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Thread: We don't need no steenking rayguns
Post: RE: We don't need no steenking rayguns
| How does reliability compare for the two types? Are they as reliable as revolvers? How about individualized biometric ones? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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07-11-2026, 03:45 AM |
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Thread: We don't need no steenking rayguns
Post: RE: We don't need no steenking rayguns
| but note that the maximum amount of energy released by such a power source will be roughly comparable to the energy in chemical explosives- because matter can only hold a certain limited amount of ene... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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07-05-2026, 12:33 AM |
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Thread: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
Post: RE: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
| Yes, Todd, I was looking at this from the 'wrong direction'.
Thanks for the clarification. |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-30-2026, 09:51 PM |
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Thread: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
Post: RE: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
| no, no...does a small brown dwarf have a much closer limit than Sol, and a blue hypergiant have a much further one? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-29-2026, 09:04 PM |
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Thread: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
Post: RE: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
| BTW, as long as we are on the topic, does that number apply to all stars? Y9 (two orders of magnitude less massive than Sol) to O0 (two orders of magnitude lmore massive than Sol)? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-27-2026, 11:28 PM |
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Thread: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
Post: RE: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
| Thanks, Avengium...but that wasen't my question. And thanks Drasher1 for answering it.
Speed is pretty much irelevant because range is 10-20 cm brain to brain, and it takes several seconds at least f... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-26-2026, 12:51 AM |
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Thread: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
Post: 327 AU...just a suggestion or the law?
| For my Mammaloids worldbuilding I am thinking of incorporating wormholes, as either a future hope or present feature.
However, I would like to position them closer to the inner solar system (say 60 A... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-25-2026, 01:50 AM |
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Thread: We don't need no steenking rayguns
Post: We don't need no steenking rayguns
| While I insisted on toy rayguns when I was a kid in the 60s (and collected a nice little arsenal) I realize slug-throwers may have their points.
In 10601 AT, what are the relative advantages and disa... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-16-2026, 06:01 AM |
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Thread: Hider article?
Post: Hider article?
| What is the article that covers Hider subculture? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-16-2026, 05:59 AM |
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Thread: Artemis III
Post: Artemis III
| This will now be an orbital mission. The first lunar landing will be Artemis IV. Please update timeline. |
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Tom Mazanec |
Website and Content Issues
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05-31-2026, 11:57 PM |
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Thread: VOTs and SIs
Post: RE: VOTs and SIs
| I like that the date for AI causing an employment apocalypse is given in the timeline as 67 AT.
Not the 60s. A specific, single, solitary year.
Will be a very intersting year...in the Chinese sense.... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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05-31-2026, 10:39 PM |
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Thread: VOTs and SIs
Post: RE: VOTs and SIs
| As a devout Catholic I always thought building a machine that could think would be impossible. I read stories about AGI, and enjoyed them, but it was like reading stories about FTL.
And so I figured ... |
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Tom Mazanec |
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05-31-2026, 12:23 AM |
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Thread: VOTs and SIs
Post: RE: VOTs and SIs
| Another oddity they exhibit is the Spiritual Bliss Attractor. |
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Tom Mazanec |
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05-29-2026, 10:22 AM |
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Thread: Total Conversion size
Post: Total Conversion size
| When (if ever) did TC energy production become available at the following scales:
Continental grid
Megawatt TV station
Personal vehicle
Laser pistol |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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05-28-2026, 06:10 AM |
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Thread: VOTs and SIs
Post: VOTs and SIs
| What, exactly, is the difference between an SI and a VOT? Are Clause, ChatGPT, etc. one or the other (or both)? |
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Tom Mazanec |
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05-28-2026, 06:08 AM |
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Thread: Magmatter
Post: Magmatter
| When could we first make microscopic amounts of magmatter (total conversion)? When could we first make cosmic amounts (Banks Orbitals)? And please give a *simple* explanation of how you can use it for... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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05-23-2026, 02:52 AM |
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Thread: Intercylinder travel
Post: RE: Intercylinder travel
| Yes, I meant between the connected cylinders, compared to 1st Cen AT travel. |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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01-17-2026, 07:26 AM |
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Thread: Intercylinder travel
Post: Intercylinder travel
| What is it like going from one McKendree cylinder to the other? Like Interstate travel? International? To the antipodes? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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01-15-2026, 04:28 AM |
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Thread: Godwin's Law in 10601 AT
Post: Godwin's Law in 10601 AT
| What is the equivalent of a certain second rate Austrian artist in OAUP? Is there an entity everyone hates? Or is Hitler still used as this, in a pseudomythological way? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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10-24-2025, 10:32 PM |
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Thread: Amalgam and Aloof
Post: RE: Amalgam and Aloof
| Particularly interesting is exploring a new system by firing a "spore" at relativistic velocity which lands on a planet of the system, and proceeds to grow a gamma-ray receiver for the explorers to be... |
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Tom Mazanec |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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