Links & Extras
Acknowledgements, References & other Extras
... including some white papers concerning technical aspects of the OA scenario, sites that have been influential in the creation of OA, some predecessors to Orion's Arm, parallel projects, independent projects that draw on Orion's Arm as one of their sources of inspiration and other useful links.Tales from Orion's Arm
Orion's Arm White Papers
- Traversable Lorentzian Wormholes
- Wormholes and Causality
- The Sky on Alien Worlds
- Space Habitat Illuminator with Non-Imaging Optics
- The Physics of Information Processing Superobjects: Daily Life Among the Jupiter Brains
- A Vision
The Orion's Arm Downloads
- Orion's Arm Animation Clips
- Orion's Arm Music
- OA Fonts for PC
- OA Fonts for MAC
- Academic Coronese Alphabet
- Orion's Arm Celestia Universe Addons Page 1
- Orion's Arm Celestia Universe Addons Page 2
- Orion's Arm Celestia Universe Addons Page 3
Additional OA Resources on the Web
- Interview with M.Alan Kazlev
- Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Group
- The Nexus: OA's Writing and Arts Group
- Orion's Arm Celestia
- Orion's Arm 3D Models
- Orion's Arm Graphics
- Űropera zene nélkül Extrópiánusok XXI
- Orion's Arm Flickr Set
- Orion's Arm on Facebook
- Orion's Arm on Twitter
- The Paul Birch Archive
Acknowledgements
EXTERNAL LINKS
Worldbuilding Links
Interesting Pages, Projects, and Resources
- Islam and Science Fiction
- Futurehead
- ITSF Project
- Paul Birch's Home Page
- An illustrated speculative timeline
- Chronicle of the Future
- Future History
- Chronology of Jerry Pournelle's Future History
- Gorbachev, Yeltsin and High Justice
- Enigma - Future History
- After Earth
- A Brief History of the Universe
- HardSF.net
- HardSF.org
- Starship Dimensions
- Scifi.com
- Quasar Dragon
- Science-Fiction
- Speculative Vision
Glossaries, Encyclopedias and References
- Astrophysics Glossary
- Creating Friendly AI
- General Chemistry Online Glossary
- The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches
- Memetic Lexicon
- The Computational Beauty of Nature
- Hypertext Glossary of Computer Science
- A Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms
- Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms
Science
Physics & Math
- John Baez Home Page
- Mathworld
- Hyperphysics
- Antimatter Calculator
- E=MC2
- Eric Weisstein’s World of Physics
- Explosion Calculator
- Energy Values
Relativity
General Astronomy
- Atlas of the Universe
- As The Crow Flies - Calculates distance between two stars
- eSky - The Electronic Sky
- The Internet Stellar Database
- Stars
- Star Data Pages
- 3D Starmaps
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Interactive NGC Catalog Online
Extrasolar Planets
- The Extrasolar Planets Encyclpedia
- Known Planetary Systems
- Giant Planets Orbiting Faraway Stars
- The Kepler Mission
- Free Floating Planets Confirmed (Article)
- NTT Observations Indicate that Brown Dwarfs Form Like Stars
- Habitable Moons
- Born Again Planets
Biology and Xenobiology
Social Sciences & Memetics
- Reason Magazine
- Wealth of Nations
- The World of F.A. Hayek
- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
- Human Universals
Singularity, Transhumanism and Toposophics
- Anders Transhumanist Resources
- The Coming Technological Singularity
- Flatland - A Romance in Many Dimensions
- Acceleration Watch
- KurzweilAI.net
- Constitution of the World Transhumanist Association
- TransCentral
- The Transhumanist FAQ
- The Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies
- The World Transhumanist Association
- Extropy Institute
Computers, Robots and Artificial Intelligence
- The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Creating Friendly AI
- FLARE
- Bayes' Theorem: Conditional Probabilities
- Robot - mere machine to transcendent mind
- Modular Robots
- Polypod
- Hugo de Garis
- Holographic Memory
- Limits of Computation
Nanotechnology
- Eric Drexler's Home Page
- Engines of Creation by Drexler
- The Foresight Institute
- Unbounding the Future (from The Foresight Institute)
- Nanomedicine
- Nanomedicine Art Gallery
- Robert Bradbury Home Page
- Matrioshka Brain Home Page
- Bushbots
- Softmachines
- Institute of Atomic Scale Engineering
- Institute of Molecular Manufacturing
- Center for Responsible Nanotechnololgy
- Nanomedicine
- Nanomedicine Vol I (Free Online)
- Nanomedicine Vol II (Free Online)
- Nanotechnology Paper
Exploration and Colonization of Space
- Advanced Propulsion for the 21st Century
- Centauri Dreams
- 21st Century Space Routes
- The Moon Miner
- Atomic Rocket
- Antimatter Space Propulsion
- Orbiter
- Space Propulsion Systems
- Next Exit 0.5 Million Kilometers
- The Relativistic Starship
- Space Settlements: A Design Study
- Space Settlements
- Dyson Sphere FAQ
- Megastructures
- Orbital Greenhouses
- Space Warfare
- Spacewarfare Pt II
- Spacewarfare Pt III
- Starflight Without Warp Drive
- Dave Dietzler's starship pages
- Interstellar
- Gunbuster
- Terraforming Information Pages
Wormholes
- Space-Time Engineering
- Dreaming Distant Voyages
- Toward a Traversable Wormhole
- Matt Visser's Home Page
- Hawking's chronology protection conjecture
- From wormhole to time machine
Space Operas and Similar Projects
- BigIdeasGrandVision
- Ad Astra
- Transhuman Space
- The Arcbuilder Universe
- Red Galaxy
- The Garden Universe
- Mars and outer planets trading post
- K'ai, Death of Dreams
- Sinai
- Science Fiction TV
