In a world of time-distance compression. I have an idea for anyone who is craving space.
(ok bear with me on this, and listen more to the thoughts you have while reading, than what I am actually writing)
To explain:
200 years ago, Australia was months away from France, but now it is about a day away.
London and Glasgow used to be several days apart, and now they are a few hours apart.
The world has been getting progressivly, though not uniformly, smaller over time. There are still places that take days to get to, places you have to trek through mountains or rainforests to reach.. and some of these are a lot nearer as the crow flies, than other places that can be reached much more quickly.. (if you draw maps using this measure of distance it is interesting and looks weird).
So all we need to do to suddenly have vast acres of terriotory to be used are to create places that take ages to get to.. eg you could build in your garden a really windy path with things to climb through and under and over, that is the only way to get to the other end of your garden.. you could concievably design a garden that is about an hour long each way, without needing the grounds of a stately home to fit it in. Or in your house you could have a corner of a room, that you are only allowed to enter after waiting for 20minutes outside it.. Even if you flew from Russia, you would still have to add 20mins to your journey time to get to that part of your flat.
Or if you ban yourself from using air travel, the world suddenly expands in size by several times.
Or if you ditch your car, and walk everywhere in town, then town is suddenly a far bigger place to explore.
Maybe this could be like some kind of counterbalance to the way our worlds will get smaller because of how many national borders we might be prevented from crossing due to our governments pissing people off.
What if people got claustrophobic from being confined to one planet? Then perhaps we would be forced to find another way to deal with issues than running away? And to living lives of exploration and discovery that aren't based solely on looking at new things with the same ways of seeing.
I still think the universe is infinite, and plausibly expanding..
You could walk the streets of London for a lifetime, and not SEE everything there.
(ok bear with me on this, and listen more to the thoughts you have while reading, than what I am actually writing)
To explain:
200 years ago, Australia was months away from France, but now it is about a day away.
London and Glasgow used to be several days apart, and now they are a few hours apart.
The world has been getting progressivly, though not uniformly, smaller over time. There are still places that take days to get to, places you have to trek through mountains or rainforests to reach.. and some of these are a lot nearer as the crow flies, than other places that can be reached much more quickly.. (if you draw maps using this measure of distance it is interesting and looks weird).
So all we need to do to suddenly have vast acres of terriotory to be used are to create places that take ages to get to.. eg you could build in your garden a really windy path with things to climb through and under and over, that is the only way to get to the other end of your garden.. you could concievably design a garden that is about an hour long each way, without needing the grounds of a stately home to fit it in. Or in your house you could have a corner of a room, that you are only allowed to enter after waiting for 20minutes outside it.. Even if you flew from Russia, you would still have to add 20mins to your journey time to get to that part of your flat.
Or if you ban yourself from using air travel, the world suddenly expands in size by several times.
Or if you ditch your car, and walk everywhere in town, then town is suddenly a far bigger place to explore.
Maybe this could be like some kind of counterbalance to the way our worlds will get smaller because of how many national borders we might be prevented from crossing due to our governments pissing people off.
What if people got claustrophobic from being confined to one planet? Then perhaps we would be forced to find another way to deal with issues than running away? And to living lives of exploration and discovery that aren't based solely on looking at new things with the same ways of seeing.
I still think the universe is infinite, and plausibly expanding..
You could walk the streets of London for a lifetime, and not SEE everything there.
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