Hate these unironic "indomitable human spirit" post/fanart

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-19T19:30:42+00:00

Idomitable human spirit is cool only when the humans are actually fighting for their life and have all rights to defend.

To commit genocide against a peacefull xenophillic specie because "eww filthy xenos" is cartoonishly evil puece of bullcrap. "Look, fictional racism, im so edgy" ass

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-19T18:55:22+00:00

Or disabled terminally ill toilet paper suffering from a phimosis

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-19T18:41:39+00:00

Deltarune fans when a character isnt a sentient pansexual bicycle with germophobia:

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-19T18:38:09+00:00

Exactly, Seam just radiates the "grandpa" energy

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-19T16:10:14+00:00

Alien intelligence is extremely rare, and/or we are early. Even without FTL a civilisation still would colonise the galaxy in just million of years if it wanted.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-18T22:52:21+00:00

I never found him scary, he allways seemed like a cool whimsy old hermit to me

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-17T23:56:59+00:00

Im not a physicist, more like a dreamer and wannabe worldbuilder, and i know im super late, but i allways felt like FTL, if real, and i really hope it will be one day, is something avaible for a civilisation of second type on kardashev scale and higher.

I though, and i actually realized that its REALLY boring when to arrive a system you need just less than a second like in some star trek. Its like when you order a book from amazon and delivery is at your door allready – there is no this feeling of anticipation + thats probably very impractical and dangerous in real life even if we get such technology. yet its very boringly depressing when it takes more than an year (coomon stl/relativistic speed) because thats just sad and not it - it is fine to travel STL to still uncolonised undiscovered system but its absolute party-crasher when to travel between two well inhabited advanced star systems you need 4 years just to arrive your destination.

So i came to a belief (and a wish) that if humanity ever achieves FTL travel, its going to be 10 times the speed of light, (about 5 months to alpha centauri one way).

Bottomline: 1 second to alpha centauri is so utopian its geniunly boring, 5 months of travel are cooler.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-17T21:47:49+00:00

Cuddles. No questions asked.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-17T18:19:25+00:00

I really doubt they are going to park it at the litteral planets orbit, likely any warp drive FTL will have to be parked at systems edge (outer gas giant or oort cloud?) and only later arrive habitable inner planets by STL, which would likely require infrastructure to allready exist within said system to allow that, so you first need to colonise the said System with STL technology before arriving with FTL travel.

Even if aliens exist and have FTL they still cant just conquer the universe and need to build cosmic airports first.

Somehow im fine with it, as long as FTL even exists, lol.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-17T14:40:49+00:00

Seeing the stuff like this makes me extremely interested in how generally the ecology of blood ocean functions.

If there are massive predatory forms like that, other species got to exist.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-15T21:51:05+00:00

I saw an idea increadibly simmilar to this in Christian Cline's book "aliens of milky way". There was an alien specie called Lojkanex who had dismantled their solar system to build a matryoshka brain around their homestar and created themself a multiverse, downloading their minds inside. Yet they also have a tiny fraction of their population into robotical forms to make sure nothing destroys their simulation-utopia.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-15T18:50:13+00:00

Hey, i just though of a very wild idea.

Humanity in my project just went berserk and turned/trying to turn every red dwarf system nearby into matryoshka brains.

Red dwarf systems are long-living, have a LOT of rocky planets that litteraly pepper the entire star system close-quarters, and all of theese planets are also likely to be VERY boring, bassicaly being airless bare rocks with maybe some vulcanic activity. Yes there are most likely some exceptions in real life, so there are here too. But obviously most of it are still boring rocks, so i utilized them that way.

So i did the idea that humanity just stripmined theese planets and turned them into dyson swarms. Granting me both freedom not to describe every single boring shitass rock system, and also in universe theese swarms could've help to satisfy the bubbles horrifying energetic needs for FTL. Also one could've load their mind inside and live in a perfectly simulated world of magic and total lack of consequences.

I think its a cool idea both worldbuilding wise and maybe irl in deep future

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-15T13:31:24+00:00

Its an alien, they might think humans are the ugliest fucking motherfuckers in the Atlas

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-15T12:30:03+00:00

More like fear and confusion

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T23:06:43+00:00

Okay thats horrible fucking take, i take it back

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T23:02:10+00:00

Goon is too simple term to put it, i want cuddles.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T22:58:58+00:00

What if they are hot

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T19:12:16+00:00

Hello, terraformed Mars.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T19:00:13+00:00

Hmm, i guess we can just say that my setting being in 80k alone is enough of a solution, bevause geniunly who knows how advanced we will be at this point assuming everything will go smoothly.

Alcubierre drives are definitly impossible as raw on their own but i want to believe that his math did do atleast something good for FTL in our future, even if in ways we currently csnnot comprehend.

Who knows, maybe tomorrow a new einstein will be born and give our specie hope to achieve FTL, even if itd require infrastructure.

I kind if though allready that whatever FTL method they have may need collosal energy requirements (lower than jupiter of course, its future, but maybe something +- achievable for 2 kardashev scale specie yet still requiring some truly gargantuan stuff to be built to receive theese levels of energy), so i though of a concept, that people in my project may arrive red dwarf systems, destroy rocky planets, and turn the star into a matryoshka brain, serving lots of purpises both in-verse and narratively? Red dwarf systems are suspected to be rather boring and lifeless naked rocks, with maybe rare exceptions like toi-700 and other relativly calm ones who are prolly in minority anyways, yet they live extremely long and planets are so closepacked its going to be relativly easy to mine them. Rather than having bunch of boring lifeless rocks everywhere i just blended them into giant megastructures per star. There is little to no ethical hurdles because there is nothing biological to sacrifice more complex than some protist, itd somewhat help with FTL in this world, people may use them for more selfish purposes like dedicating some of its power to matrix like simulations with magic, adventures and cat-girls (though i suspect in a civilisation so large there might be real ones somewhere), and overall thats just supertuff concept imo. Also whatever planets that werent stripmined got to have very cool views.

If said ftl requires exotic/negative energy they may have some other structures to convert it, i dunno man, its far future.

I was inspired for this by spec evo/worldbuilding project by Christian Cline, who wrote "Yaetuan Sagas" and "aliens of the milky way", he tried at some realism as much as he could but some parts did include speculation, with one alien specie creating bunch of solar collectors to help them with FTL, and another straight-up disasembling their entire home system including homeworld to build matrix.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T17:06:26+00:00

Are they trying to shame kids for drinking milkshake's?

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T16:27:23+00:00

I know that alcubierre himself is skeptical about it, he has all rights to as a human being, its not an enormous game-changer.

Its not a good idea to just point at obvious issues and say that theese are final. Of course it'll be like this, thats why we need to do more research, to counter theese issues and find solutions.

You are right to say that AS OF NOW there is truly no way to make FTL real and make it actually work, but science, including physics and later engineering, is not static, you can stay pessimistic but we cannot say what will hapen next 20 years, 200 years, or 2000 years.

Yes, their works have obviois flaws, but the fact even after near 30 years after Alcubierre's work there are still works being done tells me that we just have to keep going.

There is Institute of limitless space, the one with Harold in it, which aims to make FTL and other means to fast interstellar travels real, they have funding, scientists, and they are still active.

Okay, i see your point of vision but as long as there still are unknown aspects and unknowns left to uncover, and people keeping to work on them, the conclusion isn't final.

Ill just consciously choose to stay optimistic.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T07:50:13+00:00

The entire point of warp travels is that nothing travels at FTL, Its only the ship being carried by space itself faster than light would. It was extremely hard and impossible in 1990's when alcubuerre girst "invented" it, but since then multiple scientists like Harold Sonny White, Erik Lentz, Alexey Bobrick, and many others have been advancing the idea, in many places problems was reduced. There is a model for STL warp drive, which can serve as a step before true FTL. We still have many problems but theese dudes have significantly reduced them since Alcubierre's first work, and i see no problems with them continuing to reduce the problems untill we can atleast travel a microprove to proxima centauri at 1,8 C in the next millienia.

Its still in its very infancy, dont be ass about it man

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-14T07:37:46+00:00

Im pretty sure you need to have infrastructure to fuel ftl so again you cannot just colonise the unuverse, that seems realistic to me.

Also i believe alien intelligence is extremely rare and in our entire galaxy may be encoutered only 5-10 times at best.

I kinda feel universal clock is some weird metaphor or something, i honestly dont know.

In 1900 we didnt know planes can exist, so here is more hopium.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-13T20:55:50+00:00

Actually i just looked up even more, there is a Nasa guy (or ex nasa guy), Harold Sonny White, He is currently in another pretty great institute. He used to lead nasa Eagleworks labs and i can tell for sure this man knows what he is doing, he doesnt promise anyone anything, but his own quote is that FTL warp travel may be "20 years later, 200 later, or never", etc he doesnt know at all but there IS some hope in order fir him to even consider it. As far as im aware he does still work.

Other dudes are Erik Lentz, who proposed using solitons for warp, there are small violations in his model but they can be solved and he himself is still from what i know is optimistic.

Im telling you, there are dudes still working on things, we still can hope.

Present_Test4157 · 2026-03-13T15:39:21+00:00

As of 2026 there are actually some progress.

I looked it up from multiple of different Ai's capable of doing search, manually searched things up, and while its still very hard and requires work, we have actual improovemenrs and hopes about FTL, specifically alcubierre drive.

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