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Thread: Re-imagining the Sophic League
Post: RE: Re-imagining the Sophic League
| I think it’s a great idea.
Cleverly, spiritually can also be part of the League milieu of “exploring the mind”, just not the sole focus. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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07-27-2023, 01:10 AM |
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Thread: Tchotchkes
Post: RE: Tchotchkes
| Small-grained utility sand (utility silt?) could act very liquid paint like if you wanted it to, and if given electronic ink or PQDA technology, it could display any desired color patterning. |
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JohnnyYesterday |
General Setting Discussion
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06-11-2023, 08:37 AM |
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Thread: EG - Aerophants
Post: RE: EG - Aerophants
| There might be some engineering workarounds (e.g. most of their bodies aren’t alive) but multi kilometer scale animal bodies run against physical limitations even in freefall environments.
A spher... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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06-03-2023, 11:40 PM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Post: RE: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-29-2023, 09:18 PM)
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Thoughts?
Todd
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Maybe a short stand-alone article would work best. All vertebrates from fish to birds have inner ears that work essentially like ours... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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04-30-2023, 01:00 AM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Post: RE: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-29-2023, 03:19 AM)
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Ufog can't manipulate gravity so how could it make people or things experience different levels of gravity? It could press down to a degree on someone/thing... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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04-29-2023, 06:01 PM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Post: RE: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
| If u-fog is included in the mix, variable gravity sports could get really weird. People standing just a few meters apart on the same floor could experience different gravity, gravity could change over... |
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JohnnyYesterday |
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04-29-2023, 01:00 AM |
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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 |
General Setting Discussion
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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 |
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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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JohnnyYesterday |
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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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