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Why machine worlds?

economy interstellar-travel manufacturing asked Apr 20 at 19:31

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Could you actually do orbital deployment?

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How does an explorer civilization survive the Dark Forest Scenario?

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Why aren’t there advanced computers in an advanced society?

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How did the bugs get all over the place?

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Why bother with planetary battlefields?

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How do I smoothly introduce alien units of measurement?

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Why does a goddess put a low limit on the number of priests?

magic religion gods asked Apr 10 at 13:36

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Why isn't the Solar System infested with space pirates?

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Why are worldships not shaped like worlds?

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Would weightlessness (i.e. in thrill rides, planes, skydiving, etc.) be different on a Flat Earth?

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What would be the most optimal way to produce and utilize an army of Pinocchios?

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Creating a deadly "minimum altitude limit" in an airship setting

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How can dragons breathe in space?

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Non-Human language

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Engine most likely to be available in the next 80 years to accelerate a craft at 1g for 4 weeks

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Moon calendar with a permanent full Moon

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A bussard ramjet breaks, does the ship's velocity eventually stop/slow?

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Can there be clouds of free electrons in space?

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Why does my futuristic society want transparent iPads and computer monitors?

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Could variation of the universal constants affect computation?

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Do black holes convert 100% of their mass into energy via Hawking radiation?

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Could an ecosystem entirely made up of parasites be possible?

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Is there a way to offset the gravitational waves created by breaking cosmic strings?

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Negative pressure projectile propellants (Alternatives to gunpowder)

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How accurate does the ISS's velocity and altitude need to be to maintain orbit?

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What kind of pressures would make a culture force its members to always wear power armour

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Where does the energy in a fundamental interaction come from?

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Walk-in warp bubble: can it be done?

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Pulsed Acceleration Gravity

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Could a monarchy keep control of an empire just though controlling immortality?

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How fast is too fast for travel inside the solar system?

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Can I hire someone to help with the worldbuilding of realistic sci-fi mechanics?

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Effects of a hypothetical "proton-decay" bomb for a fictional story

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Time dilation on a heavily oblong planet

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Using Gamma Ray Lasers to Blow Away Interstellar Medium

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Reducing travel time in short distance space travel

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"Kilogram" confusion: If you weigh a stationary object in "kilograms" and divide the result by about $9.8$, does that tell you the mass of the object?

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What color would a purple alien blush?

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How to make a sign language that only uses three fingers

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