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How Could A 19th century setting effectively Saddle and ride a domesticated Sivatherium Giganteum
Worldbuilding is about research and imagination
We need to analyze the animal we're dealing with. We have the benefit of thousands of years of hindsight in saddle design, so let's put it to work. We ...
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How Could A 19th century setting effectively Saddle and ride a domesticated Sivatherium Giganteum
First things first: Let's look at a lifelike reconstruction of the animal:
and its skeleton:
... and note that Wikipedia (from which these images were sourced) says that:
Sivatherium resembled the ...
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How do we replace printing by automated writing?
Morse code, messages can be encoded using 2 characters. while tradition Morse code uses dits and dahs based on the sound. they are also known as dots and dashes based on marks made on paper by a pen ...
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How do we replace printing by automated writing?
Lissajous curves
They are made by simple mechanism that combines one horizontal and one vertical oscillator - two perpendicular vibrating springs with affixed pencil that draws sum of their vibrations....
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