Juan Ledezma

Pacific Rim is probably Guillermo Del Toro’s best movie and one of the best sci-fi films of all time

You watch as the old world of media crumbles before your eyes, this behemoth built on scarcity and impossible budgets, on endless armies of exhausted talent working under fluorescent lights. You remember how it used to be. Years waiting for the right people to say yes, for funding to materialize, for distribution deals to align like reluctant stars. But now you stand at the edge of transformation, watching as small bands of warriors accomplish in weeks what once demanded years. They move like water through the cracks of the old system, unburdened by legacy, armed with nothing but talent and new tools that would have seemed like magic just years ago. You see them clearly: the unknown creatives becoming emperors overnight. Small teams achieving what once required the resources of small nations, the best ideas rising not because they had the deepest pockets or the strongest handshakes, but because they are simply the best ideas. The future unfolds before you like a map being redrawn in real time, and you understand that there will be nowhere to hide, no excuses to make. Only stories waiting to be told by those brave enough to embrace this new world.

Elon Musk: Extending life to multiple planets would be one of the most important milestones, not only in the history of humanity, but in the history of life itself. "I think space is extremely important. But first, you have to go to the definition of importance and say, why is anything important? And if you use the lens of history, and you zoom out far, I think you can distinguish the less important from the more important. If you zoom out really far and look at the 4-billion-year history of Earth and the evolution of life itself and say, what are the major milestones in the evolution of life itself? Obviously, there's single-celled life, multicellular life, there's differentiation of plants and animals, there's life going from the oceans to land, there's mammals and consciousness. There's maybe a half-dozen or so really big milestones in the history of life. And I think on that scale, would also fit the expansion of life to multiple planets. It would be at least as important as life going from the oceans to land, and arguably more important because if you're going from oceans to land and got a lot uncomfortable on the land, you could jump back in the water. But that's not something you could do with going to another planet. In fact, I think extending life to multiple planets really requires consciousness as a precursor. So, if we've got something that's so important that it'd be one of the half dozen or so most important milestones in the history of life itself, that's pretty darn important. And it goes beyond the parochial concerns of humanity. It's something that is of importance to life in general. So, that's why I think it's important to do and this is the first time in the 4-billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible. How long will it remain possible? I mean, if things go well, obviously it will be possible for a long time, but if something unfortunate were to happen, that tiny window that just opened for the first time in 4 billion years could close. I'm actually an optimist, so I actually think that things will go fairly well on Earth. And this is not to suggest complacency, because there are very important issues, the climate being probably number one in terms of earthly issues. But I think if this is the first time in 4 billion years that life has had the possibility of doing that, we should take advantage of that, of that little window. And just in case it does close. Because extending to multiple planets gives us the surest chance of life lasting for a very long time. Because there's always the possibility, of some either natural disaster or potentially man-made disaster, that extinguishes life. And that would be bad." From: Interview with John Doerr, 2008

what do you think is harder than this?

wait so I can just repost art i made years ago and people will still like it? that's amazing