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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-17-2024, 10:13 PM)
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The papers I've seen on MCs and similar size structures usually has them placed in orbit around the Sun in their own right rather than being in close proxim... |
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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
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Tom Mazanec Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:15 AM)
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Sorry I meant earth tides in the MC. Similarly if it is in the orbit of a red dwarf there may be flooding as it revolves?
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Thread: McKendree cylinders and tides
Post: RE: McKendree cylinders and tides
| Tom McKendree in one of his presentations mentioned that the mass of the 10,000km long cylinder is a little less than 10^18kg. I'm not sure how much of a further effect that would have on tides, consi... |
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04-17-2024, 08:56 AM |
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Thread: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding stars
Post: RE: Terragen Sphere is underpopulated regarding st...
| Also keep in mind that 400 billion stars is quite a high estimate for the number of stars in the MW. Although I've heard a handful of sources quote this number, many more cite a figure of 100 billion ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-17-2024, 08:31 AM |
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Thread: Magmatter
Post: RE: Magmatter
| Magmatter, from what I remember reading about it, isn't like matter, because magmatter is based on topological defects (monopoles) instead of Standard Model particles. So I don't imagine that it would... |
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04-10-2024, 09:59 PM |
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Thread: ::NN:: article: porn actor sued by own sentient penis.
Post: RE: ::NN:: article: porn actor sued by own sentien...
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-03-2024, 10:43 PM)
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On the flip side, there is this article on African Grey Parrots and similar in the Related Articles section - LINK (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/45e... |
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omega_tyrant |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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04-04-2024, 07:43 AM |
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Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...
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kingofthemerdz3 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 02:55 PM)
--The upper toposophic limit: is S6 the highest possible? How risky would an S7 ascension be? We might end up dealing with a S7 blight that ends up as th... |
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03-12-2024, 07:19 AM |
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Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...
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kingofthemerdz3 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 02:55 PM)
--xenosophont civilizations, especially those which are extragalactic: who knows what might come with the Leviathan when it finally reaches the Milky Way... |
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03-12-2024, 07:11 AM |
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Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...
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stevebowers Wrote: (03-11-2024, 07:00 PM)
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Another possibility that I didn't mention is the Aestivation hypothesis; a civilisation might reduce its activity to a bare minimum, waiting until the uni... |
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03-12-2024, 07:07 AM |
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Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories
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Drashner1 Wrote: (03-05-2024, 10:25 PM)
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Note finally that AFAIK there are no 10,000yr old nebs or other biologicals in the setting.
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What about Jonathan "Trip" Daniels? Was he confirmed 10,000... |
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03-07-2024, 08:52 AM |
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Thread: New high-energy theoretical physics study that could be used in clarketech lore
Post: RE: New high-energy theoretical physics study that...
| Does this process of creation in this paper have any relation at all to the Schwinger Effect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_effect |
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02-28-2024, 08:19 AM |
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Thread: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
Post: RE: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
| Cool....I think I'd like to do a write up for the Bok Globule idea. I would still like to focus on the transmutation angle for creating worlds. If the time for creation is the issue, I can set it as a... |
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02-16-2024, 01:16 PM |
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Thread: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
Post: RE: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
| Just reading these updates now. Thanks for the feedback everyone.
In the days since my OP, I've kicked around this idea a little more. I have been thinking what if, instead of orbiting a star and m... |
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02-15-2024, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
Post: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
| https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49a3ee435bd98
So in this article, at the last section on the bottom, it talks about how artificial planets can be made from transmutation of elements via someth... |
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02-10-2024, 08:00 AM |
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Thread: Rheomorph (Sophont category)
Post: RE: Rheomorph (Sophont category)
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Liam Wrote: (01-31-2024, 05:27 AM)
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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... |
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02-01-2024, 12:57 PM |
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Thread: Rheomorph (Sophont category)
Post: RE: Rheomorph (Sophont category)
| 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 truly get in OA. I particularly like the idea ... |
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Thread: McKendree Cylinder Dyson (With Rungworlds)
Post: RE: McKendree Cylinder Dyson (With Rungworlds)
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stevebowers Wrote: (12-08-2023, 10:20 AM)
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Well, in Earth orbit a ring with 21600 rungs would place the rungs a bit less than 7000 km apart. Since the maximum size of such a cylinder would be 2000k... |
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12-09-2023, 08:05 AM |
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Thread: McKendree Cylinder Dyson (With Rungworlds)
Post: McKendree Cylinder Dyson (With Rungworlds)
| Looking at the article for Rungworlds, the Rungworld in the setting has 360 habitats in a single orbit around its star, so basically one habitat per degree of arc. What if a civ were to up the ante an... |
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12-08-2023, 08:50 AM |
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Thread: Solsys McKendree Cylinders
Post: RE: Solsys McKendree Cylinders
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Tom Mazanec Wrote: (09-12-2023, 09:56 PM)
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I understand MCs have two cylinders rotating in opposite directions. Could one have four, six, etc?
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Have you checked out the article on Buckyhab and ... |
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10-31-2023, 07:54 AM |
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Thread: Thoughts on ISO's
Post: RE: Thoughts on ISO's
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Avengium Wrote: (09-20-2023, 08:19 AM)
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Another idea.
We could add the synonyms:
IPSO: Information processing superobjects.
SIO: Superintelligent objects.
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That could work. I'm good with that di... |
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