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How can you have an eternal war against vastly weaker opponents?

answered Aug 1, 2020 at 17:37

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What would keep traders away from a specific area of the ocean?

answered Aug 5, 2020 at 15:56

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Could Centaurs wear Dresses?

answered Jan 11, 2022 at 23:37

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Would there be any reason to colonize the coastal regions of a lifeless Earth-like world?

answered Jul 22, 2020 at 12:38

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How can we cool a computer connected on top of or within a human brain?

answered Jan 17, 2023 at 9:43

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Are the draw weights of 90# to 100# realistic for women archers?

answered Jul 27, 2020 at 0:55

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How to hide a small farming community from enemy raiders?

answered Sep 11, 2020 at 19:54

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What is a material that might be missing on a planet that the inhabitants of said planet need to go pick up on a gas giant nearby?

answered Sep 10, 2020 at 13:16

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What would the effects of firing only the gunpowder in a weapon against an opponent's body?

answered Jul 16, 2020 at 15:53

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In a world with a single operating system, how can we avoid user tracking?

answered Jul 11, 2020 at 15:16

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Horseback Travel in an Unpopulated Pacific Northwest

answered Jan 26, 2021 at 10:51

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The Walls of Heaven

answered Sep 1, 2020 at 20:33

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What situation would prompt the world to dump the use of Atomic and Nuclear Explosives entirely?

answered Nov 11, 2020 at 17:48

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System of government inside a generational ship (videogame)

answered Jun 6, 2020 at 23:36

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How would you have a space ship set out on a journey to a distant planet, but find themselves arriving back home without realising it?

answered Feb 24, 2021 at 11:36

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How large can you build humanoid mechs with modern materials before they start experiencing structural problems?

answered Mar 31, 2021 at 20:46

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In a post intergalactic WW3 where most of scociety has moved into a VR world to escape, what created the zombies that roam outside (Not nuclear war)

answered Dec 14, 2021 at 19:54

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How do I justify a world where drones are commonplace but computers remain large?

answered Jan 13, 2023 at 19:16

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How might you design a solarpunk military?

answered Sep 14, 2020 at 19:01

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least known most fortified place for 300+ soldiers with supplies

answered Jul 20, 2020 at 22:14

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I want my aliens to arrive at the edges of the solar system. They would arrive in a week. What do I need to have?

answered Sep 8, 2020 at 9:19

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A new way of invading a besieged castle?

answered Jan 21, 2021 at 17:16

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Speed of a Spider Tank?

answered Apr 25, 2020 at 8:09

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Finding Earth on a star-map

answered Jul 7, 2020 at 16:38

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What constitutes the lifespan of a firearm? If modern guns were still used a century from now would that be unrealistic?

answered Jul 11, 2020 at 14:50

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Most important trading resources for the US

answered Jul 31, 2020 at 12:17

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Under what conditions would a cybercommunist nation form?

answered Dec 7, 2022 at 10:58

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Why would people invest in very-long-term commercial space exploration projects?

answered Dec 21, 2020 at 12:09

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A Bioengineered Organism With AI

answered Jan 15, 2022 at 22:49

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How difficult would it be to find today a meteorite impacted on a mountain during the Middle Ages?

answered Nov 24, 2022 at 19:27

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46 Answers

How can you have an eternal war against vastly weaker opponents?

What would keep traders away from a specific area of the ocean?

Could Centaurs wear Dresses?

Would there be any reason to colonize the coastal regions of a lifeless Earth-like world?

How can we cool a computer connected on top of or within a human brain?

Are the draw weights of 90# to 100# realistic for women archers?

How to hide a small farming community from enemy raiders?

What is a material that might be missing on a planet that the inhabitants of said planet need to go pick up on a gas giant nearby?

What would the effects of firing only the gunpowder in a weapon against an opponent's body?

In a world with a single operating system, how can we avoid user tracking?

Horseback Travel in an Unpopulated Pacific Northwest

The Walls of Heaven

What situation would prompt the world to dump the use of Atomic and Nuclear Explosives entirely?

System of government inside a generational ship (videogame)

How would you have a space ship set out on a journey to a distant planet, but find themselves arriving back home without realising it?

How large can you build humanoid mechs with modern materials before they start experiencing structural problems?

In a post intergalactic WW3 where most of scociety has moved into a VR world to escape, what created the zombies that roam outside (Not nuclear war)

How do I justify a world where drones are commonplace but computers remain large?

How might you design a solarpunk military?

least known most fortified place for 300+ soldiers with supplies

I want my aliens to arrive at the edges of the solar system. They would arrive in a week. What do I need to have?

A new way of invading a besieged castle?

Speed of a Spider Tank?

Finding Earth on a star-map

What constitutes the lifespan of a firearm? If modern guns were still used a century from now would that be unrealistic?

Most important trading resources for the US

Under what conditions would a cybercommunist nation form?

Why would people invest in very-long-term commercial space exploration projects?

A Bioengineered Organism With AI

How difficult would it be to find today a meteorite impacted on a mountain during the Middle Ages?