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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
| The trick would be to design any bodies of water on a McKendree Cylinder specifically to avoid tidal flows; small bodies of water should not be connected by narrow channels.
Larger bodies of water... |
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General Setting Discussion
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
| My point with these rather bizarre examples is that even a supporter of the CIT hypothesis could have a very rich and varied existence in the Orion's Arm civilisation; a human brain and CNS could be m... |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
| The idea of a copygroup is one variation on this; a single sophont might copy or clone themself several times, then link their several minds together using group-mind or hive-mind technology to ensure... |
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stevebowers |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
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Problem is, most people who end up with 2 heads in real life are like, conjoined twins, they are definitely 2 different individuals, and I'd say all 3 of these fictional examples are too (I... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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Thread: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Post: RE: Newly discovered nearby black hole
| The nearest black hole in OA at the moment is Threshold, Sco BH-76
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47a3e440c01a5
This doesn't seem to be a real object, although there may be a rogue black hole somewh... |
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stevebowers |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
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It's not that it's less risky or more palatable to believe that consciousness is continuous, it's that that just is what consciousness is.
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I don't hold a firm opinion either way. But I ... |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 06:08 AM |
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Thread: Bioship article update
Post: RE: Bioship article update
| As I suspected, I didn't keep that particular bioship mesh; but here is a different one, in side view. I have completely forgotten when I made this mesh. |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 05:40 AM |
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Thread: Permission for the Galactic Library to use art
Post: RE: Permission for the Galactic Library to use art
| You can use any of my images, with attribution. Other artists may wish to set other restrictions, so it is best to ask them.
Some images are marked as copyright, or are creative commons images; thes... |
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stevebowers |
Art and Visual Media
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04-18-2024, 04:38 AM |
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Thread: Bioship article update
Post: RE: Bioship article update
| I'm not sure I kept the mesh for that bioship, but it might be in my files somewhere.
I made it to demonstrate that even bioships would need radiators (assuming they use reaction drive), which would ... |
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stevebowers |
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04-18-2024, 03:04 AM |
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Thread: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding stars
Post: RE: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding st...
| I tend to think that the 400 billion number includes brown dwarfs, whereas the ~1 billion stars in the Terragen Sphere figure refers only to stars capable of fusion.
We originally calculated the ~... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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04-18-2024, 03:02 AM |
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Thread: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Post: RE: Newly discovered nearby black hole
| Lots of strange characteristics about this star. Probably from another galaxy, and the remaining star seems to have been captured later.
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The star orbiting Gaia BH3 at about 16 times the Su... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-18-2024, 02:53 AM |
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Thread: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
Post: RE: CIT vs PIT mini debate.
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So if you have a clone of you running around for like a year, that's a different person based on you, the moment you backport them into yourself, you have basically just killed them.
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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04-18-2024, 02:29 AM |
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Thread: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding stars
Post: RE: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding st...
| The distribution of stars in the Milky Way galaxy is not uniform. The Hub and Bar of the Milky Way central volume is much more densely populated than the volume around the Orion Spur, so we can't expe... |
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stevebowers |
General Setting Discussion
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04-16-2024, 07:24 AM |
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Thread: Bioship article update
Post: RE: Bioship article update
| If it is ready to go, are you able to edit it yourself?
If not, we can pull it together this month.
Maybe my most recent bioship image can be fitted in somewhere.
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stevebowers |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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04-16-2024, 05:32 AM |
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Thread: EG: The Infinite Libraries
Post: RE: EG: The Infinite Libraries
| A (somewhat abstract) image.
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stevebowers |
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04-14-2024, 06:29 PM |
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Thread: The EH Database (1st draft)
Post: RE: The EH Database (1st draft)
| I suggest that the EH catalog article title might be better spelt out in full; for instance, the Environmental Harm or Ecological Harm catalog.
This will make it easier to find later. |
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stevebowers |
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04-14-2024, 05:47 PM |
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Thread: Wormhole articles
Post: RE: Wormhole articles
| Most solar systems which have a wormhole connection have only one wormhole, rarely two. Nearly all such connection go to a relay system, which has several wormholes connecting to elsewhere in the Nexu... |
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stevebowers |
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04-13-2024, 08:22 PM |
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Thread: Nadia article expansion
Post: RE: Nadia article expansion
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terranova210486 Wrote: (04-11-2024, 08:57 AM)
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Can we see any images of cities or settlements?
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Well, I made this image recently; maybe it is a city constructed in the 84th century, in a style ... |
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stevebowers |
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04-12-2024, 05:42 AM |
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Thread: Nadia article expansion
Post: RE: Nadia article expansion
| Here's a version with a glory; interesting idea.
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stevebowers |
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04-12-2024, 05:39 AM |
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Thread: Nadia article expansion
Post: RE: Nadia article expansion
| I've got two gas giant images that might work for Dnipro and Moroz
And here's an image by LordOther showing a pyroazurian world that can represent Kyrm
and one by LordOther that might work for... |
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stevebowers |
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