speculative fiction, as opposed to factual, actual, real fiction

and YES when travelling long distances they would enter apple-based suspended animation so they’d slumber again but STILL it was pretty great. any fairy tale that ends with a new technology that makes intergalactic space flight more achievable is one that’s a-okay in my book

so the thing with peer review is that i’ve got some pretty terrible peers

the square-cube law says that as things grow larger, their surface area is the square of the size multiplier, but the volume is cubed.  something that’s 10x as big will have 100x the matter in it, and that’s but one of the many reasons why you don’t see giant beanstalks reaching up into the clouds

later on batman stole a giant version of his coin and put it in his lair like it wasn’t even a thing

“Oh, here’s one of literally dozens of ways to implement proportional representation without the inherent unfairness and distortions of first past the post systems.  That was actually really easy.  I didn’t even need to be smart for this one.”

god stealing all my great ideas for things to be AGAIN

my ocean area has some bumps in it at the bottom, are there any further questions

no regrets!!  thanks to time travel, i mean.  otherwise… whooo boy.  regret city over here!!  ha ha

you versus the religion she told you not to worry about