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Here's an interesting thought experiment.

Humans communicate mostly with their mouths and vocal cords right? So then why are your eyes flicking back and forth and why are my fingers touching things rapidly? How would such "language" look to someone illiterate from a different time?

And to this question. What do you mean by "non-human civilizations"? Are we talking ceteceans, corvids, other primates? (And are they really "civilizations" with no cities to speak of?) Perhaps "civilization" is the wrong word. That word really has too many arbitrary rules to be viable. I would defi...

Food is extremely interesting, especially since Svalbard opened its vaults and started its eternal growing season. Did you realize that potatoes grown on Mars have a completely different taste from those grown here? It isn't just the reconstituted martian dirt; even with terran soil they taste like ...

That's a good thing. If this is assumed to be a conworld then this timeline is more likely to heal from my intrusion into it. New ideas require the re-evaluation of the universal practicality of the old ones. Since it's been a century and a half, perhaps It would be better to translate the theory in...

The эпохаский have occasionally mentioned that there's an infinite fractal of deterministic casualties, creating a universe that is both 100% deterministic and 100% random. This makes everyone's heads hurt. For our purposes we're aware of a "neural" dimension that connects everything together with d...

Many of these questions come from incorrect assumptions of underlying geometry. What you think of as "distance" and "time" are illusions generated by two objects that have not yet propogated into convergence. Any causal link is in fact a gradient of potentialities known as "variance". When the varia...

I do apologize for my absence. The variance has been extraordinarily high lately. While attempting to anchor myself to the timeline I come from I discovered that I was essentially lied to about how important this part of time was. I will go into some more detail about how our timelines work sometime...

"Augmented reality" becomes mainstream from about 2020 to the 2040's. It starts out as a bunch of singleton programs made by human developers, but within about five years the technology progresses to where AR is a fluid interface that developers can add extensions to. By the 2040's sophisticated art...

There's enough even *normal* variation to prevent a prediction of lottery numbers. Were you to somehow travel back in time without affecting the timeline (this is theoretically possible) you would see the lottery numbers change every time. However, the number of winners (and sometimes *who* the winn...

"эпохаский" can be roughtly translated as "People of the epoch". It refers to our doubles who merged into a liquid singularity eight years ago. We keep lines of communication open to them, but they don't tell us much about their timeline because it changes too rapidly and sometimes rewrites itself. ...

10 by 2023. ...Oh Of course, there are also the prequels. And the cartoon. Watch your trends! If it's wartime by 2019, then it will be a Live-action TV show instead. (The cartoon is objectively better though) 2168 is the point in time when the rate of technological progress exceeded the rate of tech...

Helo fellow conworlders! My name is P. Rabbit Yenkov. You should call me "Miss Yenkov" or "Rabbit" until we're more familiar :) https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/12/ea/d7/12ead7aa067c1416705d251d2938d8cf.jpg I am a time traveler from the year 2176, or 8эп. I am here to ensure that our prese...