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    Thread: NGC 1513
Post: RE: NGC 1513

Tangle10 Wrote: (Today, 04:41 AM) -- Oops! Yep, I had been reading that page but had forgotten the crucial part of using mass-energy at the destination for inflation.... I had been running off of "ok...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 17 228 3 hours ago
    Thread: NGC 1513
Post: RE: NGC 1513

Tangle10 Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:41 PM) -- All good ideas, thank you very much! I mostly chose the long timescale because I was under the impression that the Perseus Rift would be well-penetrated fairl...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 17 228 Yesterday, 10:27 PM
    Thread: NGC 1513
Post: RE: NGC 1513

Tangle10 Wrote: (12-08-2024, 01:14 PM) -- I'd been banging out some thoughts for timescales, yeah! The initial establishment is before ~three thousand years ago, probably within a few hundred years b...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 17 228 12-09-2024, 11:37 PM
    Thread: Short Article: Lamptail (species)
Post: RE: Short Article: Lamptail (species)

Overall this looks good. Some very minor wordsmithing needed. I can take care of that during a wordsmithing review. Will aim to get that done this week. Cheers! Todd :)
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 19 319 12-09-2024, 11:17 PM
    Thread: Generation ship design project
Post: RE: Generation ship design project

*shrug* If you say so. Have fun with that then.
Drashner1 Real Life But OA Relevant 16 1,190 12-09-2024, 10:49 PM
    Thread: Generation ship design project
Post: RE: Generation ship design project

I have a paper that dates back to the 80s that talks this general strategy. IIRC it divides interstellar colonization into two basic types: Fastships and Nomads. The Fastship approach is some vari...
Drashner1 Real Life But OA Relevant 16 1,190 12-09-2024, 12:21 PM
    Thread: At my finger tips - Story set in a paradise world
Post: RE: At my finger tips - Story set in a paradise wo...

To expand a bit on what Worldtree has already said: Whether using AIstincts (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5062e9688a264), Knowledge Grafts (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/475a053a95c8...
Drashner1 Creative Writing 9 86 12-07-2024, 05:10 AM
    Thread: idea for a class of deepspace orwoods let me know what you think
Post: RE: idea for a class of deepspace orwoods let me k...

It's a fun idea. :) I don't know what the minimum gravity would need to be to get 'snowFALL' per se, although maybe one of our physics gurus could figure that out - I'd just asking on the Discord a...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 16 211 12-06-2024, 11:12 PM
    Thread: NGC 1513
Post: RE: NGC 1513

Gave this a read thru and generally agreed that it looks good. About the only advice I'd give at this point is to be a bit careful with your dates whenever you start adding those. Mainly in terms of t...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 17 228 12-05-2024, 11:29 PM
    Thread: Oort Cloud utilization
Post: RE: Oort Cloud utilization

Worldtree Wrote: (12-04-2024, 07:53 AM) -- Why do you ask? if it doesn’t say in the numbers in the Oort Cloud section of the solsys article or elsewhere in the Encyclopedia Galactica  then the ans...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 7 62 12-04-2024, 11:38 AM
    Thread: Inside a stasis field
Post: RE: Inside a stasis field

stevebowers Wrote: (12-04-2024, 12:53 AM) -- Quote: -- Also, the interiors of warp bubbles are at rest in their reference frame - so it's not clear that any relativistic effects are going to take ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 8 77 12-04-2024, 11:30 AM
    Thread: Inside a stasis field
Post: RE: Inside a stasis field

But the exterior dimensions of the bubble are usually measured in picometers and it's usually inside another bubble with exterior dimensions usually measured in picometers or at most a thousand nanome...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 8 77 12-03-2024, 12:09 PM
    Thread: Inside a stasis field
Post: RE: Inside a stasis field

Technically, they do exist in OA but are a variant of a void bubble - LINK (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/56f20e55e8bfc) - as such their exterior dimension is going to be tiny such that little ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 8 77 12-03-2024, 06:21 AM
    Thread: Inside a stasis field
Post: RE: Inside a stasis field

There's honestly no way to answer this in any way other than a bunch of WAGs and I'm not seeing how this is relevant to OA.
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 8 77 12-03-2024, 04:06 AM
    Thread: Discussion about adding distributed ledger tech and blockchain to OA and EA
Post: RE: Discussion about adding distributed ledger tec...

stevebowers Wrote: (11-30-2024, 02:57 AM) -- We have Trust Networks in the scenario. https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/629b747d1aaf0 I expect that the interhabitat, interplanetary and interstellar ...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 20 319 11-30-2024, 10:03 PM
    Thread: Hey everyone
Post: RE: Hey everyone

Welcome to OA! :)
Drashner1 The Arrivals Lounge 4 1,211 11-30-2024, 10:00 PM
    Thread: Planet or habitat?
Post: RE: Planet or habitat?

stevebowers Wrote: (11-29-2024, 05:12 AM) -- Well, it is a sliding scale. Paraterraforming started small on Mars, using Low World Houses https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/51f7d32f54b72 and world...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 10 84 11-29-2024, 06:13 AM
    Thread: november updates
Post: RE: november updates so far

Worldtree Wrote: (11-29-2024, 05:35 AM) -- Yeah I like that second one better! -- Agreed!
Drashner1 The latest from Orion's Arm 11 805 11-29-2024, 06:00 AM
    Thread: Planet or habitat?
Post: RE: Planet or habitat?

stevebowers Wrote: (11-29-2024, 01:54 AM) -- (Just to clarify; the star Gl 785 I mentioned is the same one Todd mentioned). Since Daniel Borde was a citizen of this system in the early days of the f...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 10 84 11-29-2024, 02:51 AM
    Thread: Lazurogenics
Post: RE: Lazurogenics

For creatures that were alive on Earth while records were being kept, the lazurogens could likely be pretty accurate. For animals that predate humans/good recordkeeping it might depend on whether or n...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 7 95 11-28-2024, 10:02 PM