Really enjoyed this interlude.
My imagination now has an image of Panacea's shard laying around, feet up, totally chill for the first time in forever.
Scientia Weaponizes The Future
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Really enjoyed this interlude.
My imagination now has an image of Panacea's shard laying around, feet up, totally chill for the first time in forever.
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Is it wrong that I read this out loud like how its meant to go?
It also makes for a good horror song as well
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SanguisAnima
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♫ She's knows which germs are sleeping, ♫
♫ She's knows when virii wake, ♫
♫ She's knows bacteria, bad and good ♫
♫ And she'll do ♫
♫ That change for good~ ♫
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Minor lyric change to better reflect the original
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Endorfinator
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In this story conflict drive isn't a thing right, so Shaper isn't going to react negatively to productive uses of powers?
Shaper wanted to be used, to find Data; Data can be found in productive uses as well as destructive. Not to mention, that when other people find out what she did, what she can do, there's going to be more than enough conflict to go around.
Anyone capable of making world wide changes to the biosphere we live on, the only one we have, is going to scare the shit out of people.
Humans have a bad habit of overreacting to things that scare them that badly.
What was that quote from Men in Black when Tommy Lee Jones was talking to Will Smith when the job offer was made?
"A person is smart, people are dumb panicky dangerous animals."
Sidereal day goes brrrrr lol. Wonder how long it'll take her to figure it out. Maybe the 2012 leap year? Liking the story so far. Really interesting concept.
TaliesinSkye
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Did you maybe miss some of the story? Things are pretty well past the point where she figures that out.
Thank you for the kind words
Ah I'm starting from the beginning lol. That was a replu to chapter 3. I just like sidereal days so I couldn't resist making a comment.Did you maybe miss some of the story? Things are pretty well past the point where she figures that out.
Thank you for the kind words
TaliesinSkye
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No worries, I hope you enjoy it!
There's something about a story like this in the Worm universe that reminds me of something terribly satisfying... like in a horror movie as the protagonists figure out the rules, figure out the weaknesses, and then using that defeat the monster.
Worm is such a dark, hopeless sort of place so much that it's satisfying to see a story that doesn't just wave a wand and go "there, I fixed it", but solutions that feel earned.
Worm is such a dark, hopeless sort of place so much that it's satisfying to see a story that doesn't just wave a wand and go "there, I fixed it", but solutions that feel earned.
TaliesinSkye
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"Good point, plastic-digesting megalodon it is."
Hmm. On the one hand, surely ecologically unsustainable in sufficient numbers to sweep the oceans indefinitely.
On the other hand, if they're programmed to just kind of glare at people while visibly eating plastics, they could probably do a lot about the long-term problem indirectly.
Just give it nice friendly colors, rounded features, big eyes, and a big 'ol filter feeder mouth. "Look, it's waving hello!"
This might actually be the point. As soon as humans stop dumping so much plastic into the ocean, they're no longer needed so they go away.
TaliesinSkye
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It was intended as a dumb joke, but you have a point. Basing a design off a filter-feeding whale would probably make more sense though.
I question whether they could sustain population on just the rate of dumping sufficient to cover all the sites of dumping. As opposed to on devouring the 'reserves' of previously-dumped plastics.
Congratulations on passing the patent bar!
It's great to see you post new content, I actually just finished a re-read of this while I was on vacation last week. It was very satisfying seeing Amy make (mostly) positive decisions to improve her situation. Hopefully her Great Barrier Reef misadventure doesn't have too many unexpected side effects.
It's great to see you post new content, I actually just finished a re-read of this while I was on vacation last week. It was very satisfying seeing Amy make (mostly) positive decisions to improve her situation. Hopefully her Great Barrier Reef misadventure doesn't have too many unexpected side effects.
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Simple, modify an existing organism to prefer to eat plastic, but be able to revert to a more natural diet once plastic levels die down.
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Cross a whaleshark with a blue whale, have them able to eat and digest plastic as well as their regular plankton diet, watch them eat all the plastic in the ocean then slowly die off as the ratio of plastic to seawater drops drastically.
Unless they learn to go on land, knock on doors and talk.
*knock knock knock*
"Who is it?"
"Landshark."
Unless they learn to go on land, knock on doors and talk.
*knock knock knock*
"Who is it?"
"Landshark."
I'm thinking a two-tier system:
modify a whale or fish to be able to eat larger plastic debris as it first enters the ocean (or even rivers!), then plankton or algae to eat the microplastics that are either missed by the larger organism, or break off the larger pieces before they're eaten.
Another idea: modify a bacteria strain to break plastics back into their monomers (if feasible, crude feedstock if not) to allow actual large-scale recycling, either deploying in landfills to recover what's there, or in dedicated processing facilities.
modify a whale or fish to be able to eat larger plastic debris as it first enters the ocean (or even rivers!), then plankton or algae to eat the microplastics that are either missed by the larger organism, or break off the larger pieces before they're eaten.
Another idea: modify a bacteria strain to break plastics back into their monomers (if feasible, crude feedstock if not) to allow actual large-scale recycling, either deploying in landfills to recover what's there, or in dedicated processing facilities.
This is the dissolving boat problem that started the whole tangent. Except on land it's not just boats.
not if you also have the bacteria require conditions not met outside your recycling facility or landfill. Requiring elevated temperatures and no oxygen is a start.