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The Firebird replied to the thread So, life on Mars....Yeah, I find the interplay between determinism and chance super fascinating here. Another idea is the evolution of oxygenic... -
That is kinda what I wonder about. Just like we could maybe theoretically envision something like silicon-based instead of carbon-based...
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#1333 After all these years, I'm still fondue Rich's jokes.
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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A title explicitly called out as a rant by the OP, and IMO clearly designed to ruffle the feathers of those who prefer traditional... -
The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Never said they didn't. That has nothing to do with my ability to express myself regarding the practice however.
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The Firebird reacted to Mongoose_Matt's post in the thread The Pioneer RPG - Get Ready for Launch! with Like.
The Pioneer RPG is coming to Kickstarter at the very end of October! Get ready for launch...
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The Firebird reacted to Cergorach's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
No it isn't. Even in our real world we have people who believe the world is flat and most regular people wouldn't understand string...
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The Firebird reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did with Like.
Fritz Leiber worked this possibility to great effect in The Big Time and the related Changewar stories. Two basically incomprehensible...
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Right, but the important part is that if panspermia is found to be true here, we are stuck with having no idea how common it might be...
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The Firebird replied to the thread So, life on Mars....I mean that Earth and Mars had similar chemistries that caused life to be funneled down similar trajectories from different origins. Not...
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The Firebird replied to the thread So, life on Mars....The common cause idea is super interesting to me. We don't know very much about origin of life chemistry and based on what environment...
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The Firebird replied to the thread So, life on Mars....The original post said "same DNA". I read that to mean same base pairs, the same way "the same proteins as earth" means both "L-amino...
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The Firebird replied to the thread So, life on Mars....An interesting note: the existence of the nucleobases may not get you far because it is quite difficult to react nucleobases with ribose...
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The way our DNA makes base pairs is not particularly special. It would be astoundingly unlikely that two independently evolved forms of...
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The Firebird reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Tell Us About Your Pirate Campaign(s) with Like.
I ran Pirates of the Spanish Main which used the Savage Worlds rules and was based on the constructible collectible strategy game of the...