Gleegoo88

like not only to download everything we've ever made WITHOUT duplicates!!! (and what even counts as a duplicate? translations, international releases, newer versions of something edited to reflect recent discoveries, every version of star wars that George Lucas ever crafted...) BUT to then make them accessible and browsable to the astronauts? To tag them with search terms? Organize a digital library that the team can peruse???

Like, you can point an algorithm at something and say, "copy everything in that folder," no problem! But then to do the same with hundreds, thousands, millions of folders, and then still end up with a result that's navigable? Genuinely unimaginable to me!! It would have literally had to have been its own entire branch of Project Hail Mary.

Rocky's xenonite creations in the movie

i. the monster's body is a cultural body

ii. the monster always escapes

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire

these are all direct quotes from jeffrey jerome cohen's "monster culture (seven theses)" (full pdf linked) i highly encourage you to read it yourself!

that said, while i think cohen's writing is evocative, it can be a little dense, so while i'm here, here's my capsule summary (you can also hear me talk about this in the first episode of my podcast) (listen to @ghostswerepeopletoo)

i. the monster's body is a cultural body - The monster is a work of fiction to be analyzed through tools of literary and sociological theory.

ii. the monster always escapes - As long as the cultural fear from which the monster stems persists, the monster will reappear in retellings, reimaginings, and sequels.

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis - Monsters defy binaries and challenge easy comprehension or categorization.

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference - The monster represents the Other.

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible - Tales of the monster exist to discourage unacceptable or taboo behaviors.

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire - Subjects can vicariously participate in the disruption of the social order through the monster.

do not taste plants if you don't know what they are

do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet

hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro

I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...

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and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:

Some freelancers :3

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