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by Sarlith
Mon May 09, 2022 1:48 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: The Death Of The Heavy Scifi Battleship
Replies: 22
Views: 12402

Re: The Death Of The Heavy Scifi Battleship

Often in SciFi you don't actually need to get into the specifics of hyperscience, you just need the results, and some good verbose technobabble will do. However sometimes the quirk of the plot depends on the hyperscience working a certain way. My favorite involved the jump/warp bubble being taken li...
by Sarlith
Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:14 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
Replies: 43
Views: 6528

Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity

Wiping Out The Originals is a harsh way of saying it. The reality in this situation is more like "They lived happily to the end of their days." All they have to do is not give birth to Originals, and the Originals will be "wiped out." But when you say it like that it sounds like they're going around...
by Sarlith
Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:45 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Challenge: How to set up a prank for the TCA
Replies: 14
Views: 11277

Re: Challenge: How to set up a prank for the TCA

"Mars needs men."
by Sarlith
Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:04 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: The Astronomy Thread
Replies: 585
Views: 438894

Re: The Astronomy Thread

Ahoy, this is an old thing but it's very cool. The Curiosity probe took a bunch of hi-res photos on its way down to the planet Mars. Some unsung genius took them and merged them into a video.

by Sarlith
Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:23 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Loroi writing
Replies: 11
Views: 9251

Re: Loroi writing

Change is harder than you think. We still use the Latin alphabet even though it is entirely unsuited to our language. Firstly it is worth defining that proper writing encodes sound...you can write things in languages you cannot understand, by spelling phonetically. Pictograms and ideograms encode id...