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Thread: Dance-Don't-Dream
Post: RE: Dance-Don't-Dream
For related articles, I'd suggest Falsuphobia (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4bf35540cfbcb) (virchphobia doesn't have its own article), Starhand (https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f6cf4345e27)... |
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Thread: Considering Linelayers
Post: RE: Considering Linelayers
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a) A more advanced linelayer (S4 level) might use a dreadnought type hull equipped with reactionless drive to gravitationally pull the wormhole along as a combination tug and propulsion s... |
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02-19-2024, 05:29 AM |
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Thread: Communion of Worlds (rewrite)
Post: RE: Communion of Worlds (rewrite)
I'm inclined to think this would never really be a problem. I've already made the allowance that the process can be conducted without copies. Therefore, the sort of sophonts who are liable to claim an... |
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02-19-2024, 04:19 AM |
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Thread: Dance-Don't-Dream
Post: RE: Dance-Don't-Dream
Thanks!
The DDD are a clade, so they should also be categorised under Aioids and Sophtware.
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P.S. - 'Pale moonlight' = A Batman the Movie (Tim Burton version) reference?
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02-19-2024, 04:07 AM |
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Thread: Considering Linelayers
Post: RE: Considering Linelayers
As a quick addendum to my earlier calculation, you can get the same acceleration by moving the tug mass 10 times closer and reducing its mass by a factor of 100. So the following would work for 1g of ... |
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02-07-2024, 05:12 AM |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
A xeno wormhole with negative time displacement is the most troublesome position. First, it would inhibit the expansion of the Nexus alongside it, because it would create CTCs from further away. Secon... |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
stevebowers Wrote: (02-02-2024, 07:17 PM)
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Note that by joining up all the displacements with a smooth hypersurface, you can assign Empire Time even to places that are far from wormhole... |
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02-07-2024, 04:09 AM |
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Thread: Considering Linelayers
Post: RE: Considering Linelayers
So, let's say we want to accelerate a comms wormhole at 1g. We can do that by hanging a heavy mass in front of it and then accelerating mass.
Newtonian gravity should be sufficient for an approxima... |
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02-03-2024, 04:04 AM |
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Thread: Considering Linelayers
Post: RE: Considering Linelayers
Short on time, but I've just realised the coupling problem is much easier than I thought. An object this massive will have a strong gravitational field, so you can use gravitational binding. Effective... |
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02-03-2024, 12:30 AM |
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Thread: Considering Linelayers
Post: RE: Considering Linelayers
How are wormholes coupled to linelayers, and what's the maximum force and/or pressure can that coupling mechanism sustain? That will probably be the limiting factor. |
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02-02-2024, 05:39 AM |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
stevebowers Wrote: (02-01-2024, 05:25 AM)
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As I've said before, I've been considering this problem for more than a decade, and I think I've got a work-round for most of the problems.
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02-02-2024, 05:35 AM |
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Thread: Wireheading
Post: RE: Wireheading
True, but isn't the key point that the sophont is completely satiated rather than the content of their experience? A mind that experiences bliss from continuously seeing the colour blue and a mind tha... |
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01-31-2024, 09:57 AM |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Drashner1 Wrote: (01-31-2024, 07:09 AM)
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In this case I would define 'universal time' as the time measured when not looking through a wormhole - the time being experienced in the majority of the un... |
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01-31-2024, 09:25 AM |
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Thread: Wireheading
Post: RE: Wireheading
I like the term hedonic sink, which implies minds in that state could be called sunk. |
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01-31-2024, 05:58 AM |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Drashner1 Wrote: (01-29-2024, 06:50 AM)
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This being the case, most systems will be running outside of 'empire time' and while the most populated systems even the majority of the Sephirotic populati... |
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01-31-2024, 05:53 AM |
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Thread: Rheomorph (Sophont category)
Post: RE: Rheomorph (Sophont category)
omega_tyrant Wrote: (01-30-2024, 12:31 PM)
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Resurrecting this one...
First, I like this concept a lot. It gives some more detail about how deep and diverse the concept of morphological freedom can... |
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01-31-2024, 05:27 AM |
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Thread: Wireheading
Post: RE: Wireheading
I like the concept, but I don't agree with this implementation.
The term "wireheading", aside from being human-centric, makes the term derive directly from the 20th century. It's not the first exam... |
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01-31-2024, 05:18 AM |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
One factor that might slow down the expansion of the periphery is simple lack of population. If the population is low enough at the edge of the Outer Volumes then there will be a lack of colony missio... |
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01-28-2024, 07:55 AM |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Right. Let's make attempt at answering some in-universe questions. I apologise if there's anything I've missed -- please poke me if there's an important point I didn't respond to.
I'm probably goin... |
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Thread: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
Post: RE: Understanding the Wormhole Nexus
I don't have time to respond to everything tonight, but I'll try to cover the essential editorial/meta points before going to bed (and hopefully before this blows up any further).
1. Regarding my b... |
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