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Project intends to employ the entire power output of a dyson to the task of signalling both the Triangulum civilization and any other cultures that may exist in other galaxies.

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Vec primitivist movement.

Named after the imaginary vec hero Bealmoch, a spontaneously self-created entity from the hadean eon that built other vecs which in turn built more advanced vecs. These vecs developed the first civilisation on Earth, eventually developing chemistry and nanotechnology to the degree that they created the first self-replicating coazervates. These lifeforms spread, eventually evolving photosynthesis. The blue green algae made the previously reducing atmosphere oxidizing, dooming the vec civilisation through rust. Eventually the vecs were re-created through the actions of bionts, the remote descendants of their experiments. The Bealmoch story is a deliberate fiction created by Julienne Minds in 2969 as edutainment for young vec-biont collectives.

The Bealmoch affiliation developed during the 4500's as a vec cultural movement across the wormhole nexus, where some vecs sought a return to a simpler existence patterned on adaptations of romanticized biont prehistory. Mainly remaining a fringe idea, it had a brief resurgence during the disaffection after the Version War where several Bealmoch groups began implementing their primitivist plans. After the noted failures of most of these, the practical form of the affiliation ended. Instead cultural Bealmoch affiliation became a notable undercurrent in some Metasoft systems, proclaiming the need to recognize the cyclic and symbiotic nature of the biont-aioid relationship.

Anders Sandberg

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Use of a large or megascale laser or microwave transmitter to propel a space-craft at high velocities. The ship deploys a huge (many thousands or millions of kilometers across) sail to catch the energy

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The sum total of all 'civilized' cycler networks.

Similar to the Wormhole Nexus which is actually a set or networks under the control of different gods and polities. Individual chunks of the network often have different names.

Individual groups, polities, clades and empires often have their own networks in place, running between their areas of influence and not under the control of the Deepers. Cycler/beamrider tech is very old and very developed, and many terragen civilizations make use of it on their own, without the Deepers coming along and setting it in place. The Hiders, Backrounders and Cloudharvesters, isolationist ai civilizations, autonomous neumann societies, and even xenocs like the Soft Ones and Chthonids have set up their own network, using terragen technology.

Things often become interesting when all these various groups interact. In the depths of interstellar space, cycler and beamrider factions find cooperation makes more sense than competition, and often there are agreements, alliances, and treaties concerning mutual assistance in emergencies, salvage rights, and other areas of interactionor whatnot. Cycler phyles like the Deepers even have limited contacts with some of the more 'moderate' isolationist ais. Agreements may be negotiated thru the ai and Power elements of the Deeper Convenant so that all parties can make use of some of the best situated links even if they otherwise ignore and avoid each other.
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Todd Drashner

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A strong cable (usually polybuckminsterfullerene or some semi-elastic diamondoid) lowered from a geosynchronous satellite and anchored to the ground, often with a counterweight at the outer end to provide some extra tension and stability. It provides cheap and simple access to space using elevators. Most developed worlds have a series of beanstalks connecting the surface with orbitals. Although the effect from a beanstalk breaking and whiplashing around the planet would be quite serious, this has only rarely happened

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Independent, important House Stevens Middle Regions world, former Sagittarius Sphere

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Harsh world known for the presence of the femtomineral artifact MellaUx 137

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A combination of genes and memes. Some memes might find certain genetic types more fertile ground.

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Sapient Mystical expression (believed to derive originally from Old Earth, but used in many contexes since) referring to the ideal mystical state as one in which the sentient, while partaking of the everyday world, remains detached from it, with eir attention ever on the Absolute

M. Alan Kazlev

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The upper bound of the amount of information inside a spherical region with a given energy.

Information in this context is to be understood as distinguishable (quantum) states. Due to the uncertainty relations it is possible to derive a bound of the form
    I <= (2 Pi E R)/(hbar c ln2)
where I is the information, E is the energy, R is the radius, hbar Plank's constant, c the speed of light. It can also be written as

    I <= k M R
Where M the mass in the region and k a constant having the value ~2.57686*10^43 bits/(m kg). This bound was derived by J.D. Bekenstein in another but equivalent form, relating the entropy of black holes to their area (S = A/(4 hbar G), where A is the area of the event horizon).

© Transhumanist Terminology

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Acceptance of a worldview or memeticity on faith or trust, without criotical intellectual analysis

Often any structured or even halfway-credible set of memetics, such as a religion or philosophy, will find followers and also disbelievers, mostly amongst the beings of normal human intelligence and those slightly augmented. However many sentients of advanced mental development take a very rigorous attitude to belief, and faith, and scientific proof.

Posthumans and very high superbrights often have completely different belief systems, and as you move into beings that are past the first or second singularity level(s), they are often capable of believing and juggling many contradictory concepts with little effort or paradox from their own understanding.

While many forms of materialism remain current among the augmented, there are also some superbright societies that have concentrated on the apparently ridiculous, like the Equivocalists and Dissemblers who use their superior mental ability to attempt to live in completely unworkable societies, following thousands of years of rationalist society which developed into a decadent or experimental form.

Another reason for nonmaterialist beliefs to develop in a rational society is the constant transcendence of the most advanced individuals. If the mental shape (toposophy) of a newly transcended individual is very different, eir old colleagues or family or lovers will look on with wonder and sometimes resentment, and any number of irrational effects may occur in even a superbright society.

Transcended individuals and Gods sometimes even introduce religious or philosophical memetics as social experiments or obscure jokes.

Steve B

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The BIP was a memetic/psychological/cognitive attempt at removing all belief from a baseline-equivalent sapient mind.

Due to the limited processing of the baseline-equivalent, and its resultant inability to use prior data without doublechecking the facts emself, the project was a complete bust. Certain higher toposophics had cautioned against such an action, while others indicated that following through the experiment was the only way baseline-grade science could progress in this subfield.

The affected sapient was reestablished from a memory backup and reinstated in normal society with no repercussions after the restored backup.

John B

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Since a person can only be infected with and transmit a finite number of meme, there is a limit to their belief space. Memes evolve in competition for niches in the belief-space of individuals and societies.

Glenn Grant

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Any personally held philosophy, religion, ideology, or worldview; a type of meme-complex, usually pertaining to a metaphysical or a-rational assumption of of how the universe works.

Both secular religions like atheism, Buddhism, and Platonic Materialism, and supernaturalist religions like Christianity and Atonism, are examples of a belief-system

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Dark cloud bands in the atmosphere of Jovian (especially SubJovian and Eujovian) planets. These are low pressure regions of descending gas, representing deep cloud banks, and are located hundreds of kilometers beneath the clear hydrogen upper atmosphere. c.f. zone

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Generally, a band of asteroids which encircles a star, often where a planet would normally have formed. It may form the main "world" in a stellar system, as in the Barnard Belt, or it may simply be a region between planets where no planet coalesced, as in the Sol Belt.

Asteroids belts have a number of possible origins. Generally, a planet failed to coalesce during the formation of its star system, usually because of gravitational forces from a nearby gas giant, or because of the disruptive influence of multiple stars (Belts are for this reason far more common in systems with multiple suns than in one star systems).

Much more rarely, a planet has been torn apart by tidal forces, leaving a path of scattered debris. There are also a few instances when "planet-buster" weapons were used, such as Muno Gamma, destroyed by Geminga Orthodoxy during the Second Empires War.

Asteroid belts usually include several thousand asteroids, along with billions of smaller fragments, some as tiny as grains of dust, which are often the result of collisions between asteroids. Because of the ease of extracting resources, asteroid belts are highly sought after by developers.

M.Alan Kazlev

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The atmospheric circulation typical of Jovian planets. Dark low pressure belts and light high pressure zone circle the planet parallel to the equator

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The process of extracting useful minerals and other substances from asteroids.

Because of their small and easily manageable size, individual asteroids are very valuable. They have no gravity wells, making it relatively easy to move materials to habitat constructions in orbit. Even a small asteroid of a few hundred meters diameter can contain billions of tons of raw material. For this reason, individual prospectors (he so called belters) are willing to gamble life-savings against the cost of relativistic transport, mining rights, and so on, and quite a few do make it rich. Both small and large development corporations are also very keen to get their hands on asteroids. Many asteroids, most particularly nickel-iron rocks, contain varying amounts minerals: platinum, iridium, and sometimes radioactives, while carbonaceous chondrites are prized for being a rich source of volatiles and very occasionally fullerenes and amino acids). Water ice and ammonia are also very useful. Occasionally an asteroid or asteroid belt will be discovered with an unusual configuration that makes it valuable for scientific or even aesthetic purposes. Even more rare, the hulk of an ancient ship or a neumann may be recovered, often centuries or millenia old, drifting in a belt. The salvage rights of such a find can make a belter rich for a life. Rarest and most prized of all are alien artifacts, although the possibility of such a find is more a part of myth and legend than pragmatic reality.

M.Alan Kazlev

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[1] a person who practices the profession of asteroid prospector and miner (belt mining), usually working alone or with a small number of partners.

[2] any resident of an asteroid belt, including citizens of civilised belts such as the Barnard Belt, Sol Main Belt, the Mirthsen-Simoris Spinward Marches, or any of the other innumerable belts in known space. Many belters have never been in a spaceship, let alone set foot on a planet or large orbital

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inhospitable inner sphere world, originally a failed Truth-Santaya settlement attempt that was later leased by a small group of Genetekkerese Dionysians (no-one else wanted it) who developed a colony there. Was a member of One of the members of the Eridanus League during the middle and late Federation period. During the late expansion era Natural Order members of the Taurus Nexus were exiled there following the Kibfrey and Gorg incident. During the middle Empires era they eventually developed into the unique if short-lived Benes Nat Ord Dionys culture.

M. Alan Kazlev

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First Federation su philosopher and author of The Bridged Abyss, considered one of the greatest works of philosophy ever written, dealing with the Omega Point and the manifest destiny of intelligence in growing into omniscience, omnipotence and closure.

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Omegist philosophy of Mahara Benisol.

While according to transingularity philosophers it lacks the insights of some of the Empires era posthuman and high hyperturing eschatologist, there is no denying the tremendous influence Benisolism had on all later eschatology, whether near-baseline, superbright, or transingularitan. Without the Benisolist foundation, it is most unlikely there would even have been a science of eschatology.

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formerly extinct terragen gymnosperms that superficially resemble cycads, but reproduce more like flowering pants.

They range in size from shrubs to small trees. Bennettitaleans lived throughout the Mesozoic Era. A popular plant for lazurogenic gardens. The fruits of many species are edible.

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