How Uniformitarianism Revealed Our Planet's Unfathomable Timeline
Can you imagine thinking the Earth was only a few thousand years old and that mountains and stuff were created instantly by huge floods? That was geology before Hutton and Lyell rolled around in the 19th century. These dudes proposed that slow gradual processes, not sudden catastrophes, shaped our planet’s surface over mind-bogglingly long time periods. Radically changed the game – no more…
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Love a self-inflicted time loop. The main character isn’t trapped. They can stop whenever they want. But how can they when things aren’t perfect yet? They can do better than this. They need to try again. They can get it right this time. They just need to try again. They can stop anytime they want. Just one more time. They can fix this. They just need to try again. There are still things to fix. They just need to try again.
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Ok ok hear me out: it could end in tragedy,, AND have a happy ending. The attempt(s) on Machete’s life force him to flee, he doesn’t even have the chance to find Vasco. Cue gay longing for at least a few years while Machete despairs over the loss of his love, his life, his status. He and Vasco only reunite (again) in their later years. Their relationship is forever flavored with loss and loneliness, but that only means they savor every moment that much more
I also I would like to see them as old men. Vasco would be so droopy :)
You gave me such old dog brainworms.
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Mount Improbable
There are enumerable examples in the natural living world of genetic mutations chosen by natural selection to introduce innovatively beneficial traits to improve survival and reproductive advantage, and to modify fit in reaction to changing environments.
But matter and energy do not possess the capacity to think-ahead and plan-out strategies.
Matter and…
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