In Your Opinion, In A Fictional Setting Thats Trying Its Best To Be As Hard Scifi As Possible, How Far

In your opinion, in a fictional setting that’s trying it’s best to be as hard scifi as possible, how far should humans have to travel before they find an Earth-level biosphere, with complex life tucked into every nook and cranny?

hmm. i think narratively things work best if they have to... "work for it", yknow? hints- fossils on mars, maybe even jellyfish on europa or enceladus- but the first obvious one, i think, should be well beyond the first expeditions.

not alfsentary, not sirius, maybe even past achird. it really depends on your own thoughts on the matter of life, of course- i tend to think that the reasons for the fermi paradox land closer to "radio communications don't actually travel all that far" "we're not as good at finding and studying planets as we'd like" and "immediately-noticeable life is a bit harder to find than we think" rather than "there's one sapient lifeform per galaxy and his name is steve".

so yeah, i think it's likely there's maybe even dozens of earth-level worlds in the local bubble. local bubble's big

Fictional spaceplane project

Next Generation Space Transportation orbiter Pacifica, delivering three brand new Proteus printer-assembler drones to SBSP station building site.

(Points at the function I'm doing my thesis on) this is my son who has every disease

the sound a bass guitar makes is a gender.

You. I fear you.

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

Reblogging for the benefit of my [checks account settings] FIFTY new followers?? Holy shit. Anyways, ICYMI here is the helpful handy guide to my blog! It's also pinned, so you (and me, haha) can refer to it easily whenever. To all the new folks: I'd just like to wish you a big, hearty, friendly

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About this blog

Heya. I'm Spyglass, but most folks just call me Spy.

he/him

adult (not very good at it yet)

autistic

I am a creative polymath, existential nihilist, science nerd, wistful wannabe-futurist, and –most importantly– worldbuilder. I contain multitudes. Check out my other internet haunts here.

I don't really do fandoms, ergo I don't reblog any fandom stuff (with rare exceptions, which are tagged appropriately). I also don't reblog anything nsfw (except the odd dirty jokes and shitposts) –no mature content here. Consider this blog PG-13 with a big ol' asterisk and footnote.

Tag system

(in no particular order)

#spyglass' realms - My worldbuilding stuff, also typically tagged with #worldbuilding. Further organized into world-specific tags; see the overview post.

#spy writes - My writing, of all sorts but usually fiction. Typically also tagged with #spyglass' realms and relevant world-specific tags.

#spy has thoughts - Tag for posts where I think out loud or when I add significant commentary to reblogs.

#my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track - Funny stories from my own life. Random factoids about my life go under #new spy lore unlocked instead.

#i try so hard to be funny - Haha! Comedy. Meant to tag posts where I'm making a joke in a reblog but I sometimes forget to use it.

#shitpost rb - Reblogs of stuff I find funny, usually without any commentary. My most used tag... to my great chagrin. Variant companion tags are #advanced shitposting for particularly high-brow science-based funnies and #coprolitepost for specifically palaeontology-related funnies.

#important post - Stuff I think is important: activism, life advice, mental health, the like. Usually mental health posts are also tagged with #mental health post (go figure).

#science - Cool science reblogs. Always tagged with the specific field(s) of study involved; most frequently #space science, #biology, and #palaeontology.

#art reblog - Cool art, either from my friends or just random stuff that's crossed my dash. Art that I think is really cool gets the additional tag #rad art, and I also have additional tags for #space art and #paleoart.

#dnd stuff - My catch-all tabletop gaming tag; not always D&D specifically, but most of the time. Often accompanied by #absolutely horrible dnd ideas that i must try out asap -my tag for, well, what it says on the tin.

#videogames - Dude, I could be gaming. What it says on the tin; always tagged alongside the specific game tags like #the elder scrolls, #no man's sky, or #minecraft.

#toddposting - Okay, this one is real specific and I'm including it here for fun. Toddposts (also sometimes tagged with #tesposting) are funny posts about The Elder Scrolls games, usually Skyrim.

Tagging is a little haphazard, so I may have missed some things in my archive, but this covers the bulk of the content you'll see here. Thanks for stopping by. :)