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Thread: Inside a stasis field
Post: RE: Inside a stasis field
| That's right. Stasis fields don't exist in OA. If you want to travel to the future in a hurry you could accelerate to a very high fraction of the speed of light, which would produce a very interestin... |
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General Setting Discussion
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Thread: A Few More images
Post: RE: A Few More images
| A couple more images;
Haliki Movarion
(this one started as a couple of different Bing AI images, but I've heaviliy modified it, including the addition of a glowing virtual sculpture)
https://orion... |
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stevebowers |
Art and Visual Media
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Thread: NGC 1513
Post: RE: NGC 1513
| I like this idea a lot. The ahuman metaempires need not be antagonistic or evil, or even secretive.
At the transapient/archailect level, many ahuman entities are not that different to the transapi... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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Thread: Combining Anthropism Articles
Post: RE: Combining Anthropism Articles
| Biochauvinism sounds more like someone who believes in the supremacy of bionts in general, rather than just humans. A biochauvinist might favour sophont trees, or sophont cuttlefish, or bacterial mats... |
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Thread: november updates
Post: RE: november updates
| I've added Tasp's spinning logo to the top of the Updates page;
https://orionsarm.com/updates
this makes the whole page a bit slower to load - is that a problem for anyone? If so I'll change it back. |
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stevebowers |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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Thread: Lazurogenics
Post: RE: Lazurogenics
| I'd guess that deriving dinosaur-like phenotypes from existing birds will be the first step on the way to reviving true dinosaurs. This might happen in the next few hundred years, so there would be 'd... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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Thread: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
Post: RE: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
| Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
The classification of naturally-evolved and artificial organisms
A double biosphere on the newly-discovered garden world Elessee in the Periphery. This world has two separa... |
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stevebowers |
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11-30-2024, 10:34 PM |
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Thread: Discussion about adding distributed ledger tech and blockchain to OA and EA
Post: RE: Discussion about adding distributed ledger tec...
| We have Trust Networks in the scenario.
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/629b747d1aaf0
I expect that the interhabitat, interplanetary and interstellar exchange of trusted data will include exchange... |
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stevebowers |
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Thread: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
Post: RE: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
| Bota is not the only term to describe machine evolution; we also have mechology and machine ecology. There may be differences in the definitions, but they are closely related concepts.
https://www.or... |
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stevebowers |
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11-29-2024, 07:48 PM |
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Thread: Gray/grey goo
Post: RE: Gray/grey goo
| Yes, we used to have a number of short articles about the different 'colours' of goo; but we amalgamated them all recently. This was a holdover from the early days, when the Encyclopaedia had many one... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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Thread: november updates
Post: RE: november updates so far
| I've placed this image in the article now.
The Marionette concept is a good idea - lightweight vecs and bots that can be stored in compact form for use on demand. |
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stevebowers |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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Thread: Planet or habitat?
Post: RE: Planet or habitat?
| Well, it is a sliding scale. Paraterraforming started small on Mars, using Low World Houses
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/51f7d32f54b72
and worldhouses would be increasing in size all the time,... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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Thread: Planet or habitat?
Post: RE: Planet or habitat?
| (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 foundation of Solarism, we should mention the s... |
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Thread: november updates
Post: RE: november updates so far
| Here's a somewhat different 'marionette' image, using several images from my hard drive.
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Thread: Planet or habitat?
Post: RE: Planet or habitat?
| I'd change Eden to a Titan-sized moon orbiting the outer Neptunian, Gliese 785 c. This could be paraterraformed with relative ease. This could later become a moon brain with a S:3 in charge, and a rel... |
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Thread: november updates
Post: RE: november updates so far
| How about this for an image for the Marionette Template article? Made from a number of Microsoft Image Maker images (and some extra textures) stitched together.
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stevebowers |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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Thread: november updates
Post: RE: november updates so far
| More images
Artisuns
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/5d026d29e14f9
Polyphemian type worlds
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4922e224a740d#polyphemian
Wishing Box
https://www.orionsarm.com/... |
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stevebowers |
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Thread: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
Post: RE: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
| Macryphyta it is. Thanks! |
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stevebowers |
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11-28-2024, 05:13 AM |
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Thread: Miscellaneous Proposed Images Dump
Post: RE: Miscellaneous Proposed Images Dump
| I've already added the image to the Cult of Gold article, and linked that article to the one about the gold-rich world Mayhew, and the Interplanetary Age designer Ratu Mahendra who was influential in ... |
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stevebowers |
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Thread: Lazurogenics
Post: RE: Lazurogenics
| That is an interesting point. One group of lazurogenists might recreate dinosaurs as largely featherless crocodillians, while others make them look like birds.
Certainly palaeontology on Earth wil... |
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