http://orionsarm.com/eg-article/52290a7ea6a0b
Diademata, The
The statement
can attenuate its cross-section sufficiently to fit through a thirty-metre wormhole.
"doesn't work."
My understanding is that wormholes are spherical and a transiting spacecraft must not exceed the wormhole's dimensions in any direction, hence the popularity of "grapeships". The Diademata would have to compress itself into a 30-metre sphere, which wouldn't leave much of its passengers. Maybe it could fragment into tiny pieces similar to the components of a grapeship?
http://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b2ad0f11181
9999 AT to Present: (Current Era)
10402 - The Solar Dominion Pocketstar Are We Having Fun Yet? 9902) attempt to investigate the Metric Ghostsfailed;
should be
10402 - The Solar Dominion Pocketstar Are We Having Fun Yet?'s attempt to investigate the Metric Ghosts failed;
but might be better as
10402 - The attempt by the Solar Dominion Pocketstar Are We Having Fun Yet? to investigate the Metric Ghosts failed;
(also note a space needs to be inserted between Ghosts and failed.)
The AIs have to replied to queries about the information encoded
should be
The AIs have not replied to queries about the information encoded
(I'm not sure that "AIs" is appropriate here. Maybe "Archailects" was meant?)
(08-26-2016, 08:29 AM)selden Wrote: [ -> ]http://orionsarm.com/eg-article/52290a7ea6a0b
Diademata, The
The statement
can attenuate its cross-section sufficiently to fit through a thirty-metre wormhole.
"doesn't work."
My understanding is that wormholes are spherical and a transiting spacecraft must not exceed the wormhole's dimensions in any direction, hence the popularity of "grapeships". The Diademata would have to compress itself into a 30-metre sphere, which wouldn't leave much of its passengers. Maybe it could fragment into tiny pieces similar to the components of a grapeship?
We've oscillated back and forth on this question. Having a spherical configuration is the best option, but I'm not convinced it is the only one. An extended object should be able to pass through a spherical wormhole so long it has the correct diameter, but any material that extends beyond the mouth would be subject to extreme tidal forces.
I think I'll change it to 'can change shape and separate into segments when necessary, allowing it to pass through a 30 metre wormhole'.
Edit; done.
Current Era updated; Thanks!
(08-26-2016, 10:02 AM)stevebowers Wrote: [ -> ] (08-26-2016, 08:29 AM)selden Wrote: [ -> ]http://orionsarm.com/eg-article/52290a7ea6a0b
Diademata, The
The statement
can attenuate its cross-section sufficiently to fit through a thirty-metre wormhole.
"doesn't work."
My understanding is that wormholes are spherical and a transiting spacecraft must not exceed the wormhole's dimensions in any direction, hence the popularity of "grapeships". The Diademata would have to compress itself into a 30-metre sphere, which wouldn't leave much of its passengers. Maybe it could fragment into tiny pieces similar to the components of a grapeship?
We've oscillated back and forth on this question. Having a spherical configuration is the best option, but I'm not convinced it is the only one. An extended object should be able to pass through a spherical wormhole so long it has the correct diameter, but any material that extends beyond the mouth would be subject to extreme tidal forces.
An extended object can pass through a spherical wormhole (and in OA all wormholes are spherical) as long it does not extend further than the diameter of the throat (which in this case would be spherical) in any dimension. Otherwise the bit extending beyond the throat will experience extreme tidal forces and will be shredded (which seems likely to be bad for the rest of it).
A spherical configuration is maximally efficient use of the available volume, and a grapeship design is handy because it lets you make maximum use of volume while having components small enough to pass through even very small wormholes.
Note that in the current version of OA, wormholes with throat dimensions measured in tens of meters are quite rare. They used to be more common, but then we adjusted things to increase most wormhole radii by an order of magnitude. Previously, most WHs were in the 100 m radius range. So they went up to a km radius. This due to Adam's work on our WHs which provided mass/energy numbers for different radii.
Todd
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/480d539cc69e6
Ilahlu Barrier, The
thanks to it's repetitive broadcast
should be
thanks to its repetitive broadcast
(It's almost annoying to find typos to report while I'm trying to find information about something quite different!
)
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f59ab1ed70d
Sagittarius Preservers, The
The phrase
subsidiary habs run by slaved hyperturings.
might need to be changed. However, the article is written as if much of the information is the result of guesses and many of the descriptions seem somewhat antagonistic. Leaving this might be appropriate, but perhaps with some additional qualification.