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Thread: Oort Cloud utilization
Post: RE: Oort Cloud utilization
| Could we find them by, say, radar? Radar goes as the fourth power, so maybe we just know of the Hills Cloud? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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Thread: Oort Cloud utilization
Post: Oort Cloud utilization
| How much of the Oort Cloud is used in 10601 AT? A fraction of a percent or 99 and 44/100? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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12-04-2024, 06:41 AM |
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Thread: Inside a stasis field
Post: Inside a stasis field
| Suppose you were on Earth or an Earth twin and wish to travel a millennium into the future by spending a long vacation in a 10,000X stasis field. What would the trip be like? For example, would you su... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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12-03-2024, 04:01 AM |
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Thread: Gray/grey goo
Post: Gray/grey goo
| What would be the EG article for this? I can't find it, and in a hundred centuries of nanotechnology I can't believe someone hasen't tried to make it! |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-29-2024, 03:30 AM |
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Thread: Lazurogenics
Post: RE: Lazurogenics
| How about a tullimonstrum, my favorite fossil? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-28-2024, 12:08 AM |
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Thread: Lazurogenics
Post: Lazurogenics
| How accurate are lazurogens? I once saw a picture of an elephant skeleton and a reconstructed elephant based on it, as a millionth century paleontologist would do it.
The reconstructed elephant had n... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-26-2024, 09:00 PM |
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Thread: World #7132: Type 4c, then type 4b
Post: World #7132: Type 4c, then type 4b
| https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5bb14ea142247 (Comparative Chronology).
This is not exactly a "mistake", since we can't prove that it would not turn out this way (thank God). But IMHO a much b... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-15-2024, 01:00 AM |
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Thread: Club of Rome planets
Post: RE: Club of Rome planets
| C an we actually stay a LEEC for thousands of millennia? Without expanding to get new resources? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-15-2024, 12:46 AM |
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Thread: Club of Rome planets
Post: Club of Rome planets
| Given the rarety of HEECs and the frequency of LEECs, a lot of civilizations equivalent to ours must have self destructed before reaching the stars. Do a lot of them fall into the Club of Rome World3 ... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-13-2024, 09:28 PM |
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Thread: Information Age fantasy races
Post: RE: Information Age fantasy races
| stevebowers, I think most, if not all, avians and mammals have a surprisingly sophisticated “language”. I have a book by Anne Rasa about a colony of dwarf mongooses (my favorite critters… my Discord n... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-06-2024, 03:37 AM |
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Thread: Ultimate Ringworld
Post: RE: Ultimate Ringworld
| 20 billion kilometers breaking length for ringworlds? The theoretical maximum is 9.2*10^12 km
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength
Perhaps cosmic strings would have this strength? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-05-2024, 11:52 PM |
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Thread: Kardashev and Sagan scales of OA in 10600 AT
Post: RE: Kardashev and Sagan scales of OA in 10600 AT
| But isn’t most of its power generation conversion, not solar? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-05-2024, 11:31 PM |
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Thread: Information Age fantasy races
Post: RE: Information Age fantasy races
| Would either 2 or even 3 be remembered the day the Technocalypse began? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-05-2024, 10:19 PM |
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Thread: Information Age fantasy races
Post: RE: Information Age fantasy races
| FYI, fraggles are happy subterranean muppets, yinglets are rat-bird creatures in the webcomic Out Of Placers by Valsalia and numerous fanfics (an open species, so they could legally be used in OAUP), ... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-04-2024, 07:27 PM |
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Thread: Mesojovian biosphere?
Post: RE: Mesojovian biosphere?
| And speaking of mesojovians, what is it with that 8 Jupiter mass cutoff? I know the brown dwarf cutoff is 13 Jupiter masses, why not use that? Is 8 masses the point where atoms “collapse “? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-04-2024, 04:43 AM |
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Thread: Information Age fantasy races
Post: Information Age fantasy races
| How well are the fantasy races of our time remembered in 10601 AT? I will list four levels of notoriaty:
1) Hobbits
2) Fraggles
3) Yinglets
4) Mammaloids
Now, I would be utterly flabbergasted (... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-03-2024, 08:27 PM |
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Thread: Mesojovian biosphere?
Post: Mesojovian biosphere?
| The mesojovian article does not mention life in their atmospheres, a common SF trope. I assume this means it is not a feature of this background (ie impossible)? |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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11-01-2024, 04:53 AM |
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Thread: Excellent star catalog
Post: Excellent star catalog
| Contains all the known stars within 93.2 LY plus many significant ones beyond. Also, the website has an interactive 3D map.
Probably best for the first millennium or so.
https://www.stellarcatalog.... |
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Tom Mazanec |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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11-01-2024, 12:14 AM |
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Thread: Kardashev and Sagan scales of OA in 10600 AT
Post: Kardashev and Sagan scales of OA in 10600 AT
| What are the size ratings of our fictional civilization in terms of energy and information (bearing in mind the issues raised about sagan's scale in the article)?
https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Ca... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Setting Discussion
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10-31-2024, 02:28 AM |
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Thread: Close Singularity?
Post: Close Singularity?
| IIRC the First Singularity in OAUP is several centuries away. Do you think it is that far? A lot of futurists think that we will have ASI within a decade or two. If so how will it affect our website? ... |
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Tom Mazanec |
General Off-topic Discussion
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10-30-2024, 02:37 AM |
