Ring a little bigger than the planet

[JMPtD]

here is a cool idea. If they made a big hard ring around the planet so it would float.

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Maybe it could be only a mile high

 

[Xenophon]

Careful, broaching this topic will draw...them. You know...them. Eldritch uncanny figures chanting of harmonics greater and lesser, of arcs of minutes of angles, and unspeakable numeric mandalas. And all we wanted was a big planet that'd float. Set there and float like a stay-behind turd in the boy's room bowl.

 

[Yazata]

here is a cool idea. If they made a big hard ring around the planet so it would float.

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Maybe it could be only a mile high

Maybe we could call it Elysium.

 

[Taudefindi]

Maybe we could call it Elysium.

Maybe we should call it Jörmungandr, much less inviting to the rich elite.

 

[Xenophon]

Maybe we should call it Jörmungandr, much less inviting to the rich elite.

I already bought the domain name Jörmungandr_B&B.org just to be safe, entrepreneurially speaking. Reach the retirees with "Take a gander at Jörmungandr." Draw gay cruises with "Come polyandr at Jörmungandr." And so on...

 

[JMPtD]

maybe we are being guided to fit a mold alien culture surely. Even if they aren’t directly communicating I guess. Arc grid does seem like something that could get things going on this planet in the ability to do magic realm. Especially with that magnetic count Bruce Cathie wrote, though I strongly urge myself and others to evolve with much emotional intelligence making the progress or other words without technology maybe, then when evolved we know how to stay awake if technologies physical or mental may be in a way unsustainable for certain magical metaphysics.

 

[Xenophon]

Who says we're "evolving"? The preponderence of evidence for the last 5,000 years smacks of spiritual devolution.

 

[KjEno186]

Who says we're "evolving"?

It's the "progress" myth. And an incorrect view of natural selection. The yeast in the carboy that I used to make beer discovered a huge 'resource' in the barley malt. Their population exploded, creating wonderful ethanol, but then they died en-masse just after their peak of exponential expansion, and their remains settled on the bottom of the container. I do not know if they ever had plans for a trans-carboy ring, but I did enjoy the beer.

 

[Xenophon]

It's the "progress" myth. And an incorrect view of natural selection. The yeast in the carboy that I used to make beer discovered a huge 'resource' in the barley malt. Their population exploded, creating wonderful ethanol, but then they died en-masse just after their peak of exponential expansion, and their remains settled on the bottom of the container. I do not know if they ever had plans for a trans-carboy ring, but I did enjoy the beer.

'Tis sad how the modest ol' word "evolution" became a Shibboleth. About the only folks I can think of who make a point of questioning the notion are grouches like Evola and Rene Guenon.

 

[KjEno186]

Evola

Oh thanks for reminding me. I had intended to download a copy of Revolt Against the Modern World, which was already on my to-read list, and did so just now. As much as I have enjoyed science fiction over the decades, I find most of it rather lacking in actual science. That is, it's really just another category of fantasy fiction where the drama is set in impossible locations or with impossible technology. The drama is almost always based on the troubles-du-jour of the writers. The juxtaposition can be useful in the capable hands of certain thinkers, but so often readers get caught up in the progress myth, thinking that "hey, we'll have that technology some day, you'll see!"

 

[Xenophon]

Oh thanks for reminding me. I had intended to download a copy of Revolt Against the Modern World, which was already on my to-read list, and did so just now. As much as I have enjoyed science fiction over the decades, I find most of it rather lacking in actual science. That is, it's really just another category of fantasy fiction where the drama is set in impossible locations or with impossible technology. The drama is almost always based on the troubles-du-jour of the writers. The juxtaposition can be useful in the capable hands of certain thinkers, but so often readers get caught up in the progress myth, thinking that "hey, we'll have that technology some day, you'll see!"

Right. I have my own cross to have borne. Back during COVID, I had a lot of classes teaching English to kids using Harry Potter. (Not my idea of course book.) The technological mindset permeates those books to a loathsome degree. Where Buzz Blackhole flips a switch, Harry & posse flick the ol' wand.