I may have an interesting take on the HNQ ivory question. I have staying with me an Alaskan Native who carves indigenous ivory (walrus, mostly if not entirely) for sale as jewelry, art, and tools. He's out selling just now, but I'll pose him the question upon his return.
Video format is fairly work intensive (so I understand your frustration). But anything that will let you render a Powerpoint Presentation to video (there's gotta be a free service or two) should do the trick.
@JourneymanGeek It is. I've never done any real work with Flash or HTML5 animation features.
@Secret I am not sure if I would call that "soft sci-fi", but it sure sounds interesting. No need for noise-cancelling headphones when commuting - though they would still be very important once you are at your destination.
well, it definetely is not hard because we don't know of any material that can allow two human beings to pass through each other as if they are immaterial
It is possible it is even off the scifi scale and become pure fantasy
But the issue it is trying to do a hyperbole on is how people when on commutes, they rarely talk to each other and are basically lock in their own personal space
so it will be interesting to see what happens if we made that literal
I have not came up with stories yet, cause I am better at philosophy than storytelling
You could make a story where that is the norm in big cities and then someone from the big city goes to a small city and for the first time there are humans on the transport and he thinks about how similar, yet different it is and how weird that nobody wants to chat with him.
why would telepathic communication be more difficult than speaking?
Human beings have the ability to communicate with their minds. This form of telepathy extends up to a few feet, usually 12-15. They can share thoughts and ideas. Forming thoughts in your mind and sharing them with others should ...
@Mr.Mindor I can't tell you; I voted to reopen it due to there being no comments on what is unclear and the other votes already there - it's a nice question; although it might benefit from a paragraph or two explaining why you don't want the buildings taller than 4 feet and how you expect your people to live in buildings that are shorter than the average human :)
cool. Not my question. it just didn't make sense to me that it was put on hold for the reason it was. (and I have an answer I would like to provide for it.)
Is it feasible to have a literal ivory tower?
At 9:42 the unregistered user bromey_jestman posted this answer:
A literal ivory tower would be one to two meter tall, simply the tusk of the elephant standing upright, in which a small enough fairy is living.
Because: The literary ivory tow...
@Bellerophon I was kind of getting the impression that he was curious if certain members were pretty young based on certain behaviors, attitudes, and seeming sense of entitlement. Just a guess though.
I'm having an on/off thing with a women I met about a year ago, she turned out to be born 1999 herself and is displaying most of the same behaviours. So I was curious
I kind of think all the generational stereotypes are stupid. They make sweeping, often incorrect, generalisations and just increase anger between generations
Even a fairly accurate stereotype usually stokes anger between groups which just seems pointless, particularly because it usually leads to the parts of the group that don't represent the stereotype end up getting dragged in and vilified because of a stereotype which is usually based on a small but vocal part of the group.
I blame the parents for listening to bad advice from "Parenting experts" who spew tons of BS in order to sell books to the ignorant.
Also the media
The problem with stereotypes is that while exaggerated, they are true enough in high visibility cases that they stick. The good news about the millennial stereotype is that you can get around it by not acting like a spoiled, self important, entitled moron. I have a friend that was also born in that general time frame, but was raised by responsible parents, and strangely doesn't act badly, other than the "normal" occasional mistakes that teenagers make.
Looking at the age ranges in that comic, I know a lot of people who are "millenials", but very few of them act that way. But I also live in an area that more conservative, and most of my acquaintances are pretty big on personal responsibility and instilling that in their kids.
Is it feasible to have a literal ivory tower?
At 9:42 the unregistered user bromey_jestman posted this answer:
A literal ivory tower would be one to two meter tall, simply the tusk of the elephant standing upright, in which a small enough fairy is living.
Because: The literary ivory tow...
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