also, he is the only one that gets to wear cool shoes
― soref, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
The ISIS dinosaur looks happy because they're trying to create the conditions they believe will trigger the apocalypse. It's maybe the only accurate thing Ben Garrison had ever drawn
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
The news orgs will be made extinct by this oncoming barrage of meteors and also a coffee mug.
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
i mean i literally don't care so don't tell me who they are but are those faces all well known and recognisable?
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
JP is a transphobe from Canada, and Infowars is the Infowars guy. I don't know the others.
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tFyWwdz.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
xps Ya basic sympathy of american far-right for Isis showing thru a bit here
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
Um, there are people online who recreate the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event using Bernard Matthews Turkey Dinosaurs and it's amazing. pic.twitter.com/18Mobs4983— Fergus Butler-Gallie (@_F_B_G_) July 23, 2017
― Stevie T, Monday, 24 July 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20994286_10214029028830423_4697947309006296355_n.jpg?oh=9a43194e71009ff5f4b3c559e8fb455b&oe=5A21B114
― nickn, Monday, 21 August 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxkLSbUAAAfhG-.jpg
― Gravy Zebra (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJY7EC8WAAAMXtt.jpg
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 11 September 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
damn, rip dinosaurs exposed to the inky vastness of space
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 September 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
I imagine they've set up shop on some other planet they landed on
― ogmor, Monday, 11 September 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
i for one welcome the return of our hyper-evolved dinosaur overlords
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 September 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaucers/images/7/72/Allo-family.png
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 08:08 (six years ago) link
yessssss
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
what if the dinosaurs
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Sunday, 24 September 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
are us
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/francis-gooding/feathered-furred-or-coloured
― the pinefox, Friday, 16 February 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
good thread eh
(did the now-vanished ben garrison cartoon include the first mention of j0rdan p3t3rson on ilx?)
― mark s, Friday, 16 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor = cultural marxist propaganda pushed by lib professors
https://jackchick.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/dinosaur41.jpg?w=470
― soref, Saturday, 17 February 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
http://l7.alamy.com/comp/X565HB/artwork-showing-dinosaurs-caught-in-the-aftermath-of-an-asteroid-impact-the-dinosaurs-were-wiped-out-65-million-years-ago-an-event-provoked-by-the-impact-of-a-large-asteroid-or-comet-with-the-earth-the-impact-of-such-an-object-some-10km-across-threw-up-an-enormous-amount-of-debris-blocking-out-the-sun-for-months-or-years-in-this-depiction-a-blast-wave-moving-outwards-from-the-impact-site-incinerates-everything-in-its-path-carrying-with-it-superheated-and-charred-debris-these-ankylosaurid-dinosaurs-euoplocephalus-weighing-several-tons-each-do-not-stand-a-chance-against-this-X565HB.jpg
― devvvine, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
kinda pushing the definition of 'photo' there, alamy
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
nah it's a photo of a picture
― tsrobodo, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
omg that url
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
actually, that is originally my image and you're all under arrest
https://i.imgur.com/2AFIchU.jpg
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
lol
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
shit, he's got us dead to rights
― #TheBeatlesIn5Words Both surviving members are Vegan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
did you choose that name for the jpg file as well
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
artwork-showing-dinosaurs-caught-in-the-aftermath-of-an-asteroid-impact-the-dinosaurs-were-wiped-out-65-million-years-ago-an-event-provoked-by-the-impact-of-a-large-asteroid-or-comet-with-the-earth-the-impact-of-such-an-object-some-10km-across-threw-up-an-enormous-amount-of-debris-blocking-out-the-sun-for-months-or-years-in-this-depiction-a-blast-wave-moving-outwards-from-the-impact-site-incinerates-everything-in-its-path-carrying-with-it-superheated-and-charred-debris-these-ankylosaurid-dinosaurs-euoplocephalus-weighing-several-tons-each-do-not-stand-a-chance-against-this-X565HB.jpg
ha! i didn't see that until now. it's a good name!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
as someone who has suffered through the tortuous process of uploading images to sell on alamy, i def recognise the tortured syntax that comes from trying to squeeze as many keywords as possible into a caption
― #TheBeatlesIn5Words Both surviving members are Vegan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
Next Fiona Apple album title?
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
the filename is SEO-friendly (uses dashes) so u got to give them props on that
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
dang
I can hardly believe he's this barefaced about it. It's absolutely outrageous. pic.twitter.com/SPpUrLDsDG— Archie Woodrow (@Archimbaldo) June 21, 2018
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link
shit lol wrong thing
Every now and then I reread this astonishing and terrifying description of the end of the dinosaurs, via @PeterBrannen1's 'The Ends of the World': pic.twitter.com/Z7EvFbPFOY— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) June 20, 2018
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
can’t believe dinosaurs won the space race tens of millions of years before it even officially began, the bastards
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
I love reading non-fic science descriptions of monumental calamity like that, wonderful.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, that's a great passage. there's a bit in Red Mars (which is full of meteor geology history) where they mention it's possible they might be stepping over a piece of the Yucatan somewhere over by Olympus Mons or whatever. wild.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
now I know what book I'm reading next
― mh, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
the paul mason thing is bad also
― mark s, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
if we're lucky he gets hit by a meteor
― mh, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
if we're lucky we all do
― mark s, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
red mars is terrific in so many ways. sometimes kinda sucks on women and people of color. and yet it has so many interesting and really pressing things on its mind, really delves into terraforming as not only a question of how but of why and for whom. but yes: endless stuff on martian canyons and meteorite ejecta and the weight of ice affecting the regolith and the difficulties of navigating cross-cutting crater systems. some of it kinda washed over me cause i was more interested in the political struggle over what mars would be, and, in the sequels, what kind of values people would have if they actually born into a physically different kind of humanity on another planet. but it's really cool imho.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
i found red mars really frustrating, mainly because keeping character continuity over the lonnnng timespan of terraforming mars meant handwaving a magical life-extension potion into existence, which rubbed really awkwardly against the determinedly hard-science approach of the rest of it
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
i sorrrrrt of agree but i also think it's of a piece with other things that happen in the series, making it less of a deus ex machina and more an exhibit towards a (debateable!) claim about how history and innovation work. some things are really slow and percolate around as people share the kernel of the idea and it rubs here, rubs there, and then two books later it finally comes to fruition. very STS. other ideas seem to congeal all of a sudden, like the conventional history of the edison bulb, and promulgate very rapid change. in this column you could put the gerontological treatments in book 1, the pusher-plate spacecraft in book 3, and probably something in book 2 that i'm forgetting. given the shift back and forth between human and geological time scales i think this is all deliberate though it may not be a given reader's cup of tea. and of course there are several semi-miraculous technologies that we have to accept from the get-go - mainly the reliable and easily programmed robot factories for manufacturing materials and equipment. so it goes.
anyway, imho he really does want to take on the life extension as a theme and a subject: how do people think about life when they could live that long, what kind of political issues would it raise, would it change your individual way of thinking about your actions, change the way you externalize problems onto "future generations," change the way you make sense of your own lifetime as a comprehensible biography as opposed to things so distant they could have been different people, etc.? i think the one bit of connective tissue necessary would be to really play up the idea that the labs are focused on the tumor problem because of radiation levels on the voyage and on mars, and that this specifically leads them into genetic repair. as written it feels like they just kinda picked this project out of a hat. the other thing that now seems incredibly goofy is that sea-level rise on earth turns out to not be a long-term result of greenhouse gases, but one of the quick abrupt changes, caused by a volcano erupting underneath antarctica. but there again i think he's trying to make parallels between earth and mars, similar to the kind of crazy "asteroid hitting the yucatan" type events that reshape everything in the blink of an eye. on a cosmic time scale, compressed into a few pages summarizing the geological history of mars, such events are extremely frequent. but we take for granted a somewhat stable planet because humans have been around for such a short time.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
woah dude that's my twitter
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
PS Kim Stanley Robinson has a new book coming out soon called Red Moon, but afaict it's about Chinese on the Moon, rather than terraforming
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 June 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
Chinese on the moon, la la la la laChinese on the moon, la la la la la la
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 22 June 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
KSR's 2312 has much more on psychological effects of life extension, as well as gender mutability becoming standard. Iirc the main protagonist has two children, one she fathered and one she mothered (neither if whom she is in contact with or appears to gaf about lol)
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 22 June 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
good post doc c - i do need to get back to reading the mars series soon cuz i did enjoy the first one despite my reservations
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 June 2018 08:15 (five years ago) link