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Thread: Black Death DNA
Post: Black Death DNA
| http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/bubonic-plague-dna-found-london-black-death/
So they're finding more info on the reasons behind those ancient deaths. Pretty cool. |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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09-09-2016, 09:37 AM |
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Thread: Testing Uploads
Post: RE: Testing Uploads
| Excellent to hear. Glad that's been mostly resolved. |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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09-02-2016, 12:22 PM |
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Thread: Proxima Centauri b
Post: RE: Proxima Centauri b
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stevebowers Wrote: (08-26-2016, 06:27 AM)
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Does anybody have a preference between these three options?
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Oh wow. That Mercury video was quite interesting. I don't think I've seen (m)any worlds l... |
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PortalHunter |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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08-27-2016, 03:24 AM |
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Thread: Proxima Centauri b
Post: Proxima Centauri b
| So this is a recent find, apparently. Quite exciting for exoplanetary research. A habitable zone exoplanet super close to Sol. Sounds nice so far.
Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro... |
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PortalHunter |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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08-25-2016, 10:17 AM |
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Thread: Apollo 11 Source Code on GitHub
Post: Apollo 11 Source Code on GitHub
| First order of business: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
And a news article I found with some info about the inside jokes and interesting personalities contained within the code in the com... |
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PortalHunter |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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07-14-2016, 08:06 AM |
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Thread: Best skies in the Arm
Post: RE: Best skies in the Arm
| http://portalhunter.deviantart.com/art/2015-5-13-532903486
I made that one a while back. Moonside views are very very nice.
If you're on a planet with Weather Machine (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-a... |
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PortalHunter |
General Setting Discussion
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05-13-2016, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: City Planets?
Post: RE: City Planets?
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Cray Wrote: (04-16-2016, 04:12 AM)
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and I think there's a planet covered in xenosophont super-towers
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Might this be the planet of the Golden Tower Builders (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-16-2016, 06:01 AM |
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Thread: Breakthrough Starshot
Post: RE: Breakthrough Starshot
| "A fully functional space probe that can be held with two fingers and mass produced at the cost of an iPhone." |
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PortalHunter |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-13-2016, 10:33 AM |
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Thread: Art Request Thread
Post: RE: Art Request Thread
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stevebowers Wrote: (04-13-2016, 02:27 AM)
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A while ago Rynn asked me to make an image of some nanobots on a similar scale to a bacteriophage; this image is an attempt to replicate an electron micro... |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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04-13-2016, 10:31 AM |
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Thread: Breakthrough Starshot
Post: Breakthrough Starshot
| It's gaining attention in social media.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-million-plan-will-send-probes-to-the-nearest-star1/
Yuri Milner. Stephen Hawking.
Interstellar nanocraft.... |
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PortalHunter |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-13-2016, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: TED Talks - Meta 2 AR
Post: TED Talks - Meta 2 AR
| I was going through a TED Talks playlist and found this cool demo.
http://www.ted.com/talks/meron_gribetz_a_glimpse_of_the_future_through_an_augmented_reality_headset
More cool holographic stuff... |
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PortalHunter |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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03-26-2016, 04:47 AM |
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Thread: Where You Guys At?
Post: RE: Where You Guys At?
| I lived in South Korea for the first eight years of my life, then moved to where a short drive could take me to the highest tides in the world. Canada, eh? |
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PortalHunter |
General Off-topic Discussion
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03-23-2016, 05:43 AM |
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Thread: Martian Recoverance
Post: RE: Martian Recoverance
| http://fav.me/d9vm9ye
Here it is! 600 pixels wide. The file itself may be hefty though, weighing in at nearly 19 MB since this is as true-colour as I can get the GIF to be. Can the site handle that s... |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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03-18-2016, 03:02 PM |
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Thread: What would it take to break OA?
Post: RE: What would it take to break OA?
| Implausible scenarios... How about free energy for everyone?
Bear Wrote: (03-15-2016, 04:57 AM)
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If something happens that opens a completely different and unexpected frontier.
For example, if... |
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PortalHunter |
General Setting Discussion
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03-18-2016, 08:49 AM |
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Thread: Martian Recoverance
Post: RE: Martian Recoverance
| http://fav.me/d9vd6hf
Going to make a better animation later by first recording a video then converting it into a more manageable gif with less frames, since actually taking snapshots and arranging... |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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03-16-2016, 10:43 AM |
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Thread: Martian Recoverance
Post: RE: Martian Recoverance
| I could provide a gif of that resolution and send it to you if you would like. |
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Art and Visual Media
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03-15-2016, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: Martian Recoverance
Post: RE: Martian Recoverance
| Here's a link to a gif of Mars when it was still a dust-choked desert.
http://fav.me/d9v3kuq
I plan on making an animation like this for the next terraformed Marses as well. Perhaps a few videos... |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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03-14-2016, 05:52 AM |
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Thread: Martian Recoverance
Post: RE: Martian Recoverance
| Excellent. I will get working on that now. |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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03-13-2016, 06:21 AM |
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Thread: Martian Recoverance
Post: Martian Recoverance
| Continuing from the discussions in this thread (http://orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2106).
I am interested in making a few maps for Mars in the Orion's Arm Universe. I just made a Mars ma... |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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03-12-2016, 08:25 AM |
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Thread: Martian Topographical Quandries
Post: RE: Martian Topographical Quandries
| I was wondering if the moon would have a too 'shallow' effect. Thank you for the fast input, Steve.
How reasonable would a tide of a few centimetres to a few inches be? The plan was to have small ... |
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PortalHunter |
Art and Visual Media
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