We are re-federating with https://snouts.online. There has been a misunderstanding and @noiob is sorry that defederating so quickly and with that notice has caused so much harm. Snouts.online and @Ace@snouts.online do not support harassment campaigns.
here's to reconnecting with friends
astronomy thonk
fucked up how living on Earth we kinda presume our planet to be the default as far as habitable worlds go when probably most of them are tidally locked in some way or another, and tons are significantly bigger/smaller than Earth, in more eccentric orbits and/or have way different axial tilts and way more/less water coverage
late night worldbuilding idea, a continuation
just realized that red giants from stars with such low masses won't exist for another forty billion-odd years from now, so I'd have to justify that with a star lifting project or somesuch in setting
still though, the entire idea of a star possibly giving birth to new life even on the verge of death, in a universe that's starting to show the first signs of aging is some philosophical-ass shit
apparently nuclear take about ongoing discourse, kf
you know, we can both listen to abuse victims and oust people who sexually abuse kids from our communities -and- not treat a board whose entire focus is the relentless harassment, doxxing and suicide baiting of vulnerable people for little to no reason other than "it amuses us" as a credible source
literally nothing is stopping us from just doing both
Going back to Twitter I now see the concept of "going viral" as what it actually is, a weird and unhealthy obsession actively encouraged by platforms through the frustratingly mysterious black box of their algorithims. And it's not like this is accidental either, this is gradual and deliberate social engineering on behalf of large corporations that transforms normal reasonable people into obsessive, dysfunctional content farms. We were never the consumer. We were the product.
late night worldbuilding idea
*nearly 6 billion years after leaving the main sequence for that first toot, rather
late night worldbuilding idea
losing the deep atmosphere and no longer viable volatiles would be a fairly quick process if the solar system's history is any indication, and you'd likely be left with something that'd ostensibly resemble early Earth, if with less geological activity
hmmmm...
late night worldbuilding idea
what if I made the point of origin for one of the civilizations in my setting a former ice giant whose atmosphere has been blown off by the expansion of its parent star into a low mass red giant
apparently a 0.5 mSol star can keep a planet orbiting at Jupiter's distance in its habitable zone for nearly 6 billion years which is literally a better prospect for life than most F-type stars, let alone anything more massive
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