User:Wormulon/Stuff

This page is well, for things which don't fit elsewhere. Trivia about me, this wiki, music that goes with my fiction, favourite quotes and more. Arguably they could be on my main userpage, but I don't want it too large.

Wiki me
I've been editing under a user account since 2008. A long time now. I remember SporeWiki's golden age and want it back. I've risen to admin through pillaging and conquering like my ancestors.

Seriously though, something I like to maintain on this wiki is "democracy" and "collaboration". I do not like to see social problems rise, and I prefer to be neutral point of view is such moments, even though I haven't always been.

I used to be very active in important editing, but I've let this slant to fiction and IRC mostly.

Other wiki's I visit and edit: Infinity: The Quest for Earth (founder), Maxis Wiki (cofounder), James Cameron's Avatar Wiki (editor, though I find it hard to edit anything there), Spore Fanfic Wiki (regular), Star Wars Wiki (visitor), Memory Alpha (visitor), Stargate Wiki (visitor), Uncyclopedia (visitor), Gaming Wiki (contributed to Spore and Infinity) and Wikipedia (editor). Furthermore, I've helped out countless wiki's.

Favourite quotes
"The universe is but the dream of the god, who after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep, and the universe dissolves with him, until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself, and begins again to dream, the great cosmic lotus dream. Meanwhile, elsewhere, there are an infinite number of other universes, each with its own god, dreaming the cosmic dream."

- --Carl Sagan

"These great ideas, are tempered by another, perhaps still greater. It is said, that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather, that the gods, are the dreams of men."

- --Carl Sagan

"Our thoughts, our visions and our fantasies have a tangible, physical reality."

- Carl Sagan

"What we see of the real world, is perhaps not the unvarnished real world, but a model of the real world, regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed, so its useful for dealing with the real world, the nature of the model in our head, depends on the kind of animal we are."

- --Richard Dawkins on perception.

"You only find human beings, on a planet of this kind, with an atmosphere of this kind with temperature of this kind, supplied by a conveniant neighboring star. Just as a flower is flowering in the field, I feel myself as a person peopling the whole...Universe. I see, like everything ese, to be a sort of vortex, at which the whole energy of the universe, realizes itself, comes alive, a sort of apecture, for which the whole universe is conscious of itself.  Each one of us, not only human beings but every leaf, every weed, exists in a way it does only because everything else around it does."

- --Alan Watts

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

- --Arthur C. Clarke

"A Dreeeaaam to some... A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!"

- -- Merlin, from Excalibur.

"The old world will burn in the fires of industry, the forests will fall, a new order will arise. We will drive the machine of war with the soul, and the spear and the iron fist of the Orc!"

- --Saruman, Lord of the Rings

"They will have time enough, in all those endless aeons, to attempt all things and gather all knowledge... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow from creation; for we knew the universe when it was young."

- --Arthur C. Clarke, on how great civilisations may become near the end of the age of stars.

"I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers."

- Stephen Hawking when asked about his IQ.

"The Human minefield is no less complex than the Animal one, only far less straightforward."

- Vulturewing, whilewhile in deep discussion on IRC

"A boss is like a nappy. Its always on your ass and its usually full of shit!"

- Lucario of the Gods

Favourite interests
Yes, I like science, but do not think I am good or familiar at every form of it, like biology (unless its fitness or the mind). I don't claim to be outright genius on my subjects, what a pompous prat I would be if I claimed to be. The fact of the matter is that I woudn't make a good scientist at all! I have almost zero maths capability, and my practical logic has gone out the window a long time ago, probably because I edit this place too much. I have plenty of non-scientific interests. I admit I am probably a bit of a geek, but not of the nerdy sort as I also like the outdoors and do countryside management which is mostly physical work.
 * Science
 * 1) Planetary Geology
 * Lithospheric geology - Mineralogy, crystallography
 * Meteorology
 * 2) Theoretical physics - Special/General Relaltivity, Quantum Mechanics, String/M-Theory, Holographic Principle
 * 3) Astrophysics - Stellar evolution, Cosmology, Astrobiology
 * 4) Natural history of life on Earth - Particularly Abiogenesis, Cryogenic Eon, the Cambrian explosion, the rise of Mammals, evolution of Carnivora and Creodonts, and most of all, the evolution of Homo sapiens.
 * Philosophy
 * The Mind, perception and consensus realities
 * Dualism and Subjective Idealism - "Some idealists, subjective idealists hold the view that there isn't one particular way things are, but rather that each person's personal reality is unique. Such idealists have the world view which says that we each create our own reality, and while most people may be in general agreement (consensus) about what reality is like, they might live in a different (or nonconsensus) reality." Wikipedia - It just seems obvious to me. We are not a hive mind, our brains must learn to sense the external world and thus all we see are ideas we developed.
 * Free will - I think we have free will, I don't believe in fate, yet I think we also live in very limited perception, body and mind. This could be expanded however.
 * Tibetan buddhism, Tao and Hindu philosophies on the mind and transcendance.
 * The universe
 * Many-worlds interpretation - The universe is decohered because we can only observe one branch of wavefunction in each "moment".
 * Mathematical universe/monism - I think we are mathematical systems, that "physical reality" is perception.
 * Mysticsm, esoteric and paranormal phenomena
 * Paranormal experiences (ghosts, time warps, orbs, poltergiests) - As I said, I'm open minded. I don't think Ghosts are the living dead, Like I said, I think peoples experiences can very well be real to them.  But what is "real", if we ultimatly live in our a worlds constructed of our own ideals?  Otherwise, I think paranormal phenomena can have scientific explanations, but its no good if no one bothers to investigate, thats no fun, and often, science paints a picture of an equally stranger world that any tales of legend and myth.  So yes, in many cases, I think the experiences do happen, but what I often doubt is the supernatural explanations for them.
 * Energy and magic - I believe in magic, but its a broad term that can be expressed through chemistry, technology, illusionism and even the very power of our minds. Since I think we live in bubble, expandable realities, I very much believe perception is the real power behind chi, prana and kundalini.  We are complex dynamical systems of energy, no not supernatural energy, very real, physical energy that has become self-aware consciousness.  I think we live outside our skin, as open systems we very much affect and are affected by the world around us.  We, and the entire biosphere is one great system.  There is also small scientific evidence of chi.  The Worlds Health Organisation classified the meridians, that must mean something.  Where the four-petaled Root chakra is supposed to be, there is the ganglion of nerves.
 * Meditation, expanding mind, occult powers, transcension, astral projection etc. - We can only observe the world through the filters of our minds, thus, if you can change the way the world can be percieved, I think we can greatly expand our abilities. This is where I think the super-human abilities of martial artists, and the "occult" powers of mystics come from.  I am actually very interested in researching as much accounts and footage of magic.
 * Ancient Aliens and lost civilisations - Whether or not Aliens did visit Earth is something I've not made my mind up upon, but, I often consider the fact that time and time again, we are finding evidence of long-vanished and possibly advanced civilisations.
 * UFO's - I really want to believe if the UFO hypothesis, and indeed a small percentage of reports are unexplainable and/or show more credible evidence than sceptics would admit. I think Alien civilisations could have the ability to come here.  But what puts me off the whole thing is that all that is unlikely why they might even talk to us.  What if they mistake cities as superorganisms, or abduct gut bacteria from Obama?  There could well be aliens with technology and wisdom beyond our wildest dreams, but I think they might be so alien space opera is unlikely, but who am I to say?
 * Cryptozoology - I believe in certain cryptids (less mundane ones I'm not so sure about). There are still very wild places on the Earth, sometimes evidence props up here and there.  I think the study of cryptids is important, they say we wipe out several species a day without even knowing so.  Cryptics do sometimes turn out to be real.  Finally, I've seen a Lynx in Wales (and had to talk to a member of the Police about it), a country where they should not exist, and there are still dumbass sceptics who think there are no Big Cats wondering the British Isles...
 * Other interests and activities
 * Quad biking - It was both scary and fun when I had to learn how to drive offroad.
 * Nature and the outdoors - I study countryside management, I go camping and mountain hiking, and I like studying habitats of the British Isles.
 * Indiginious peoples, primitive skills and survivalism - I always bring a survival kit when I go off to wild places, I like the programs by Ray Mears and Bear Grylls. I also like the different lifestyles and cultures adopted around the world.
 * Mineral collecting.
 * Geochaching.
 * Legends and folklore - Celtic, Norse, Hindu in particular.
 * Martial Arts and fitness.
 * Offroad cycling and bike races.
 * Star gazing and weather watching.
 * Abstract art.
 * Lego!
 * Photography.
 * Wiki's, collaborative fiction and image making.
 * Tree tapping for syrup.

Awesome people
Either their intertellect, will and mind power, dare devils, and interesting people.
 * Alain Robert - The "Human Spider", yet he has vertigo.
 * Albert Einstein
 * Arthur C. Clarke - Great visionary.
 * Alan Watts - Interesting British philosopher who found connections between modern science and eastern philosophy.
 * Bear Grylls - He was told he would never walk again after a parachute fail, but then he climbed Mount Everest and has a cool survival show, but if you ask me he does show off sometimes.
 * Bernhard Riemann - A mathematical genius.
 * Brian Cox
 * Brian Greene
 * Carl Sagan - Great populariser of science.
 * Colin Dawes - A paleontologist I know.
 * Dinomo Jack - Whether you choose to believe him or not is up to you.
 * Edward Leedskalnin - The man who built Coral Castle, from what he claimed were ancient techniques. He apparently used mysterious devices to move rock like balloons filled with hydrogen, although nearly always when people investigated him they found he had no advanced tools at all.  He made it for his fiancée Agnes Scuffs who left him before their wedding.
 * Gopi Krishna
 * Iceman (Wim Hof)
 * James Maxwell - Discovered the union of electrity and magnetism.
 * John Selby - Great Kundalini book.
 * John Wheeler
 * John Hutchinson - Underated inventor.
 * J.H.Brennan - Awesome books on mystiscm and magic.
 * Lawrence Blair - Explorer, adventurer, psycho-anthropologist, actor, director, uncovers myths and magic.
 * Michio Kaku
 * Nikola Tesla - So ahead of his time! Wireless electricity, lightning guns and so much more.
 * Patrick Moore - Has an atronomy show 50 years in the running. Met many great scientists.
 * Ray Mears - Another survival expert.
 * Rob Byranton
 * Roger Penrose - Very interesting theories.
 * Richard Dawkins
 * Srinivasa Ramanujan - Another giant of mathematics, who without formal training made talented contributions. He recieved some of his equations through visions of the goddess of Namagiri.
 * Stephen Hawking - Not just he theories, but his incredible superhuman will-power to live.
 * Stephen Baxter - My current favourite author.
 * Will Wright - He has some interesting ideas on stuff.

Favourite movies and TV series

 * Sci-fi - Hard
 * Bicentinnial Man
 * Equilibrium
 * Sunshine
 * Solaris
 * Moon
 * Primer
 * Kpax
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The year we made contact
 * Sci-fi - Soft
 * District 9
 * Avatar
 * Monsters
 * Ghosts of Mars
 * Westworld
 * All the Star Wars movies and spinoffs!
 * Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9. Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Final Frontier, Star TreK: First Contact, Star Trek: 2009
 * Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick
 * Stargate SG1, Doctor Who Series 3 to 6, Babylon 5
 * Starship Troopers I, II, III
 * Mad Max Trilogy
 * Children of Men
 * Dreamcatcher
 * The Abyss
 * Fantasy/surreal
 * Avatar Airbender
 * Donnie Darko!
 * A Serious Man
 * The Lovely Bones
 * Lord of the Rings Trilogy
 * Excalibur
 * 300
 * Gladiator
 * Water World
 * Kung Fu Hustle
 * Boewulf
 * Psycho thriller (or monster)
 * The Last Excorcist
 * Predator
 * Jeepers Creepers
 * The Host
 * Zombie
 * Braindead
 * Black Sheep
 * Shaun of the Dead
 * Day of the Dead
 * Cowboy Western
 * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 * Other
 * Little Miss Sunshine
 * Samurai Jack
 * White Fang
 * Balto
 * Eight Below
 * Iron Will
 * Borat, Bruno or Ali G
 * Kill Bill
 * Lion King
 * Good morning Vietnam
 * The Deer Hunter
 * Animal Farm
 * Vault of Horrors

Favourite books/audiobooks

 * Sci-fi - Hard
 * Xeelee Sequence
 * Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
 * Sci-fi - Soft
 * Star Wars Coruscant Nights series
 * Fantasy
 * Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
 * Power of the Five (or Gatekeepers)
 * Inheritance trilogy
 * Series of Unfortunate Events
 * White Fang
 * Secret Intelligence
 * Alex Rider
 * Other
 * Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were
 * Dragonology

Weird and wonderful things
All of these phenomena range from explained but rare to completely unexplained. I'll try to add things that really have happened or exist, but what they are is up to you.
 * Natural world
 * Eternal Flame Falls
 * Valley of Death, Siberia
 * Cloud tsunami - Occurs once or twice a year.
 * Life on Earth
 * Flowers growing on steel - Could be Lacewing eggs.
 * Chimp religion - Chimps have been shown to move to certain waterfalls and do rituals such as a raindance. Are they practising spirituality?  I think they might, since it is arrogant to believe we are the only self-aware creatures.  If this is true, it might change our philosophies.
 * Hundredth monkey effect - Signs of a collective unconcious between species?
 * Man-made/accidental
 * Door to Hell
 * Centennial Light - A lightbulb thats stayed working for 110 years.
 * Strange places
 * Valley of Death, Sibera
 * Bermuda Triangle
 * Zona Del Silencio - Radio anomalies and it is reported that an Athena missile was "grabbed" into the zone.
 * Unusual events, forteana, anomalies
 * www.forteantimes.com Browse Forteantimes and you will find many anomalies posted.
 * Mind/body connection
 * Unsolved problems and paradoxes

IRC nicks
Don't bother stealing them, when I go on IRC, people know whether its me or not. I often pick random names.
 * Wormy - My typical nick.
 * RETURNoftheWORM - After the IRC disconnects and sometimes reconnect into this nick.
 * Ambassador_Kosh - There is wisdom in his words, even if its a bit cryptic.
 * Frank_the_Bunny - Lol.
 * Im_the_Moon

Non-verbal test thing
See http://www.hypnoid.com/psytest2.html

''Verbally and mentally fluid, you are refreshing and illuminating to those around you. This is occasionally somewhat discounted by the obvious pleasure that you take in exercising your mental acuity. Although generally peaceful you can often take a verbally aggressive tact in relations with the world, which can often be misunderstood by those around you. Innovative in the extreme, you can often think yourself right out of the correct answer to a given problem. Many times you are referred to as your own worst enemy. You tire very quickly of routine and so make poor clerks or administrative help. You also have no respect for authority and little patience for those you regard as inferior, most especially those in charge. Experimentation is your watchword and can occasionally lead to experience for its own sake and shallow decadence. Your thought can sometimes be scattered and disconnected.''

Strangely enough, I find similarity to my personality in all those.

Types of people Wormulon doesn't like
If you are one of these Wormulon probably doesn't like you.
 * 1) Dogooders/PC Brigade, Nanny State, Council officials - My number 1 foe. I hate you people, you are miserable f*s who spend their lives moaning and making other peoples lives a misery.  You can't stand to see people having fun even if there is a slight risk involved, because you think your judgement is golden.  You have ruined any sort of fun in my country, with your over-the top Health and Safety laws.  When you people trip over a curb you go and complain to the state when its your damn fault.  I had fun in the Tomatina festivel in Spain, but it would be impossible in the UK because of you lot.  I have you know, the reason why the our youth is so unsettled and riot is because they can't let of steam in more productive ways.  Certain council officials annoy me, like the type who fined this mother after her child dropped crumbs in a park, it was unjustified and just a way of making money.  I HATE YOU ALL.
 * 2) Close-minded, peccismistic, buzzkilling doubting tomasous - I don't dislike sceptiscm, but these kind of sceptics are stoopid. They believe they have a perfect view of how the world works.  People like these have caused a lot of trouble, including the extinction cryptozooligical species, because you don't think they exist, don';t help finding these elusive creatures and they die out.  Shame on you.  Optimists build worlds, peccimists don't.
 * 3) Those who hunt for sport (Fox hunting), and those who disrespect nature - For gods sake, if you are going to hunt an animal it should not be sport (survival or conservation maybe). You often make up stupid excuses for it as well.  I don't like people who vandalize or chuck rubbish at natural or historical places or objects either, you are sick and ruin for everyone else.  But of course, that is because you don't have a life.
 * 4) The Elite - The greedy people in control.
 * 5) Naccistic people - These kind of people can only see their own nose.
 * 6) Chavs - Got nothing to say here.
 * 7) Snobs and rich people who don't deserve their money or are up theor own areses.
 * 8) Fundementalists and ecowarriors - Fundementalists of anything I don't like, such as ecowarriors who hate humanity. Yes, we should respect nature but that doemn't mean Humans should be seen as evil.
 * 9) Dictators and manners of cruelty and evil.
 * 10) Trolls and many idiots comment on Youtube, as well as n00by kids who log into MMO's not for their age grroup and wine when they get killed every 5 seconds.
 * 11) People who think they are special and deserve special rights - You need re-education. Annoying parents who get in the way on purpose because they are with their child, old people who think they can have it all for free etc.
 * 12) User friends - Not to be confused with wiki users. These are people who pretend to be your friend but just use you as a service.

Basically, if you have read all this, all are examples of stuck up people.

My thoughts and rants on stuff
I feel like letting them out. They are probably just incorrect and a bunch of random crap put together.

How to build a universe
Steps to create a universe.
 * You will need: A high-mass star, quark matter, an inflaton nugget weighing about ten grams
 * Only if these theories are correct: Plancks Constant, Inflaton Theory, String Landscape Multiverse.
 * References: I took note from The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene, Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku and the story Planck Zero by Stephen Baxter.

The Big Bang itself was not a single event, it is an ongoing one. So when it comes to the ignition, where do we start?

First you need a nice warm soup of quarks. You do this by melting matter by tremendous temperatures, such as colliding heavy nuclei (you should siphon them from a star first to get enough), or simply drain it from a neutron or quark star's core. At a certain temperature, the nucleons that define baryonic matter melt into their constituent quarks and gluons. Increase the temperature a little more, and three of the four forces of nature are unified into a superforce. Don't cheer yet, there is a lot more steps to to go. Eventually you will reach the planck temperature at 1032 Kelvin. At this point, conventional physics break down. This is perhaps the most complicated and tricky step. Plancks Constant is a fundamental law of quantum mechanics, it dictates the values of particles (and thus the atomic structure that binds matter). According to the uncertainty principle, particle themselves are not discrete points of their values, they are waves, the wave defining their planck values. An important feature of the Uncertainty principle is that a quantum particle such as an electron has a wavefunction that is spread over a small volume rather than in one place. You can observe the position of the particles wavefunction, however, it is impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particles wavefunction, it can only be one or the other. The size of these volumes is governed by Plancks Constant.
 * Step One: Quark soup
 * Step Two: Reducing Plancks Constant

What must be done in the quark soup you have created is to reduce these planck volumes. If they are reduced enough, then both the position and momentum of a particles wavefunction can be observed at once, a violation of a fundamental law which defines reality (the Pauli Exlusion Principle, the fermions can begin to act as bosons). Because the laws of physics break down at planck temperatures, this could be possible. As the quark soup begins to cool you can begin to control the ratios. Now it begins to get dangerous in two ways...

At the moment you have a small ball of cooling quark matter, make no attempt to touch the inside. Plancks constant has changed, the electrons might not bind the atomic structures in your hand, making them crumble, plus the kinetic energy distributed on the surface of the bubble would probably create a shockwave that would disintergrate you. But the bubble isn't a universe yet.
 * Step Three: The Inflaton field and some dangers

As the modified superforce soup cools (which it will do very quickly I might add), there will be an initial particle, the inflaton (should the theory be correct that is). The inflaton will roll down its energy curve, as it does, creating new particles, roughly 1089 (of each) photons, electrons, neutrons, protons, neutrinos and their anti-matter counterparts within the expanding inflaton field. Where do these particles magically emerge from? Gravity itself. Gravity actually has a infinite well of energy for the seed to inflate. Extracting the gravitational energy the bubble of false vacuum begins to expand. It starts weighing less than ten grams yet being 1067 times as dense as an atomic nucleus. It would be about 10-26 centimeters across, making it very small. But it will expand rapidally.

What happens next is guesswork. You could have destroyed the universe, or at least the current state, not only re-writing the values of matters constituents but also destroying the uncertainty principle, shattering quantum physics. However, we might be lucky. Hopefully, a different process might occur. The expanding seed would have negative outward pressure and positive energy, but ordinary spacetime outside would have almost or perhaps exactly zero pressure, which is much larger than negative pressure. But inflaton still needs to expand. Where will it go? The inflationary bubble would grow into its own domain. Its hard to imagine this process, don't bother, all you would see would be a black hole, where its gravitational well had pinched off of our universe.
 * Step Four: The detatchment process

As it expands into its own space, its dimensions will unravel. The shape of the dimension would determine what the universe would be like. When its shape is formed the baby universe will find its part of the landscape of universes (the String Landscape). There is thought to be 10500 different types of universe, perhaps only a few allow for intelligent life, perhaps others house different things of complexity. Either way, there would be no way to know whether you have created a universe which can support life, or a universe which might quickly die, or something else entirely. It might be like this universe, there might be lots of quantum versions of this baby universe, one just like this that are created as well. If the universe begins to re-write itself, don't panic, stay calm. The star you used for Step One could be given a noble death. The inflating seed might fall into its core, because Plancks constant would change the Pauli Exculsion Principle which causes the star to not implode on itself. Without this principle, the core will implode. The implosion would create a black hole, which would enveloupe the false vacuum, either destroying it or also causing it to expand into a new universe.
 * Step Four again: If all goes wrong

In either case, there is no way to contact your universe, not unless you somehow threaded a wormhole to it or are capable of fantastic technological feats. You go home to your family or friends. You eat your dinner, if you even have any of them, considering you might have sold your home to make up for the budget and your relatives and allies have not left you. But you know, content, that you have a one in 10500 chance of creating a universe exactly like this one.


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My thoughts about immortality
I don't believe in true immortality, I think its as impossible as a a self-flowing flask, we live in a universe in which energy becomes less and less usable as systems become more and more chaotic. While I would like to live a very long life, I would not like to live a truly immortal one. There are lots of types of immortality, I will skip over the technological versions, and while they may grant you a long life (even very long), I do not think true immortality is possible as neither are fail proof. All of the forms above are life extending possibilities, but none, assure complete safety from death. In the first, "genetic therapy", to increase the lifetime of cells by replcacing the lost DNA as they divide. In a way., cells commit suicide, for if they could do this they would be cancerous. Cancer cells are immortal, that is why they are so dangerous. But as the cells divide naturally the genetic information of which we humans are becomes more and more corrupted, this is why we age. Proposed methods of "genetic therapy" and extreme lifestyle choices can indeed slow aging, perhaps in the fature using nanotechnology almost to a standstill. This is an exciting prospect. But A)this procedure must be carefully handled, get it wrong, and you could make yourself very ill, B) there is huge philosophical issue here. Every seven years or so it is said that most of our cells would have completely regenerated, even the atoms inside them. But the genetic information (what I call the genetic soul) remains, but getting ever corrupted (aging). If genetic immortality is applied, how much does the individual change information-wise? In five centuries, five-hundred centuries even, does the person forget who they were? In this case, immortality becomes an oxymoron because the original evolves into someone or something else. Then again, if the consciousness doesn't know this, then did it die?
 * Types of immortality
 * "Genetic therapy"
 * "Digital immortality", mind uploads and cybernetics.
 * Breeding immortality
 * Cryogenics
 * Lifestyle

Then there is "digital" immortality. It is unknown how consciousness could be transferred, but it is thought that the "uploads" would be copies. The original mind isn't transferred in this view. The copies may feel like you, but are they you? The same goes for clones, who probably woudn't share your personality anymore than an identical twin at best.

If we remember the above statement "Then again, if the consciousness doesn't know this, then did it die?", perhaps slow replacement of immortal nanotechnology could create a copy of the original mind that didn't experience death.

There are lots more less known proposed techniques, but neither offer any clean unchaging immortality, all except for one, quantum immortality, but currently that is merely a thought experiment.
 * Unhealthy for society

The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide
No offense to Mocha, this would catch out many, including me perhaps.
 * [22:47]  masses even
 * [22:47]  solar masses
 * [22:48]  SOLAR MASSES.
 * [22:48]  Yes
 * [22:48]  Solar Mass
 * [22:48]  I know what that is.
 * [22:49]  I KNOW WHAT EVERYTHING IS MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
 * [22:49]  Pi to 5,734,621 places then
 * [22:49]  okay...
 * [22:49]  3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
 * [22:49]  XD
 * [22:49]  darn it...
 * [22:50]  that WAS five million seven hundred thirty four thousand six hundred twenty one though...
 * [22:50]  before they took all of it away...
 * [22:50]  :(
 * [22:51]  Name me how many possible configurations of Inflatonary universes are in current understanding.
 * [22:51] <Mocha2007> okay...one second...
 * [22:51] <Wormy> Based on the topology of braneworlds
 * [22:51] <Xho> Wow, the core of that massive explosion.....
 * [22:51] <Xho> Still 8900 AU
 * [22:52] <Xho> -87 K still
 * [22:52] <Mocha2007> MANY.
 * [22:52] <Xho> 739628 light years
 * [22:52] <Wormy> The number?
 * [22:52] <Mocha2007> calculating...
 * [22:52] <Xho> -_-
 * [22:52] <Mocha2007> by the way you mispelled a word.
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Yes
 * [22:53] <Wormy> But it doesn't bother me
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> 7, depending on the model.
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Its 10 to the power of 500 at the very least.
 * [22:53] <Xho> Fail
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Is dihydrogen monoxide dangerous? No googleing it.
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> I used a different model.
 * [22:53] <Xho> hur
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> NO ITS WATERR!!!
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> DUH!!!
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Wrog
 * [22:54] <Wormy> Wrong
 * [22:54] <Wormy> Water is dangerous
 * [22:54] <Xho> Trolololol
 * [22:54] <Wormy> Hur

Technobliterator joins the HIVEMIND

 * 20:44.53 Wormy Techno joined the HIVEMIND
 * 20:45.04 OluapPlayer Oh deer
 * 20:45.08 Wormy 1:44] <Wormy> Or this http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Quantum_slipstream_drive
 * 20:45.16 Asdruabel Really?
 * 20:45.20 Wormy [21:44] <TehnoIsBack> or, quantm slipstream?
 * 20:45.24 Wormy There
 * 20:45.29 Asdruabel You are now part of me Techno
 * 20:45.34 Asdruabel Slaanesh will corrupt you
 * 20:45.36 OluapPlayer Oh god
 * 20:45.44 OluapPlayer That sounds creepy
 * 20:45.46 Wormy How many are in the HIVEMIND now
 * 20:46.02 Asdruabel 5
 * 20:46.28 OluapPlayer Me, Xho, Um, Imp, Wormy and Jo
 * 20:46.29 OluapPlayer 6
 * 20:46.50 Wormy Ooh ah say
 * 20:46.56 Monet The hivemind is growing.
 * 20:47.17 OluapPlayer Ze hivemind expands
 * 20:47.27 OluapPlayer Soon we shall devour the galaxy
 * 20:47.30 OluapPlayer Tyranids b jelly
 * 20:47.39 OluapPlayer brb
 * 20:47.46 Asdruabel Oh
 * 20:47.56 Asdruabel Wormy is too the part of the hivemind
 * 20:47.56 Asdruabel Wait
 * 20:48.04 Asdruabel What chaos gods are Wormy and Jo
 * 20:48.13 Cyrannian As far as I'm concerned it is Me, Xho and Oluap. And obviously in my case, Dino. :>
 * 20:48.25 Cyrannian ~dinoman82
 * 20:48.25 infobot I heard that Dinoman82 is Um2k9's alter-ego.
 * 20:49.28 Cyrannian And also Wormy, I think.
 * 20:49.40 Asdruabel Actually, I am the part of the hivemind too
 * 20:49.53 TehnoIsBack >implying i'm not allowed to be in the hive mind
 * 20:50.00 TehnoIsBack oh fine then! :/
 * 20:50.16 Cyrannian That is my Hivemind, keep your ever expanding one!
 * 20:50.30 Wormy I don't get how that works
 * 20:50.40 Wormy Maybe Cyrannian
 * 20:50.59 Wormy Is a mutant in the Hivemind like a talking mole!
 * 20:51.12 Wormy growing off it
 * 20:51.20 TehnoIsBack MOVE OVER
 * 20:51.28 Wormy This HIVEMIND is getting cancerous
 * 20:51.47 Cyrannian A hivemind with Wormy is useful, because I can delve deep into his brain, picking out information that is useful for the Illuminati. While at the same thing, blocking information from him. *evil cackle*
 * 20:52.03 TehnoIsBack >implying hivemind with me is not useful :<
 * 20:53.54 Cyrannian Or do you?
 * 20:54.14 Asdruabel A hivemind with all of you is highly useful, because I can corrupt you and make all of you perverts.
 * 20:54.27 Cyrannian ^Thats why I made my own.
 * 20:55.06 Cyrannian Actually, you are dead before you can feel any.
 * 20:55.21 TehnoIsBack i just realised I spelt Techno wrong...
 * 20:56.57 Xho If we're all connected...
 * 20:56.58 Xho >:)
 * 20:57.18 Asdruabel I am Chaos God, you cannot kill me.
 * 20:57.33 Xho And i'm Kamik Shi so fuk u
 * 20:57.58 Technobliterator ad i'm Josephine Paulonis so fuk u 2
 * 20:59.01 Xho Yeah the wiki is mega fucked up for me

Anzaghar needs a leesh

 * [23:31] <Hachiman> My dad is watching Grimbosaur....uhh, I mean, Predator
 * [23:31] <Wormy> LOL
 * [23:31] <Wormy> Is it TV now?
 * [23:31] <Hachiman> Nah DVD
 * [23:32] <Wormy> Damn, I've been wanting to see it again lately
 * [23:32] <Hachiman> Why so?
 * [23:33] <Wormy> Exactly
 * [23:33] <Hachiman> I don't understand
 * [23:34] <Wormy> Your welcome
 * [23:35] <Hachiman> lol
 * [23:35] <Wormy> WTF
 * [23:35] <Wormy> I just went on Youtube
 * [23:35] <Wormy> The recommended video is:
 * [23:35] <Wormy> I don't understand
 * [23:36] <Hachiman> ...
 * [23:36] <Wormy> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyezr3F8QDs&feature=feedlik
 * [23:36] <Wormy> I'll prove it
 * [23:40] <Wormy> Proof is in the pudding http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:I_don%27t_understand.png
 * [23:41] <Wormy> What is this witchcraft?
 * [23:43] <Hachiman> It is Angazhar's doing!
 * [23:43] <Wormy> Oh noez. Xho control your demon.

The Day The IRC Stood Split
'''-Martinp23:$$*- [Global Notice] Hi folks. Over the next 30 mins or so I'll be doing some network upgrades. This will be in two stages. First, there will be a huge netsplit, followed by smaller netsplits. About 2700 users will lose connections as a result. I'll send messages directly to users on servers which will be restarted in a moment (zelazny, kornbluth). Thanks for your patience and have a great sunday.'''


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 * [13:25] <Technobliterator> When they said there would be a net split
 * [13:25] <Technobliterator> They weren' joking
 * [13:25] <Wormy> lol
 * [13:26] <Wormy> The SCOURGE is cometh
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 * [13:28] <Irskaad> Yey
 * [13:28] <Irskaad> ~boo
 * [13:29] <Wormy> [13:18] -Martinp23:$$*- [Global Notice] Hi folks. Over the next 30 mins or so I'll be doing some network upgrades. This will be in two stages. First, there will be a huge netsplit, followed by smaller netsplits. About 2700 users will lose connections as a result. I'll send messages directly to users on servers which will be restarted in a moment (zelazny, kornbluth). Thanks for your patience and have a great sunday.
 * [13:29] <Irskaad> ^

The Funny bit

'''-Martinp23:$$*- [Global Notice] Hi - today's updates are now complete. Join us next week for the next game of upgrades roulette (see blog for schedule if you want to ruin the surprise). Have a great day! :)'''
 * [13:29] <Wormy> you lot got scourged
 * [13:29] <Irskaad> Me and Seldeen were the only ones not affected
 * [13:29] <@OluapPlayer> no u
 * [13:29] <Technobliterator> ...
 * [13:29] <Technobliterator> you were the only ones who *were* affected
 * [13:29] <Irskaad> We were not :P
 * [13:29] <Irskaad> Everyone net splitted except us
 * [13:30] <Wormy> [13:24] == Irskaad [Irskaad@a95-93-9-120.cpe.netcabo.pt] has quit [*.net *.split]
 * [13:30] <Technobliterator> wtf
 * [13:30] <Technobliterator> ^ i saw that too
 * [13:30] <Wormy> I understand
 * [13:30] <Technobliterator> and needles
 * [13:30] <Technobliterator> and morgoth
 * [13:30] <Irskaad> WTF
 * [13:30] <Technobliterator> infobot too
 * [13:30] <Wormy> Freenoide got split into several chatrooms for a secnd probably local to certain servers
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 * [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25]	*	Agulhaseldeeneed is now known as SELDEEN
 * [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25]	SELDEEN	WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?
 * [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25]	*	SELDEEN is now known as Seldeen
 * [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25]	Seldeen	That's better. Whenever that happens...
 * [13:30] <Irskaad> [13:25]	Seldeen	What happened, Irsk?
 * [13:30] <Wormy> .13:25] <Technobliterator> When they said there would be a net split
 * [13:30] <Irskaad> My view of things
 * [13:31] <Wormy> 13:25] <Technobliterator> They weren' joking
 * [13:31] <+infobot> for heaven's sake, irskaad, don't do that!
 * [13:31] <Wormy> [13:25] <Wormy> lol
 * [13:31] <Wormy> [13:26] <Wormy> The SCOURGE is cometh
 * [13:32] * Wormy Is adding this to IRC moments.

Heavy Weapons Guy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzPmNhsJpbg Spam filter blocked ASCII art on my own user page. :P

Wrong moment

 * [18:35] <Wormy> lol read comments http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/using-first-person-shooting-games-to-improve-vision/article2343057/comments/
 * [18:37] == Xho [5ac811b4@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.180] has joined #sporewiki
 * [18:37] <Hachi_> "I don't let myself play violent video games. I'm far too stupid to understand the difference between what goes on my XBox and what happens in real life. I just can't tell the difference some days. Like when I go to work on my Xbox, and it's not really my Xbox, it's my life. And then when I play a racing game on my xbox, crash the car, and call 911 to come to my house because I was in a car accident."
 * [18:38] <Xho> I come in and I hear that

Listen to the lyrics

 * [00:40] <Wormy> Irskaad: What do you think the lyrics mean in this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQPsQTyENRw
 * [00:40] <Irskaad> Dunno
 * [00:41] <Wormy> You do ;)
 * [00:42] <Irskaad> Actually no...
 * [00:42] <Irskaad> I really don't get them
 * [00:42] <Wormy> Read the comments http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858496883/
 * [00:44] <Irskaad> Kay
 * [00:44] <Atamolos> :P
 * [00:45] <Wormy> The title "Jerk it out" should be hinting enough
 * [00:53] <Wormy> Irskaad: Here is a Techno/Electronic song for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmzxxN0m3k&feature=fvsr
 * [00:53] <Wormy> Does it satisfy your needs for Techno?
 * [00:54] <Irskaad> ^^
 * [00:54] <Wormy> :P

Moles
[19:48] <Catface> Wormy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfwzb2VoD_c [19:48] <Ghel> I don't think it's that easy. Maybe she should buy a time machine, use that to get cash, and give that cash to her few-minutes-younger self so that she can buy a time machine (and have some left over, and a time machine). That would solve both of the problems, if it worked. [19:50] <@OluapWorker> Getting a time machine isn't exactly easy though [19:51] <Wormy> cool song [19:51] <Xho> [19:51] <Ghel> The idea is, she buys it off herself, using money she gives herself... it's a messed-up plan, all right? [19:52] <Wormy> Lol I say what a Ghel magnificient mole you have there [19:52] <Wormy> WHAT [19:52] <Wormy> How did Ghel get in there shit [19:53] <Ghel> I was wondering why you beeped me. [19:53] <Ghel> Maybe you pressed the tab key? That sticks in the name of the last person who said anything. [19:53] <@OluapWorker> Ghel is a magnificent mole now [19:53] <Ghel> No, the magnificent mole is me. [19:54] <Wormy> I think I probably did I s=didn't mean that [19:54] <Ghel> Uhh. [19:54] <Ghel> I think you're not checking what you're typing. [19:54] <Wormy> no [19:54] <Wormy> I'm not [19:54] <Ghel> Whereas I'm just not checking what I'm thinking; it's completely different. [19:54] <Wormy> Did you see that Catface? [19:55] <Wormy> I say [19:55] <Catface> Wormy: Yes, mine id I touch it? [19:55] <Catface> *mind [19:55] <Catface> and if [19:55] <Wormy> Go brush your teeth! [19:55] <@OluapWorker> So Ghel is a magnificent mole and Catface wants to touch him [19:55] <@OluapWorker> shit's fukd [19:55] <@OluapWorker> I blame Xho [19:56] <Xho> u blame urself cus hivemind [19:56] <@OluapWorker> fuuuu [19:56] <Ghel> Thanks a lot, Oluap. You're responsible for me being a magnificent mole and Catface wanting to touch me. [19:57] <Xho> Yo what [19:57] <@OluapWorker> Just doing my job [19:57] <Catface> It should be an honor that you are such a magnificent mole, Ghel. [19:57] <Ghel> I suppose if I'm to be any mole, I'd rather be a magnificent one. [19:57] <@OluapWorker> Not all moles are magnificent

Wormy's sin
In the Last week or so, Wormy's IE started crashing and freezing not long after Wormy defended IE saying it wasn't that bad. Luckily Wormy has Google Chrome and Safari as well, and has seen the true light.
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 * [11:09] <Monet> Develani - Perhaps, but right now I communicate with dozens of voices, with a nintellect beyond the ability of a single brain. I might be able to find something.
 * [11:09] <Technobliterator> Dakster - "Fluffy rabbit swag"?! I'M JEALOUS OF THE MERE FACT YOU HAVE LIFE!!
 * [11:09] <Wyrmy> I must get into the habit of using google chrome
 * [11:09] <@OluapWorker> Yes you must
 * [11:09] <Hachi_> Hachi - There we go! You're jealous because you're actually dead!
 * [11:10] <Wyrmy> You may have the pleasure of kicking Wormy
 * [11:10] <Technobliterator> google chrome is easy:L
 * [11:10] <@OluapWorker> Baptarion - You don't look like an undead to me. Is this some kind of joke?
 * [11:10] <Technobliterator> Dakster - Rubbing it in my face...FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!
 * [11:10] == Wormy was kicked from #sporewiki by OluapWorker [wibble]
 * [11:11] * OluapWorker HAS PLESUR
 * [11:11] <Technobliterator> lol...
 * [11:11] <Wyrmy> Lol
 * [11:11] <Hachi_> Hachi - I am rubbing it in your face, but I'm not fucking asshole just yet.
 * [11:11] <Wyrmy> Well, it punishes Wormy for using such a sinful web browser

Starship taxonomy
I'll blog out of a refined version of this. This isn't about the characteristics of a spacecraft, it's technology or application, but merely the style and architecture. Every user on SporeWiki seems to have their own styles, even if they are in the similar categories.


 * Anthromorphic - This is a surprisingly large category. Most human vehicles and buildings are built to accomodate humans; designers are prone to visualise and build things with human (and possibly alien) analogies (suiting human needs), whether intended or not (important note is that the feature must have a visual impact, a hidden command center is irrelevant).  For example: the bridge of a starship cockpit (main command center); is the head, Engineering in the heart, the engine; the guts.  Architectural style comes next, based on technological, cultural, emotional or perceptive factors.  For science fiction, spacecraft are depicted as far less architectural designs than builings or colonies.  Styles commonly have elements of modernist architecture, where form follows function (which is more likely for spacecraft due to technical factors).  This can encompass techno-industrialism and blur with futurism.  Futuristic styles tend to reflect what we think of as futuristic (e.g sleekness, high technology, floating parts, one big molded ship with no bolts or rivets), so are generally more expressionist, but also has many stranger styles where sci-fi pushes the boundaries, alien ships often appear out of the norm (like deconstructivism and googie), or organic-shapes.
 * Techno-industrial - Very mechanical, often bulky and mean looking.
 * United Lanat Empire ships.
 * Vartekian starships
 * Battlefleet Gothic, of the Imperium of Man (Warhammer 40K) - Mechanical, with a grim, gothic overlaying them.
 * Retro-futurism - There are several ages of this; steampunk, dieselpunk, and Atomic age/Cold war era. Retro-futurism in many cases still looks futuristic.
 * Human Republic ships. It's surprising that human ships looks bulky and retro in most science fiction.
 * Modernism, 21st century futurism and maximalism - The majority of sci-fi, 80's and onwards. There is so many subclasses one could concieve, perhaps basing off technology levels.  The tier scale may actually be able to classify these designs, low end being 1, 2, 3.  High end being like DCP ships.
 * Patternistic and alienmorphic - many "alien" designs. Sci-fi writers tend to depict their spacecraft look like their alien species in some way or another, making them alienmorphic.  Alien transportation devices may well look very different to human modes of transport and vehicles.
 * Bioships - Come in a wide group of sub-varieties; aquatic mammalian, reptillian, invertebrate, even plant-like (orwood trees) etc.
 * Organic - Very typical of Babylon 5, some ships look organic, while never specified to be living spacecraft.
 * Voidships - "Spacetime" vessels that appear to "mold" into the universe.
 * General mixture
 * Star Wars ships
 * Expressionist ships - Where a sci-fi writer might try to apply a not necessarily modernistic architecture i.e. religious symbolism, neoclassicalism and gothic feel.


 * Non-anthromorphic - There are many exceptions to this rule. Common themes include structuralism, metabolism, brutulism and extreme functionalism.
 * Modular/Cellular - Each functioning pod is vital to an overall structure, and in some cases can work as exclusive units. Think of ganglionic intelligences like bee-hives.  Craft might be able to split and join or morph shapes to adapt to their environment.
 * Real-life spacecraft, stations and rockets are generally modular, although this may exclude spaceplanes.
 * Modular UFO's that appear to split.
 * Monolithic - Characterless vessels built purely for functional means, such as efficient shapes. Hivemind races and species which lack imagination might build monolithic designs.
 * Borg, Cyrannian Grox, Quadrantia Grox
 * Extreme functionalism
 * Majority of UFO's - Most UFO's come in simple shapes, though not necessarily monolithic, these include spherical variations, cones, triangles, rectangles, diamonds, cylinders and trains.
 * Silver Ghosts (Xeelee Sequence) - Most of their craft are a network of cables and random devices. There are no need for much comfort, or other biological requirements.
 * Abstract - polymorphic, fractalism, minimal surface, other alien designs.
 * Shapeshifting UFO's - Solid parts that can seemingly move through itself, or other objects, can shape and size, often non-corporeal elements.

Original tech in the SporeWikiverse?
Several technologies in the SporeWikiverse seem unique, although they may borrow concepts from physics or build on previous versions. This is to my knowledge, I might be wrong, inform me if I am. SporeWikiverse fiction can be unique and somewhat original in many other ways too.
 * "Quantum"-replicators (Ghelae) - By function, they seem to be unique, differing from normal replicators and universal assemblers. Perhaps the most influential on this list.
 * Hyperluminal torpedoes (Ghelae) - I'm unsure of their canon status now. Seemingly impossible, but uses godtech.
 * Nonphasic shielding (Ghelae) - The ultimate deflector imo.
 * Spacetime nightcloak (Ghelae) - Okay, spacetime shields do exist but again, function/description-wise, it seems unique.
 * Krasnikov tubes (me) - Let me set this straight, this has been a speculative concept for a long time, the idea isn't invented by me.   Most sci-fi uses wormholes to achieve a similar result, but I use these for the transport of stellar energy between systems, I don't know any other fiction to do the same.
 * Matter/Antimatter conversion: Reversing chirality (me) - Well, it's actually based on scientific speculation, but I've not seen it in fiction offsite.
 * Ghost phasing (me) - I'm sure similar ideas exist, but the function differs.
 * Void bubble-enclosing FSP-disruptor (me) - Original on technicality, although the reality bomb from Doctor Who and Altered stars in the Xeelee Sequence seem similar (unintentional) though not the same.
 * My upcoming weapon (me)
 * Counterbalancing planetary rotation (me) - I've not seen in fiction elsewhere, although I did base the idea from "10 ways to destroy the Earth", by The Universe (History Channel).
 * Cephalodian symbiosis (me) - I had to come up with a [good] reason how Cephalodians could achieve space stage technologies using their own ecology purely by symbiosis. This is possible only because all life on their homeworld evolved from run-away bionano-tech.
 * Medical procedures using teleporters (me again) - Why hasn't anyone thought of this?
 * Taldar technologies (Technobliterator/me) - 5th dimensional weapons: "Fate", where the Taldar can write down strict paths for particle worldlines, stopping wavefunction from brannching into multiple universes; the spacetime bowl used to flash freeze the quantumhorde; and finally the god-hammer that compresses gyronic conciousness into lower dimensions.
 * The Box (Technobliterator) - Arguably technology.
 * Xhodocto chaos X-waves (Xhodocto3546) - An x-wave is a mathematical solution, in abstract it is possible for an X-wave to carry infinite energy, though in real life they do not. But what do the Xhodocto have at their disposal?
 * Fluidic shields (FalcoPunch) - I'm not sure if I've seen liquid/fluid shields elsewhere.
 * Juridium (Jovar1) - A porous armour that seems to be able to absorb incoming energy.

Species
Life is everwhere you can look in the Xeelee Sequence. Anything in quotation marks is my name for them.
 * Ancient races
 * Monad - Unknown to me so far. Something to do with the Big Bang.
 * Quagmites - Life which existed in previous eras of the universe. Survives inside neutron stars and GUT-drives.
 * Xeelee/Proto-Xeelee - Conglomerate of species from different ages of the universe, hyperadvanced.
 * Photino Birds - Universal scale dark matter civilisation.
 * Snowmen - Built fractal recording devices cooled to the microwave background 13 billion years ago. Could tincker with intertia.
 * "Moths" - Ancient ship wreckage of various races over billions of years seen in Quagma Datum.
 * "Bridge builders" - Built a bridge between a planet and it's Moon using advanced technology.
 * "Honeycomb builders" - An ancient city made like a Bee's hive.
 * Alien civilisations and sentients - It is mentioned there were "dozens of squabbling races" in the Milky Way, all of which get conquered by Humanity.
 * Squeem - Hivemind of fish-like creatures, with no sense of mathematics.
 * Silver Ghosts - Tinkered with physical constants. Incorporated their dying homeworld's ecology into their shells.
 * Qax - Living convection cells.
 * Spline - Offer themselves as living starships.
 * Humanity - Due to the ruthless doctrines of Hama Druz, for 20,000 years humans were forced to neither evolve biologically or change.
 * Jasofts/Pharoes - Immortals engineered by the Qax.
 * Child Soldiers - Created by Humanity as a weapon of flesh and blood.
 * Virtuals - Virtuals cover pretty much the whole series; either AI's or mind uploaded humans (like Lieserl who was uploaded into the Sun).
 * The Conclave - Distributed AI's in the Sol System 1 million AD; virtuals, jovian brains and the giant machine weapons in Saturn.
 * The Transcendance - The Godlike benchmark of Humanity.
 * "Generational ship humans"
 * "Flux humans" - Engineered to live in a neutron star.
 * "Between Worlds humans" - Uploaded by Wignerists to live on a black hole.
 * Other human analogues - Many others mentioned, who swim in an accretion disc (Tyranny of Heaven), or live in the vacuum of space.
 * Wildlife
 * Toolmakers/Sun-People/Forest of Ancestors - Sentient crystalline, icy "trees" that live on Port Sol (Kuiper Belt object) with superfluid blood and have a hivemind.
 * Logic trees - Runaway nanites on Triton that live on a basis of logic and axioms. I'm not sure I understand what they are.
 * "Gossamer spiders" - Spin silk-analogue between Pluto and Charon.
 * "Mercury's inhabitants" - Descended from aliens which crashed there billions of years before, live in underground oceans.
 * Callisto Bugs - Slowly metabolising bacteria on Callisto which percieve a different universe based on absorbing quantum numbers. Similar life lives beneath Europa.
 * "Titan protolife" - Evolving on Titan as Sol began to expand.
 * Earth's biosphere - Ecology co-evolved with wild nanites and alien plants from Deneb and Tau Ceti.
 * "Superatom lifeforms" - Intelligent, descended from the raw supernova which the Sol System descends from and lives deep in the Earth's interior.
 * "Tundra" - Flower, lichen and worm analogues which live on a planet with an atmosphere that froze over, They live under the ice dormant, waiting for volcanic activity or any source of heat to quickly reproduce.