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Thread: Omnitool. 3rd Draft
Post: RE: Omnitool. 3rd Draft
Now on the site
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5551f76b0c60d |
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stevebowers. |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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05-12-2015, 11:04 PM |
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Thread: First artwork for OA
Post: RE: First artwork for OA
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stevebowers. |
General Setting Discussion
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05-12-2015, 10:01 PM |
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Thread: Midgard - new image
Post: RE: Midgard - new image
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... |
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stevebowers. |
Art and Visual Media
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05-12-2015, 09:41 PM |
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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... |
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stevebowers. |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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02-20-2015, 01:16 AM |
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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. |
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stevebowers. |
General Setting Discussion
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02-20-2015, 12:13 AM |
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Thread: The Nanodisaster and Starships
Post: RE: The Nanodisaster and Starships
chris0033547 Wrote: (02-19-2015, 11:06 PM)
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Rynn Wrote: (02-19-2015, 08:34 PM)
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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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stevebowers. |
General Setting Discussion
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02-19-2015, 11:44 PM |
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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... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-19-2015, 04:58 PM |
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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... |
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stevebowers. |
General Setting Discussion
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02-19-2015, 04:54 PM |
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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... |
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stevebowers. |
General Setting Discussion
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02-14-2015, 09:52 AM |
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Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG
Ithuriel Wrote: (02-11-2015, 09:03 PM)
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The Ship Design: Shielding (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/493edf03965d4) article has a broken link under the 'transapienttech shielding technology' sec... |
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stevebowers. |
Suggestion Box - OA website
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02-12-2015, 03:29 AM |
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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. |
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stevebowers. |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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01-28-2015, 12:00 PM |
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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... |
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stevebowers. |
General Setting Discussion
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01-28-2015, 11:55 AM |
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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... |
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01-28-2015, 11:37 AM |
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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... |
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01-28-2015, 11:21 AM |
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Thread: Population update
Post: RE: Population update
Ithuriel Wrote: (01-28-2015, 12:34 AM)
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...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:
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General Setting Discussion
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01-28-2015, 07:29 AM |
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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... |
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01-28-2015, 06:54 AM |
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Thread: Mega-Planetary Rings
Post: RE: Mega-Planetary Rings
Rynn Wrote: (01-28-2015, 05:40 AM)
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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!
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If all that mater... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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01-28-2015, 06:43 AM |
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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 ... |
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01-28-2015, 06:32 AM |
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Thread: Lawless Nell
Post: RE: Lawless Nell
I did notice that after I wrote it - good idea. |
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Art and Visual Media
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01-27-2015, 04:07 PM |
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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 ...) |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-24-2015, 03:41 AM |