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Stratt... have many thoughts about her, all of them leave a gutwrenching pit in my stomach <3 love herr

the project hail mary universe is one of the only ones out there where orpheus turning around actually saved eurydice btw

brellstudiosart

the obligatory trolley problem post

pansyfemme

sorry for displaying suicidal tendancies do you still think im hot

cyareaxes

Digging this WIP back up just to feel something

joodlesofdoodles

Happy Mother's Day to these two

schrodingers-anarchist

Thinking about how Grace casually gave Rocky a computer with basically All Human Knowledge.

How did the people of Erid feel when they got that? I mean, here's this thinking machine they apparently had no concept of, containing all this advanced knowledge of things they had no idea about like radiation and relativity...

My headcanon is that they're gonna feel like total assholes for not sending something similar back, so they end up using the laptop and Grace to make a human-compatible primer of Eridian science including the recipe for xenonite and their spaceship, then launch it towards Earth.

But the laptop didn't have just science texts; it had fiction and music and games. So they add a bunch of Eridian cultural stuff too.

So now there's this ocassional information exchange between planets lightyears away from each other that use astrophage to send probes full of the latest knowledge and news. By the time the civilizations advance enough to travel and contact, Earth and Erid are like old friends.

autisticlittleguy

Imagine humans getting samples of Eridian music. Imagine the kind of songs developed by a culture who can see sound, have 5 vocal chords, computer brains, and perfect memory. Eridian dubstep would fry your brain. This is giving Doritos to victorian era children all over again.

autisticlittleguy

"Grace Ryland is Rocky's dog" is such a funny fucking dynamic when you think about it

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

But at the same time... imagine youre one of the first ever cosmonauts to make it into space. Then you meet a 10 year old alien dog who cant do 2+2 without pulling out its calculator. It forgets everything constantly and has to keep notes everywhere, like it basically lives in Memento (2000). Also if it doesnt nap constantly it gets even stupider. And you somehow has to reconcile this with the fact that this dog has a better understanding of physics than your entire civilization does. Like the dog knows how the universe started.

autisticlittleguy

This isnt better from Grace's perspective btw. Eridians never developed computers, so all their ship systems are steered using basically the manual labor of 24 Eridians. Also theres no radiation shielding on their ship. Actually im pretty sure half the reason why Rocky is always busy fixing shit is because the radiation keeps frying all the onboard electronics, so hes always building and fixing and replacing components

Like imagine being a modern day sailor navigating the Pacific with GPS and strong hulls to protect against the raging ocean. And from portside you see like an honest to god viking ship. Except its made of some high tech carbon fiber material. But like, its still very definitely a viking ship. You can clearly see there's 24 oars along the hull where sailors are supposed to use to manually row their ship. Also the ship is leaking and theres like one little dude on board whos skittering around patching the holes constantly. Also this little dude is blind and doesnt know about water. Thats how insane Eridians look being an interstellar species without computers or radiation shielding.

Both of them thinks the other one is the completely ridiculous and absurd one and theyre both totally amazed at how far the other has come in spite of it

autisticlittleguy

Ok yeah fish is a better analogy for radiation here. Like theres hundreds of super piranhas poking holes in his ship and hes skittering around constantly patching the holes and rocky is like whats a fish. How dare you make a better analpgy than me on my own post