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Adventure time! Going on a walk, deep through the woods. I lost the context in my brain :D just like they’re lost in the woods, because there is no reception. but at least, I finished the piece, and I’m sure they’ll find their way back eventually.
Here's me trying to interpret how Danny's hazmat suit would look like if it were more realistic, based on my experience with biohazard PPE.
I feel like I also need to add a disclaimer to not use this as safety advice. Please follow your local health and safety guidelines prior to handling ectoplasm, ecto-contaminated materials, and/or ectobiological organisms!
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A planned community in Arizona has used time-honored Mediterranean strategies to keep temperatures down and attitudes high. Western civiliza
"A planned community in Arizona has used time-honored Mediterranean strategies to keep temperatures down and attitudes high.
Western civilization has grown remarkably climate conscious over the last 20 years, but not when it comes to building, civic planning, and especially zoning. Perhaps the interiors of buildings are becoming more climate adapted, and in some cases the facades as well, but in a way that’s a little like inventing a freezer designed to keep ice cream frozen while sitting next to a fire.
Wooden or concrete boxes arranged side-by-side across leveled ground with sprawling, largely treeless gardens and concrete sidewalks alongside wide, blacktop roads is simply a culture of construction that has to be abandoned if living in a world of 2°C or higher annual temperatures [or, hopefully, less than that, but nonetheless likely over 1.5°C] is to be tolerable.
Fortunately for Arizonans, change may have finally arrived in the form of a carless, planned community that looks and feels like a Greek island village.
In the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Culdesac has arisen as a 17-acre mixed-use neighborhood from the ground up to stay cool and local, taking the concept of the 15-minute city, where anything a resident might need is only 15 minutes away, and putting a Mediterranean spin on it.
Buildings are tall, thick, and totally white. The residential areas look like they were built atop of the ashes of the Phoenix zoning code burnt in effigy. Crammed together, they create narrow streets and alleys that are almost constantly shaded, through which wind is channeled and accelerated in passing.
Windows open towards each other, allowing wind that enters one building to exit into another, while the total lack of asphalt means that the ground temperatures are a staggering 50-60°F lower than pavements beyond the limits of Culdesac.
No privately-owned cars are allowed to enter the neighborhood, in which electric bikes, robotic mini taxis, and light rail shuttle people around town, to downtown Phoenix, or out to the airport.
The street life is lively—there are no cars to bisect movement between the 21 different businesses and eateries, among which is a James Beard Award-winning Mexican restaurant, DIY ceramic business, and some stores run out of apartments—a big no-no under Phoenix zoning laws.
“Once you pull the cars out,” Architect Daniel Parolek who designed Culdesac, told BBC, “there’s so much more opportunity to make a vibrant, thriving community.”
His inspiration was sun-soaked locales like Italy, Greece, and Croatia, where town centers were designed before the automobile and before air conditioning.
Technically speaking, the entire Culdesac neighborhood is one apartment complex, but the paseos, or little alleyways, open up into plazas of open space exactly liked one would expect in a little village in the Cyclades.
Because no one has to jump in a car to get from place to place, people run into each other, sparking conversations, relations, and breaking through the counterintuitive phenomenon of big city loneliness, which in Phoenix hits particularly hard.
“Culdesac Tempe has shown that people do want to live car-free in the US, even in a metro area like Phoenix that’s often seen as the poster child for car dependency,” says Erin Boyd, Culdesac’s government relations and external affairs lead. “This success has shifted the conversation around what’s possible in American development.”
So how is it that second-hand embarrassment is the single most powerful and weakening emotion one can feel from media?
Tragedy? Delicious.
A hard-earned happy ending? Wonderful.
A convoluted narrative? Keeps you glued.
Simple slice of life? It’s entertaining.
Second-hand embarrassment? Hang on, g, I gotta pause this for fifteen minutes, no, I cannot continue watching this right now, I am just not strong enough.
you guys reblog this every wednesday every wednesday i wake up and wonder what day it is and i see bigweld in my tumblr notifications and im like ah its wednesday again bigweld wednesday just like last wednesday its wednesday its bigweld wednesday
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Finally reading Eridian.docx and here are somethings I found particularly interesting about it/ my beat by beat reaction
(Its long so it will continue after the cut)
Eridian claws, when held in a point, can be used as a weapon. They basically have 5 built in knives.
They are tiny (height wise) on average! With all 5 limbs on the ground they're about 1'8" on average.
They are apex predators. Like naturally. Not because of tools. Just as themselves.
Despite eating being private and gross to them they enjoy crushing (which functions like chewing) their food.
They have an innate sense of north on Erid bc they can sense magnetic fields and mimicked the sensation of Erid's magnetic field on the Blip-A just for comfort.
Their thoughts are light! They think via refracted light! Which since they have no concept of light makes me wonder how much they understand of how their own brain function. (Also going off of this, since their brains are completely covered in their mecury blood I do wonder how the light thing actually works. I mean light doesnt pass through mecury right?)
They struggle with focusing on one task. Relatable as hell
Can't juggle, but more interestingly they can't throw accurately.
They're good at math cause they just memorized the answers.
Their cells have walls like plant cells
Their cells have their own unique genes depending on the purpose of the cell
Those cell types have identical "genes" as one of their parents but which parents' cells that "won out" vary by type. (So like, the cells that help build bones could be from Parent A and are identical to Parent A's, but the cells thay tend to the brain are identical to Parent B's)
Eridians typically have 5 babies at a time! (Rocky would probably have siblings! And if he and Adrian already had kids (which its kinda implied in the book that they did...) they'd have about 5 of them!)
Most animals on Erid are monosex
They eat the bones of their prey sometimes. And rocks (but like Weir points out its like us eating salt).
Their bodies are mostly iron, hematite (so they'd probably be black, grey, brown, and red in color), and fucking glass.
This document confirms the panspermia theory. Like I know it was heavily implied in the book but this document confirms it as 100% canon for the PHM universe. Which makes Rocky naming Adrian the planet after Adrian his mate all the sweeter. Imagine having the origin of all known life named after you by your partner?!? Id fucking sob. No wonder Adrian waited for Rocky, the fucking sap.
They can go 30 minutes without breathing which I initially thought was a really short time frame then I remembered that I can't hold mine for 1.
Their fucking BLOOD TURNS RADIOACTIVE IF EXPOSED TO RADIATION. Holy fuck what sort of iron lung nightmare horror movie did Rocky and his crew go through????
They write with what is basically pen and paper too! Their "ink" is just thick enough to be raised 1mm above the paper.
Their printed writing is made of punch outs in the paper! Different writing system for print vs handwriting!
Their walls are soundproof since otherwise there would be zero privacy.
The Blip-A had a craftsman :(
Ok so maybe slight retcon or I initially misunderstood but the magnetic field is necessary for them. Without one they get confused and disoriented... (does the Hail Mary have one? How was Rocky coping if it doesn't?)
Since Eridians need gravity to eat, the Blip-A has an eating and shitting centrifuge which is a very funny concept to me for some reason. If the centrifuge where to break they would just apply thrust to get the necessary gravity "for 3 or so hours of eating" but that leads me to wonder: did the crew of the Blip-A have the same eating schedule? If so, who watched them sleep since Eridians pass out after eating? Is that three hours long enough for at least 2 shifts of eating/sleeping and watching over them sleep? Or since the watching sleep is the equivalent of having a blanket to sleep with (aka not strictly necessary) is this just a "suck it up and make due" type situation?
They typically sleep between 10.2 to 15.3 hours at a time. Which is 2 or 3 DAYS on Erid.
They need a cold bedroom to sleep... granted thats cold by Eridian standards
Erid also fucked their planet to make astrophage. Them breeding astrophage in the ocean cooled it further and fucked their ocean biomes.
Alien that has ultrasonic hearing or x-ray vision and lives with humans so they know what normal human internal anatomy looks like.
That super-perception alien being introduced to a new human and immediately identifying them as a kind of human-mimic. The mimic has titanium bones and a bioreactor where intestines should be. Or they are a swarm of highly intelligent worms piloting a human skin-suit. And the homies aren't remarking on that all.
So the super-perception alien tries to be casual about the whole situation: "So uh... why didn't you guys tell me that you are a lot further along in physiological augmentation technology?" Or "I think Bob would be a lot happier if he was allowed to writhe as a swarm on the ground rather than being cooped up inside of that human disguise."
And the humans are like "What the fuck are you talking about?!"
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we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means
these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"
For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.
A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)
Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.
Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.
The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.
This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.
