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Thread: Why would one become a Superbright?
Post: RE: Why would one become a Superbright?
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Not to in any way make light of your depression, but in Y11k, the biological/psychological/environmental causes of depression are presumably thoroughl... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-27-2019, 06:45 AM |
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Thread: Island of Stability
Post: RE: Island of Stability
sandcastles Wrote: (07-04-2018, 01:57 PM)
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An Alderson Disk is formed around a stable, solar-type star. In so doing, the entire star's planetary system is consumed, including the comet and asteroi... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-18-2019, 03:12 AM |
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Thread: Redefining habitable zone for advanced Terran animals
Post: RE: Redefining habitable zone for advanced Terran ...
Would these atmospheric conditions necessarily remain stable on a biospheric world? Earth's toxic-gas period covered most of our planet's existence, but when photosynthesis came along, it changed our ... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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06-17-2019, 05:12 AM |
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Thread: Lunar railroad: Near-future transport around solar system
Post: RE: Lunar railroad: Near-future transport around ...
Alphadon Wrote: (06-13-2019, 03:57 AM)
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It's going to be pretty expensive to transport all that construction equipment and materials to the moon, isn't it?
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General Setting Discussion
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06-17-2019, 05:03 AM |
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Thread: Why would one become a Superbright?
Post: RE: Why would one become a Superbright?
extherian Wrote: (06-12-2019, 06:51 PM)
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Why, though? In Y11K, there's no point to understanding anything. You can't contribute anything of value to the society you live in, which has answers at th... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-15-2019, 01:24 AM |
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Thread: Why would one become a Superbright?
Post: RE: Why would one become a Superbright?
extherian Wrote: (06-12-2019, 08:31 AM)
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One interesting issue that came up last year when I was rewriting the Nearbaseline and Superior articles was that the latter's Superbright mental enhancemen... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-12-2019, 01:07 PM |
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Thread: Miscellanious Questions
Post: RE: Miscellanious Questions
stevebowers Wrote: (01-29-2019, 06:17 PM)
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If you are visiting a civilised system, that system would hopefully be friendly enough to direct a boostbeam towards your ship in order to slow you down d... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-08-2019, 05:38 AM |
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Thread: The Solsys Dark Age - What Was It Like?
Post: RE: The Solsys Dark Age - What Was It Like?
MacGregor Wrote: (06-06-2019, 04:22 AM)
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Do we think that large habs use fusion powered lighting or would large windows and mirrors be needed?
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Inner SolSys habs can use the most reliable fusio... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-06-2019, 05:29 AM |
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Thread: Angelnets and Crime
Post: RE: Angelnets and Crime
Alphadon Wrote: (06-05-2019, 06:14 PM)
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Drashner1 Wrote: (06-04-2019, 12:19 PM)
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I think a larger question is - what is defined as a crime if the basic rule is 'do whatever you want as long as y... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-06-2019, 05:26 AM |
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Thread: Angelnets and Crime
Post: RE: Angelnets and Crime
macnut Wrote: (06-03-2019, 12:10 PM)
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Unless the modosophonts lived in a transapient-run polity.
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So here's a scenario:
Picture if you will, a world in the Hinterregions, nominally cared fo... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-05-2019, 03:16 AM |
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Thread: Angelnets and Crime
Post: RE: Angelnets and Crime
Of course, once "street crime" as we know it becomes impossible, good mental health is universal, and monitoring prevents white collar crimes and the like, the question becomes what if any crime IS po... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-04-2019, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: The Solsys Dark Age - What Was It Like?
Post: RE: The Solsys Dark Age - What Was It Like?
MacGregor Wrote: (06-04-2019, 12:51 AM)
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Regarding radiation shielding. Do we think that for this period most ships and stations had (currently unknown) radiation blocking material or would they ne... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-04-2019, 02:24 AM |
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Thread: The Solsys Dark Age - What Was It Like?
Post: RE: The Solsys Dark Age - What Was It Like?
MacGregor Wrote: (06-03-2019, 05:15 AM)
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How large do we think space habitat's were during this time period? I would imagine a belief that smaller was safer would be prevalent, but I'm talking abou... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-03-2019, 10:58 AM |
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Thread: Angelnets and Crime
Post: RE: Angelnets and Crime
I believe even AI of today could plausibly do what the Machine does with a high degree of success, if given unfettered access to all existing data and communication. I imagine an S:1 or greater intell... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-02-2019, 09:02 AM |
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Thread: Your Thoughts on the Future
Post: RE: Your Thoughts on the Future
stevebowers Wrote: (05-29-2019, 06:34 AM)
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The thing about closely-knit societies like small villages is that everyone knows everyone else's business. This tends to mean that society evolves a stri... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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05-29-2019, 08:26 AM |
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Thread: Pimp, i mean Vet, my Starship
Post: RE: Pimp, i mean Vet, my Starship
Drashner1 Wrote: (05-28-2019, 01:13 PM)
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Sorry - a possible misunderstanding here:
It's fine if you want to use monopoles for your project. That's not the issue I was posting about.
You seeme... |
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Noclevername |
Creative Writing
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05-28-2019, 07:27 PM |
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Thread: Toe Story, or, Genemods IN SPACE
Post: RE: Toe Story, or, Genemods IN SPACE
Drashner1 Wrote: (05-28-2019, 07:10 AM)
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We can fold these into the existing Nearbaseline Genemods article easily enough.
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General Setting Discussion
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05-28-2019, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: Pimp, i mean Vet, my Starship
Post: RE: Pimp, i mean Vet, my Starship
I really only used monopoles because that's how OA uses them. I can always posit some other means of matter conversion. As long as I settle on one eventually, it's all good. |
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Creative Writing
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05-28-2019, 07:22 AM |
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Thread: Pimp, i mean Vet, my Starship
Post: RE: Pimp, i mean Vet, my Starship
jedidia Wrote: (05-28-2019, 04:54 AM)
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Well, the conversion sphere is in my mind, about 800 meters in diameter. Pretty dense, mostly ultra high temp ceramics.
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Ok, that would glow a... |
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Creative Writing
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05-28-2019, 06:33 AM |
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Thread: Nearbaselines and Natural Aging
Post: RE: Nearbaselines and Natural Aging
The neurological equivalent of age 25 is, according to prevailing medical theory, when the Baseline human brain is at its peak of development. Efforts to slow aging and improve capacity should try to ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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