THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It does still look very good…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

I initially thought for a moment that Poodelicus had used Zero from a Nightmare before Christmas in the pfp.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

This dog seems to not have a skeleton though…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Yeah. It is has been a long time since I have seen The Nightmare Before Christmas.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I have never seen it to be honest…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

New promising parachutes made by utilizing the Japanese art of Kirigami (where paper can be cut as well as folded).

These parachutes unfurl thanks to the Japanese art of kirigami

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

We’ll see if this well develop further or stay where it is now… As seems to happen with many of such “revolutionary” techs.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

At least we get cool parachute art out of this.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I wonder if every civ would end up having such techs be similarly shaped, so for instance an alien gear still looks very much like a gear…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

I mean, the underlying physics principles are constant throughout the universe, so one would expect there to be more of a matter of differences of form over differences of function.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Do you think windmills and stuff would still look similar on alien worlds?

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Maybe. I wonder if a sapient spider species would make windmills out of webs?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Wouldn’t they just move with the air and not harness energy from it?

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Maybe they figure out to make better materials from their webbing for more efficient wind energy transfer? Or use a combination of materials, such as leaves, sticks, and webbing?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So like a beaver dam of windmills?

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Maybe even in very windy areas, sentient spiders can spin web parachutes, like in The Future is Wild?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

There are only so many shapes that would effectively catch wind, so, theoretically, there would be many similarities between early Civ machines on different planets. Same with gears. It will likely be the more complex machines and the aesthetics where they differentiate.

@AnthropocenianAge

Maybe . . . sentient spiders can spin web parachutes

Well, aware spiders already balloon, amongst other things.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

They could use having more control over the parachutes though…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Would this affect the invention of parachutes for sentient/sapient spiders?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Of course, though not sure if it would help with powered flight…