/lit/ - Literature

>>11596831
as far as nuclear energy goes, i don't think bataille would be too surprised about that, particularly given that the principal use of it was in weapons. i just get the feeling that even if he had dinner with a room full of particle physicists the idea of liberating huge amounts of destructive, unstable energy would be a thing that would confirm his theories about human beings rather than otherwise.

in terms of gas giants...i guess the thing is that those planets aren't habitable. and even if at some point in the future they do become habitable, we weren't born on one of those. human life exists because of its proximity to the sun and all of its excessive, dissipative energy. even if we *do* get off this rock and wind up making life habitable on gas giants at some point in the future, we will have done because of how we handled/didn't handle our death-hilarious tragicomic business here on earth. but hopefully we don't need copies of the accursed share when we are terraforming alpha centauri.

>>11596867
i'm girardfag. i've been called 'landposter' as well, but they're both me (unless there's someone else? i don't know, i'm not quite as active on these boards these days as i used to be, so maybe).