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- Mon May 09, 2022 1:48 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The Death Of The Heavy Scifi Battleship
- Replies: 22
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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...
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:14 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19275
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...
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Challenge: How to set up a prank for the TCA
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13883
Re: Challenge: How to set up a prank for the TCA
"Mars needs men."
- Thu Dec 26, 2019 3:49 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 131142
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:04 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The Astronomy Thread
- Replies: 585
- Views: 651231
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.
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:23 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi writing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10618
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...