#Interplanetary Colonization

[hillbowman]

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.......The Necessities of Survival

Premonition:

By

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Hill Bowman

December 1st 2018 ©

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Dedicated to

Hilda Sue Bowman

my mother

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Above photographs compliments Google News September 13th 2023

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Chapter 1.

The Bigger Picture

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Need To Migrate

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Chapter 2.

Earth Is A Closed Ecosystem

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Chapter 3.

Resources Are Limited But

B.S. Is Perpetual

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Chapter 4.

A Battle Against Principalities

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Chapter 5.

Crowdfunding

Open Research

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Chapter 6.

Tomorrow Starts Today

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Chapter 7.

Extrapolation On Moore’s Law

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Chapter 8.

You Are Here

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Chapter 9.

The Necessity of Cross Referencing

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Chapter 10.

Road Map To Survival

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Chapter 11.

Integrated Parts

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Chapter 12.

Unified Survival Theory

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Chapter 13.

Requirement Of Migration

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Chapter 14.

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Chapter 3.

Resources Are Limited But B.S. is Perpetual

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It is worthless to argue over a moot point such as Environmental Conservation.

The reason Environmental Conservation is a moot point is because individual, immediate, Self Indulgence will outweigh long-term catastrophic possibilities. Until imminent catastrophic possibilities become an imminent mutually assured destruction .

And of course by then it is too late... and perhaps that is the focal point of what this book is about.

I would like to suggest that we get the move on today while the sun is shining instead of waiting for it to be hailing sleet, snow, thunder and lightning before we get on to doing some things that we really need to address…

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One thing I would like to suggest that has been on the drawing board for a very long time now nearly 50 yrs…

Is a gravity ring

It kind of looks like a bicycle wheel, but 10,000 times larger.

The center hub would contain rocket and electric thrust

Solar sail would be streched from the outer rim to the hub. Solar Thinfilm (flexible solar panels) should be stretched on the opposite side of the rim.

Off the shelf compressed gas or electric thrust can be used for rotation and stability control and for artificial gravitational effect around the rim.

Continuing with the bicycle wheel analogy…

What we have discussed so far is the frame and propulsion systems. Attached to the rim of the gravity ring (Where a bicycle tire would be on a bicycle rim) would be modular habitat’s.

These modular habitat’s would be interconnected with air locks. And sheathed with 2mm steal plates. Each habitat would be 50 meters long by 30 meters diameter. Each habitat divided down the length into four compartments…

Lower most compartment:

for infrastructure:

( 5 meter ceiling )

plumbing, electrical, heating , equipment storage.

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Bottom -center compartment:

(10 meter ceiling )

for agriculture.

5 meters of high grade top soil Actively growing…

grains. Fruits, vegetables, and live stock (chickens sheep, possibly fish

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Top-center compartment:

(10 meter ceiling )

Living habitat for crew

Research labs, food storage & cafeteria, ship command (navigation, propulsion, critical resource management ect)

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Top – most compartment:

( 5 meter ceiling )

is for systems infrastructure,

resource harvesting conduits for critical industrial systems (raw resource harvesting smelting, materials fabrication, particle accelerator configuration intake / exhaust harvest, Bot deployment bay, heavy equipment storage…etc.).

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Keep in mind that size in space is relative to ambition, cash flow and supply line.

If the frame work of the gravity rim is 500 meters radius (1killometer diameter) and circumference of 3,140 meters divided by 50 meters/habit would allow room for 62.8 habitat modules

If the gravity ring only has 1level of habitation module’s there would be enough room on the rim to secure approximately 60 habitat modules. That’s sounds like a lot of space but this vessel can permanently house a crew of 2,500 with room to accommodate 2,500 transient passengers.

Since the habit’s are modular you can stack them like building a modern hi-rise four or five high with only marginal difference in the perception of gravitational pull.

Crew can accesses any part of the vessel by use of air tight elevator/stairwell shafts built into the frame work of the gravity Rim .

And use of public / agricultural division of the habitat modules to traverse the circumference of the habitat Ring.

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This vessel would be capable of sustaining populations for very long journeys or function as a geosynchronous ship yard or as an orbital scientific colony or as a roving harvester

However the primary purpose for the “Stepping Stone” vessel is as ~

automatic raw resource harvester, self replicating ( macro bot ), interplanetary transport vessel.

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The self replication of the “Stepping Stone” is accomplished through swarm technology.

There are three main components to the “stepping Stone” vessel

The brain ~ (CAMF AI)

The body ~ “Stepping Stone” electromechanical vessel and appendages.

MOM “Mission Objectives Mech”

NOTE: A lot of people fail to grasp what MOM really is, but fear not. Well talk in more detail about MOM a little later on.

In short…

MOM is the collective sum of (CAMF AI) and the “Stepping Stone” vessel exercising autonomous situational comprehension, comparative tactic analysis, harvesting resources, material retrieval, manufacturing, navigation, self repair/replication and much more…

How MOM Works…

Harvesting targets and directives are issued by Central Assessments Main Frame narrow AI (CAMF AI) and confirmed with human oversight (or with complete autonomy like unmanned vessel )

Once targets / objectives are established the electromechanical components of the “Stepping Stone” under direction of CAMF AI issues objective/directives, target coordinates to required harvester bot's.

Bay doors are opened, harvester bot’s are deployed, supervised, retrieved, raw ore, gas, ice, ect. are unloaded and funneled to proper smelter or storage containment. All under direction of (MOM).

. Further you could carry a genetic library and of course seed bank and pollination bank(insect specific) along. In doing so you can grow what you need invetro fertilization… so that after crusing through the Milky Way Galaxy for 7 generations your great, great, great, grand children will still know what chicken taste like and look like because you could grow them as you need them. Chicken’s, cows, pigs, sheep, whatever floats your boat.

Actually come to think of it you could do invetro fertilization for people too but there’s a lot of argument among many groups in the human species as to the morality and ethic’s as far as invetro harvesting people. Crewing an interplanetary vessel with ’Test-tube people' or whatever like that, I’m sure, would get the hairs on the back of a Nay Sayer’s neck standing straight up.

I don’t think an Invetro crew is anything to worry about until the prospects of immediate intergalactic travel is upon us.

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But we do have the technology to do it.

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Further, the scientific research for advancement into the stars, feasible energy/propulsion systems and sustainability of biological systems to colonization of other planets will inevitably and inextricably lead toward advancements in every aspect of human understanding. From geosynchronous or roving interplanetary library’s (appended with research) to interstellar propulsion systems to exoagricilture to main stream galactic navigation (passenger space liner for everyday earn a buck two-leggers like me and you) …and so much more.

If you enjoy doing mazes when you were in school then you probably know that it is easier to solve the puzzle of a maze by going from the back to the front. From end to beginning almost always yield’s the path of least resistance in solving the maze.

This approach encapsulates one of the ‘principles’ in ”7 habits of highly effective people “

‘~Begin with the end in mind~’

And so, this book is written by Design from the back to the front starting with the big picture: The End Objective.

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Therefore

Establish a specific objective:

1. Finance and build the “Stepping Stone” vessel.

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2. Establish earth to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Supply Line.

Reusable rockets, Space X

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3. Establish research, engineering and construction provider’s

~“Orbital Platforms “~

low earth orbit ‘extrusion of space station frame work’.

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4. Establish construction methodology

~ Reusable rockets~ deliver modular components to build location.

First pay load is a single modular habitat that shipyard crew can live in during construction of first “Stepping Stone “vessel

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5. Coordinate R&D, fabrication and construction provider’s

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6. Establish financial base

Crowd funding

~One billion people *$10 each~

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The research needs to be across the board with specific goals that can be Unified into a spear head toward a specific objective.

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Short term benefits:

1. Build first “Stepping Stone” self replicating vessel .

2. Construct reusable geosynchronous ship yard .

3. Establish financial base.

4. Crowd funding ~.

One billion people * $10 each

5. Construct Earth knowledge bank… (geosynchronous library)

6. Guarantee survival of humanity and accumulated knowledge of humanity by expanding out in to the solar system and later the Milky Way Galaxy at large.

7. Harvesting raw resources exploration & cataloging.

8. Colonizing planets that can be terraformed or directly inhabited.

9. The Preservation of our biosphere Earth.

10. The Preservation of the other organisms and resources within this biosphere that depend on it.

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The Catalyst that can accomplish this daunting task is the innate need for…

11. Survival As A Species.

With our collective knowledge, technology, science, and culture as a species intact

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Most important of all and most fundamental to our primitive and instinctive nature is that We (Human beings) are apex predators, like lions. Also, we (Human beings) are pack animals in the same sense that lions are pack animals.

lions do have their pride (pack) and there are rules too being in the pride.

When a young lion has grown past adolescence they get kicked out of the pride if that lion has Not found a mate and Started his own pride.

The lion pride is structured in this way by instinct

First because the young lion will eventually clash with the pride Alpha male. This usually ends with injury to the Alpha as well as death for the challenger

Lions seem too also realize instinctively that the challenger will be a drain on resources until he learns to successfully hunt, mate, and establish his Own pride.

The social structure of people is not all that different.

Due to this fundamental of our nature as predators in the animal kingdom We are nervous when we are around other human beings that we do not personally know. Therefore it is to the benefit of our survival as a species to expand off of this planet so we do not gnaw at each other.

No, I’m not talking about a nuclear war. Or a collision with the asteroid Apophis ( both of which Are possible), I’m just saying in general; from drug sponsored street violence, police brutality, ethnic, religious racial tyranny all the way up the line to conflicts of state and terrorism we’re just good at killing each other. We are in our own documents in history prove to be the apex predator on this planet and a blood thirsty near genocidal species. So let’s just admit that truth and move forward with that because it’s a fact. And of course there is the ever present military ambition to control the high ground which in space means the outer perimeter sphere of human colonization and population and economic activity’s)

also the fundamental greed of Industry by the mining of resources in the process of seeking out habitable planets as well as the inevitable revenues generated buy rare goods as well as food supplies generated by the established colonies through enter planetary trade and tourism. And on top of all that add the individual human drive to acquire

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On a brighter note this of course is not the only reason that human beings occupied territories in the age of exploration (colonial expansion, 1500-1800) people came west to grow farms, to raise cattle, to prospect gold, for game, to live quietly in the mountains, to be peaceful and go out fishing every Sunday because that’s what they love to do. People will travel out into space for many of the same reasons first as tourists to the moon just for the experience, to tell their neighbors. Later on for more serious endeavors because industry will be paving away

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Please know Elon musk says he's going to be having relay ships running between Mars and Earth on a 1 year or a 6 months schedule some time in the next 10 years

Note this is not exactly accurate text because I'm out of date on this specific topic but something like that was considered…So all I can say to that is,

Right On… That’s what’s up ,😀!!!

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But getting back too the “Stepping Stone” project

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I think that such an artificial gravitation habitat such as described above; as I call the “Stepping Stone” would be the most fruitful first step towards the human species seriously moving out into the solar system and populating beyond the planet Earth.

For example, we could definitely build two of these platforms under 10 years. Design research development and implementation on the first stepping stone would take approximately 7 years start to finish.

The second one will simply be franchised as they say in the business community or replication as they would say in the technology community.

But yeah, basic replication of the technology developed in the first stepping stone... Especially the technology of self-replication so that the first “Stepping Stone” vessel actually constructs the second “Stepping Stone “vessel.

Once this is accomplished we could establish orbit for “Stepping Stone1” around the earth and the moon, simultaneously establishing orbit for “Stepping Stone 2” around Mars and the. moon Like an interplanetary bus rout. The “Stepping stones” will be a self contained colony even before you touch down on a planet. The “Stepping Stone” vessel will provide everything the colony would need indefinitely to sustain itself.

Or The “Stepping Stone” can just roll about space on controlled power, solar sails, rocket thrust( H-H-O) or particle accelerator ejection (exhaust). Harvesting and mining resources and raw materials for self replication, for purposes of extending out farther into the planets, the keiper belt and Milky Way at large..

But wait!!

In 5 years (with abundant harvesting resources) The first two stepping stones will self replicate two more stepping stones making a total of four which can easily put us on the route to an interplanetary bus route, so to speak, that reaches out to Jupiter possibly and beyond... All in 15 years or less.

The self replication of the “Stepping Stone” is exponential

Max speed to self replicate is 5 years so consider 7 years the average replication time

The first two “Stepping Stones” will replicate two more “Stepping Stones” in 7 years

All 4 “Stepping Stones” will self replicate In another seven years totaling 8 vessels. All eight vessels will self replicate in seven more years totaling 16 “Stepping Stone “vessels. And on and on…32…64..

In seven revolution of self replication you will have 128 vessel…

Eight self-replication revolutions

Yealds256 vessel…

Nine revolutions yield’s 512vessels and so on…

Quick math:

512 “Stepping Stones”= 9 revolutions of 7 years each

So

Revolutions 9

x Years 7

= 512ships = 63 years

This proses continues indefinitely

And Now you might grasp how the “Stepping Stone” project can and will build a network spanning the solar system in 50 years or less; and extend a network across the milky way galaxy in short order (perhaps 500 years or less).

In about 60 or 70 years (2099 – 2110) We have a whole fleet of “Stepping Stone “vessels. We’d be harvesting raw minerals, discover new methods of transportation, existence, survival and commerce…

THROUGH INTERPLANETARY COLONISATION AND INTERPLANETARY MARKET’S…

and all kinds of really cool stuff …

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But let me digress a little bit It's fun…

We have talked a lot about science and technology but now lets consider people for a bit…

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the fundamental nature of human curiosity to explore and discover for the sake of exploration and discovery.

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The silk road, the imperial Battle for the American colonies, the reach for the moon and beyond. All are driven by the same motivation within the human spirit both as the individual biological animal that we are and as we compile ourselves into the social entity of nations that we are also.

Insatiably self destructively curious.

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Book Recommendations:

Note: Google search

‘Pdf’+’7 habits of highly effective people’

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Google search

‘pdf '+’update’+’colinization of mars’+’elon musk’+’space x'

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Document title…

The details of Elon Musk and SpaceX plans to establish a

permanent settlement on Mars

“ “ “ Google search parameters for next chapter 4.

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[writingwithcolor]

Characters reconnecting with their ancestral cultures in an interplanetary setting

@pixiedustandpetrichor asked:

Hi! I am writing a novel with three main female characters in an interplanetary setting. They grow up as orphans in an Irish-coded country and as children are mostly exposed to solely that culture, but they leave after becoming adults. Character A is Tuareg-coded, B Mongolian-coded, and C is Germanic-coded. It isn’t central to the story, but I would like them to get in touch with/learn more about their ancestral cultures, especially in terms of religion. A does this by actually visiting the planet her parents came from, but B and C do not. What can I do to depict their relationships with said cultures and their journey to reconnect with them? Would it be realistic for each of them to have different mixed feelings about participating in these cultures and for them to retain some sense of belonging to the culture they grew up in as well? Thank you for your time.

Hello, asker! WWC doesn’t have Tuareg or Mongol mods at the moment, so we're not able to speak to the specifics of cultural and religious reconnection for these particular groups. Still, I want to take this opportunity to provide some general context and elements to consider when writing Tuareg-coded characters, or other characters from groups that have experienced colonization in the real world. My fellow mods will then share thoughts about cultural reconnection in general and with respect to Germanic heritage in particular.

Drawing inspiration from groups that have experienced colonization

As you’re probably aware, the Tuareg are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa. As with many indigenous groups, they have experienced colonization multiple times over the course of their history. Colonization often leads to the loss or erasure of certain aspects of culture as the colonized people are pressured to conform to the culture of the dominant group. In many cases, it’s near impossible to say what the ancestral culture of a colonized group was prior to colonization.

When coding a fictional culture based on a group that was colonized in the real world, it's important to ask questions about:

Which aspects of culture you're portraying

Where these aspects come from

Whether you're ready to tackle their implications for the world you're building

It’s not necessarily wrong to use elements of coding that draw from cultural aspects influenced by colonization. As I said, it can be very difficult, even impossible, to portray a “pure” culture as it would have been had colonization not occurred–because we simply can’t know what that alternate history would look like, and because so much has been lost or intentionally suppressed that the gaps in our knowledge are too wide to breach. But it’s important to be aware of where these cultural elements are coming from.

Where is your coding coming from and what are the implications?

For example, while the Tuareg today are majoritarily Muslim, this was not the case prior to the Arab conquest of North Africa. Some elements of Tuareg culture today, such as tea ceremonies, are derived from the influence of Arab and Muslim culture and likely did not exist prior to the 20th century. As you’re developing the culture of the Tuareg-coded group in your fictional setting, you have to decide whether to include these elements. There is no right answer–it will depend on what you’re trying to do and why.

Is your setting in our far future, in which case we can assume your Tuareg-coded group is distantly related to today’s Tuareg?

In that case, they will probably have kept many cultural aspects their ancestors acquired through their interactions with other cultures around them–including cultural groups that colonized them. They may–let’s build hopeful worlds!–have reclaimed aspects of their ancestral culture they’d been forced to abandon due to colonization. They may also have acquired new aspects of culture over time. This can be very fun to explore if you have the time and space to do so.

I would recommend speaking with Tuareg people to get a better grasp of how they see their culture evolving over the next however many centuries or millennia, what they wish to see and what seems realistic to them.

Alternatively, maybe your setting is a secondary world unrelated to ours and you only want to draw inspiration from the real-world Tuareg, not represent them exactly. In that case, you need to decide which period of history you’re drawing from, as Tuareg culture is different today from what it was 50 years ago, and different still from 200 years ago or 1000 years ago. You’ll need to research the historical period you’re choosing in order to figure out what was happening at that time and what the cultural influences were. If it’s pre-colonial, you’ll probably want to avoid including cultural elements influenced by colonization from groups that arrived later on.

Finally, if the time period you’re drawing from is post-colonial:

Are you planning to account for the effects of colonization on Tuareg culture?

Will you have an in-world equivalent for the colonization that occurred in real life?

For example, will the Tuareg-coded characters in your world be from a nomadic culture that was forced to become sedentary over the years and lost much of their traditions due to colonial pressure to conform?

Where did this pressure come from in your world–is it different from what happened in ours? If so, how different? And what are the consequences?

Writing about colonization can be quite the baggage to bring into a fictional setting. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it will certainly require sensitivity and care in portraying it.

In summary: think it through

I’m not saying all this to discourage you, but to point out some of the considerations at play when drawing inspiration from a real-life culture that has experienced colonization. Similar challenges arise for coding based on any other indigenous group in the world.

My advice to you, then, is to first sit down and decide where and when in history your coding is coming from, and what you’re trying to achieve with it. This will help you figure out:

which elements of contemporary Tuareg culture are pertinent to include

How much your coding will be influenced by the Tuareg’s real-life history

To what extent that will inform the rest of the world you’re creating

This, in turn, may help in deciding how to portray your character’s reconnection journey.

Again, I am not Tuareg and this is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list of considerations for writing Tuareg-coded characters, only a few places to start.

If any Tuareg or Amazigh readers would like to chime in with suggestions of their own, please do. As always, please make sure your comments adhere to the WWC code of conduct.

- Niki

Pulling from diaspora and TRA narratives of cultural reconnection

Marika here: This ask plotline could also pull directly from diaspora and TRA narratives of cultural reconnection. Many diaspora and TRA cultural reconnection stories are, in effect, about navigating the difficult process of resuscitating, or renewing ties to culture using limited resources in environments that often lack necessary cultural infrastructure or scaffolding.

See this question here to the Japanese team for suggestions of how to handle such a storyline in a similar sci-fi setting.

More reading: Japanese-coded girl from future

-Marika

Reconnecting with German heritage

Hi, it’s Shira. I’m not sure whether German-Jewish counts as Germanic for the purposes of your post but since German Jews were more assimilated than other Ashkies, Germanness does feel real and relevant to my life (especially because my father worked there for approximately the last decade of his life.) NOTE: when I see “Germanic” vs German I think of cultures from 1500 years ago, not 100-200 years ago, so I can’t help you there, but I’d be surprised as a reader if a character focused on that for reconnection to the exclusion of the 19th century etc.

People in the United States specifically, reconnecting with German heritage, often lean into Bayerischer/Bavarian kitsch, I’ve noticed. Personally, though, what I find most relevant is:

1. The food (although I’ve come to learn that what I grew up eating was closer to veal/chicken scallopini than actual schnitzel because it was drenched in lemon, but I do like the other foods like the potato salad and sweet and sour red cabbage etc.) Your character could try making one of these “ancestral” foods as a way to reconnect?

2. The classical music, because I’m a second generation professional musician – if character C plays an instrument, leaning into that might be meaningful (Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and her husband Robert, etc.)

3. The nature, especially specifics that I enjoyed during my time there – personally, I loved the bright pink flowers all over the chestnut trees, but there are a lot of choices especially because of the Alps. If C is an artist maybe they can sketch something Germany-related from old photographs they found on the Space Internet?

I think it is VERY realistic for the characters to remain connected to the culture in which they were raised, by the way, whether or not they have positive feelings about it. Culture isn’t an inherited trait. Sure, if they want to completely walk away, they can, but I bet there are still ways it will creep back in without them realizing it simply because it’s really hard to have universal knowledge of the origins of all our quirks. Plus, not everyone feels alienated from their raised-culture just because they’re genetically something else.

P.S. There is also Oktoberfest, which I don’t really get into but is a thing, and beer, which is another point of German cultural pride.

German gentiles, weigh in – y’all have your own stuff, I know! OH YEAH so for German Christians, Christmas “markets” are a whole thing. That’s worth looking up. 

–S

What do you mean by Germanic?

Hello it’s Sci! I had to study German history for my historical fantasy novel set in the late 18th century Holy Roman Empire. I am not sure what is meant by Germanic as that can encompass a variety of things.

Germanic people: from the Classical Period of Roman Empire and early Middle Ages. Similar to Mod Shira, I unfortunately can’t help very much here.

The Germanosphere: regions that spoke German, which includes modern day Germany, Austria/Hungary, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Belgium, and Luxembourg. I generally define this as the regions captured in the Hapsburg Empire along with Switzerland usually encompassing “Central Europe.”

Modern German national identity (i.e. German): post Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (> 1815) only including the territory of modern day Germany.*

I ask this because modern German national identity is surprisingly recent since Germany only popped up in 1871 under Otto von Bismarck. Previously, Germany was divided into smaller states and city states as a very decentralized region under the German Confederation and before that, the Holy Roman Empire. Depending on the era, you can see different conflicts and divides. During the early days of the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther, the northern and southern German territories generally split along Protestant-Catholic lines. The 18th century saw Austria and Prussia as the foci of global power who warred against each other even though both were part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Other states and city-states like Baden-Wurttemberg or Saxony sometimes had power but it was typically more localized compared to Austria. Post-WW2, you saw the split of Germany into West Germany run under capitalism and East Germany run under communism as a satellite Soviet state leading to more modern cultural divides. Due to heavy decentralization historically, each region had its own character with religious and cultural divides. 

Assuming that the Germanic character is not from the classical period or early Middle Ages but not from the 19th century either, you can include your character reconnecting to classical folklore like that of Krampus (if they’re Christian), German literature and music like the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Mozart, or German philosophy like Immanuel Kant.

*A major wrinkle: German royals and nobility married into other states and nations frequently with Britain and Russia being notable examples. In Britain, the House of Hanover took over after the Stuart House died without clear direct heirs. When Queen Victoria married the German prince Albert, they celebrated Christmas with a tree and brought the German tradition of a Christmas tree to Britain and the British Empire. Only during World War I did the royal family’s house of Hanover name change from House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the more “English-sounding” Windsor. As a result, the German cultural influence may be even more widespread than we think.

However, without more specific descriptors of what Germanic means in the context of your story, it can be difficult to determine which aspects of German culture your character could reconnect to.

-Mod Sci

[stellanix]

i have once again made the mistake of wading into public discourse about mars and i have lengthy opinions i must express about some of the common sentiments i see or else i will Explode:

mars is not radioactive (at least no more so than earth is). it does get more galactic cosmic radiation than earth because its thin atmosphere doesn't block them nearly as effectively - and there's more solar radiation too, but the atmosphere blocks those a lot better because solar particles are much lower energy than cosmic rays

the main radiation hazard of a human mission to mars is not actually on the surface of mars itself, but during the interplanetary flight between earth and mars. on mars, the bulk of the planet itself blocks half the sky, and by extension half the cosmic rays. the atmosphere and even local topography can also help a bit. the radiation dose rate on the surface of mars is similar to what astronauts on the ISS get, which humans have been exposed to for as long as a year without significant adverse affects so far. and you can get that lower by using the abundant dirt and rocks on mars to build radiation shielding

humans living on mars would not need to live in caves or underground bunkers. i think this idea became a bit of a trope after the concept of using lava tube caves on mars for human habitation entered the public consciousness, and in many people's minds it became the way humans would HAVE to live on mars. but there are plenty of other ideas for human habitation on mars that don't involve living underground, and it's perfectly feasible to build surface habitats that are protected from radiation but also have plenty of windows and natural light and views of the landscape. also, honestly, in my opinion the idea of living in martian caves is a bit silly and introduces more problems than it solves

mars having a magnetic field would make little difference in whether or not it could hold onto an atmosphere or support life. mars lost most of its atmosphere because it's small and so it's easier for gas particles to escape its gravity. nor is a magnetic field necessary to protect from radiation - lots of cosmic rays get through earth's magnetosphere but our atmosphere blocks the vast majority of them. and again, while mars lacks such a protective atmosphere, there are other feasible methods of radiation protection

mars has lower gravity than earth (0.38g, to be precise), but we don't know yet how it would affect the human body. we know plenty about the health effects of weightlessness thanks to the ISS, but next to nothing about the health effects of partial gravity. there could be a lot of negative health effects at 0.38g, or that level of gravity might eliminate most of the negative effects we see in weightlessness. we just don't know. but in any case, it's almost certainly not as bad as weightlessness, which humans have been able to manage for up to about a year. and martian gravity would probably be pretty fun tbh

and before anyone assumes i'm being nice to the techbro colonization crowd:

terraforming is not feasible, and even if it was, it would require destroying an entire planet's unique natural environment, which is ethically questionable to put it generously. why make earth 2 when we have a perfectly good earth right here? why not protect and preserve the things that make both earth and mars unique?

the problems involved in sending humans to mars probably aren't unsolveable, but they're still big challenges that won't be solved for a while. nobody is sending himans to mars in 2028 or whatever elon musk's latest hyperbolic estimate is. and tech billionaires won't solve these problems, they don't care. if they send people to mars, it will suck and those people will die. either NASA gets actually well-funded and throws a lot of money at these problems for decades, or nobody is going to mars

the best reason to send humans to mars is science. sending humans to mars to live there permanently and making that the goal and the immediate priority of mars exploration is getting WAY ahead of ourselves. maybe someday if we have scientific bases on mars and some people end up liking it there and wanna live there, then we can talk about it. but that won't be for a long time if at all, and people will have to WANT to live there. none of that "glorious future of mankind spreading the light of consciousness" bullshit. if people someday want to live on mars and can do it safely? why not! and if not, that's fine too

i see a lot of people (rightfully!) arguing against the tech billionaire hype of mars colonization, but i get frustrated when a lot of that criticism is along the lines of "mars sucks and is awful and if you wanna go there you're stupid because it's impossible". i don't think that just because there are a lot of bad ideas about space exploration that necessarily means that space exploration itself is a bad idea. there are better ways to so it than what those rich fucks propose. there is still a place for curiosity and wonder and human ingenuity and dreams, however improbable those dreams may be

unfortunately, because the government capacity for space exploration is being gutted and given away to private companies, the people with the power to launch things in space overwhelmingly have shitty ideas about what our future in space should be. but i don't think that should stop us from imagining something better. because reaching the wonders of the wider universe is difficult, but not impossible

anyway here's some pictures of pretty martian clouds (pictures taken from here):

[publicdomainreview]

.@irmorus1 follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894), a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/colonizing-the-cosmos

[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.

[gorgynei]

haywood wont be CRAZY sci fi, i think ill keep it relegated to the local solar system, but humans advanced enough to have colonized all the planets, travel relatively quickly and safely in space, etc. and i dont plan to get interplanetary at all, ill pick one celestial body and stay on it (for this story at least). rubbing my hands together devious style

[gaykarstaagforever]

Not sure I wanted to watch Odo do weird Changeling sex with that other Changeling lady. I know it was 90s CG goo but I still feel like they should have cut away.

Also that obelisk in the background when they're doing that is the same one they found on that planet the time Odo freaked out and because a goo monster, so I guess that implies that that planet was some Changeling attempt at interplanetary colonization that went bad thousands of years ago, before they quit and decided to become a Changeling goo sex-lake on their isolated rogue planet homeworld.

I mean at least we kind of get closure on that whole thing.

[whereserpentswalk]

Imagine living thousands of years after humanity has colonized space, but on a planet with 21st century technology levels. Imagine what that does to someone’s mind.

You know there are massive interplanetary empires out there. You know that there's are wonders beyond your comprehension, and people capable of accessing them. But because of the way recourses and information spread throughout the galaxy they'll never be yourse to access.

The only time super advanced technology comes to your planet is from the occasional visiting ship, only once every few years if that. They end up in the hands of the rich, or owned by powerful governments, or by universities and scientists. But none of these things will ever be yourse. At best you might see the body of an android or the power armor of some far off warrior in a meusum.

What that does to your mind. In a way you'll never be free. Never free to leave your planet. Never free to know about the universe. In history classes you hear about ancient civilizations so much larger and more advanced then your own, and as your civilization's knowledge of history goes forward in time it only shrinks in scale.

Imagine what that does to you. Knowing you could have just a bit more, but that you probably never will.

[wh0rganic]

Help me name my anti-capitalist space TTRPG!

I am in the process of developing a splat book of sorts for Cyberpunk Red and could use some help deciding on a name! Check out the game description and vote below.

[UNTITLED SPACE GAME] will explore the absurdist end-game of the billionaire space race to colonize Mars. Combining inspiration from genres such as cosmic horror, sci-fi, and capitalist dystopia, [UNTITLED SPACE GAME] is as much of a work of speculative fiction as it is a TTRPG. Players will find themselves as the newest recruits in the Interplanetary Resistance – an alliance of humans, aliens, and androids hell-bent on toppling the billionaire superpowers that have turned Mars into their own personal playground. This group of scientists, machine workers, and android liberationists will serve as your guides and allies as you acclimate to the Red Planet. While any good resistance movement has to get comfortable with bloodshed, players can also expect to navigate covert operations and diplomatic relations with the various people that call Mars home.

Please reblog after voting!!

One note: [UNTITLED SPACE GAME] is currently under development, with a test game planned for Summer 2024. This test game is closed to new players at this time.

[beelze-bruh]

The Escratu are a sophont species discovered on the planet Raath in the year 3864. These five eyed arthropod-like people are descended from carnivorous creatures whose mouthparts fused together into a more traditional vertically opening jaw structure that allowed for a stronger bite force. Their species was once very industrious for a time, building elaborate machinery and attempting to colonize their solar system, fueled by the work of robotics. This backfired horrendously when these robots were programmed with advanced computing, giving them intelligence with none of the empathetic abilities or moral codes instilled by the process of growing from a newborn to an adult, leading them to devise their own schemes for more efficient interplanetary colonization at the cost of Escrat lives. This led to a war between the Escratu and their own intelligent machines, one which came close to wiping out their species. The Escratu developed a highly powerful weapon that was able to create focused electro magnetic pulses, capable of disabling huge swathes of machines from an incredible distance with ease. This eventually won the war, but the Escratu civilization was a shadow of its former self. Rebuilding would take centuries with the countless lives and the amount of recorded knowledge lost in the conflict. Some Escratu took on this work, even continuing research into robotics, but the vast majority took to living simpler lives among the ruins of their world, many even embracing a more actively primitivist tribal lifestyle. By the time the Ecosystem arrived, this had become the norm to the point that the majority of Escratu initially had no interest in trading for the advanced technology that the Ecosystem had to offer, only eventually being swayed into joining the collective after agreements were made to provide Raath with the advanced medical resources at its disposal. The looming threat of another potentially catastrophic war was certainly an influential deciding factor as well. Escratu tend to take great pride in their surviving history and traditions, which some Ecosystem residents view as pretentious while others see it as inspirational. They are also well renowned for their art, such as film and painting, and their savory cuisine.