Questions tagged [science-based]
For questions that require plausible (better than suspension-of-disbelief) answers based on Real World science that are not necessarily constrained to the known limits of Real World science. Contrast with the hard-science, science-fiction and internal-consistency tags. This tag may not be used alone. This tag may not be used with the science-fiction, hard-science, or internal-consistency tags.
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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?
In my fictional setting, albeit close to real world, there is a research facility built on a remote island in a form an underground multi-floor bunker.
This bunker does not look like a mine - it is, ...
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Why are metal ores dredged from coastal lagoons rather than being extracted directly from the mother lode?
Why are metal ores dredged from coastal lagoons rather than being extracted from the mother lode?
I want to arrange a situation where the easiest /cheapest way of obtaining metal ores is by dredging ...
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What scientifically plausible apocalypse scenario, if any, meets my criteria?
After several of my existing worldbuilding projects hit dead ends, I needed a new setting to work on, so I thought I'd try a post-apocalyptic one. The problem is that I can't decide what kind of ...
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Collateral damage of a speedster running at full speed [duplicate]
In my story I have a speedster that has the ability to move superhuman speeds. This story is slightly based in science so the superpowers and how they work aren’t explained by science and are just ...
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climate control and carbon sequestration via bulk air liquification
When there's a stationary high pressure ridge heat domes can form that increase the air temperature and decrease precipitation. But what if one were to kinda suction the air out of the atmosphere, ...
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How to arrange three identical habitable planets in one solar system in similar or, if possible, same orbit?
Reading these three questions
-Can 3 planets rotate around each other like this?
-Can multiple similar planets share the same orbit without interfering with each other too much?
I gather that we can't ...
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What industrial footprint is needed to manufacture ample medieval-era work uniforms?
I'm a time traveler from 2024 who has set myself up in the medieval era as a local lord, and I wish to provide cheap, high-quality uniforms for laborers in my lands, namely: unisex tunics, and hooded, ...
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I may have made an error in calculating my spin-orbit resonance
I have a very warm planet named Phoenix I'm worldbuilding that's 1.2 times the mass of Earth, with a density somewhat smaller at 5.2 g/cm^3, orbiting at a distance of 0.1 AU from it's star in 10.2 ...
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Do Which (Or None) Among Two Warring AIs Win In This Scenario A Game Of Chance? [closed]
The Scenario:
The AIs
There are two AIs. They are both true AIs which means they both can override any or the entirety (they choose) of their own code.
They are designed differently but are given ...
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Could asteroid mining be made viable if there were a resource rich asteroid in orbit just beyond the moon?
Two of the biggest issues with asteroid mining is the issue of actually getting materials from the the asteroid in question back to earth, and the relative abundance of resources on earth vs in space. ...
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Effects of Day/Night divide on airflow patterns on a binary planet
I'm currently working on a project with a binary planetary system (both planets are around .8 earth mass with some variation), and naturally, the planets are tidally locked to each other, leading to a ...
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Air magic only used to decrease humidity and improve living conditions?
I'm writing a world with an overall warm and very humid climate (Eocene-adjacent, although it does not have to be 100% realistic). Population is very low compared to Earth. Humans generally live in ...
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'Bulk, high-ish purity carbon' sources in a mostly contemporary-adjacent setting
Basically what it says on the tin. A society mostly like ours as far as it's technological base goes recently discovers a way to synthesise very useful 'crystals' with carbon, with applications in a ...
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Is the proposed solar sailing race course possible?
This is an idea that's been banging around a couple of universes in my head for quite some time, the idea is to have solar sail racing yachts that have to traverse an asteroid field. This could be ...
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Would this telescope be capable to detect Middle Ages Civilization?
Imagine the aliens of Prettyfaraway had developed deployed the PrettyHuge Space Telescope.
This pretty impressive array of gravitational-lensing space faring telescopes was capable of resolving Earth ...
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