Discover The Wonders Of Masaq' Orbital: A Traveller’s Guide - The Culture Lore
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- Today, we're exploring Masaq' Orbital. This artificial world, a testament to the ingenuity of the Culture, offers a unique travel experience. Please note, this is a lore video that deep dives The Culture series by Iain M Banks so there will be major SPOILERS.
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Thanks D. Well-written, interesting and well-presented.
As well as having billions of simultaneous conversations with the Orbital inhabitants, the Mind is probably having a wee chat with itself. Multitasking eh?!
Another lovely clip Darrel. Always appreciated, thanks! 👍🖖
Okey Dokey .... the star looks a tad cooler than old Sol, so I'm guessing light will take something under 8 mins to reach the Orbital and stellar flares substantially longer. More than enough time, I'd submit, for an AI worth it's salt to divert said flares. I mean ... even JMC's Holly could manage some sort of evasive move and The Culture seems a tad beyond Red Dwarf, tech-wise.
I'll pass on tbe lava rafting, but the naked blade fencing sounds like something to improve the old reflexes and the 'Virtual Seediness' may have it's attractions. 👿
Little Englandshire hasn't half got depressing of late .... Where do I sign up?
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!!
Thanks, Darrel! Hype Word is a great YT channel! 🙂
Thanks!
"Hype Word"?
Hello, Darrel!
I just finished watching Rebel Moon: Part 2 - The Scargiver. After the first film, my expectations weren't high (I told my friends back then that Snyder should rather stop making films and instead focus on shooting commercials and music videoclips only); however, I can now say that the second instalment is definitely better and more coherent. No more nonsensical 'would-be-characterizations', far less plotholes, and no more strange editing (as in scene/sequence structuring) where it felt like decent chunks of the proper story were omitted. The Scargiver even made me truly like and care for 6 out of the "Magnificent 8".
After the initial disappointment of the first one, if you go into this one with the knowledge that it is going to be 'yet-another-version-of' Seven Samurai, then you can switch off and quite enjoy it as an almost mindless fun. 🙂
Thanks for letting me know. I did review the first and wasn’t impressed so I wasn’t going to bother with the second but I may have to rethink 😀
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Both films are trash!! The second one is really less "trashy", though. Both are a guilty pleasure of mine. :)
Similar to the structures in Niven's Ringworld series. Cool video, I am starting to read the Culture Series and it is really engaging so far. Hard sci-fi is so much better than unrealistic garbage like Star Trek or Stargate as it offers a glimpse of our possible future. Megastructures, much like hard sci-fi when conceived realistically, offers a probable future for humanity, reality is better because the future allows for things like this in a realistic way, not fantastical technologies like phasers, warp speed or transporters etc. In theory space travel is possible via space folding or even through wormholes, if they exist. I could easily see humanity building megastructures like this in the future, God allowing
You have inspired me to keep going in the Culture series....keep getting distracted by other books. Thanks for your effort and great content!
This video make me want to start reading this series ASAP.
@@rosesareredbutzerglingssti9290 It's been 3 days ago, so you've already started? :D
@@daxbashir6232 Not yet. Me and my young brother are taking care of our dad: he was a very active man, but after he gone blind, we are devoting all our hours to take care of him. To worsen the things, his sister and nephews at Rio de Janeiro (I'm Brazilian) also needs our help. They are... problematic.
Whenever someone asks "What fictional universe/society would you live in if given the choice," I always say the Culture. Preferrably post Idirian war.
No Futurama? 🙂
@@subraxas Haha, absolutely not.
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And what about the "lovely" universe of Warhammer 40,000?
A place where your life and Human rights do not matter at all. 😛
@@subraxas LOL!!
Great presentation and video, though that first ringworld animation is the wrong one for discussing a Banks orbital; they don't have a central 'sun'.
it would be great to see your take on Adrian Tchaikovsky's The final Architecture series, haven't read them myself yet but they're on my list
Thank you for your videos.
I can't help but wonder if the extreme sports like lava rafting are a hint that living in a near utopian society may not be fulfilling as one might expect.
Can we get a video on the Air Spheres in Look to Windward??
Oooo good suggestion 👍
Cool! Do we know the mountain heights? Recent work in the Himalayas has shown Earth's gravity will overcome all but a few peaks over 6000 m, but elsewhere? I guess Masaq spins to generate 1 g? Fun video.
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@@John_259 Thanks, that looks promising. 😀
What you are describing sounds like Jerry Pournel's Ringworld series. I've read 4 or 5 Banks Culture novels but don't remember this one....
Larry Niven wrote Ringworld, Pournel collaborated with him later
It’s from “Look to Windward”.
I don't get the cable car. Why would they still use anything like this when they are so super-advanced?
Nowadays you can go to a run-of-the-mill toy shop and purchase there fairly cheap pocket-sized propeller-driven flying drone for your little brat. Something like this would have been pure science-fiction back in the early 2000s; meaning not that long ago.
So at the age of the Culture anti-gravity tech must be similarly a commonplace. You could go to their toy shop and be able to casually purchase there for pocket money a toy drone that could levitate and fly thanks to miniaturized anti-grav repulsors (a tech term from the Star Wars universe). No sweat!
So why the cable car? Does anyone from there like ancient retro or what? :D
If you could direct me to the nearest Culture agent? Thanks! ;-)
For reals. Present-day Earth is disappointing enough without that ^^^ for comparison.
RIP Vavach Orbital
The world of the Culture is a very enticing one, I'd love to be a citizen of the same myself. But this idea of backing yourself up just in case makes no sense, your still dead, its just a copy of you from a given moment in time that carries on, thinking its you but really isn't, your dead and gone.
GenX work because we have to, not because we like it and want to. Oh, we'll complain, but we do it because the alternative is worse. The newer generations have serious issues with having to do and accept things they don't like. We, on the other hand, fully expect that our lives are going to be filled with things we don't like, we just deal with them realistically and understand that there are varying degrees of shitty; we go for what gives us the least shitty life. Think for a minute, kids, what's shittier,: Having to work, or being homeless and hungry?
0:15 Already now I see a lore error. The Culture prefers orbitals with 75% water (oceans, lakes, rivers) and 25% land. The depicted orbital appears to be the reverse, 70-80% land and 30-20% water. Even if some orbitals go below 75%, because of course that will occur, they’d never go much lower.
And yeah, the central sun is another error.
One error I expected, based on the thumbnail, but which wasn’t actually committed, is to depict Culture orbitals as urban, because they’re extremely rural. There are no cities, and a large town might house a hundred thousand people. Almost all of the tens of billions live out in the countryside, in small villages, or somewhat isolated houses like the one Gurgeh designed and lived in in “Player of Games”, or family manors like the one Gurgeh grew up in.
I think the illustrations used here are not specifically depicting Masaq but are chosen to give a general impression of its wonders: given the actual size and proportions of the orbital is extremely hard to depict accurately…