So just imagine
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that there’s this big planet somewhere off many galaxies away that’s trapped in a binary solar system, trapped between two identical suns so it’s always daytime, and with a constant average temperature of a warm spring day. The entire planet is covered by well trimmed grass, which is kept in form by a team of massive roving lawnmowers the size of skyscrapers, which move about the land like mobile oil rigs. There are two types of existence on this planet. People who live underground in tunnel houses that are light and airy and full of glass ceilings only occasionally blocked by the massive roving lawnmowers, and people who live in the dark, oily depths of the lawnmowers, keeping it working and making sure it runs smoothly.
I know it doesn’t make any sense, but just imagine.
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Okay, I imagined it. Where do I go from here?
This sounds like a very useless planet. Why cut the grass at all O.o
Done.
My first thoughts, are that it wouldn't always be perfect daylight. I think you'd need 3 suns for that. With two(I'm assuming they're evenly spaced) you would have this weird sunrise/sunset time of day, when you have one sun on each horizon. How weird would that be? The darkest part of the sky would be straight up…And technically this would happen twice a day. But with two suns, how would you measure “days”? Also, how would the orbit work? If the planet were to revolve around either sun, it would mess up the placement in the sky of the other sun. Maybe the planet is really big and the suns revolve around it instead, I think that would work. But then how would you measure years? Between the screwy “days” and “years”, I don't think such a place would have a time system anything like we do. And they wouldn't need it. Who needs time when existence consists of endlessly mowing or lounging in the sun?
Thanks for this
It kind of makes me sad, imagining this. Only two types of existence? And one of them is dark and arduous? Those poor souls in the lawnmowers. Unless, of course, the people in the lawnmowers are criminals forced to live out their sentence in a life of labor… that would be acceptable…
This makes much sense to me. You could write a book about this. How the people who lived in the dark oily depths of the lawnmowers revolted against the people who lived in the underground tunnel houses. I'd be interested on how the story would go….
this sounds like such an interesting story. i agree this could the the premise for a good book, if it had a well developed plot. i think its so weird and cool how other peoples minds work. like how did you think of this? does it just come to you? or is it like association of ideas? crazy!
I imagine that might be totally awesome.
Are the two groups aware of each other?
Somehow I can't help imagining red grass…
So if the people with the glass ceilings have sunlight all the time, do they need less sleep biologically? If so, I wish I lived there. Lovely story Tom
That would make a good SciFi book…
What I love about this is that it completely reverses the expected pattern of the privileged people living in towers above ground and the under classes being under grasses. (See Fritz Lang's Metropolis)
It's a very different perspective on living underground, but have you ever read the book “City of Ember”? This made me think of that.
And I really liked this post. It might not make sense, but that certainly doesn't mean that it's not worth thinking about.
This should be the story line for your next comic.
This needs to happen, in some form or another. Seriously.
I think it sounds rather dull =/ as brilliant as daytime is, I really quite like nighttime too. And sunset and dawn are two of the best bits of the day. They're missing out
Home. You go home. Then you imagine some more!
I like to think the whole planet is like a garden for some royal emperor of the universe or something, who just likes having a huge garden the size of a planet, so he pays all these people to care for his big green leafy ball.
I like it
Have you read H.G Wells' 'The Time Machine'? Would the species on this planet end up like the Eloi and the Morlocks: one peaceful and innocent and the other brutish and cannibalistic? …or did you have anything else original planned for the species' characteristics?
I like it, reminds me of 'The rivers of Zaadaa' 'the lost city of Faar' and the territory of Third earth in the Pendragon books by D.J MacHale, the dual civilization bit.
Mmm…I like just imagining sometimes. It feels nice.
This kind of blew my mind. I think you have a writer inside of you, Tom.
I'm imagining a weird paradoxical world where there people in the underground are unhappy and lethargic, and the people in the lawnmowers are happy and busy, and you're allowed to move wherever you like, and the driven kind of people end up in the mowers and the listless kind of people end up underground. And then, something happens and the mowers become self sufficient and the driven people inside the mowers fall into a rut because they have nothing to do, and then they end up discovering art and music, and move out into the light, and center their culture around the mowers, and decorate the mowers so they are just grass-mowing sculptures, and then some God-like figure comes back and is amazed at what happened to his people, and then decides to let them alone and continue to watch and let them decide their own fate.
Like I said, mind blown.
It does make sense. Ever read Orwell's 1984? There's always an underclass. There always has to be an underclass, keeping things nice for the rich people in their perfect houses, their perfect world.
Now I'm reading the other comments and laughing at us all! “Have you ever read… have you ever read…?”
Wow. That was awesome. Random, but awesome.
Woah. How do you come up with this? Can I steal it for my NaNoWriMo novel? Please?
Woah. How do you come up with this? Can I steal it for my NaNoWriMo novel? Please?