I Love How All Of The Batman Villains Are Like “ah He’s Not At The Manor, It’s Defenseless! And

Astarion's response to his trauma being "I was hurt so why should I care if anyone else is hurt" while Halsin's is "I was hurt so I will make sure no one else is ever hurt again" is just chef's kiss

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I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

Shout-out to people studying with a mental illness.

You’re doing this with half your brain tied behind your back and that’s pretty badass

Here's my lyric comic based on the song "Water Witch" by the Secret Sisters

I somehow knocked this out in three days

Rachel

Every institution I email has a 'Rachel'

Rachel is the person I need to speak to

Rachel has been cc'd in to get eyes on this

Rachel can advise more accurately on this

Rachel heads our efforts on this

Rachel is OOO until Monday

It is Monday?

Rachel is OOO until Thursday

Rachel is OOO until August

Rachel is OOO until 2061, when astronomers anticipate she will return to our solar system

Rachel left the company months ago

Rachel? Why, she's been dead for years!

We have looped in Daniel to help, in Rachel's absence

Haha, you fool! Daniel is merely an aspect of Rachel!

Rachel is OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

She is OOO, she is OOOOOOOOOOO, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, WOOOOOO!

Rachel is the friends we made along the way

Rachel is an energy field: she surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together

Mathematicians believe there may be Rachel

Computer scientists think we might have Rachel soon

Historians doubt she ever existed.