Still More Inspiration and Meta Sites, Because They're Out There

[Warringer]

Open Source Ecology/Global Village Construction Kit

http://opensourceecology.org/index.php

Must have for any extrasolar colony. :p

[Foxboy]

Extrasolar? Hell, it's a good bet these bad boys are all over the Jovians, Asteroids, etc.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Logan Darklighter]

Hey guys - I am now starting to ramp up a bit for Mass Effect 3. Some of you might be thinking I'm a little LATE on this. But I effectively stopped playing and replaying Mass Effect for 3-4 months. I think part of it was just that there was not going to be any more Story DLC releases for ME2. But part of it was that I didn't want to replay the games to the point of "burn out" on them. And I wanted to distance myself from some of the early rumor mill on ME 3. I'll still likely indulge in some spoilers to the story before the game is released, but I wanted to minimize it. At any rate - I'm starting to get a bit back into reading fanfic and perusing the LJ forums for Mass Effect. I'm wanting to be sure I didn't MISS anything important while I was "gone".
Okay - as Bill Cosby said, "I told you that story to tell you this one."
I was over at the Mass Effect LJ and going through post comments when someone threw these links out.
A writer for the first Mass Effect game (and parts of the 2nd) who no longer works at Bioware, has started putting out some "unofficial dev blog" essays on the creative process and how parts of the Mass Effect universe back story got decided upon.
The reason I'm re-posting the links here is that I think some of the process and theory is something that at least some of you might find relevant to building the Fenspace world. At the very least, I know some of you are fans of Mass Effect like I am. ^_^ (And surely there's a tiny faction of Mass Effect fanboys in fenspace as well?)
Writer [Chris L'Etoile] wrote Ashley/Thane/good deal of Legion/parts of EDI dialogue according to his wikia profile.
Related:

• Unofficial Mass Effect Dev Diaries
  
• Part I: The Future Ain't What it Used to Be
  
• Part II: Mere Anarchy Loosed Upon the Stars

Hope this helps! (Or at least is entertaining.)

[HRogge]

Thank you for this links... will read them all... SOON.

[HRogge]

http://plus.google.com/photos/10511882 ... 4677754881

I hope the link works, the picture should be visible for everyone.

[Bob Schroeck]

How To Build A Computer Model of God
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Warringer]

Weber Foam!

[robkelk]

Russian Mars probe heads into space WITHOUT ENGINES
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[HRogge]

Youngest engineers of Catgirl Industries at work:

[robkelk]

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/24 ... print.html]What should a sci-fi spaceship REALLY look like?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Warringer]

I wonder if Rheinmetall exports into Fenspace...

http://www.rheinmetall-de...ndex.php?lang=3&fid=5651

[HRogge]

http://post-humannovel.com/David_Simpson/Home.html

An interesting novel about the singularity... and available as a free ebook!

[Warringer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7LyFtOj1k0

[robkelk]

Would it be wrong if I was to put this on the Turnerites' FenWiki page?

http://xkcd.com/984/
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[LynnInDenver]

Sometimes, you need to spray Handwavium onto something, and commercial applicators are either too expensive to get out of the well for a one-shot, or are unavailable in the timeframe you need them.

On the other hand, with the (im)proper application of Handwavium, this would likely make a nice way to recycle drink bottles into something else.

http://www.instructables....IY-spray-paint/?ALLSTEPS
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

[Warringer]

Japanese touchable holograms

[Bob Schroeck]

Japanese touchable holograms

Adult entertainment implementations in 3... 2... 1....
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

That's not just a display. That's a real coin. 100 kilos of pure gold, valued at one million canadian dollars.

Legal Tender.

Linkity

It looks like the Mint has realized that a $1,000,000 coin is just too big for general circulation.

Get ten $100,000 coins instead...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[firvulag]

There's some new info on Vesta which might be of interest:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/07 ... dawn_nasa/

And possibly some interesting problems for the Moon and the Mars Terra-forming Project:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/07 ... last_moon/

[Dartz]

Some interesting pictures of Buran/Ptichka

Ptichka Exterior, Aug 2011
Onboard Ptichka, 2009 and 2011

And a nice one of some kid in Buran's cockpit



Actually, that may be OK-GLI
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[Warringer]

Vesta a Dwarf Planet?

[Dartz]

A few final pictures of Atlantis' interior before she's stripped
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[robkelk]

One for the Roughriders:

http://www.collectedcurio.../sequentialart.php?s=739
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Black Aeronaut]

LMAO!!!

And it would work, too. Just replace the three with Ben, Gina and Mayonaka, and then all the Denizens with Jesses. Including the one sitting on top of the 'Bauble Bazooka' - that one will be wearing a mischievous smile.

[HRogge]

Sequential Art is one of the "perfect Fenspace Mad" comics around...