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    Thread: Godwin's Law in 10601 AT
Post: RE: Godwin's Law in 10601 AT

Vitto Wrote: (10-24-2025, 11:56 PM) -- GAIA could fit that role, at least at the beginning of the setting. -- There are still anthropoist groups that would view GAIA as a borderline blight, so I li...
Cray General Setting Discussion 5 90 10-27-2025, 08:41 PM
    Thread: Misc. Proposed Images Dump Season 2: Structures
Post: RE: Misc. Proposed Images Dump Season 2: Structure...

tasp Wrote: (03-06-2025, 06:44 AM) -- Hawking's Not Here: (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/52faf68bdaa6d) https://i.imgur.com/pJeJOkN.png -- Belatedly: I love that night side view of Hawkin...
Cray Art and Visual Media 17 300 09-06-2025, 10:18 AM
    Thread: Vacuum Balloons
Post: RE: Vacuum Balloons

A couple of points: 1. Vacuum doesn't offer much extra lift compared to hydrogen, or hot hydrogen. Meanwhile, a compression-resistant shell tends to be heavy compared to tensile gas bags. 2. Whe...
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 27 381 09-06-2025, 10:16 AM
    Thread: Muon catalysed fusion
Post: RE: Muon catalysed fusion

Drashner1 Wrote: (09-03-2025, 10:27 PM) -- I've actually removed the pion catalyzed fusion mention from the EG and I don't think we see muon catalyzed fusion as a likely or practical technology. -- ...
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 6 125 09-05-2025, 09:38 AM
    Thread: Rethinking Propulsion
Post: RE: Rethinking Propulsion

I like the reorganization idea, even if it just forms a "master article" that links to all the scattered propulsion sub-articles.
Cray General Setting Discussion 9 199 07-30-2025, 11:01 PM
    Thread: Pantheon
Post: Pantheon

This Netflix series spends seasons 1 and 2 mostly looking at the revolution of uploads on a near-future world. But that last episode of season 2 hits serious transapient territory.
Cray Real Life But OA Relevant 0 1,282 05-23-2025, 08:55 AM
    Thread: Pantheon
Post: Pantheon

Pantheon seasons 1 and 2 largely look at the revolution of the first uploads on a near-future world. But, wow, the last episode of season 2 hits fast forward. Matrioshka brain? Nice.
Cray Books, Games, Movies, and TV 0 1,116 05-23-2025, 08:53 AM
    Thread: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome
Post: RE: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome

Transapients aren't truly everywhere, but they multi-task and delegate extremely well. S2 GAIA outmaneuvered tens of billions of modosophonts and dozens of S1 hyperturings. An S4 running a star sys...
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 21 281 04-01-2025, 02:54 AM
    Thread: Body Transformation Protocols
Post: RE: Body Transformation Protocols

Looks good, Steve.
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 269 03-31-2025, 08:28 PM
    Thread: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome
Post: RE: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-22-2025, 10:07 PM) -- We have enough of a slow rolling challenge with people thinking that S1 and above are all pervasive, that modos can't do anything (or anything 'important') ...
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 21 281 03-31-2025, 08:27 PM
    Thread: Tiger Splices expansion/rewrite
Post: RE: Tiger Splices expansion/rewrite

The first splices were early in the Interplanetary Age, well before GAIA's Expulsion and the 700s, and it'd seem like tiger splices would be high on the list of splices to make. Even in the 20th centu...
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 15 305 03-31-2025, 08:16 PM
    Thread: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams
Post: RE: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams

Banelord Wrote: (03-19-2025, 04:20 AM) -- Also the NoCoZo grants their citizens as many freedoms as any other Sephirotic. I’ve honestly never once been able to understand all the criticisms of the No...
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 9 142 03-21-2025, 01:03 AM
    Thread: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams
Post: RE: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams

I rather liked The Seams, though I like the point that some of its description of the sephriotics is off the mark. Some of the sephriotics grant their residents vast freedoms. In particular, the NoCoZ...
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 9 142 03-19-2025, 02:48 AM
    Thread: Vacuum Gardens 1st draft
Post: RE: Vacuum Gardens 1st draft

Looks good, Todd.
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 30 671 01-20-2025, 02:26 AM
    Thread: Jotunn image by C.M. Kosemen (!)
Post: RE: Jotunn image by C.M. Kosemen (!)

Sweet! That's just about what I imagined for the Jotunn!
Cray Art and Visual Media 12 167 12-25-2024, 01:35 AM
    Thread: Short Article: Lamptail (species)
Post: RE: Short Article: Lamptail (species)

I like this. We've got lots of Garden Worlds but are a little short on critters to fill them.
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 400 11-14-2024, 02:43 AM
    Thread: Crystallographer's Nightmare
Post: RE: Crystallographer's Nightmare

Solidifying iron cores of planets would be another location for dislocation-based lifeforms, assuming the metal's not too contaminated (like Jupiter's fuzzy core).
Cray Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 35 582 10-28-2024, 08:42 PM
    Thread: Pilgrimage Jewellry?
Post: Pilgrimage Jewellry?

The recent proposed edits to the Warfare article led me to the Conver Ambi (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/463a9472ed12f) article, which mentions, "Others persecuted Solarists, leading to the in...
Cray General Setting Discussion 3 35 10-28-2024, 08:24 PM
    Thread: High acceleration spaceships
Post: RE: High acceleration spaceships

The problem with high gravity planets is less the gravitational force than the delta-V (change in velocity) required to reach orbit. Chemical rockets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)) h...
Cray General Setting Discussion 7 83 10-21-2024, 08:19 PM
    Thread: Barnard's Star update?
Post: RE: Barnard's Star update?

Or it could still be applicable to Barnard if an economic monopoly was established over Barnard's new volatiles. A sunminer-oort consortium that created artificial scarcity.
Cray General Setting Discussion 6 84 10-08-2024, 10:41 PM