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root@Transhuman Movies It doesn't come out until March 2011, but Suckerpunch seems like a good movie for Simulspace inspirations. I'm compiling a list of Eclipse Phase inspirational movies over at the Darkcast , but it's limite ...

Forum topic - root - 2010-10-29 18:40 - 46 comments - 0 attachments

Another fun trick for quantum communications: retroactively enabling or disabling them. This is a real experiment, not just neat math: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/decision-to-entangle-effects-results-of-measurements-taken-beforeh ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-04-24 19:02 - 43 comments - 0 attachments

Meat-eating furniture: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/07/133432897/meat-eating-furniture?sc=fb&cc=fp Biotech furniture of course requires sustenance... and not all of it is vegetarian. Re: Hungry furniture This. is. aw ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2011-02-09 14:43 - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Sometimes it is useful to have a quote, piece of dialog or turn of phrase as GM when describing things. This thread is for them. To start, from today's Schlock mercenary: - So i'm to go under the knife next, then? - No knife. Just nannies [ ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-12-04 07:47 - 22 comments - 0 attachments

So I was thinking about the process of transferring one's self into a new body. The real world issue I believe would be the same as the in game one. The sense of continuity and that this is still "you". With that I began thinking of a process to tra ...

Forum topic - Aeroz - 2012-05-08 18:25 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

If the technology for resleeving, and the variety of morphs, depicted in Eclipse Phase existed today, would you take the plunge? I would. For me, it's a no brainer. I would sample as many morphs as I could afford while staying reasonably sane. ...

Forum topic - Hakkonen - 2010-06-22 22:28 - 112 comments - 0 attachments

So assuming there isn't a hard cap, eventually you'd reach the point where entire universes are your's to play with. I got to thinking, I'd probably endure existing to that point, what would a me at that level be like. What would I do now that even k ...

Forum topic - Aeroz - 2012-05-13 04:14 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IFe9wiDfb0E Re: Welcome to Life Very nice. Guess why the fall refugee background has edited memories? Re: Welcome to Life First of all, we at Life unlimited are very proud a ...

Forum topic - Caretaker - 2012-05-12 11:19 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

A fellow Livejournaler has just shared a stunning picture of Venus and the night sky as seen from the habitable-zone cloudtops. http://invaderxan.livejournal.com/152599.html FYI. Re: Venus as seen from the cloudtops I can ...

Forum topic - rfmcdonald - 2012-05-13 21:40 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Assuming Moore's Law holds (and since any time we find a hard barrier we overcome it, I find this to be reasonable) we will see the singularity in a few decades. Most estimates I found place it between 2040 and 2050. Now we will have no way to know ...

Forum topic - Aeroz - 2012-05-01 15:21 - 5 comments - 0 attachments