#earth is awesome

[outcasts-redeemer]

The Three Rules

In the modern galactic political climate there exists three rules that all abide by. The Rules of Governance, Commerce and Conquest.

The Rule of Governance dictates that for a Stellar Nation to exist, its people, and by extension its colonies and stations, must be governed by a single governing body. There are exceptions to this rule in the form of secessionist movements, but these span entire planets and sectors of space and for the most part collapse into multi front wars needing intergalactic interventions to restore order. To date there have been only fifty one stellar nations that have successfully succeeded and went on to form their own operational governments. In a galaxy of a few thousand stellar nations with dozens more joining every decade this shows just how rare these events are.

The Rule of Commerce dictates that before any stellar nation attempts to enter the galactic market it first must be self sufficient. Again there are exceptions to this rule as many stellar nations often lack the actual resources to be fully self sufficient and thus are allowed allowances to perchance nessisary goods and resources needed for their operation. This has resulted in wars and conflicts to be reduced by 65.7% since the last galactic meeting nearly twenty cycles ago.

The Rule of Conquest states that stellar nations partaking in armed conflict with one anaother shall not engage in warfare with a defending stellar nations of a military strength less than half of the aggressor. Failure to adhere to this results in embargos, increased trade taxes and unless the conflict is ended, military intervention. If, however, the attacking stellar nation has half of the military strength of the defender, these protections and restrictions do not apply. This policy alone has stopped nearly 80.7% of wars of aggression since its implementation one-hundred and thirty-seven cycles ago.

The humans, to no one’s surprise, follow none of these rules as their “Governing Body”, the United Nations Representative Government is more fractured than that of a planet orbiting a black hole, their “Countries” colonies and stations rely on each other for goods and resources with some traveling several light-years before reaching their end destination and they often show no regard in who or what they fight with their very extensive military.

Best advice? The next galactic meeting establish new rules solely for the humans to adhere by.

[injuries-in-dust]

“Visit earth” they said. “It‘s a xeno-zoologist’s dream” they said.

That place is just too weird.

They’ve got birds that fly underwater.

Air breathing mammals that live in the deep oceans.

Fish that walk on land.

Birds that can’t fly.

Mammles that CAN fly!

Insects that consume heavy metals!

Mushrooms that eat radiation! ZARKIN MUSHROOMS!

Don’t even get me started on that continent they call Australia.

And I don’t think any of the gods, both old and new, could explain what the zark this thing is supposed to be!

[christophermtaylor]

Danta Beach, Costa Rica

[henrytanael19]

Propatulus Aurora AU

In which Earth, the entire solar sytem and other planets is alive, a universe where the impossible is only an illusion, where monsters and gods are sometimes both and can be killed, living amongst their mortal kin, where the concept of Death is different for every planet or galaxy, but the solar system has a concept of death joined with the void, as inevitable as it is kind, the primordial darkness rejoicing of the life that dots it. And in which Humans are just vibing after being properly introduced to the Wider Galaxy Community, turning enemies into friends and the like. Also, Earth takes no shit from alien invaders and boots them out the moment they try to enter her atmosphere.

Except for the good ones, they can stay.

In this Au, Planets were vaguely sorted into three categories: Destroyer, Creator, and Protector. The likes of Primus, Eukaris, Devisiun, Petropia and numerous others were known as Creator-planets, due to being able to seed life from their own bodies. Whereas Unicron, Pyros, Appoplexia and the like were known as the Destroyer-planets, being known to destroy dead planets to make way for the new cycle. As the name suggested, Protector-planets were primarily concerned with the defense of their home system, protecting it both from Destroyers seeking to devour a still living planet and Creators from seeding other planets with parasites, but also has the fewest planets of the three, with Earth being counted among it alongside her siblings in the Solar System in the Milky Way. Arburia also counted as a Protector before it's destruction.

But for those lacking a Protector-planet to defend them, a Guardian and a Titan was the next best thing individual planets can have. Consisting of a planet's strongest children, they can be considered as gods in the view of others. E.g. Godzilla and Mothra of Earth are a textbook example of a Titan and Guardian pairing, despite the fact that Earth was a Protector-planet. Earth is their version of a cryptid to her fellow planets, appearing in other galaxies with no warnings.

Where humans have powers that is derived from their souls, some able to turn it tangible as their weapon of choice like a sword, or manifesting an entire armour made up of their soul or even performing them like the four elements. Due to this close connection with their own lifeforce they live somewhere in between the living and the spiritual world, otherwise called as the umbral, or fourth dimension. The denizens of the Umbral World consist of mythological or extinct creatures and primarily steeped in magic, invisible to the naked eye. And in honor of their mother-planet, they dedicated themselves to taking care of creatures trying to cause trouble in the mortal realm, whether by rehabilitation or execution, the primary group known for this is called the Titanslayers, led by June Darby and Cade Yeager.

All of this is done quietly in the shadows, considering almost none in the Wider Galaxy Community is aware of the Umbral Dimension. The Anur system are one of the few to also be able to interact with the Umbral Dimension, as well as the Null Dimension and Legerdomain by virtue of being attached to it.

Earth is steeped in magic, so humans have been able to mostly connect it seamlessly with technology and even science (E.g. Ben Tennyson being a World Shifter as well as a biologist in this AU). The primary examples are the Jaegers, metal machines operated by human pilots and the love child of science, technology and magic.

The Earth-Titans are also denizens of the Umbral Dimensions, so they are a visible example of creatures originating in the Umbral Dimension living in the Mortal Realm.

Also, Earth is as ancient as the other planets, consisting of those ages in trillions, but because she only settled into a planet after most planets already turned inactive in the case of the Creator-planets, the Galaxy widely believed she was only 4 billion years old, having only counted the years she was a planet rather than the active creature she was back then, having been the third to settle as a planet in their solar system.

Also, Earth's biodiversity came from the planets and creatures she has killed and eaten, once having been described as containing a black hole for a stomach, and with those biodiversity inherited by humans was born their nearly limitless ability to procreate with any sentient creature in the Galaxy. As long as they have the equivalent of a soul, they can carry a child of that alien species, double the effectiveness if they were just using their soul, as having just used it means their lifeforce is still closer to the surface of their physical body and made flexible enough to make procreation between two different species possible. (E.g. The Plumbers Kids/Amalgam Kids, Max McGrath, Kevin Levin, Others)

Hybrid children still aren't that common though, due to having to feed fragment bits of their own soul to sustain a half foreign onr. It can even prove taxing enough to require a third party stepping in just so both parent and offspring doesn't die.

Ancient creatures lurk in the background of the universe, taking the form of Suns, Black Holes and the like. Helios, the Sun of the Solar System, is one such example.

And as a bonus, this AU is primarily crack with eldritch horror, heartfelt feelings and interspecies romance mixed in.

In other words, welcome to the crackfest that is Propatulus Aurora, and enjoy your stay!

(PS. I'll be taking stuff from each canon and mashing them together to fit my perceptions and suits my purposes, and ignoring anything else that doesn't.)

[ivemanifest]

I appreciate the essence of my being

[screensaversstore]

Earth from Space 4K - 1 Hour Calm Ambient Music TV Wallpaper with our Planet

[prop4drones]

Beautiful Bali ✨

📷 Gabe Shakour 📍 Sekumpul Falls, Bali 🚁 DJI Mini 3 Pro

[colderthanthemoon]

[environmental-architecture]

Selfies. Autofotos/Selfis/Selfies.

Word of the week. Palabra de la semana.  

Non-human imagery:

‘selfies’ from space

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission sends first ‘selfies’ from space

1. Leaving Earth 2. Goodbye, goodbye 3. Solar array deployed 3. RIME antenna (stowed)

Source / Fuente: twitter / ESA’s JUICE mission

[mythicdeeds]

Mercury in Taurus ♉️

People born under this sign have a natural, polite and intriguing way of speaking that attracts potential partners easily, be careful of people who judge a book by its cover and claim you are shallow

[roddcherry]

FUCK I don't believe I will ever get the sudden calmness and beauty that washes over me whenever that I look up in a sunny day at any time of it. To see the sunlight pass through the leaves while I feel the freshness that the wind gives me when it passes over me while taking a walk. Looking up to such simple beauty of the colors and warmth those flashes of sunlight give me while seeing the life and vibrant colors of the leaves

[awakentrashpanda]

The true gay agenda 

Eight Rainbows! WOW Lehigh Valley, PA [960 x 960]

[injuries-in-dust]

From Human Questions forum of the Galactinet:

Question, human biology.

I saw my first human today. I think it was a juvenile. They looked much smaller than they are described in the textbooks.

Those same textbooks taught us that humans were bipedal.

But I was heading down a set of stairs when I saw this human (juvenile?) on all fours and scampering up the stairs like a quadruped!

Before I could react they'd passed me. I tried to see where they went but they seem to have vanished!

Are humans really quadruped? Have our textbooks been wrong?

Additional question: can humans turn invisible?

[christophermtaylor]

High Desert, California

[ivemanifest]

Life is marvelous ✨

[karlrincon]

Happy New Year 2024 from Korea.

Year of the 🐲🐉!