Comment by Sonvar on Super earth habitability
placing the age at 2.7 billion years old places it equivalent to the early Proterozoic period of earth. Creatures that produce oxygen began to form in this period. having O2 so high so early may...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on Super earth habitability
a super earth will also have a more dense core, due to its own weight. so to have this ratio would require a slightly different material make up, Id assume ore water than what the OP had suggested.
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on In a stable medieval fantasy population, what should be...
Would the average age include child birth mortality? I would assume it would include maternal birth mortality.
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on what is the proper physical build of a fantasy adveturer?
Although to most likely people roaming about that may get caught up in an adventure would be a woodsmen, but you may have the random other dude get flung into action, such as a farm hand, who may be a...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on Demographic consequences of closed loop reincarnation
Do the females age out of child rearing ability? If your elves enter a time of peace and no one dies anytime soon. If all the females reach the age of menopause before a soul becomes available, then...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on Demographic consequences of closed loop reincarnation
Suicide among those may not be uncommon or negatively judged... I would imagine in this world, the elders, to maintain power or prevent chaos, may create a culture where suicide may be encouraged, at...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on Demographic consequences of closed loop reincarnation
I would imagine, after many hundreds of years, that all elves would become lethargic (lazy) and disconnected from the world. Eventually, they would have seen and done anything. The only thing left for...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on Can the dunkleosteus jaw model work on a land predator?
Since this developed at least once in evolutionary history, it shows its possible. However, this mechanism would be very bulky and limit range of motion in the neck. As an aquatic creature,...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on Could an animal use radiation as a defense mechanism?
There are a few isotopes that are highly radioactive and with relatively long half lives, it all depends on how energetic the decay is and what method it decayed, (such as alpha or beta.) isotopes of...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on Could an animal use radiation as a defense mechanism?
If the creature can maybe develop some kind of linear accelerator to create a beam of highly energetic partials to create ionizing radiation, then maybe. Then the creature would not need to carry...
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on What infrastructure would be needed to "farm" merfolk...
Do you mean to use the word sentient or just mean to be human like?
View ArticleComment by Sonvar on More Moons = Brighter Nights?
This would depend on the total angular diameter of all the moons added up and their albedo. Will there be a lot of tiny moons in high orbits or will there be few larger moons in lower orbits? Give some...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for Is using Casaba Howitzer like devices as...
Well, in theory, it is a sort of "beam weapon" in the form of heavy metal plasma. You would have to have some hefty directional shields go refine the stream of plasma into a usable beam. would be much...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for You are murderous alien pirates, how do you get onboard...
A couple of people mentioned this method already, but I would like to expand upon it as this has been an idea I had been thinking through for a while. To get aboard an enemies ship, I envisioned...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for How could overclocking the human body actually weaken my...
As with any conduit of energy, and this Hamon is a form of energy, it can only handle so much. As you harness and use this energy, the conduit in which it flows through, your body, begins to feel the...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for Can I X-Ray a civilisation to death?
As for traces of radiation, you would not find any form of radioactivity deposited from a high energy gamma emission. Gamma or x-ray may excite atoms or cause ionization, but they will not activate...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for Modern Landscape Lacking Wood Decomposers
This condition actually existed on Earth over 300 million years ago. Read hereEffectively, the trees would grow, live, die and they fall. They would pile upon each other. They would pile so high that...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for Assassin's bullet with mercury
Mercury as a LD50 of between 1mg/kg to 100 mg/kg. depending on the chemical properties of the mercury you choose to use you may need up to 10g to make if potentially lethal. Assuming you use the most...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for Is it logically or scientifically possible to...
If you begin to go cybernetic, you may need a form of electrical power. As others stated above, straight up powering biological organs via conventional electricity would not be possible, you would have...
View ArticleAnswer by Sonvar for How can I design a glamour spell for a creature that...
Do not underestimate the power of pheromones. A powerful chemical produced by creatures that, once received by a target, interacts with the targets body, producing a hormonal response. In this case,...
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