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Midgard's mass is given as 0.467 x Earth on that page; I worked it out using this calculator. http://www.transhuman.talktalk.net/iw/Geosync.htm If we put the inner moon at (say) 2x geosynchronous...

stevebowers.

Art and Visual Media

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05-12-2015, 09:41 PM

Thread: <EG> Isotopic Food
Post: RE: <EG> Isotopic Food

There are two pro aspects to the generation ship concept, although they are largely outweighed by the cons. Firstly a slow generation ship would require much less fuel per tonne of payload; if you d...

stevebowers.

Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles

02-20-2015, 01:16 AM

Thread: The Nanodisaster and Starships
Post: RE: The Nanodisaster and Starships

Or, perhaps more likely, GAIA decided to allow access to these facilities once She had secured her own position against attack.

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

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02-20-2015, 12:13 AM

Thread: The Nanodisaster and Starships
Post: RE: The Nanodisaster and Starships

chris0033547 Wrote: (02-19-2015, 11:06 PM) -- Rynn Wrote: (02-19-2015, 08:34 PM) -- 3.5) This one already is canon sort of but it would help to solidify it: once in power GAIA oversees the design an...

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General Setting Discussion

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02-19-2015, 11:44 PM

Thread: The Nanodisaster and Starships
Post: RE: The Nanodisaster and Starships

Having said that, 'billions' of people leaving the system seems too many. Tens or hundreds of millions would be a more plausible figure (we haven't really described the impact of these émigrés arrivi...

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

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02-19-2015, 04:58 PM

Thread: The Nanodisaster and Starships
Post: RE: The Nanodisaster and Starships

My idea has always been that GAIA took control of the amat production system. perhaps initially to protect it or repair it after earlier attacks; after this She was in a position to allocate antimatte...

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

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02-19-2015, 04:54 PM

Thread: Weather Machine variants
Post: RE: Weather Machine variants

Nice idea. Having a biological weather machine system is certainly something the Biopolity would favour, and it looks like Anders imagined something like this on Alexandria. As technology progresses o...

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

02-14-2015, 09:52 AM

Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG

Ithuriel Wrote: (02-11-2015, 09:03 PM) -- The Ship Design: Shielding (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/493edf03965d4) article has a broken link under the 'transapienttech shielding technology' sec...

stevebowers.

Suggestion Box - OA website

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02-12-2015, 03:29 AM

Thread: Mega-Planetary Rings
Post: RE: Mega-Planetary Rings

Like effector frames (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5453bc1f74965) on a massive scale. I like it.

stevebowers.

Real Life But OA Relevant

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01-28-2015, 12:00 PM

Thread: Population update
Post: RE: Population update

Anders does quote Zipf's Law on the Population page, so we can assume that OA populations often do follow this rule http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b3f706772ad0 although the exceptions would be...

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

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01-28-2015, 11:55 AM

Thread: Mega-Planetary Rings
Post: RE: Mega-Planetary Rings

I've been considering the design of ships that frequent large ring-systems like this. If the ship remains for long periods in the dust/ice belt, it will undergo frequent slow collisions - so the d...

stevebowers.

Real Life But OA Relevant

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01-28-2015, 11:37 AM

Thread: Mega-Planetary Rings
Post: RE: Mega-Planetary Rings

J1407b is 420 light years from Sol in the Scorpio/Centaurus OB association, - quite close on a galactic scale, and might be one of the early targets during the Later Federation/Age of Expansion. But t...

stevebowers.

Real Life But OA Relevant

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01-28-2015, 11:21 AM

Thread: Population update
Post: RE: Population update

Ithuriel Wrote: (01-28-2015, 12:34 AM) -- ...aaaand, having written all that, I find that the MPA article (http://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45cd3240ea58a) has this to say about the empire's AI ruler: Q...

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

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01-28-2015, 07:29 AM

Thread: Poor EG articles/Implausibly Stable Modo Societies
Post: RE: Poor EG articles/Implausibly Stable Modo Socie...

Some societies might be artificially inhibited or engineered to reduce social change. In a society where people are very long-lived, they might rely on artificial memories and external processing to r...

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

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01-28-2015, 06:54 AM

Thread: Mega-Planetary Rings
Post: RE: Mega-Planetary Rings

Rynn Wrote: (01-28-2015, 05:40 AM) -- Interestingly they estimate the mass of the rings as 100x the mass of Earth's moon which is around 7.34e24kg, around 50% greater than Earth! -- If all that mater...

stevebowers.

Real Life But OA Relevant

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01-28-2015, 06:43 AM

Thread: Mega-Planetary Rings
Post: RE: Mega-Planetary Rings

Saturn's largest ring, the very faint Phoebe ring, is 300 x Saturn's radius; about 18 million km. These rings around J1407b are 60 million km in radius, so maybe not that much wider, even if they are ...

stevebowers.

Real Life But OA Relevant

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01-28-2015, 06:32 AM

Thread: Lawless Nell
Post: RE: Lawless Nell

I did notice that after I wrote it - good idea.

stevebowers.

Art and Visual Media

01-27-2015, 04:07 PM

Thread: Fish out of water - the other way
Post: RE: Fish out of water - the other way

Cooling extremities might include big ears, or a crest (like the original Yondu (http://marvel.com/universe/Yondu) from the Guardians of the Galaxy- I'm old enough to remember the first team ...)

stevebowers.

General Setting Discussion

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01-24-2015, 03:41 AM

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