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Is it possible for a reptile to be amphibious?
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How quickly can a disembodied human brain space travel and be fine?
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Alternative Ingredients for Gunpowder?
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Feasibility of Energy-Absorbing Shields
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How might skeptics and scientists explain chi elemental manipulation?
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Can technology based on locally-altered fundamental interactions justify black boxes that can't be reverse-engineered?
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Pumping water in a fantasy medieval-equivalent setting?
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How do you distinguish bounty hunters from kidnappers?
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Creative spells (e.g. not destructive) and spell classes or families [closed]
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Need advice on a “migrating ocean” world
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Could horns function as a respiratory organ? [closed]
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Does being bipedal set a hard limit on the size of herbivores?
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How hard is it for a meter-scale device to measure tidal force
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What would really happen if an adult's mind was dumped into his five year old self's brain?
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How to put self in the world while pleasing atheists?
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How would weather work on a planet with no rotation and constant sun on all sides?
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How to get an extreme temperature range between equator and poles without tidal locking
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Shrinking people and objects - what physics could accomplish this?
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Economic systems for micronations in space
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How to calculate medieval urbanisation
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Temperature and climate "under" the gas giant in a tidally locked moon
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Materials for an ancient hot air balloon
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Can a single, larger black hole be split into multiple smaller black holes?
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Would Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Humans Still be "Men" and "Women"?
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What are the economic pros and cons of colonizing a low gravity world vs a high gravity one?
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What is the best way for a 19th-century equivalent society to transport high amounts of fat on expeditions into large cave systems?
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Honey, I've Shrunk the Scientist [duplicate]
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Can a coin be 'completely' unclippable?
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Stopping tornado with missiles?
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What implications might there be of mycelium being self aware?
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Would stellar bodies in a universe incapable of fusion resemble gigantic gas giants rather than stars?
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Is a rainforest (or any single-biome) planet feasible
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Designing vehicles for different gravities
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What sets of stellar models are freely available for reference when worldbuilding?
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Is there any plausible way for a creature to fly in the way characters like superman does? [duplicate]
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Small Species - What weapons would make sense?
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Would an average seawater mermaid be any larger than its freshwater counterparts?
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Is it possible to build long-lived macro-scale structures out of non-atomic substances?
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Low sunlight exposure affecting risk of sunburn?
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Would an animal keep multiple sets of bones in one limb?
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Will opening a portal by the power of my mind suck the solar system into unfettered chaos?
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Is using Casaba Howitzer like devices as precision-cutting implements plausible?
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If resistance were also a measure of a metal's resistance to magic, which metals would make the best armor and weapons?
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Why might a mass-produced 'off-the-shelf' flamethrower cost almost as much as a artisanal knight/supersoldier [closed]
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The sexy zombie outbreak [closed]
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How would it be possible for sunlight to cause zombies to self combust into flames
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Natural mechanism behind a continent's fog wall?
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Would Chemosynthetic plants have any reason to grow tall?
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Group text chat without computers
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What would be required to give human like intelligence to rats?
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How can a street gang of animate skeletons avoid breaching the Masquerade?
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What sort of weapons manufacturing could be supported by a post-apocalyptic world?
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What happens to all the petroleum on the moon?
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Plausibility Check: Could a species of bird evolve to farm fungi?
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What would be evolutionary reasons for a humanoid species to develop multiple arms?
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Apocalypse To-Do List [closed]
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Could a desert planet contain a single ocean?
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Could eating rocks provide sufficient calories for survival?
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Realistic speedster build
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How to make crime literally not pay?
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