#sci fi is now

[lightdancer1]

So, uh, assuming this is true:

Then there is proof of not merely one, which itself would be a revolutionary factor, but multiple Kardashev II civilizations in the Galaxy, all of which are findable from Earth. If this is eventually or finally proven, then the concepts of science fiction that remained in the comfortably fictional tier are reduced to superheroes, because aliens are now real.

Not just that, the sufficiently advanced Clarke's Third Law Celestial tier super-aliens. Beings that can harvest the full energy output of stars and do so. Of course the key words here are 'assuming' and 'if.'

The moment even a single Kardashev II civilization or above is discovered, a great many sci-fi questions just turned into empirical reality. Because it is possible to build huge constructs to harvest stars as an energetic output, so who is building these? What would they be using them for?

Nobody builds an energy source for the fun of it, after all. Space would be both tremendously bigger and much smaller all in one. Anything that can make a Dyson Sphere would have solved the engineering problems of starships, though relativity still means STL or bust, unless they're able to solve the Alcubierre Drive and its 'blast wherever you're going with a burst of lethal radiation to sterilize it' problem.

This would be the modern equivalent of Copernicus and the proof that all those 'nebulae' were actually other entire Galaxies and that space went from colossal to cosmic horror story tier.

[sketchytea]

some of my favourite bgs that i painted for episode three of scavengers reign

layout designs by: pauline mauviere, anastassia drobyazko, kirk shinmoto, and alfie marley

[saint-vagrant]

Sab stops running.

mine, he/him

[that-wildwolf]

hey, remember being 18 years old and playing mass effect for the first time and it's got this like intense aura of being very small and very insignificant in a very big, very empty galaxy? remember playing mass effect for the first time and everything all of this is so new and mysterious, and it's 2am and you're sitting in a dark room in the light from your tv and you're playing through feros for the first time and you feel that this is someting very old and very ancient and you are somewhere you shouldn't be and you don't know what's going to happen or where you're going but you keep on. there's a tingling in your stomach and you're playing mass effect for the first time. the thorian is a milennia old sentient plant being. the rachni queen is old and telepathic and a hive mind and in pain. sovereign is an ancient machine that has not been built but is, and has always been, and this is something so alien and so unlike and beyond anything your human mind can comprehend, and this is something unexplainable and huge and as uncaring and indifferent as the empty galaxy around you. you're playing mass effect for the first time and you're walking on the surface of an almost completely empty planet with nothing but your two companions silently walking beside you and everything is so huge and empty and silent and you're so small and insignificant and it's so beautiful and so scary and you feel like you are on a rollercoaster about to drop down. you are playing mass effect for the first time and you're playing the mission on the moon and you stop and just look up at earth visible in the sky. you know this. this is home. you are playing mass effect for the first time, and the galaxy is so big, and you are so tiny, and everything is about to change for you.

[hazelnewts]

🌌✨To Boldly Go✨🌌

[gamebunny-advance]

Oh.

Nintendo out there just casually (kinda) confirming the "descended from humans" and "the wraiths are involved in all of the spaceship crashes" theories.

(source)

Okay, they're not really "confirmations" but more like they're officially addressing the different theories that people have about the true nature of PNF-404 and are telling you to keep on speculating on your own time.

Take these translations with a grain of salt since they're machine translations.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo, if he leaned more into his love for magic tricks: for my next trick, I’m gonna make myself ~disappear~ *proceeds to get lost in space for five months*

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor (and his Sonic Screwdriver)

for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

[spirk-trek]

S1E30: Operation Annihilate ⋆.˚ ✧ ·

[yuripira4e]

“Actually they won’t grow old together cause one character has a longer life sp-“ SHUT UPPPPPKP

[isbergillustration]

New World Emerging Blues

[souldagger]

Maya Andreyeva is a "camera," a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share. And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world…and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal - of your lover, your ideals, and yourself.

happy (re)publication day to The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed, the lesbian cyberpunk cult classic that's been out of print for almost 3 decades!

it's a dark, intense, haunting book (if somewhat dense and undeniably demanding) about the place where noble ideals and brutal reality meet, about human nature, about how far you're willing to go for your principles, or for love, or for survival, about the erosion of privacy by technology, and about a whale.

it's some of the best cyberpunk has to offer, i'm really glad it can finally reach a wider audience 👁📷🐋

[silkirose]

I made some spotify playlists with very specific vibes to imagine scenarios to!!

You're lost in the middle of the woods trying to get out but at least your radio has signal...

You're in a spaceship... it's suddenly hit by meteors and now you're counting down the minutes

Your alien best friend has come to visit and you're starting to realize you have feelings for them

Logging into your old account when you remember online friends you lost connection with

You're in a post-apocalyptic world with only a small robot as your companion

You're all alone at your birthday party

On a road trip with a frog but he gets cranky from hunger halfway through

You're solving a mystery... and your handsome assistant is looking pretty suspicious

You're dreaming about being a mermaid

You're ready to fight god

they all kinda have a story so if you're interested in that it's best played from beginning to end

[pyrholidonhead]

film stills from BLADE RUNNER photographs by LEWIS HINE

[gotyouanyway]

my favourite thing to explain about looms to the uninitiated is that their original stated canonical reason for existing is a witch's curse. not a sci fi doctor who "curse" that's actually a telepathic virus or something. a literal curse from a mystical soothsayer witch