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03-08-2023, 06:21 AM

Thread: Cockroach News
Post: RE: Cockroach News

Drashner1 Wrote: (02-27-2023, 01:02 PM) -- The suggestion really bugged em, I guess? -- Heh, no. :D Also, Shadowrun's magic story aspects has included the dread threat of bug spirits: https://...

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02-28-2023, 04:38 AM

Thread: Cockroach News
Post: RE: Cockroach News

I heard about this cockroach milk a few years ago. I suggested as a staple to go with soy products in the Shadowrun setting but it didn't go over well with the gaming community.

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02-27-2023, 04:11 AM

Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: RE: Macrystis Biology

This is a fantastic xenobiology effort. It's very interesting.

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02-22-2023, 09:29 PM

Thread: Discord Idea - Reducing Pre-First Federation Colonies
Post: RE: Discord Idea - Reducing Pre-First Federation C...

Taking a step back, there's this effort to reduce the number of pre-Technocalypse interstellar colonies. However, it feels like we're addressing an era covering centuries (Interplanetary Age: 130 to 4...

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02-20-2023, 10:30 AM

Thread: Foundation of the Keter Dominion
Post: RE: Foundation of the Keter Dominion

Regarding replacing S3 wormholes with S4 wormholes - could the wormholes be converted/upgraded instead?

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02-15-2023, 09:37 PM

Thread: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems
Post: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems

High amounts of greenhouse gases can allow terraforming of planets quite distant from their star compared to Earth, even beyond the nominal Goldilocks Zone of the system. For planets without orbita...

01-20-2023, 03:27 AM

Thread: How big a planetoid can you dismantle?
Post: RE: How big a planetoid can you dismantle?

Once you can do star lifting and dismantle stars, planetoids aren't much of an issue. There's just a matter of cooling the interior bits satisfactorily, which can be achieved by launching harvested ch...

12-22-2022, 03:51 AM

Thread: Quasi-Stars
Post: RE: Quasi-Stars

Deep well industrial zones and Hawkings Knots create artificial quasi-stars. I'm not sure if OA has observed natural ones.

12-20-2022, 02:03 AM

Thread: Cryonic Suspension: The Early Years
Post: Cryonic Suspension: The Early Years

The following summary of cryonic preservation failures, scams, and medical challenges is not for the weak-stomached or faint of heart. https://www.freethink.com/futurology/cryogenically-frozen-humans

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12-20-2022, 01:56 AM

Thread: Reversible Computing
Post: RE: Reversible Computing

Reversible computing is already name-dropped in some articles, like Compubones and Computer Engineering. Maybe Computer Engineering could stand a little expansion. https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-articl...

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12-15-2022, 06:27 AM

Thread: Technological regression
Post: RE: Technological regression

Tom Mazanec Wrote: (11-26-2022, 02:41 AM) -- Any other examples (more local), especially involuntary ones? -- A number of isolated worlds regressed. Gaunche is the classic example, and exhibits...

11-26-2022, 06:26 AM

Thread: Pantheon, an anime of uploads
Post: Pantheon, an anime of uploads

Pantheon is an 8-episode anime on Netflix (from AMC) about the early experiments in uploads and transhumanism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)

Books, Games, Movies, and TV

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11-25-2022, 06:39 AM

Thread: Shielding for O'Neil Cylinders in OA
Post: RE: Shielding for O'Neil Cylinders in OA

Drashner1 Wrote: (10-24-2022, 09:11 AM) -- It's likely that the detractors in question were actually suffering from one of two afflictions that Arthur C. Clarke identified many years ago as either a ...

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10-29-2022, 11:36 PM

Thread: Bioborg Dominates Pong!
Post: Bioborg Dominates Pong!

Can Skynet be far behind? More seriously: researchers were able to get a blob of 800,000 brains trained to play "Pong" and bounce the ball more frequently than just random chance. https://www.bbc....

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10-14-2022, 03:49 AM

Thread: Revision required for the Shinogi article
Post: RE: Revision required for the Shinogi article

It looks like a sensible edit to me.

10-08-2022, 01:40 PM

Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)

extherian Wrote: (08-31-2022, 12:22 AM) -- Right, thanks. That one line about Trip being the largest centre for the clade outside of a Sephirotic empire might have to be removed if I go ahead with my...

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09-05-2022, 05:16 AM

Thread: Kurzgesagt: The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
Post: RE: Kurzgesagt: The Last Human – A Glimpse Into Th...

That's a fairly cheery video. I like it.

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08-30-2022, 10:26 PM

Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)

extherian Wrote: (08-29-2022, 04:39 PM) -- By the way, Cray, how many Athenaeids did you envision living on Trip? The article states that they are the largest Athenaeid.community outside of a Sephiro...

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08-30-2022, 04:02 AM

Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)

Drashner1 Wrote: (08-28-2022, 09:57 PM) -- There could also be a (theorized) element of 'better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven' in terms of how some lower S transaps view their relationship wi...