“Imagine being a totally random person. Just a completely arbitrary character. An entirely nonspecific individual.”
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3 links · 2016
“i say, while everyone is trying to jump to mars for no clear reason, we gently embed a ship into a carbony asteroid and figure out how to live off the carbon and then spend 5 generations hopping from one to the next, progressively figuring out how to live further and further from the sun, eventually leaving the oort cloud entirely and settling up to live off the tidal forces a satellite feels when orbiting a rogue gas giant…”
“whenever I have my brain problems more or less sorted out I turn into a slightly different person with slightly different problems and my coping mechanisms break down and I have to start all over again…”