Resplendent Exponential Vector
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RESPLENDENT EXPONENTIAL VECTOR SAFER SCIENCE INITIATIVE IT’S BEEN [2] DAYS SINCE OUR LAST UNSCHEDULED REALITY EXCURSION (that we noticed)
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Trope-a-Day: Colony Ship
Colony Ship: More than a few. The most iconic, of course, are the Deep Star colony ships the eldrae used to establish the first Thirteen Colonies subluminally, and indeed the galari equivalents that let them colonize Tessil and Qeraq in a similar manner, but the concept still goes on; even
crime
Proportionality
ILINSHEN (UNITED VIRIDIAN STATES) – Debate continues today in the capital district of the United Viridian States over the troubled extradition of orbital real estate mogul Uskert Lannod. Lannod, 70, made history four months ago by receiving the highest fine thus far assessed for an offworlder in the Empire’s Courts
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Trope-a-Day: Cloning Body Parts
Cloning Body Parts: It used to be done, but in the current era is obsolete twice over; first, replaced by organ printing tech (basically, 3D printers for organs), and second, by healing vats and having things built by medichines in situ. Hospitals and clinics probably have some organ printers lying
things you are not allowed to do
37 Things You Probably Shouldn't Do (But Are Allowed To) In The Associated Worlds
(by – sort of -request; very dubiously deuterocanonical in parts) 1. It is polite to offer immortagens to your new offworld friends. It is not polite to spike their coffee, beer, or punch bowl with them. 2. Even if everything is quaint, you shouldn’t keep calling it that. 3. Very
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Trope-a-Day: Clone by Conversion
Clone by Conversion: It’s possible, with the right abominations of technology (basically, start with a healing vat and a cerebral bridge, then add evil) – but since you’re just using the original person as organic raw material, the applications are sharply limited. Basically, if you need reinforcements and have
biotechnology
Oops
acc3BE: A gene complex used with artificial chromosomes which causes those chromosomes to lose their centromeres in the process of meiosis, thus reducing the genome present in the resulting germ cells to baseline-equivalency. This permits clades augmented with artificial chromosome-based enhancements to be reproductively compatible with both the baseline and
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Trope-a-Day: Clone Army
Clone Army: Just… don’t. In its simplest form, where you’re just using cloning technology to replicate military-grade bodies as quickly as you can, it may be valuable. It won’t help you with absolute growth rates, since the expensive part is growing the minds to put in the
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Question: Last Shot Rule
(But first, a quick administrative note. If you’re sending me something through the Contact/Ask form and want to include a link, please be aware that it filters out HTML, including links. You’ll need to include the URL explicitly, or I won’t get it.) Anyway: 1. Does
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Trope-a-Day: City Planet
City Planet: Alas (?), none of the planet-sized worlds in the Worlds have yet grown to the point of being ecumenopoleis. On the other hand, the subverted “small planet” version is definitely present: 1 Andír, in the Lumenna-Súnáris System, has been slowly hollowed out over centuries to the point where it
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Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective
Y’know, I don’t believe I’ve mentioned this article on here before, and I really should have. Because – as a simple matter of contract law – marriage in the Empire and other Societies of Consent does, in fact, permit all the difficult concepts mentioned here and a few more
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Trope-a-Day: Chronoscope
Chronoscope: Not literally possible, but the combination of ubiquitous computer/sensor technology coupled with ridiculously huge amounts of computing power to assemble the evidence into a picture can do a damn good imitation of a past-viewing chronoscope. Doing the same thing with prognostication software is, alas, rather more limited, and