Think of all the good you could do for the world. By which I mean me. :D You make a valid point! Hmm, relativistic rockets would make the commute short for you but not the rest of the universe. Back to the drawing board...
(I'm reminded of that Greg Egan? story where space travel happened via sending person-templates over the void at c, and there was one planet where all the residents went on "slowdown" when one person had to skip time via space travel to a nearby planet and back. Everyone altered their sensation of the passage of time so they'd experience the same subjective time onplanet as the traveler.)
I've contemplated full-on running away to the woods before, but I'm trapped in civilization by internet access. I USED to live in almost-the-woods with super fast internet access as a young penguin, but then other people bought plots next to us and built houses and now my parents have neighbors, boo. It was the dream for a while.
Avoiding drama is a good call. Wading into the shit will only stir it up and make the mudpile grow. Let's hope it's over soon and everyone can go back to wanking about whether Shen Wei is best characterized as the hero or the heroine of a bodice ripper or whatever.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2019-11-16 07:43 am (UTC)You make a valid point! Hmm, relativistic rockets would make the commute short for you but not the rest of the universe. Back to the drawing board...
(I'm reminded of that Greg Egan? story where space travel happened via sending person-templates over the void at c, and there was one planet where all the residents went on "slowdown" when one person had to skip time via space travel to a nearby planet and back. Everyone altered their sensation of the passage of time so they'd experience the same subjective time onplanet as the traveler.)
I USED to live in almost-the-woods with super fast internet access as a young penguin, but then other people bought plots next to us and built houses and now my parents have neighbors, boo. It was the dream for a while.
Avoiding drama is a good call. Wading into the shit will only stir it up and make the mudpile grow. Let's hope it's over soon and everyone can go back to wanking about whether Shen Wei is best characterized as the hero or the heroine of a bodice ripper or whatever.