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Contributor Adam Crane captured this magnificent shot Aug. 10, 2015, at the biannual “Scrippshenge” event, where the sun lines up with Scripps Pier at the La Jolla Shores Beach in San Diego.
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#from the queuePeople on this site: How is it that 90% of my dash is filled with that gay angel and demon couple?
Anthony J. Crowley, who won three awards in Hell when he created Tumblr dot com:
countersuggestion: Crowley did not invent tumblr. that was all humans. he did, however, suggest to Yahoo that it would be a great investment which would help them finally break into the social media business.
and he is absolutely responsible for Yahoo Answers.
Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are.
The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation.
I just really like the idea of slime mold on a map of the US. It’s beautiful.
I’m—
holy shit
I have a raging science ladyboner right now.
I’d love if we could do it on a state-by-state basis.
That same slime mold once affirmed that the Tokyo subway is pretty well-designed.
Using slime molds as a calculator.
Using slime molds as a calculator.
Using slime molds as a calculator.
Natural computation: it’s a thing, and it’s awesome. What is the universe but a really, really complicated computer?
I love this.
It’s a good start, but they forgot a couple of very important points:
1. Topography.
2. Population density.
So like, I can see that they didn’t put any sort of inhibitor where the Appalachians are, so the slime mold put a bunch of networks right in the steepest (not highest, steepest) mountains in the lower 48, and none through the nice flat well-populated Piedmont – that’s the east coast, blank from Jersey to Jacksonville FL here. (I’m less clear on the Rockies than I am on the Appalachians, so forgive the bias here. I can’t quite tell how the western networks relate to the Great Basin, Rockies, and Sierra Nevada.)
Ohio is the most densely populated state that isn’t on a saltwater coast. This network not only goes around it, but it does so via the course of the Ohio River, in the Desolation of Smalltowns twisting between steep Appalachian foothills from Cincinnati to Wheeling WV. It would make more sense to either go through Ohio, in the 2/3rds of the state from Cincinnati to Cleveland which is flat, or follow the shore of Lake Erie and go through Cleveland, which is pretty much what I-80 does.
In short, most of this network is passing through steep mountain/hill country and avoiding people by hundreds of miles. Perhaps a later experiment will add growth inhibitors and facilitators to approximate the missing elements. That would be really cool to see.
End map nerd.
also ive been thinking about the house juju. when john took it, it gave him the power to retroactively change canon and therefore save his friends from the game over timeline. this was the only way to win the game. this we already know, and is canon.
it’s implied that john is finding earth c (post-canon) existence unfulfilling and his relationships are suffering because of that. john is the glue that ties the characters together (you’re our friend and this is why you must be our leader). if john is “stuck” in canon aka still relevant to the story, he cannot be meaningfully present with the life he’s built afterwards. with that lack of presence, the rest of the crew starts to crumble psychologically too.
anyways i think john sticking his hand in the juju is why earth c faces the threat of becoming non canon. perhaps as long as there is a way to influence canon in the post game, the story can never be fulfilled and complete.
as long as john (and subsequently, the juju’s power) is in earth c, they will never have their happy ending. that’s why rose’s goodbye felt so final.
the green sun doesnt have influence over earth c universe because earth c universe is not MEANT to have relevance. since john IS still relevant to canon, that defies the logic, and pushes earth c into noncanon territory. they invalidate each other. it’d be pretty upsetting for john to hear that his existence invalidates everyone residing in the universe he created. pretty fucked up. winning the game means you cease to matter to the story; the curse of the juju is that john can never stop being the protagonist.
I DON’T LIKE THESE IMPLICATIONS
Honestly my hopes for John returning to Earth C are not high, but I am expecting him to lose the retcon powers as follows:
With ‘go after Lord English when he’s younger’, it seems likely we’re heading towards the Caliborn Claymation Special. In that fight, John, Rose, Dave, and Jade are imprisoned in the house juju and it is cast into the Furthest Ring.
My theory is that the retcon powers go with John into the juju – and then leave without him, when earlier John touches it. When the juju is actually set off, the four of them will emerge, but John won’t have retcon powers anymore.
What I like most about this theory is it makes the freakishly powerful retcon ability its own origin.
Some say in candy.
From what I’ve seen the fans entreat,
I hold with those who favor meat.
But knowing Huss’s modus operandi,
I think I’ve read enough updates
To say that for conclusions candy
Is also great
And would be dandy.
- Robert Frost
Mistaken For Strangers- The National
Companion to this piece from three years ago
Sorry this couldn’t be done as an audio post, tumblr said lyricstucks have no rights.
