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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
Pipers
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/4802a4dca145e
Primary: Demonia, JD 19101-11-8
Type Gv5
Luminosity 1.8 x Sol
G5V, not Gv5. And that star would be less massive, so woul... |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/478c171e73982
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The word Luminosity is not in boldface.
Type K0/KV5
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07-17-2023, 12:22 PM |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
You wanted to see the math for some of this; I redid the math and changed some numbers.
Alpha Eridani
Massive binary system settled first by ahumans and later by several polities.
Name: ACHE... |
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07-17-2023, 12:15 PM |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
Daily life
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45bd0723ecc94
Elvis's day - Text by Steve Bowers
A typical weekend for a person from the 404th century.
104th century, I think. |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
Drashner1
Why were the DWIZs and factories built?
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People reading this are likely to know what a DWIZ is and I didn't think I needed any further explanation. And population of the syste... |
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07-11-2023, 11:41 AM |
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Thread: How to contribute/ fiction V/FT
Post: RE: How to contribute/ fiction V/FT
I felt averse to making a new thread, and this one seemed close enough.
In either a new thread or an old one, there'd be a paragraph describing some new and interesting article, and instead of the ... |
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Suggestion Box - OA website
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07-11-2023, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: How to contribute/ fiction V/FT
Post: RE: How to contribute/ fiction V/FT
For real world articles, I feel like using hyperlinks. I wondered how to put in hyperlinks. Thanks. |
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07-11-2023, 12:45 AM |
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Thread: <EG> Extended Color Convention. - draft 3.
Post: RE: <EG> Extended Color Convention. - draft 3.
I like all the images and suggestions.
How far into the microwave region shall we go? Can radio waves have "color"? Why not? |
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07-10-2023, 02:53 AM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Post: RE: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Combine bowling with basketball. The basketball hits the pins which are supposed to go into the basket/hole. That would be more like billiards, though. But the ball and pins could be any shape. Th... |
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07-10-2023, 02:48 AM |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
Thank you. I was having trouble finding anything in the EG about maximum velocities for starships at particular periods.
I don't know which NoCoZo and Cygexpa colonies are most likely to send star... |
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07-10-2023, 02:40 AM |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
Assertive Hypowhelm and Settled Dawn, two Zoeticist transapients, constructed a starship called the Ologois, with ten thousand colonists in nanostasis, launched by boostbeam from the 84 Ceti system, a... |
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07-09-2023, 01:01 PM |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48ff364d90669
The Inner Sphere star list states Cor Caroli is 99.673 ly distant. But the article gives the distance as 110 ly. But the distance will be differ... |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
You thought it unlikely only one mission would be sent here, so I added one more. Somebody in the NCZ noticed one vessel headed in the direction of Achernar, and they had a vessel already ready, so th... |
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07-08-2023, 12:19 PM |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
I cited Beta Tucanae as being a nearby star. The Internet Stellar Database didn't list any star closer to Achernar. But then I checked Stellarium, and it has HIP 7699, 16 ly away. It is type F5V,... |
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07-05-2023, 11:46 AM |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
Alpha Eridani
A ACHERNAR
B YERRERDETKURRK
Asteroid Belt Orwood Forest VLINZIDINT
Dwarf planet OUNUNTLA
Planet 1 KEOLA
Planet 2 BIZITZA
Planet 3 SAMAXAN
Outer Dwarf Planet BOUF
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07-05-2023, 06:06 AM |
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Thread: Achernar
Post: RE: Achernar
Drashner1 Wrote: (06-07-2023, 01:47 PM)
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a) Too much tourism, not enough description - A whole lot of places in this system are described entirely in terms of tourism. This is not what OA is on abo... |
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06-19-2023, 11:21 AM |
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Thread: Beacon Stars
Post: RE: Beacon Stars
You posted while I was composing my post.Drashner1 Wrote: (06-07-2023, 11:46 AM)
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Why would the first ship even want to try to hide from the second?
We keep being told about how those who are tr... |
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Thread: [split] Sandcastle’s Puppis system Was: Beacon Stars
Post: RE: Beacon Stars
You posted while I was composing my post.Drashner1 Wrote: (06-07-2023, 11:46 AM)
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Why would the first ship even want to try to hide from the second?
We keep being told about how those who are tr... |
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Thread: Beacon Stars
Post: RE: Beacon Stars
Thanks.
I found this site, which gives the distances between two stars, and how bright one is as seen from the other.
https://neoprogrammics.com/distance_between_two_stars/index.php
So the dist... |
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06-07-2023, 12:42 PM |
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Thread: [split] Sandcastle’s Puppis system Was: Beacon Stars
Post: RE: Beacon Stars
Thanks.
I found this site, which gives the distances between two stars, and how bright one is as seen from the other.
https://neoprogrammics.com/distance_between_two_stars/index.php
So the dist... |
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