A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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So, a Martian Congressional Republic? It does sound like something those damned dusters would pull.
What next? The denizens of the asteroid belt calling for more rights and designating an Outer Planet Alliance, while a mysterious proto-molecule wreaks havoc on the Solar System?
Oye kopeng, beltalowda need dem OPA to protect our rights. Sasa ke?
Ayo can I get a translation for us planetside? I no sasa
Hello friend, us Belters need the OPA to protect our rights, you know?
Wrecks havoc? Expanse was so unrealistic. Protogen would pay doctors in all factions to “speedrun herd immunity, open up trade and travel for the economy”. Errenwright would tell Secretary General to say “stop testing protomolecule and we won’t have cases”. MEGA will be ordering deliveries of protomolecule injections to inject themselves. Holden spaces himself because canonically at that time he still thinks the problem with people is lack of access to information.
Not terribly far off the plot of one of the great works of science fiction
My personal #1. Got to meet Le Guin at a play in Portland.
Also, the colonists from the view of the oppressor are "free on paper only" from their view.
All her books are life-impacting
Would have loved to have been able to be yet another fan telling her how much she affected my life
And then they all start talking like Texans, until the ring gates open.....
Alternately, a buggalo ranch, named the Wong place.
80+% of earth's surface is still completely uninhabited by humans.
I'm talking about the sea floor, Antarctica, most of Australia, most of Siberia, the high mountain ranges, and the Sahara.
It would be so much easier to build colonies there than on Mars.
Even if our worst predictions about climate change come true, hell even if warming was twice as bad, they would still be much more hospitable to human life than Mars.
We haven't colonized those places, because it simply isn't worth the effort.
So why would it be worth the much, much bigger effort to settle on Mars?
But I want the Expanse timeline 🥺
(minus the blue goo, fuck that shit)
Risk aversion alone makes it worth having 2 plants colonized. Putting all your eggs in one planet basket is poor long term risk management. But that's more thinking in the hundreds of thousands and millions of years before that becomes relevant.
People desperate to live on their own terms may think it's very much worth the effort. The pilgrims, buckle-headed weirdoes they were, probably thought as much when they boarded the Mayflower.
Hey, will there also be slaves in this new "beacon of freedom"?
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Sound familiar?
Yeah, it's the basis for a lot of sci-fi stories; though China is interchangable with any country, corporation, or mega rich jackass.
Bear Head is one of those variations.
Only problem with this theory is there is no native population to exploit. Colonialism/empirism fails when you can't subjugate anyone.
But the US didn't really have any natives to exploit either, they basically genocided them. The exploitation was mostly done with enslaved Africans who they kidnapped and trafficked to the Americas.
So all they need to do is just bring over a population to exploit.
(Which I'm not saying is in anyway okay btw, fuck slavery.)
They did enslave indigenous people, they just found it harder to do. They knew the land, and if they escaped they'd just have to make it back to their own communities.
The very first ship that returned to Europe from America had native slaves.
By the time of the US, it was genocide after genocide. But before that when we called Americans different sorts of European, it was genocide and forced labor/slavery/some becoming human zoo enhibit
The trip to Mars will be similarly expensive to a trip to the New World back in the day. I can imagine history rhyming with something akin to indentured servitude. Especially if the rockets and resources on Mars are owned by billionaires like Musk.
The Expanse.
Yeah but in expanse it's implied global government through UN was formed first and then the colonies. So it wasn't a single country's colony.
I have just seen the tv series and MRCN was very similar to CCP. Probably got confused since I didn't know the lore.
We’d be lucky to even live to see a human on Mars.
Only if they name the colony "Elon is a little bitch", but in Chinese. (Translation?)
I actually don't know enough curse words / insults.
Maybe like: 伊隆係個死八婆 (Cantonese for "Elon is a dead bitch", in Cantononese, they add "dead" in front of curseword nouns to make it more dramatic lol, its shall not be construed as an actual threat, legally speaking)
Or maybe: 埃隆有小鸡鸡 (Mandarin for "Elon has a small dick" ? Idk I heard other Mandarin-speaking classmates say it.)
...Why is the first sign different? The first two would be "e-lon", right?
Cantonese vs Mandarin
Different Sounds, Different Transliterations.
Idk how those even work, but that's just what the wikipedia says.
The reverse transliteration also has differences.
Like...
A Mainlander and a Hong Konger also have different name transliterations.
黃家駒 is "Wong Ka Kui" in Hong Kong, but if he had been a Mainlander, it'd be "Huang Jiaju".
Heck, even Taiwan use different transliterations, even tho its the same Mandarin as Mainland, like Tsai ing-wen would be Cai Yingwen, if she was a Mainlander
All I can think of is that meme of those 2 star wars characters. "Now there are two of them!"
But there is not much on Mars. With the new world, there were tons of resources to steal and make wealth off of.
The disrespect for iron in this comment is too damn high.
Yep, and then they become an imperialist oligarchy.
and after a while a regime change leaves an ousted guy running to mars to exile and then use its labor forces as cheap labor for american capitalists who then attempt to pretend mars was never chinese anyway.
Down with Ultor! Glory to the Red Faction!
They already have a few of those right now. They don't seem too keen on letting them go.
Tbf, distance between Earth and Mars is way farther than England and American Colonies. A Martian revolution has much higher chance success.
This is assuming a lot about China's capability of creating a self sustaining life support system on a dead planet.
Bastion of freedom and prosperity? The US?
*Restrictions apply, Martian land ownership required
almost the plot of "The moon is a harsh mistress."
Or to Stranger in a Strange Land, at least the very beginning.