Long seasons
30 November 2006 16:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skonen_bladesThe Earth’s orbit has slowed. The time is 32:14 PM on November the 46th. We didn’t add new days or months. We just lengthened the ones that were already there.
They still go by too quickly. People still rush like they have no time.
The average life expectancy is now about 40 but the years are so much longer that it works out to about the same as it was back before the planet started slowing.
People with seasonally related depressions are a dying breed.
The projected outcome is that the earth will keep slowing and eventually start to arc towards the sun. This will kill us all but the scientists say that it’s at least two thousand years off if this rate remains constant. They don’t know why it’s started.
Plans are afoot to leave this place. Plans to leave this planet as a race. All of us. It’s pretty exciting. It won’t be in my lifetime but I don’t mind. I like it here. I’d rather live out the rest of days near what’s been familiar to me for all my life.
No one’s even considering trying to speed the planet up.
All I know is that I like winter and that two hundred years ago there was a lot less of it.
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They still go by too quickly. People still rush like they have no time.
The average life expectancy is now about 40 but the years are so much longer that it works out to about the same as it was back before the planet started slowing.
People with seasonally related depressions are a dying breed.
The projected outcome is that the earth will keep slowing and eventually start to arc towards the sun. This will kill us all but the scientists say that it’s at least two thousand years off if this rate remains constant. They don’t know why it’s started.
Plans are afoot to leave this place. Plans to leave this planet as a race. All of us. It’s pretty exciting. It won’t be in my lifetime but I don’t mind. I like it here. I’d rather live out the rest of days near what’s been familiar to me for all my life.
No one’s even considering trying to speed the planet up.
All I know is that I like winter and that two hundred years ago there was a lot less of it.
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Date: 1 Dec 2006 06:57 (UTC)Space is neat.
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Date: 1 Dec 2006 07:19 (UTC)