I Scream About Whatever Pops Into My ADHD Brain

So I found the doc andy weir put together to describe Eridian biology and it does cover the energy aspects, noting that Eridian cells have mitochondria + ATP for energy, etc due to panspermia - but it also says they are consumers, have an ammonia atmosphere, and don't need to do mass transfer between them and the atmosphere, which begs the question: how are they doing electron transfer? I like the inventiveness but the chemistry of how to have light collecting primary producers in a stable NH3 atmosphere is driving me up a wall, to say nothing of how do the Eridians themselves manage to consume enough food to stay alive without any gas exchange whatsoever. Where are the electrons going!

another thing i have been thinking about phm-wise is how inferior the eridian’s understanding and technological development of space-related fields would be, not just compared to earth’s but also pretty much every other eridian science. humans have been observing the cosmos since the dawn of their existence because it’s right there. literally you cannot miss it just look up. and yet we didn’t start launching shit up there until like the mid 20th century. eridians probably didn’t know space even existed for the vast majority of their evolution. they can’t see, and even if they figured out how to build technology to detect light there isn’t any light to be detected. the technological advancements it would take to not only figure out that something exists beyond their atmosphere but to observe and study it is probably at or even beyond earth’s current technological abilities. but to build a whole spaceship and send it ten light years away, all on a shoddy foundation of knowledge about the cosmos, and for it to succeed, is genuinely insane. compared to the rest of erid’s current science and technology, their space fields may have been basically in the stone age prior to astrophage. the trip to tau ceti was likely erid’s first ever space mission. and it was ten fucking light years away and decades long. i would not be surprised if the rest of erid was years ahead of earth in terms of technology and intelligence, it’s just their space travel that suffers from oversights and inexperience because they had to build it up from literally nothing in a matter of years.

I like to think Eridians discovered the stars on accident. Someone was doing research in the upper atmosphere and accidentally aimed a surgical brain scanner upwards and got a reading and was like. What the fuck.

i wish more people would explore non-eurocentric science on erid. i see a ton of fics and fanworks where science and medicine are these detached, impersonal things with sterile rooms and labcoats. and maybe it's just because i've taken so many anthropology courses but i always find myself wondering why eridians would have 1-to-1 copies of earth eurocentric ideals! explore indigenous and non-western science and knowledge! there are so many ways different cultures have explored the world around them that aren't sterile rooms and labcoats!

The concept of 2 entire planets surviving because some engineer rock was antisocial and stayed in the lab all day, possibly even slept in there. It amuses me. #stayinsidekids #donottouchgrass

#famously few birds in space#probably the safest place to take him