It’s by Milo Manara, Italian artist who does a lot of erotic illustrations. I think maybe some comics too. I love his style and the sexy stuff is just a bonus. Really like how he does hair.
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I feel this in my goddamn BONES because the thing vents at 135 FREAKING DECIBELS and I’m TRAPPED 2 METERS from it trying to measure out 0.0000023 mg of a temperature-sensitive metal complex in the glove box that I spent the last 2 weeks trying to make and POUND SAND EHS WITH YOUR PENCIL-PUSHING SCOPE-CREPT DEPARTMENT POLICIES I WILL WEAR HEARING PROTECTION WHERE I DAMN WELL PLEASE! WHAT’S THAT? I WON’T HEAR IF SOMETHING “GOES WRONG”? IS THAT SO? GEE, I HADN’T CONSIDERED THAT! LET ME CHECK IF REGULAR EXPOSURE TO THE LABORED MUSINGS OF SATAN’S FROSTY ANUS COULD POSSIBLY AFFECT MY ABILITY TO HEAR THINGS “GOING WRONG”!
While I’m at it, A CERTAIN LIQUID AIR COMPANY OUGHT TO FEEL ASHAMED FOR NOT DITCHING THEIR JANKY OLD DEFECTIVE DEWARS, DON’T YOU DARE TRY TO BLAME IT ON ME LEAVING THE PRESSURE BUILDER ON, FIRST THING I CHECK
If we arent then we must embrace our oldest tendency and become alone. They will either become one with mankind much like the Neanderthals or they must simply perish.
I’ve come to the conclusion…. That if there are species out there able to travel interstellar distances in a reasonable time, then they have the ability to know humans are fucking nuts- because they can detect the radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere.
Which means the only ones coming are even more nuts than we are.
This, leads me to assume that either, they’re genocidal maniacs out to destroy everything that’s not them, (a la the bad guys in Ian Douglas’ Semper Mars series,)
I suppose i should have mentioned the third possibility of “both”- they’re Space Mormons; but we rejected the good news so now they’re on a genocidal killing spree. (And they think were primitive, as you say,)
I dunno. would space rednecks really survive getting their own M/AM torps? you really wouldn’t want redneck engineering anywhere near antimatter in enough concentration to blow up.
(there is that theory. Life is common. But usually kills itself off or dies off before leaving it’s home system.)
Would depend on how old anti matter tech is for them. Rednecks work best with older tech. So if the tech is a couple centuries old and anti matter reactors are as common as internal combustion engines are for us then id trust it about as much as a redneck tank, meaning let me see it in action atleast a couple times before I get near it.
Okay redneck tank was probably a bad example, but the redneck IED is still nothing to laugh at. Worst case scenario we use it a base for study, perhaps chuck it at anyone dumb enough to get near earth. Just give Ireland veto power it should be fine.
Tangential, this is also the best explanation why in Mass Effect the Asari, Batarians and Quarians look so human-like and many other species are sharing similarities with humans: A few cycles ago, a species adept at bio-engineering took special interest in those primates from E-arth and just asked themselves: “What would happen, if we mix their DNA with every other species in the galaxy?”
This belief that Asari use their psychic powers to manipulate people is based solely on a scene of three drunk dudes sitting around a table and watching an Asari stripper. I’d hardly call that conclusive evidence.
Also, if that theory were true, it’d have knock-on effects that quickly spiral out of control. If Asari would use psychic powers to make everyone believe they look like the viewers’ race, then what happens to recorded media? What happens if anyone ever decides to draw how Asari look to them, only to then find out that others see Asari completely different? What happens if you try to touch an Asari? Do Elcor see Asari as Elcor-like? And Hanar see Asari as floating squids? How would that work with the statue on Thessia? And what range would those psychic powers have? And if those psychic powers had a lasting effect on the brain of those affected, how come no doctor or medical computer ever noticed that? And what do people see that watch media of Asari, but had never met Asari in real life?
No, I think the scene in question just shows three drunk guys seeing what they want to see.
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