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Tue, 2011-08-02 06:54

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Next nature

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 for the flights on Venus. Entoforms: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/06/entoforms/ Sounds just like argonaut biodesign. Marketing to monkeys: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/06/monkey-see-monkey-buy/ The picture seems to suggest that the smoking baboon in Sunwards come from a long line of consumer primates. Maybe smart animals are a good target demographic? Tastes like chicken: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/05/raptor-in-a-wrapper/ Plenty of eating on them, and on thanksgiving there are games you can play with the talons. Who cares for tofuraptors? The blog is crammed with EP relevant images and ideas. In the post-Fall world the only kind of nature in the solar system is nextnature. To see "natural" nature you have to go to exoplanets, adding to their exotism.

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Tue, 2011-11-08 10:30

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Some more fun things: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/09/bulletproof-skin/ which goes great together with http://www.nextnature.net/2011/10/skin-gun-heals-burn-victims/ And this little idea could be extended in all sorts of ways for cloak-and-dagger stuff in EP: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/08/dead-drops/ A common farm animal: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/08/strawberry-cow/ although most people likely prefer invertebrate meat: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/08/want-ketchup-with-those-flies/ (I tried those grasshoppers in SF, and they were delicious)

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Tue, 2011-11-08 18:50

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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http://www.nextnature.net/2011/11/browsing-the-technological-sublime/ This animation/basilisk hack just screams to be used... somehow.

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Wed, 2011-11-09 15:26

The Doctor The Doctor's picture

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Arenamontanus wrote:
http://www.nextnature.net/2011/11/browsing-the-technological-sublime/ This animation/basilisk hack just screams to be used... somehow.

Thank you! I now have a visual aid to throw at my players in the next game!

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Wed, 2011-11-09 16:38

Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture

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Some more fun things: http://www.nextnature.net/2011/09/bulletproof-skin/

A bulletproof skin isn't such a great idea, a bullet would still crush your bones and cause internal bleeding with its force(probably also tear muscles and tendons). I don't how such skin would react to surgery, if it would be hard to cut as well than you would have a lot of problems on operating table. It's a nice invention, but very long way off from being practical one.

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Mon, 2012-03-26 17:07

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Another batch: Swallowable perfume - just swig it before going out for a night on town: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/03/lucy-mcray-swallowable-parfum/ An in the same vein, edible implants: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/edible-implants/ Maybe one could have little symbiotes living on you that provide helpful services and snacks. Meanwhile, jelly might be how you raise plants on Mars or some habitats: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/raise-crops-on-the-moon-with-plant-gro... (if nothing else, it might help make music: http://finedininglovers.com/blog/curious-bites/how-to-make-jelly/ ) Some portraits showing slightly adapted humans. Mostly subtle, and hence more unnerving than standard cyborgs: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/03/corpus-2-1/ http://www.marcianolte.com/index.php?/studio/corpus-21/ And this might be why we have not seen the ETI: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/any-sufficiently-advanced-civilization... They are there, we just call them stars, black holes and vacuum.

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Mon, 2012-03-26 19:46

Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture

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Arenamontanus wrote:
Another batch: Swallowable perfume - just swig it before going out for a night on town: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/03/lucy-mcray-swallowable-parfum/

I think it was posted before(the idea that is) here :) In some experiment by an artist. This has some nasty potential for RPG scenarios. You could swallow a chemical that gives off a scent repulsive to sharks, dogs, while your unaware companions don't know it. It might be used as marker for assassination-say somebody takes a perfume that invokes frenzied attacks in dogs or bees. .

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Meanwhile, jelly might be how you raise plants on Mars or some habitats: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/raise-crops-on-the-moon-with-plant-gro...

There are plenty of plants which would feel could on Mars soil(under protection that is)-unfortunately they include asparagus http://www.ehow.com/list_5914782_plants-like-alkaline-soils_.html

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And this might be why we have not seen the ETI: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/any-sufficiently-advanced-civilization... They are there, we just call them stars, black holes and vacuum.

Heh, always remember that inconclusive evidence of Dyson Spheres was detected ;)

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Tue, 2012-03-27 01:52

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Arenamontanus wrote:
And this might be why we have not seen the ETI: http://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/any-sufficiently-advanced-civilization... They are there, we just call them stars, black holes and vacuum.

I remember toying with this one in a proposition that I made before: our math currently stipulates that unless there is something else besides gravity holding galaxies together (like dark energy, or invisible mass), they shouldn't exist. Wouldn't it be insane if galaxies are in fact artificial constructs, and the reason our math says that they shouldn't naturally form is because they don't? More mind boggling: we find out that matter cannot naturally compress enough to form a black hole, meaning that something had to create the black holes that exist. What we know as nature today may in fact be advanced technology we don't know of yet....

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