How did I manage to get 201 points for the day just ended? The Rep panel just shows the last upvote with +1 after a long string of blanks since I had already reached the limit of 200. I have noticed that the capping system is annoyingly dumb: after truncating incoming upvotes, if I “spend” poin...

After I edited Does the probable heat of nanotech universal constructors make it infeasible in home environments? I noticed that the editor had altered 10^12 to 1012. While trying to fix this the editor told me I needed to change at least 6 characters before I could save the edit. In this case I ...

Is there a way to add more options to the review stuff. A lot of the times the problem with the answer is that it needs to be expounded on, rather than any of the current options given, or perhaps a way to mark something as a Low Quality answer and possibly allow the answerer to mark it that way ...

I can never remember how to format units in math formatting, and people show different ways to do it anyway! So I thought it would be a good idea to hqve a permanent note listing things to do and not-do with peer-approved examples to copy from. Units Scientific notation with units on the end: ...

Let us say that, in the future, some scientists have created satellites capable of something that seems science fiction for now — punching the walls of the universe to study an alternate reality. By that scenario, some hundreds of “alternate Earths” from hundreds of alternate universes would alre...

I feel like a very high percentage of the questions asked here concern plausibility, which is something that's hard to avoid where any kind of fiction is concerned. Some questions purport to be related to "reality", even if they try to "hedge their bets", but in the context of fiction are really ...