Are they so different that it’s justified to have so many different distributions? So far I guess that different package manager are the reason that divides the linux community. One may be on KDE and one on GNOME but they can use each other’s packages but usually you are bound to one manager
I like the underground ore deposit idea but it doesn’t account for gravity changing
I would imagine the gravity change would be gradual rather than sharp, so you wouldn’t just step over a border and be instantly crushed, they’d have fair warning to turn back
Though I imagine it would be an issue similar to how drastic temperature changes are an issue (for example if someone from Finland went to live in Texas and couldn’t deal with the heat or vice versa)
The animals from higher gravity areas would likely be dangerous, however their bodies would likely have evolved to be far less dense, bones could be broken more easily, they could be pushed around more easily/flung into the air and wouldn’t be well equipped to deal with that
Also, guns would still exist, creatures still wouldn’t be able to easily cross oceans so I imagine to a modern society they wouldn’t be too much of a threat in the same way that gorillas are pretty scary up close but aren’t really a problem realistically
Definitely are a lot of finer technical points to work out which is kind of the point of this post, just interested to explore the possibilities
There could be entirely gravity based natural disasters too, imagine a gravity quake where gravity rapidly changes between high and low and the havoc that could wreak on structures and people’s bodies
Oh man I didn’t even think about atmospheric pressure, could giant windbreakers not potentially be constructed to lessen the effect of this wind?
Or maybe in this fantasy world as it has formed originally with these gravity differences there are lots of natural windbreakers, raised areas and lowered areas, mountains etc due to earth getting compacted to different levels
I would imagine the gravity variance within an area would be fairly mild by comparison to the differences between areas - like how you tend to get warmer temperatures near the equator but can still get variances in temp around that
Oceans may become terrifying but it may be easier to travel by air anyway, instead of trying to travel by ocean you could attempt to plot a course through lower gravity areas and avoid the higher ones Could even spawn some badass hardened sea captains that are required to make certain journeys as they are impossible by air
Space is kind of a bust, I was thinking this is some fantastical universe where either it’s something like discworld or just magically the effects of the gravity variance are localised to inside the atmosphere
Would be interesting to think about what kind of variants of humans would adapt to their respective areas
Ooh interesting point, imagine you go on holiday to a higher gravity area and not only does it become difficult to hold yourself up (might need some kind of protective suit or exoskeleton for tourists to take some of the weight and prevent injury) but also get battered by the wind as you try to move
See I kinda thought the opposite. I had thought all the wealthy elite would snap up homes in the nice cushy lower gravity areas and have financial power to control the working class living in the harsher, higher gravity areas
To begin with without technology absolutely the higher gravity people would be at the advantage. I imagine the lower gravity areas’ technology would be able to advance much more quickly though, less energy required from their society, so more going spare for research
Also, oceans still exist and as someone else has pointed out would be chaotic and dangerous to cross, so primitive societies would likely have a hard time
There’s also an advantage for low gravity people there in that it’s far easier for them to construct flying machines, so they would likely be far more mobile, and quite possibly first to make contact
My thinking was definitely not a realistic/ sci fi world where everything has an explanation, it was just “gravity is like this because it is” and leaving it at that
The problem with that is it doesn’t account for changing gravity patterns. I think as soon as you explain part of it realistically people ask questions about the rest and that becomes a whole scientific discussion
I’m more interested in the effect it’d have on society, evolution, etc rather than the practicalities of how it could happen in the first place personally
What kinds of differences are you thinking? I’d have thought existing joints would be reinforced, limbs shorter, bigger muscles for high grav or the opposite for low
I think the way I’d do it if I were writing a story about this world would be to just not mention the technicalities
Either it’s a medieval level fantasy world where they don’t understand how it works and it’s equivalent to how the sun works or weather works
Or it’s modern day and people generally don’t talk about the finer technicalities the same way people don’t go around casually discussing in detail what causes wind to blow or temperatures to rise and fall
Also, it’s fantasy so it could also just be it works that way because all poweful space cthulu decided that’s how it works
Nothing wrong with not coming to a conclusion the goal is exploration
I am not assuming everyone would be the same physiology, however I imagine when travel becomes viable technologically people will start to mix and so will be varying amounts of high grav and low grav genetics, also I imagine a low grav individual who is born and grows up in a high grav area would end up suited for high grav through just building more muscle
That’s more or less my thinking with high/low grav dominance, much the same as in real life it’ll start out survival of the fittest and as society and technology progresses end up as smarter and/or more wealthy individuals in the lower grav areas taking over
You read it correctly, that’s what I meant. Both different areas with different gravity patterns but also slight variations day to day like the weather with occasional freak occurances
I think reversal would be rare and restricted to very specific areas
Custom gravity beds would be cool. Personally I’d imagine they’d involve being immersed in some kind of ultra buoyant liquid designed not to cause problems with sustained skin contact
Wheeled sailboats would be very cool, for air travel could have an airbender-like group, a bunch of monks who dedicate their lives to studying the way the wind changes who can instinctively navigate it and use it to their advantage
Aircraft could essentially just be a hang glider with various mechanisms for steering and best catching the wind
I think if I were writing this as a book I’d have to conveniently ignore/find a way to explain away the wind problem though as it would turn the world from a kind of whimsical interesting place to a deadly, unforgiving one.
I also quite like the idea of low gravs having low tech man-powered aircraft instead of land vehicles and wild wind would make that rather impossible
I quite like the idea of wild wind over the ocean for those air nomad people but that might be a case of wanting my cake and eating it too
I guess if I were going the magical route there could be a group of wizards in every town or city maintaining some kind of force field to keep the wind out, taking it in shifts. Could be a major terrorist threat if someone were able to take them down
Could lean into the conspiracy theories and say the poles are off limits to regular people and have it as the headquarters for a super elite shadow organisation
It will absolutely help to have some hint at an explanation
But if the world is not at the the technological level required to figure it out then it wouldn’t make any sense for them to explain it scientifically
They could perhaps explain it as it is this way because the gods made it this way, or because it’s fantasy it actually could be because the gods made it that way (hence my magic space cthulu comment)
I can’t imagine living under water would be much fun either, I imagine the bottom of the ocean in high grav would be absolutely unlivable due to the pressure
Also, I’m not entirely sure how it works but divers have to come out of the water really slowly and carefully so they don’t get the bends, imagine that where the water pressure keeps changing
Infact imagine any underwater structure where the pressure continuously changes dramatically
Also also the tides would be going absolutely crazy overhead
All that said that would make it even cooler to have some kind of hermit character, maybe a powerful wizard living under the sea despite all the hazards and difficulties
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Bought an old second hand p50 recently, and it still far outperforms most modern laptops by a mile, battery lasts 4 or 5 hours on integrated graphics (probably quite a bit less on discrete but haven’t really tested that yet)
Plus I can buy a second battery and just swap them out when one runs out
My old Lenovo yoga cost more than the p50 and couldn’t hold a candle
Came with 32gb memory, 4k display, discrete gpu and an nvme which all help considerably, the CPU generally sits around 1-8% during normal usage (on Linux that is)
Can quite happily code on this thing, my previous laptop could barely run an ide
Obviously there are more powerful laptops but considering I got it for ~£500 and even second hand modern laptops go for ~1000 with less memory and no GPU I think it competes very nicely
I would imagine the performance hit comes more from the simulation complexity, afaik Bethesda games tend to simulate everything all the time so the bigger the worlds get the more power is required
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It doesn’t know the sensitive data to give away, though it can just make it up
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