sexist and otherwise bigoted stem majors are wild bc one of the basic unspoken tenets of the science subjects is that you can work on a problem for ten years and never understand what you're doing wrong, but someone who has fresh eyes and a new perspective can come in and figure it out in one day.

and it's not necessarily because they're smarter, just that science is a collaborative effort and it helps to have as many diverse perspectives as possible to tackle issues that have wide ranging effects and bases.

other people can help you bounce ideas, they can also provide a point of view that you never would've dreamt of, because you don't come from the same place, and that's valuable.

so.

being a sexist racist piece of shit does nothing except hold every fucking one of us back as a species.

Sitting outside my therapists office

Trying not to cry over opportunity like a big baby, but having a hard time.

I mean space always bring out so many emotions in me.

I'm garbage at math and science, but I respect the hell out of space exploration and I grew up on star trek and the idea that humans are explorers before we are conquerors.

The world is awfully dark on earth.

But reaching for the stars and the heavens above made it seem like maybe one day it'll be brighter.

And we could maybe bring that light with us like a torch through the rest of the universe, spreading only what's good about humanity and leaving behind the bad.

But I don't know.

It's a sad day when you lose a friend.

Everyone wants to go to those 7 planets. But guys, don't you realize why this is bad? We poor people are going to die on a planet poisoned by the rich. While the rich move to those planets and begin this whole mess again. We should be more depressed.

I don't use twitter at all but this shit 😂👌

I wanna see a modern day Borg.

And by that I mean….

Not the pale stiff mechanical Borg in TNG.

Or the hyper colorful, overexposed green fluid Borg in Voyager. 

But like…a 21st century Borg.

A 2010′s Borg.

Take a look at the new Star Trek movies.

They’re shiny and clean and BLUE. And white.

That is how the future looks to us now.

Not simple and colorful, but slick and clean. 

That’s what sci fi does now, in a lot of movies, like Prometheus.

Compare Prometheus

to Nostromo. 

Now compare Voyager

To the new Enterprise

I mean sure, technology has changed, but why have we decided the future will be white and blue? 

I mean seriously, look at Independence Day, the original 

Now look at the technology that they hand wave by explaining that we adapted their technology: 

Sure, they excuse it, it’s in the future. 

But look at how sci fi has changed.

In 1995, we still thought that superior technology would have buttons, lmao, didn’t we?

But come 2016 and we’ve got floating interfaces yet again, a product of the new era. 

Ok, lemme explain. 

In the fifties, we saw the Jetsons, so we saw the future like Star Trek. 

We saw a clean, perfect future where we mastered our planet, our racial hatreds, and our morality. 

We had fixed everything and now we were exploring space, the final “frontier” not as conquerors, but as explorers.

That was the fifties. 

Then we moved into the eighties/nineties and early 2000s, when everything had a mechanical, greyish tinge. 

The technology of Alien and Aliens is clunky, very 80s font

Like does that not scream eighties to you?

Even in the future, we’re still seeing the present we created. 

I’ve argued that everything felt so authentic in the 80s and 90s film era cuz they used practical sets.

CGI hadn’t been invented quite yet, or developed to a point where it looked believable. 

They used practical shit to make some of the most iconic monsters and effects of all time. 

Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs, the Thing, the weird gore of Hellraiser, Xenomorphs. 

These things scared and delighted us. 

But nowadays, monsters might move more smoothly…

But they don’t have that same…I dunno, stiff but realistic kick. 

Like look at this.

This was the most disgusting thing ever. 

Now look at this: 

I mean is it gross and disturbing, sure. 

But it’s so…

Clean. 

Like why are sci fi movies so…clean and smooth?

It’s not just CGI, people just see the world different in the 2010s.

We think the world will be white and blue, man, all screen interfaces are blue and shiny and you can touch them to move things around.

No one imagined that in Alien. 

But it’s in Prometheus, now isn’t it?

And Star Trek Voyager/TNG/DS9 all had com systems you had to touch in some way.

It was the 90s, their version of the future still had buttons.

We have iPhones now.

We know that touch screens and technology that allows us to advance that…into our own visions of the future.

It’s interesting, you can learn a lot about how people saw the future of mankind in science fiction based in the future.

And sometimes, the effects are just more…gritty. 

You got a certain 80s charm from the prosthetics and the special effects makeup and all the artists who created casts and realistic looking skin that burst out of your chest or morphed your face into an alien monster that ate people.

Now I’m not saying I wish we could go back. 

The 80s and 90s were shitty time periods, they were, nostalgia goggles off, I mean, anyone who says differently was living in this capitalist American bubble where horrific genocides and ethnic cleansing as a result of the fall of communism and the complete destruction of a previous way of life. 

And there’s a reason we started making darker versions of our own futures.

Environmental degradation was showing its tolls on the enlightened human psyche. 

But hey. 

Maybe the fact that everything in the future is clean is symbolic of people seeing new technology and thinking well…maybe there’s hope.

Of course, after 2016, I don’t think we’re going to be seeing many clean sci-fi movies or shows anymore.

We’re probably going to be seeing more Wall-E and Titan AE type futures, and they won’t be as clean as fucking Passengers. 

But in a way.

That’ll be interesting too. 

a new generation’s take on where the future can go, what with NASA defunded, a man who doesn’t believe in global warming running a global superpower, and the belief that some are racially superior re-emerging yet again (I seriously thought we were done with this shit guys).

I mean, I’ll contribute, I’m writing Trumproachia after all, which is totally science fiction, because where else would roaches become the dominant species of earth and begin their conquest of other planets which come to despise human kind as the great galactic enablers ever, but I’m dying to see some of your impressions.  

Guys, Geosystems is the dopest class ever. I love this class. It's so interesting.

I'd take it even if I wasn't trying to avoid Physics...

So... is science against homosexuality now too?