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Thread: Where do I post long form content?
Post: RE: Where do I post long form content?
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Drashner1 Wrote: (02-05-2023, 06:25 AM)
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Er - What does ASOIAF mean? Not familiar with that abbreviation, I'm afraid.
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A Song Of Ice And Fire i believe, although i dont think ive ever seen the ... |
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dsmike1980 |
The Arrivals Lounge
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02-05-2023, 06:56 AM |
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Thread: Kessler syndrome
Post: RE: Kessler syndrome
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Lemuria Wrote: (07-17-2022, 01:45 AM)
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Kessler syndrome-inducing weaponry
There are several types of weapons capable of inducing Kessler syndrome, from weapons designed to create a large amount of... |
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dsmike1980 |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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07-17-2022, 01:56 PM |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
| While reading the Alpha Centauri A+B EG i noticed that two different spellings of the name of Alpha Centauri Bd are used throughout the article, Caeneus and Caenus. Which is correct? |
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dsmike1980 |
Website and Content Issues
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12-17-2021, 07:33 AM |
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Thread: Name Changes
Post: RE: Name Changes
| Instead of renaming the Nanotech Age, how about just getting rid of it so the Interplanetary Age could run from 130 to 530 AT? |
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dsmike1980 |
General Setting Discussion
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08-04-2021, 06:14 AM |
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Thread: The long term survivability of MTK wormholes
Post: The long term survivability of MTK wormholes
| Imagine for a moment that Terragen civilization suddenly vanished but its infrastructure was left behind. What is the likelihood that the Nexus could survive into the far future if left to nature? Wou... |
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dsmike1980 |
General Setting Discussion
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06-09-2021, 02:49 PM |
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Thread: Constellations List
Post: RE: Constellations List
| A thought about Alpha Jupkai. Bayer classification uses (at least for the constellations visible from Earth) the Latin genitive form of the constellation's name (Orionis for Orion, Tauri for Taurus, A... |
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dsmike1980 |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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04-24-2021, 07:59 AM |
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Thread: Wormhole Travel Question
Post: RE: Wormhole Travel Question
| I indeed did miss that part of the layman's guide, thank you. |
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dsmike1980 |
General Setting Discussion
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12-18-2020, 01:23 PM |
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Thread: Wormhole Travel Question
Post: RE: Wormhole Travel Question
| I have a question, although not related to travel. My understanding is that Weylforges capture wormholes from the quantum foam and have initial sizes measured in attometers making them untraversable t... |
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dsmike1980 |
General Setting Discussion
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12-18-2020, 06:45 AM |
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Thread: Pre-Modern Astronomy vs Habitable Venus
Post: RE: Pre-Modern Astronomy vs Habitable Venus
| http://solarviews.com/eng/hypothet.htm#neith |
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dsmike1980 |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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05-28-2020, 12:56 PM |
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Thread: New and Amended pages 17/5/20
Post: RE: New and Amended pages 17/5/20
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stevebowers Wrote: (05-18-2020, 05:13 PM)
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Yes; this certainly looks like a halo drive to me.
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Then shouldn't the distortion be in front of the ship and not a ring around the middle? |
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dsmike1980 |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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05-19-2020, 04:31 AM |
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Thread: New and Amended pages 17/5/20
Post: RE: New and Amended pages 17/5/20
| A question about the image for the data only ship on the colony ships article, what is causing the space-time distortion? I recall the original caption for this picture way back in the day that said t... |
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dsmike1980 |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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05-18-2020, 12:13 PM |
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Thread: Adding to the Anglic languages
Post: RE: Adding to the Anglic languages
| The terms Anglic and Anglish are being used interchangeably here. Anglish is a real life thing, English with all germanic words. Before this thread I had never seen it substituted for OA's Anglic.
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dsmike1980 |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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03-10-2020, 12:13 PM |
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Thread: Shrinking the Zone
Post: RE: Shrinking the Zone
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Madine Wrote: (02-28-2020, 08:21 AM)
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Regarding the NoCoZo rewrite - I'd be willing to help out or at least be part of the discussion. While I think changes are overall be a good idea, I do want to... |
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dsmike1980 |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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02-28-2020, 01:23 PM |
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Thread: Dextran Xenosophonts
Post: RE: Dextran Xenosophonts
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sandcastles Wrote: (02-05-2020, 12:53 PM)
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Arthur C. Clarke in one of his novels mentioned in passing nuclear-powered organisms. I wonder how that might be done.
They might derive energy from rad... |
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dsmike1980 |
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02-05-2020, 01:01 PM |
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Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification
| Should Chthonian remain its own class or should it be a type of the Superterrestrial class? |
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dsmike1980 |
General Setting Discussion
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01-25-2020, 01:15 PM |
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Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification
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dangerous_safety Wrote: (01-25-2020, 05:52 AM)
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Dealing with Carbon Content
These worlds, particularly adamean, cover an extremly wide range of planetary conditions. They cover volatile rich and p... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-25-2020, 07:05 AM |
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Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification
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The Astronomer Wrote: (01-19-2020, 08:14 AM)
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The artificial classification doesn't really seem to cover artificial planets, but either way, an artificial planet would still be able to be categoriz... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-19-2020, 01:06 PM |
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Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification
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The Astronomer Wrote: (01-19-2020, 07:44 AM)
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I doubt there is any at all, though the thing is, when people do actually build one, we'd need some way to call them (lol). They'd probably technically... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-19-2020, 07:53 AM |
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Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification
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stevebowers Wrote: (01-19-2020, 01:48 AM)
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I doubt very much that there would be many megaterrestrials in the 150+ range, but there may be a few (possibly depleted by ancient aliens).
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I think ... |
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dsmike1980 |
General Setting Discussion
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01-19-2020, 06:24 AM |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
| On the NoLWoCS page when we get down to the Neptunian class there is supposed to be a picture but I only see text. The paragraph below that has a few typos:
Neptunian worlds, also known as Ice Gian... |
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dsmike1980 |
Website and Content Issues
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