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I got tired of fandom wikis, so I've built a fictional planet directory

Every time I wanted to remember what a planet from a novel actually *was*, I got one of two things: a fandom wiki with forty paragraphs of in-universe trivia and no sense of why the place mattered, or nothing at all. Lem, Le Guin and Simmons especially — their worlds are the whole argument of the book and they're barely written up anywhere.

So I started writing them myself. One paragraph per planet: what it is, and what it does to the story. It turned into a site — link in the comments since I'm not sure about the self-promo rules here.

141 planets, 22 universes so far. Star Wars and Star Trek are the biggest sections because they're the easiest, but the ones I actually enjoyed writing were Gethen, Anarres, Hyperion, Regis III from The Invincible, and Rakhat from The Sparrow.

https://www.fictionalplanets.com/ — a small reference site for planets from science fiction.

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u/zamanusta — 11 hours ago
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TITLE: I got tired of fandom wikis, so I've been writing descriptions of 141 sci-fi planets — from Arrakis to Solaris to Rakhat

Every time I wanted to remember what a planet from a novel actually *was*, I got one of two things: a fandom wiki with forty paragraphs of in-universe trivia and no sense of why the place mattered, or nothing at all. Lem, Le Guin and Simmons especially — their worlds are the whole argument of the book and they're barely written up anywhere.

So I started writing them myself. 1-3 paragraphs per planet: what it is, and what it does to the story. It turned into a site — link in the comments since I'm not sure about the self-promo rules here.

https://www.fictionalplanets.com/

141 planets, 22 universes so far. Star Wars and Star Trek are the biggest sections because they're the easiest, but the ones I actually enjoyed writing were Gethen, Anarres, Hyperion, Regis III from The Invincible, and Rakhat from The Sparrow.

It's mine, it's free, there are no ads and nothing to sell. Mostly I'm posting because I want to argue about what's missing.

So: which planet do you think about most? Not the coolest one — the one that stuck. Mine is Solaris, which I'm still not convinced counts as a planet at all.

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u/zamanusta — 11 hours ago
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Tattoo ideas for scientific skepticism

I want to have a tattoo reflecting the scientific skepticism. Do you have any ideas or know some applications?

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u/zamanusta — 2 months ago
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The site that tracks billionaire private jet activity as an "early warning system" for the apocalypse.

A friend made a website, invented an index and I wonder that if it is actually a signal or total nonsense?

So I fell down a weird rabbit hole and ended up on this thing called doomchart.com.

The whole claim is that rich people and politics supposedly know when something bad is coming before the layman, and the first thing they do is get on their private jets and leave. So the site pulls live flight-tracking data (ADS-B, the same stuff normal plane trackers use), watches global business-jet departures, and compares them to the historical average for that exact day and time. If departures spike way above normal, it bumps an "alert level" up a 1-to-5 scale. 5 is basically "the elites are fleeing, good luck."

Here's where I'm torn. On one hand, "follow the money / follow the jets" isn't a crazy instinct. (Needs to be tested with real case). People with resources do move early. On the other hand, this feels like textbook apophenia — take any noisy dataset, draw a scary line on it, and our brains will happily connect it to the apocalypse.

So I'm genuinely asking:

  • Is there any real correlation between private jet surges and actual crises, or is this just a vibe with a dashboard?
  • Wouldn't normal stuff (Davos, F1 weekends, Thanksgiving, the Super Bowl) constantly trigger false alarms?
  • Has anyone checked whether it spiked before any actual recent event, or is that just hindsight?
  • Is this a clever bit of data art that looks prophetic, or is there an actual signal buried in there?

What do you think?

u/zamanusta — 2 months ago