Building

 

Ugly, but I like it

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One of the reasons that I have been noodling around with the inappropriately named AI “Grok” is that it sure makes getting the current consensus about things in the realm of science much, much easier.  I am not saying, by any means, that what it is giving me is “true”, but it does a pretty fair job of putting together a decent idea of what constitutes the current most-favored-hypothesis.

I feel even more relaxed because I am not going to use the information to give you tiresome lectures concerning the state of the world or the ethics of people that I don’t know.  I am using it to construct a world which I can populate with stories that are, at best, embryonic inside my cranium.

So I am piggybacking on all the pictures and data coming back from the rovers and orbiters beavering away around Mars.  What brought this on was a reread of Edgar Rice Burroughs “John Carter of Mars” books.  Now there are folks out there who will sneer at the “outdated” view of Mars, but all that does for me is make my eyes hurt from rolling them, we are talking about made up worlds here folks and when E.R. Burroughs was doing his scribbling in 1917, the scientists were thinking of Mars as a dying world with canals.

So I am spending my time reading up and thinking about things that will have no real effect on my life.  It is pleasant.  Martian ensolation, surface ionizing radiation, martian axial tilts, magnetic fields and other such foofooraw are being merged into a world that doesn’t quite exist.  Even worse, I am setting the time about 13,000 years ago, so the world is long gone.  

I suppose that this time I decided to spend a little time creating my own non-existent world rather than copying someone else’s answers.  I am now trying to redeem myself by going through the bother of world creation.

I am thinking that I will have a basic idea of my fantasy version of Mars 13,000 years ago in the next couple of weeks, it won’t be complete, but it will be a beginning that I can work from.

Now I get to populate it with Gods and people.  I have some very preliminary ideas here, but I am going to wait until I get the world built before I fly them there.