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    Thread: Broken Links
Post: RE: Broken Links

I've fixed the typos associated with Arcologies and with Tir Sorcha, and added new images for Tir Sorcha and for Orinoco
stevebowers Website and Content Issues 106 1,149 5 hours ago
    Thread: New image for Ken Ferjik
Post: New image for Ken Ferjik

I fed my old sketch of Ken Ferjik into an AI art generator called Artbreeder, and produced a more photorealistic version. For some reason I had to add the moustache and beard by hand.
stevebowers Art and Visual Media 0 18 03-13-2024, 06:31 AM
    Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...

Perhaps the Meistersingers would send a mission out to the Leviathan first. If that mission fails in spectacular fashion, then the Terragens might become even more concerned.
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 13 122 03-12-2024, 08:38 PM
    Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...

Yes. These are predictions, like saying 'the High Speed S2 railway will be finished in 2033'.
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 13 122 03-12-2024, 04:19 AM
    Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...

Another possibility that I didn't mention is the Aestivation hypothesis; a civilisation might reduce its activity to a bare minimum, waiting until the universe cools down. https://en.wikipedia.org/w...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 13 122 03-11-2024, 07:00 PM
    Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...

These questions are natural questions, that would also be asked by the people who live in the Terragen Sphere, if they existed. The sophonts of the Terragen Sphere do not know what will happen in the ...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 13 122 03-11-2024, 01:15 AM
    Thread: Post-Gaian planets
Post: RE: Post-Gaian planets

Evolution isn't magic - sometimes the biosphere fails to adapt to new conditions. Perhaps a significant fraction of worlds die during the oxygen catastrophe, or revert to anoxic conditions when all th...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 4 71 03-07-2024, 08:57 AM
    Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories

Quote: -- For instance it's possible that when they want to change the course of their lives for a new situation nearbaselines incude a 'second childhood' (or second young adulthood, or whatever) dur...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 12 141 03-05-2024, 07:19 AM
    Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories

That reminds me; I must rewrite the 'Lazarus Longidae' article; it is an early 'joke article', based on a story by Heinlein. This clade writes it all down in notebooks. Nearbaselines can use artif...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 12 141 03-05-2024, 01:56 AM
    Thread: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)
Post: RE: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)

Yes; I started with an AI-generated 'carpet bag', and eliminated all the background as superfluous; then I noticed that the carpet-bag had a face-like pattern on it, so I enhanced that. But it was...
stevebowers Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 11 158 03-04-2024, 11:48 PM
    Thread: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)
Post: RE: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)

One slightly scary thing is that 'toonic' faces of all kinds (both 'grotesque' and 'cute') will probably be ubiquitous in the relatively near future, when just about every domestic item is coated with...
stevebowers Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 11 158 03-04-2024, 08:50 PM
    Thread: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)
Post: RE: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)

Hmm; that is a bit grotesque; too scary. Here's a more 'toonic' version;
stevebowers Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 11 158 03-04-2024, 08:06 PM
    Thread: February Updates
Post: RE: February Updates

ProxCenBound Wrote: (03-02-2024, 03:22 PM) -- Sounds good but can we take off the "under construction" notices from Macrystis and Savastos? It probably shouldn't be announced until then. Also both of...
stevebowers The latest from Orion's Arm 3 329 03-04-2024, 06:02 AM
    Thread: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)
Post: RE: Auto-Holding-Container (Update)

Quote: -- The modosophont and SI:1 subpersonalities often have their virtual avatars appear as a toonic bag, case or container whose exact form and style adapts to the audience needs and aesthetic ...
stevebowers Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 11 158 03-04-2024, 04:42 AM
    Thread: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
Post: RE: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA

By the way, writing up some serous philosophy for the site would be a great idea. Some puzzling questions we are faced with today will have been largely settled by the Current Era, such as the pos...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 5 51 03-04-2024, 02:36 AM
    Thread: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
Post: RE: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA

John B's contributions were mostly humorous, bordering on the cynical; he created most of the entries in the Ghost Net, for instance. I'm fairly sure this is a sarcstic take on the concept, not a real...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 5 51 03-04-2024, 01:26 AM
    Thread: Broken Links
Post: RE: Broken Links

I've linked all these articles to the Glossary, and expanded it somewhat. Maybe we should have an article on taxonomy to discuss the various problems with classification of natural and artificial ...
stevebowers Website and Content Issues 106 1,149 03-03-2024, 01:37 AM
    Thread: Broken Links
Post: RE: Broken Links

Morhadow Wrote: (03-02-2024, 11:00 PM) -- Halogenics article: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48013c60b34c7 When I click the Halogenics link, it goes back to the same article.  -- -------------...
stevebowers Website and Content Issues 106 1,149 03-02-2024, 11:12 PM
    Thread: Artificial Planet from Transmutation
Post: RE: Artificial Planet from Transmutation

One type of protoplanetary disk, the Herbig-Haro Object, projects vast fountains of material from each pole, which could presumably be captured by a technological civilisation for its own use. I real...
stevebowers General Setting Discussion 15 178 03-02-2024, 07:10 PM
    Thread: February Updates
Post: RE: February Updates

Those are all the ones I'm aware of.
stevebowers The latest from Orion's Arm 3 329 03-01-2024, 07:16 PM