Questions tagged [exploration]
For those questions that boldly go where none have gone before.
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What is the minimum level of technology needed to explore a large flood volcanism event?
The world in question has had this flood volcanism event going on for longer than humanity has been around. It is comparable in size to the one that created the Columbia River Basalt Group and is ...
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How can explorers determine whether strings of alien text is meaningful or just nonsense?
A group of xenoarchaeologists is studying the remains of a bygone civilization with the aim of understanding its culture. So far, isolated artifacts have been found, such as metal plates with symbols ...
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How would one navigate and explore a planet with a non-euclidian surface using current technology?
On this planet space is non-euclidian in an non-uniform way. This means that two random points (A and B) on this planet could have the following properties (exact numbers are arbitrary):
One could ...
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How to map arms of the galaxy?
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My interstellar civilization(s) have fled our home Solar System, spreading throughout the nearby systems in the Orion Arm. They possess FTL, but for plot reasons, they have only just ...
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Is excavating alien technology legal? [closed]
I know that there are diffrent laws regarding excavating resources on other planets and asteroids,but they are far from being precise. Many conflicts arise when nations want to make one law that ...
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why would a post apocalyptic exploration team want a Teenager in their group? [closed]
So for the setting :
the world is recovering of a mass apocalyptic event
the place in which where all of the mankind steading, is actually a small communities and towns centered around a city of ...
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How best could our society explore dungeons?
First of all, for the question of how did the dungeons get there or how we found them let's say that they have been hidden since ancient times by a race of magical wizards. They cast spells making the ...
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What's stopping me from inventing a planet with oceans of mercury?
It doesn't necessarily need to be breathable by humans. But it should be room temperature (at which mercury is liquid). My concern is whether mercury oceans could remain stable or would they all get ...
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Is there a good way to approximate alien biological age?
Let's ignore extraterrestrial visitors on Earth because I don't want to discuss twin paradox, we should be focusing on life inhabiting on another planet instead.
Here on Earth we can do carbon dating ...
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Why don't adventurers (and monsters) suffocate in lower levels of dungeons?
Why don't adventurers (and monsters) suffocate in lower levels of dungeons?
Gases in mines and dungeons can be unbreathable
I asked a question about this on Physics to check my reasoning. Why does ...
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Is mirror test a good way to explore alien inhabited world safely?
In a distant future our robot will be setting their tracks on another hospitable planet, I believe we are not alone and there must be other intelligence beings out there in these billions upon ...
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How would cats navigate oceans?
So, these are the same cats detailed in previous questions. Intelligence is equivalent to 'human in cat bodies', they have mildly opposable thumbs, they can be bipedal temporarily (Think like bears or ...
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How long would it take for a group of settlers to form a new civilization
In my world, sometime before the main events of the story, a group of about 100 explorers set out to cross the uncrossable mountain range that divides the continent and venture into lands unknown. ...
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Anatomy of men with beards
Lest anyone think I am making fun of men with beards, I should point out that I am a man with a beard.
A space-exploration team land on a new planet. They are surprised to discover that the local ...
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Most Likely Way to Protect Against Infectious Disease When Visiting Other Planets?
In various science fiction works, we see our plucky heroes beaming down to, or flying down to planets other than their own. They meet with the inhabitants there, be they human or otherwise and then ...
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