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Thread: Generation ship design project
Post: Generation ship design project
| FYI
https://www.projecthyperion.org/ (https://www.projecthyperion.org/)
Project Hyperion works on a preliminary study that defines integrated concepts for a crewed interstellar starship or gener... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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11-18-2024, 10:17 AM |
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Thread: Sphere image for any use
Post: Sphere image for any use
| I've been playing around with Bing's Copilot image creation capability. After a week or so I can confidently state that I have no future as a prompt engineer. It also made very clear that the system h... |
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Art and Visual Media
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09-16-2024, 06:27 AM |
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Thread: Opinion of sci-fi
Post: RE: Opinion of sci-fi
| I suspect that whatever the colony mission directors might prefer there will nonetheless be some amount of smuggled contraband literature/art.
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General Setting Discussion
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01-01-2024, 08:36 AM |
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Thread: Foundation of the Keter Dominion
Post: RE: Foundation of the Keter Dominion
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-12-2023, 12:24 PM)
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Rakuen07 Wrote: (10-03-2023, 12:20 PM)
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By the 5200s AT, the Commonwealth of Empires began to deteriorate. Keter wasn't as strongly affected because it w... |
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terrafamilia |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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10-15-2023, 07:15 AM |
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Thread: Las Vegas - wave of the future?
Post: Las Vegas - wave of the future?
| Just for a little fun -
The Sphere in Las Vegas, a new entertainment venue, showed off its exterior lighting capabilities on July 4. Just a hint of what may be possible if and when we get OPA (https... |
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terrafamilia |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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07-08-2023, 12:34 PM |
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Thread: Heartland (expansion/rewrite)
Post: RE: Heartland (expansion/rewrite)
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Liam Wrote: (06-17-2023, 04:37 AM)
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Introduction
Heartland is the capital of the Communion of Worlds. It is not a system, but a megastructure in interstellar space, constructed from mass ferried... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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06-29-2023, 10:57 AM |
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Thread: Closer Than We Think!
Post: Closer Than We Think!
| Just for a little diversion, some future developments through the eyes of the late 50's/early 60's.
https://clickamericana.com/topics/discoveries-inventions/home-future-space-age-inventions-1958-1961... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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06-27-2022, 06:53 AM |
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Thread: Some articles; please criticise
Post: RE: Some articles; please criticise
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stevebowers Wrote: (05-25-2022, 06:16 AM)
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I've thought for a long time that the intestinal flora that every human and terrestrial animal carries about in its gut will probably be largely or entire... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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05-29-2022, 08:49 AM |
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Thread: Space mining snapshot
Post: RE: Space mining snapshot
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Rynn Wrote: (12-17-2021, 03:18 AM)
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The first reaping of a simple sewing sowing.
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Ciao,
Terrafamilia |
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terrafamilia |
Creative Writing
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12-19-2021, 12:52 PM |
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Thread: Earth Impact Calculator
Post: Earth Impact Calculator
| If you want to drop a comet or asteroid onto an Earth-like planet, here's a calculator to determine the likely effects.
https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/ImpactEffects/
Ciao,
Terrafamil... |
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terrafamilia |
Worldbuilders Resources
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09-21-2021, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: Snapshot, Augmentation
Post: RE: Snapshot, Augmentation
| One typo I caught -
Simulations for my custom mods had ran run for hours
Ciao,
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terrafamilia |
Creative Writing
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09-19-2021, 07:37 AM |
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Thread: Interstellar Colonization Through the Ages
Post: RE: Interstellar Colonization Through the Ages
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Vitto Wrote: (02-03-2021, 08:31 PM)
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I'm waiting for the brain in a jar :D
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Here he (https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Harvey_Schlemerman_(Earth-616)) is. Not a naked brain but as close as he choo... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-04-2021, 10:57 AM |
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Thread: Interstellar Colonization Through the Ages
Post: RE: Interstellar Colonization Through the Ages
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sandcastles Wrote: (02-03-2021, 09:16 AM)
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When can we simply remove the head and put the head in cryosleep and attach it to a robot body, and have it explore Draugr, Poltergiest, and Phobetor? A ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-03-2021, 11:25 AM |
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Thread: Robotics Duplication
Post: Robotics Duplication
| A bit of an oddity -
Under the topic "Robotics"
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b5756018624 (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b5756018624)
there is a separate article "Robotics"
https://w... |
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Website and Content Issues
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11-08-2020, 12:27 PM |
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Thread: Medicyte article
Post: Medicyte article
| https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4e9ac6f7295a4 (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4e9ac6f7295a4)
The last sentence of the article ends with, "or if available are dismantled by marrocine." Th... |
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Suggestion Box - OA website
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07-20-2020, 07:58 AM |
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Thread: Fractal Art Fun
Post: Fractal Art Fun
| This visual artist works with fractal software and has come up with a number of interesting, even quite alien, land and cityscapes.
http://www.julius-horsthuis.com/ (http://www.julius-horsthuis.c... |
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terrafamilia |
General Off-topic Discussion
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06-12-2020, 10:49 AM |
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Thread: Updating 'Terraforming' terminology?
Post: RE: Updating 'Terraforming' terminology?
| When I see "planoforming" I think of Cordwainer Smith's ftl system.
Planetary Engineering is a possibility but that could also include the construction of the underlying planetary bodies themselves... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-10-2020, 09:33 AM |
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Thread: Magmatter Dreadnaughts
Post: RE: Magmatter Dreadnaughts
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Rynn Wrote: (11-17-2019, 12:43 AM)
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Consequently Dreadnaughts are really rarely kept near any modosophont settled systems as just being in proximity is extremely dangerous.
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Ciao,
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terrafamilia |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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11-17-2019, 10:22 AM |
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Thread: Biobots are coming - a little at a time
Post: Biobots are coming - a little at a time
| Researchers have developed soft robotic devices driven by neuromuscular tissue that triggers when stimulated by light – bringing mechanical engineering one step closer to developing autonomous biobots... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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10-21-2019, 05:42 AM |
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Thread: Two Planets Sharing an Atmosphere
Post: RE: Two Planets Sharing an Atmosphere
| A rather more fantastical version of this scenario can be found in Edgar Rice Burrough's Beyond the Farthest Star. The system of the star Omos, found somewhere in the galactic cluster NGC 7006, has el... |
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General Setting Discussion
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