Always a pleasure to think about how a substantial part of our planet, an unimaginably large mass and volume, is a kind of mildly dated-looking jade/moss-green rock. https://www.science.org/content/article/long-last-ocean-drillers-exhume-bounty-rocks-earth-s-mantle
Like if you inherited a glass table with chunky triangular legs made out of peridotite, you would roll your eyes and make a joke about what people thought was classy in 1991. And if you look up at the space station at night, a distance much greater than that in the other direction is almost all solid tacky table-leg.
Cursed/blessed to live on a planet made out of someone’s car dealership owning uncle’s custom kitchen counter material.
Planet that looks like the royalty-free texture on the back side of the lanyard badge at a weird conference you went to in 2014.
A planet that looks like it was trying and failing to rip off Enya in 1997.
Earth, the planet decorated like the pizza place you have to convince your friends is actually good.
The planet that’s going to get around to that after it gets the wood veneer in the basement removed.
My homeworld? Oh, it’s beautiful. Covered in oceans and life. Swirling clouds everywhere. Plankton, whales, enormous trees with feathered arms. Ants! Twenty quadrillion of them! Elephants, manatees! The aurora. It’s incredible. And of course there’s 400 km of what looks like the binding of a cheap encyclopedia under you at all times.
@vruba I didn’t have “Charlie roasts the planet” on my agenda tonight but now that it’s happening I love it
@vruba this is why the Vogons were so surprised anyone cared.
“Me? Oh, Earth. Yes … yes, the one that looks like the plinth of a little league trophy. Very funny. We actually have a great food truck scene these days.”