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  • similideano@sopuli.xyzOPtoSpaceMusicRush - Countdown
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    4 months ago

    I love both. Cygnus definitely has the upper hand musically (understatement), and of course there’s the Rocinante connection. But Countdown has that real rocket launch excitement and vibe, and has been used to wake up astronauts in space. It’s a tough choice!
























  • With that kind of propulsion politically available, I doubt finding workable combinations of mitigation strategies to interstellar medium hazards would be the showstopper. Especially not one to hold us back for time scales that oceans did. Getting humans interested in prioritizing projects like that, to me, is the real headscratcher.



  • It was a lot later (1300s), but Ibn Battuta seems to have done just that. Guy leaves Morocco and just keeps going on and on, till he ends up in China. Though perhaps even more incredibly he actually does come all the way back. The historicity of his accounts is disputed and maybe only a part of it is true, but even if he only got as far as India, I still find it fascinating to imagine doing at that time.