I take it you think I should get the game?

It's all just so incremental, we dont see it. Terraforming in slow motion. Megastructures in disguise. We don’t build from nothing! We build from and through *transformation.*
And transformation, at a planetary scale, is no less profound just because we wear hard hats instead of space suits. Right?

The power grid. The sewer systems. The highways. The ports.
Cities aren't just “places.”
They're operating systems... infrastructure woven *into* the very geology of the Earth, not just atop ot.

Same with megastructures! We think of ringworlds and orbital elevators and dyson spheres.
But NYC? Tokyo? LA?
Those are still planetary-scale machines that we all live in.
Millions of people living inside systems that function like *living organisms.*

We always talk about dreams of terraforming Mars.
But look at Phoenix. Or Dubai.
Places we've made habitable through sheer will, money, machines, and AC.
We already terraform. We just don’t call it that.

Watch a highway project sometime! Like, really watch it over time. Not just the road, but the overpasses, interchanges, drainage systems, regrading the land itself.
It’s not just construction, it’s *geoengineering.*

Terraforming isn't always about starting from scratch.
Sometimes it's just reshaping what already exists - rerouting rivers, leveling hills, building cities where deserts used to be.

I spent 56 doing immersion study of Russian, and one of my instructors had a doctorate in the Russian Language and its history. I had to brush up on a few things when @recusant.bsky.social messaged me about this post, but I'm glad I could use that training for something, lol

created a whole account just to answer after my partner asked me, lol

Yes, the Polish town of Różan would be transcribed into imperial Russian as Рожанъ. The ż does sound like the zh sound of ж