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Thread: The “Why?” of Five
Post: The “Why?” of Five
| I was reading through the EG entry on Bucky habitats (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4cd1c52672b71), and it mentions that rotating cylinder habs, even when their gyroscopic effect has been cance... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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02-17-2023, 03:03 AM |
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Thread: Go Edify Yourself
Post: RE: Go Edify Yourself
| Cybernetics, by Norbert Wiener
General Systems Theory, by Lars Skyttner
Notes on the Synthesis of Form, by Christopher Alexander
Trizics, by Gordon Cameron
How Designers Think, and What... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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12-16-2022, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: Worldbuilding Focus for the next 4 months
Post: RE: Worldbuilding Focus for the next 4 months
| I second omega_tyrant’s suggestion of exploring Bok Swarms. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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12-06-2022, 08:13 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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12-03-2022, 09:27 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
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Drashner1 Wrote: (12-02-2022, 12:28 AM)
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I'm also iffy about Syntech being pushed 'nearly' to Y11k levels that early in the timeline as a blanket statement for various reasons. What is meant by tha... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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12-02-2022, 05:23 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
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Rynn Wrote: (12-01-2022, 11:18 PM)
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Dusting off my biologist hat for a moment; what does this mean? I don't understand what the analogy is trying to express here. Is it the idea of a body plan or s... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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12-02-2022, 04:51 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
| Syntech is a broad category of technology that is a fundamental integration of biology-like chemical systems, structures, processes and organization, and artificial systems, structures, processes and ... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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12-01-2022, 10:13 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
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Drashner1 Wrote: (11-17-2022, 12:59 PM)
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Which takes us back to the issue of the current article as history. Is the wording modification I suggested workable or do you want to do a more extensive r... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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11-18-2022, 05:54 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
| Syntech doesn’t originate in the First Fed, but by the EG as it now is, seems to, possibly, mature then. This doesn’t feel too implausible to me; shouldn’t S2s be able to push “plain old” nanotechnolo... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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11-17-2022, 12:30 PM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
| The main thing about the current history section that IMO doesn’t work well is: “Synano only became possible when both 'wet' (organic) and 'dry' (mechanical, or inorganic) nano had been mastered.”
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JohnnyYesterday |
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11-16-2022, 07:49 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
| Yeah, it was supposed to update that page.
If you’d like a history section, I could write an updated version of one.
Two images is fine. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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11-14-2022, 06:31 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: RE: Syntech Rewrite
| New syntech image that I made: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XfMnEeAOzK795QKhF4O9Cuaz7_yiPfIg/view?usp=sharing |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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11-13-2022, 10:23 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Rewrite
Post: Syntech Rewrite
| Syntech is a broad category of technology that is a fundamental integration of biology-like chemical systems, structures, processes and organization, and artificial systems, structures, processes and ... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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11-13-2022, 10:16 AM |
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Thread: Nanomusic (rewrite)
Post: RE: Nanomusic (rewrite)
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Crossroads Wrote: (09-24-2022, 10:37 AM)
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- noted that nothing about the new instruments actually required the new nanotechnology to be created, and later proved in a series of double-blind studies... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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09-25-2022, 09:25 AM |
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Thread: Isomemory Crystals
Post: RE: Isomemory Crystals
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Drashner1 Wrote: (09-02-2022, 10:54 PM)
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While this is the case when binding normal matter to a magmatter mesh such as is used in Banks Orbital construction, I'm not so sure that applies when consi... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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09-04-2022, 05:03 AM |
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Thread: Isomemory Crystals
Post: RE: Isomemory Crystals
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Nomad Wrote: (08-23-2022, 09:32 AM)
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Okay, so I looked at this, and the results are scary.
The below concerns the hypothetical monopole-augmented matter memory, not isomemory in general
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JohnnyYesterday |
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09-02-2022, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: Syntech Redux
Post: RE: Syntech Redux
| Everyone okay with me taking a crack at updating the article? |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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08-30-2022, 03:44 AM |
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Thread: Syntech Redux
Post: RE: Syntech Redux
| A) Yeah, the article should be updated, and expanded a bit.
B) Syntech is almost certainly the most prevalent by percentage, but pure biotech and hylotech is still around. Nothing is the best at ev... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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08-29-2022, 05:34 AM |
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Thread: Isomemory Crystals
Post: RE: Isomemory Crystals
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Nomad Wrote: (08-26-2022, 03:12 AM)
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I saw you mentioned tape and tape-like media several times in your Information Storage article; since I sort of included it in my analysis, perhaps you and I co... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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08-26-2022, 02:33 PM |
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Thread: Syntech Redux
Post: RE: Syntech Redux
| What feels most plausible to me is that syntech is virtually just as old as hylonano.
I see all three fields developing over time, feeding into each other; this cross-pollination kind of thing is ... |
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