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distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


I believe in aliens

Pentecoastal Elites posted:

the virgin generation ship crewperson: our culture and institutional knowledge has degenerated to the point where we've all regressed to barbarians because somebody broke our library machine two thousand years ago. we're going to get to a planet that got baked by a gamma ray burst the day after we left and now it's just a dead ball of rock but nobody knows it. we're going to drift until our oxygen systems finally break down because the religion invented to pass that knowledge schismed and the two sides killed each other. this sucks and I hate it here.

the chad oneill cylinder inhabitant: it's tuesday so i'm going to take a shuttle to the neighboring asteroid hab for hang gliding zero g ultrasex

Le guin has a cool short story about a generational ship, gets into some of these issues

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