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- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built date "2011-02-11".
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built first "Annalee".
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built isCitedBy Mind_(The_Culture).
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built isCitedBy Orbital_(The_Culture).
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built last "Newitz".
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built quote "One of the most fascinating elements of the Culture is its ruling group - the Minds. The Minds are AIs who live for hundreds of years, and plunk themselves into many different bodies: ships, halo worlds called Orbitals, and cyborgs called Avatars. [...] Culture starships - that is all classes of ship above inter-planetary - are sentient; their Minds bear the same relation to the fabric of the ship as a human brain does to the human body [...]".
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built quote "The attraction of Orbitals is their matter efficiency. For one planet the size of Earth , it would be possible, using the same amount of matter, to build 1,500 full orbitals, each one boasting a surface area twenty times that of Earth and eventually holding a maximum population of perhaps 50 billion people . Not, of course, that the Culture would do anything as delinquent as actually deconstructing a planet to make Orbitals; simply removing the sort of wandering debris which the average solar system comes equipped with and which would threaten such an artificial world's integrity through collision almost always in itself provides sufficient material for the construction of at least one full Orbital , while interstellar matter in the form of dust clouds, brown dwarfs and the like provides more distant mining sites from which the amount of mass required for several complete Orbitals may be removed with negligible effect.".
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built title "Welcome to the Culture, the Galactic Civilization That Iain M. Banks Built".
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built url welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built.
- welcome-to-the-culture-the-galactic-civilization-that-iain-m-banks-built work "io9.com".