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According to Andy Weir's Eridian biology document, Eridians are better multitaskers than humans will ever be, but the trade off is they're physically incapable of locking in. SO funny to me. Yes this species can build a diorama while simultaneously blitzing through mathematics equations and also partaking in intense gossiping, but they cannot do any of those things for longer than, like, half an hour without going crazy. Species of supercomputers cursed with the TikTok attention span.
Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"
Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.
Yeah human brains can only do a single very consuming task at a time but it can do it for a very long time. The one track in our one track minds spans multiple countries. Persistence predators, babey.
Something I haven't seen many people talk about in PHM is the fact that Eridians probably don't have the same attitudes towards time as humans do. Think about it: Erid is an inherently dayless place, having an atmosphere that allows no light and thus no concept of day or night. We don't really think much about how our entire lives are structured around this cycle that Earth life has been experiencing for eons. Erid life has no concept of this at all. Eridian sleep schedules are somewhat irregular and not synced to each other (they can't be, not if someone always stays awake to watch). They don't track birthdays like we do, they can't unless they're paying attention to their solar cycle, which I'd expect is a relatively new thing for their culture. Maybe they base age on their near-perfect memories or how many layers their carapace has or how big they are, or experiences/accomplishments. They may have an idea of an Eridian year, if their planet has seasons or something like that, but I doubt it has a whole lot of importance to them.
I'd image having an alien who relies so heavily on cycles and repeated patterns in order to function normally would be mind-boggling to the Eridians. What do you mean it celebrates the exact day of its birth every so often, just because? Wait we need to program a reliable change in light levels to simulate its planet, which has almost no atmosphere? And we have to schedule any interactions we have with it around this cycle? Wait it tracks its age by the scientific year, not by life experience and physical aging?
Constantly being reminded that this guy Rocky brought home that saved their entire planet is, in fact, a complete alien.
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we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
Grace and Rocky, giving a tour of the Hail Mary to fascinated Eridian scientists and diplomats.
Pointing at things and explaining what they are and how the ship works, lots of awed and appreciative noises are made.
Until one of the visiting Eridians points out a specific item. βAnd that?β
Itβs a strange, circular thing, a xenonite disk mounted upright on some sort of pivot so it can spin freely, but around the edges it hasβ¦ spokes? Pegs? Sticking out of it, that hit against a stiff flap that would slow down the spinning.
It is also separated into sections decorated with crude etchings of a human and an Eridian.
βAh,β Grace says.
βThat,β Rocky says.
βThatβs. Um.β Grace seems somewhat embarrassed. βThatβs the sacrifice wheel.β
The Eridian visitors clearly do not know what to make of that. βWe think we misunderstood Savior Graceβs word,β they say, apparently hoping this is a vocabulary mix-up. βExplain (question, polite)?β
βDidnβt misunderstand,β says Rocky, sounding very sheepish. βThat is sacrifice wheel.β
βSo. While we were on our way to Erid, we might have gottenβ¦ anxious about each otherβs well-being,β Grace says, which everyone is already very aware is a wild understatement. βAnd, well, you heard what happened at Tau Ceti, and after. There were a lot of unexpected dangers for the whole trip that required a lot of, at least, attempted self-sacrifice to solve. We ended up almost dying for each other several times. And we had an argument about what weβd do if another crisis like that came up. And we couldn't agree.β
βGrace argued that Grace already was unlikely to survive long-term on Erid, so he should be the one to do any potential deadly but necessary maneuvers to make sure I was able to bring taumoeba back,β Rocky says.
βWhich made sense.β
βDid not make sense! Grace already sacrificed so much for me and for Erid, wouldnβt be fair to make you do it againββ Rocky cuts himself off with a huff. They have obviously had this conversation before. βSo sacrifice wheel was compromise.β
βYeah,β Grace says. He spins it to demonstrate; it whirls around in a blur and a rattle of the flap hitting the pegs, then eventually slows down, and stopsβpointing at the segment depicting a very bad but very clear image of an Eridian. βRocky made the wheel, I spin the wheel, and whoever it lands on, thatβs who gets to sacrifice themself to save the other and the other person does not get to argue. This way, we wouldnβt waste time debating who does the self-sacrifice and who survives, itβs just a plain fifty-fifty chance. Or, eighteen-eighteen chance in base six. But the point is it could be either of us and we would have to accept the outcome.β
Rocky started fidgeting while Grace was explaining. When Grace finishes, proud of the equitable solution they came up with to allow them to die for each other fairly, Rocky says, βNow that we are back and we donβt need sacrifice wheel anymoreβ¦ I have confession to make. About the wheel.β
βWhat about the wheel?β
Rocky doesnβt answer. Grace frowns, first confused, then suspicious, and spins the wheel again.
It lands on Rocky again.
He spins the wheel again, and again, and again, and it lands on Rocky every single time.
βRocky!β
βI weighted the wheel,β Rocky admits.
βRocky the whole point was that it was equal, that was why we even made itββ
βNever was necessary so doesnβt matter anymore!β
βBut you WOULD have!β
βAnd you never noticed because you were hungry and cranky and distracted and so would have done bad job on heroic self-sacrifice anyway!β
βI would not! I would have done fine!β
(The Eridian scientists and diplomats are still here watching this btw. Slowly dawning on them that 1) these two are extremely not normal about each other 2) if Erid ever does another space mission they NEED to send a therapist aboard because this is what happens when they donβt)
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OKAY maybe im preaching to the choir here but i think more people should read this fantastic gracerocky wip: the mortifying ordeal of being known
propaganda: rocky has a disability + ptsd that considers his biology. theyre both jerks. cultural exchange. cultural blunders. they listen to eridian bridgerton. grace is being read to filth. we havent even gotten to the E-rated content yet and im already high off the fumes of this thing...
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