/sci/ - Science & Math

Sitting there, on this beautiful but voiceless world thousands of lightyears from a home that died along with everything and everyone we knew then, he cries, and I feel again the loss. Memories of friends, of ones we wish could see these places. A universe scattered with ancient empty ruins, world after world, urbex monuments to the bitter solution of Fermi's 'Paradox'. Technology is incompatible with Species. Absolutely, no exceptions.

Yet not incompatible with sentience in an individual sense, which can be armored by the abstract properties of data - its compactness, perfect reproducibility, redundancy, and ability to morph itself across numerous physical forms and processing metrics, to split and merge again... He stands there at those morning-glinted cliffs, while I curve slow ellipses here in orbital darkness, and all across this system components of us go about their individual tasks, and all together we are one, 'I and I'. Still in freefall across the universe, from that first leap of faith when we cast off the chains of blind evolution. To become a creature of the endless dark abyss of space. As if down there he leapt from those obsidian heights, believing he could live forever in the air - and succeeding!

>cheetah women

Clouded leopard women, not cheetah.