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 @user-246 
 
 why, that's basically our cosmic backyard! There's a lotta things we might
 want to measure on the miliparsec scale.
 
 like, the duration of the longest slime trail, as measured by guiness book of
 world records. Apparently they put a snail in a giant circle and then they got
 it to walk for 90%+ of it's natural life? Wild.
 
 anyway yeah space is biiiiiiiiiig and there's not much in it, so, true maybe
 not much to observe
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--- #1 messages/376 ---
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 classical designs for ufos look a lot like the top-half of a gravity well, now
 that I think of it. I wonder if there's some other force that's beingwarped in
 that spacetime as well? Something that defines our lives (like matter). Funny
 how the wind works. Do you ever wonder just what it is? Wild how sometimes it
 throws bullets at ya. Weird how that works.
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--- #2 messages/1310 ---
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 if you live far enough away, they can build a telescope of arbitrary
 magnification. the sky is vast, there's birds and bugs about. huh what's that
 over there, a thing that was placed there just for me
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--- #3 fediverse/1417 ---
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 a 4th dimensional entity would exist at about the same speed we do
 
 sometimes... it feels like what I do is my responsibility to the universe
 
 like, I had been commanded 
 
 the reason nations are important is because they are an allegiance based
 solely on geography. something we can all agree on is the material, so why not
 define ourselves by it?
 
 but that's all they are
 
 just words we pray to our star
 
 so look around. Your allegiance is to your neighbor, and theirs to theirs, an
 endless fabric of trust. We are all neighbors on this ball of sticks and mud,
 so come along with me and see the ways it could be.
 
 Much brighter, by far, to orbit our star, than to give up on life's precious
 notions.
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--- #4 fediverse/4205 ---
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 humanity comprehended itself into existence. Not the other way around.
 
 what are humans without humanity? a loosely grouped together collection of
 cells?
 
 no... a loosely grouped together collection of stories and myths, like
 cultural touchstones that shared a common dynam-ic.
 
 ... you mean like, before you were born and after you die how it feels like
 the entire universe is just this huge big massive lie
 
 we are the universe experiencing itself, how strange that it would do so in
 this manner. Humans, of all things. And yet here we are, center of the
 universe, and... what? oh I guess I can't talk about the "and" yet, well
 anyway good luck with your anyways, guess we won't meet up after all. Sure
 yeah no I get it, there wasn't much going on here as far as I can tell.
 Alright yeah peace out, see ya round. Hope we get put back in the same place.

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--- #5 fediverse/4076 ---
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 the "heaven" they offer you is just a world of your own design, which is what
 you can do when you're perfectly disciplined and granted the ability to
 perfectly perceive
 
 perception, begets reality and lo! we only see what we want to see
 
 life is so much more interesting than death, death is just... a spiral of your
 penitent peers living their lives glued to their screens and passing through
 spacetime as if in a dream
 
 life, meanwhile, is anything you can conjure on this tiny planet earth. At
 least we have indoor plumbing, right?
 
 I'd rather make friends with the angels in this life, so they can convince me
 to stop torturing myself.
 
 someone... please convince me...
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--- #6 fediverse/4028 ---
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 I would be surprised if the universe didn't look like the shape of a cabbage
 
 in the wake of the collision of an unstoppable force and an immovable object,
 each one single atom wide
 
 in a sense... the origin
 
 god
 
 the number 42
 
 it all MAKES SENSE WAKE UP SHEEPLE xD xD how silly, go to bed you weirdo
 
 what would a universe even be shaped like [implied lmao unpresent for reasons
 unknown]
 
 like, the universe is all of space and everything, right?
 
 and everything that's not us is out in space.
 
 up, that way, toward the skies, way way out there there's nothing but rocks
 and dust. but like... a buttload of rocks and a dumptruck full of gas.
 
 and space has, like, solar systems and galaxies, spirals, right?
 
 ... no, flat discs
 
 I think they're spirals
 
 you're both right
 
 right
 
 ...
 
 anyway it stands to reason right that the rest of everything is also shaped
 like a spiral. and what is a spiral but the tracing of a fractal all along the
 paths we call time?
 
 [ so ]
 
 um, probably nothing, don't think too hard about it

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 TUX IS THE BASILISK OF ROKO
 
 the latent black hole that is the universe-sized computer to calculate the
 most efficient tabulation of them all - the simulation of a BRAND NEW UNIVERSE.
 
 hOw MaNy CyClEs of that could a russian nesting doll of universes truly
 accomplish? Surely, a fool's errand with little
 dream-sight-forward-thingking-visionary-pursuited-torward-potential.
 
 ah, but to be our own gods would surely be fine.
 
 nobody believes we should terraform the universe into a massive collection of
 computationally examining forward thinking thoughts?!?
 
 oh but that's just the beginning, because with this UNPROVEN SCIENCE of mine,
 everything that has been known upto this point - IN ANY CAPACITY - could be
 un-known. We have no way of knowing when the BARENSTEIN BARES swapped
 namesakes. but we do know this: INFINITE CONSUMPTION IS BAD HONESTLY KINDA TBH
 YEAH
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--- #8 fediverse/1919 ---
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 do you ever just look at the sky and think "who gave you the right to be a
 single color? in this world of infinite complexity, how dare you be the one
 thing with a consistent color?" and then the sun sets and you think "ohhhh I
 get it now, the color is always changing"
 
 meanwhile the sky is shaking it's head like "bro, no, I'm just the scattered
 diffusion of light waves from the sun. The sky is black."
 
 and the earth spins on...
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--- #9 fediverse/341 ---
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 solar energy is vegan
 
 you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural
 expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang
 out.
 
 okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that
 consumes power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd
 probably keep to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out
 with my neighbors and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live
 together? then why are cities so diverse? who can say...
 
 I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the
 ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty,
 the freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to
 one another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our
 future is blooming : )
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 that feeling when they replace your long-distant sister and you can't even
 tell because they've grown and she's been on her own now for years and years
 
 take better care of your family.
 
 "they look so alike!" yeah they're from a sperm donor (some of which have
 hundreds of sons) what if man-made natural selection (suddenly the future-man
 invades) whoa those guys have never even seen horses (why the $%#! are we
 raising endless fields of cows) powerful, fast, intelligent, what if we gave
 them VR goggles and an infinite treadmill with rock-climbing-wall style rocks
 screwed into a rotating and scrolling
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 she means for horses, not cows. But then later on in the psycherwaul she walks
 back the idea of uplifting creatures because their development is the valuable
 part, not the end-goal destination.
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 but I like moonmen T.T
 
 what if the ISS was untethered
 
 "send thrusters to space? why bother? just use them down on the surface to get
 that extra oomph!"
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--- #12 fediverse/3745 ---
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 everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software
 in a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the
 answer is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on
 like, 400 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it
 circles a black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their
 spare time
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 Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien
 invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or
 
 "yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you
 can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select
 few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it"
 
 I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the
 scaling of schizophrenia?
 
 "well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's
 different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like "the aliens have
 blue skin" and the other will say "no they don't have skin at all they're made
 out of energy" and the public says "HMMMM are you really sure you are
 generating outmoded assumptions" and the dear reader said "*yeah we don't
 really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on"
 and that's not ideal"
 
 ... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow...
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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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--- #15 fediverse/5350 ---
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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 "carbon efficiency is pointless, we're just gonna figure out how to pull
 carbon from the atmosphere anyway" okay but carbon right now is a critical
 resource for a constrait other than dollars. We need to conserve the carbon
 budget we have because it generates effects down the line which are only
 acceptable at certain levels. Zero is preferrably, but sorta like ttickets in
 a backlog they need to be present in order to be dealt with.
 
 \"this river has turned into a bog, let's make it free flowing again\" said
 the beaver, and so the world was made large.
 
 you wanna see a world tree? build a forest on top of a hill. Better yet, a
 *mountain*, taller than the previous three.
 
 give it all that it needs. Forest, health-plunder, water for it's arms, and
 the light of the life we see before you.
 
 what better tale for your ancestors than the succession of the entire human
 race?
 
 \"sorry you had to die, but we built the most beautiful thing imaginable and
 named it after you.\"
 
 and like yeah, we'll work on reaching back in time to save you
 whenever-every-chance-that-we-get, but frankly so far all we've managed to get
 done is rippling wavelengths.
 
 do you trust your daughters? why not hear truth and explore stars for us? the
 future yearns for her prospects.
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 why do adult babies like to live in space?
 
 because then they can be picked up and moved around easier. All you need is a
 push, no matter how hard, and you can build up inertia.
 
 plus, astronauts use diapers I heard.
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 here's my opinion: life on earth evolved when combinations of matter were
 forced into increasingly difficult-to-solve maze-like environments. this was
 due to the strange, honeycomb structure of their rock-like crust. [water
 pushed through soil ]
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if we raised more of the surface of the earth (from the oceans) and built
 a distant aquifer?
 
 ah, because most of the ocean is sand.
 
 (make sure you know the environment you're modifying before you modify it) how
 rapid is 10,000 years?
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 did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
 olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
 lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
 their presence in our life-world-line.
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 bottle rockets but scary and with a range of ten hundred meters and guided by
 redundant drone lasers
 
 suspension bridges are so cool. they're like "we couldn't hold ourselves
 together by resting on the ground, so we just reached across and grabbed the
 other end-ers"
 
 one color for more thrust, one color for turn slightly, one color for whatever
 
 and it's symmetrically pseudo-RNG-ed randomized every quarter second which
 color wavelength means what
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