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Thread: Wup rewrite
Post: RE: Wup rewrite
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Worldtree Wrote: (03-29-2023, 12:06 PM)
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also- minor wording
Autowupodologists often illustrate their arguments by spurting covering and staining their habitat walls..
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I liked "spurting." It ... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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03-29-2023, 09:50 PM |
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Thread: Usefulness of classical novae
Post: RE: Usefulness of classical novae
| Classical novae seem to be the result of accretion disks between close orbiting stars, like a white dwarf and red giant. Two OA-type applications:
1. The accretion disk represents free star lifting... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-27-2023, 04:41 AM |
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Thread: Isaac Arthur - Space Habitats
Post: RE: Isaac Arthur - Space Habitats
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Worldbuilders Resources
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03-08-2023, 06:21 AM |
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Thread: Cockroach News
Post: RE: Cockroach News
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Drashner1 Wrote: (02-27-2023, 01:02 PM)
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The suggestion really bugged em, I guess?
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Heh, no. :D
Also, Shadowrun's magic story aspects has included the dread threat of bug spirits:
https://... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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02-28-2023, 04:38 AM |
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Thread: Cockroach News
Post: RE: Cockroach News
| I heard about this cockroach milk a few years ago. I suggested as a staple to go with soy products in the Shadowrun setting but it didn't go over well with the gaming community. |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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02-27-2023, 04:11 AM |
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Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: RE: Macrystis Biology
| This is a fantastic xenobiology effort. It's very interesting. |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-22-2023, 09:29 PM |
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Thread: Discord Idea - Reducing Pre-First Federation Colonies
Post: RE: Discord Idea - Reducing Pre-First Federation C...
| Taking a step back, there's this effort to reduce the number of pre-Technocalypse interstellar colonies. However, it feels like we're addressing an era covering centuries (Interplanetary Age: 130 to 4... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-20-2023, 10:30 AM |
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Thread: Foundation of the Keter Dominion
Post: RE: Foundation of the Keter Dominion
| Regarding replacing S3 wormholes with S4 wormholes - could the wormholes be converted/upgraded instead? |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-15-2023, 09:37 PM |
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Thread: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems
Post: Lower Energy Terrestrial Ecosystems
| High amounts of greenhouse gases can allow terraforming of planets quite distant from their star compared to Earth, even beyond the nominal Goldilocks Zone of the system.
For planets without orbita... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-20-2023, 03:27 AM |
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Thread: How big a planetoid can you dismantle?
Post: RE: How big a planetoid can you dismantle?
| Once you can do star lifting and dismantle stars, planetoids aren't much of an issue. There's just a matter of cooling the interior bits satisfactorily, which can be achieved by launching harvested ch... |
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General Setting Discussion
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12-22-2022, 03:51 AM |
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Thread: Quasi-Stars
Post: RE: Quasi-Stars
| Deep well industrial zones and Hawkings Knots create artificial quasi-stars. I'm not sure if OA has observed natural ones. |
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General Setting Discussion
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12-20-2022, 02:03 AM |
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Thread: Cryonic Suspension: The Early Years
Post: Cryonic Suspension: The Early Years
| The following summary of cryonic preservation failures, scams, and medical challenges is not for the weak-stomached or faint of heart.
https://www.freethink.com/futurology/cryogenically-frozen-humans |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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12-20-2022, 01:56 AM |
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Thread: Reversible Computing
Post: RE: Reversible Computing
| Reversible computing is already name-dropped in some articles, like Compubones and Computer Engineering. Maybe Computer Engineering could stand a little expansion.
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-articl... |
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General Setting Discussion
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12-15-2022, 06:27 AM |
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Thread: Technological regression
Post: RE: Technological regression
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Tom Mazanec Wrote: (11-26-2022, 02:41 AM)
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Any other examples (more local), especially involuntary ones?
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A number of isolated worlds regressed.
Gaunche is the classic example, and exhibits... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-26-2022, 06:26 AM |
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Thread: Pantheon, an anime of uploads
Post: Pantheon, an anime of uploads
| Pantheon is an 8-episode anime on Netflix (from AMC) about the early experiments in uploads and transhumanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series) |
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Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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11-25-2022, 06:39 AM |
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Thread: Shielding for O'Neil Cylinders in OA
Post: RE: Shielding for O'Neil Cylinders in OA
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-24-2022, 09:11 AM)
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It's likely that the detractors in question were actually suffering from one of two afflictions that Arthur C. Clarke identified many years ago as either a ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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10-29-2022, 11:36 PM |
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Thread: Bioborg Dominates Pong!
Post: Bioborg Dominates Pong!
| Can Skynet be far behind?
More seriously: researchers were able to get a blob of 800,000 brains trained to play "Pong" and bounce the ball more frequently than just random chance.
https://www.bbc.... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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10-14-2022, 03:49 AM |
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Thread: Revision required for the Shinogi article
Post: RE: Revision required for the Shinogi article
| It looks like a sensible edit to me. |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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10-08-2022, 01:40 PM |
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Thread: Athenaeids (rewrite)
Post: RE: Athenaeids (rewrite)
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extherian Wrote: (08-31-2022, 12:22 AM)
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Right, thanks. That one line about Trip being the largest centre for the clade outside of a Sephirotic empire might have to be removed if I go ahead with my... |
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09-05-2022, 05:16 AM |
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Thread: Kurzgesagt: The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
Post: RE: Kurzgesagt: The Last Human – A Glimpse Into Th...
| That's a fairly cheery video. I like it. |
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