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Thread: List of articles with AI generated/assisted images
Post: RE: List of articles with AI generated/assisted im...
| There's an AI image on this (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4866c7189f7dd) page. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Art and Visual Media
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10-28-2025, 06:14 AM |
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Thread: Nanomachine diagram
Post: RE: Nanomachine diagram
| They're too small to contain "the smarts" to do the sorts of interesting, useful tasks that nanomachines are envisioned to do. Bump the scale up 10X. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Art and Visual Media
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10-26-2025, 11:02 PM |
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Thread: Vacuum Balloons
Post: RE: Vacuum Balloons
| Cool ideas with the magnetic and momentum balloons.
Thermal insulation (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5672d204731f2) that is very thin and lightweight is possible, so that impacts where magn... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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09-06-2025, 03:19 AM |
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Thread: Grand repositories
Post: RE: Grand repositories
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Andrew P. Wrote: (07-23-2025, 05:34 PM)
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How would one realistically go about encoding information in a format that can be expected to avoid degradation for millions or billions of years?
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The... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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07-23-2025, 08:18 PM |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
| In the woven graphene (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/503ec3dce932b) article, this sentence: "Hexa-graphene is an excellent conductor of heat, whereas penta-graphene is a poor conductor of heat.... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Website and Content Issues
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01-09-2025, 03:43 AM |
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Thread: Kinesians (was Dextran Xenosophonts)
Post: RE: Dextran Xenosophonts
| One problem, gamma rays are too energetic to focus using lenses or mirrors. It takes long grazing-incidence mirrors to focus x-rays. So biological eyes that can see either aren't going to work from a ... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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01-05-2025, 12:42 AM |
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Thread: May Updates
Post: RE: May Updates
| The new syntech image in this thread (https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5652&pid=78523#pid78523). |
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JohnnyYesterday |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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06-03-2024, 05:47 PM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
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JohnnyYesterday Wrote: (11-13-2022, 10:23 AM)
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New syntech image that I made: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XfMnEeAOzK795QKhF4O9Cuaz7_yiPfIg/view?usp=sharing
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Could this image be added to th... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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05-11-2024, 04:27 AM |
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Thread: Towards a Computronium-to-Virtual-Space Conversion Factor
Post: RE: Towards a Computronium-to-Virtual Space Conver...
| What's the computronium-equivalent of the human brain? That's basically what it takes. Our brains simulate our realities based on sensory input (or in the cases of dreams and hallucinations, no direct... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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01-18-2024, 06:31 PM |
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Thread: Re-imagining the Sophic League
Post: RE: Re-imagining the Sophic League
| I think it’s a great idea.
Cleverly, spiritually can also be part of the League milieu of “exploring the mind”, just not the sole focus. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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07-27-2023, 01:10 AM |
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Thread: Tchotchkes
Post: RE: Tchotchkes
| Small-grained utility sand (utility silt?) could act very liquid paint like if you wanted it to, and if given electronic ink or PQDA technology, it could display any desired color patterning. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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06-11-2023, 08:37 AM |
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Thread: EG - Aerophants
Post: RE: EG - Aerophants
| There might be some engineering workarounds (e.g. most of their bodies aren’t alive) but multi kilometer scale animal bodies run against physical limitations even in freefall environments.
A spher... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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06-03-2023, 11:40 PM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Post: RE: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-29-2023, 09:18 PM)
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Thoughts?
Todd
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Maybe a short stand-alone article would work best. All vertebrates from fish to birds have inner ears that work essentially like ours... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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04-30-2023, 01:00 AM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-29-2023, 03:19 AM)
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Ufog can't manipulate gravity so how could it make people or things experience different levels of gravity? It could press down to a degree on someone/thing... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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04-29-2023, 06:01 PM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Post: RE: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
| If u-fog is included in the mix, variable gravity sports could get really weird. People standing just a few meters apart on the same floor could experience different gravity, gravity could change over... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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04-29-2023, 01:00 AM |
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Thread: The “Why?” of Five
Post: The “Why?” of Five
| I was reading through the EG entry on Bucky habitats (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4cd1c52672b71), and it mentions that rotating cylinder habs, even when their gyroscopic effect has been cance... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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02-17-2023, 03:03 AM |
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Thread: Go Edify Yourself
Post: RE: Go Edify Yourself
| Cybernetics, by Norbert Wiener
General Systems Theory, by Lars Skyttner
Notes on the Synthesis of Form, by Christopher Alexander
Trizics, by Gordon Cameron
How Designers Think, and What... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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12-16-2022, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: Worldbuilding Focus for the next 4 months
Post: RE: Worldbuilding Focus for the next 4 months
| I second omega_tyrant’s suggestion of exploring Bok Swarms. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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12-06-2022, 08:13 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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12-03-2022, 09:27 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
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Drashner1 Wrote: (12-02-2022, 12:28 AM)
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I'm also iffy about Syntech being pushed 'nearly' to Y11k levels that early in the timeline as a blanket statement for various reasons. What is meant by tha... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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