Nov 22, 2009, 09:39 AM
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Art / Art Q&A / Re: Intellectual property and going legit
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on: Nov 20, 2009, 04:57 AM
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There are no stock photos of FBBs that I know of. Stocks are usually made for common subjects, that can't easily be exploited for money. FBBs are rare human beings, and photos of them are centered around profit-driven photographers who probably care less about a picture of the human physique and more about what gets people to buy their product. I would consider morphing fair use. It's not like you are reproducing the photo and counting it as your own. What is your own is the modifications, and quite frankly, some advanced morphs take more skill than drawing a picture from scratch, so I would consider morphs to be work from the morpher, not the photographer's camera. But alas, my opinion and that of the courts are two different things. That's why I just try to fly under the radar of what I view to be an unjust aspect of legal code. Good thing there are millions upon millions of acts of copyright infringement daily on the internet to make the law practically impossible to enforce.
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Fiction / Writing Q&A / Re: Questions about planetary collision
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on: Nov 12, 2009, 10:55 PM
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OK, thanks. I tried Googling the answer and it was just one of those searches that yields results totally unrelated to the question I was going for. Like I said, the relative speed is practically non-existent; they aren't going right at each other, but slowly meeting. I guess if they got within a certain range the g*M[1]*M[2]/r^2 value would skyrocket, and would cause a great deal of gravitational acceleration and a big crash. I was fearing something to the scale of millions of years. for fusion into a stable planetary body. Time travel is an option, but not one I'm crazy about using in this case.
Maybe I'll work it so the two planets with another one in between, kind of like the Venus-Earth-Mars set up. It would kind of mess up the symbolic idea I'm going for, but I want to make the story somewhat plausible.
BTW, they are supposed to be pre-space stage, but need to develop a vessel to escape the planetary doom - both planets. I haven't put much thought into their techs beyond that.
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Fiction / Writing Q&A / Questions about planetary collision
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on: Nov 12, 2009, 02:03 AM
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I have a story in planning stages, but I want to know how viable it is (not that it's going to stop me from going through with it). Let's say there are two equally-sized planets (= in mass) orbiting each other, but at some point the gap closes between them to the point where they collide and form a new planet.
A. How long would it take for the new planet to have a stable spherical shape? and B. What about the water and atmosphere? C. Temperature? How much heat would it produce?
The tentative idea is to have two twin planets collide, while at least two survivors are in a ship close to the shared atmosphere of the two planets. How long would they have to be in orbit until the planet is livable? The ships could be like self-sustaining space stations. I just hope it isn't some span beyond 20 years, because it would ruin the plan for my story. I calculated that two planets, having equal masses and densities before collision, and equal densities before and after, would make a new planet where everything is 1.26 times heavier than on the original two planets. Therefore, my original proposition for the ships to crash back onto the bigger planet will have to be reworked.
If all else fails. I could always just put the characters into suspended animation until the new planet is ready, and supply their ships with advanced terraforming tools.
It won't be the first apocalyptic muscle story I've made, but it will be the first from this approach.
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Art / Muscular Women Art / Marika Morph
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on: Sep 18, 2009, 09:50 PM
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I moved her from an indoor gym to outdoor Muacle Beach. I probably could have done a much better job on the face shadows and highlights. Maybe I used too big of a brush on the strokes. 
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General Topics / Web Links / Re: Geocities closing October 26, 2009!
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on: Jul 13, 2009, 11:26 AM
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The email said something about transferring my account to Yahoo web hosting, which costs $4.95/year with a domain. I guess sites like MySpace and Facebook rendered Geocities obsolete from a business perspective
I just hope they don't pull the plug on Yahoo Groups as well.
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General Topics / Web Links / Geocities closing October 26, 2009!
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on: Jul 13, 2009, 08:21 AM
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I just got an email a few days ago announcing that my website would be gone. Considering how much will be lost, this is pretty big news for the internet in general. I am sure there is quite a bit of FBB stuff still on there, but not for long. Most hasn't been updated in e-aeons, but it is still a good place to dig up some gems. If you don't want to go digging up Web Archive after the closure, you may want to go digging over on the Geocities Main Page (scroll down for search) or use the Google site search.
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