Is that a Douglas Adams quote? That feels like Douglas Adams to me.
feels more like Lovecraft than Douglas Adams, tbh
Wow, I’m officially at the “Abyss staring back” part of my life now. Serves me right I guess.
Cosmic horror in a nutshell
Cosmic horror works because we really are as powerless as it tells us.
That hits
For your crimes against rodentkind, Rat Court sentences you to a handstand in the Chamber of Death.
No matter where you are on the planet, you’re never much more than 100 km away from the Kármán line. Death is (generally speaking) always just overhead.
You don’t have to get to the karman line to asphyxiate, the karman line is only relevant if you are trying to move faster to generate lift. The Death Zone starts at only 8 km altitude.
For your body to stay alive, a lot of things have to go right for the “engines” to keep running.
On the other hand, just a few things going wrong is all it takes to take down the overly complex Rube Goldberg machine that is your body; all being inevitable due to how entropy and randomness work in our universe.
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Poor little thing. Hope it was loved by something.
Some say it still smells like roasted hot dogs
“Honey, did you leave the stove on?”
“I don’t think so. It’s probably the pans in the sink.”
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Related: Pandora’s Box
Mmmm… Crispy