Green‭

My friends and I are building a world with a 50 mile high volcano on it. The mountain is the result of some bored god deciding to play a joke on everyone. Or, some other god got angry and decided ...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Green‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Canina‭

Given the existence of neon kittens with: the internal properties and mentality of normal kittens bioluminescent fur. What evolutionary process outside of intentional human breeding/gene ma...

5 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

User Interfaces are hard; really hard. Humans and ships, of any kind, at any scale, form two part systems. Together, they achieve whatever missions/goals the ship is meant to fulfill. Humans are ...

posted 8y ago by Green‭

6 hours of daylight, 6 hours of night, twice a 'day'. Mapped to our 24 hour days from midnight to 6am, it's darkness. From 6am to noon it's daylight. From noon to 6pm it's dark. Daylight from 6p...

posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 11y ago by Green‭

Does the following progression/collection of technologies make sense on the way to an artificial womb? The central assumption to this question is that the female body is a delicate, complicated ma...

1 answer  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 11y ago by Green‭

An alien race, for reasons of their own, have decided that it's important to make the third and fourth planets in our solar system about the same size and mass. Since they have a strict moratorium...

5 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Green‭

It's well established that the human body does not do well in zero gravity. Symptoms such as fluid loss, muscle atrophy, bone mass loss are well known. Less well known problems extend to such mun...

3 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 11y ago by Green‭

Many questions on Worldbuilding have posited different reproductive strategies that often result in the virtual enslavement of females (when there are females involved). On Earth, normal human biol...

5 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Green‭

We know from the International Pronunciation Alphabet (IPA) and the research that gave us the IPA, what sounds typically used in human speech (certainly not all sounds that can be made). This is al...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Green‭

So, it's happened. We have a robot overlord who follows the 3 Laws of Robotics + the Zeroth Law of Robotics. How we got such a thing or the process by which it makes its decisions is outside this...

12 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 11y ago by Green‭

Conspiracy theorists love to talk about a group called the Illuminati that pull the strings of world events. While there have been several real (and many more imaginary) Illuminati groups, what wo...

7 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Green‭

We have modern humans found in a near future, first world country on Earth. The primary technological advancements are in the form of extremely cheap and fast genome sequencing ($10USD/genome) and...

15 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by celtschk‭

Deposing the new Robot Overlord Some people just can't leave well enough alone. The Robot Overlord has executed its programming of the Zeroth Law and the Three Laws of Robotics for the previous t...

13 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Green‭

I'm looking for a way to render a large percentage (30 to 50%) of Earth's human population infertile in about 10 years. Medicine and tech levels are approximately where they are now, maybe slightl...

5 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Green‭

A global epidemic of H1Z2 virus has rendered 95% of the population into zombies. The zombies have lost most of their frontal and temporal lobes so the following capabilities are either severely de...

18 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Green‭