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Thread: Spinlaunch vs. Electric Yeeter
Post: Spinlaunch vs. Electric Yeeter
| As folk who follow space news are likely aware, a company named Spinlaunch exists.
They purport to be building a catapult to launch things toward orbit from the ground, by a mechanism that involves... |
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08-13-2022, 07:49 AM |
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Thread: Bussard Pulse Jet?
Post: Bussard Pulse Jet?
| I was thinking the other day, and an idea wandered through my mind for possibly overcoming some of the deficiencies of the Bussard Ram Jet.
The main issue with the Ramjet, as I understand it, is ... |
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07-16-2022, 04:00 AM |
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Thread: Climate Change
Post: RE: Climate Change
| In my own manuscripts the carbon crisis has most people living in below-grade or earth-sheltered housing in about a hundred years from now. Entire communities and cities underground in about 200 year... |
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08-23-2021, 05:41 AM |
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Thread: Climate Change
Post: Climate Change
| Not getting into politics here. Although technical mitigation possibilities are definitely a good thing to share if you know any.
Yesterday rain fell on Greenland's ice sheet for the first time in ... |
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08-22-2021, 02:12 AM |
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Thread: If You Could Start OA From Scratch
Post: RE: If You Could Start OA From Scratch
| I think that the setting as described lends itself too much to descriptions of vast regions that are no more diverse and have no more points of interest than, say, France. Where entire zones and mult... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-17-2021, 01:30 AM |
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Thread: If You Could Start OA From Scratch
Post: RE: If You Could Start OA From Scratch
| I think I would rewrite it with slower or truncated technological advance and spread. In ten thousand years I would envision humans (and AI, and provolves, and tweaks, etc) as having reached the near... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-16-2021, 04:00 PM |
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Thread: Synthetic Sophontology
Post: RE: Synthetic Sophontology
| I think it was always rather implied by the 'slow gods' and other higher-toposophic entities in setting that spin off Aingels whose purpose is to communicate with folk of more ordinary intellect or ti... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-15-2021, 02:53 AM |
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Thread: Synthetic Sophontology
Post: Synthetic Sophontology
| As part of a separate writing project I have been thinking lately about the qualitatively different varieties of consciousness that may be embodied by conscious AI. This includes embodied ('vec') and... |
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08-14-2021, 04:12 PM |
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Thread: A visualization of galactic settlement
Post: RE: A visualization of galactic settlement
| Ultimately there are two growth laws here: Exponential growth of biology, economics, etc, and cube-law growth of bounded space. Cube law growth ultimately bounds exponential growth, and while that... |
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06-18-2021, 03:01 PM |
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Thread: A visualization of galactic settlement
Post: RE: A visualization of galactic settlement
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stevebowers Wrote: (06-18-2021, 04:27 AM)
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I like to assume that the various stars in a wave of colonisation can talk to each other, so they will exchange data about whether nearby stars are coloni... |
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06-18-2021, 02:48 PM |
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Thread: A visualization of galactic settlement
Post: RE: A visualization of galactic settlement
| I don't get why the commenters think this model requires some ultra-stable political organization or unified civilization with a millions-of-years-long agenda to colonize the galaxy.
The model says ... |
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06-17-2021, 10:55 AM |
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Thread: Radiosynthesis - living on radioactive decay energy
Post: RE: Radiosynthesis - living on radioactive decay e...
| The more I think about this the deeper its implications get. We're talking about lifeforms that can literally live for millions of years inside a rock. That's long enough to make some kinds of pansp... |
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05-25-2021, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Radiosynthesis - living on radioactive decay energy
Post: Radiosynthesis - living on radioactive decay energ...
| https://www.quantamagazine.org/radioactivity-may-fuel-life-deep-underground-and-inside-other-worlds-20210524/
Here's a nice article about Earth's subsurface ecology - surprisingly large and robust ... |
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05-25-2021, 03:22 AM |
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Thread: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from the military
Post: RE: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from ...
| I included the option of voting for 'visitors from another 'brane' or universe' because I think that's honestly more likely than aliens from another solar system.
We don't know if there are other... |
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05-22-2021, 04:24 AM |
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Thread: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from the military
Post: RE: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from ...
| I'm absolutely certain No Earthly Power has developed that level of technology - AND has not applied any fraction of it to advancing their economy and wealth, AND kept it completely secret.
Not apply... |
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05-22-2021, 03:58 AM |
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Thread: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from the military
Post: Recent revelations about UFOs*cough*UAPs from the ...
| So, the pentagon is *OFFICIALLY* reporting that, for years, pilots have been spotting "Unexplained Aerial Phenomena" - which bear an incredibly strong resemblance to the longstanding stories about "Un... |
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05-21-2021, 11:55 AM |
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Thread: The Last Pandemic In Human History
Post: RE: The Last Pandemic In Human History
| True, there's been some bastardry of that sort in a few countries - one of which had enough wealth and power to be relevant. So some chose denial over development. But that certainly didn't stop wea... |
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05-15-2021, 01:11 AM |
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Thread: The Last Pandemic In Human History
Post: RE: The Last Pandemic In Human History
| The whole point is that we DON'T have to push the limits in the field any more. We pushed the limits hard this year. And having done so we moved the limits. Using that technique won't be that hard ... |
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05-11-2021, 02:50 PM |
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Thread: The Last Pandemic In Human History
Post: RE: The Last Pandemic In Human History
| So your biggest motive to not bother developing a vaccine, from the companies' point of view, is that someone else is going to do it first?
Okay, from everybody else's point of view, What's the dow... |
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05-11-2021, 06:51 AM |
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Thread: The Last Pandemic In Human History
Post: RE: The Last Pandemic In Human History
| You know what is in every livestock veterinarian's practice? A liquid-nitrogen dewar for storing and transferring livestock semen at temperatures well below what's required for mRNA vaccines. The ca... |
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