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How old do surviving children need to be to keep human civilization from failing?

humans post-apocalypse civilization survival cataclysms asked Aug 30, 2018 at 23:18

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How to catch a Faceless Man?

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Do Game of Thrones' crossbows and scorpions work in a realistic way?

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Is there a way to trace origin of a property in maven pom?

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Will asteroid mining be economical in foreseeable future?

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How to recreate units of measure?

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Is a utopia a necessarily aged society?

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SpringBootTest - how to replace one bean in runtime configuration?

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Is fan fiction publishable?

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Terraformed Venus and Mars

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How could a planet have a sky without stars at night?

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If a large space ship crashes on a planet, what could kill passengers without obliterating the ship?

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Why might the dystopian government make its policemen patrol in fours?

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How can you weaponize a thermos?

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How can a Dragon keep humanity in check?

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How would primitive peoples detect radiation?

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How do I have a Dictatorship keep its dictator out of international headlines?

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Dungeons for Real: 1. The Bottomless Pit

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If 120 experts in 12 different fields were sent back 10,000 years, could they recreate the 21st century in 100 years?

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Tactics and strategy an army can use to counter Human Wave attacks?

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What modern-day object could a magic wand be disguised as?

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How would an astronaut conclude he's on Earth, but 600 million years in the future?

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How to prevent criminal gangs from making/buying guns?

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Is there such thing as a "one-person" door?

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How would people detect a 1 year time jump between star systems?

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What manner of weapons and armor would be suitable for freezing conditions in the middle ages?

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What should a god put on an island, so that its human settlers will more quickly achieve an industrialised society?

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How long will it take to discover they live on a moon and not on a planet?

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How can I justify an Iron monopoly?

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Would trams be workable on a low-gravity world?

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Would building a Dyson sphere inside the Earth's orbit render our planet uninhabitable?

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A subset of humanity is immortal, how do I stop them from financially dominating?

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Assassin's bullet with mercury

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Could people in a post-apocalyptic setting work around the fact that fuel expires?

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What non-electrical, basic tool from today, could be made that would change the world in ancient times?

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Why would a berry have a slow-acting poison?

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In Russian is it more appropriate to refer to someone by their full name?

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Is there a clever one-letter code to describe worlds?

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Always a full Moon for the Emperor - Can this be achieved with solar panels and LEDs?

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Would blue-collar jobs still be done by people in a scifi setting?

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