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4:18 AM

@TheDarkSide Worldbuilding meta can be found here worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com You may have to dig deep to find WB's scope, policies and question closure criteria. Some of which can be found by taking the tour as @AndyD273 suggested.

@RedactedRedacted Relativistic kinetic energy. The article doesn't word it well.

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The Dark Side

5:58 AM

Thank you @a4android, @AndyD273 and @sphennings for the inputs.

@AndyD273 In a nutshell, what I'm concerned about is, does the original premise of the question have to be consistent with logic, or e.g. laws of Physics? Or are we proposing a hypothetical situation, which may not always be logically viable, and then using logical and scientific reasoning to answer it within the rules of the post?

The reason why I thought I should post in chat is, e.g. there was recently a question about building a wall to guard against, uhm, zombies.

I saw that on the HNQ list. Naturally, it is difficult to resist against clicking on these things.

Now, the posts go on and talk about why it makes more sense to post a wall with the zombies in, rather than out.

But suppose I ask the question, what happens if these zombies climb the walls?

What if zombies climb the wall? If corpses can walk, why can't they climb? — The Dark Side Jul 4 at 17:03

Certainly that isn't illogical.

But clearly, there must be something that I'm missing in the scope of the site.

The rules of the post don't exclude this possibility:

> Infected humans have a sense of numbers, time, distance, and self-preservation; they can learn from observation; and they can use tools

So, if I post an answer that says, "No, it is pointless building a wall, since zombies are going to find a way of climbing it", is that answer dismissive and off-topic?

I certainly personally find it dismissive.

Because this way, using hypothetical constructs, one can practically dismiss anything.

So clearly, I do not understand the rules of the game.

I will certainly dig into Meta as suggested by @a4android, but in case anyone has anything to say about this, the comments would be more than welcome.

Thanks WB chat :)

a4android

6:50 AM

@TheDarkSide The objective in asking questions, is that it can be answered within reasonable parameters. This excludes pure brainstorming, ideas gathering or fishing, and what to make my characters do in a story. Questions & answers aren't confined to a realist concept of science. So there will be questions, for example, about magic, zombies, & time-travel. Some questions tagged hard-science require answers with citations and equations.

@TheDarkSide If you answered the question about walls and zombies based on the rationale zombies can learn & this means they will sooner or later find a way out. What you do is explain this and its affect on keeping zombies confined. What makes an answer on-topic is: addressing what the question asks, and providing facts, information, logic, commonsense, scientific principles where needed, historical precedents (if applicable), and reasons to support your explanations.

@TheDarkSide Read a number of questions & answers in areas of interest to you to get a sense of the ways things are done here. Don't forget, have fun!

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Mithrandir24601

8:44 AM

Someone's been on worldbuilding a bit much: 52.2.80.98 :o

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Redacted Redacted

9:46 AM

@a4android Look at this article, that I just found:

Plasma acceleration

Plasma acceleration is a technique for accelerating charged particles, such as electrons, positrons and ions, using an electric field associated with electron plasma wave or other high-gradient plasma structures (like shock and sheath fields). The plasma acceleration structures are created either using ultra-short laser pulses or energetic particle beams that are matched to the plasma parameters. These techniques offer a way to build high performance particle accelerators of much smaller size than conventional devices. The basic concepts of plasma acceleration and its possibilities were originally...

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a4android

11:27 AM

@RedactedRedacted Promising. Might be difficult to generate neutral particle beams with it. It's a nice concept. There's still the power problem. Pettawatt lasers must energy hungry beasts. Good to see you're doing thorough research. It's gives you more interesting ideas to think about.

a4android

11:49 AM

@Mithrandir24601 It also contravenes the principle of the prevention of unilateral and unbridled commercial exploitation of outer-space resources in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and the Moon Agreement of 1979.

Mithrandir24601

@a4android I wasn't aware that was a thing. But I was slightly nervous when I noticed that it was very explicit about it working with the US government. Almost like said government is trying to claim the moon as its own...

Also, I'm not surprised that they don't care about said treaties, considering that they're working closely with said government

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DonyorM

3:47 PM

So did the idea of making an open source worldbuilding app completely die out?

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The Dark Side

6:16 PM

@a4android Thanks a lot for your inputs. Cheers :)

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Redacted Redacted

9:07 PM

I wonder if blowing plasma in the face of bullets would be enough to stop them...

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DukeZhou

10:59 PM

I was thinking of trying to use world building to ask if a secret history I'm working on has the "ring of truth" in order to garner critique and suggestions, but am unsure if the scope of this Stack allows that (i.e. as opposed to simple questions and answers about various subjects.)

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