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Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: RE: Macrystis Biology
| As far as I remember, the amount of volcanism is very sensitive to Macrystis's orbital eccentricity around Lontis. I believe we agreed that the eccentricity should be whatever amount results in being ... |
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Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: RE: Macrystis Biology
| Just chiming in to clarify point #5!
While multicellular eukaryotes on Earth reproduce by having our gametes fuse together, parameciums do no such fusion, instead transferring genetic material dire... |
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Thread: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospheric pressure
Post: RE: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospher...
| I can see that, yeah; it used to be an even greater mismatch when the article still said Tohul's oceans were discontinuous. Which is why it'd be useful to get them to match fully.
The alternative t... |
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11-23-2022, 05:26 AM |
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Thread: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospheric pressure
Post: RE: Contradictions about Tohul’s surface atmospher...
| Hello, wanted to bump this because I was putting together a post with thoughts about Tohul history and pre-contact society, and that brought me back to noticing the major inconsistencies between the m... |
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11-22-2022, 10:17 AM |
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Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification
| I'd like to suggest the "Life Based Classifications" part of the EWoCS could use a little clarification/tweaking.
While I love having "mesobiotic" in as an intermediary between "microbiotic" and "mac... |
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11-22-2022, 08:48 AM |
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Thread: Planetary classification
Post: RE: Planetary classification
| Discussion of the Macrystis project led to more general discussion of the Vesperian subtype.
Given that being tide-locked to a star leads to distinct conditions on a planet, and that the current ... |
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07-14-2020, 09:01 AM |
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Thread: Big Xeno Animals?
Post: RE: Big Xeno Animals?
| 1. Probably best as its own article then, but linked. Its own article would give an opportunity to spend more time talking about the lazurogened ones.
2. I don't know, maybe. They wouldn't have h... |
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08-11-2019, 03:50 AM |
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Thread: Evolutionary History of Orwell: The Rajasekaran Period
Post: RE: Evolutionary History of Orwell: The Rajasekar...
| a) The Geological Periods page makes sense as a hub, sure. I'd been thinking about having individual articles for the remaining periods, while leaving the first seven periods grouped together in the ... |
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08-11-2019, 03:14 AM |
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Thread: Big Xeno Animals?
Post: RE: Big Xeno Animals?
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Drashner1 Wrote: (02-16-2017, 12:55 PM)
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What sort of large lifeforms might be found on the various Garden Worlds of the Terragen Sphere? Not gengineered lifeforms but naturally evolved creatures i... |
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08-10-2019, 11:27 AM |
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Thread: Cultural Groups and Conflicts in Y11K
Post: RE: Cultural Groups and Conflicts in Y11K
| Some of these conflicts also connect really well with Universal Design Clade Patternism
Terraformation Pantropy could also conflict with... I guess I'll call it Leave-It-Alone-ism? Those who don... |
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08-10-2019, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: Evolutionary History of Orwell: The Rajasekaran Period
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Drashner1 Wrote: (08-09-2019, 11:03 PM)
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Normally we'd give this a bit more time - usually a week - before considering it submitted to allow folks time to read it, submit feedback and such.
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08-10-2019, 08:08 AM |
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Thread: Evolutionary History of Orwell: The Rajasekaran Period
Post: RE: Evolutionary History of Orwell: The Rajasekar...
| Thanks!
I haven't installed a new version of G-plates for a while; I'll have to check that out. I have an outline of continental positions for the entire time up to the present day, which I made a... |
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08-09-2019, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: Cultural Groups and Conflicts in Y11K
Post: RE: Cultural Groups and Conflicts in Y11K
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syzithryx Wrote: (08-09-2019, 07:01 AM)
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Even "social resources" like fame strike me as meager reasons for conflict, as of course, fame and popularity are not zero-sum games.
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Not everyone can ... |
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08-09-2019, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: Evolutionary History of Orwell: The Rajasekaran Period
Post: Evolutionary History of Orwell: The Rajasekaran P...
| This is a continuation of my evolutionary history of Orwell project from a few years back. Original thread here (https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1205).
The individual period w... |
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08-08-2019, 09:16 AM |
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Thread: Cultural Groups and Conflicts in Y11K
Post: RE: Cultural Groups and Conflicts in Y11K
| I don't agree that good science fiction has to be about problems we face today because, well, sometimes it's about problems we're not facing yet but might at some future point. Sometimes it's explori... |
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08-08-2019, 03:26 AM |
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Thread: How things are named in Orion's Arm Universe
Post: RE: How things are named in Orion's Arm Universe
| My opinion is that most names in the OA setting have to be translation conventions anyway. Even taking into account the increased lifespans, this is enough time for pronunciations to become largely u... |
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08-07-2019, 02:13 PM |
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Thread: Possible Leviathan Components
Post: RE: Possible Leviathan Components
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Drashner1 Wrote: (07-26-2019, 01:32 PM)
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re stasis - possibly. Although I would think that to a civ like the Leviathan- or Terragens for that matter - there is no functional difference between a th... |
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08-06-2019, 02:36 PM |
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Thread: Creating wormholes...as a modosophont civilization?
Post: RE: Creating wormholes...as a modosophont civiliza...
| Would it be possible for an alien civilization to have developed in such a way that it produced transavants but not regular transapients or archai? |
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08-06-2019, 02:23 PM |
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Thread: Autopilot mode for modos?
Post: RE: Autopilot mode for modos?
| I did suggest something fairly similar in a thread a few years ago on "What is plebvec like?" This was when brainstorming a bunch of capabilities that typical vecs might have, though noting also that... |
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08-06-2019, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: Possible Leviathan Components
Post: RE: Possible Leviathan Components
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omega_tyrant Wrote: (07-24-2019, 11:08 AM)
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I agree that the amount and type of computronium involved will make a big difference.
Imagine devoting 10% of that mass over to virtual habitats and v... |
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