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Thread: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the archailects article
Post: RE: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the...
| The mission to Epsilon Indi definitely had artificial womb tech, and that was launched in 488 AT. I expect that many or most of the missions launched after that date would have it too, or could develo... |
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Thread: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the archailects article
Post: RE: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the...
| One aspect of the Dietrich ascension I wanted to suggest was that this was one of a small number of S:1 ascensions in that era, most of which resulted in the creation of a completely incomprehensible ... |
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stevebowers |
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01-23-2023, 01:24 AM |
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Thread: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems
Post: RE: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems
| The energy for a bioluminescent organism has to come from somewhere, so you would need an energy input at the top trophic level of the biome concerned. If this energy comes from sunlight/starlight, th... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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01-22-2023, 09:06 PM |
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Thread: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the archailects article
Post: RE: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the...
| Ben Higginbottom hasn't been active on the forum for about eighteen years, although I do have some contact with him still. |
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stevebowers |
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01-22-2023, 08:12 PM |
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Thread: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems
Post: RE: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems
| Light levels are quite low under the surface of the sea, so seaweed uses a variety of accessory pigments to increase the amount of energy collected. Brown algae and red algae can grow in deeper water ... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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01-21-2023, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the archailects article
Post: RE: Dietrich and the S1 section of the rise of the...
| I'm happy with this. As I recall, Dietrich was first mentioned by contributor Ben Higginbottom, and I expanded her role slightly; but any extra details are welcome. Note that some of her history might... |
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stevebowers |
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01-21-2023, 09:00 PM |
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Thread: Plankton processors in the Ocean of Ys
Post: RE: Plankton processors in the Ocean of Ys
| Excellent! Is this a microscopic view, or a view from space? |
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01-21-2023, 08:46 PM |
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Thread: Typos
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I haven't read much about conversion drives, but what does the word "bright" indicate?
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The simplest explanation for this statement is that conversion drives are a very energetic form of ... |
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stevebowers |
Website and Content Issues
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01-19-2023, 07:34 AM |
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Thread: Minor Werewolf update
Post: RE: Minor Werewolf update
| That's fine.
On the other hand there could be people in the near future who have extreme surgery to change themselves permanently into werewolves; especially humanoid werewolves like Lon Chaney in th... |
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stevebowers |
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01-16-2023, 08:25 AM |
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Thread: Banks Orbitals vs Ringworlds
Post: RE: Banks Orbitals vs Ringworlds
| Good idea.
Some red dwarfs are very dim, such as Van Biesbroeck's Star, which has a luminosity of 0.0005 x Sol. This star would have a habitable orbit radius of about 3.3 million kilometres; about t... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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01-14-2023, 10:46 PM |
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Thread: Pellet Beam propulsion.
Post: Pellet Beam propulsion.
| NASA are looking into beamriders (at last).
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a42467338/propulsion-system-interstellar-travel-earth-neptune
More details here
https://www.nasa.go... |
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stevebowers |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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01-14-2023, 12:26 AM |
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Thread: Constellations List
Post: RE: Constellations List
| The Ruprecht catalog is a catalog of star clusters, so any individual stars in that catalog would need additional identifiers. |
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stevebowers |
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01-13-2023, 06:32 PM |
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Thread: Banks Orbitals vs Ringworlds
Post: RE: Banks Orbitals vs Ringworlds
| Both Ringworlds and Banks Orbitals require magmatter-strength materials to avoid falling apart. Since both types of megastructure require godtech in their construction, we can assume that there would ... |
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01-12-2023, 09:16 PM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
Post: RE: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
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Drashner1 Wrote: (01-11-2023, 03:11 AM)
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Are these images being saved into the OA CMS so that they can be readily inserted into EG articles when desired?
If not, is that something we should look... |
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stevebowers |
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01-11-2023, 07:09 AM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
Post: RE: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
| No, I love it. If these images can act as inspiration, all the better. |
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01-11-2023, 07:06 AM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
Post: RE: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
| I particularly like the later ones with no figures included; the figures produced by this AI are a bit scary, sometimes.
Much better than they were only a year ago, mind you. |
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01-11-2023, 03:00 AM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
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01-11-2023, 02:45 AM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
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01-11-2023, 02:44 AM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
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01-11-2023, 02:43 AM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
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