Describe A Dog Going To Fetch A Stick, But In The Style Of A Noir Crime Thriller.

“What do you mean you don’t put a miniature explosion spell in your gun?” “What do you mean you don’t use gunpowder-based propellant for your gun?”

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“It is our responsibility as scientists … to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed. It’s OK to say, “I don’t know."” ― Richard Feynman

While a case can certainly be made for the mad scientist as an anti-intellectual caricature, I can’t help but feel that a lot of what goes into mad-science-oriented media only makes sense if you assume that the primary target audience is actual scientists. Like, this weirdo is performing wildly unethical human experimentation in an unhinged quest to conquer death and the principal objection their peers raise against those experiments is that their methods lack rigour? That’s a gag only a scientist would come up with.

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I am already doing some world building based on this. It helped me think about and develop my other alien species to give humanity a defining trope. And once I picked space orcs/goblins I kept finding more and more reasons it fit. Like we are sitting on this planet in 200+ recognize tribes many many more unrecognized tribes always somebody's fighting somewhere and we're either looking for an opportunity to join in or trying to ignore it. Also the Dark Forest theory seriously only warring goblin tribes would be sitting around talking about what to do if they heard a sound that sounded like it came from another life form with the main options being wait quietly in the silence and then shooting it or call out excitedly and send it space emojis in the form of weird puzzle messages.

It turns out compared to the rest of the species in the galaxy, humans are short, explosive obsessed, breeds rapidly, and are vaguely disturbing to look at. Yes, human are in fact space goblins.

Everyone’s always like “how did jules Verne predict the submarine?” “How did Bradbury predict flat screen tvs?”

No one asks “how did Jane Austen predict the guy who won’t stop flirting with you by telling you about his shitty car?”

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving.