2026-10-01 12:32 UTC
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@mjc0961@mastodon.social 2026-10-01 15:06
@Sheril@mastodon.social And what do we do with our fragile slice of space and time? Destroy it with fossil fuels and bombing each other.
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@bungee_lathe_turner@mastodon.social 2026-10-01 17:29
@Sheril@mastodon.social This quite surprises me, well the final sentance does. Terry Pratchet was a Task Máster at understanding and defining the inconsistencias of the human psych and parodying homo sapiens in all their guises, shapes and sizes. That being so I would have thought he would have found it extremely believe able.
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-10-01 17:33
@Sheril@mastodon.social Susan: Good. Now, tell me-- Death: WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? Susan: Yes. Death: THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. Susan: Then what would have happened? Death: A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD. Susan: Alright, I'm not stupid. You're saying that humans need fantasies to make life bearable? Death: NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
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@mediocratese@climatejustice.social 2026-10-01 12:50
@Sheril@mastodon.social I find this to be a superlative and succinct summation of human existence. My Dad wrote a book back in the ‘70s (One Cosmic Instant) which could offer a longer version of these expressions.
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@cainmark@mstdn.social 2026-10-01 14:14
@Sheril@mastodon.social Just part of his short "Imagine": "Imagine a blob of mud whirling madly around one of those suns. Imagine yourself standing on that blob of mud, whirling with it, whirling through time and space to an unknown destination. Imagine!" -- Frederic Brown They used to show this the first year SciFi cable television was on.
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@byrnensorg@mastodon.ie 2026-10-01 15:03
@Sheril@mastodon.social What gets me sometimes is that scientists that look for exoplanets are looking for environments like our own in the goldilocks zone, some refer to them as "paradise climates". Perhaps a redefining of what paradise means to humans given the past and present unpredictability of our climate and should we really measure a planet's ability to sustain life on our own which, let's face it, offered a very slim chance to get us as far as we have.
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@Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz 2026-10-01 16:11
@Sheril@mastodon.social And despite being unable to properly manage and operate the gift of a free, fully equipped orbital habitat, some (Hi Elon! Hello Jeff!) believe they'll do better starting from scratch even while axiomatically relatively impoverished and still freighted with human nature. :bloblewd: