When this question was recently posted I voted to close it based on it being either too broad or primarily opinion-based. Take your pick.
The OP pointed out there is a lengthy history of "anatomically correct" questions that frequently ask for insight into the evolutionary possibility of mythic...
yep - "trapped quantum systems", so talks were about things like heading towards quantum computation with things like ion traps and improving the accuracy of atomic clocks (apparently we're now at a precision of about 1 second out every billion years or so in the lab, although different labs disagree with the actual transition frequency, so an actual clock would be more like 1 second out every million years or so, at a rough guess)
Has anyone seen anything like, or anything as creative as the soul smithing system from paper mario and the everclear night? There are nine basic 'humors' which basically represent sociableness, passion, stubbornness, thinking of others, peace, creativity, logic, eccentricity, and odium. They are represented by liquids, and can be distilled, diluted, mixed, crystallised etc. Each soul is made of 2-4 humors.
Always ask yourself: Is it relevant to the story right now?
@kingledion I'll have a go in some 3hrs probably
If it is not relevant then it doesn't go into the writing. Only relevant things go into writing. You can add tidbits of information but they should have relevance. Currently the story is told out of the Shoulder Perspective (or 2nd Person, or whatever it is in Inglese)
Basically, you have a spacecraft with an AI, some frozen embryos, construction robots and all of our scientific and cultural knowledge sent to a distant star to colonise a habitable exoplanet.
@HDE226868 You're welcome. My daughter woke me up at 4:30 this morning, so you got that post while she sat on the floor in the basement and made monster noises.
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I was in the basement too, in case that made me sound like a bad dad.
@kingledion I have an iteration on Reptiles<Mammals comparison that I think you might be interested in (given your excellent answers to the T-Rex and Velociraptor questions).
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@kingledion "Jolly old Saint Neutrino, send a Joule this way/Don't you miss my detector; I need it today/Supernova's coming soon; I hope it won't pan/Just give me some energy: As much as you can."
@kingledion. An interstellar seedship is basically a spacecraft that carries frozen embryos to other, potentially habitable worlds capable of sustaining life, where they are unfrozen, placed in artificial wombs, and raised by an AGI to be the first generation of humans born on another star system.
Basically, think of the Endurance from Interstellar, but no human input and with artificial wombs, construction robots, a scientific and cultural database containing ALL of our collective knowledge, etc.
And an Artificial General Intelligence (basically, human-like AI).
Hey @kingledion, can you do most flags by a user, flags accepted vs. rejected on average across the site, most rejected flags by a user, and most accepted flags by a user?
@Green Hey I can't do the edit length. When new edits are posted in the database, it includes the entire text. So I'd have to download all the text and diff them on my computer, and I don't think that is worth it.
@Gryphon the flags don't appear to be permanantly retained in the database. The oldest flag is from December 3.
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@Green So, it seems the public access database is a few days out of date. The last post I can access is from 10 Dec at 2:33:14, which is right before your dino question got asked.
@Green apart from ones where we casually discuss killing off 90% of the population of the world? Probably not, we have a habit of closing questions depending on soft sciences
@James Maybe there's convergent evolution of two species that end up in the same place. Rhino people from the four limbs line and rhino people from the six limbs line.
Regarding the SGR: Did we just hit a conflict of interests..? We have Bremdag leaving his home and everything behind for the unknown. People happily and determined running for the treeline. And now the same Bremdag complains about the choice he made..? :/
@dot_Sp0T Ok this is the best I've got so far: if you rank all users by the minimum of highest voted question and highest voted answer in the computers tag, then you are second behind @MichaelKjorling with 55 to his 57
Hydrogen sulfide, for example, reacts with four molecules of FOOF to give sulfur hexafluoride, 2 molecules of HF and four oxygens. . .and 433 kcal, which is the kind of every-man-for-himself exotherm that you want to avoid at all cost.
“Cold Spring Harbor, New York” by Doug Kerr“These cretins! They wouldn’t realize what true talent is even if it bit them in their lazy asses!” Our heroine was not in the best mood, for her peers didn’t acknowledge the importance of her last experiment involving a man, cat ears, a little encounter with a train or two, but most importantly: lots of information about how the gift affects plain hu…
it just feels weird, somehow. It's like a few hours ago he was determined to leave behind everything and now he suddenly does a 180, questions the whole thing and everyone is shocked and whatnot?
@FutureHistorian Bremdag? No, at least not according to the story written so far. It is Hemdul that has been written as a character that would leave others behind if they are of no use to him anymore.
What I am currently struggling with is to comprehend the sudden change in Bremdags attitude towards the challenges; and the groups response to his utterings
What I feel would continue the flow of the story, and what I am/was intending to write, is how Hemdul would stand up to Bremdag again and assert dominance or such - but that would end up too much towards reducing the whole passage to a 'little episode' or something like that, and I feel that wouldn't be fair to it or you
@Mithrandir24601 oh, if you see a neat way to continue the narrative without discrediting any previous written passage please be my guest - I am also looking forward to read your writing :)
@Shalvenay Good, thanks :) Things are beginning to settle down for Christmas and I've started thinking about the overall direction for my PhD (or at least, for the next year or so), which is pretty exciting :) How're things with you?
@Mithrandir24601 alright here, thinking to myself...which of the Westerosian nobles would fare best if plopped into our world all-of-a-sudden, and which would fare worst?
@Shalvenay If it's a wealthy area of the city, I think the likes of Cersei might do quite well actually - rich and arrogant - something the Americans seem to be able to cope with :P Euron wouldn't as he'd just immediately threaten people (at best) and would probably just end up getting shot or something
@Shalvenay For a poorer area, I'd think someone like Arya, the Hound or Brienne, who aren't unreasonable people (in the same way as e.g. Cersei or Euron) but also more 'street aware' would do quite well, while any of the 'non-street-aware' people would just end up getting into trouble (i.e. either get robbed or get into a fight or something)
@Mithrandir24601 yeah, I suspect their bigger problem would be trying to understand infrastructural hazards and not people-hazards if you will (i.e. Arya wouldn't get into trouble with muggers or thugs, but she sure as heck could get herself in a lot of trouble if she poked Needle into something that bites back at 480V AC!)
@Shalvenay Hmm... Possible actually similar to 'poorer area', only replace 'street aware' with 'being able to survive by themselves outside' :P, so Arya, the Hound or Brienne would still do quite well while maybe e.g. any of the Lannisters wouldn't
@Mithrandir24601 yeah. who'd be the most likely to fall prey to infrastructure hazards, for that matter? (whether it be getting fried, blown up, squished, ...)
@Mithrandir24601 that'd be part of it, and there'd also be the ability to recognize things as hazards.
@Mithrandir24601 and it also depends on what sort of hazard it is. I could see the Greyjoys or the Lannisters being arrogant enough to get pissed off at a set of grade-crossing gates "turnpiking" the road on them and trying to go around...
whereas, someone like Arya probably would not pay much heed to fences and rights-of-way and thus find themselves getting shocked to oblivion in a substation or the likes
or would you think otherwise?
swats Arya away from a bunch of live parts with a linesman's hot stick "Miss, do you realize that you just came a foot or two from crispy-frying yourself to a crackly crunch?"
@FutureHistorian I think you should build up to changes more slowly. Drop hints that he is becoming more disillusioned with the void over time. In the story he goes from enthusiastic about the void to not caring in about a second for no clear reason.
I just noticed that we have now officially passed 100,000 posts on the main site.
Thanks to all of you for contributing, and keeping contributing!
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