing: Input Wanted USS Enterprise Hit by Ancient Interstellar Probe - Investigation Report
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Clocks On a Hyperdimensional Planet
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How Might an Alien Species Use Codeine in Their Biochemistry?
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Trying to make a rigorous imaginary world
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Is there a more elegant way to express eg 14% (Base_10) in Octal?
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Designing a world based of the four Greek elements
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Relativity question for Hard SciFi writing
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Speculative Question about Pure Fusion
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Superman Protagonist: Skinsuit Capability Up to 4,000mph
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Writing a book and I need some facts if you'd be so kind.
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Decelerating warp drives: How to detect them?
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Future Naming Scheme for Planets and Systems in Our Evolving Universe
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Where is the closest, safest route and location to find....
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Physics-Friendly Super-Speedster
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A rational design for a personnel airlock
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Can Sci-Fi Writers Use Real Science to Enhance Their Stories?
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Could 2-D & 3-D & 4-D atoms interact?
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Writing: Input Wanted Using a "disintegrator" to make square corners?
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My inspirational epic -- Enjoy, correct and criticize to your heart's content
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Gravity vs Light: What's the Turning Tide of Battle?
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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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Need a Little Help With Gravity--just hypothetical & theory
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Supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud?
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How do the Mobius and Klein models illuminate string theory?
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Writing: Input Wanted Scientific use of Chi/Qi/not so espiritual energy
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How would Earth's atmosphere change in the absence of life?
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What Fictional Alien Concepts interest You the Most?
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Technological mastery of fundamental forces
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Writing: Input Wanted A Magic Compass & Real Magnetism
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How long does something exist at relativistic speeds?
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Complex Genetics: 15 Possible Alleles for Height Priority
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Equation for plasma wave/light speed travel?
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Writing: Input Wanted Does this sound like a rip off of Halo?
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What's kind of damage could this weapon do?
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Information transfer in space - with book research
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Writing: Input Wanted Exploring Morphing Powers in Kepler Bb: Wilderness Survival Grade
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3D space interface to other dimensions
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Could Humans Survive Falling into Artificially Generated Gravity Wells in Space?
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What would be the implications of a pseudoscientific 5th fundamental force?
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Could an Exomoon Survive Permenant Shade from a Gas Giant?
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How would Earth look like without life in 1000 years?
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Writing: Input Wanted Future travel with the tachyon field
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Writing: Input Wanted Evil Free Parker: Law & Social Order in a Satirical Sci-Fi Scenario
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Writing: Input Wanted Mostly Underground City Stage 1: All on Foot
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What Biomechanical Insights Can Alien Polysaccharides Offer?
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What are the potential uses and properties of gravitons in quantum theory?
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Eye of Moon: Planet Orbiting a Double Star
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Writing: Input Wanted Kepler Db & D#: Binary Planets & Moons
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Writing: Input Wanted Humanoid 8 Teats: Benefits & Risks Explored
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Community SciFi writing project proposal
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Could an Outsider Understand the Physics of Basketball?
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What are the different types of knives and swords in a 4D Euclidean universe?
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Help wih relativity formula?
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Enhancing Human Abilities: Challenges and Possibilities
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A question about a uranium enricher plot device in a game
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Everyone Gets New Abilities Overnight.... What Changes?
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Deducing planetary properties from its calendar?
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Writer looking for help regarding death prediction
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Ukrainian writer in need of your knowledge
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Trouble with fluid thermodynamics and nuclear thermal rockets
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Music School Draft: Competing for a Spot in the Top 16 Universities
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Physics Lecture for a screenplay
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RFC: The believability of a sci-fi concept: Gravity is an element of e
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Can a humanoid alien race have combustible blood?
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Is Reflective Fiction a Potential Problem for Starships at High Speeds?
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Centaur Mass for Jupiter's 4th Lagrange Point
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Humanoids with Segmented Skeletons?
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My ballistic trajectory on the Moon looks wrong
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How Bright Must an Asteroid Be to Catch an Amateur Astronomer's Eye?
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Amateur author seeking help on attacking ozone layer
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Writing: Input Wanted Paul Goznac the Ornithological Statistician
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An asteroid is approaching Earth
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Question about the radiation around Neutron Stars or Pulsars
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The Aesthetics of impossible or unreal physical phenomena
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Writing: Input Wanted How to model Eccentricity, Obliquity and Recession in Excel
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Writing: Input Wanted Spacecraft One Alpha 10: Energy, Materials & Protection
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How Can a Comic Character Manipulate Weight and Heal Rapidly?
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Writing: Input Wanted Alien chiral chemistry
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Atmospheric Heating from Meteorite Impact
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Elasticity and light speed vibrations
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How long would it take for an interstellar spaceship to reach Alpha Centauri?
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Future Professions: What Will We Do in the Automated Economy?
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