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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 Baby care customs right after labor, Reasonable?
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Infinite pressure on infinitesimal area?
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What types of illness would be allowed on a generation ship and why?
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Surviving a Solar Storm: The Challenges of Monitoring Earth from Mars
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Writing: Input Wanted Evil Free Parker: Law & Social Order in a Satirical Sci-Fi Scenario
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Elasticity and light speed vibrations
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Technological mastery of fundamental forces
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Martian Independence: Orbital Bombardment Possibilities
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Photons in Fiber Optics V Solar Sails
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Non-mushroom-cloud hydrodynamics
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My ballistic trajectory on the Moon looks wrong
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Writing: Input Wanted Longitudinal Waves: Do Devices Use AM or FM?
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Is it possible to create a quantum bomb?
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Constructing an underground cave
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Kinetic bombardment effects
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A Question: A novel set in the future
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Question about vacuum powered projectiles
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A theoretical flotation device using a vacuum (for a novel)
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Help with comic book character?
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What will the post-technological world look like for humanity?
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Black Hole Mass and Energy Requirements for Sustainable Hawking Radiation
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Writing: Input Wanted "Natural Born" Androids/Cyborgs
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Exploring Nature's Constants: Manipulating Variables in the Lab
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Magnetic Force Applied to An Object @ d (0,n) (Rail gun on Mars)
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Secondary vs Primary source confusion....
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Deducing planetary properties from its calendar?
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Interstellar Trade: Value, Resources & Unobtanium
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Relativity's role in forbidding FTL Information Transfer
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Climate 300 years after nuclear apocalypse?
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I'm a private spacefarer in the year 2050. What physics do I need to know?
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I am writing a story involving a hypothetical chemical reaction
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What if Gravity could be controlled?
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Question about the radiation around Neutron Stars or Pulsars
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How much would a quantum computing network rely on power?
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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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Everyday Life in SF: Exploring Realistic Possibilities
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Artificial Gravity Technology: Creating an Implosion Effect
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Most realistic propelling technologies?
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What's the Best Invented Yet? Your Opinion Counts!
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A Question About Time Travel & Aging
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How would you design your art planet?
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Anti-Gravity Logistics: Pinned to Planet or Beyond?
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Wasn't there a thread on making living space out of asteroid
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Need help with gravitational lensing issue
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Can an Anti-Matter Blade Cut Through Anything?
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Information transfer in space - with book research
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Governance of a colony on a new world?
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Predicting Worlds With Lower Gravity
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What could a time machine plausibly look like?
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Imagining Multiple Ringworlds Around a Star - Is it Possible?
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Warping an Average Guy Across Town: Exploring Negative Mass
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Atmospheric Heating from Meteorite Impact
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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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Is a FTL Drive with a Preferred Frame Enough to Resolve Temporal Paradoxes?
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"The Menace from Earth" flying sequence
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Exploring the Unknown: The First Inter-Galactic Voyage
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Writing: Input Wanted Superhero powers from manipulation of spacetime & mass
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Exploring Transhumanism Through Sports: Neuralink Experiences
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Returning from Geo-stationery Orbit
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What's kind of damage could this weapon do?
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Disintegrator Residue: Effects on Rock & Danger to OH
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Super-Earths around binary dwarf stars
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Need a fact check on the end of the world
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Earth's climate in 100-200 years
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Living on the far side of a tide-locked moon
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Is it possible to build a single-stage spacecraft that can exit the atmosphere?
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Could an Outsider Understand the Physics of Basketball?
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Could this [fantasy] planet be scientifically possible?
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Figuring out which stars an exoplanet's poles point to
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Industrial revolution before the Iron Age?
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Writing: Input Wanted Design of large rotating asteroid interior space
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How would lower oxygen affect the greenhouse effect?
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Codeine based biochemistry
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Equation for plasma wave/light speed travel?
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What should I look into for this project?
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Writing: Input Wanted Is Friction Relative? - Exploring Time Manipulation Super Powers
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Effects of high voltage & current on a large volume of water
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Hijacking a John Varley misdirection
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Your candidate for a space pet
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Quantum Communications: Emergency Calls & Mars-Earth Connectivity
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Writing: Input Wanted An overheating energy source (for a sci-fi story)?
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How often does the moon orbit intersect with sunset?
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Reality check on superhero power
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Blast Waves in a Room: Impact on Standing Behind Large Machine
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Breaking news: Aliens land on Earth. But....
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Speculative; map of Lakes region w/ much higher water levels
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Gender neutral until 5 years, how could it be?
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Research for Science Fiction Story
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How to destroy a Planet, or 100% of the life forms on it
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Are asteroid collisions as dangerous as they seem?
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Traveling through the Interstellar Medium
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Three Planets I See Large and Small....
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Plasma cannons and other SF weapons
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Free to you snippets and ideas
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Quantum entanglement: need ideas for creative writing....
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The Decay Rate of a Hypothetical Antimatter Container
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