Pastel Catholicism

This moment makes me Unwell. Imagine being traumatized by oxygen. As in, the thing your friend actively needs in order to live. It is highly flammable and very dangerous, you experienced how dangerous it is, and it is everywhere on this ship. There might be a leak at any moment and everything will explode and you will die and your friend will die and your worlds will die and—!!

Imagine how paranoid Rocky was during the first few days after the Adrian incident. Imagine how many times he inspected the ship to make sure that nothing is going to explode. Imagine how frustrated he was because he is restricted by his ball and his tunnels and he can't actually interact with the ship and Grace just doesn't understand the danger (and is not that good at fixing things anyway).

Even worse, imagine Grace needing an oxygen mask after the "fishing trip" (or for whatever reason during the journey). This is much more concentrated amount of this dangerous dangerous dangerous thing. And it's actively keeping your friend alive. And it's terrifying.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

Like imagine being a modern day sailor navigating the Pacific with GPS and strong hulls to protect against the raging ocean. And from portside you see like an honest to god viking ship. Except its made of some high tech carbon fiber material. But like, its still very definitely a viking ship. You can clearly see there's 24 oars along the hull where sailors are supposed to use to manually row their ship. Also the ship is leaking and theres like one little dude on board whos skittering around patching the holes constantly. Also this little dude is blind and doesnt know about water. Thats how insane Eridians look being an interstellar species without computers or radiation shielding.

Jax: So I’ve decided to break the fourth wall.

Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.

Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.

Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.

Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:

REUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils