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How could double damage be explained in-universe? [closed]

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How could warfare be kept using pike and shot like tactics for 700 years?

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Can I cause a star to go supernova by altering the four fundamental forces?

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Would human-shaped sperm cells work?

thinkcritically

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Could a Black Market exist in a cashless society (digital currency)?

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Natural mechanism behind burning oceans

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Solution for a modern nation that mustn't see themselves or their own reflection

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Could a wingsuit using fans be made with our current technology?

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What would sunsets look like around different star types? [migrated]

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What scientifically plausible apocalypse scenario, if any, meets my criteria?

Perkins

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how fast can pain-killer and other drugs act in theory given human anatomy and otherwordly chemistry? [closed]

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What evolutionary pressures would lead to massive differences in intelligence between the sexes?

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Can my necromancer have this bridge built with those constraints?

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Why bother with planetary battlefields?

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Artificial Satellites Orbit Around a Cube with Uniform Surface Gravity

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Are buildings out of salt feasible? [closed]

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Mechanism behind a pink human skeleton

Going Durden

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answered Jul 12 at 8:07

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How to Construct a Stellar Instar

Christopher James Huff

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answered Jul 16 at 12:37

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Can mammal hypothetically evolve their own version of unidirectional breathing?

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Why are metal ores dredged from coastal lagoons rather than being extracted directly from the mother lode?

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How do I explain why my planet has only one continent? [closed]

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Is it possible with modern-day technology to expand an already built bunker further below without the risk of collapsing the entire bunker?

nigel222

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What would be the best material to make gauntlets out of? [closed]

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How can a respiratory/vocalization system support both ingressive and egressive speech?

Jeff Zeitlin

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Ideas for an alternative to nuclear weapons as a deterrent? [duplicate]

Ryan_L

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The use of Bio-weapons as a deterrent?

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answered Jul 12 at 18:38

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What is the safest way to camp in a zombie apocalypse?

Oliver

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How could a feudal empire with a hive-minded species use this to maximize its power?

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Would this telescope be capable to detect Middle Ages Civilization?

Duncan Drake

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Everything has a tiny nuclear reactor in it. How much of a concern are illegal nuclear bombs?

nigel222

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Point defense weapons on bio-mechanical spacecraft that part of von Neumann machine horde

causative

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modified Jul 15 at 2:19

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Advantages of centaurs in space [closed]

Going Durden

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answered Jul 15 at 8:31

4 votes

6 answers

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Is a desert planet with a small habitable area possible?

Nightrider

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answered Jul 7 at 12:25

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Leftover fallen world technologies [closed]

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