Questions tagged [exploration]
For those questions that boldly go where none have gone before.
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Can humanity survive on red planet
Research is done each and everyday, challenging the boundaries of what we used to think was impossible. After all, it used to be thought impossible to land man on the moon.
Is it possible, give today'...
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Logistics of manned Europa exploration?
It is 2057 and a manned mission to Europa has been comissioned in the prospect of further exploring the ecosystem and energy signatures of Europa. Unlike the implied unnmanned probe, this mission ...
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How can I tell if stone age aliens are sapient?
Let's say I have been chosen to evaluate whether or not alien worlds contain sapient life before we terraform them. Just assume that we learned to work together and live as a species in peace, ...
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Can we land on a planet with methane-oxygen atmosphere?
If there is a planet whose atmosphere consists of :
30% methane
70% oxygen
Then, can we land on it? If yes, then how, and why would it not explode? Also, can such a planet exist for a long time?
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Migrating Dungeon Monsters / Why do monsters not leave the dungeons?
Background : Consider a typical dungeon, which has weak monsters at the top and the lower you go, the stronger the enemies become.
Some questions about dungeons have already been answered - why are ...
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How to build a "cloud city" in a gas giant?
Another question made me remember this.
Consider a sizable base (building, station) in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet. It should hold a staff of a couple hundred, with supplies and scientific ...
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How would lack of stars , sundials , and compasses affect the exploration age?
In my fictitious universe, a god like entity ( which is an amalgam of all individuals , scientific understanding , capabilities , and tech of a type 3.5 civilization ) produces a sun with the same ...
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How large would an orbiting structure have to be to be largely unexplored after 100 years?
For as long as recorded history, the Earth has had two moons - religions were based around the interactions of these two bodies in the heavens, they were worshipped, feared and romanticised.
Then at ...
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Where would Heaven be? [closed]
How could it be explained that living humans have yet to see heaven despite it being depicted as amongst the clouds, when they have technology to see vast distances in to space and have ventured out ...
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How to prepare for an alien pyramid exploration? [closed]
In the near future, NASA has discovered the existence of a huge pyramid buried under the red dunes of Mars but no signs of life were detected. NASA has already achieved three successful space missions ...
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Monolithic vehicles vs a convoy; So you want to go on a road trip
The scenario; suddenly a modern human world finds their nice, simple, understandable spherical world/solar system going poof overnight, and it being replaced by a mine-crafting plane world. Everyone ...
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Dungeons 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 ...
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Could the industrial revolution pre-date the age of discovery?
It is the early 1800s. Some guy has just figured out a way to burn coal to heat water and produce power. His cohorts are beginning to ask the "what if" questions that will lead to trains, automated ...
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How much life could our galaxy support?
Okay, so we are figuring out, that at least for how we are running things now, our Earth can fit about 10 billion people. We can probably raise if your economy distributed resources more efficiently, ...
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Alien exploration : drone digging earth crust
I was thinking of potential planet explorations, by extremely advanced alien species, through automated drones (or "flying laboratories") scanning and analyzing the planets. (By "extremely advanced", ...
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