Comment by SJuan76 on Could alien nanobots re-engineer humans using xeno...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Note that your question does not place any restriction on the technology. So if the technology level you imagine is not...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on What is the Fighting Population of a Goblin Community?
I disagree with the basic idea. Yes modern wars need a lot of manpower in the war industries. But pre-modern wars required lots and lots of manpower just to keep the people feed (and the did not always...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on Setting Relative Coinage Values
@MolbOrg small transactions were pretty common in the old times, for example you can check this video about "fast food" in ancient Rome youtube.com/…
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on How would a group of people on a rogue planet expand...
Yes please, state what you want to ask in your question. We are not able to read your mind so we can only answer to what you write. If your mind and fingers are disconnected, there is nothing we can do...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on How would national borders work for colonies on planets...
A modern colony would have no trouble expanding all around the globle as with modern technology they would not have the difficulties that old countries had (they had to travel, they had difficulty...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on What could centipedal mechs do that tracked & wheeled...
@JohnO A tracked vehicle distributes its weight through a larger surface than a wheeled vehicle or a person or beast, making them more suitable to bad terrain. That is why tanks were invented, to begin...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on Does a space government make sense?
spaceships can produce their own energy, without ever needing to stop and refill so is this setting science-fiction or magic? because that sentence means the later, not the former...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on How Might an Army with Modern Technology Gear up for...
@o.m. Even in 1940, it was both the French and the British who were soundly defeated; the UK being saved only because of the sea. But by putting the blame solely on the French the UK tried to keep...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on Would Corrosive Weapons Work in Outer Space?
One important issue with corrosion is that it is slow. Maybe your hits will destroy the enemy ship, but that is a small consolation if that enemy ship remains operative long enough to destroy your own...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on When are Turreted Railgun better than Spinally-Mounted...
With greater power comes slower fire rate. Not necessarily. In opposition to conventional guns, it could be feasible for a railgun to fire a second (third, fourth) projectile while the first one still...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on How plausible is my alien world? Atmospheric Content
O2 is very reactive. Unless there is something releasing it (e.g. photosynthesis) I would expect the O2 levels after an eon to be way lower; most of the original oxygen would have combined with sulfur,...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on What would happen if the Panama Isthmus was turned into...
As a curiosity, this is the argument of an early science fiction story by Stanley G Weinbaum: gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607511h.html
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on How long would it take for a Japanese-style castle to...
@SoronelHaetir Probably coating the inside was more important than coating the outside. Yes outside maybe you get an enemy attack once in a decade, and you have your guards ready to keep the enemy...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
Another frame challenge. No matter how well armoured, no human can survive a collision at Mach 3. Even 100kph would be 100% letal, if it were not because cars are designed with crumple zones that lower...
View ArticleComment by SJuan76 on How many cultures can a world have without being too...
What is a "culture"? You could do lots of generalizations and distinguish between "Western culture" and "East Asia culture". Or look closer and differentiate "American culture" from "Western European...
View ArticleAnswer by SJuan76 for Naval warfare in a Bronze Age setting - few big ships...
my admiral gets captured by the pirates in a sea battle, which would require that their fleet overwhelms hers somehow.Not necessarily.Ships of that age were not very seaworthy. Time and time again a...
View ArticleAnswer by SJuan76 for Can a land-based organism get to be at least 100 ft. in...
Is 8.9 km2 big enough?TL;DR: Yes, but not of the type you are thinking of.The 8.9 km2 belong a to a fungus. From WIkipediaThe largest living fungus may be a honey fungus of the species Armillaria...
View ArticleAnswer by SJuan76 for How long to dig through my tunnel?
Is there anything else I should take into consideration?That all of your men are dead. So you do not need to pay their salaries. Profit!People consume molecular oxygen (O2) to live[citation needed]....
View ArticleAnswer by SJuan76 for How can I turn ice into gold?
Molecules are formed by atoms. Each atom is of a type (element).Gold is an element.Water is formed by the elements hydrogen and oxygen.You cannot combine oxygen and hydrogen in molecules to create...
View ArticleAnswer by SJuan76 for How can I launch a projectile to hit something in...
Not a chance.You need to give the projectile all of the energy it needs in a very brief space of time (the time it needs to clear the volcano, to mention an example). That is an awesome amount of...
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