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Thread: Worst Pre-Technocalypse disaster
Post: RE: Worst Pre-Technocalypse disaster
| I remember reading an article is Scientific American about 10 years ago that reviewed the number of weapons required to cause a global nuclear winter. The figure was a lot less than that proposed duri... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-14-2018, 03:28 AM |
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Thread: Time travel via many worlds
Post: RE: Time travel via many worlds
| I wasn't thinking of using MW as a way to physically travel through time, but rather to use it to make observations about the past. This idea really comes out of echammond's thread about post Y11k tec... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-22-2018, 03:13 AM |
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Thread: Book Club (Feb 2018)
Post: RE: Book Club (Feb 2018)
| I've just finished a book that I really enjoyed and would like to recommend to the forum book club.
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimage... |
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Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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02-22-2018, 02:59 AM |
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Thread: Time travel via many worlds
Post: Time travel via many worlds
| I remember reading a novel called Timeline when I was a kid about historians who travelled to medieval France in an alternate timeline almost identical to the one they came from. This allowed them to ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-21-2018, 01:13 AM |
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Thread: Fun activities in the Terragen Sphere
Post: RE: Fun activities in the Terragen Sphere
| I like to imagine that by the interplanetary era I'm living in semi-retirement on the Moon, occasionally taking part in the annual Cis-Lunar solar sail race. |
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Duddy9 |
General Setting Discussion
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02-20-2018, 09:38 PM |
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Thread: Whats your favorite kind of Modosophonts?
Post: RE: Whats your favorite kind of Modosophonts?
| My favourite is one I'm writing an article about now, Cellphonts. Single cell modosophonts that use a human body as habitat. |
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02-10-2018, 08:15 AM |
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Thread: Book Club (Feb 2018)
Post: RE: Book Club (Feb 2018)
| Can we include non-fiction books we've been reading? If so I'd like to include a book I read a couple of months ago, New World of Mr Tompkins
https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-World-Mr-Tompkins-Paperbac... |
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02-08-2018, 06:58 AM |
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Thread: Weird/horrifying things to eat
Post: RE: Weird/horrifying things to eat
| The talking cow from Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
A clone of yourself.
A colony of Cellphonts. |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-23-2018, 12:25 AM |
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Thread: Gravity/metric manipulation
Post: RE: Gravity/metric manipulation
| Could black hole electrons be used for metric manipulation?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_electron |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-16-2018, 10:45 PM |
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Thread: Animals and Plants for Non-Earth-like Environments
Post: RE: Animals and Plants for Non-Earth-like Environm...
| A while back I hand an idea for a type of giant molluscs that would move across the surface of Mercury relying on exothermic and endothermic reactions. |
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01-15-2018, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: A Middle Tech Society Without Access to the Net
Post: RE: A Middle Tech Society Without Access to the Ne...
| If you're looking for an example of scifi design without the internet. I'd recommend the reboot of Battlestar Galactica. The set designers designed the ship without any networked computers. The In-uni... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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12-06-2017, 11:18 PM |
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Thread: The Singularity is near...
Post: RE: The Singularity is near...
| I spent 2 years sometime ago doing a part time MSc in Data Analytics & Computer Science thinking I was future proofing my job. More fool me :dodgy: |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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12-05-2017, 01:58 AM |
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Thread: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
Post: RE: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
| What I was really wondering was if natural selection would remove those species that have violent tendencies. It's true that violence can provide evolutionarily useful in the past, I would argue that ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-30-2017, 06:20 AM |
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Thread: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
Post: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
| Reading about the offensive capacities of Megastructures such as Steve's Supraself structure, reminded me of an argument that Carl Sagen proposed. That at the stage in which a civilization is manipula... |
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11-24-2017, 11:29 PM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
| I'm actually studying a part-time physics degree with the Open University, I've just checked and we do have several of their papers.
It's a shame the JBIS archive only goes back to 1999. Arthur C C... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-24-2017, 06:52 AM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
| Steve and Terrafamilia, thanks for the links to the Cloud 9 wikipedia entry.
Does anyone know where Buckminster Fuller first discussed his idea for Cloud 9? Did he write a paper? I'd love to see hi... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-23-2017, 10:50 PM |
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Thread: Anders Sandberg on BBC R4 'Moral Maze'
Post: Anders Sandberg on BBC R4 'Moral Maze'
| Anders Sandberg appeared last night on BBC Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze' discussing The Morality of Artificial Intelligence.
He seemed to particularly annoy Melanie Phillips, which delighted me no-end... |
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11-23-2017, 10:42 PM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
| Here is a Paper on Supramundane Planets. I picked it up some time during the year, I'm afraid I have no idea where I got it.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=15914240693085852538 |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-23-2017, 03:08 AM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
| Just found this article on what sounds like one of Steve's Supraself
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1112/1112.5519.pdf
Does anyone have an technical information on the Cloud 9 proposal, I've... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-22-2017, 05:54 AM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: Resource of information
| Following on from the discussion on the Megastructures thread.
I would like this thread to be a central resource of technical information we collectively find. Ideally it would cover everything fro... |
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