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Fan funded sci fi series L5 - first episode out!
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Arec Bardwin
#1 - 2012-02-22 13:15:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Arec Bardwin
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Imagine returning from an exhausting adventure only to find that your home is abandoned, empty. Not just your home, but your neighborhood, your city, in fact, everyone, everywhere, seems to be missing. This is what happens to the crew of the first manned mission to Barnard's Star - they return after awakening from suspended animation to find that their ship-board AI has sent them on a relativistic tour of the stellar neighborhood while they slumbered, dilating time so severely that nearly 200 years have passed on Earth. After coming to, they discover their vessel is adrift at LaGrange point 5, within visual range of a vast O'Neill cylinder-colony. The night side of the Earth shows no lights, and no one answers their calls across all frequencies. They have no choice but to dock with the colony and explore its cavernous interior in the hopes of finding help. When they find the colony to be airless and devoid of life, the remains of human civilization baking in the Sun for decades, their predicament becomes even more dire. Following in the traditions of great legendary hard science fiction, their exploration of this relic of their own civilization will take them on a trans-humanistic and spiritual sojourn.


If you are a fan of science fiction I'd say it's worth checking it out. I'm really looking forward to the next episode! Too bad it could potentially be months before the next one is done.

http://vodo.net/l5
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#2 - 2012-02-22 14:04:46 UTC
Wow! L5! I mean, the L that comes after L4! And then will come L6!

I am ecstatic!
Liam Mirren
#3 - 2012-02-22 15:08:27 UTC
WTF is L5, it's not like your link actually explains it.

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Arec Bardwin
#4 - 2012-02-22 20:51:03 UTC
OP edited to be more informative.
Ludi Tomina
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-02-23 10:44:34 UTC
I'm at work so I can't download torrents from here. Are those links for full episode? (I don't want to download a trailer)
Arec Bardwin
#6 - 2012-02-23 11:24:38 UTC
Torrent links under trailer are for full episode.
Ludi Tomina
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-02-23 13:11:43 UTC
Arec Bardwin wrote:
Torrent links under trailer are for full episode.


Tnx, will check out when I get home.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2012-02-24 18:27:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Grimpak
Liam Mirren wrote:
WTF is L5, it's not like your link actually explains it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point


TL;DR: there are 5 points in a planet's orbit around the sun (and a moon's orbit around a planet) that require little energy to maintain position, called Lagrange points.

L5 is one of the two more stable points (L4 and L5), the other 3 only being "somewhat" stable.

due to this stability, both L4 and L5 are considered to be prime points to setup deep space colonies.

or, if you want a wikipedia explanation:

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The easiest way to understand the resulting stability is to say L1, L2, and L3 positions are as stable as a ball balanced on the tip of a wedge would be stable: any disturbance will toss it out of equilibrium. The L4, and L5 positions are stable as a ball at the bottom of a bowl would be stable: small perturbations will move it out of place, but it will drift back toward the center of the bowl.

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