Search Results

A warm winter feast for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and a merry summer feast for those of us in the southern hemisphere. I think dancing and athletic events will be a big part of the summer feast. It fits with the theme of celebrating youth. I've...

I just learned that Jupiter's "surface" gravity (measured at the cloud tops) is only around 2x that of Earth's. This is because even though Jupiter is much mor massive, it's also much larger, meaning the "surface" is much further away from the center. I think ...

Here's Welkinstead. The floating cities are clustered along two subtropical high pressure belts where the subsiding air helps keep the poisonous gases from upwelling into the breathable layer where the cities can be found.

Welkinstead was terraformed by accident. It turns out that oxygen is a byproduct of the gas refining process, meaning the more the platforms polluted, the more breathable the air became. Eventually a layer of air at normal temperature and pressure formed and i...

Pilgrims' Rest is a dwarf planet located in the Outer Belt. It was founded by remnants of the missionaries fleeing Firefly's genocide during the war of dissolution. Originally under Moonlitter's control, it is conquered by the Partisans shortly (in vulpithecin...

Code: Select all @@ ...

Here's a possible symbol for the Farspeakers. The gear motif is present and accounted-for. The inward-pointing arrows* represent introspection while the outward-pointing arrows represent communication. * recall that they're not really arrowheads, they're styli...

http://www.orbitsimulator.com/formulas/ ... inder.html Following from my earlier post. This website will give you the Lagrange points for a two body system given their masses and distance between them. I used Pluto (or a pluto-like dwarf planet with no moon) a...

I read an article that proposes deploying a really, really strong magnet at the first Lagrange point, between a planet and its star, in order to shield the planet from solar wind. It occurred to me that you could create a mini sun with a magnetic field and pro...

I've moved the wiki off of Cloudflare. It may take a bit for me to get it back up. The wiki itself isn't going anywhere. I self host it on a 15 year old laptop. What's moving is the reverse proxy server that's open to the internet. I've mentioned before that ...

I posted this on the wiki but don't think I've posted it here yet A hearthkeeper's duty is to bring physical and spiritual light and warmth to her congregation. This is accomplished through lighthouses, places of worship of the Bright Way. They evolved out of ...

The Atavists are a diverse collection of related ideologies that encompass the idea of going back to nature. The original, and most extreme, Atavist group believes that sapience is a curse and wishes to be rid of it. This group is opposed to the Bright Way, as...

Here's a topic I've needed to elaborate on for some time. With the exception of healers, yinrih don't wear clothes. While they do use things like backpacks and pocketed leg bands, the communicative function of clothing is filled by perfumes. Yinrih produce ph...

Radical Atavists (the ones who reject sapience) are further divided into two factions: the Atheists and the Misotheists. The Atheists are straightforward: sentience is a random fluke of the blind purposeless process of evolution, one which they find undesirabl...

Fabricators are what you get when you take a really fancy 3D printer and stick an AI art program inside. Yinrih have a form of machine learning algorithm known in Commonthroat as <sfBqbcg> [yip, early falling weakening whine, huff short low strengthening whin...

So apparently there are CAD programs for building in Lego bricks. Since my drawing skills will inevitably be capped by my blindness, I figured I'd try a different medium. Here's another take on the amnion. It's pretty simple. There's a glass dome where the tra...

Hearthside is a tidally locked world, meaning the sun is frozen in the same place in the sky, with its elevation determined by latitude. This lack of movement makes it easier to incorporate sunlight into art and architecture. Hearthside is famous for light sc...

OK, so I've established that what appear to be uncontacted yinrih tribes are actually descendants of Atavists who drank Ted Kaczynski's cool-aid and went off to live primitive lives in the wilderness. The problem with this is that yinrih are innately literate....