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How Mass Effect and EVE Online Reshaped Humanity’s Sense of Time Science-fiction games have increasingly influenced how journalists, scholars, and thinkers imagine humanity’s future. Among the most impactful are Mass Effect and EVE Online, two franchises that frame civilization not in decades, but across galactic timescales. Their narratives of star-spanning societies, generational continuity, and existential…
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As humanity contemplates the colonization and transformation of the solar system, creative theories abound. One particularly bold idea imagines the creation or strategic placement of new, Earth-like planets in the region between Jupiter and Neptune. These engineered worlds—stable, habitable, and orbiting the Sun at a safe distance—could not only expand the frontier of human life…
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A Structured Way to Understand Scale Astronomy is ultimately the science of scale. It stretches human understanding by placing familiar spaces—cities, landscapes, and skies—inside structures so large they challenge intuition. To make sense of the universe, we must build scale gradually, starting with what humans experience directly and expanding outward through planetary systems, stellar neighborhoods,…
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Preface The following document contains my first and final drafts for a set of speculative ideas centered on outer space, specifically through the lenses of DOTA and StarCraft, the two games I am most invested in creatively at this time. Space is the primary domain of interest guiding these ideas. While I also value English…




































































