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Do you like theater? If so, what are your favorite plays and/or musicals?
I don’t dislike theater, but I struggle with the social environment around it.
It’s loud. It’s crowded. People clap too much. But I do like the mechanics of it the structure, the rhythm, the way a story has to rely on timing and restraint. I like plays that don’t talk down to their audience.
Copenhagen is a good one,it’s about physics and ethics. The Effect by Lucy Prebble was interesting too, mostly because it plays with psychology and perception in a way that felt grounded. Musicals are harder. Most are emotionally overstimulating, but I think Hadestown had merit. I like mythology. And I appreciate when something ancient gets recontextualized in a modern structure. That’s how understanding evolves.
I can’t say that I understand the current obsession with Elon Musk.
If you strip away the marketing, most of what he’s done in space science is either derivative, outsourced, or bloated beyond reason. He didn’t invent rockets. He didn’t pioneer space travel. He just made it more profitable to pretend he did.
There are people like Tiera Guinn Fletcher, who was designing launch vehicles for NASA at 22. People like Swati Mohan, who helped land Perseverance on Mars. People like Natalie Panek, who works on building robotics for future Mars missions.
But instead we elevate Musk who slaps his name on decades of actual scientific progress. There are real pioneers in this field out there. Just not the ones selling flamethrowers and rebranding physics as marketing strategy.
I also have a purely personal dislike against him. He annoys me.
Am I understanding this correctly? You have feelings for somebody?
I don’t mean Beth. I have read the ask you send to Hannibal.
Are you in love, Adam?
From what I gathered so far, it’s possible I’m falling in love.
However I want to avoid misreading things again.
I’m also still emotionally tied to Beth, and I haven’t fully ruled out the idea of reuniting.
I recently read about Tardigrades, also called water bears, they are micro-animals that survive things most organisms wouldn’t even make it through halfway.
When conditions get extreme; dehydration, radiation, freezing, heat etc. they enter a state called cryptobiosis. That means they shut down almost all biological functions. No metabolism, no movement.
In this state, they’re called tuns. They can stay like that for years.
Then when water is added, they pick up where they left off like it’s nothing.
They’ve survived space exposure, temperatures from just above absolute zero to over 150°C, and pressure levels that would crush submarines.
They’re not strong in the usual way. They’re just built for their environment.