Questions tagged [scientific-development]
For questions about the process of developing scientific discoveries and what prerequisites are needed for different types of discoveries.
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Low-reward, high-risk supersoldier programme, why the continued investment?
So as many of you undoubtedly know by now, i'm writing a overarching narrative which is intended to be outright farcical and a parody of many well-known settings (like Dune, Chess, analogue horror, ...
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What is a plausible way to fight global warming in Antarctica (preferably a megaproject)? [closed]
It is A.D 2050 and humanity largely fails to halt global warming. Tsunamis, heat waves, desertification - all very common in this day and age. Now let's say that scientists want to try something more.....
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Logistical limits & concerns of (inter)continental analog radio communication
After bouncing between here, Wikipedia, and a bunch of dubiously promotional articles for a couple of days, I figured I might get a straighter answer if I straight-up ask myself—so:
I'm tossing around ...
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Justifying an 'analog horror' aesthetic in a 'future' setting
I am trying to write vaguely 'set in the future', but I am having trouble with one thing: keeping it with an analog era PSX aesthetic.
The more I read and write about this subject, the more I realize ...
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How effective would a tungsten mirrior be at deflecting a military grade non plasma laser weapon
While yes I know tungsten is difficult to work with and is very heavy, this is all hypothetical unless it's really thin tungsten or is used on some sort of power armor. It's also expensive. But how ...
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Can sound stop a bullet?
Can sound stop bullets? I am working on a near future game and am trying to find a reason that guns would be rarely used on the battlefield. Aside from the noise breaking your eardrums, could sound be ...
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Efficient method of storing energy in a near-future, semi-hard sci-fi game
I am creating a relatively hard sci-fi video game that takes place in the year 2147, and am trying to make it represent a future that might be completely realistic. There have not been that many ...
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Minimum technology required to discover relativity?
As the title states, what’s the least-powerful technology a civilization needs before they are capable of developing and verifying an accurate theory of special & general relativity?
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How would a sentient species without technology derive General Relativity?
I can expound on the specifics, but simply put my species is the only sentient one on their planet, receive their energy from photosynthesis, and are otherwise completely closed systems, recycling ...
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How easily could a pre-scientific people purify a substance and hence grow a pure crystal?
Consider a pre-scientific human civilisation. They have some alchemy nonsense, and are used to experimenting with boiling, filtration, etc, but do not have an atomic theory, or a mechanistic view of ...
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Could these technologies be fabricated and utilised by this semi-industrialised society?
I have this society that has enjoyed some rather fantastical circumstances resulting in a unique path of technological advancement, and I need help figuring out what kind of technologies they would be ...
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How would computers develop in a society where a Cherokee-like language is the dominant lingua franca?
I am writing a book set in a parallel universe where English is not the dominant language and the dominant language is a complex polysynthetic language that makes use of a complex system of word ...
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How would Mathematics and Sciences had developed in a strongly non-Euclidean universe? [closed]
The geometry of our universe is, on human scale, Euclidean. This means that our everyday experience gives us a good understanding of $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$, which in turn is of great help ...
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Potential, ethically-questionable advancements in science [closed]
I'm creating a futuristic dystopia in which a religious sect decides to shun advancements in technology and science.
The reason for this is that science has evolved in ethically questionable ways. ...
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Fuel for vehicles in an abruptly abandoned world
The scenario: in September 1985, almost everyone abruptly disappears. Humans, domestic animals, carried/worn possessions, and vehicles currently in motion, vanish, while everything else stays as it ...
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