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Thread: EG - Climate Change on Old Earth
Post: RE: EG - Climate Change on Old Earth
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Drashner1 Wrote: (09-11-2016, 12:02 PM)
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tantric Wrote: (09-11-2016, 05:35 AM)
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just a suggestion - advances in computation will, hopefully, enable a science of predictive ecology. that is to sa... |
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09-25-2016, 05:30 PM |
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Thread: EG - Climate Change on Old Earth
Post: RE: EG - Climate Change on Old Earth
| just a suggestion - advances in computation will, hopefully, enable a science of predictive ecology. that is to say, unlike now, in the future people might actually know what to do to fix a problem/nu... |
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Thread: Global Geopolitics - The Next 500 Years - Climate Change
Post: RE: Global Geopolitics - The Next 500 Years - Clim...
| re: justification for world government. this is from a paper by jaap de roode:
""Parasites depend on their hosts for survival,” said de Roode, "so intuitively, they should be nice to their hosts."... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-01-2016, 08:54 PM |
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Thread: A Country Divided (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Secede from the Union)
Post: RE: A Country Divided (Or, How I Learned to Stop W...
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Drashner1 Wrote: (02-20-2016, 03:25 AM)
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Not to rain on anyone's parade, but saying that 'everything that is good and different about the south comes from Mother Africa' is a limited and parochial ... |
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02-20-2016, 11:06 PM |
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Thread: A Country Divided (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Secede from the Union)
Post: RE: A Country Divided (Or, How I Learned to Stop W...
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QueElEs Wrote: (02-18-2016, 08:07 PM)
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Interesting, thanks tantric. I do like the idea of a transracialist Sputh, a new and modern South. But maybe we could mix in a lot of other strands, not just ... |
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02-18-2016, 09:27 PM |
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Thread: A Country Divided (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Secede from the Union)
Post: RE: A Country Divided (Or, How I Learned to Stop W...
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QueElEs Wrote: (02-14-2016, 09:06 PM)
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Was anyone planning on doing a write-up of this, or was it more for interest?
If someone does, I think it might be nice to then subsequently put up some ar... |
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02-18-2016, 08:26 AM |
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Thread: Role of disease and pandemics in the early AT
Post: RE: Role of disease and pandemics in the early AT
| This is from an old alt.history post, I need to tone it down and summarize:
2016 was a bad year for the flu, and in the end, a bad year for the human race. Scientists recorded two strains for that ... |
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Thread: how am i to write anything meaningful without JSTOR?
Post: RE: how am i to write anything meaningful without ...
| Jack Andraka, a 14yo boy who used open access and devised a new, early test for pancreatic cancer that can save LOTS of lives.
USA. Yes, but i suspect no one ever buys the articles individually, th... |
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Worldbuilders Resources
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09-06-2015, 12:11 PM |
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Thread: how am i to write anything meaningful without JSTOR?
Post: RE: how am i to write anything meaningful without ...
| no, i'm seriously asking - is there some way to do this other than me driving to the university and downloading it to a thumb drive, which is apparently legal, or at least the librarians were eager to... |
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09-04-2015, 09:49 AM |
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Thread: how am i to write anything meaningful without JSTOR?
Post: how am i to write anything meaningful without JSTO...
| i lost my access about 6 months ago, and i haven't tried to do any research since then. when i was writing an RPG setting based on Bantu cultures and mythology, i read *hundreds* of papers. can we, p... |
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09-04-2015, 06:13 AM |
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Thread: Surendar protocell living dome. 1st Draft
Post: RE: Surendar protocell living dome. 1st Draft
| there's a slight problem with calling them by the proper term - it has no recognizability at all. from wikipedia:
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Jeewanu (Sanskrit for "particles of life") are synthetic chemical part... |
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09-03-2015, 07:37 PM |
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Thread: Surendar protocell living dome. 1st Draft
Post: RE: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
| I know its rough, but you must admit, the 'surrender texas' bit, purely spontaneous on my part, has charm.... |
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Thread: Surendar protocell living dome. 1st Draft
Post: Surendar protocell living dome. 1st Draft
| Exec. Mod note: this thread has been split from another (http://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1742)
good - that was a bit much - try this:
Surendar protocells are the first successful s... |
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08-31-2015, 09:35 AM |
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Thread: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
Post: RE: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
| wait, i have some kind of okay for writing up near-life organosilicate protocells from the lava caves of Io? how about using them for dome technology and facilitating Mars colonization. i feel like i ... |
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08-31-2015, 08:09 AM |
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Thread: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
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stevebowers Wrote: (08-30-2015, 03:36 PM)
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There were low worldhouse roofs (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/51f7d32f54b72) on Mars in the Interplanetary/nanotech age, small relatively low-tech ... |
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08-31-2015, 02:12 AM |
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Thread: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
Post: RE: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
| Okay, to take a step back - when and how is the technology for a self-contained human life supporting ecosystem developed? Can you have neo-agarians growing food and fiber under gel-cover craters on M... |
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08-30-2015, 06:45 AM |
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Thread: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
Post: RE: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
| so the early interplanetary colonies were dependent on earth? this idea isn't possible without nanotech? |
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08-29-2015, 11:06 PM |
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Thread: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
Post: Self-contained Civilization - is it possible?
| Is it possible to pack up an entire society's technological base and ship it somewhere, or nowhere? How do you build a self-sufficient high tech colony? How many people are needed to process all the i... |
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08-29-2015, 10:12 PM |
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Thread: Early Timeline (Possible) Revamp
Post: RE: Early Timeline (Possible) Revamp
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Rynn Wrote: (08-29-2015, 12:17 AM)
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That's a cool idea :) and certainly makes sense (though it wouldn't need to be antarctica, the experiment could be done somewhere like the Gobi desert and be spo... |
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08-29-2015, 07:41 AM |
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Thread: Early Timeline (Possible) Revamp
Post: RE: Early Timeline (Possible) Revamp
| origin of the mars colony....
develop the technology for a self sufficient colony in Antarctica. from something i wrote a while back:
"Antarctic colonization *should* be done, ASAP, with the go... |
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