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Thread: Worst Pre-Technocalypse disaster
Post: RE: Worst Pre-Technocalypse disaster
I remember reading an article is Scientific American about 10 years ago that reviewed the number of weapons required to cause a global nuclear winter. The figure was a lot less than that proposed duri... |
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03-14-2018, 03:28 AM |
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Thread: Time travel via many worlds
Post: RE: Time travel via many worlds
I wasn't thinking of using MW as a way to physically travel through time, but rather to use it to make observations about the past. This idea really comes out of echammond's thread about post Y11k tec... |
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02-22-2018, 03:13 AM |
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Thread: Book Club (Feb 2018)
Post: RE: Book Club (Feb 2018)
I've just finished a book that I really enjoyed and would like to recommend to the forum book club.
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimage... |
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Duddy9 |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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02-22-2018, 02:59 AM |
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Thread: Time travel via many worlds
Post: Time travel via many worlds
I remember reading a novel called Timeline when I was a kid about historians who travelled to medieval France in an alternate timeline almost identical to the one they came from. This allowed them to ... |
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02-21-2018, 01:13 AM |
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Thread: Fun activities in the Terragen Sphere
Post: RE: Fun activities in the Terragen Sphere
I like to imagine that by the interplanetary era I'm living in semi-retirement on the Moon, occasionally taking part in the annual Cis-Lunar solar sail race. |
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Duddy9 |
General Setting Discussion
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02-20-2018, 09:38 PM |
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Thread: Whats your favorite kind of Modosophonts?
Post: RE: Whats your favorite kind of Modosophonts?
My favourite is one I'm writing an article about now, Cellphonts. Single cell modosophonts that use a human body as habitat. |
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02-10-2018, 08:15 AM |
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Thread: Book Club (Feb 2018)
Post: RE: Book Club (Feb 2018)
Can we include non-fiction books we've been reading? If so I'd like to include a book I read a couple of months ago, New World of Mr Tompkins
https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-World-Mr-Tompkins-Paperbac... |
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02-08-2018, 06:58 AM |
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Thread: Weird/horrifying things to eat
Post: RE: Weird/horrifying things to eat
The talking cow from Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
A clone of yourself.
A colony of Cellphonts. |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-23-2018, 12:25 AM |
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Thread: Gravity/metric manipulation
Post: RE: Gravity/metric manipulation
Could black hole electrons be used for metric manipulation?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_electron |
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Duddy9 |
General Setting Discussion
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01-16-2018, 10:45 PM |
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Thread: Animals and Plants for Non-Earth-like Environments
Post: RE: Animals and Plants for Non-Earth-like Environm...
A while back I hand an idea for a type of giant molluscs that would move across the surface of Mercury relying on exothermic and endothermic reactions. |
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01-15-2018, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: A Middle Tech Society Without Access to the Net
Post: RE: A Middle Tech Society Without Access to the Ne...
If you're looking for an example of scifi design without the internet. I'd recommend the reboot of Battlestar Galactica. The set designers designed the ship without any networked computers. The In-uni... |
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Duddy9 |
General Off-topic Discussion
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12-06-2017, 11:18 PM |
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Thread: The Singularity is near...
Post: RE: The Singularity is near...
I spent 2 years sometime ago doing a part time MSc in Data Analytics & Computer Science thinking I was future proofing my job. More fool me :dodgy: |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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12-05-2017, 01:58 AM |
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Thread: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
Post: RE: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
What I was really wondering was if natural selection would remove those species that have violent tendencies. It's true that violence can provide evolutionarily useful in the past, I would argue that ... |
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11-30-2017, 06:20 AM |
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Thread: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
Post: The Use of Violence by Advanced Civilizations
Reading about the offensive capacities of Megastructures such as Steve's Supraself structure, reminded me of an argument that Carl Sagen proposed. That at the stage in which a civilization is manipula... |
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11-24-2017, 11:29 PM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
I'm actually studying a part-time physics degree with the Open University, I've just checked and we do have several of their papers.
It's a shame the JBIS archive only goes back to 1999. Arthur C C... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-24-2017, 06:52 AM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
Steve and Terrafamilia, thanks for the links to the Cloud 9 wikipedia entry.
Does anyone know where Buckminster Fuller first discussed his idea for Cloud 9? Did he write a paper? I'd love to see hi... |
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11-23-2017, 10:50 PM |
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Thread: Anders Sandberg on BBC R4 'Moral Maze'
Post: Anders Sandberg on BBC R4 'Moral Maze'
Anders Sandberg appeared last night on BBC Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze' discussing The Morality of Artificial Intelligence.
He seemed to particularly annoy Melanie Phillips, which delighted me no-end... |
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11-23-2017, 10:42 PM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
Here is a Paper on Supramundane Planets. I picked it up some time during the year, I'm afraid I have no idea where I got it.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=15914240693085852538 |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-23-2017, 03:08 AM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: RE: Resource of information
Just found this article on what sounds like one of Steve's Supraself
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1112/1112.5519.pdf
Does anyone have an technical information on the Cloud 9 proposal, I've... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-22-2017, 05:54 AM |
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Thread: Resource of information
Post: Resource of information
Following on from the discussion on the Megastructures thread.
I would like this thread to be a central resource of technical information we collectively find. Ideally it would cover everything fro... |
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11-22-2017, 04:12 AM |