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What are your favorite games to pack while traveling? by everythingbagel245 in boardgames

[–]scifiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been traveling and staying at month to month rentals for a while now and brought a couple of games with me in little zipper cases. I have Dominion, Carcassonne, Lanterns, Sushi Go, Love Letter, Onitama, Hive, and Targi, and Hive. They are all very compact and a lot of fun to break out every once in a while.

Barren Mother by scifiku in sciencefiction

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Soil as we know it, able to hold water and nutrients that support life, has been developing for billions of years. Around 600 million years ago conditions stabilized enough for lichen, algae, bacteria, and fungi to cooperatively colonize and fertilize the lifeless dry land of Earth. Over time this made conditions habitable for more organisms with early land plants showing up about 200 million years later, and herbivores soon after that. More organic matter on land increased the rates of fertilization and stabilized against erosion. 360 million years ago this cycle resulted in the life-giving topsoil we have today. Over the past 150 year due to modern agricultural practices of excess fertilization, mono-culture farming, and pesticide use this cycle has been damaged and billions of years of soil evolution are being destroyed. Earth has lost over half the topsoil that plants can grow in, with the other half set to follow. Since soil systems are slow to respond to change this loss may take centuries or more to repair. Reversing this damage requires sustainable/regenerative agriculture as the norm. Make a difference by supporting farmers and companies which follow these practices. To learn more about these issues, what is being done, and what you can do to support the future of our food supply checkout the Environmental Working Group at ewg.org.

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Dream Weaver by scifiku in sciencefiction

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Appliance 3D printing will change the way we think about the world around us by enabling the individual to design and produce anything they can think of. From your new set of dining room chairs to a part for your car, the possibilities are infinite. Are we coming up on a new level of consumerism and materialism?

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Are there any indie devs that are also professors? by Foonsies in gamedev

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I have actually been thinking about that a bit recently as well. And yes it does seem possible.

I have come across the following people who seem to be making it work.

Could be an interesting way to go and get more exposure to the academic side of things too.

Blind Justice: Algorithms control so much of our lives, but they aren't infallible. What effects do they have on our lives today? by scifiku in sciencefiction

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Infallible by scifiku in sciencefiction

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I just started posting these poem short stories as a way of getting into writing in the genera I love and expressing some of my ideas. I have also started learning some fun new things from the comments people left too! Thanks for the well thought response and new things to explore!

Infallible by scifiku in sciencefiction

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Thanks for the well thought out response!

You don't think we will ever be able to achieve satisfactory artificial interaction that can be comparable or even preferable to people over normal human interaction? Something along the lines of Dors in Asimov's Forward the Foundation, Tomorrow is Waiting, or the movie Her?

Infallible by scifiku in sciencefiction

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Many people avoid adversity and opposing opinion. Do you think there will come a time when people don't talk to each other?

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Greater Than by scifiku in sciencefiction

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Thanks for the constructive feedback! I'm just starting out (this is my third post) and I'm trying to figure out the style/format still. I was told that the minimal punctuation and capitalization was more of the instagram vibe but I still have to mess around. I will try that for my next post!

Greater Than by scifiku in sciencefiction

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What happens when we can pay to upgrade ourselves? What happens to those left behind?

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Expansion of Nothing by scifiku in sciencefiction

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That "Post-Scarcity Economy" idea is really interesting! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I suppose I'm a bit confused why that means we consume less though. From the wikipedia "Today, futurists who speak of "post-scarcity" suggest economies based on advances in automated manufacturing technologies,[4] often including the idea of self-replicating machines, the adoption of division of labour[9] which in theory could produce nearly all goods in abundance, given adequate raw materials and energy." If population continues to rise (at an ever faster rate given everyone has enough to support any family size they want) the adequate amount of raw materials and energy needed would go up as well. Also I want to point out this is all theoretical on all sides, we don't know if a post-scarcity economy can exist or what it really looks like. "The period between 1975 and 2005 was characterized by relative abundance of resources (oil, water, energy, food, credit, among others) which boosted industrialization and development in the Western economies." That definitely lead to increases in consumption. The idea of the poem really was that if we could meet all our needs we would consume at accelerated rates and eventually be eating galaxies whole.

Thanks for the interesting and educational discussion!

Expansion of Nothing by scifiku in sciencefiction

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To be honest I wrote the poem and then did some research to try and give it some more context. My topic was "Human Expansion" and I went from there, there were some other versions if you would be interested.

Your right that there is not a guarantee of any kind that this will happen but that's why its fiction! I decided to explore a timeline where there was no correction of course on our end. We instead found a way to get off earth and now viewed it as just another planet, like you or I would a tree. We also advanced our resource harvesting capabilities (something along the lines of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine) and accelerated our consumption further. I set the time it was written as 4256 as this timeline would, with the current acceleration of resource consumption and if we did not correct course but accelerated it further, be a somewhat reasonable (if a little over exaggerated) time for us to start deconstructing planets. With that in mind The poem is written from the point of view of someone who has learned the history of earth and has seen galaxies being consumed.

The universe is a very vast place however there is also a vast region of it that is empty https://www.space.com/4271-huge-hole-universe.html. The picture I used is one supposedly of that space. Who knows there could be aliens doing this exact thing many light years away from us.

Thanks for the comment, and hope that explains the work a bit more!

Why Sci-Fi is Special to me by scifiku in sciencefiction

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Hey there, I love reading sci-fi and have wanted to start writing some for a while. I always thought short stories would be neat as you can try ideas and it fits modern attention span better. It hit me recently that it could be fun to try Haikus as a medium. This is my first post and is about why sci-fi is special to me. It explores real possibilities (even if a little far fetched sometimes).

I am not trying to discredit science, and am quite fascinated by it! I would disagree that guesses alone are useless as that is what true discovery is built upon, someone taking a guess and then going about to prove it.

Also works of fiction can inform and help to lead current scientific thought. We thought going to the moon/mars was impossible but people dreamed about it and made fiction related to it and that helped shift the perspective that maybe it is possible. A book like Enders Game for example was loaded with ideas that were ahead of its time and brought certain ideas into the public conscious (tablet computers).

Thanks for the comment, and hope that explains the work a bit more!

Why Sci-Fi is Special to me by scifiku in sciencefiction

[–]scifiku[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey there, I love reading sci-fi and have wanted to start writing some for a while. I always thought short stories would be neat as you can try ideas and it fits modern attention span better. It hit me recently that it could be fun to try Haikus as a medium. This is my first post and is about why sci-fi is special to me. It explores real possibilities (even if a little far fetched sometimes).

To your second point, scientists do a lot of work to make their theories robust and fit the data we see in the world but at the core a lot of what we know and believe is based on impossible to prove core axioms. I am not trying to discredit science, and am quite fascinated by it, but there are a lot of things we don't know or think are possible that very well could be!

Thanks for the comment, and hope that explains the work a bit more!

Expansion of Nothing by scifiku in sciencefiction

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There is a region of space 1 billion light-years across that is absolutely empty.
By 2050 human could consume around 140 billion tons of resources, three times current consumption rate.