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Thread: Mars (EG Rewrite)
Post: RE: Mars (EG Rewrite)
| Glad the Mars article is up for a rewrite. It's been a bit of a jumble for as long as I can recall! Agreed, the timeline should be a shortened thing and kicked into an appendix for people who like to ... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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11-30-2023, 06:05 PM |
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Thread: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospheric pressure
Post: RE: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospher...
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TSSL Wrote: (11-22-2022, 10:17 AM)
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Hello, wanted to bump this because I was putting together a post with thoughts about Tohul history and pre-contact society, and that brought me back to noticing ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-22-2022, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: Blue Dwarf Stars
Post: RE: Blue Dwarf Stars
| Some good suggestions for expansions here, & I'll try to work something like that in. One of the pieces I mean to work in, though, is the OA version of the Fermi Paradox. For plausibility, "noisy" exp... |
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08-28-2022, 02:01 PM |
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Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)
| A thought: if the idea is to have human-shaped human-like superintelligent beings that choose to rule human populations, would it not be better to simply go with Superiors? When you get to transapient... |
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08-28-2022, 01:50 PM |
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Thread: Blue Dwarf Stars
Post: RE: Blue Dwarf Stars
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Matterplay1 Wrote: (08-11-2022, 01:32 PM)
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Seeing nobody's yet picked this up, here's my suggested entry:
Blue Dwarf
The predicted end-state of a red dwarf star some trillions of years afte... |
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08-21-2022, 03:34 PM |
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Thread: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
Post: RE: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
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Rynn Wrote: (08-17-2022, 11:25 PM)
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Drashner1 Wrote: (08-17-2022, 10:53 PM)
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Considering the broader question raised by Stephen, I'm also wondering if there's an existential question/issue float... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-21-2022, 03:31 PM |
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Thread: People Getting Vot They Want
Post: People Getting Vot They Want
| This is an out-take from the thread I started on who/what does the work of maintaining a virchworld. It's grown into a more general discussion, applicable to any artificial environment (which is, in O... |
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08-21-2022, 03:16 PM |
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Thread: Hard SF vs. Diamond Hard SF
Post: RE: Hard SF vs. Diamond Hard SF
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Tom Mazanec Wrote: (08-19-2022, 01:11 AM)
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First, my understanding is that OAUP is Hard SF and not Diamond Hard SF, right?
Second, my understanding of the distinction is that Diamond Hard SF assum... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-19-2022, 03:12 AM |
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Thread: Article Update Request Thread
Post: RE: Article Update Request Thread
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Crossroads Wrote: (08-18-2022, 02:30 PM)
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Regarding the name of "Great Dying", yes, let's see what others say. I'm not saying a replacement name would have to be the one I chose, also.
Regarding... |
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08-19-2022, 03:10 AM |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
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sandcastles Wrote: (08-17-2022, 10:35 AM)
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130 to 400 A.T.
The massive spread of pirated genes makes it increasingly hard to enforce gene patents, and the human enhancement industry begins to move... |
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Website and Content Issues
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08-18-2022, 01:47 PM |
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Thread: Article Update Request Thread
Post: RE: Article Update Request Thread
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Crossroads Wrote: (08-18-2022, 09:26 AM)
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Article name: Great Dying
Article link: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46f96cc2edab9
Reason for update: The Great Dying is already the name of the ... |
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08-18-2022, 01:24 PM |
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Thread: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
Post: RE: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
| Hmm. Perhaps I'm still failing to be clear here. I'll try with a list of suggested design/administration/maintenance functions:
1) Someone/something determines how much computronium is devoted to o... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-17-2022, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
Post: RE: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
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Rynn Wrote: (08-17-2022, 05:37 AM)
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I don’t really follow the logic that virches would require more sophont labour than the physical habitats of the terragen sphere. Virtual worlds have it even eas... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-17-2022, 07:28 AM |
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Thread: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
Post: Virchworlds - Who Does the Work?
| For our virch world focus, I'm thinking of an article on the processes (and beings!) that maintain the virchworld. I think that there would be a tendency for the inhabitants to be quite involved in th... |
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08-17-2022, 03:02 AM |
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Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)
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extherian Wrote: (08-16-2022, 02:26 AM)
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This makes me concerned that I have been violated some kind of informal community norm all this time, for which I can only apologise. I would appreciate som... |
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08-16-2022, 01:00 PM |
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Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)
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Not so sure about this. At first look, there appear to be numerous changes from the original, and that many changes to someone else's contribution would need a much more extensive rationale th... |
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08-16-2022, 01:40 AM |
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Thread: Rigel article rewrite
Post: RE: Rigel article rewrite
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Trolligi Wrote: (08-14-2022, 06:53 PM)
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I started writing about the lifeforms but I kinda got stuck as to what to write next, here is what I've written:
Suncatchers
These “suncatchers” appear a... |
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08-15-2022, 03:02 AM |
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Thread: Blue Dwarf Stars
Post: RE: Blue Dwarf Stars
| Seeing nobody's yet picked this up, here's my suggested entry:
Blue Dwarf
The predicted end-state of a red dwarf star some trillions of years after its formation, when most of its hydrogen sup... |
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08-11-2022, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: You've ascended to the 1st Singularity, what will you do now?
Post: RE: You've ascended to the 1st Singularity, what w...
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Lemuria Wrote: (07-30-2022, 06:37 AM)
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You're at your home, doing whatever it is that you do, maybe reading this. For some reason, you suddenly ascend (not transcend) to the First Singularity. What... |
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08-11-2022, 12:43 PM |
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Thread: How does a sophont distinguish emself in Sephirotic Empires?
Post: RE: How does a sophont distinguish emself in Sephi...
| First, while it's a given of the setting as currently written that one can 'download' technical skills and knowledge (I'm a bit skeptical of the plausibility of this, at least for bionts, given what I... |
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