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    Thread: Random thought about Americanism
Post: RE: Random thought about Americanism

Make it a subsection in the USA article. Furthermore, I don't think there is one Americanism, as shown by the current culture war. The countercultural and SJW mindset is also American, and should be d...
Captain Genet General Setting Discussion 14 270 07-21-2021, 07:00 PM
    Thread: Possibly commonplace things in Y11k that could horrify someone from 2021?
Post: RE: Possibly commonplace things in Y11k that could...

Imagine a Jesus clone as a gay prostitute. I'm sure OA people would find it amusing, not blasphemous. Unless they no longer recognize His face. OA sometimes looks like a world ruled by 14-year-olds. ...
Captain Genet General Setting Discussion 32 612 06-04-2021, 03:36 AM
    Thread: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from the military
Post: RE: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from ...

There are less reports in Europe than in America, maybe because the general public here is more educated. Also, there are no UFO reports from professional astronomers. If aliens want to study us, ...
Captain Genet Real Life But OA Relevant 19 18,094 06-04-2021, 03:03 AM
    Thread: Meistersinger addtion
Post: RE: Meistersinger addtion

Vitto Wrote: (05-22-2021, 06:02 AM) -- Just an idea overall, but we know that the telescope systems employed by the Terragens can pick up significant details even in the neighborhooding galaxies. If ...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 80 1,509 06-04-2021, 02:54 AM
    Thread: Meistersinger addtion
Post: RE: Meistersinger addtion

Meistersingers are not likely to be a state society since every ship is able to survive completely independently in interstellar space. But I can see them organized somewhat like early Israelites into...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 80 1,509 06-04-2021, 02:49 AM
    Thread: Meistersinger addtion
Post: RE: Meistersinger addtion

Drashner1 Wrote: (05-16-2021, 11:03 PM) -- Why couldn't living spaceships (Meistersinger or otherwise) pair bond or form close friendships even with years to centuries long communication delays? Plea...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 80 1,509 05-18-2021, 10:29 PM
    Thread: Meistersinger addtion
Post: RE: Meistersinger addtion

I would like to see something on Meistersinger religion, sexuality and culture. If they are indeed living ships, they aren't likely to pair bond, so they would be "aromantic" as some Americans say,...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 80 1,509 05-16-2021, 07:02 PM
    Thread: Atomic Spiders - update
Post: RE: Atomic Spiders - update

I've just seen it on the EG. The 29th century video game addiction is good and keeps the style of rest of my writeup. Thank you!
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 12 251 05-16-2021, 06:54 PM
    Thread: Extropianism
Post: RE: Extropianism

Okay, another try: In the broadest sense, a class of ethical philosophies which consider the growth of complexity (termed extropy) a criterion of moral action. In a narrower sense, a philosophy ...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 8 189 04-08-2021, 06:06 PM
    Thread: Weirdest/Most Disturbing Provolves
Post: RE: Weirdest/Most Disturbing Provolves

I hope provolves never happen. Let wild animals stay wild. Imagine this: a provolved wolf eats a provolved hare, and the police has to launch a murder investigation.
Captain Genet General Setting Discussion 32 583 04-08-2021, 05:50 PM
    Thread: Questions on the Deep Night Runners and other Meistersinger Lore
Post: RE: Questions on the Deep Night Runners and other ...

If the mathematical transformation hypothesis is deprecated, cannot DNR be dark matter/dark energy beings? I also imagine DNR are the "gods" who created this universe, dark matter and dark energy ...
Captain Genet General Setting Discussion 32 944 04-08-2021, 05:49 PM
    Thread: Federal Institute of Provolution (update)
Post: RE: Federal Institute of Provolution (update)

Please add something on criticism. There must have been people who opposed the work of FIP, maybe some religious traditionalists who believed provolution is against the will of God/gods, maybe some hu...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 16 253 04-07-2021, 11:39 PM
    Thread: Extropianism
Post: RE: Extropianism

Drashner1 Wrote: (04-05-2021, 02:42 AM) -- Captain Genet Wrote: (03-31-2021, 12:15 AM) -- In the Interplanetary Age a religion known as Extropism was started as an extension of Extropian philosophy,...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 8 189 04-07-2021, 11:14 PM
    Thread: Meistersinger addtion
Post: RE: Meistersinger addtion

Dfleymmes1134 Wrote: -- There is some unconfirmed speculations by various terregan groups that the world tree ships themselves are the “true meistersingers”, or a form of the transapient entities whi...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 80 1,509 04-07-2021, 10:43 PM
    Thread: Atomic Spiders - update
Post: Atomic Spiders

Anarchist group of the late Information Age. A closely knit team of infowar terrorists behind a number of worldwide anti-government and anti-business attacks between 99 and 106 a.t. The Spiders believ...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 12 251 04-07-2021, 10:29 PM
    Thread: What Can We Do Better? What Should We Do Different?
Post: RE: What Can We Do Better? What Should We Do Diffe...

Maybe eliminate some weird words which have an equivalent in plain English? They make the EG look like a cult website. Sophonts could be just intelligent creatures or intelligent beings Xenosophonts ...
Captain Genet General Setting Discussion 93 1,940 04-07-2021, 10:16 PM
    Thread: Meistersinger addtion
Post: RE: Meistersinger addtion

I always suspected Cixin Liu's "Singer folk" living in "Orion's Arm", who destroy human civilization at the end of the Trisolarian Trilogy, are inspired by OA's meistersingers.
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 80 1,509 04-07-2021, 10:03 PM
    Thread: Global Geopolitics - The Next 500 Years - Ideas & Proposals
Post: RE: Global Geopolitics - The Next 500 Years - Idea...

By 2050: -Russia will lose territory in the Caucasus and the Far East. -America will be a de facto one party state ruled by the Democrats. Some states dominated by conservatives will secede.
Captain Genet General Setting Discussion 166 3,320 04-07-2021, 09:52 PM
    Thread: Extropianism
Post: RE: Extropianism

The fact that the civilized galaxy's culture realizes the dreams of 2021 Extropians does not negate the existence of Extropian thought. The culture of the Middle East is based on Islam, and yet Islami...
Captain Genet Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 8 189 04-07-2021, 09:45 PM
    Thread: Hello!
Post: RE: Hello!

Sorry for my behaviour at the Discordant server. As a self-punishment I have deleted my Discordant account :D
Captain Genet The Arrivals Lounge 8 8,639 04-07-2021, 09:36 PM