How bad is the bite? Might be worth getting it looked at, or at least some solid septic creams just given how quickly those can become badly infected.
t: Have had to get a friend to hospital in a country that didn't speak english less then twelve hours after getting bitten because of how enflamed it had become.
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How bad is the bite? Might be worth getting it looked at, or at least some solid septic creams just given how quickly those can become badly infected.
t: Have had to get a friend to hospital in a country that didn't speak english less then twelve hours after getting bitten because of how enflamed it had become.
we are the walking dead
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
How bad is the bite? Might be worth getting it looked at, or at least some solid septic creams just given how quickly those can become badly infected.
t: Have had to get a friend to hospital in a country that didn't speak english less then twelve hours after getting bitten because of how enflamed it had become.
just bruises. didn't break the skin. that would have been kinda weird.
B was staying sober for fire safety purposes and regularily caught me and made me sit down so she could disinfect any fresh wounds
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I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
EDIT: Other things to avoid thinking about - that future Futurama episode where they travel to the end of the universe.
Planets that support life in a format we are aware exists are very very few, and so far apart that by the time light from them ever reaches us (or the inverse) we will have long since passed into oblivion.
The universe is probably littered with thousands - tens of thousands of flashes in the pan as successful as ours, if not moreso.
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i have hundreds of games and every game i play today leaves me feeling like I'm not having as much fun as i could.
If I could just not be constantly trying to survive in the games industry I could be learning how to make the game that would let you have as much fun as you could.
I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
i think the "solution" to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL doesn't exist, anywhere
there is no solution to the sheer vastness of space and our assumption that alien life would and should be out there exploring and broadcasting into space like we want to, in a way that we can currently detect, is this weird kind of humanocentrism
there is life out there, it just doesn't give a shit about us and it's making no special effort to find us, and there's no magic way to get faster between the stars so there's generally not a lot of interestellar travel going on.
i have hundreds of games and every game i play today leaves me feeling like I'm not having as much fun as i could.
If I could just not be constantly trying to survive in the games industry I could be learning how to make the game that would let you have as much fun as you could.
I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
EDIT: Other things to avoid thinking about - that future Futurama episode where they travel to the end of the universe.
Planets that support life in a format we are aware exists are very very few, and so far apart that by the time light from them ever reaches us (or the inverse) we will have long since passed into oblivion.
The universe is probably littered with thousands - tens of thousands of flashes in the pan as successful as ours, if not moreso.
See the part that's really bothersome though is that it would only take 1 surviving for a very long time to make their presence known on essentially every habitable planet in the galaxy - if they wanted to. There's almost certainly more then 1 which has, so why didn't they, or what did they end up doing instead?
Also it's occurred to me that in terms of government and social policy, the discovery of an archive of more advanced species history would be pretty much the rosetta stone of civic planning. An actual roadmap of one or several civilizations which dealt with advanced technology, and what did and did not work, would be staggeringly valuable.
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i have hundreds of games and every game i play today leaves me feeling like I'm not having as much fun as i could.
If I could just not be constantly trying to survive in the games industry I could be learning how to make the game that would let you have as much fun as you could.
I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
i think the "solution" to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL doesn't exist, anywhere
there is no solution to the sheer vastness of space and our assumption that alien life would and should be out there exploring and broadcasting into space like we want to, in a way that we can currently detect, is this weird kind of humanocentrism
there is life out there, it just doesn't give a shit about us and it's making no special effort to find us, and there's no magic way to get faster between the stars so there's generally not a lot of interestellar travel going on.
Kind of tangential, but I'd like to think that alien life probably lives on like a vastly different timescale than we do.
Like there's a good chance it lives and dies on scales that would make it almost completely impossible for us to really interface with it on any level.
I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
i think the "solution" to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL doesn't exist, anywhere
there is no solution to the sheer vastness of space and our assumption that alien life would and should be out there exploring and broadcasting into space like we want to, in a way that we can currently detect, is this weird kind of humanocentrism
there is life out there, it just doesn't give a shit about us and it's making no special effort to find us, and there's no magic way to get faster between the stars so there's generally not a lot of interestellar travel going on.
Kind of tangential, but I'd like to think that alien life probably lives on like a vastly different timescale than we do.
Like there's a good chance it lives and dies on scales that would make it almost completely impossible for us to really interface with it on any level.
Like talking to Ents x 1000.
Yeah, but that life has no special reason to be more advanced than the essentially immortal fungus we have here on Earth.
Intelligence evolves when it helps a species to survive, otherwise it's just a waste of energy.
I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
i think the "solution" to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL doesn't exist, anywhere
there is no solution to the sheer vastness of space and our assumption that alien life would and should be out there exploring and broadcasting into space like we want to, in a way that we can currently detect, is this weird kind of humanocentrism
there is life out there, it just doesn't give a shit about us and it's making no special effort to find us, and there's no magic way to get faster between the stars so there's generally not a lot of interestellar travel going on.
This was, incidentally, my interpretation of what was going on in the Gears of War series and why they had this oddly whacky technology level. The whole civilization was the descendants of human colonization in a universe without FTL. So we'd landed on this planet with an ecosystem we didn't fully understand, but there was no where left to go after that anyway.
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I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
i think the "solution" to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL doesn't exist, anywhere
there is no solution to the sheer vastness of space and our assumption that alien life would and should be out there exploring and broadcasting into space like we want to, in a way that we can currently detect, is this weird kind of humanocentrism
there is life out there, it just doesn't give a shit about us and it's making no special effort to find us, and there's no magic way to get faster between the stars so there's generally not a lot of interestellar travel going on.
Kind of tangential, but I'd like to think that alien life probably lives on like a vastly different timescale than we do.
Like there's a good chance it lives and dies on scales that would make it almost completely impossible for us to really interface with it on any level.
Like talking to Ents x 1000.
Yeah, but that life has no special reason to be more advanced than the essentially immortal fungus we have here on Earth.
Intelligence evolves when it helps a species to survive, otherwise it's just a waste of energy.
Well, yeah, but the concept that there's other intelligent life somewhere in the universe is sort of like the concept that there's other life that uses wing-like structures to "fly" somewhere in the universe: given that life happens frequently enough (which I don't really know), then it's not strange to assume it might happen many times across the universe.
i don't know the specifics of our attempts to contact alien life but i suspect its been throwing messages in bottles into the vastness of space
two ships, etc.
sci fi really changes dramatically once you take FTL out of the equation
like if you say "no FTL" (or any other kind of FTL-like conceits like wormholes or mass effect relays or any of that) then suddenly you're in a much harder, more grounded place and if you're writing something with any kind of realistic scale to how fucking big space is you start to understand just how ridiculous fretting about stuff like Fermi is
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Our current attempts to contact alien life are idiotic unless we assume they're in orbit.
We've been looking for half a century, that's a 50ly search radius
Might as well spit in the ocean and hope you hit a squid
If you assume advanced alien life doesn't use radio waves in a way that would broadcast themselves and that they don't really care about life on earth then it stops being a paradox and more a case of them just not being into us because we smell.
sci fi really changes dramatically once you take FTL out of the equation
like if you say "no FTL" (or any other kind of FTL-like conceits like wormholes or mass effect relays or any of that) then suddenly you're in a much harder, more grounded place and if you're writing something with any kind of realistic scale to how fucking big space is you start to understand just how ridiculous fretting about stuff like Fermi is
Incidentally you should look up the lore for Rimworld. The whole game-verse is set in exactly this type of place, to the extent that space-travel has a weird type of fatalism to it.
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The paradox is really stupid and doesn't take into account anything about the realities of space as we currently know it.
As sad as it is, without FTL it becomes really ridiculous to dream of going to other solar systems.
Not only will you not survive it without cold sleep and incredible AI manning and repairing the ship, but you'll be completely cut off from the rest of the species and the world forever, and you'll get no support from anything but crazy libertarian would-be god-kings.
Our current attempts to contact alien life are idiotic unless we assume they're in orbit.
We've been looking for half a century, that's a 50ly search radius
Might as well spit in the ocean and hope you hit a squid
Actually we're mostly not trying. There's been no serious effort to contact alien life other then the 1 or 2 publicity stunt messages which definitely won't find anyone.
The exciting stuff has been the developments in technology what mean when we find an Earth-like we'll be able to do spectroscopy on it's atmosphere, and the use of the planet-hunting survey data by SETI to direct their searches.
If you assume advanced alien life doesn't use radio waves in a way that would broadcast themselves and that they don't really care about life on earth then it stops being a paradox and more a case of them just not being into us because we smell.
What if the aliens are sapient germs and our immune systems attack them automatically as soon as they meet humans?
I really should stop thinking about things late at night.
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
i think the "solution" to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL doesn't exist, anywhere
But even if you plug in just the fastest speed that human shuttles have reached, you still get most of the galaxy being colonized.
Colonized by who? Aliens who want to die on a space ship so that their great great great great great grandkids can spend a thousand years developing a world in order to send out another ship full of their kids who they will never see again?
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I found a bitemark I can't recall getting, though
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I haven't heard a peep about Honey Boo-Boo in a year so I assume that show, at least, was canceled.
that they are alcoholic, neglectful parents is the story here
but that's not how the show is framed
yeah, that got cancelled because momma boo boo's boyfriend is a child molester and that's bad for ad revenue
Well yeah.
the mom made a rather big mistake involving her dating a child molester and letting him into the home.
so TLC had to pull the plug.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
You've built up a tolerance. Unplug for a month and dry out.
tbf most games aren't like amazing or anything
wasn't that show cancelled after it turned out her mom was dating a child molester or something
How bad is the bite? Might be worth getting it looked at, or at least some solid septic creams just given how quickly those can become badly infected.
t: Have had to get a friend to hospital in a country that didn't speak english less then twelve hours after getting bitten because of how enflamed it had become.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
she also wamts to paw at and nibble on your hand when you pet her
crazy cat
Last night's theme was thinking that planets are turning out to be pretty common in the galaxy, so where the hell is all the intelligent life?
Basically my conclusion was Reapers (elder gods) are probably real, and the only comfort is that our generation isn't the one that gets eaten.
EDIT: Other things to avoid thinking about - that future Futurama episode where they travel to the end of the universe.
just bruises. didn't break the skin. that would have been kinda weird.
B was staying sober for fire safety purposes and regularily caught me and made me sit down so she could disinfect any fresh wounds
Planets that support life in a format we are aware exists are very very few, and so far apart that by the time light from them ever reaches us (or the inverse) we will have long since passed into oblivion.
The universe is probably littered with thousands - tens of thousands of flashes in the pan as successful as ours, if not moreso.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
If I could just not be constantly trying to survive in the games industry I could be learning how to make the game that would let you have as much fun as you could.
Also maybe more.
It might kill you.
i think the "solution" to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL doesn't exist, anywhere
there is no solution to the sheer vastness of space and our assumption that alien life would and should be out there exploring and broadcasting into space like we want to, in a way that we can currently detect, is this weird kind of humanocentrism
there is life out there, it just doesn't give a shit about us and it's making no special effort to find us, and there's no magic way to get faster between the stars so there's generally not a lot of interestellar travel going on.
Opium Den 64.
See the part that's really bothersome though is that it would only take 1 surviving for a very long time to make their presence known on essentially every habitable planet in the galaxy - if they wanted to. There's almost certainly more then 1 which has, so why didn't they, or what did they end up doing instead?
Also it's occurred to me that in terms of government and social policy, the discovery of an archive of more advanced species history would be pretty much the rosetta stone of civic planning. An actual roadmap of one or several civilizations which dealt with advanced technology, and what did and did not work, would be staggeringly valuable.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Kind of tangential, but I'd like to think that alien life probably lives on like a vastly different timescale than we do.
Like there's a good chance it lives and dies on scales that would make it almost completely impossible for us to really interface with it on any level.
Like talking to Ents x 1000.
Yeah, but that life has no special reason to be more advanced than the essentially immortal fungus we have here on Earth.
Intelligence evolves when it helps a species to survive, otherwise it's just a waste of energy.
This was, incidentally, my interpretation of what was going on in the Gears of War series and why they had this oddly whacky technology level. The whole civilization was the descendants of human colonization in a universe without FTL. So we'd landed on this planet with an ecosystem we didn't fully understand, but there was no where left to go after that anyway.
Does the horse put this on its mantle in its horse house?
Well, yeah, but the concept that there's other intelligent life somewhere in the universe is sort of like the concept that there's other life that uses wing-like structures to "fly" somewhere in the universe: given that life happens frequently enough (which I don't really know), then it's not strange to assume it might happen many times across the universe.
two ships, etc.
...do you mean stable or are horses watch ESPN in a living room after work now?
like if you say "no FTL" (or any other kind of FTL-like conceits like wormholes or mass effect relays or any of that) then suddenly you're in a much harder, more grounded place and if you're writing something with any kind of realistic scale to how fucking big space is you start to understand just how ridiculous fretting about stuff like Fermi is
We've been looking for half a century, that's a 50ly search radius
Might as well spit in the ocean and hope you hit a squid
Or a squid.
Incidentally you should look up the lore for Rimworld. The whole game-verse is set in exactly this type of place, to the extent that space-travel has a weird type of fatalism to it.
It is incredibly outmoded
Not only will you not survive it without cold sleep and incredible AI manning and repairing the ship, but you'll be completely cut off from the rest of the species and the world forever, and you'll get no support from anything but crazy libertarian would-be god-kings.
As a kid I did not clock that Jeff Goldblum spends most of the movie either hitting on Laura Dern, or essentially shirtless.
I also discovered the "Clever Girl" guy died of cancer really young. That's pretty sad.
It still holds up pretty well though!
Actually we're mostly not trying. There's been no serious effort to contact alien life other then the 1 or 2 publicity stunt messages which definitely won't find anyone.
The exciting stuff has been the developments in technology what mean when we find an Earth-like we'll be able to do spectroscopy on it's atmosphere, and the use of the planet-hunting survey data by SETI to direct their searches.
What if the aliens are sapient germs and our immune systems attack them automatically as soon as they meet humans?
Intergalactic war, that's what!
Colonized by who? Aliens who want to die on a space ship so that their great great great great great grandkids can spend a thousand years developing a world in order to send out another ship full of their kids who they will never see again?