Travel To Be Proved Wrong

Cait, multi-fandom/whatever I feel like, currently obsessed with critical role

[eldritchblep]

Sir Julien Davinos, First Knight of Avalir Fuck Castle™.

I’ve been doing some Caravaggio studies and a despondent, disassociating Julien felt like good practice <3

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[animentality]

[savs-creates]

The Liar’s Blade

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[gros-chat-fait]

Heard through the grapevines the cats were doing this... whatever this was.

[danielkanhai]

i hate when apps know that i’m screenshotting something. when i screenshot something, that’s me acting outside your realm of understanding, app. i am beyond what you consider the observable universe. you’re not supposed to perceive me. we don’t know when god screenshots the earth. we don’t know when he’s like, “okay i’m just gonna take a pic in case i ever want to add dinosaurs back to something later and don’t remember how.” and if we did, we wouldn’t act all smug about it like, “hey, you wanna share that post? you could just click here to share it.” no, man. you didn’t catch me. i screenshotted this for my own reasons. what’s next? i can’t take a photo of my computer screen with my phone out of laziness without being shamed by the printer i don’t own?

[animentality]

[saintessinthegutter]

Ladies of Dol-Makjar <3

[apolladay]

Hi mod I appreciate your hard work <3 i love this blog very much but I don't have what it takes to mod something like this

Anyway my question is: if you live in a place without well optimized public transit or without public transit at all, do you think people would regularly ride the public transit more, and ride it regularly, if a canal was installed and made to be the most convenient public transit option in your area?

- yes, but people would get bored of it quickly

- yes, and it'd stay a popular choice

- no, cars and walking would still be more convenient

- no, even if the buses and trains aren't well optimized they'd still be more popular

- I live in a place with excellent public transit/and or canals :)

Anyway my question is: if you live in a place without well optimized public transit or without public transit at all, do you think people would regularly ride the public transit more, and ride it regularly, if a canal was installed and made to be the most convenient public transit option in your area?

yes, but people would get bored of it quickly

yes, and it'd stay a popular choice

no, cars and walking would still be more convenient

no, even if the buses and trains aren't well optimized they'd still be more po

I live in a place with excellent public transit/and or canals :)

Remaining time: 5 days 10 minutes

Thank you for the sweet comment 😊 - H :)

[maplewereperyton]

you CANNOT convince me that curling up under a soft blanket isn't one of the absolute best feelings in the world ever

so comfy. so warm. so safe

[searea]

[nuisdrawing]

"Tell me you love me and everything will be fine" "I love you. Everything is going to be more than fine"

[paxamericana]

[official-kircheis]

As per my last clay tablet,

[lurking-latinist]

CCing Ibbi-Ilabrat on this one just to make sure we’re all on the same page!

[ariaste]

“The sesame is visibly dying” makes me lose it every time. My sesame #mysesame

[scribeherself]

There is no drug on earth that can replicate the absolute euphoria of hitting a writing flow state at 2:00 AM. You aren’t even typing anymore. You are a vessel. You are a channel for the gods. The characters are speaking directly into your brain and you’re just the stenographer trying to keep up. You feel like you could fight a bear. You feel like you invented the alphabet

[stonelionhearts]

i think as a writer, the older you get and the more you read, the more you realize there are very few actual truly bad ideas. which is a relief. but! the other thing you learn is that stories live and die on the execution and ha ha. lemme tell you. unfortunately. there are lots and lots of bad ways to execute an otherwise fine idea

[loliwobbles]

“Careful.”

(C4 episode 5 Branching Paths)

Art by @loliwobbles