Locations are beyond the geography and maps they inhabit. Anyone can look at a map and go, "Alright, Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein, so what?", and that's because maps are supplementary information. Saying "x location and y location", like to many people, means nothing to the readers unless they're looking for encyclopedic knowledge. Memorable locations are not in the names themselves, but rather what characteristics or history the location has. These are questions I often have to ask...
All media inspire creativity, and in fact, any life experience does as well. While it's so easy to get overstimulated in our modern world and do other things, we seem incapable of doing so. I'm guilty of it; I'll procrastinate sometimes if I don't feel like I'm in the right mood to do something. Sometimes we need that spark of inspiration, and that could literally be anything. Of course, to have inspiration, our minds need space to think and coalesce. Boredom is uncomfortable, but it's one of...
What if the world we perceive as real is just what we've decided is real? In all of the great leaps of science and technology we've made, what if it's still in its early infancy? What if there's a much wider universe we still don't know about?
After all, if you were to spend an equal amount of time on every estimated planet in the observable universe since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, you'd spend about 4 milliseconds on each planet. Even with as much as we know about our planet, we...
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