These trivia bits are generated randomly.
Raharrs are warm-blooded creatures and are accustomed to temperature range a bit warmer than Earth's.
"Dawn" class mothership and "Lake" class tankers are the only spacecraft in the Exploration fleet that can create artificial gravity while not under acceleration.
If a space ship accelerates at the same rate as it would in a free-fall under Earth's gravity (Otherwise known as "1G acceleration"), it can reach Jupiter from Earth in just under 6 days. It would need to flip in the middle of the travel, to start decelerating and enter the planet's orbit.
Insectoids in a lot of ways are the weird ones among the Alliance members. Besides having a completely unpronounceable name of the species, they have dextero amino acid biochemistry, which makes their food and biosphere to be inedible by the rest of the Alliance, and vice versa.
The names of every species of the Alliance (besides Insectoids) are words taken directly from their respective native languages that they use to refer to themselves. They all have same translation:
"a human".
Azinarsi relationship to death is different from the rest of the civilizations of the Alliance: they do not care about it. Death would mean loss of information and experience gathered by that instance of a person's mind, though, and these two things are about the only valuables for an Uploaded mind, so Azinarsi try to avoid it when possible.
A lot of backgrounds and other elements in the comic are actually 3d models. It helps reduce the time each page takes to make.
Raharrs descended from the evolutionary branch that can be described as "apelike cats" by their evolutionary niche. Although initially carnivorous and solitary, they were forced to become omnivorous and form persistent packs during the latest of the rare ice ages of their homeworld, approximately 30 million years ago.
It takes more than a year to cross the Alliance space even with the fastest FTL drive.
Prior to becoming a webcomic, Leaving The Cradle was initially developed as a modification for Source engine, back in 2007. It was vastly different back then, much closer to the usual space opera look and feel, and the plot had nothing in common with the webcomic version, sharing only exactly two characters and nothing else.
Many homeworlds of the respective species are still divided into countries, but freshly established colonies on other planets are almost always monolithic and basically independent, since they sprawled from a single initial outpost, and time lag involved due to interstellar distances making remote management of the colony from a homeworld to be ineffective and frustrating at best.
There's no way to communicate faster than light. If you want to send your message to another solar system, your best bet is to use a courier spaceship. It can take even a month for it to finally reach the destination, but it still beats sending it as a transmission and expecting it to arrive decades or thousands of years later.
So far there hasn't been a single instance of a massive interstellar war. Due to the vastness of space, there's no territorial or economic gain from it. The presence of armed spaceships is still warranted for keeping space travel safe and for peacekeeping or policing missions since unexpected events or rogue states can still happen and might require force as a solution.
The Alliance space stretches for an impressive 16 thousand light years along the longest axis, and contains approximately twelve billion star systems. Despite that, 99.99% of those star systems weren't explored even by an automatic mapping drone yet, and the borders of the Alliance space are defined mostly by the reach of spaceships from the nearest colony or space station.
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You were warned the signal-to-noise ratio is awful.
but I [haven't] found any clarifications
The conspiracy sites will throw them for a loop. Conjecture and skipped steps, utter bullshit, and things that have things going for it but are locked behind classification walls, all swim together. And unfortunately, finding legitimate sites discussing the same events and casting doubt is gonna be hard. Places of intense and serious discussion limit themselves to obscure corners. Or occasionally /pol/.
They likely don't have any idea of the amorphous flags of good and bad sites too. We often just glance at a website, and can tell if it's good/bad based on some arbitrary characteristics or a heuristics based on exposure. Even an AI going a million miles a second is going to lose bearings if it doesn't build those connections quickly, or stumble over the material IDing the most obvious signs.
Yes, we’re constantly shocked ourselves by how stupid some of us insist on being.
Your four-armed aliens remind me of Kelpies for some reason. Flesh eating horses with the shape of thier face and structure of their teeth.
Your four armed aliens remind me of Kelpies for some reason.
How long before they discover Discworld and learn it's turtles all the way down?
I’m wondering when they’ll find out about the Federation and Starfleet.
Probably already have. Quantum at least knows about Warsies, and Trekkies are about as well-known.
"Well, we found flat-earthers, but still no signs of intelligent life..."
They can have a laugh over the flat plan'ers, lovely
My god...it all makes sense. Jesus was a carpenter, so of course the Earth would be shaped like a woodworking tool. This means the sun is a wood burner, the universe a plank, and the stars mere knots; imperfections to be worked out by the divine lumber artisan.
huge if true
Hmmm, does that make the hollow-earthers worshippers of The Heinous Woodworm?
A lot of folks think the flat earth folks are just tweeking the public. In ham radio we have a joke that all electronics is powered by smoke. When you let the smoke out , your electronics quit, which is true, but those who don't understand electronics, don't understand how to interpret, or argue the point. I have presented points to prove flat earth wrong based on observations and geography, and have yet to get a reply form a flat earther. Such as driving west in Kansas, you will begin to see the Rocky mountains in Colorado. the further west you drive the higher the mountains get. camping near the mountains you watch the sunrise come down the mountain as the sun rises over the curve of the earth.
It really is hard to imagine a worldview that would make someone actually believe the earth is flat. Quite apart from doing your own tests, the flatheads claim that there's some kind of conspiracy to keep "the truth" from the public. But there are so many different jobs, hobbies and technologies that either depend on or regularly expose the earth's shape that such a conspiracy would require paying hush money to multiple percent of the entire human race, and the requisite window dressing would cost billions of dollars every day atop that. That many people can't keep a secret even if all but one of them are dead.
And asking why anyone would bother with such a masquerade tends to earn a surprised pikachu face, followed by a reason that flies in the face of what most global elites actually want.