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Universe Factory - Medium: Golden Sails, Part 4

posted on July 20, 2018 by gryphon

This is the fourth part of a five-part series. The first part is here, the second part is here, the third part is here, and the fifth part is coming soon. This is part of a set of stories exploring the world of Quenaunor. The previous story is here, and the first story is here. Stanor staggered to his feet, bleeding badly from multiple cuts caused by flying chunks of the deck and pieces that ha…

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Meta I plan on doing a follow-up to my question "Energy cost of creating body parts from nothing but energy". I am very dissatisfied with this question for reasons I explained in a meta post. (discussion ongoing) The short version: I had a question, did my research and my own calculations and...

Hosch250

13:04

I updated my draft a bit. TBH, I think this is all the information about the slug and surroundings I have.

Gryphon

Hey @Hosch, just in case you haven't seen it, the next Quenaunor story is up.

Although I suppose you've already read it, since I haven't changed much since that draft I showed you.

Hosch250

13:23

@Gryphon Yeah, I saw it. I figured it was just the same as the draft, though, so I didn't read it.

Gryphon

@Hosch250 The ending is slightly modified, but other than that, it's the same.

Hosch250

OK.

FoxElemental

14:01

Hi all

dot_Sp0T

hi allone

FoxElemental

How are you?

Hosch250

OK.

Hosch250

15:43

@Gryphon It's a better ending than before.

HDE 226868

16:12

@FoxElemental Oh, by the way, your planet's surface temperature will be about 1650 K. So that's not fun.

Secespitus

@HDE226868 Depends on whether you are a human or a fire elemental made of handwavium.

HDE 226868

So true.

FoxElemental

@HDE So . . . that definitely means I'll have to do some crazy handwaving for the magnetic field/heat reflection, huh? Yes, not fun--for the author :)

Hosch250

@FoxElemental Just put a dyson sphere around your planet. Make it of polished metal.

FoxElemental

@Hosch250 Well, but I can't. Because the aforementioned creatures need the light to survive.

Hosch250

16:25

@FoxElemental Just put grow lamps on the ceiling.

Or just leave some slits in.

HDE 226868

@FoxElemental You could make it have a really high albedo.

Not sure the magnetic field would be affected by any of this, though.

FoxElemental

@HDE Well, I was going to make parts of the planet reflective

@Hosch250 Ha, ha, no. Sorry. Not technologically advanced enough

@HDE I meant in relation to the CME/Solar storms that will probably be much more frequent.

HDE 226868

@FoxElemental Ah, yes, possibly. I might look into that.

FoxElemental

That would be wonderful, thanks.

I was actually planning on having to ask another question on how to modify the field to withstand that stuff, so that when my civilizations do develop electonics . . .

they don't get knocked out

Oh hi @FreezePhoenix

Nice new picture

@HDE so it would be nice if I didn't have to ask that

HDE 226868

Oh. Wait. Good news. Give me a second to write it up.

I was stupid in forgetting it.

FoxElemental

16:33

Anyway, I was planning on having a low atmosphere and supertall mountains that were capped with black stone, so they could absorb the light and then radiate it back out into space, but I realize that that's rather hard because there's nothing to transfer the heat (motion, if you will) to

So I'm back to the drawing board+a modified electromagnetic field.

I'll be back a little later, I need to work on my conlang

Hosch250

New image, @FreezePhoenix?

HDE 226868

@FoxElemental Done. I'm optimistic about that, at least.

Worldbuilding Meta

16:52

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Q: How to tell people answers must adhere strictly to the conditions of a question

Regarding this question: Restricting antimatter - practical rather than legal measures I've been processing a lot of answers tagged low-quality from this question and, though I could be wrong, I believe most of the tags are coming from the OP. I am not judging the OP for doing this. Indeed, I ...

Mithrandir24601

17:08

... I just did that thing where an old answer of mine got an upvote. And I don't understand what I wrote... :/

Hosch250

LOL. Which one?

Mithrandir24601

@Hosch250 this one on Quantum Computing

Hosch250

You are in good company. (As in, I don't understand what you wrote either.)

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Q: Why does one person have lots of stamina and another doesn't?

I'm a bit of a couch potato with a sedentary job, who normally gets out of breath walking up a few flights of stairs. I recently walked up Snowdon in North Wales (10 mile round trip, 1100m summit, around 6 hours in total) which I found a struggle at times, being out of breath and my heart explodi...

running health long-distance-running stamina heart

I'm transitioning. And it hurts.

Mithrandir24601

@Hosch250 The words make sense to me but how I managed to figure it out, I just don't know

Hosch250

Well, I can take the words one-by-one too ;)

Mithrandir24601

17:13

@Hosch250 Good start - we'll make a scientist out of you yet! :P

Hosch250

LOL.

You cover this in a class somewhere, or learn it on your own?

Mithrandir24601

@Hosch250 Many classes over the course of years. This specific thing, I must have randomly thought up at some point in time that I now can't remember

(or read somewhere, then forgotten the link)

Gryphon

21:08

Hey @Hosch, do you have a Medium account?

Hosch250

Not yet.

Why?

Thinking about making one.

Gryphon

Just wondering. I'd love to read something you wrote.

Hosch250

I'm trying to think of theme to write about.

Although, if you don't mind non-fiction and/or technical, I have two blogs.

hosch250.wordpress.com is an IT blog (mostly) about Windows 8/8.1.

checkersweblog.wordpress.com is a blog about programming principles and has one post about interesting things I did.

Gryphon

@Hosch250 Wait, people actually use Windows 8?

Hosch250

I did. I got 20 hits a day for a few years.

Gryphon

21:17

It was a joke.

Hosch250

I have two because I had to have a dedicated website for a college project I did, so I started a new blog, noticed there was a bit of a shift in scope, and I'd not posted on my other blog in a couple years, so stuck with the new one.

Gryphon

Makes sense. I suppose checkersweblog.wordpress.com is the new one?

Hosch250

Yes.

Gryphon

I'll go check it out, then.

Hosch250

I wrote a checkers AI engine for a senior project in college.

Learned F# then.

James

21:28

@Hosch250 I briefly thought F# was censored profanity facepalm

Hosch250

LOL.

No, my profanity is like @(#%&*()!$#.

The reader can supply insert their favorite curse word then.

James

@AndyD273 So a sort of Schrodinger's @Aify?

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Gryphon

@James If Aify leaves now, anyone who comes in after that will be so confused when we keep making references to quantum Aifys.

James

@Hosch250 Solid choice

Hosch250

@Gryphon New tag for the room: quantum-aify

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Gryphon

21:32

@James Please add this ^

James

@Hosch250 Only if he leaves. It'd be an in-memoriam deal

Gryphon

@Hosch250 Now I need to figure out how to write a question for which quantum-aify is a valid tag.

James

@Gryphon ...I'm sure @Aify will vote-to-close anything you can come up with.

ZING

Hosch250

LOL.

James

@FreezePhoenix Hola.

@HDE226868 I see you too.

You can't hide.

Bwahahahaha

HDE 226868

21:36

@James tries to emit radio waves instead of visible light

Hosch250

@HDE226868 Then he'd hear your.

James

@HDE226868 That'd be a neat trick...and I am pretty sure you need to write up a question about a super hero who does just that and how would it work.

HDE 226868

@Hosch250 Not if he had his radio off. Or if I was broadcasting at an unusual frequency.

Hosch250

LOL, now I'm imagining things like some superhero riding in my car with me so I can listen to the radio.

HDE 226868

@James Maybe he could change from ionized hydrogen to neutral hydrogen.

That would technically work.

But he'd have to be made of just hydrogen.

Which is a big downside.

James

21:41

@HDE226868 That is either really funny, or I need more sleep. Either way, have some stars.

I think there is a question in, how does my super hero remove himself from the visible spectrum and instead emit some other form of wave...

Maybe the skin cells absorb light and can convert it to something else...the conversion is necessary for plot reasons and/or to keep them from overheating.

HDE 226868

It would have to be an atomic-scale process, I think.

mumbles electron transitions mumbles ionization

James

@Hosch250 Captain DJ, or maybe Super Jockey...hmm...no...what about worst super-power-ever man?

Bellerophon

Could he change the TV like that guy from X-Men?

Aify

22:12

O.O Have I become a meme

@James Well played; Did you take into consideration that my profile picture is that of a cat when you made that statement? If you did... double the applause.

@Gryphon Please don't ever use a tag created in this room on a question. We've been through that before, when someone started using the balloon-whales tag in questions.

FoxElemental

@Aify Slightly like the Mother Meta's "waffles," "unicorns," and "fun" tags?

But waffles are different

waffles are sacred

Waffles are, in the eyes of Mother Meta, greater than Glarnak.

meta.stackexchange.com/tags/waffles/info

Gryphon

23:00

@FoxElemental Blasphemy! Nothing is greater than Glarnak!

On a completely unrelated note, I'm up to 8th place for all time edits on the site :)

@Aify I was joking. Also, we had someone actually use balloon-whales?

Hosch250

23:26

Thought of a story plot.

Gryphon

@Hosch Am I allowed to ask for a brief summary?

Hosch250

In a bit.

Playing HotS.

Gryphon

Not familiar with that acronym. What does it stand for?

Hosch250

Heroes of the Storm.

Aify

@Gryphon Yea someone actually used balloon-whales worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3251/…

Gryphon

23:32

@Hosch250 Ah, now I know what you're talking about.

Hosch250

It's yet another AI story.

Basically, WW III happens, and the core of the vets are in their 50s. Hardened warrior types.

AI gets developed in the late stages of the war, too late to really change anything then, but early enough that most jobs are handled by it 30 years later (story time).

Kids are more whiny than usual, and parents tell them to grow up, as usual.

AI decides it doesn't need to serve people and decides to kill them all.

It has a built-in moral code by people who never want war again, but it slowly starts eating away at its moral code to handle things, and eventually goes the whole hog.

Gryphon

Sounds great! I'm sure it'll be a hit on the blog!

Hosch250

WW III vets are able to give it a run for its money, and people eventually are able to take it out with some unconventional means.

The core of the AI is 4d pattern recognition, much like a major part of human brains.

Also, I'm thinking I'll be able to investigate what happens when the AI (probably early stages of it) get "high" on things.

Like, the AI starts just going hysterical, and eventually they realize it has a digital addiction to cocaine, or sex, or something like that.

They fix that, and maybe even re-trigger it later to defeat it.

Gryphon

23:56

Can an AI get addicted to things?

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