#space posting

[tandytoaster]

Oh here's an interesting connection. I drew that abstract self portrait back in September, and then just last month when I started snooping around on NASA's website, I found this Voyager poster. I know its a very simple comparison of it basically being a circle and some lines but it made me feel something

[cybergirlthing]

out in the middle of deep space and i still get an email what the fuck

[bornetoblood]

PLEASE

[wittness]

i like how a lot of nebula look like eyes.

[anarchist-academic]

Do you ever get sad about how you won't ever see another planet than the one you're on now?

[technomancerb3]

JWST has found a pair of coalescing stars in the form of a question mark

proving once and for all that even the universe has no clue what's going on anymore

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

I just started playing Kerbal Space Program and I'm officially hooked.

I'd heard about it months ago but didn't pick it up because it seemed like too much of an effort to learn about all the details of spacecraft design and stuff, and I couldn't see what I would actually get out of it. (I'm not much of an "achievement-collector" gamer; I always just want to have fun playing a game.) The sim part is fun but it's just not very engaging by itself -- it's hard to do the kind of thing you'd want to do in an RTS or FPS, which is basically "really pay attention and make all the right decisions" -- you can just stumble through a run by repeatedly clicking on the right options.

But now that I've gotten into it a bit, I can see that it's the kind of thing that has a strong "left brain" learning curve, and the left-brain part is motivating, which means I can actually get deep into it and get a lot of pleasure out of it. I'm actually learning math and engineering while having a ton of fun. In a way that can't be captured with achievements, of course, but that's the kind of thing that's always been the essence of a good video game to me.

So now I can't stop thinking about how to design a perfect left-brain game, because now I know there's a way to get me so totally into it that I will just sit there for hours without noticing time passing. (Minecraft is pretty good for this, though it's not perfect. There aren't enough goals, and they're mostly all achievement-based and aren't very important to learn about. And there's a lot of stuff that would be nice to have but isn't included, like the ability to watch other players build their things. You can walk through their undergrounds and see their walls, but it's not the same, because the walls are 2D, and it's not all-or-nothing -- if you get too close to another player's walls, you'll see nothing, so you can only see their walls if you actually walk into them. In a 3D world, you could walk out of someone's walls so you can look around them, and see their constructions from the inside, from different angles.

Also, a good 3D MMO should let you build your own stuff so that you can own more than one piece of real estate.)

[whiteshipnightjar]

Zoozve, my beloved

[concoctionboy]

The sci-fi equivalent, of course, is putting "space" in front of things. Space tower, space car... space swearing?

You can of course combine both, but the order matters. A space wizard tower is the tower of a wizard who lives in space; it may be made of shiny metal that reflects a rainbow of hues and be located on an asteroid with a diameter smaller than the tower's height. A wizard space tower, on the other hand, is a mysterious tower that is much bigger on the inside than its exterior dimensions, and that contains a vast assortment of weird magical areas that connect together in geometrically impossible ways.

My favorite wizard thing is when you take a regular thing and put wizard in front of it.

Tower: functional, grey, imposing. Wizard tower: Wacky, dangerous, made of ivory or crystal or something.

My car: runs on gasoline, seats 4, takes me to work. My wizard car: Fun, zooms around, I shouldn't be allowed to drive what's happening.

Swearing: Offensive, startling, shows rough character. Wizard swearing: destroys the marketplace, binds heroes to a quest, has archaic words.

And so forth.

[wuntrum]

ripley :)

[tandytoaster]

Okay I'm ready to talk about it now, I have been thinking so much about the brave little toaster goes to mars and comparing it to our real life history of space travel

Under the cut because it's long. Like. Embarrassingly long

I KNOW WHAT YOURE THINKING. "Malaise! They got up there in a laundry basket powered by the ceiling fan and the microwave with cheddar popcorn!" YES, I KNOW,

But there's some things that are like. Almost true. And I liked thinking about that

LIKE VIKING 1. Viking 1 very much so is a real spacecraft that landed on Mars, but they call him a satellite ("The satellite?" "No, Viking 1 the bagel. OF COURSE THE SATELLITE") and he's not a satellite! The real viking 1 had an orbiter going around Mars aside from the lander, so the orbiter would be a satellite, but not the lander, and the appliances only spoke to the lander.

I think they're thinking satellite means "thing that relays back information to Earth", but a satellite is anything that orbits a planet or star. Like this is purely a semantic thing and even by a technicality you could consider a portion of Viking 1 to be a satellite but again they were not talking to the orbiter, who, if featured in the movie, I have reason to believe would be a different consciousness from that of the lander, given how appliance sentience seems to work

There was also a Viking 2. Who is not mentioned whatsoever. Not really a Problem or inaccuracy, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless

And I also want to mention the other satellites ('satellites') on Mars, I tried to see if there were any on Mars or sent there during the time the appliances would've been there (so, prior to 1998), I think Mars 6 has some similarities with one of them, but that's also me stretching. Like, they're definitely just generic spacecraft designs loosely inspired by real satellites ( Or maybe not I would love to be proven wrong here genuinely!!!!!) but I just wanted to see if there were any accurate real world equivalents like with Viking 1

SECONDLY,

Viking 1 claims that NASA cut contact with him on purpose which is also not true- it was a booboo, it was a mistake. What is true, however, is that there was no intention to bring him back to Earth. PERSONALLY, I think Viking 1 was convinced by the Wonderluxe appliances that NASA did that on purpose, seeing as the Wonderluxe hate humanity and believe humans are eager to get rid of their old electronics.

Then we have TINSELINA, MY BELOVED

I think its obvious there was no angel topper onboard with the real viking 1, BUT WHAT IT DID HAVE was a microfilm listing the thousands of people that worked on it. I personally think that Tinselina is a nod towards how NASA will put 'nonessential' symbolic things on their spacecrafts, like that list, or the golden records with the music and the greetings that are on the Voyager twins

Circling back to Viking 1's cut contact with NASA, when Tinselina leaves with the gang for Earth, she says she and Viking 1 can keep in touch via radio (side note idk if she meant like Radio radio or a different kind of radio). Perhaps in this canon, NASA did purposefully end contact with Viking 1, but I'm buying into this tbh because it's too sad to think about Tinselina and Viking 1 thinking they'll be able to still talk to reach other, only to find out that Viking 1 can't reach ANYONE, not just NASA. LIKE IT'S TOO SAD I CAN'T DO IT.

Tinselina also mentions that little Robbie was pulled up by the tractor beam in 'Noctis Labyrinthus', WHICH IS A REAL, NAMED PLACE ON MARS- Which I think is really cool to have been mentioned, but it's also really interesting because someone Obviously did their research!

This one isn't really an "Umm ackshually", but more of like an observation and theory. The Mars Hearing Aid, the Supreme Commander of Mars (previously), was picked up in the late 30's, early 40's (Earth Hearing Aid says it's been 60 years since they've seen each other, if the year is 98 then 60 years prior would be 1938) was left behind in Germany and picked up by some scientist, which is where Mars Hearing Aid learned to turn against humans, he only heard about weapons and war and destruction.

Now this is probably my biggest reach but I feel like I have ground to stand on with this too though, I want to believe this is mentioned at all as a nod to the unfortunate piece of space travel history that is the fact that it was the V-2 rockets designed and launched by the nazi's, that were the first rockets to reach outer space, even if that wasn't the intended purpose.

I feel like I'm making a lot of reaches here, because this is obviously a children's movie and was never meant to be scrutinized under the lens of someone dedicated enough to fact check these things. They're going to Mars in a laundry basket, of course it's not realistic or accurate to our world. BUT LIKE there seems to be a lot happening that was pulled from real life space history, just slightly altered either on purpose or unintentionally, instead of just making up their own thing and going with that

[rollercoasterwords]

pet peeve is when a fellow hater conducts their haterism such that they leave the hater community vulnerable to attack. “i think characterizing Character A in x way is boring and annoying” = beautiful, flawless, unimpeachable haterism. no one can tell u that u aren’t allowed to find a certain characterization boring. “it is morally/objectively wrong to characterize Character A in x way” = sloppy, reactionary, overcommitting. you have left our eastern flank open to attack girl what the hell….now my dedicated hater troops are taking fire from YOUR enemies fuckkkkk

[snailcubezz]

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[owlygem]

I realized I hadnt posted the birth of the sun here, the very beginning of the Celestial Somebody story! The first few pages are very scruffy and the colours change midway lol.

Welcome to the Universe, Sun!

[anarchist-academic]

I love you quantum immortality. I love you dark forest theory. I love you vacuum decay. I love you dead end trips. I love you Fermi paradox. I love you Roko's basilisk. I love you big chill theory. I love y