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Challenge #03016-H093: Well, There Was That One Time…
Humans had just begun their exploration of space, they’d not yet met any other species. The first, early, days of human space travel. A kind and gentle elderly woman, who lived alone on a farm far into the countryside, found a very large, odd-looking, “bird” gathering seed from the open feeder she had and they seemed shaky and unwell. When they collapsed, she hobbled outside, loaded them onto the flat part of her walker, and hobbled back inside. Imagine their shock when the old woman was gently singing to them, giving them sips of water, and their wing was bandaged, and all the grandmother wanted in return was a quiet afternoon talking to a new friend. – DaniAndShali
The claim of “first” is always a nebulous concept. Just ask the people who add it to the bottom of amusing video hosting sites. The first person to discover a distant land full of “uncivilised” natives never ask the natives about who was the first of them to set foot on that land. Or who might have already been there when they arrived.
Such as it is with the “first” encounter with Humans. The Sol system is a surprising font of one-way wormholes. Approximately five minutes after Humanity realised what was going on with them, they immediately used them for disposing of the unwanted sorts. Sending like groups of people down deep time so they could flourish or perish on their own merits. Some deep time colonies arrived centuries before others who were sent earlier. It’s all concerned with FTL, relativity, and Humanity’s natural egotism.
There are Human colonies that have been in existence for millennia before Humans first landed on the moon. It’s complicated. Add technically-timetravel to anything and it definitely gets complicated[1]. Who got in touch with whom and when is very complicated. History is twisted into a pretzel and many ways of logging it involve notes like (Subjective) and (Relative) years. This one is one of the top ten contenders for the First Contact with Humans.
the “mistake” was the public finding out about it, and not agreeing with them :U
[image description: a screenshot of a news article by james tapper for the guardian, titled “new ‘do not resuscitate’ orders imposed on covid-19 patients with learning difficulties.” the article was posted today, february 13th. the text reads “people with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite of widespread condemnation of the practice last year and an urgent investigation by the care watchdog. mencap said it had received reports in january from people with learning disabilities that they had been told they would not be resuscitated if they were taken ill with covid-19.” end description]
the rest of the article is in the link above.
So last year 6 out of 10 people who died of covid in the U.K. had a disability, this isn’t even sneaking eugenics in through the back door
hi yes i’m e-begging again because birth is a curse and existence is a prison! so, if you’ve been keeping up with the garbage, our roof is fucked! my dad has a roof guy to handle it (that’s what the $150 was for, to have him come survey it/look it over), and it’s going to cost about $1,200 to fix the roof entirely. this is super dire, we have a huge moldy spot in the middle of a ceiling in the share kitchen that gets worse every time it rains, so we DESPERATELY need the help!
it’s cool if you don’t want to help or can’t! just please give us a reblog so we can get this situation taken care of!
ppl with tumblr blogs older than 7 yrs old have been getting deleted randomly in the epitome of Functional Website so given this blog is from 2012 if i disappear suddenly, know i did not purposefully delete
For folks with older blogs, might be a good idea to job down Tumblr’s direct support email address now:
support@tumblr.zendesk.com
(That’s what I’ve corresponded with in the past.)
I know someone whose partner’s blog got axed yesterday, but he had it back in a couple of hours after corresponding with Tumblr support.
Here’s hoping they figure out what’s causing this and FIX IT SOON.
Cargo space ship that is too long for the wormhole is pushed perpendicular, causing intergalactic trade to stop. Aliens are fairly stressed out about it as supplies to planets will be a lot slower until they can get it unstuck.
The goddamn humans are making memes about it.
It’s too late at night to post on Instagram, but thankfully Tumblr shouldn’t mind
The year is 3801. Interstellar space travel is still fairly new and hard to grasp to humans, but so is the majority of the technology, which is understandable. Even to members of the most developed species it takes several decades of studying to fully understand principles of quantum wells and warp drives and the general public, while aware of their existence, isn’t all that much smarter about it either, that’s how complex the issue is.
The first time humanity send their vessels through the wormhole pass, their ships were a whole order smaller than the majority of other ships passing through. Even two centuries later, despite them being fully capable of constructing bigger starcrafts, they stubbornly stuck to dimensions of roughly half the size of other nations. After being asked why is it so, why not to build more cost and fuel effective vessels able to transport or their load in one go instead of sending two or three smaller ships at the time, they simply shrug and answered “cultural reasons”.
We didn’t ask them more, after all, if they wish to spend more on fuel and crew expenses, it’s entirely their problem.
Then the wormhole between Tau Ceti and Proxima Centaury was temporarily closed due to the ship Ch'htrrae Pahchrrhn from Ueuhhntc turning sideways after it was hit by unexpected solar winds from close by supernova. They partially penetrated event wall of the wormhole, turning thw Ch'htrrae Pahchrrhn sideways in the process. Due to its size, the transport ship is currently touching event walls by both of its ends, locally bending the time space continuum in such a way that it keeps the hull suspended in the exact moment it had breached this quantum barrier.
Astrophysicists and wormhole creators are currently in the state of pannic, trying to figure out how to release the ship out of those time locks, lamenting over the fact that should the size of the vesel or of the worm hole itself be any different, simple inertia of motion would be enough to get it unstuck. But with both ends locked, now they have to come up with a different sollution which may take weeks, maybe even months.
Meanwhile human communication canals are even more confusing than ever, sharing various phrases and short text messages including nonsense words and phrases such as “Evergreen”, “Suez slash fics interstellar AU”, “Ever Given my belowed”, and even recreations of ancient audio art pieces called songs talking about “wellermen” and “sugar, tea, and rum”.
Even with all our waste mental capacities, i highly doubt that we will never be able to fully understand this part of human culture which they affectionally call “memes”.
