Muppet Dracula. Miss Piggy is obviously Lucy. Mina is the token human, maybe also Jonathan. Although I would accept Rizo and Gonzo in the roles.

He knows that not all autistic people have the requisite anatomy for that, right? …sorry, dumb question, he probably doesn’t.

To be fair: higher support needs autistic (and other neurodiverse) people exist and might welcome future treatments that could help manage symptoms! But your point is still good and valid. Supporting people and acknowledging humanity good, eugenics bad.

Pretty sure, statistically speaking, we’re disproportionately UNDER represented in the violent shooter population. 🫩

100 AU is about 2500 steps, reasonably enough. That’s longer than we generally go in our public demos, but isn’t that far. 1 ly… you probably don’t want to walk that.

There’s a reason why our go-to outdoor activity at the planetarium is to walk a scale model of the solar system. There is a LOT of space in outer space and it’s really hard to communicate that. For context, at a scale of 1”=100,000 miles, you can walk one AU in about twenty five big steps.

But I wasn’t expecting hard scifi from a book where elves wield energy weapons…still, it’s a very funny mistake. Galaxies like ours are hundreds of thousands of light years across (depending on how you measure it) and a light year is about 63,000 times longer than an AU.

Also, using AU to measure anything in a scifi book with no mention of Earth.

No. No it is not. It’s about a hundred AU to get to the dwarf planet Eris from the sun at the moment.

(I have fallen asleep in lectures about the moon and Mercury before, but that might be because I tried to sit still with undiagnosed ADHD.)

(Other candidates for “most interesting grey sphere” include Ganymede, Ceres, and maybe Eris.)