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Diademata, The

The statement
can attenuate its cross-section sufficiently to fit through a thirty-metre wormhole.
"doesn't work."

My understanding is that wormholes are spherical and a transiting spacecraft must not exceed the wormhole's dimensions in any direction, hence the popularity of "grapeships". The Diademata would have to compress itself into a 30-metre sphere, which wouldn't leave much of its passengers. Maybe it could fragment into tiny pieces similar to the components of a grapeship?
Selden
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9999 AT to Present: (Current Era)

10402 - The Solar Dominion Pocketstar Are We Having Fun Yet? 9902) attempt to investigate the Metric Ghostsfailed;
should be
10402 - The Solar Dominion Pocketstar Are We Having Fun Yet?'s attempt to investigate the Metric Ghosts failed;
but might be better as
10402 - The attempt by the Solar Dominion Pocketstar Are We Having Fun Yet? to investigate the Metric Ghosts failed;
(also note a space needs to be inserted between Ghosts and failed.)


The AIs have to replied to queries about the information encoded
should be
The AIs have not replied to queries about the information encoded
(I'm not sure that "AIs" is appropriate here. Maybe "Archailects" was meant?)
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(08-26-2016, 08:29 AM)selden Wrote: http://orionsarm.com/eg-article/52290a7ea6a0b
Diademata, The

The statement
can attenuate its cross-section sufficiently to fit through a thirty-metre wormhole.
"doesn't work."

My understanding is that wormholes are spherical and a transiting spacecraft must not exceed the wormhole's dimensions in any direction, hence the popularity of "grapeships". The Diademata would have to compress itself into a 30-metre sphere, which wouldn't leave much of its passengers. Maybe it could fragment into tiny pieces similar to the components of a grapeship?
We've oscillated back and forth on this question. Having a spherical configuration is the best option, but I'm not convinced it is the only one. An extended object should be able to pass through a spherical wormhole so long it has the correct diameter, but any material that extends beyond the mouth would be subject to extreme tidal forces.

I think I'll change it to 'can change shape and separate into segments when necessary, allowing it to pass through a 30 metre wormhole'.
Edit; done.
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Current Era updated; Thanks!
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(08-26-2016, 10:02 AM)stevebowers Wrote:
(08-26-2016, 08:29 AM)selden Wrote: http://orionsarm.com/eg-article/52290a7ea6a0b
Diademata, The

The statement
can attenuate its cross-section sufficiently to fit through a thirty-metre wormhole.
"doesn't work."

My understanding is that wormholes are spherical and a transiting spacecraft must not exceed the wormhole's dimensions in any direction, hence the popularity of "grapeships". The Diademata would have to compress itself into a 30-metre sphere, which wouldn't leave much of its passengers. Maybe it could fragment into tiny pieces similar to the components of a grapeship?
We've oscillated back and forth on this question. Having a spherical configuration is the best option, but I'm not convinced it is the only one. An extended object should be able to pass through a spherical wormhole so long it has the correct diameter, but any material that extends beyond the mouth would be subject to extreme tidal forces.

An extended object can pass through a spherical wormhole (and in OA all wormholes are spherical) as long it does not extend further than the diameter of the throat (which in this case would be spherical) in any dimension. Otherwise the bit extending beyond the throat will experience extreme tidal forces and will be shredded (which seems likely to be bad for the rest of it).

A spherical configuration is maximally efficient use of the available volume, and a grapeship design is handy because it lets you make maximum use of volume while having components small enough to pass through even very small wormholes.

Note that in the current version of OA, wormholes with throat dimensions measured in tens of meters are quite rare. They used to be more common, but then we adjusted things to increase most wormhole radii by an order of magnitude. Previously, most WHs were in the 100 m radius range. So they went up to a km radius. This due to Adam's work on our WHs which provided mass/energy numbers for different radii.

Todd
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Ilahlu Barrier, The


thanks to it's repetitive broadcast
should be
thanks to its repetitive broadcast

(It's almost annoying to find typos to report while I'm trying to find information about something quite different! Wink )
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http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45ce40cc1d450
Perseus Princes

They are also take a very active part
should be
They also take a very active part
Selden
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http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45cd3240ea58a
Mutual Progress Association

Zoeific Biopolity (with often leases large habitats
should be
Zoeific Biopolity (which often leases large habitats
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Sagittarius Preservers, The


The phrase
subsidiary habs run by slaved hyperturings.

might need to be changed. However, the article is written as if much of the information is the result of guesses and many of the descriptions seem somewhat antagonistic. Leaving this might be appropriate, but perhaps with some additional qualification.
Selden
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http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49abc9e77c5a2
Slaved Hyperturing

Needs to be updated since it says
Today there far more slaved hyperturings than free ai in existence,

Presumably it needs a section describing their replacement by non-sapient appliances.

Some similar articles which seem to need to be revised (if only slightly) include

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/478589c0a46e2
Slaved ai

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46478dd0d988f
Dedicated Hyperturing

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/45e64959afc7a
AI Growth, Education, and Employment

The latter has a paragraph which starts with
The exception are Slaved AI, which are constrained

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4808133b149d5
Aiviser

A Slaved Hyperturing used in an advisory capacity only

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47954a8faf9ef
Erotobot

A vec - either softbot or hardbot - employed
probably should be changed, perhaps to something like
A vot or vec - either softbot or hardbot- employed


(Now aren't you sorry you asked me to report them? Wink )

Presumably the revisions to these pages should include a link to the article
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/479bc589f3d66
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