Dude, just take the dog out for a walk, already. He needs to pee.

We may be able to engineer human predation of animals out of the equation (through lab grown meat, e.g.), but you’d still have to convince all the humans out there to get on board. Slim chance. Non-human animal-on-animal predation? Sounds like a great way to royally screw the planet even more.

I will accept this on philosophical and humanitarian grounds; in application, I kick you out of the car for putting it on during the road trip. 😂

My philosophy: any song is a good song, if it gets somebody out there through a bad day—unless it’s a 21 Pilots song.

Almost certainly.

😂😂😂

Our good friend in Greece, Judy Blish (also known as illustrator and author J. A. Lawrence) is the widow of the late sci-fi and fantasy author James Blish. He coined the term “gas giant” for large gas planets in one of his novels and it later was adopted by the scientific community.

Just found a digital version on the Internet Archive. Thanks!

I’d love to read that essay when it comes out! I find myself more and more influenced by Golden Age illustration, but it’s also tough to find concise, concentrated resources on the work from that era.