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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

Here is a short story by Paul Di Filippo about copyright, gerontocrats and murder. Obvious material for a little EP scenario: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2012/pdf1205.htm (Off Topic) ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-05-03 15:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Mars has some cool landforms, including spirals a 100 feet across: http://io9.com/5904905/why-are-there-spirals-on-the-surface-of-mars http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6080/449 The location is south-east of Elysium, just around ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-04-27 06:46 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Came across this short film: http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/11/cathedral-oscar-nominated-science.html Very nice EP material there. Re: More visual treats Oh, I like this animation and the short story it’s based on. Here’s some pas ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-04-11 13:17 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

http://motionographer.com/2011/11/21/mercedes-escape-the-map/ Car advert, but filled with nice visual ideas for creepy glitches in people's augmented perception. There is plenty more on that site, although I didn't find my own favourite ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2011-11-23 09:14 - 17 comments - 0 attachments

A few things I found on Next Nature : The airplane of the future: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/06/its-a-plane/ Of course, this future is 2050, so in EP this is a quaint, oldfashioned plane. Steampunk, even. But might give some ideas ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2011-08-02 06:54 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

I admit I felt neutrino comms in EP to be mildly unlikely when I read it. I shouldn't have: it has just been done in reality. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27648/ http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 Way cool. If still ra ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-03-15 08:29 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

My colleague Stuart presents some of our joint research to the Oxford physics department: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTfuI-9jIo&feature=plcp&context=C3f6a5ecUDOEgsToPDskKi-IqIea_gLUuUI6IVFvM_ Some EP potential for some of the ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-02-01 10:37 - 14 comments - 0 attachments