#project migration

[tio-trile]

A young humpback whale came right up to our ship in Antarctica!! I heard its exhale from my room and SPRINTED out to the balcony.

It has a golden tail!!

[maruyaaya]

IM FINALLY WRITING AGAIN had crazy writers block over the past lil while BUT IM FINALLY DOING SOME WRITING NOW neomachus fic ch3 will def be out over the next few days (if it's not, you guys can all hunt me down for sport or smth)

[captmcgiddyface]

Agent Minnesota but all she is is passive aggressive and makes some mean tater tot hotdish and snicker salad.

[eggsdrawings]

Hey I'm curious. When did you get into my hero academia

i started mha back in 2019!! i binged it all over spring break and i think only up to s3 was out at the time, so once s4 came out i was hooked for good LOL

[chenginerd]

Wriggle Nightbug Pixel Art (Touhou Project)

[covenawhite66]

The 13 full and fragmentary projectile points, razor sharp and ranging from about half an inch to 2 inches long, are from roughly 15,700 years ago Which is 3,000 years older than the Clovis fluted points found throughout North America.

These slender projectile points are characterized by two distinct ends, one sharpened and one stemmed, as well as a symmetrical beveled shape if looked at head-on. They were likely attached to darts, rather than arrows or spears.

[dead-generations]

Is there a particular reason/s you support space colonisation, or do you just think it would be neat to explore the cosmos

I just think it's neat, and I'm aware that minds are remarkably good at rationalisation so I conciously try to avoid rationalising that. That is really the reason I am interested in spaceflight broadly and space colonisation - in reality I am much more interesting in exploration than colonisation. A colony on Titan is interesting because it would be used to better understand Titan. I would rather a million interesting and useful missions to the outer system than a hundred families on Mars, personally. But I also believe "one man with a shovel will accomplish more science on Mars than all previous Rovers." and so colonisation is useful to that end. The colonisation itself is generally not that interesting to me except occassionaly as an interesting space in which to problem solve.

but there are a few ideas I hold beyond that. Note: you from hereon out refers to any decision-making entity. individuals, states, organisations and corporations.

1 it is useful to do things in space and useful in general for a society or state to support doing things, particularly in STEM, with no obvious immediate benefit. It is particularly useful to do things because they are hard. It is both a useful trait to develop and something which leads to immediate useful outcomes. The US has proven that developing pure research has positive outcomes for the state and society.

1.5: you cannot know unknown unknowns, and you cannot even know definitively if there are unknown unknowns. You cannot know that space travel and colonisation will not have benefits, you cannot be entirely certain any field will not; hence the need for pure research and solving hard problems. to discover unknown unknowns by solving known unknowns. NASA funds funky random projects on the off chance they unlock knew knowledge and capabilities, like a a feasibility study and plans for a probe for accessing Europa's underground ocean via an a fusion reactor that uses the waste heat to tunnel passively through the ice shelf.

2 space colonisation will nearly-necessarily happen. it is simply how self organising systems work. if space can be lived in by humans it will be, baring 'unnatural' barriers to doing so.

3 take point two and one and combine with this: you cannot control the behaviours of all others. Someone will almost necessarily colonize space. someone will make breakthroughs through pure research and solving difficult problems generally and in space specifically, especially as space is an extremely challenging problem space. these breakthroughs will carry competitive advantages. Why not be the ones making them and going to space? if you are not you risk being out competed or simply being left behind. Obviously there are trade offs and opportunity costs, and one can benefit from others pure research without paying the cost of investment, but the decision should be calculated

3.5 take all the above and remember that resources are finite, there are opportunity costs, and you operate within a necessarily competitive and constrained space. You must assess how much you can devote to any given project based on balances of probabilities and cost/benefits. You must keep in mind unknown unknowns without getting "lost in the sauce" as particle physics has (spending shitloads on increasingly dubious particle accelerators with unclear possible outcomes). you have to decide what space projects are worth what investment by you specifically and have clear goals.

finally, point 4: We will go extinct or engage in space colonisation. This is simply inescapable, even if on a long enough timescale we will also go extinct anyway. In a way this is reframing point 2 from the other end. Baring extinction it is more or less inevitable that we will colonise space in some fashion. If we do not colonise space we will go extinct (or go extinct faster on geologically significant timescales)

point two is the strongest point to me. Self organising systems spread to all spaces they can, even if they broadly follow a path of least resistance to them. if the system can make changes to itself it will also change to fill spaces it is only slightly able to fill until it is able to successfully fill that space, unless it cannot change fast enough to meet the changing environment and becomes 'extinct'.

the exception is if that system is itself under a sufficiently organised system. In which case generally it's constituent systems are constrained by dependency on the overall system, and if they they adapt well. Cancer kills the host which kills the cancer.

sometimes opposition to space colonisation reads like quibbling over the morality of erosion.

[dbergantin]

Ⓒ Devis Bergantin, Migrazione, 2024, fineliner e pastello a cera su carta, 20,7 x 12,5 cm

Ⓒ Devis Bergantin, Migration, 2024, fineliner and wax crayon on paper, 20.7 x 12.5 cm

[yume-kara-samete]

Samba! Kobushi Janeiro - Kobushi Factory (Promotion Edit)

[cappurrccino]

i was gonna say "i shouldn't have to go to work when my brain feels like a depression slushie" and then i was like "wait but then i'd basically never ever go to work" and i'm actually doubling down on the first part now bc my god how am i supposed to heal my brain from burning out 5 years ago if i can never get an actual break

[krissslin]

2024 Comic Project

Week Fifty | Dec. 9th - Dec. 15th

Home.

[readmypaws]

Announcement!

Well folks,

Y’all are gonna be seeing a lot more written content soon cause I am participating in the 2024 Yuri Olympics. It’ll be a mild break from the usual writing, but in the spirit of pride as a lesbian myself why not spend the month of June competing in a media contest for wlw ships! Aka… Prepare for lots of new queer characters to enter the TGMP canon (Art by Camthemad)

[manyblinkinglights]

oooogh the floor is again. So I can put back all the stuff I had to move when the floor wasn’t.

[chenginerd]

Reisen Udongein Inaba Pixel Art (Touhou Project)

[glitterdustcyclops]

Solas Girlies (derogatory) are on a level of delusion that boggles the mind, truly