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nyrath, to random
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I found these on the hellsite.
I despise AI art, but I will grudgingly admit the concept is interesting.

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Robert_Brandt,
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@isaackuo @tkinias @nyrath Yes, I have heard that institutions rarely remain unchanged, even over a couple of hundred years. Rome seems to be caught in amber from Augustus, to the Crisis of the Third Century. However, another interesting discussion I have read is that the Song industrialize 500 years before the west, which would be a huge game changer.

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@tkinias @isaackuo @nyrath True. I am thinking that is the lens everyone sees Rome through.

Robert_Brandt,
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@tkinias @isaackuo @nyrath Yes, I agree. I have read that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the cell phone, than to the time of the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Robert_Brandt,
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@tkinias @isaackuo @nyrath It is something I think about in writing science fiction, that if it is set five thousand years in the future, they would have little to no knowledge of us today, and it is difficult to think about what they would be like.

Robert_Brandt,
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@nyrath @tkinias @isaackuo Sort of an interesting aside from an old Traveller discussion, is would they have the video still? It would be like here, watch this five thousand year old video. I remember an exhibit at the Smithsonian, where they had many Roman musical instruments, though no sheet music, so they only could guess at the songs.

Robert_Brandt,
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@nyrath @tkinias @isaackuo Wow, that is really incredible. It sounds like there was music with the amphora, makes on think that maybe back then they hired musicians to play at the workshop to entertain the workers while they worked.

nyrath, to TimeTravel
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Young physicist ‘squares the numbers’ on time travel

Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible, according to the mathematical modelling of a prodigious University of Queensland undergraduate student

https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2020/09/young-physicist-squares-numbers%E2%80%99-time-travel

Robert_Brandt,
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@nyrath Personally I think going backwards, there is a hard boundary because one is changing the total energy state in the system, similar to FTL as moving mass past the FTL barrier changes the total energy state, the system simply says nope.

Robert_Brandt,
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@nyrath Yes, I agree. I suspect as long as total energy states are not changed, actions are somewhat variable. The universe does not care if someone saw the future, and put on a different shirt, because the total state was not changed.

TheSpaceshipper, to scifi
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection was released 26 years ago today in the United States.

Clearly not the most popular film in the series, it's still the first one I was old enough to see at the cinema.

Art by Jim Martin, models by New Deal Studios.

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Robert_Brandt,
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@TheSpaceshipper It had huge Traveller vibes.

Robert_Brandt, to random
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A lot of my stuff is on sale at DTRPG right now:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/19875/Wild-Bee-Publishing

LeviKornelsen, to random
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I slowly creep away from anything involving data-scraping, government backdoors, mass surveillance, etc, but not because I understand the issues in any depth.

It's because I read my Terry Pratchett.

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

Robert_Brandt,
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@LeviKornelsen I do because it feels like the soulless destruction of humanity.

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Inflatable habitats make a lot of sense for living on the Moon. Your living space can be packed into a rocket and inflated many times the stowed size on the Moon. With the right materials, inflatable habitats can be strong and protected from micrometeorite strikes. They can even serve as structural elements. NASA has a new challenge encouraging students to design inflatable lunar structures, from habitats to garages, to learn the most effective way to live on the Moon.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/student-innovators-invited-to-develop-big-ideas-for-lunar-inflatables/

Robert_Brandt,
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@fraser Rubber is a mature tech thanks to auto tires, waste not, want not.

nyrath, to random
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Colors of Alien Plants (by star spectral class)

http://panoptesv.com/SciFi/ColorsOfAlienWorlds/AlienFields.php

Robert_Brandt,
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@nyrath I used this a few times for world map colors in my setting.

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