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    Thread: Crime/Organized Crime in Y11K
Post: RE: Crime/Organized Crime in Y11K

Other kinds of fraud: You want to go through a portal to a location, but it's a different location, or it's a virch. You want to travel through a wormhole but what you experience is a virch and you d...
sandcastles General Setting Discussion 12 211 10-30-2024, 01:12 PM
    Thread: Dark matter
Post: RE: Dark matter

The mass-energy of the universe is supposedly 27% dark matter and 68% dark energy.  Maybe we've misinterpreted our observations and the percentages are really 25% and 67%.  Or something.  And then the...
sandcastles General Setting Discussion 6 84 10-30-2024, 12:43 PM
    Thread: Transapient free story ideas.
Post: RE: Transapient free story ideas.

Worldtree Wrote: (10-04-2024, 04:53 AM) -- despite agreeing on the fundamental decisions for compatibility (no kinds, like traveling, etc) their personalities are so different  -- Did you mean, no ...
sandcastles Creative Writing 27 659 10-04-2024, 05:35 AM
    Thread: Rewrite: Milky Way
Post: RE: Rewrite: Milky Way

Other information could be the number and names of dwarf galaxy satellites of the Milky Way. There is evidence the Milky Way has absorbed one or more dwarf galaxies. There are a few rogue stars wh...
sandcastles Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 12 172 10-03-2024, 07:23 AM
    Thread: Website Themes
Post: RE: Website Themes

Thanks, it worked. I logged off and looked at my emails for two hours. But the Theme I saw was Andreas09, and I'd gotten used to the MyBB Default, so I was able to switch to that one. I assumed tha...
sandcastles Website and Content Issues 3 33 10-02-2024, 01:19 PM
    Thread: Website Themes
Post: Website Themes

I was looking at the other themes this website used previously.  Now I'm stuck on the oldest theme.   and I don't see a way to get back to the current theme.  Can you please help?  Thanks.  I like the...
sandcastles Website and Content Issues 3 33 10-02-2024, 11:00 AM
    Thread: The Portal
Post: The Portal

When I am logged off, I can see the Portal.  When I'm logged in, I can't see the Portal. The Portal shows me who is online and what thread they are looking at. It shows me data for the Arrivals and ...
sandcastles Suggestion Box - OA website 0 688 10-01-2024, 11:26 AM
    Thread: Misc. Vec Images
Post: RE: Misc. Vec Images

Andrew P. Wrote: (08-23-2024, 06:49 AM) -- Hey all, I've been messing around with Microsoft Designer (a pretty decent free-to-use AI art tool, in case you haven't heard of it yet), and I made a co...
sandcastles Art and Visual Media 5 109 10-01-2024, 11:04 AM
    Thread: Santarchai, The
Post: RE: Santarchai, The

I wondered about other aspects of the story, and how they would be altered by the chaotic record-keeping of the Technocalypse. I had second thoughts about what I wrote.
sandcastles Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 32 689 10-01-2024, 10:43 AM
    Thread: Where are all the stone age Xenosophonts?
Post: RE: Where are all the stone age Xenosophonts?

dangerous_safety Wrote: (08-31-2020, 06:45 AM) -- During this time, water and carbon would quite naturally be discovered to be neutron moderators, as both are common in cooking. This would likely mar...
sandcastles General Setting Discussion 23 583 09-29-2024, 05:11 AM
    Thread: Go Edify Yourself
Post: RE: Go Edify Yourself

JohnnyYesterday Wrote: (06-21-2018, 01:45 PM) -- "Flextegrity"-- polyhedral materials (http://www.flextegrity.com)* architectures *Link -- Windows 11 opens a new tab but the page is completely bla...
sandcastles General Setting Discussion 24 1,696 09-26-2024, 11:44 AM
    Thread: Cosmoamoebae update
Post: RE: Cosmoamoebae update

Maybe a starship passes through a nebula and inadvertently creates conditions which result in something being able to evolve. Maybe a habitat was built and sent out of the nebula; some material was a...
sandcastles Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 8 121 09-25-2024, 11:43 PM
    Thread: Cosmoamoebae update
Post: RE: Cosmoamoebae update

Liam Wrote: (09-25-2024, 04:37 AM) -- (Also, according to Wikipedia, Stellaris only came out in 2016. The original cosmoamoebae article predates it by over a decade, so if anything, it'll have been O...
sandcastles Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 8 121 09-25-2024, 06:44 AM
    Thread: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supercluster (revision)
Post: RE: Xenosophont Civilizations in the Laniakea Supe...

I've read about galaxies in collision, and how they produce accelerated star formation and higher abundances of various elements, so I wondered about a civilization purposely colliding their galaxy wi...
sandcastles Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 213 3,625 09-15-2024, 01:17 PM
    Thread: Argus Array
Post: RE: Argus Array

I found four threads on the Argus Array, and I decided to respond to this one.  Todd had this comment in Post#3: There are also two other...cultural entities...in the OA universe that Terragen civ ...
sandcastles General Setting Discussion 19 294 09-14-2024, 12:45 AM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

Excelsior Incident https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/66649fe342b45 The hyperturing linelayer Bezalel II arrived on schedule in 3499. When it was within range for high-bandwidth transmission...
sandcastles Website and Content Issues 664 6,619 09-06-2024, 11:34 AM
    Thread: Artefacts of Mystery - why hidden? And let's brainstorm a revision
Post: RE: Artefacts of Mystery - why hidden? And let's b...

Its escape velocity is lightspeed.  (I have a question, would astrophysicists ever say one black hole has an escape velocity of 2 times lightspeed, while another has an escape velocity of 4 times ligh...
sandcastles General Setting Discussion 22 283 09-06-2024, 11:21 AM
    Thread: Artefacts of Mystery - why hidden? And let's brainstorm a revision
Post: RE: Artefacts of Mystery - why hidden? And let's b...

I have an idea for an Artifact of Mystery. It's not a wormhole, and it's not a cosmic string.  It appears to be a black hole, but it's about a lightyear long and a few thousand kilometers wide/thic...
sandcastles General Setting Discussion 22 283 09-05-2024, 01:07 AM
    Thread: Proposed Image for Computronium Article
Post: RE: Proposed Image for Computronium Article

Yesterday when I wrote the post I didn't see the image in tasp's post or mine. Now I do see the image in both posts.
sandcastles Art and Visual Media 13 159 09-05-2024, 12:55 AM
    Thread: Proposed Image for Computronium Article
Post: RE: Proposed Image for Computronium Article

tasp Wrote: (08-27-2024, 01:40 PM) -- I think that the original Anders Sandberg illustration for the Computronium (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4637faafa6437)article is charming and should b...
sandcastles Art and Visual Media 13 159 09-04-2024, 11:38 AM