Saw disclosure day today. As a film, as a narrative and as entertainment, it's pretty bad.
As a kind of 'previously on Ufology' catch up sequence for the weirder parts of the phenomenon, it kind of works.
Interesting to think about.
@_dalty_ After years of depression, my solution is spite. I will stay here to spite whatever forces are causing me to feel this way. I'm not being hyperbolic, this is genuinely where I'm at. Fuck you universe, not today bitch!
@drizzylitfw Took a few grams. was looking at my chilli plant on the same table as a peace lilly (diff plant pot). Out of nowhere the chilli plant 'says' in my mind: 'This guy is in my personal space'. It seemed annoyed. I moved the lilly and the chilli plant has way healthier ever since. 🤷
@MrProWestie Ahhh man, Couldn't disagree more.
Defined classes (and yes class locked weapons are part of that) are a foundation of Battlefield's DNA.
Bad take imo, I really hope most people disagree with you.
Why would you want BF6 to be less of a BF?
@JSE_9099@chrisramsay52 Used to be called a 'Iridium flare' after a telecommunications company which used a fleet of highly reflective satellites. Basically you were standing in the right spot at the right time for something in orbit to reflect the sunlight directly at you for a second or 2.
@Truthful_ast Why anyone is tribal about aerospace companies is beyond me. I want to see all of them succeed because I want to see humanity's future in space as soon as possible. Competition breeds innovation.
I'll squee at New Glenn's first launch like I squeed at the Super Heavy catch. 🚀
Just in case it wasn't clear, I don't think this really happened. The ability of the human brain to create realistic but false experiences is fascinating.
I totally understand why people may think they have been abducted by aliens. Last night I had the whole experience. Floated out of my window into a craft. A 'being' standing by my bed after I was 'returned', the whole package. Sleep paralysis and hypnagogia are wild af. 👽
Europa is about the same size as Earth's moon – yet evidence suggests that, beneath its surface, it has more water than all Earth's oceans combined! See why we think this is the case and the implications for life.
This is what will matter 1000 years from now.
Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.
This guy reignited the Space Age.
He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.
This is history happening before you.
If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.
We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.
Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.
Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.
Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.
Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.
Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.
Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.
None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.
More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.
America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.
Because this changes everything.
All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.
All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.
Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.
But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.
You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.
But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.
If the puddlefish don't get in the way.
Don't be a puddlefish.