#interstellarism

[jonnywaistcoat]

I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

[koschgay]

I cannot believe the doctor who fandom has spent the last twenty full years clowning that Susan and the Rani are going to come back and then they both turn up IN THE SAME EPISODE

[floptopus]

This is so funny to me. They just woke up one day to this in their emails. They didn't ask for it. They didn't even want it. And yet it's in the episode anyway. Dugga doo is inescapable.

[archxangels]

starry eyed

[clitbiter]

everytime the doctor says he’s the last of the time lords one of his evil best friends is revived it’s like GIRL ENOUGH U KNOW ITS ALWAYS A LIE AND HAS BEEN FOR EVER

[mediumsizedwildcat]

“i'm the last of the time lords” you bigenerated. you're not even the last of yourself

[truebluewhocanoe]

[not-from-mars]

love to see doctor who going back to its roots (the doctor's human companion has to step in to stop the doctor from straight up killing a man)

[notyoujamie]

[coveredwithsnow]

[my-brain-on-mars]

Having graham norton deliver the final message about earth dying is crazy camp gotta say

[petrichara]

‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’

“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.

1- NASA: GOODS-South.

2- NASA: NGC 1850.

3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.

4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.

5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.

6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.

7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.

8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.

9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.

10- Petrichara.

11- Getty Images.

12- NASA: SMACS 0723.

13- Reuters

[koschgay]

so I’ve spent a very long time insisting that Mrs Flood couldn’t possibly be the Rani because she’s a weird little camp storyteller type and the Rani is a cold hard scientist. however. I think maybe it’s much funnier if the Rani regenerated into a campy little weirdo ONE TIME and pissed herself off so much that she had to bigenerate for the express purpose of telling her past self how annoyed she was about it

[adulthumanproblem]

There's a theme going on in this run

1.7 Rogue

2.3 Lux

2.7 The Interstellar Song Contest

[breeberrypies]

man and his 500 lb galactic space best friend

[reverse-the-hilarity]

a microcosm of the last eight years of doctor who