Comment by Frostfyre on How Dangerous Are Spikagi?
as tall as the typical dwarf Are you referring to humans with dwarfism? If not, could you identify a concrete value? I can't recall the last time I interacted with a group of dwarves (dwarfs?) and a...
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on How to correctly insert a kangaroo like balance and...
I'm conflicted about this reopen vote. While the current duplicate is similar, it doesn't go into the depth the OP seems to be looking for. However, were this question to be reopened, I'd likely vote...
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on Synthetic Daylight Cycle on a Structure too large for...
@Alexander It's actually a hexahedron. If you glue two faces of 4-sided dice together, you have 3 sides of each facing outward, creating a 6-sided solid object, also known as a cube. Congrats, OP, you...
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on How do I stop my near future city state from flying...
There's a problem with this scenario that people are overlooking. A city-state, by definition, is a city that rules over a territory. How did you end up with a city-state surrounded by a forest? Cities...
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on Creating a Torchblow Predator
All your questions are pointing to a world in which humans won't survive. Is that your goal?
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on Huge Acidic Planet
If the planet produces an infinite amount of gases that turn into acid on contact, wouldn't the entire surface of the planet be an infinitely-rising acid sea and make plantlife or any kind of...
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on A universal formula to predict which gas can or...
@SurpriseDog Please do not answer questions in comments.
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on Figuring Out Giganto
You fail to specify how a Giganto differs from Gigantosaurus. What is "bigger"? Mass? Height? Length? Further, your clarification point (1) is missing subpart (C). Third, you may want to review your...
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on Reef World 3 - Wandering Islands on the oceans of...
@AlexP Snark is unhelpful here. Also: please do not answer questions in comments. :)
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on Would oceans filled with long-lived, omnivore,...
@Jontia The removal of oceans has much larger consequences, such as the extinction of most life on the planet.
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on Would different types of species change drastically...
Welcome to site, jatchiboi. Please note that the Worldbuilding SE is not a What-If site. If you have a specific question about the world you are attempting to build, go ahead and ask that as a new...
View ArticleComment by Frostfyre on What is the point of introducing puzzles into tomb...
Relevant: Why fill a dungeon with puzzles?
View ArticleHow long can humans survive in increased gravity?
One premise of my current planet-in-progress is that certain locations in the universe are inherently tied to my PIP. For example, all the people and things that have vanished in the Bermuda Triangle...
View ArticleEffects on objects due to a brief relocation of massive amounts of mass
I want you to meet Gary. Gary looks like a human, walks like a human, and talks like a human. But he's not. He's a superhero, or a magician, or... something. He's not really sure. He just knows that he...
View ArticleHow to annihilate all life on a planet? [duplicate]
TO: [mailing-list:all-employees]CC: [mailing-list:quality-assurance], [mailing-list:facilities]BCC: [mailing-list:galactic-villains]Subject: Thought Experiment - removing all life from a planetMy...
View ArticleAnswer by Frostfyre for How could an armless race establish civilization?
Frame Challenge: This species will not develop a civilization akin to that of humans without something spectacular happening.I'm imagining they invent some sort of assistant robots or cranes for them...
View ArticleHelp! Our merchants keep turning into villains!
To My Trusted Advisors;It has now been six months since the founding of Puzzleville around the entrance to the magic-filled Labyrinth of Wonders. As expected, adventurers from around the world have...
View ArticleCan a machine benefit from stored heat energy?
Setting OverviewMy world suffers from an abundance of a particular type of energy. This energy can be safely absorbed and utilized by living cells, enabling, for example, a dragon's flight and fiery...
View ArticleImpact on the sciences with helium instead of nitrogen
Suppose we have a planet whose atmosphere has roughly the same gaseous proportions as Earth, but helium replaces nitrogen, and has a strong hydrogen presence in the upper atmosphere; has a...
View ArticleAnswer by Frostfyre for What is a realistic time needed to get a properly...
The situation you describe is very close to what happened in the USA during World War II. Before WWII, the US had a very small standing army.Unlike the professional armies of Germany and Japan, the...
View ArticleAnswer by Frostfyre for Can a Sunset Be Black (Infrared)?
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of light, color, and visibility (which is probably driving the downvotes).From Wikipedia: In the visible spectrum, black is the absorption of all colors. Black...
View ArticleHow might a scaling "force field" work?
To Whom It May Concern;I'm going to be blunt: I'm terrible at formal letters. I've just recently arrived at our new home. I find it amazing! The city design leaves something to be desired, but I...
View ArticleAnswer by Frostfyre for Why would an Ouija board work (as in being able to...
The mystical object you define as a "Ouija board" is merely a projection onto our 3D space from another N-dimensional space wherein the "demons" reside.Your apocalypse, whatever it was, also revealed...
View ArticleDungeons in a Medieval fantasy
Suppose the typical Medieval fantasy world with elves, humans, dragons, magic, politics, society, and the rest, such as is found in countless open-world games. Open-world games encourage the player to...
View ArticleIs it possible for nature to create bubble wrap?
Bubble wrap is a synthetic packing material featuring small bubbles that are designed to provide cushion to the protected object and pop in place of damaging the object under excessive stress. They...
View ArticleHow to disable off-world signals?
Request for ProposalThe planet to host our new colony occupies a section of the universe considered off-limits by numerous militant groups opposed to the safe harbor of innocent civilians and refugees....
View ArticleAnswer by Frostfyre for How can an environmentally conscious dragon avoid...
Water and Sodium BicarbonateAccording to the Illinois Division of Research Safety and the University of Massachusettes, the proper ways to deal with aqua regia involve water and sodium...
View ArticleExplaining mineral-skinned creatures
For my current world in progress, I have devised a variety of species possessing multiple, unique DNA chains that can receive copious amounts of short-term energy due to their large stores of sugar....
View ArticleAnswer by Frostfyre for How can I design a religion based on real demons to...
Make it canon that both views are correct.Give the demons a hierarchy of power and influence. The lowest ranking get enslaved by their superiors and can be loaned out to other demons or mortals who...
View ArticleMagnetism-based weaponry
I remember seeing a show on the Science or Discovery channel about a certain type of star, maybe a magnetar, with a powerful magnetic field that would twist and wind over time. Eventually, the field...
View ArticleChaotic World: Large or Small Settlements?
EnvironmentThere exists a strange dimension called the Margins of Reality. All supernatural things in the world come from here and are caused by what the natives call "Margin Spirits." In essence,...
View ArticleTongueless: Are complex sounds possible?
For my current project, I'm trying to design intelligent, sapient organisms that aren't just "Human, but..." To that end, I've been toying with the idea of a tongueless entity and what the consequences...
View ArticleUrban cohabitation of dragons and non-dragons
We've had a question about a city designed to guard against dragons, so I would like to propose the opposite (which happens to be a part of a world I built a while ago).How might a city be designed in...
View ArticleChaotic World: Calendar and Events
EnvironmentThere exists a strange dimension called the Margins of Reality. All supernatural things in the world come from here and are caused by what the natives call "Margin Spirits." In essence,...
View ArticleScience behind a naturally invisible creature
Suppose a planet developed a peculiar form of life that was naturally invisible, but only within a 15-ft. (4.57 m) radius, by bending or refracting the majority of light around its body due to its...
View ArticleEconomic structure for semi-post-scarcity society
Suppose in the far future, after humanity has acquired FTL travel and communication (and other assorted technologies) from more advanced alien species in the universe, a small portion of a specific...
View ArticleThermoregulation in a Shark-Skinned Canine
I've been toying with biological mechanisms for species in my current work in progress by combining or enhancing features in unusual ways. This question is about a canine design.Dogs, like all animals,...
View ArticleKinetic energy reflection
I've had in mind for a while now a device that could reflect kinetic energy back onto an instigating surface. For example, a blade-like version of this device is planted in the ground in front of an...
View ArticleDeceptive diseases
Suppose there was a disease that caused accelerated healing in the host body during incubation. Once symptoms appeared, the initial advantage was replaced by the real, negative purpose.How realistic...
View ArticleWhy fill a dungeon with puzzles?
While exploring a dwarven/dwemer ruin in Skyrim, it occurred to me that the puzzle I was solving made no sense: a series of levers accessible from the direction of the entrance that each caused a wall...
View ArticleGrowth rates of fantasy humanoids
There are a number of humanoid creatures in fantasy that we more or less take for granted. Humans are almost a necessity for us to be able to relate to the story and they interact with dwarves, elves,...
View ArticlePicking a biometric lock
Suppose there's a vault secured with a numeric code and a biometric sensor. What technologies and methods could be used to open the vault if a character isn't registered on the system?Here are a few...
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