Well its not just that...i hate that everyone has access to a FREE sun. Im ambivalent to the sun, but its communist that the sun is free for everyone. I think it would be great if everyone paid a subscription of $50 a month forever to have access to the sun. After all a free sun isnt in our constitu
Oh god...don't give these kleptomaniacs another idea 🤐🙃I feel like this SHOULD be funny but at the same time,I'm legit serious- which is saddd af.
The U.S. is so COOKED...
Used to be everyone went without sun. The sun causes a lot of diseases like skin cancer that weren’t even around back when we had no sun. I remember we used to have no sun parties where everyone would get together and instantly freeze to death.
Why did I find this slightly triggering for a second? Like I was really trying to think of all the ways we deffinately need our sun and it was up to me to make sure everyone didn't vote on getting rid of it.
Sounds like your fight or flight is activated right now 🥰 I had a similar mini spiral when my local store took down its Brie display because? I guess Canada? My brain went off imagining 25 years from now me explaining the glory of that thing called “Brie” to a group of kids who had never heard of it
Humans are a lot more like houseplants than we'd like to admit. We thrive when given sunlight, water, fresh air.
Perhaps Captain, if you could consider an alternative? Could you somehow extract energy from greed/ego? I know a group that could really help your causes.
Honest question, if he refilled the hydrogen, wouldn't that reset the star to a different part of its lifecycle having major impact on our solar system ? I'm still all for it.
Honestly if a self described genius billionaire were to capture it and sell it back to me I’d probably blithely accept it on the grounds that he earned it because he was so very very smart. In fact, I’d applaud the effort and hand over everything else, too, since only he can use it to its fullest.
Had to do a little Googling to fully refresh my memory, but it was “The Question” by Donald E. Westlake, which I read long ago in the anthology 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories.
Here’s a review that recaps all of the salient details:
YES!!! My skin fries in the sun so I have to be careful but two gray days in a row, even during the hot summer months, and I’m begging for the ☀️ to return.
You know that moment when you're sitting in your sofa watching TV and then suddenly the sun decides to appear and blast its rays through the window DIRECTLY into your eye balls? Well I could do without that... Other than that it's alright I guess.
Well I just learned from a flat earther that it’s just a big hot light bulb that somehow can’t be seen when it’s furthest away. So I mean we can probably switch that sun for an LED or something right.
It certainly feels like I do. I have wintered exactly once, and boy was it depressing. If there was a sliver of clear skies, you'd catch me sitting outside for hours facing south, even in -20 degrees.
Juries out: On one hand, the full scientific consensus we will die without it, and also people enjoy it.
On the other hand, kind of annoying when it shines in your eyes.
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The U.S. is so COOKED...
Maybe come back later?
Humans are a lot more like houseplants than we'd like to admit. We thrive when given sunlight, water, fresh air.
Perhaps Captain, if you could consider an alternative? Could you somehow extract energy from greed/ego? I know a group that could really help your causes.
Here’s a review that recaps all of the salient details:
https://violentworldofparker.com/2011/09/26/donald-e-westlakes-science-fiction-stories-the-question-with-larry-m-harris-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-march-july-1963/
FOR WARMTH
ITS A GIGANTIC PLANET WARNING DEVICE
On the other hand, kind of annoying when it shines in your eyes.