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    Thread: Megas (Homo megaptera)
Post: RE: Megas (Homo megaptera)

As their primary sense is olfactory and acoustic/sonar, their coloration can range from purely aesthetic for those with more humanistic ideologies, to more natural colourations suitable to the various...
iniaes Art and Visual Media 22 342 04-10-2014, 05:14 AM
    Thread: The Nanodisaster Rewrite - Ok, Let's Do This
Post: RE: The Nanodisaster Rewrite - Ok, Let's Do This

I like the idea of the biosphere 2.0 initiative. Reading through your ideas of what could go wrong it would be an incredible sequence of aligned accidents to have it all go wrong in quick successio...
iniaes Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 290 3,682 04-10-2014, 05:04 AM
    Thread: Overview of Nanotechnology
Post: RE: Overview of Nanotechnology

For a nanotech disaster to get a strong footing, it would have to have a formidable power supply by modosophont standards IMO. The threat of a bioengineered threat would be much more viable given the ...
iniaes Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 23 240 03-29-2014, 04:19 AM
    Thread: Singularion, I choose you!
Post: RE: Singularion, I choose you!

Going back to the Porygon analogy; this could be an entire field of study, creating fanaciful virtual lifeforms which could then be reconstituted as viable organic organisms in the /real/ world
iniaes Other Game-related Discussion 7 106 03-26-2014, 12:18 AM
    Thread: <EG - restoration> Voluntary Message Authentication
Post: RE: <EG - restoration> Voluntary Message Authentic...

So the ultimate enemy of a Transapient would be... a nihilist diceman? The foresight limit, assuming a logical train of thought is being pursued by both parties, may become a stretch when higher S-l...
iniaes Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 16 181 03-25-2014, 01:22 AM
    Thread: <EG - restoration> Voluntary Message Authentication
Post: RE: <EG - restoration> Voluntary Message Authentic...

Oh wow, this reminds me a great deal of the 'Others' in the trilogy I have just read. Perhaps it is not fitting to think of these envoys(?) as truely sapient though. In the Mars Girl Trilogy (Bound...
iniaes Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 16 181 03-25-2014, 12:57 AM
    Thread: Lurk Mode De-activated
Post: RE: Lurk Mode De-activated

Oh trust me I am >:D Got a couple of ideas I am fleshing out before I then flense them into correlation with OA, plus a plot inspired by a Daft Punk song... But more on that later. Thanks for th...
iniaes The Arrivals Lounge 4 15,814 03-25-2014, 12:36 AM
    Thread: Lurk Mode De-activated
Post: RE: Lurk Mode De-activated

They are all rather spectacular, and don't just tell a story, the thing I love about them is what brought me here; the worlds that their stories exist in. I have came across some of your handwaviu...
iniaes The Arrivals Lounge 4 15,814 03-24-2014, 07:01 PM
    Thread: Lurk Mode De-activated
Post: Lurk Mode De-activated

Before you is... Something... Black... Dangerous... Cold... Angular... It almost looks like a hole in reality, the odd shape so perfectly black you cannot discern what parts are in the foreground an...
iniaes The Arrivals Lounge 4 15,814 03-24-2014, 04:01 PM