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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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08-13-2025, 05:11 AM |
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Thread: Amalgam and Aloof
Post: Amalgam and Aloof
| Could Greg Egan's universe be a reasonable projection of the Milky Way's two HEECs may be in a million years? |
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Tom Mazanec |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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08-12-2025, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: Cramer wormholes
Post: Cramer wormholes
| Is there any place in OAUP for these? They are featured in Cramer's recent novel Fermi's Question. If not, why not?
https://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw39.html |
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Tom Mazanec |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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07-04-2025, 12:46 AM |
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Thread: Can I say 'virch'?
Post: RE: Can I say 'virch'?
| And IIRC, you used "provolve" instead of "uplift" because you were concerned about Brin's reaction? |
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Tom Mazanec |
Creative Writing
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06-23-2025, 07:55 PM |
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Thread: Can I say 'virch'?
Post: RE: Can I say 'virch'?
| As Karl Capek found out :-) |
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Tom Mazanec |
Creative Writing
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06-23-2025, 05:34 AM |
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Thread: Can I say 'virch'?
Post: Can I say 'virch'?
| I apologize if this is the wrong forum, since it is not about an OAUP story.
I am thinking of writing a novel, with the aid of ChatGPT, set in a future where, among other things, what you call virche... |
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Tom Mazanec |
Creative Writing
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06-23-2025, 03:34 AM |
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Thread: Projectile weapons (personal)
Post: RE: Projectile weapons (personal)
| What would be good EG articles for slug throwers? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-10-2025, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Projectile weapons (personal)
Post: Projectile weapons (personal)
| I see in the weapons article that slug-throwers are still at least as popular as lasers, but how do they compare to Information Age pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns?
I am a senior citizen and,... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-08-2025, 10:25 AM |
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Thread: EMP attack
Post: EMP attack
| I've been reading a lot of EMP fiction this year. How would such an attack affect an advanced world in this setting? Is the technology so far advanced that it is immune, or is it even more suseptiblre... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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06-06-2025, 07:17 AM |
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Thread: Reneissance Gods
Post: Reneissance Gods
| Do the highest AIs have as deep and extensive an understanding of the Terragen civilization as Leonardo da Vinci had of c1500 CE Western Civilization? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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05-07-2025, 09:11 PM |
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Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: RE: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
| Guess it shows Somebody's Law (forget the name...if you can identify, thanks). It goes something like "Science fiction always overestimates near future changes and advancements, and always underestima... |
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Tom Mazanec |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-30-2025, 12:29 AM |
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Thread: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
Post: AI progress...OAUP vs RL
| How has AI been progressing in the first quarter of the 21st Century CE, as compared to how it was imagined in OAUP in the beginning? |
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Tom Mazanec |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-29-2025, 07:56 AM |
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Thread: K2-18b life?
Post: K2-18b life?
| What are your thoughts on the best hint of exolife yet? I realize it is not yet conclusive, but if it pans out, how would it affect our timeline and background? |
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Tom Mazanec |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-28-2025, 05:48 AM |
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Thread: Wormhole animation
Post: RE: Wormhole animation
| Let me see if I understand something about wormholes.
Say I am entering the wormhole from a direction, say south to north. I come out the wormhole heading north from it, right?
Now say I enter the w... |
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Tom Mazanec |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-24-2025, 07:10 AM |
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Thread: Birch Planet
Post: RE: Birch Planet
| Could there be a Birch Planet in some other galaxy? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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03-31-2025, 12:32 AM |
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Thread: Evacuate the solar system
Post: RE: Evacuate the solar system
| There was a movie I saw (with Lorne Green as the POTUS iirc) where Japan slowly sinks like Atlantis. The Japanese ambassador begs him to take refugees and Mr. President says that America can only take... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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03-30-2025, 11:31 PM |
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Thread: Evacuate the solar system
Post: Evacuate the solar system
| Postulate some reason to evacuate the solar system in one year (say Sol was going to supernova (even though that is impossible)).
Could we get everyone out ? 10%? 1%? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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03-27-2025, 02:10 AM |
