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Thread: Cylinder Habs with many floors
Post: Cylinder Habs with many floors
| A quick question related to cylinders with many floors (let's say, between 20-50in a McKendree colony, or about 10 or so for an O'Neill.)
What is used for powering the floors that are not directly ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-21-2024, 09:47 AM |
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Thread: Moving planets
Post: RE: Moving planets
| Or take a Gaian world whose sun is starting to leave the Main Sequence. Could it slowly be moved to a larger orbit?
This gets talked about a lot, and Paul Birch's ideas on the matter do seem pretty n... |
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General Setting Discussion
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10-15-2024, 10:03 AM |
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Thread: Diffusion Dyson Confusion
Post: RE: Diffusion Dyson Confusion
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-10-2024, 10:51 PM)
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This term is a play on 'fractal' which (among other things) can refer to forms that repeat their basic shape across multiple scales. Do a google images sear... |
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General Setting Discussion
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10-12-2024, 12:12 AM |
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Thread: Diffusion Dyson Confusion
Post: Diffusion Dyson Confusion
| https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464b9db4b4ed8
After reading up a bit more on the Silk God, I came across the Diffusion Dyson article, and there are a few terms that I am not sure about/still... |
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omega_tyrant |
General Setting Discussion
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10-10-2024, 11:46 AM |
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Thread: Limits to disassembler swarms
Post: RE: Limits to disassembler swarms
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Drashner1 Wrote: (08-18-2024, 12:53 AM)
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Neumann technology - of whatever scale - could do any or all of these things, in principle. Nanotech 'disassemblers' aren't required, although they might he... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-19-2024, 04:40 AM |
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Thread: Limits to disassembler swarms
Post: Limits to disassembler swarms
| How might disassembler swarms be utilized on planetary surfaces, in particular in regards to altering the surface features of a planet (in conjunction with assembler swarms as well).
-Would they b... |
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omega_tyrant |
General Setting Discussion
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08-18-2024, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: Art Request Thread
Post: RE: Art Request Thread
| I have a request about habitat maps.
I have noticed that it is very common on our website to have maps for various planets, both natural and terraformed, but I am curious as to how maps would look ... |
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Art and Visual Media
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05-27-2024, 12:32 PM |
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Thread: Cyborn Musings
Post: Cyborn Musings
| Cyborn are described as beings that "have an organic component that is grown with the express purpose of 'mating' with its cybernetic component."
I am having a hard time visualizing what this might... |
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omega_tyrant |
General Setting Discussion
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05-05-2024, 12:27 AM |
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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-17-2024, 10:13 PM)
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The papers I've seen on MCs and similar size structures usually has them placed in orbit around the Sun in their own right rather than being in close proxim... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-18-2024, 08:49 AM |
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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
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Tom Mazanec Wrote: (04-18-2024, 12:15 AM)
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Sorry I meant earth tides in the MC. Similarly if it is in the orbit of a red dwarf there may be flooding as it revolves?
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In that case, I would imagin... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-18-2024, 08:37 AM |
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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
| Tom McKendree in one of his presentations mentioned that the mass of the 10,000km long cylinder is a little less than 10^18kg. I'm not sure how much of a further effect that would have on tides, consi... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-17-2024, 08:56 AM |
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Thread: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding stars
Post: RE: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding st...
| Also keep in mind that 400 billion stars is quite a high estimate for the number of stars in the MW. Although I've heard a handful of sources quote this number, many more cite a figure of 100 billion ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-17-2024, 08:31 AM |
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Thread: Magmatter
Post: RE: Magmatter
| Magmatter, from what I remember reading about it, isn't like matter, because magmatter is based on topological defects (monopoles) instead of Standard Model particles. So I don't imagine that it would... |
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omega_tyrant |
General Setting Discussion
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04-10-2024, 09:59 PM |
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Thread: ::NN:: article: porn actor sued by own sentient penis.
Post: RE: ::NN:: article: porn actor sued by own sentien...
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-03-2024, 10:43 PM)
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On the flip side, there is this article on African Grey Parrots and similar in the Related Articles section - LINK (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/45e... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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04-04-2024, 07:43 AM |
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Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...
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kingofthemerdz3 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 02:55 PM)
--The upper toposophic limit: is S6 the highest possible? How risky would an S7 ascension be? We might end up dealing with a S7 blight that ends up as th... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-12-2024, 07:19 AM |
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Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...
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kingofthemerdz3 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 02:55 PM)
--xenosophont civilizations, especially those which are extragalactic: who knows what might come with the Leviathan when it finally reaches the Milky Way... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-12-2024, 07:11 AM |
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Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...
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stevebowers Wrote: (03-11-2024, 07:00 PM)
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Another possibility that I didn't mention is the Aestivation hypothesis; a civilisation might reduce its activity to a bare minimum, waiting until the uni... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-12-2024, 07:07 AM |
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Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories
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Drashner1 Wrote: (03-05-2024, 10:25 PM)
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Note finally that AFAIK there are no 10,000yr old nebs or other biologicals in the setting.
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What about Jonathan "Trip" Daniels? Was he confirmed 10,000... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-07-2024, 08:52 AM |
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Thread: New high-energy theoretical physics study that could be used in clarketech lore
Post: RE: New high-energy theoretical physics study that...
| Does this process of creation in this paper have any relation at all to the Schwinger Effect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_effect |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-28-2024, 08:19 AM |
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Thread: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
Post: RE: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
| Cool....I think I'd like to do a write up for the Bok Globule idea. I would still like to focus on the transmutation angle for creating worlds. If the time for creation is the issue, I can set it as a... |
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General Setting Discussion
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