hallowsedge's posterous

Seriously

Think about this. SERIOUSLY think about this. 

HARVESTING ZOMBIES.

For space travel.

That's right. The little buggers have to be good for something, ya? Imagine how easy it would be to sidestep all the costs of building an advanced rover that takes billions of dollars of funding just to get it to step over a pebble. Why go through the hassle when you can just strap a camera on its back, shoot it to mars, and let it roam?

What about injury, flesh decay, and the like?

Well, send tons. Drown the planet in them, you're bound to get some good info. 

Imagine if we sent millions of these buggers and just launched them into space in all directions, like a satellite. Assuming they could somehow survive re-entry, they would remain in a frozen state until they found a planet to land on. Zombies may be the most efficient means of space explorations we could have.  

And really, its an arms race if you think about it. If it works for us, then it would work for other planets and aliens too. So, we better get to shooting our space zombies out to THEM, before we wake up one morning just to know that the zombie apocalypse occurred when things came from space.

Mercury arc valve rectifier

Okay so if the title isn't enough to make you click on the link below then the idea that Tesla-inspired protomagick is still being used in some places today should. 

And on another note the most interesting argument for a full transition into steampunk society that i can muster: Current industry is based on QUANTITY. It's made to cheap. All the infrastructure, social conditioning, and info warfare are there to make inexpensive and wasteful things ... and these little disposable scraps of goo are all you get to inherit. 

But a steampunk world is based on QUALITY. Things aren't made to distribute, they are made to OWN. They are each, in their uniqueness and craft, a hefty devil of a thing, something that tempts you to empower yourself. 

I expect all of you to invest in my company first thing tomorrow.