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Server skies

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Sat, 2013-06-22 08:00
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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Server skies
The old missing inventions thread introduced me to the concept of server skies. Here is a nice writeup: http://server-sky.com/ These things are essentially satnet-in-a-can grown up. Very useful, and very bad if infected by a TITAN.
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Sat, 2013-06-22 15:10
fafromnice fafromnice's picture
It will be a pain in the ass
It will be a pain in the ass getting out of habitat with that around it, no ? or you could only cover a portion of a planet like mars but you loose some communication capability I lost something right ?
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What do you mean a butterfly cause this ? How a butterfly can cause an enviromental system overload on the other side of a 10 000 egos habitat ?

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Sat, 2013-06-22 16:21
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
fafromnice wrote:It will be a
fafromnice wrote:
It will be a pain in the ass getting out of habitat with that around it, no ?
If you plan ahead scheduled ships could pass through; the servers just speed up or slow slightly to leave a temporary hole. But it would be slightly inconvenient, yes.
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Sat, 2013-06-22 18:35
fafromnice fafromnice's picture
could this be use in a
could this be use in a reduced scale, let say a morph with nano robots? and on a planet scale communication will be low, no ? In the gatecrashing book
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one of the planet is a, or will be, giant computer. And the game need a new material to work this thing : Computonium does de sky server will have the same restriction ? and if not the planet in gatecrashing will have a nice upgrade
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What do you mean a butterfly cause this ? How a butterfly can cause an enviromental system overload on the other side of a 10 000 egos habitat ?

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