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Art and Visual Media

04-12-2022, 10:34 PM

Thread: Nieuw Amsterdam art
Post: Nieuw Amsterdam art

Frank Moth (https://frankmoth.com/art/) has some surreal art that would be perfect for Nieuw Amsterdam's static orbital ring: https://i0.wp.com/mossandfog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/60291475_...

Art and Visual Media

04-12-2022, 10:33 PM

Thread: The Orbital Children
Post: The Orbital Children

The "Orbital Children" (currently on Netflix) is a fairly short anime series that has a background of transcensions that are scaring humanity in the near future. AIs are ubiquitous but have deliberate...

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02-11-2022, 03:56 AM

Thread: Comprehensive List of Sites and Artifacts Preserved By GAIA
Post: RE: Comprehensive List of Sites and Artifacts Pres...

Would it be worth creating a list of Apocryphal and False preserved sites on Terra, rumors that exist on the Known Net but not on Terra? For a few examples of the silliness that modosophonts fall for:...

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02-11-2022, 03:50 AM

Thread: Transapients in a Modosophont World
Post: Transapients in a Modosophont World

The punchline... https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4677

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12-15-2021, 06:49 AM

Thread: The Suit
Post: RE: The Suit

Thank you, Todd, that was an informative Orion's Arm extrapolation of the situation.

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11-30-2021, 09:31 PM

Thread: The Suit
Post: RE: The Suit

Drashner1 Wrote: (11-30-2021, 12:16 AM) -- Yup - very creepy! Todd -- This is the point where you reassure me that an Orion's Arm suit would be able to extract all sorts of energy from the envir...

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11-30-2021, 03:00 AM

Thread: The Suit
Post: The Suit

How far will your thicksuit (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4866b0051debd) go to keep you alive and get you home? Short comic: The Suit (https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/the-suit)

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11-29-2021, 10:05 PM

Thread: Origins of Superior, Baseline Terminology?
Post: Origins of Superior, Baseline Terminology?

I was reading Allen M. Steele's (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73419.Allen_M_Steele) anthology "Sex and Violence in Zero-G," and there are a couple of short stories in there that mention "Supe...

07-10-2021, 12:13 AM

Thread: What music are you listening to right now?
Post: RE: What music are you listening to right now?

Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525" has got to be the theme song for Orions Arm.

General Off-topic Discussion

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06-18-2021, 03:55 AM

Thread: Alien Worlds (Netflix)
Post: RE: Alien Worlds (Netflix)

Good series. I'm rewatching it.

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06-18-2021, 03:54 AM

Thread: First Federation - Couple Things
Post: RE: First Federation - Couple Things

Non-colonial missions: The first nuclear bomb, the first satellite, the first human in orbit were all epic accomplishments. Once other engineers have seen it done, it's easier. And once the industr...

06-11-2021, 02:01 PM

Thread: Waxy Superiors?
Post: RE: Waxy Superiors?

Rynn Wrote: (06-05-2021, 09:02 PM) -- I'm not aware of anything in nature, it was more of a throw-away idea given that some wax can have energy density slightly higher than body fat (mid 40s in terms...

06-05-2021, 10:45 PM

Thread: Waxy Superiors?
Post: Waxy Superiors?

The Homo Superior Genemod article... https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47fc30971c3c5 ...mentions that "Superior bodies also store energy with greater efficiency, adipose cell storage favours wax s...

06-03-2021, 10:35 PM

Thread: Large non-megastructure habitats
Post: RE: Large non-megastructure habitats

That realistic spacecraft album is handy for my Shadowrun...in...SPAAAACE campaign.

Art and Visual Media

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03-07-2021, 04:29 AM

Thread: The Trader (2nd draft)
Post: RE: The Trader (2nd draft)

I like this idea. Grammatical nitpick: "...and transmitted a short signal toward the Pepehhpaf system before stowing itself again. this signal, which was received by the Soft Ones on Hipepepap n...

Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles

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02-16-2021, 08:08 AM

Thread: Lich, Draugr, Poltergeist, and Phobetor: a neutron star system
Post: RE: Lich, Draugr, Poltergeist, and Phobetor: a neu...

Neutron star planets' composition would be even weirder than carbonaceous (adamanean?) planets. All those rare heavy elements mixed with oddball transition elements, but starved of the light ones like...

Real Life But OA Relevant

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02-04-2021, 05:46 AM

Thread: Proxima rewrite
Post: RE: Proxima rewrite

The Astronomer Wrote: (12-21-2019, 10:52 AM) -- - Cray hasn't responded to my reply yet, so I continued with my original proposal. -- I don't read every post when I pop in so I'd recommend a privat...

Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles

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02-03-2021, 09:38 PM

Thread: Lich, Draugr, Poltergeist, and Phobetor: a neutron star system
Post: RE: Lich, Draugr, Poltergeist, and Phobetor: a neu...

Et cetera, I like that. You'd think Saturn would have a moon named that by now. What's the likely composition of neutron star planets? When two neutron stars or a neutron star and white dwarf colli...

Real Life But OA Relevant

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02-03-2021, 09:28 PM

Thread: Negative absolute temperature
Post: RE: Negative absolute temperature

Interesting idea. Negative temperature systems are ones where entropy decreases as energy is added. Are there situations, perhaps high energy plasmas, where decreased entropy is useful?