perchance-rampancy: attractthecrows: You know what I want? Space mythology. Saints of the starship and angels that take their true form as nebulae, great and fiery amorphous beings that speak the will of the Universe Nymphs of asteroid fields and planetary rings, sylphs that fly in the tails of comets and solar wind, the gods of …
Tag Archives: sci fi
needsmoreexplosions: thebrainofmorality: needsmoreexplosions: human: but you’re a robot. you’re not really a living person. you’re just made of electrical signals and processors that make you move and talk. you can’t really think. robot: you’re not really a living person. you’re just made of electrical signals and neurotransmitting chemicals that make you move and talk. you …
z-nogyrop: z-nogyrop: imagine we make contact with an alien species that’s like, vastly technologically superior, they could fucking kill us in a single shot if they really wanted to and this species has never eaten salad before. and we show them salad and they eat it and they’re like holy living fuck this is tasty. …
red3blog: dragon-in-a-fez: randomacts13: maxiesatanofficial: maxiesatanofficial: okay, so, I love all the posts that run off the assumption that humans are the most ridiculous sapient species in the galaxy but what if it’s just the other way around what if humans are notoriously straitlaced and obsessed with protocol. the bureaucrats of the stars. which is obviously …
shinycat69: startrekships: danbensen: exxos-von-steamboldt: gallusrostromegalus: jewishdragon: frosttrix: bigscaryd: animatedamerican: rainaramsay: argumate: gdanskcityofficial: collapsedsquid: argumate: If space travel doesn’t involve sea shanties then I think we’ll have missed an opportunity. You see though, for sea travel you want big strong people who are capable of managing rigging. For space travel you want small low-mass people who …
space-australians: the-real-seebs: madddscience: An interesting sci-fi short story from 4chan. [Imgur] That is some fine writing. The Imgur link is broken so: [Series of posts on 09/16/11] About twelve years ago, a man died in high orbit over Tau Ceti V. His name was Drake McDougal, and aside from a few snapshots and vague anecdotes …
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