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    Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories

This is actually a topic we should explore a bit more. Baseline human memories are not analogues of a notebook or a video recording; they're constantly revisited, revised, and recombined. What's more,...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 12 141 03-05-2024, 06:48 AM
    Thread: Vacuum Gardens 1st draft
Post: RE: Vacuum Gardens 1st draft

I'm having a tough time understanding where any biological photosynthetic organism would get its carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen if it's in a vacuum and growing on a volatile-free substrate. Something ...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 14 186 03-01-2024, 04:55 PM
    Thread: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supercluster (revision)
Post: RE: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supe...

extherian Wrote: (02-17-2024, 05:41 AM) -- In my opinion we should keep this paragraph from our current description of HEEC1: Quote: -- Beginning in the 9900's, major conflicts have been observed...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 24 329 02-17-2024, 10:24 AM
    Thread: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supercluster (revision)
Post: RE: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supe...

Ravenson Wrote: (02-10-2024, 04:04 AM) -- I know the Cosmic Virus has already been trimmed down (it used to be half the galaxies within several billion light years), but I think it should be trimmed ...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 24 329 02-17-2024, 10:17 AM
    Thread: Terragen Federation (review of the sephirotic)
Post: RE: Terragen Federation (review of the sephirotic)

Drashner1 Wrote: (02-09-2024, 11:13 PM) -- Let's see here...Elements that could go into a revised Terragen Federation article. In no particular order: a) The TF sees itself as the continuation of ...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 46 526 02-13-2024, 06:36 PM
    Thread: Terragen Federation (review of the sephirotic)
Post: RE: Terragen Federation (review of the sephirotic)

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-26-2024, 12:21 AM) -- Giving this a bump. There was a lot of good discussion going on about a revised TF and then things sort of petered out. Speaking to Avengium in particul...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 46 526 02-05-2024, 06:00 PM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

Worldtree Wrote: (01-27-2024, 09:04 PM) -- Matterplay1 Wrote: (01-27-2024, 11:55 AM) -- Morhadow Wrote: (12-30-2023, 10:40 PM) -- Here (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46f96acd05bb3) it says t...
Matterplay1 Website and Content Issues 633 6,195 01-28-2024, 03:17 PM
    Thread: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supercluster (revision)
Post: RE: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supe...

Looking good! I think it would be worth inserting something that indicates that HEECs are typically (or perhaps always) quite short-lived, at least on the scale of the lifetimes of planets and stars. ...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 24 329 01-28-2024, 02:30 PM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

Morhadow Wrote: (12-30-2023, 10:40 PM) -- Here (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46f96acd05bb3) it says that the first Banks Orbital was made in 4226, but in the Primer (https://www.orionsarm.com...
Matterplay1 Website and Content Issues 633 6,195 01-27-2024, 11:55 AM
    Thread: An official list of invasive species - brainstorming
Post: RE: An official list of invasive species - brainst...

I'm late coming to this, but as I do have a suggestion about a way to approach this.  On the science end of it, as you'll know if you look up any current ecological work on invasive species, whethe...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 21 223 01-24-2024, 06:15 PM
    Thread: Fermi Paradox in OA
Post: RE: Fermi Paradox in OA

We've traditionally avoided giving any definitive answers to the Fermi Paradox in the OA setting, of course. However one thing we do need to keep in mind is that whatever we put into the setting needs...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 14 111 01-24-2024, 05:51 PM
    Thread: Thiogen plant life; Dance-Don't-Dream; Nabla Biowars; Menexene Pantropes
Post: RE: Thiogen plant life; Dance-Don't-Dream; Nabla B...

stevebowers Wrote: (12-08-2023, 07:42 AM) -- I didn't really make the Nabla asteroid image, just adapted one by Worldtree. Here's another image of the ribbonplant I've just made. -- These look a...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 20 329 12-08-2023, 05:07 PM
    Thread: Percent of amnesia
Post: RE: Percent of amnesia

Tom Mazanec Wrote: (12-02-2023, 11:52 PM) -- I am thinking more data than artifacts…so maybe they have terapixel reproductions of the Mona Lisa even if the original was destroyed by an iconoclastic f...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 4 67 12-08-2023, 04:51 PM
    Thread: Mars (EG Rewrite)
Post: RE: Mars (EG Rewrite)

Glad the Mars article is up for a rewrite. It's been a bit of a jumble for as long as I can recall! Agreed, the timeline should be a shortened thing and kicked into an appendix for people who like to ...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 76 921 11-30-2023, 06:05 PM
    Thread: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospheric pressure
Post: RE: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospher...

TSSL Wrote: (11-22-2022, 10:17 AM) -- Hello, wanted to bump this because I was putting together a post with thoughts about Tohul history and pre-contact society, and that brought me back to noticing ...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 46 760 11-22-2022, 04:29 PM
    Thread: Blue Dwarf Stars
Post: RE: Blue Dwarf Stars

Some good suggestions for expansions here, & I'll try to work something like that in. One of the pieces I mean to work in, though, is the OA version of the Fermi Paradox. For plausibility, "noisy" exp...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 13 236 08-28-2022, 02:01 PM
    Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)

A thought: if the idea is to have human-shaped human-like superintelligent beings that choose to rule human populations, would it not be better to simply go with Superiors? When you get to transapient...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 28 296 08-28-2022, 01:50 PM
    Thread: Blue Dwarf Stars
Post: RE: Blue Dwarf Stars

Matterplay1 Wrote: (08-11-2022, 01:32 PM) -- Seeing nobody's yet picked this up, here's my suggested entry: Blue Dwarf The predicted end-state of a red dwarf star some trillions of years afte...
Matterplay1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 13 236 08-21-2022, 03:34 PM
    Thread: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
Post: RE: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?

Rynn Wrote: (08-17-2022, 11:25 PM) -- Drashner1 Wrote: (08-17-2022, 10:53 PM) -- Considering the broader question raised by Stephen, I'm also wondering if there's an existential question/issue float...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 13 122 08-21-2022, 03:31 PM
    Thread: People Getting Vot They Want
Post: People Getting Vot They Want

This is an out-take from the thread I started on who/what does the work of maintaining a virchworld. It's grown into a more general discussion, applicable to any artificial environment (which is, in O...
Matterplay1 General Setting Discussion 1 55 08-21-2022, 03:16 PM