How did we populate the solar system? Gradually, as the saying goes, then all at once.
Things went so much smoother after we internalized the truth that it is bad luck to go to space without a ship’s cat.
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Where_Cat_Is_Is_Civilization
@Unixbigot "So yes the chief engineer is a catboy. They all are. Clearly you've never actually been on a fusion skipper before. I don't know how you bluffed your way onto the crew or maintained the lie until after launch but we'll follow standard procedure for this situation and drop you off at the next stop.
It's a monitoring beacon for a prison colony. But it's maintained by a prison abolitionist monitoring group so you'll get atmosphere and they'll pick you up in under 4 years. Jupiter standard, not Neptunian. You're lucky you didn't pull this stunt on one of the Late Stage Capitalism Remnant ships, they'd have dropped you onto the prison colony. As rations, it would improve their profit margins."
@Unixbigot "If we had to send cats to do space exploration on Earth's behalf, who knows what cosmic abominations they would bring proudly home to show us." 🤣
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-cats-in-microgravity-to-see-what-would-happen
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