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

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What goods yield the best profit for time-travel arbitrage?

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

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

Perkins

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Why bother with planetary battlefields?

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if people are bred like dogs, what can be achieved?

Doug Deden

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modified Jun 26 at 22:01

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

g s

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How fast would unrest spread in the Middle Ages? [closed]

JBH

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modified Jun 25 at 21:54

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How to turn a desert into a fertile farmland with engineering?

Pica

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

nigel222

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

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

datacube

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answered 2 days ago

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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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answered Jul 11 at 9:17

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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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Would this telescope be capable to detect Middle Ages Civilization?

Duncan Drake

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modified Jul 8 at 21:59

13 votes

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Would a spaceport on Ceres make sense?

Going Durden

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answered Jul 1 at 8:59

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

Rhymehouse

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modified Jul 18 at 1:36

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Would it be possible for a living being the size of a planet to survive? [closed]

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answered Jun 24 at 19:53

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

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answered Jul 16 at 18:18

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Can a planet have a warm, tropical climate both at the poles and at the equator?

casualworldbuilder

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modified Jul 1 at 21:33

5 votes

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Natural mechanism behind burning oceans

JustAnotherUser

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modified Jul 17 at 21:00

7 votes

4 answers

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How could breastfeeding/suckling work for a beaked animal?

G0BLiN

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answered Jul 15 at 17:05

7 votes

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Airtight beaks?

John

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modified Jul 5 at 14:01

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Can my necromancer have this bridge built with those constraints?

Nosajimiki

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modified Jul 16 at 14:29

5 votes

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Practical Combat Pipe

CommunityBot

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modified Jun 30 at 10:46

4 votes

5 answers

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Pregnancy in a hibernated state [closed]

Gray Sheep

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modified Jul 8 at 1:07

6 votes

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Would a "plug and play" prosthetic be possible?

Going Durden

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answered Jul 1 at 10:12

5 votes

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The use of Bio-weapons as a deterrent?

jwenting

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answered Jul 12 at 18:38

6 votes

10 answers

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

Ryan_L

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answered Jul 13 at 2:24

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Plausible reasons for the usage of Flying Ships [closed]

user2702772

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answered Jul 6 at 9:20

10 votes

2 answers

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Weather on a Flat, Infinite Sea

Ash

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modified Jul 6 at 10:07

4 votes

6 answers

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Navigation on Mars without Martian GPS

LazyReader

990

answered Jul 4 at 1:09

7 votes

3 answers

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What if Mars were the same size as Earth with an atmospheric pressure of 1 atm?

Going Durden

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answered Jul 10 at 8:04

5 votes

3 answers

903 views

Could we control our personal reality

Going Durden

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answered Jul 1 at 10:00

4 votes

8 answers

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

Nosajimiki

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modified Jul 17 at 16:10

5 votes

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How to arrange three identical habitable planets in one solar system in similar or, if possible, same orbit?

Nosajimiki

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answered Jul 9 at 19:16

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Would human-shaped sperm cells work?

thinkcritically

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answered 2 days ago

4 votes

4 answers

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What are some plausible means for increasing the atmospheric pressure on a post-apocalyptic earth?

g s

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answered Jun 26 at 6:10

3 votes

5 answers

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Air magic only used to decrease humidity and improve living conditions?

John

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modified Jul 5 at 21:56

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

Haylen

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answered Jul 15 at 6:08

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Would moving the equator to the Tropic of Cancer increase Earth's arable land?

aphid

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answered Jul 8 at 15:12

3 votes

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climate control and carbon sequestration via bulk air liquification

JBH

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answered Jul 7 at 19:09

0 votes

5 answers

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How can I explain this mental power scientifically? [closed]

causative

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answered Jun 27 at 22:54

9 votes

1 answer

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How do you tell if you're in a nebula?

HDE 226868♦

102k

modified Jun 22 at 2:10

9 votes

1 answer

487 views

Chemical Coin Flipping as Divination

L.Dutch♦

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modified yesterday

6 votes

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Can a star that initially started with less energy output than the sun (when it was young) evolve to be as luminous as the sun in the same time period

D'Monlord

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answered Jun 25 at 12:00

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