BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:33 AM
I'm thinking back to one of my favorite short Sci-Fi stories
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:33 AM
By Larry Niven, I think
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:34 AM
Wherein this guy is sitting in the park watching a kid play around
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:34 AM
The kid finds a caterpillar in the middle of a sidewalk and picks it up to save it
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:34 AM
Then shows it to a guy who has the look of someone from space before gently putting it on a tree to be safe
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:34 AM
The space guy freaks out
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:35 AM
When the narrator asks him what's up, the space guy recounts a story of how he got to Earth
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:35 AM
He was in his space ship somewhere out in the stars
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:35 AM
And his ship had broken down, so he was stranded
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:35 AM
He was coming to terms with dying when some sort of massive entity appeared
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:35 AM
And grabbed his ship
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:36 AM
And gently deposited on the Earth
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:36 AM
Which I like as a concept
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:37 AM
That some kind of elder space god could be motivated by an idle whim of compassion to save a doomed astronaut
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:39 AM
Who was clearly in a place he should not have been
You're Quinner
@quinn2win
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:39 AM
"off you go"
EsperBot
@PikaBot
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:39 AM
That's Niven, all right.
EsperBot
@PikaBot
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:39 AM
I remember the one.
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:40 AM
I'm afraid to go back and read anything by Niven
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:40 AM
because I'm PRETTY SURE a lot of his shit is gonna seem SUPER SEXIST by modern standards
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:44 AM
But he had a lot of cool ideas
EsperBot
@PikaBot
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:50 AM
I can confirm that a lot of his shit is fairly sexist.
EsperBot
@PikaBot
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:50 AM
Maybe not quite Heineken bad, but fairly bad.
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:50 AM
Yeah I read a synopsis of Ringworld
EsperBot
@PikaBot
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:50 AM
*Heinlein
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:51 AM
after actually reading it in my teens
BWAAAAAH!
@Overbringer
Tue, Jan 9, 2018 4:51 AM
And just from the synopsis and from my memories of it I was like "What the fuck"
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