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Writing: Input Wanted A 'failed' Runaway Moist Greenhouse: Need help to model...
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Writing: Input Wanted Metal-rich moonlets / asteroids of lone Brown Dwarf sub-stars?
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Writing: Input Wanted Can a Gamma-Ray Burst Affect Communication Devices?
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Writing: Input Wanted Turning an interstellar ship around before reaching coasting speed?
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Writing: Input Wanted Distance between the star systems Sirius and Alpha Centauri?
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Writing: Input Wanted Civilians in Space vs. Professionalism and Military Decorum
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Writing: Input Wanted Postulating Life on Jupiter's moon Europa
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Writing: Input Wanted Future weapons that are portable....and destructive
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Writing: Input Wanted Does this sound like a rip off of Halo?
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Writing: Input Wanted Black holes as weapons - easy way to calculate the evaporation blast
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Writing: Input Wanted A dangerous space mission that requires a lot of helping hands
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Writing: Input Wanted Generation Ship SFV Exodus: Revised Designs
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Writing: Input Wanted Captain's choices on colony ships
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Writing: Input Wanted Are Clone Ships a Better Alternative for Space Colonization?
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Writing: Input Wanted Building a Generation Ship: The SFV Exodus
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Writing: Input Wanted Different Cosmic Disasters for Different Plot Points
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Writing: Input Wanted Help needed comparing planetary "calendars"
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Writing: Input Wanted USS Enterprise Hit by Ancient Interstellar Probe - Investigation Report
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Writing: Input Wanted Best material for heat exchanger on a space ship
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Writing: Input Wanted Cliffhangers in Fiction: Do Readers Prefer Hard or Soft Endings?
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Writing: Input Wanted How to model Eccentricity, Obliquity and Recession in Excel
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Writing: Input Wanted What is the concept of 'residual self image' in The Matrix?
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Writing: Input Wanted How to keep from being overrun with liches
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Writing: Input Wanted Building a Sci-Fi Fantasy Solar System & Planet
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Writing: Input Wanted What are the Consequences of a Longer PETM?
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Writing: Input Wanted Any food-stuffs good for decades with totally non-metallic packaging?
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Writing: Input Wanted Looking for Insight into an Obscure Type of Military Laser
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Writing: Input Wanted Is Using Jedi in My Sci-Fi Book Title Legal?
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Writing: Input Wanted Questions about Rovers: Get Answers from NASA Scientists
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Writing: Input Wanted SciFi story about making all encryptions obsolete and other dilemmas
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Writing: Input Wanted Blood Moon (Concept): Discovering Ferron & Terrelectra
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Writing: Input Wanted Ability to influence quantum probability
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Writing: Input Wanted How Close Can Spaceships Safely Approach Black Holes?
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Writing: Input Wanted Electrified Water: Feasibility and Applications
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Writing: Input Wanted World destroying solar storm/binary orbit
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Writing: Input Wanted Black holes here, white holes "on the other side"....
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Writing: Input Wanted Duration: flights to L-4 point, and 90 degrees Earth orbit
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Writing: Input Wanted Lunar Orbital Rings: Calculating Height and Rotation for Earth-like Gravity
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Writing: Input Wanted What is the fastest route to Earth 180
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Writing: Input Wanted Scientific use of Chi/Qi/not so espiritual energy
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Writing: Input Wanted Submerged Structures in an Ocean World
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Writing: Input Wanted Would humanoid strength be comparable to elephant strength?
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Writing: Input Wanted What Makes Great Lakes Earth So Geographically Unique?
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Writing: Input Wanted Alternative energy sources? How about photons?
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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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Writing: Input Wanted Mostly Underground City Stage 1: All on Foot
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Writing: Input Wanted Baby care customs right after labor, Reasonable?
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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 Longitudinal Waves: Do Devices Use AM or FM?
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Writing: Input Wanted Can Humans Birth Technologically Enhanced Offspring Naturally?
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Writing: Input Wanted Using a "disintegrator" to make square corners?
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Writing: Input Wanted Exploring the Possibilities of Ancient-Themed Planets in Sci-Fi
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Writing: Input Wanted What if sea level rose dramatically?
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Writing: Input Wanted Some problem solving -- probe is traveling to Alpha centauri
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Writing: Input Wanted Superhero powers from manipulation of spacetime & mass
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Writing: Input Wanted Design of large rotating asteroid interior space
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Writing: Input Wanted Is Friction Relative? - Exploring Time Manipulation Super Powers
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Writing: Input Wanted An overheating energy source (for a sci-fi story)?
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Writing: Input Wanted Exploring Morphing Powers in Kepler Bb: Wilderness Survival Grade
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Writing: Input Wanted Does a Nuclear Blast Create a Vacuum Effect Toward the Epicenter?
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Writing: Input Wanted An Alternate to the Siberian Traps
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Writing: Input Wanted Eleven Inner Planets--What Will Earth's Ice Ages Be Like?
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Writing: Input Wanted A small SciFi comic loosely based on the sixth day movie
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Writing: Input Wanted The role of cosmology on a world....
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Writing: Input Wanted A Magic Compass & Real Magnetism
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Writing: Input Wanted Travel to an Alien Sky: Far in Milky Way?
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Writing: Input Wanted Extraorbital Atmospheric Re-Entry: Terminal Velocity?
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Writing: Input Wanted Can extreme pain cause paralysis?
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Writing: Input Wanted Is it useful to have 2 stomachs?
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Writing: Input Wanted How to Get Heart Specific EKG for My Kepler Bb Humanoids
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Writing: Input Wanted Spacecraft One Alpha 10: Energy, Materials & Protection
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Writing: Input Wanted The Immortal Gene: Uncovering Biological Immortality
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Writing: Input Wanted The temperature at which flesh burns
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Writing: Input Wanted What would it take to crawl out of a black hole?
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Writing: Input Wanted Kepler Db & D#: Binary Planets & Moons
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Writing: Input Wanted Feasibility check for double planet system
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Writing: Input Wanted Can Humans Survive on a Generation Ship with Alien Protocols and Dinosaur Mates?
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Writing: Input Wanted Designing drone army defence for a loosely populated planet
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Writing: Input Wanted Designing a space ship and with the dust shield
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Writing: Input Wanted T rex pack with a mysterious egg in their nest
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Writing: Input Wanted Humanoid 8 Teats: Benefits & Risks Explored
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Writing: Input Wanted Nuclear Plants -- In the event of a 50% population collapse
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Writing: Input Wanted Community writing project PF MadLib
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Writing: Input Wanted Paul Goznac the Ornithological Statistician
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Writing: Input Wanted Warp Drive System: Could Powerful Lasers Reach Warp Speed?
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Writing: Input Wanted Future travel with the tachyon field
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Writing: Input Wanted Community writing project PF choose-your-own adventure
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Writing: Input Wanted From IT Tech to English Adventure: My Story
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