Questions tagged [caves]
For questions related to underground naturally occurring cavities, can be large enough to use as shelter/homes.
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What would be a good reason why all life has to stay below ground?
I want a natural reason why nearly all life would be in caves, or built structures beneath the surface. Here's what I'm looking for:
The surface of my planet should instantly kill most species. They ...
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Would caves maintain a cool temperature in a climate with very hot days and cold nights?
If the surface temperature is 60°C in the day and -40°C at night, with an average of 10°C all year, would the caves maintain a stable temperature?
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Would caves maintain a cool temperature on the hot side of a tidally locked planet?
I've heard it said that caves on Earth are roughly 10°C/50°F regardless of the temperature at the surface. Does this hold up if a planet is very hot? How hot could temperatures get above ground while ...
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A man wants to create a bomb shelter in a small cave on his land, but there's no visible water source, except a dripping wall. What to do?
A man who wants to live in a hidden cave on his mountain property in the Pyrenees has hired a caver to evaluate the cave as a bomb shelter in case of a nuclear war. The cave is small compared to most ...
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How many miles of subterranean caverns could exist unknown to science?
In a setting I'm working on, a creepy fungus-based ecosystem exists in a cave network below the Earth's surface.
I don't know how/if this is an answerable question, but -- how many miles (I don't need ...
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Goblins are Vulnerable to Fire and Light -- What Weapons Should we Use?
I’m doing a project about secret agents in the same vein as MIB but it’s set in the year 2050 and instead of aliens they deal with monsters similar to goblins.
The goblins evolve, growing from ...
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What is the most massive naturally occurring object that could support a void in its center?
Remember Journey to the Center of the Earth? The premise is that there's some kind of cave in the center of the Earth, which has an ecosystem inside it. Well, of course you can't do such a silly ...
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Is it possible for water-based organisms to survive in a small crevice?
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In my story there are complex organisms that are essentially sacks of water with organs and are the size of a basketball. They have so advanced technology that they built a city in a large ...
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Is it geologically feasible for a mountain cave system to allow passage from one side of a mountain range to another?
I have a mountain range that separates two places that certain people will want to go between fairly regularly. Right now they have to travel around or over a mountain range to do that.
I've been ...
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What type of birds can live in my systems of caves?
The story I am trying to write happens underground in system of caverns that originate from either underground rivers or a massive roots system that have begun to rot. Creating mostly long spherical ...
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What changes might happen if a group of people began living in a cave full-time?
I've got a fairly small community of people that, after a genocide, some survivors moved into a cave system. They've been living there for about 5 or 6 generations now and rarely leave the caves ...
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How realistic is finding ore veins in natural caves?
I used to play World of Warcraft and a few other MMOs for their crafting systems and always wondered what a fantasy RPG with a crafting system would look like with a more realistic distribution of ...
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What would these demons use in place of wood?
Demons live deep in the underworld. The underworld is a strange place: It is a cave system, composed mainly many extremely large caverns, with a few wide corridors connecting them. The ground of these ...
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Could these demons exist?
The demons are large subterranean humanoids. They are human-like in form and intelligence, and around 8ft tall when stood up. Their face is elongated, with a vaguely canine-appearing snout. They have ...
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How could this cave-dwelling draught animal evolve?
This animal is a domesticated animal that was originally found in caves, and is still used there as a draught animal. It is a horse-sized troglomorphic tetrapod that is capable of pulling its own ...
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