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- Downloading Starfield and heck, do they got a beautiful artbook. It is amazing.
- However, as I've seen it for so long, I like how authors and devs rely on, consciously or not, their our "cultural baggage" from the things they consume, when it comes to speculative fiction, be in literature, movies, video games and so forth.
- For example, a hypothetical alien planet, very far away from Earth, with all the geological activity, seismic waves, biomass, fauna, it's own atmosphere, magnetic field, etc., is probably not a real planet we've come to know yet. It is Earth, in a way, because Earth is the only reference we've come to know of and experience from. After many, many years studying Mars, Venus and other bodies in the Solar System, I've come to the conclusion that we all take inspiration from, mainly if not only, Earth itself.
- People tend to mention Mars a lot. Hyped as they may, the planet is a reddish dead Hades with too little seismic activity compared to Earth. Not one single cell alive so far to be found also.
- What happens is, most of us don't know our own home. Extreme places, extremophile bacteria, they're all real. They're all here. Take the coldest point in Antarctica or the ghost town of Dallol in Ethiopia, or even the recently discover called "Cave of the Crystals" in Mexico for once. We are surrounded by weirdness and beauty and we don't appreciate it. Maybe not even realizing it anyway. "Aliens" are real and they live among us. The truly 'magic' is happening here, right now, perhaps in the most inhospitable places on Earth, perhaps not to far from our houses. We've got plenty to explore and to cover from there.
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