#phm liveblog

[kittykatninja321]

Carl is so much fun and “Carl and I made a baby” is a line in the movie and people still had to grab markiplier from a completely different movie to make a yaoi ship because you hate black people that much like omg you people deserve nothing

[securitycapecreature]

phm chapter 8

we starting on Earth again

Stratt kept vaguely saying they were going to provide a heat source capable of keeping up, but nothing had come of it yet.

seems someones not so omnipotent

Stratt had to nudge me to make me stop working at all.

remembre to like, eat and sleep and such

She actually backed away. “The Ryland Grace? Author of ‘Na Analysis of Water-Based Assumptions and Recalibration of Expectations for Evolutionary Models’?”

someones faaaaaaaaaaaaaamous

“Infamous,” said Lokken.

same thing

“Of course it does. Two life-forms independently evolved to require water—”

not how proof works im pretty sure

“This idiot thinks Astrophage evolved independently, but it’s obvious Astrophage and Earth life are related!” “That’s fascinating, but—”

stratt doesnt give a shit

beat them up! (i say to both during this fight)

“I don’t see any way around it, unless you invented artificial gravity.” “We have invented artificial gravity,” Lokken insisted. “A long time ago.

stratt you dont know the science well enough to ignore people, you should already have known this

“I know she means a centrifuge,” Stratt said. “What do you think?”

then why did you act like you didnt have that?

It’s a good mass ratio for a centrifuge. It could work.” “Thank you,” said Lokken

Science tearing people apart and bringing people together

Had someone actually changed her mind on something?

its so important shes willing to do that, still needs to be more willing to listen but im glad she will do it at all

“Hmm,” said Stratt. “Grace? Your thoughts?”

her special little guy

“You’re with us now, Dr. Lokken. Pack a bag and meet us at Genève Aéroport. Terminal 3, private plane called Stratt.”

congrats lokken!! you also got kidnapped!

seems thats just a thing stratt could do to anyone, anyone could be next, could be me could be you

Below those is a button labeled “Engage Centrifuge Sequence.”

lets make! some! gravity!

Got to love computers. They do all the thinking for you so you don’t have to.

if theres one thing i learned in programming is that they sure as hell dont

my head, the Petrovascope screen changes to lockout mode. That confirms my earlier suspicion that the ship’s maneuvering engines are Astrophage-based.

everything here is atrophage based love

Extremely complicated stuff, but also not my problem. It’s up to the computer to deal with.

oh if it were all this easy

wonder what rocky thinks is going on, you send a new friend a gift and they split in 2 and start spinning

The Blip-A spins in space. It rotates end-over-end, probably at the exact same rate as the Hail Mary.

we going weeeeeeeeeee together :)

I get a hammer and chisel. I want a small chip of the cylinder material for the gás chromatograph—that way I’ll know what elements it’s made of. After a few smacks with the hammer, the chisel chips. The cylinder isn’t even dented.

this xenonite shit Strong

Why did I run the test so many times? Because those results make no sense at all. Xenon is a noble gas. It doesn’t react with anything. It doesn’t form bonds with anything.

theres an alien ship out there and something eating the sun, let the nobles form bonds or whatever i dont know chemestry

What do I even call noble gases that react with things? Ignobles?

gas?

Both halves have complicated stuff going on inside. They look like…models of some kind? They both feature whisker thin poles sticking up from their bases, leading to spheres of various sizes.

i clocked map so fast when in the cinema i was so proud

I find a huge spreadsheet with the information I need, bring it into Excel (Stratt loves well-tested, off-the-shelf products), and do a bunch of operations on it. Soon, I have the data plot I wanted. And it matches.

we doing this on excel? i guess it could be worse

Then I’m suddenly very interested in that little filamento connecting the center sphere (Tau Ceti) to another sphere. I check the corresponding star in my catalog: It’s called 40 Eridani. But I bet the crew of the Blip-A call it home.

yeah!!! hi erid im sorry youre dying

But the most likely, in my admittedly biased opinion, is that they’re here to find a solution. Aliens. Actual aliens

we can work together!!

I don’t remember, of course. It takes me a while of searching and not-quite swearing while I do, but I eventually find it.

thanks for specifing you dont swear

(that’s what I’m calling this weird alien compound, and no one can stop me)

no was was going to??

I correctly identify which one of the little stars in the model is Sol (Earth’s sun).

see, sol is just the word for sun in portuguese, so this line would probably sound like "the sun (earths sun)" which still Works but does read diferent

I take a look. The sleek, thin lines of the xenonite whiskers are ruined by my crooked, blob-ended solder addition and crappy wax model. It’s like someone added a crayon drawing into the corner of a Da Vinci, but it will have to do.

asthetics are not the priority here

I try to screw the top and bottom of the doohickey back together. They refuse to mate.

this would not be a problem for me cause i fuck up normal screwing things so often id think its on me that i didnt get it the first time

cant help but wonder how rockys thinking or what theyre thinking

What if Eridians have a life-span of 2 million years and waiting a century to reply is considered polite? How am I going to get rid of this red 7 on the rightmost pile? I don’t have any black 8s in my deck and—

equaly important questions

I guess they saw that’s where I exited and reentered the ship and decided to make things easier for me. Very considerate of them

again, rockys literally nice! stop worrying about your iminente death

They want to meet

yeah they do!!!! go say hi!!!

also movie rocky did Not ask for permission before connecting which was kinda scary as fuck, i get youre excited but this is much more, well, considerate

grace doesnt even know rocky yet and already likes them, its awesome

[symbioticsimplicity]

God I love Stratt and her propensity for just kidnapping the scientists she needs.

[fillinglacunae]

how come rocky and ryland have learned each others’ words for hydrogen and shit and have been talking for like 4 days but haven’t told each other their names in their own language yet??

[sunflowercider]

-wakes up and immediately grabs phone- hey wait a minute if all these stars are dying bc of astrophage, that means all of these systems have planets with carbon dioxide. That. That feels like during non-emergency times that would be a crazy discovery

[effervescent-fool]

probably one of the most revealing paragraphs for stratts character. ive seen some people say that she isn't a "complex" character because she talks about these decisions like they're easy. but it takes a complex person to be able to make them easy. she's doing what nobody else could and doing it with the knowledge that no one will thank her.

[thelittleoddling]

Finally reading PHM so enjoy this live blog of my thoughts.

We are starting off strong with some diagrams. I’m a very simple man and I love when books have diagrams, maps, little doodles, etc.

[woundsmell]

"knock knock"

"whos there :)"

"im not good at jokes."

SHES JUST LIKE ME FR!!!!!!!!