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| 23 hours ago | comment | added | vinzzz001 | Instead of destroying technology completely, you might want to keep around a few solar cells and a computer. Maybe a landing capsule with all that. Or a satellite which can be interfaced with once radio develops. A single copy of Wikipedia takes up next to no space (on a futuristic hard drive), and is in story a lot more believable than all experts required to bring back technology being available. Maybe even fragmented information, with more collectable at specific places. (A farm having food growing info, computer lab having blueprints, etc.) Which the colonists must collect. | |
| yesterday | answer | added | QuestionablePresence | timeline score: 2 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | user4574 | timeline score: 1 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Trish | timeline score: 2 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 1 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | ain92 | How long have the colonists lived on the planet, and in what number? Have they left a significant amount of trash dumps? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Note: The stone/bronze age population levels of Earth were miniscule compared to now. Should we presume the same applies to your world? It'd make a difference to how far some alternatives will stretch. | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | vinzzz001 | timeline score: 4 | |
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | JBH | Please edit your post with a much better definition of what fuels you're looking for. "Fossil fuels" isn't just too broad, it's also very misleading. A google search for "can hydrocarbon-based fuels exist on a barren planet?" reveals several different ways such fuels can form on a world with no life at all - but they may not be the fuels you have in mind. Also remember that just because humanity solved the problem one way due to the abundance of any one particular kind of fuel doesn't mean the problem can't be solved in many different ways depending on what's available. | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | Navicula | timeline score: 6 | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 4 | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Peripheraly related: What does my 3D Printing Life-Seeder Probe need to print to populate the Universe for humans? - relevant to the ecosystem as a whole, but in the case of that one it's over millions of years. | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | AlexP | timeline score: 15 | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Gault Drakkor | Was the planet lifeless before terraforming? Is there plate tectonics?(This has big impact on geology). Was there a previous civilization on the planet recently resource? Whatever organization that is doing and or paying for the terraforming should still be present. Where are they? If terraforming, wouldn't transformers have ensured there was sufficient carbon either add start or added? | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | Samwise | timeline score: 9 | |
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