“NOBODY expects the Fedi Inquisition! Our chief weapon is cat pictures... cat pictures and Linux... Linux and cat pictures.... Our two weapons are Linux and cat pictures... and shitposting.... Our *three* weapons are Linux, cat pictures, and shitposting... and an almost fanatical devotion to John Mastodon.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as Linux, cat pictures... I'll come in again.”
Behold the "sci fi tarot"
a deck in which each card is done in the style of a golden-age pulp sci-fi novel
the ingenious creation of the designer Todd Alcott, who sells 'em online
Item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe right here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-29-methanotropes-sign-language-poetry/
A mind-boggling implication of that is that it no longer makes sense to say that the Universe has a single unified age of 13.8 billion years. Instead, different regions would have different ages.
https://www.sciencealert.com/dark-energy-may-not-exist-something-stranger-might-explain-the-universe