#Evolution of Engineering

[toyastales]

I adore the wavy design elements in this modern architectural stunner.

[monstersteam]

(2/2) Edvolution

Individual renders:

[okergamedev]

Colorcat Evolution is out!

This game simulates evolution and natural selection using colorful three-legged cat creatures. Their colours represent their stats: overall brightness is health, amount of red is speed, green is defense, and blue is how social they are. The kitties will roam their little world and occasionally produce offspring by mixing their genes with each other, and the offspring will be slightly mutated... or not so slightly, if you choose to raise the radiation levels. The genetic changes will accumulate over time and gradually affect the entire population. You can play around with the initial setup of the simulation and natural conditions during it, and even control the critters and try to ensure the survival of their families yourself. Hope you have fun! Let me know if you have any suggestions and whatnot.

[cosmicportal]

[eyeballfluid]

The lads are back in town!

An illustration of all the "compatible" races. Compatible meaning can breathe the same atmosphere, of course.

Fērre:

The Fērre hail from the world Fērrum. A world that, much like a rotisserie, rotates very slowly, with about a 1:6 resonance. Making every day a humid windy, and sweaty experience. And every night a frigid rainstorm. Life gets by, by either crawling the canyons and ridges that catch drops of water to lap up, and to avoid the storms. Burrowing to escape the chaotic mornings and evenings. Or ln the colosal Corral like super organisms that dot Fērrum's surface. The Fērre do all of the above. Evolving from mole like creatures, and nomadicaly journeying the surface, to live in the immense corrals. All of these have thrusted the Fērre to become a prominent member of the galactic community.

Shippantii:

The Shippantii's home world, Mui-Mua, is not too dissimilar to Fērrum at surface level, appearing to have little surface water. However this is because most water is located in deep trenchlike rivers across its surface, some of which reach a kilometer deep. Other than the deep trenches, there are also conventional lakes and rivers. The only conventional ocean is about 500 meters deep. Through all of this, life has thrived on the planes canyons and mountains that carve out its elegent surface.

Raeng:

The Raeng's homeworld was poisoned, poisoned with a weak magnetosphere that struggled along for millions of years. Despite this determination, through a combination of the Raeng's destructive industrial revolution, and a particularly violent series of solar flares, their ozone layer disintegrated. Their atmosphere boiled, and the Raeng led a last ditch exodus off their world. Some stayed behind in domed cities, a testbed of later planetary colonies. Some stayed in orbit, built with noxious nuclear rockets, as care for their planet plummeted over care for their own people. Interplanetary colonization was nearly completely unsuccessful, only their moon having a self sufficient but starved mining colony for hundreds of years. Their species fate was doomed until a Fērre survey probe revealed their presence. The resulting mad dash was a mix of first contact excitement, and the want for humanitarian credit for saving a whole species. In the end the Raeng have been spread through the intergalactic network of stations and habitats. A people with no true home. Their homeworld scarred with domes and habitats to attempt mimicking their once vibrant ecosystem. Edit: My little brother designed, and wrote these fellas:)

Humans:

Humans have spread and artificially evolved themselves for various environments. Genetic adaptations are common among different species. But humans are the most numerous who will get their own posts in the future. Along with the planets, they have terraformed systematically unduring earthlife across the galaxy.

The galaxy has many other species that will be documented in future posts. Along with the technology and culture of the milkyway.

[armadillorollup]

Viktor Arcane: Evolution has a destination. Not to combat nature, but to supersede it. The final glorious evolution.

biologists everywhere:

[quasi-normalcy]

I do find it funny when MFA types call blatantly unprofitable genres like Hard Sci-Fi "commercial fiction"

[bootleg-nessie]

Apparently human experimentation is “illegal without proper licensure” these days. The government just destroyed YEARS of my research in creating human livestock, citing something they called the “Nuremberg Codes” (???). What will the woke left ruin next?

[larryshapiro]

St Louis FD Station 1 apparatus

[linguenuvolose]

Recent youtube interests:

urban planning

history (especially early human evolution and the first civilisations and communities)

geography

[toyastales]

This home is neatly tucked away into nature.

[monstersteam]

They grow up so fast

[okergamedev]

So I caved and made an evolution simulator of those three-legged cats from the "TEALING IS AGAINST THE LAW" comic.

The way I did it is by giving them a bunch of stats that change by a random small amount every time they reproduce. The stats are represented by their color, with overall brightness meaning health, the amount of red meaning speed, green meaning defense, and blue meaning how social they are.

Here's the world from the above screenshot after a century of evolution. The population of this run got lucky and their stats are now literally off the charts thanks to natural selection!

ignore the insanely long average lifespan lol they dont actually live that long i just messed up the math somehow

The kitties' incredibly catchy names consist of their generation, family, and index within that family. PR and RR stand for poison & radiation resistance - some trees are poisonous, and the radiation level (which affects how mutated the children can be) slowly drains the cattos' health.

The white lines point towards their children, and green ones towards their parents. Usually they'll only reproduce if their overall population is less than 81, otherwise they'll just run around until they die, decreasing the population.

They also have a simple AI that makes them approach their current object of interest, such as another colorcat or a tree with yummy fruits, and run away from their current object of avoidance, such as a poisonous tree or an aggressive colorcat.

Here's some examples of antisocial colorcats who punch everyone they come across.

This has been lots of fun to program and play around with! I'll make it available very soon, just gotta make a trailer or something.

[cosmicportal]

[kingoftieland]

As a high school science teacher, I can’t wait to dive into this LEGO Ideas collectible display model on The Evolution of STEM! 🔬🧬🍎

The 879-piece set features a buildable base in the shape of an open book topped by mini builds that represent historic innovations – from an early car and a home computer to the NASA Voyager Probe. Turning a dial also adds a fun movable element to the mix, making a 3D replica of a carbon atom float upwards and a DNA strand rotate. Also included are minifigures of 3 famous scientists: Marie Curie (the “Mother of Modern Physics”), Sir Isaac Newton (leader of the Scientific Revolution), and George Washington Carver (a pioneering agricultural scientist). All in all, it’s a perfect set to add to my classroom!

[infinitysisters]

“It’s about internalizing correct thought. Orwell understood very well the relationship between language and thought and how control of the former permits control of the latter: “[If] thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

He devoted much of “1984” to exploring how the exercise of power over what may be said makes it easier to enjoy dominion over what can be thought, over how individuals understand themselves and their place in society. “Don’t you see,” says Syme, a lexicographer at the Ministry of Truth, “that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.”

The real-world version of that fictional effort to overhaul man’s inner life through controlling the language he is allowed to use in society is expressed more softly, though no less sinisterly. “New language… can become a useful tool for changing how people deal with each other,” say the Symes of today.

Allowing the subjective beliefs of people in the present to override the objective recording of events in the past would be extraordinary – a testament to the extent to which political correctness had overpowered reality entirely.

We now know the price of not speaking back, of letting others instruct us on what we may utter and how we must think. We now know the cost of allowing incursions into our inner lives. Man must be “master of his own thoughts,” said Spinoza. He must never be “compelled to speak only according to the diktats of the supreme power.” That is the first task of the heretic, then: to resist compulsion. To speak as he sees. To never fear to express the truth.”

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Brendan O’Neill 𝘈 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦