Questions tagged [colonization]
For questions about the process of moving en masse to a new area.
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How could (a group of) humans "forget" their language and start a new? [closed]
In my setting, modern humans have colonized a habitable planet, with no ways of communicating with the Earth. After a few centuries, 3 main civilizational centres arise, 2 of them located in areas ...
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Would the discovery of sapient octopus on the coasts of Australia decrease or increase European interest on the continent?
In this alternate timeline, a species of sapient octopus evolved in the shallow coastal waters of Australia (specifically, in the Great Southern Reef.) Due to the isolation of Australia from Afro-...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict? [closed]
An interstellar convoy of human colonists arrive on a new planet. 500 years later, another convoy arrives, to find the descendants of the original colonists locked in a brutal civil war.
The planet is ...
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Timetable of life spreading on a colonized planet [closed]
Lets suppose, a ship full of a few hundred colonists crash lands on the wrong planet where, despite the odds, they try to form a functioning society. This planet has oxygen, liquid water and is ...
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If 30% of global military spending for the next 30 years were instead spent on an "intelligent life" backup colony, where should we site it and why? [closed]
Some industry leaders have proposed that AI poses a risk of extinction. Suppose some kind of an AI-related incident occurs that really scares humanity into action, and that this causes the world's ...
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Why would people colonize a ring of desert islands?
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I am setting up a world for a D&D campaign. Magic and technology are as usual for D&D worlds.
This world consists of a ring of hundreds of islands, in which there is one lush ...
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Fusion Prevention Field - What Are the Plausible Mechanisms?
In my story, a group of human colonists are set to colonize a distant planet. But on their way there, the fusion drive on the ship stop functioning when they enter an uncharted system, and they crash ...
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What location options are available for a large-scale underground mining city
In the late 18th century, a strange project was proposed by a Dutch engineer regarding a certain English expedition. The British Empire held a vast amount of territories at this time and had much to ...
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Ideal Settlement Location for Time Travelers [closed]
If a group of time travelers dedicated to travel back 10 million years and settle a humanless earth, where might they decide to found this first colony?
Assume that these temporal colonists are well ...
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What are the chances of finding uranium-238 ores on other planets?
I was thinking about aliens and space colonization and what the probability is of uranium ores being found on other planets.
Would they be common? rare? medium? who knows? the cosmic abundance of ...
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Where would the first large Antarctic colony be?
With the world average temperature rising, and polar ice decreasing, it has been speculated that in the 2100s people may start to colonize Antarctica.
Where in Antarctica would people likely colonize ...
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Garlic as staple food for colonies?
Roleplaying in a survival game, building my own world and now I'm colonizing a new land.
For the sake of realism and immersion I want to find the most effective and efficient staple foods out there. I ...
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A group of 100,000 modern humans is warped to Earth-like planet with NO EQUIPMENT, how advanced could they be in 100 years? [closed]
Even if they have modern knowledge, how much of that is applicable with no equipment as they would have to build everything from scratch?
Like, would they be able to figure out basic metallurgy (even ...
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What is the minimum mass of the tech stack to build a microcontroller?
One day we will colonize another world, far far away. Importing anything will be vastly expensive and slow. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better.
It's implausible that you could bring ...
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Earth is invaded by digital Aliens. Can they take over? [closed]
In this world, Alien AIs have invaded earth's internet through a signal stream since the start of the information age with the intent to digitally colonize Earth.
How exactly would they gain complete ...
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How to found a new independent city-state in a medieval setting?
This is for a future D&D campaign I’ll be DMing. I want to know how a rich and charismatic leader might create his own settlement and eventually turn it into a prosperous city-state. The world is ...
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Nipping urban sprawl in the bud
'The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation ...
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Would sound shifts be severe enough for two dialects to be mutually unintelligible after 400 years of no verbal contact?
A group of English-speaking settlers travel to the Earth-like exoplanet of Rataan, which is 5 light years away. They board the generation ship Genesis that will reach Rataan in 200 years (0.25% of the ...
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An Earth-like planet is found in another solar system. What are the top priorities after landing in order to create a self-sustaining colony?
Set in the not so distant future, we find a habitable planet very much like our own. The only downside is that it's around 500 years of travel with our current technological capabilities.
We have to ...
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How fast would a civilization with FTL spread out?
Let's say that a civilization has access to FTL. Let's say it is instantaneous so travel time between solar systems isn't a factor. How long would it take for them to spread out from their home solar ...
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BCS: Chola Empire colonizes Australia? [closed]
So, here's the premise- in the mid 11th century, a Vellalar prince, looking to gain influence and power in the Imperial Chola court, funds and organizes a small colonial expedition to search for new ...
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Sleep Cycles on very fast and very slow rotating worlds Part 2
This is the same as my previous question, Sleep Cycles on very fast and very slow rotating worlds Part 1, but this part is for how humans settling these world would alter their sleep cycles!
I would ...
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We Have Successfully Established Plants and Insects on Mars. How Long Will It Take Them to Colonize the Entire Planet?
In my last question, I have asked on how, once Mars has been terraformed, Terran species of plants and the insects on which the majority of them rely on would adapt to Mars's longer year. By far, the ...
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Colonizing Earth
After several centuries in exodus, humanity returns to earth to recolonize the planet. Naturally, their first question is the same as mine:
Where are the best place(s) on earth to settle?
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Efficient way to transport a Stargate [closed]
In the future Earth, scientists have successfully created Stargate.
And because of the greedy nature of human being, they wish to colonize as many planets as possible!
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