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Thread: Would Blights go after a planets rotational energy?
Post: RE: Would Blights go after a planets rotational en...
The Earth's rotational energy is equal to about a quarter of an hour's worth of the Sun's total luminosity; not a trivial amount, but also not much compared to the energy available in a KII system ove... |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
In other news, Daniel Dennett died today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html
His ideas about consciousness have always interested me, and are worth considering in th... |
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Thread: Riposte (cytherean xenosophonts)
Post: RE: Riposte (cytherean xenosophonts)
I can find some planet images for this system too, since I've got plenty (some made by LordOther that haven't been used yet, and some made by me). |
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stevebowers |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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Thread: Riposte (cytherean xenosophonts)
Post: RE: Riposte (cytherean xenosophonts)
Not sure what a Cytherian landscape might look like in false-colour polarisation, but it might look like this.
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stevebowers |
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Thread: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Post: RE: Newly discovered nearby black hole
The Threshold story is compatible with current canon, but it doesn't state exactly where the black hole is located, so we can certainly change the location of Threshold to Gaia BH3. |
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stevebowers |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
The trick would be to design any bodies of water on a McKendree Cylinder specifically to avoid tidal flows; small bodies of water should not be connected by narrow channels.
Larger bodies of water... |
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Yesterday, 08:31 PM |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
My point with these rather bizarre examples is that even a supporter of the CIT hypothesis could have a very rich and varied existence in the Orion's Arm civilisation; a human brain and CNS could be m... |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
The idea of a copygroup is one variation on this; a single sophont might copy or clone themself several times, then link their several minds together using group-mind or hive-mind technology to ensure... |
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stevebowers |
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Yesterday, 05:32 AM |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
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Problem is, most people who end up with 2 heads in real life are like, conjoined twins, they are definitely 2 different individuals, and I'd say all 3 of these fictional examples are too (I... |
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stevebowers |
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Yesterday, 05:03 AM |
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Thread: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Post: RE: Newly discovered nearby black hole
The nearest black hole in OA at the moment is Threshold, Sco BH-76
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47a3e440c01a5
This doesn't seem to be a real object, although there may be a rogue black hole somewh... |
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stevebowers |
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Yesterday, 03:38 AM |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
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It's not that it's less risky or more palatable to believe that consciousness is continuous, it's that that just is what consciousness is.
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I don't hold a firm opinion either way. But I ... |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 06:08 AM |
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Thread: Bioship article update
Post: RE: Bioship article update
As I suspected, I didn't keep that particular bioship mesh; but here is a different one, in side view. I have completely forgotten when I made this mesh. |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 05:40 AM |
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Thread: Permission for the Galactic Library to use art
Post: RE: Permission for the Galactic Library to use art
You can use any of my images, with attribution. Other artists may wish to set other restrictions, so it is best to ask them.
Some images are marked as copyright, or are creative commons images; thes... |
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stevebowers |
Art and Visual Media
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04-18-2024, 04:38 AM |
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Thread: Bioship article update
Post: RE: Bioship article update
I'm not sure I kept the mesh for that bioship, but it might be in my files somewhere.
I made it to demonstrate that even bioships would need radiators (assuming they use reaction drive), which would ... |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 03:04 AM |
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Thread: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding stars
Post: RE: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding st...
I tend to think that the 400 billion number includes brown dwarfs, whereas the ~1 billion stars in the Terragen Sphere figure refers only to stars capable of fusion.
We originally calculated the ~... |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 03:02 AM |
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Thread: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Post: RE: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Lots of strange characteristics about this star. Probably from another galaxy, and the remaining star seems to have been captured later.
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The star orbiting Gaia BH3 at about 16 times the Su... |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 02:53 AM |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
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So if you have a clone of you running around for like a year, that's a different person based on you, the moment you backport them into yourself, you have basically just killed them.
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 02:29 AM |
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Thread: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding stars
Post: RE: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding st...
The distribution of stars in the Milky Way galaxy is not uniform. The Hub and Bar of the Milky Way central volume is much more densely populated than the volume around the Orion Spur, so we can't expe... |
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stevebowers |
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04-16-2024, 07:24 AM |
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Thread: Bioship article update
Post: RE: Bioship article update
If it is ready to go, are you able to edit it yourself?
If not, we can pull it together this month.
Maybe my most recent bioship image can be fitted in somewhere.
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stevebowers |
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04-16-2024, 05:32 AM |
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Thread: EG: The Infinite Libraries
Post: RE: EG: The Infinite Libraries
A (somewhat abstract) image.
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stevebowers |
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