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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-23-2013, 09:44 AM)
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In this scenario, the Su are more of a niche population that seeks to improve itself using very specific methodology that most people don't want to bother w... |
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Thread: Civilization Ship/ISO S-Level?
Post: Civilization Ship/ISO S-Level?
| What S-level would you say a Civilization Ship (http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-view-article&egart_uid=487ba4c7aef9b) has? What would you say is the usual S-level of your standard wandering I... |
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Thread: WANTED: Gaian-type planet in the Middle Regions (rent or rent-to-own)
Post: WANTED: Gaian-type planet in the Middle Regions (r...
| So I'm looking for an Gaian-type planet fitting the following criteria:
around or about 1000 ly away from Sol (so somewhere in the Middle Regions)
population actually lives planetside as opposed t... |
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10-23-2013, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-17-2013, 12:25 PM)
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Why would Superiors feel the need to 'act like they're better than us' as it were? What would they gain from that, exactly? And why should the nebs care eve... |
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10-23-2013, 09:23 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-17-2013, 12:16 PM)
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tinwatchman Wrote: (10-17-2013, 04:40 AM)
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But aren't fear and insecurity part and parcel with human nature? And isn't the setting aiming to be both scie... |
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10-23-2013, 09:16 AM |
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Thread: Metasoft question
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-18-2013, 12:37 PM)
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In other places/times there seems to be some degree of racial tension between vecs and bionts or at least the bionts who were around back when vecs were bei... |
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10-23-2013, 03:07 AM |
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Thread: Metasoft question
Post: Metasoft question
| Okay, new question - where does the Metasoft Version Tree fall on the whole ahuman/libertarian spectrum as described here (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49a7d33abf557)? On the one hand, they see... |
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10-18-2013, 08:41 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-16-2013, 01:43 PM)
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Superiors are actually superior, generally speaking interns of strength, speed, and intelligence, and anyway it's their official name: Homo Superior.
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10-17-2013, 04:49 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-16-2013, 01:43 PM)
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... I think its inaccurate to either characterize them as resentful or as nearbaselines disliking them. Those are very 21st century notions, mostly grounded... |
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10-17-2013, 04:40 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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macnut Wrote: (10-16-2013, 03:59 AM)
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One potential problem with this is the brand-new Su wouldn't know this was a likely consequence until after the genetic "upgrade" was done and they'd lived as ... |
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10-16-2013, 04:29 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-16-2013, 02:10 AM)
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Another thought that occurred this AM: the 'cost' of relatability (for lack of a better term).
Specifically, the question was asked as to why one wouldn'... |
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10-16-2013, 04:19 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Rynn Wrote: (10-16-2013, 02:08 AM)
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There are a lot of people who like being large, just a few months ago I was watching a documentary about obese people who deliberately got that way and love it. ... |
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10-16-2013, 03:48 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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macnut Wrote: (10-16-2013, 01:16 AM)
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That's why gastric bypass surgery is so popular, it's a way to "magic" away the obesity, even though it exposes an obese person to the dangers, discomfort and ... |
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10-16-2013, 03:46 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-15-2013, 11:00 AM)
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c) believing that billions of years of evolution is a superior way of producing lifeforms and that the genetically engineered are willing walking into an ev... |
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10-16-2013, 03:17 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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stevebowers Wrote: (10-15-2013, 09:08 AM)
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The omniphage clade appears to be very fat to our eyes, but is actually optimised for eating;
see Ridley Ridley
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b98... |
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10-15-2013, 09:33 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
Post: RE: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
| Actually, the more I think about, the more I think it sort of describes the issue I'm talking about here. Thing is, most obese people I know/know of don't really want to be obese. They don't want thei... |
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10-15-2013, 09:24 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
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Rynn Wrote: (10-15-2013, 06:42 AM)
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Most won't need to upgrade their bodies to better survive the environment or their minds to be a better wage slave. Choosing to upgrade (and this is true of any ... |
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10-15-2013, 07:29 AM |
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Thread: Definition of a cyborg
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macnut Wrote: (10-15-2013, 04:57 AM)
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My assumption has always been that the definition of "cyborg" included the neb with a DNI and nanomedical system, the modo with a (mostly) biont brain but most... |
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10-15-2013, 05:41 AM |
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Thread: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
Post: RE: Hello. New to OA. Here's my first question.
| There's another theory that - at least as far as I could see in the thread you linked me to - no one seems to have brought up or floated yet. So what do you think of this?
The reason there are stil... |
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10-15-2013, 05:21 AM |
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Thread: Definition of a cyborg
Post: RE: Definition of a cyborg
| Hrm. That's pretty tricky. Then again, classifying different types of people/minds in general strikes me as really tricky in this universe. (I mean, let's say you upload a biont into an entirely robot... |
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