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Identify Batman without getting caught
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Your assignment is to discover the real identity of the masked vigilante commonly known as Batman aka The Caped Crusader aka The Dark Knight. The defender of Gotham…
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What technology would Dwarves need to forge titanium?
The Dwarves pride themselves as great craftsman, smiths, and tinkerers. Dwarven craftsmen have access to not only the metals of man, but also metals only the forges of dwarves can refine. One of these metals would be Titanium. What pieces of…
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How can an organ that provides biological immortality be unable to regenerate?
After Cain killed his worthless brother Abel, he was unjustly cursed by God to wander the earth forever. On his travels, he met a sympathetic woman named Lilith. They discovered that they had a mutual beef with their creator. Lilith, first wife of…
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Why is my Dark World so dark?
My hero has to journey into a mirror world. This world is much like our own except evil. Almost everything there is an enemy and there will be very little kindness. On top of that the world is visibly DARK.
It isn't just a metaphor and the sun…
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Build an impregnable fortress in the middle ages with modern technology
Let's say we want to build the strongest possible fortress¹ in a medieval (1300 CE) setting while having access to any modern technology and material.
Said technology can only be used during the construction of the fortress and not afterwards, so…
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Would a castle built at the top of a mesa have unusual weaknesses?
Imagine some settlers are looking to build a castle in an area of expansive plans discover a small, isolated mesa: the formation has a very steep face, rising up 10-20m. The area of this formation just so happens to have just enough surface area for…
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Can stone be "recycled" by melting and cooling it?
This is something I've been thinking about for a while.
Say a block of marble is used to sculpt a statue. Most of the stone is chipped away and is effectively useless. Instead of it being tossed, can it perhaps be melted back down into bricks?
I…
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Could a joke be funny enough to kill?
(This Monty Python sketch got me thinking)
Could a joke be funny enough to actually kill a person? By "joke", I'm referring to the written/typed and narrated types of "jokes" (videos, pictures, comedic actions don't count).
Conditions:
Joke should…
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Designing Hacking Arrows
How would you design a piercing projectile (arrows, bullets, shurikens, etc) that can deliver a payload of malicious software to a computer that it is shot into?
Although it is rather silly and definitely very soft sci-fi, this is a type of weapon…
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The 10,000 year skyscraper
If someone wanted to construct a skyscraper (bigger being better) that would survive thousands of years without maintenance, what would they make it out of?
It can be built from any plausible current/cutting edge/semi-futuristic materials but should…
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What are the disadvantages of a long living race?
In most fantasy settings and worlds, we have different races like Demons, Elves , Fairies, Angels and so on and on. Most of them usually have longer lifespans than humans and while it might seem like a dream come true to be able to live for…
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Would charging unicorns survive the impact with a line of infantry?
The unicorns would be used to charge a line of infantry with their horn. They are as big as a horse and the horn is similar to this image:
The infantry is a standard medieval army made mostly of soldiers wearing longsword, wooden shield and…
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Implications of Newtonian universe
I'd like to remove the speed of light limit from my world. However I don't want to just hand-wave the consequences. How should my universe look if:
light travels at infinite speed, and so do gravity waves and magnetic fields
there is no limit to…
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Would gorillas with human-level intelligence make effective soldiers?
Suppose I take a troop of gorillas and modify them to have human-level intelligence. How effective would they be in a war when compared to modern human soldiers, when comparably equipped?
Aside from their intelligence, these gorillas have the same…
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Is there a way to create a bomb to destroy a star?
I want to create a sci-fi story, and since galactic warfare is on a larger scale, nukes wouldn't do much damage (or I wouldn't think so anyway). I would like ideas about an ultimate deterrent that could destroy stars (or a bomb with a supernova…
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