One of the first planets our crew will be visiting is Alestera, which is inhabited with the Telva. Which are sentient flora. The trees have the closest semblance to humanoid limbs with their legs and hands, while the flowers have tendrils and roots. To each other they speak with body language and subtle vibration, but they learned to speak into visitors minds.
Visitors are allowed, but not if you are apart of any grand organization looking to establish contact. Or if you would try to take any of their resources. You must establish friendship before landing, or risk meeting their solar canons first hand
May 8, Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough... turning 97 today !
Congratulations to British author, explorer & zoologist/biologist Sir David Attenborough on his 97th birthday.
Last year he was so kind autographing a few 1962 photographs showing him wearing his Rolex Explorer 1016 wrist watch. A personal time piece he wore between 1962 and 1972 on different bracelets during a decade.
(Photo: MoonwatchUniverse/BBC)
As people debate the costs, timeline, difficulties and challenges of keeping our planet habitable, it helps to have a reminder of what our (realistic) alternatives are (we don't have any).
I was watching a fellow artist's stream of her artwork "Living Planet." I was inspired by an image she was playing with before she settled on her final draft. I ended up taking that early draft image and turning it into this piece. Thanks @ayang_javier for being such a great artist.
Ayang's artwork can be viewed here; https://www.instagram.com/p/CbcotgqKazh/
Art timelapse video can be seen @ https://youtu.be/BbdZJL58i3Q
Susan Sontag wrote that "Depression is melancholy minus its charms." For me, living with depression was at once utterly boring and absolutely excruciating.
Ok but Venus by Sleeping At Last immediately makes me think about Noa and Mae. It's a sweet love song, the title is a reference to the Roman goddess of love, but best of all, it has a telescope metaphor to describe the feeling of falling in love, so obviously I think about them!
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At first, I thought you were a constellation
I made a map of your stars, then I had a revelation
You're as beautiful as endless
You're the universe I'm helpless in
An astronomer at my best
When I throw away the measurements
Like a telescope
I will pull you so close
'Til no space lies in between
And suddenly, I see you
Suddenly, I see you
Fun fact: in orbit of binary stars, kept stable by the living ocean's manipulation of gravity and magnetism.
Fun fact: the Solaris ocean is its only life form and its entire ecosystem. Incapable of communicating with human life directly, it creates avatars based on memories of others.
Another fun fact: filmed three times, in 1968, 1972 and 2002.
This is the line that'll define this trilogy, the line that will decide the fate of the planet. Mae saying "I don't know" shows that nothing is for sure and anything is possible.
The fact that they both, but especially Noa, looks so hopeful for the answer to be yes; apes and humans can live together.