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This would be even better if you could click on the various creatures you encounter to get their Wikipedia articles. That said, this is pretty cool. It's made
by krylon 3y ago
This would be even better if you could click on the various creatures you encounter to get their Wikipedia articles.
That said, this is pretty cool. It's made me think how for humans and many other animals, moving 10, 100, even thousands of kilometers horizontally is not a very big deal. But move vertically, and you effectively find yourself in a different world within as little as a few hundred meters.
- eternauta3k 3y agoYou can download it and make this change. Maybe send it to the author instead of publishing it yourself.
- JackFr 3y ago> That said, this is pretty cool. It's made me think how for humans and many other animals, moving 10, 100, even thousands of kilometers horizontally is not a very big deal. But move vertically, and you effectively find yourself in a different world within as little as a few hundred meters. This observation reminded me of 'Dragon's Egg', the SF novel about a civilization on the surface of a neutron star. Because of the intense magnetic field, movement in the east-west direction was easy but very difficult in the north-south direction.
- nerdponx 3y agoA few hundred meters? Even 10 meters under the water feels like an inhospitable alien world, likely to induce a minor sense of panic if you look up and contemplate the amount of water between you and the surface.
- cratermoon 3y agoI used to swim in an Olympic-sized pool with a depth of 10 feet (3m) at one end. I could hold my breath and swim down to the bottom for a minute maybe, and looking around, it was definitely a lot of water. I could feel the pressure even there. I also went snorkeling in Hawaii once in cove that had deep areas easily over 10m. Even looking down at that depth could be disorienting and anxiety-inducing. A hundred meters is technical SCUBA diving depth. A few hundred meters is where military subs hang out, and not much below. A kilometer is crush depth for all but the sturdiest military submarines and special deep-diving vehicles.
- samstave 3y agoI grew up with a Swim Club, and our pool went to 12' deep - and just getting to the drain at the center of the deep-end hurt my ears so bad, that it was an effort. I can pop my ears at will in Air, but underwater, at 12' the pain is intense, and I cant normalize. I couldnt imagine say, 30' deep or anything more.