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The Dark Lord is arising from over six thousand years of sleep. Should he arise, all is lost in the worlds of Man, their Ancestors, and their descendants. The Grand Citadel is the largest city in the world, with millions of inhabitants. The rich and wealthy can afford to fly to other nations by...

All was fire, and yet there was relief. -The Book Of Endings If there was anything that needed to be said, it was that hell truly sucked and that looking out a sea of flames on your little islands of rock and dirt drifting randomly across the infinite expanse was truly boring. Plus, the...

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic, at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme...

The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete Here’s what’s next. The scientific paper—the actual form of it—was one of the enabling inventions of modernity. Before it was developed in the 1600s, results were communicated privately in letters, ephemerally in lectures, or all at once in books. There was...

Explanation Of Arcanus Urbanus: Earth has been wrecked through World War III, survivors live in pocket dimensions throughout the world which are basically free of the monsters and other plagues that lurk throughout the wastes. Aliens called Changelings lived in these dimensions over the...

A Frame of Reference is an abstraction of n-dimensions used to perceive reality. Reference frames have a central observer to which all interactions are observed relativistic. It must contain all interacting bodies. Inertial Frames of Reference are the core of classical physics. Within them...

Source here Welcome to Hearty Grove, your hometown for thirteen years. The sights include the massive park right outside the city council building, an aesthetically pleasing industrial district, a state-of-the-art medical facility and, of course, the daily reports of the twenty plus magical...

I should be working on something else, but when I found myself making a fifth spreadsheet page for this I just gave up and decided to do it. So here we go, better get your desert gear ready, because Kharak is unforgiving at best. I also recommend putting This on to get you in the mood. (|o|) /...

thestar.com Amateur Canadian scientists discovered a new type of northern lights and promptly named it ‘Steve’ By The Canadian Press 4-5 minutes Amateur Canadian scientists discovered a new type of northern lights and promptly named it ‘Steve’ | Toronto Star This is a nice and fun way to...

A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal” So yeah. Nectome is a preserve-your-brain-and-upload-it company. Its chemical solution can keep a body intact for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, as a statue of frozen glass. The idea is that someday in the future...

A little idea I had been toying around with for a science fantasy setting. But say there was a massive world tree with branches, roots, and trucks extending from a cluster of planets into moons and a gas giant like Jupiter, what kind of ecosystem could you imagine forming around such a concept...

The rich genetic detail gave the scientists a much clearer look at the freakish origins of the marbled crayfish. It apparently evolved from a species known as the slough crayfish, Procambarus fallax, which lives only in the tributaries of the Satilla River in Florida and Georgia. The...

Im looking for a blog or YouTube channel or podcast that every weekly updates, talking about a different hypothetical future technology or concept. I’ve tried •Isacc Arthur’s youtube channel •ColdFusion youtube channel •NextBigFuture site •BBC Earth Lab youtube channel •Stuff to Blow Your...

Mad Scientists Coalition Member Quest Something went wrong, sometime along the way. Nobody is quite sure what it was, exactly, only that nothing had ever been the same since. The world was different in some inexplicable way that left everybody on edge, because something was wrong but nobody...

It is a time of new birth in the galaxy. By some quirk of fate or luck, scores of independent planets have near-simultaneously discovered the trick of physics that gives birth to the Warp Drive. You are the head of one such polity. It is up to you to guide your world into this new age. Who do...

There is a house in New Berlin... The war ended with a bang and then a long, drawn-out whimper as the Third Reich, empowered by technologies never seen before, sent the Allies back to the beaches of Normandy after the Battle Of The Bulge, and the unleashed deadly weapons of mass-destruction...

Overall, which ship propulsion is most advanced of these choices? Ion Engine Plasma engine Solar sail Antimatter rocket Nuclear pulse Black hole starship Quark matter Ramjet Magnetic Monopole rocket

To prevent a derail in For the Empire, I'm bringing the tangential discussion on Federation design safety and the TNG episode Contagion here. In my mind, Contagion revealed two major design flaws in the Galaxy-class starship. These flaws being the singular computer system and the fail-deadly...

Prologue: The Monk and The Metal Man His name, as far as any records that survived were able to confirm, was John. With records being relatively spotty due the monastery he lived in being subject to no less than three seperate Viking raids before a new one was built further inland, most...

Spark within Shadows For doom the bell toiled. For your arrival in this world the bell toiled. Thirteen times it toiled, thirteen long, metallic sounds of the ancient bell filled the heart of men with dread and yours with joy. "My ladee, iz here! Iz a- --[] Boy!" --[] Gurl!" You felt a pair...

Zika virus kills brain cancer stem cells | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis I never thought that something good would come out of this.

Prologue: Voyage's End "Attention all hands. Attention all hands, this is your Captain speaking." The voice crackling over the radio and echoing through the gore-coated hallways of the ship was a familiar one to those still fighting inside the ship and outside on the scarred and cratered...

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Transforming weaponry has been popularized by RWBY and several fantasy games, but the question is if it is actually doable, and if it is, would it be in any way practical, as we begin constructing lighter, tougher materials, and increasingly complicated machinery, an important question is...

I'm trying to make a civilization that has achieved apotheosis in every field. Basically the very highest point of advancement in that area; it is one thing that is the final achievement. What is that one thing in all these fields based on the knowledge we have today? (I'm sure when we reach...