Re: Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-28 Thread Charlie Bell 

On 29/12/2007, at 9:25 AM, Trent Shipley wrote:

> Yes.  They threw me off the Orion's Arm discussion list for being a  
> worm hole
> skeptic.

"Skeptic" or "Denialist"? *poke* ;-)

Charlie.
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Re: Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-28 Thread Trent Shipley 
Yes.  They threw me off the Orion's Arm discussion list for being a worm hole 
skeptic.

On Thursday 2007-12-27 20:57, Max Battcher wrote:
> Did you look at Orion's Arm?  It has a couple of the things you mention:
>
> http://www.orionsarm.com/
>
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Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-28 Thread jon louis mann 
These are the features that I'm thinking of as part of a fairly Luddite 
"cannon".

--Only STL travel is possible.  No FTL, no worm holes.
--No reactionless drives.
--No antigravity.
--The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and 
made of computronium.
--Most forms of sophonce do not rely on quantum states
--Therefore, mental states can be non-destructively copied.
--The galaxy is entirely colonized.
--Therefore we are millions of years in the future.
--Therefore humans are extinct.
--Therefore economic ecology is very post-singularity.
--Fermi was right.  All "life" is Terragenetic.
  --Sapient beings who are any distance up the eco-econ trophic levels live 
a LONG time.  
--Interstellar correspondence is reasonable, even at light speed or slower.
--There are many unimaginably smart sapients
--The island nature of each star means that an eco-econ tends to involution.
--Stellar habitats tend to convert matter into huge Dyson swarms.
--Dyson swarms use as much solar energy as possible.  
--Solar systems look like big, cold spheres from the outside.
  --Eco-econs suffer from relative scarcity.
  
  this may be a dumb question but why does it take millions of years to fill 
the galaxy with sentient life, especially if humans are extinct and are the 
only sentients, and have greatly extended life spans.  wouldn't population 
increase exponentially?
  jon

   
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Re: Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-28 Thread David Brin 
Trent... cool looking game...
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Re: Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-27 Thread Max Battcher 
Did you look at Orion's Arm?  It has a couple of the things you mention:

http://www.orionsarm.com/

Trent Shipley wrote:
> I am going to launch a world building wiki.  The working name for the project 
> is "Red".
> 
> Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use 
> MediaWiki.
> 
> I haven't decided on GFDL or Creative Commons license yet.
> 
> The wiki will not be an Uplift site.
> 
> These are the features that I'm thinking of as part of a fairly 
> Luddite "cannon".
> 
> --Only STL travel is possible.  No FTL, no worm holes.
> --No reactionless drives.
> --No antigravity.
> The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and 
> made of computronium.
> --Most forms of sophonce do not rely on quantum states
> Therefore, mental states can be non-destructively copied.
> --The galaxy is entirely colonized.
> Therefore we are millions of years in the future.
> -Therefore humans are extinct.
> -Therefore economic ecology is very post-singularity.
> --Fermi was right.  All "life" is Terragenetic.
> --Sapient beings who are any distance up the eco-econ trophic levels live a 
> LONG time.  
> Interstellar correspondence is reasonable, even at light speed or slower.
> --There are many unimaginably smart sapients
> --The island nature of each star means that an eco-econ tends to involution.
> Stellar habitats tend to convert matter into huge Dyson swarms.
> --Dyson swarms use as much solar energy as possible.  
> --Solar systems look like big, cold spheres from the outside.
> --Eco-econs suffer from relative scarcity.
>   
> Feedback is sought.  I'm wondering if this cannon is going to be too 
> unpopular.  Maybe no one will play with me.
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Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-27 Thread Trent Shipley 
I am going to launch a world building wiki.  The working name for the project 
is "Red".

Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use 
MediaWiki.

I haven't decided on GFDL or Creative Commons license yet.

The wiki will not be an Uplift site.

These are the features that I'm thinking of as part of a fairly 
Luddite "cannon".

--Only STL travel is possible.  No FTL, no worm holes.
--No reactionless drives.
--No antigravity.
The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and 
made of computronium.
--Most forms of sophonce do not rely on quantum states
Therefore, mental states can be non-destructively copied.
--The galaxy is entirely colonized.
Therefore we are millions of years in the future.
-Therefore humans are extinct.
-Therefore economic ecology is very post-singularity.
--Fermi was right.  All "life" is Terragenetic.
--Sapient beings who are any distance up the eco-econ trophic levels live a 
LONG time.  
Interstellar correspondence is reasonable, even at light speed or slower.
--There are many unimaginably smart sapients
--The island nature of each star means that an eco-econ tends to involution.
Stellar habitats tend to convert matter into huge Dyson swarms.
--Dyson swarms use as much solar energy as possible.  
--Solar systems look like big, cold spheres from the outside.
--Eco-econs suffer from relative scarcity.
  
Feedback is sought.  I'm wondering if this cannon is going to be too 
unpopular.  Maybe no one will play with me.
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