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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 21:54:18 GMT
>Andrew Continents, -always slow-churning, not safe to stay still on, danger of burial, -sometimes collision of pieces of floor, shakes ocean, shakes continents, causes large waves, very unsafe. Also endangers water-side people. Collision shakes ocean, continents - earthquake?
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 22:07:20 GMT
Yes, that's an earthquake. Sometimes ours collide with each other too, but it’s the same general principle
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 22:15:53 GMT
"Sometimes ours collide with each other too" ours = our _ ? _ = continents, oceans, ocean/continent floor-pieces, other?
Or if not, and _=floor pieces, same thing as ours. Then, why "but", why "general principle" rather than same thing?
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 22:25:26 GMT
We have continental plates and oceanic plates. All three types of collision (continent-continent, continent-ocean, and ocean-ocean) are possible; when a continent is involved it can cause problems for people on that continent, and when an ocean is involved it can cause massive waves. I don’t know if you have all these types of collisions or not because you only mentioned continent-ocean collisions, which is why I didn’t say they worked exactly the same way.
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 22:32:47 GMT
Oh! I'm sorry, accidentally misled, caused confusion. Floor-piece = plate, yes? I will change future words for clarity. A continent, is on top of an ocean floor, not separate plate. All continents, within boundaries of ocean plate, none divided between two. So if two plates collide, -both "ocean plates" because no separate "continent plates", -for example, one has continent on top, one doesn't, causes continent to shake, probably problems for hypothetical continent-side people, and massive waves, definitely problems for non-hypothetical water-side people.
Probably works the same way?
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 23:23:30 GMT
And at this point we are reaching about my knowledge of geology. I’ll answer as best I can, though.
Here, continents can span multiple plates, and I’m pretty sure there’s nothing particularly floor-like about one part of a continent’s plate as compared to another. I don’t know if a single plate can have both continent and ocean, but I don’t know why it couldn’t. I think the collisions work the same way.
I expect the differences I mention here are related to the other differences between your continents and mine (which work like Leaf’s).
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Post by Test Bed on May 16, 2015 23:42:29 GMT
Eeep. Yeah, let's go with eep. I was under the impression you all were from other places that could, in theory, be reached by going in a direction. Take an airship north for a million years and I could imagine running into something like Botanical's planets, but no, we all actually are from different cosmologies.
But stars, why do you call your big balls of solfire stars - is it because you don't have anything like stars - if you don't have a Celestial Sea...
...okay, I'll just... explain my world's cosmology. Yep.
All of existence (or so we thought) lays between the Celestial Sea and the Infinite Shell. Land sits on the Shell, occasionally raising plateaus high enough to be habitable (the air gets thicker the further down you go), which we call continents if they're big, or islands if they're small. In the layer of air between, round balls of landstuff exist, but they don't move. They do have their own local gravity; if I stood on the dorsal pole of Meridian, I'd weigh the same as when I stood on the ventral pole. The Echelon of Light is what we call the path of the solfire, which is an infinitely long strand of heat and light that rolls along the surface of the Celestial Sea from south to north. New strands come with perfect regularity, and that's what gives us our days.
The Celestial Sea is full of stars, at least, it is over populated regions. If you're lucky enough to die with your brain intact, you start to glow soon after your heart stops. If you're not revived soon enough, a pillar of light blasts into the sky and then there is a new star. Someone could fly up there, if they had the means and they wanted to. It happens sometimes. Things apparently get really weird once you actually go above the Echelon of Light. You can fly towards a star, getting closer and closer until you seem to shrink, never reaching it, unless you want to sacrifice yourself badly enough, then you can reach a star, and touch it, and when you do, you die, and the star wakes up in your body.
So apparently most everybody else lives on giant globelands that aren't fixed to anything at all, in unbounded voids filled with suns which aren't fixed to anything at all. And no stars. That is so weird to imagine.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 16, 2015 23:48:05 GMT
Do stars have thoughts and feelings while they are stars? Can they talk to each other? Can they observe people they knew? They sound a little bit like spirits, if they can. EDIT: Except you can't give a spirit your body.
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Post by Kit on May 17, 2015 3:45:15 GMT
Lantern, but if the cities are in the sky don't people ever fall off? There should be big walls around them.
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Post by Lantern on May 17, 2015 3:53:38 GMT
>Kit, there are! Sky cities mostly safe, walls around edges, -keep out wind, -protect from falling, -stop high-speed birds from hurting people, holes in specific warned areas for trade, gliding, travel, others. Your concern for people, good ideas, friendly!
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Post by Kit on May 17, 2015 4:06:27 GMT
That's good, falling is scary. It sounds like a nice place then even if it doesn't have any caves.
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Post by Lantern on May 17, 2015 4:13:02 GMT
Falling, scary uncontrolled, can be fun-scary with proper equipment, safety. If you can visit, I would welcome, show things, get good food, do fun stuff? If you would like to.
Maybe caves underwater, but not safe for not-expert at underwater.
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Post by Kit on May 17, 2015 4:23:46 GMT
Visiting sounds fun and i wish i could but i don't think i can get anywhere that's not in my world.
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Post by Lantern on May 17, 2015 4:34:09 GMT
Invitation remains open. Andrew said sometime other universes by bar like forum, person: opens door, -goes to bar, can sometimes get door out to other universe instead of their own. I don't know if the door ever appears again, unsafe if not. If you want to leave Nest forever, whyever, Glazed is a good place, fairly, to go to.
Other places maybe better, <- in a future with better technology, or magic, or other things, all helping people better.
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Post by Test Bed on May 17, 2015 6:38:23 GMT
Do stars have thoughts and feelings while they are stars? Can they talk to each other? Can they observe people they knew? They sound a little bit like spirits, if they can. EDIT: Except you can't give a spirit your body. No, that's bizarre, no, stars are like a really thorough picture of your soul. We call them the "dreamless dead". Which is kind of redundant now that I think about it. (I should add, for people who die in a way that destroys their soul before the Celestial Sea can record it, we say "obliterated" not "dead".)
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