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beccaelizabethI quite like the idea of leap years. Oops the sun wandered off, best jump a bit to catch up. Is cool.
Tumblr today is passing around the question of which would be more surprising at your front door: a walrus or a fairy?
The people on both sides of the argument are Emphatic.
I say walrus, and not just because of the impossible is easier to swallow than implausible problem.
The assumption of the poll setter is that a fairy is something that never existed, is fundamentally magical, and so could never exist.
But that's packing too many assumptions in a word.
At some point fairies are going to exist. Because at some point someone is going to figure out how to make drone tinkerbell, and we already have the VR to control it.
Sufficiently advanced technology and all that.
The future is going to look very very weird, if we live long enough to get there, because people have spent ever so long dreaming this stuff, and the tech is on the very edge of already becoming.
So we're going to get fairies, and orcs, and elves, and the rest of human imagination, we just can't imagine what precisely that'll mean yet.
Or it'll all turn out too difficult and the future will be recogniseably like tomorrow, but reading Torchwood stuff and realising how much has changed already, I don't quite believe that.
A walrus on the other hand is a currently definied thing.
... but on the same basis as dragonborn becoming, there's got to be a walrus furry community somewhere.
They'd just be doing grand to get up the stairs.
Tumblr today is passing around the question of which would be more surprising at your front door: a walrus or a fairy?
The people on both sides of the argument are Emphatic.
I say walrus, and not just because of the impossible is easier to swallow than implausible problem.
The assumption of the poll setter is that a fairy is something that never existed, is fundamentally magical, and so could never exist.
But that's packing too many assumptions in a word.
At some point fairies are going to exist. Because at some point someone is going to figure out how to make drone tinkerbell, and we already have the VR to control it.
Sufficiently advanced technology and all that.
The future is going to look very very weird, if we live long enough to get there, because people have spent ever so long dreaming this stuff, and the tech is on the very edge of already becoming.
So we're going to get fairies, and orcs, and elves, and the rest of human imagination, we just can't imagine what precisely that'll mean yet.
Or it'll all turn out too difficult and the future will be recogniseably like tomorrow, but reading Torchwood stuff and realising how much has changed already, I don't quite believe that.
A walrus on the other hand is a currently definied thing.
... but on the same basis as dragonborn becoming, there's got to be a walrus furry community somewhere.
They'd just be doing grand to get up the stairs.