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My preferred escaped reality is 70% 24th century and 30% 17th century. I’ve got like 2 minutes left to enjoy it.)
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It’s like 5 minutes of free fall Branson and Bezos are shelling out big bucks for. Funny how when you’re 22 you think you’ll hit escape velocity and orbit indefinitely. Nope. You get one suborbital flight. If you’re lucky.
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Re-entry burn: your first taste of how the healthcare system deals with the elderly, and you see your own future
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A nostalgia for the future is the sweetest, there are whole countries where the past is a foreign country that’s best forgotten, the present a persistent hell, and in those places the whole populace has a nostalgia for an unrealized glorious future.
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The present runs away like a gift when you re(cognize) that shit. Something is just expanding contracting at a will, and time leaves an illusory trace of memory. The dog that remembers himself is like one chasing it's own tail and barking at the shadow of time.
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The jaded old man perspective is just a short hop away: 5 minutes obviously isn’t enough to do anything. So that leaves one conclusion - The game was rigged against you all along, even if you were too trusting to see that when you were young.