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I'll pack sunglasses
I'll pack sunglasses
It's sad when that is the least of your worries.Molten lead in the eyes? Ouch!
However, everything, and I mean everything, boils down to one purpose: preserving safety and life. When all hope of safety and life are removed, social constructs cease to have meaning, and "Mad Max" will be very much alive.
Pelligrino&Zebrowski said:Virginia was more than three hundred kilometers away when the light burst toward her. Every nerve ending in her body began to record a strange, prickling sensation -- the sheer pressure of photons trying to push her backward. No shadows were cast anywhere in the tower, so bright was the glare. It pierced walls, ceramic beams, notepads, and people -- four hundred thousand people. The maglev terminal connecting Sri Lanka Tower to London and Sydney, the waste treatment centers that sustained the lakes and farms, all the shops, theaters, and apartments liquefied instantly. The structure began to slip and crash like a giant waterfall, but gravity could not yank it down fast enough. The Tower became vapor before it could fall half a meter. At the vanished city’s feet, the trees of the forest were no longer able to cast shadows; they had themselves become long shadows of carbonized dust on the ground.
Huh?Are you going into XENOLOGY!?
Huh?
That's how I've first read the word "xenology" (altough I've already seen "xenologists" before).Dr. Pilman from Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic said:All right, I’ll tell you. But I must warn you that your question, Richard, comes
under the heading of xenology. Xenology: an unnatural mixture of science fiction
and formal logic. It’s based on the false premise that human psychology is applicable
to extraterrestrial intelligent beings.
Do I hear good ol' Asimov there? :thumbup:
:rofl:
- December 31: asteroid decides that there is no point and turns round.
Or:
Asteroid turns out to be a hollow shell that burns up harmlessly in the atmosphere.
The rest of Earth's ecosystem enjoys the peace and quiet.
And then the enraged citizens destroy the local observatory, so it won't happen anymore.
And then the enraged citizens destroy the local observatory, so it won't happen anymore.