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This is the story of a time traveler named Green . Before time-travelling and in order to realise his dream of studying the sciences and answering unsolved questions, the main character, who is called Green, had another life behind.

In order to time travel, he had to fulfill two conditions immortality and the science behind it. Now**,** the first condition of immortality is forbidden, and the only one who has it is Satan . he asked for it before humanity started after Adam and Eve; it was in order to take his time deceiving us, and so in order to have it Satan himself have to make a ''consession'' of  the conversation that happened between him and God and allow his gift to one of us it is similar to the wish of King Solomon when he wished for the biggest kingdom on earth in the Past and the Future so in order to surpass him we have to make a ''consession'' in his wish and conversation. Anywas speaking to the devil is pretty impossible and also forbidden and it will be seen as an act of satanism or black magic and even if he accept it people will make look the consession given by satan as a wish accorded by Satan wich is false because its God who realised the wish of immortality and it is one of the reason wich push him to stay hidden and living a secret life .

Little is known about Green other than that he come from a poor place located in Northern Africa in his century and was considered to be from a lower rank , one day he decided to travel far away to change his life and was captured by a group of people who were doing business and rulling secretly with the governors of that country , they were into business such as usury and schemer businesses subject of many conspiracy theories to this day , the kind of businesses that is usualy connected to a groupe of people or an occult . Green didnt know that and by working with them he gave them the right to enslave him because he wasnt in the same religion as them and their business system is built to enslave and get enriched from it   , he tried to fight them to leave him alone for years without any success however while time passed the co-worker responsible of enslaving him started enjoying discussing with him scientific subjects and started asking him questions  in different field of science everyday , one day they were discussing religion and started to discuss that Satan wasnt intelligent because he lived centuries and couldnt make a list of name of the animals living in earth like Adam and that only God knows how many years he lived . The subject funnily escalated in their ranks until one of them said, "I'll ask him myself !" then surprisingly Satan himself came to discuss with Green , this latter told him that he wasnt intelligent and that as a human if he was given just few hundred of  years he could study and invent something amazing and then he named a famous scientist of his time , Satan answered angrily and calmly in the same time with few words :''have it your own way , you can have the earth as well '' and left . What happened is very similar to Jinny tales in One Thousand and One Nights stories, and the only explanation is that because in the past, the problem he had with Adam was about the earth control and so he gave him not only the concession about immortality, but that as well in an act of defiance . Also, we do understand from his story that these occult groups thriving in the business of usury and subjects of conspiracy theories since the Middle Ages until the 21st century  are ultimately governed by Satan .

God, as merciful as he is had pitty on Green and decided to grant him immortality now that  the only thing stopping a human from that kind of wish had been changed, he has taken the words of satan as a consession . However green died enslaved and from a natural death like everyone because nobody escapes from death , the extraordinary story start only after his death , thanks to the consession he had the right to comeback as immortal in a differnt form and the time concept dont work for him as other humans  . he was reincarnated in the same form as Adam before eating the apple , his body have more iron concentrations giving him more resistance and strength of a thousands of humans and his digestive system became a closed system meaning that he didnt need to eat and defecate rather used other energy sources similar to plant photosynthesis with the sun and only God knows more details about it . 

Green decided to keep his immortality and his form a secret because they can make fabricated stories about it as well as his conversation with satan  and make him either look as magician or say that he is an angel or divinty like the story of heracluis because of his strength the inverse might happen as well and they can make stories describing him as monster like the story of the prince of transylvannia Dracula . Secrecy was essential to avoid all this . Because he loved science and sharing things as well as  answering questions, sometimes he tries to answer by telling children stories like the legend of the phoenix to explain that he has been reincarnated to the most curious people in the same time it allowed him to stay discreet.

Green asked God to provide him with knowledge tools in order to travel and also in order to  know future events and only god knows how many tools and knowledge he received . He then decided to travel to many centuries and learn science and in the same time help people whenever he can as he could know all the future events . This fact leads to strange events because with time, he will start even killing bad people, like executing future murderers and tyrants, before they take action, things that only a time traveler can understand .

Green origins was from North Africa near the Gibraltar detroit region  and his look was not  too much white and not too much black allowing him to be able to live inside many cultures without any problem , Only God knows his first place of reincarnation but he most likely was in the complete opposite side of earth in the far east of the Asian continent in an island who had problems with all its neighbors and where genocides used to happen on it because they feared that this isolated island  in the sea between two larger empires will be used by one of them as an advanced outpost so they always tried to control that island  , One of the empire will eventually control that island and they will remain pretty much neutral for ages while many other empires has started doing dirty businesses for example showing that every action is well studied . Anyway, the fact that the place is in the other side of the world from his original place sped up his recovery, and in the same time he helped with his knowledge and strength to save the lives of that island who were isolated and had nobody to support them but God .  There he met an old man that was known to be wise and also known to be  an animal lover, which is a good thing in a region known for eating pretty much everything back in that time . He trained him to fight and gave him wiseness lessons to prepare him mentally and restart everything from the beginning . In fact, education and psychology are important before achieving important things in life and also in order to forget his past life problems before moving into other regions .

In the past during Babylonian time and Pharaos times the black magicians and occult groups were surprised seing someone fighting armies alone they also noticed that he could see demons while exorcising patients  his eyes were different because as mentionned before the surpluss of iron  and difference of physiology made him see them made them so they tought he was an angel sent by god in a human form it is only after hundreds of generations passed away and many centuries untill a recent century that these occult groups discovered that the person fighting them is a human that appeared because of their own acts .

Some people believe that Green became a prophet during his travels and no one knows the truth however his wish was to seek knowledge and didnt involve prophecy or ruling over a kingdom so even if he did achieve that it was only for a scientific and human purpose to learn the art of governancy while saving lives and also to be thankfull to God and to learn deeply the religion and so  he kept his identity secret because it wasnt his first interest and also because of the reasons mentionned before that people always tend to make fabricated stories about supernatural events and miracles .

Green is believed to have fought many kingdoms under many names , usually when a genocide is about to happen and a lot of innocent lives die. He appears and change the courses of history , for example as an army general, he could know exactly the roads taken by his enemy , the weather , the terrain , the timing alowing him to win wars and save lives before genocides happens . In more ancient times he could fight alone a bataillon of army as his original form gave him more power than normal humans triggering in the way many myths , what began as a quest of science made him discover many kind of works in order to help people in medieval time such as blacksmith or carpenter for examples but also more other position to save lives such as a warrior, general ,king , policeman in recent centuries solving crimes or helping solving them and also as a spy delivering critical informations and technology transfer to equilibrate the balance of force in order to change the courses of things when an empire is about to commit genocides or go to war against another one .

It is futile to try to control him for any country interest or befriend him for a certain purpose because he have enough knowledge given by God that he could see all traps and intentions in advance and avoid them before they happen . In the end, if you try to trap him, it will only make you unreliable , having  good faith and intentions, or seeking knowledge, or simply praying to god about an injustice, and not to him are things that might make him help you .

Most likely, his true identity and his appearances will remain secret or under another name  untill the day of judgment , his stories are very appreciated by curious  people who are looking for answers just like him or people enjoying mind blowing supernatural stories around the world  .

I have just seen The Ark, and I must say I liked the overall space survival and drama on board of the spacecraft much better than I thought. Now I am searching for a science fiction show with some kind of similarities to this one. I think what I want is a show where there is a crew on the spaceship, conflict between them, survivals, quantum physics, discovery or politics in space, like The Expanse. Of course, I have already seen Lost in Space, The Expanse, etc., but still...

Let's assume that the time-traveler is different than the immortal, so we can set aside the Grandfather Paradox for now.

Would the grandfather's death override the grandson's immortality? Or would the grandson's future immortality mean the time traveler's efforts would inevitably fail somehow? Or would something else happen entirely?

I'm a new author, writing scifi short stories from a near death experience:

'It’s 2091 AD. The katà phýsin — Greek for “according to nature” — live separately from the néa ágria, the people of the New Wild. The splitting of Earth was first prophesied some sixty-nine years ago by the earliest so called ‘hive minds’, individuals capable of experiencing collective future timelines long before possibility collapses into probability, and probability into reality.

Hive minds are now the reality of the katà phýsin: minds tapped into one another in a natural telepathic rhythm, without the use of technology. By 2091, the most powerful forces of the 21st century, media and money, were rendered obsolete...'

Your thoughts are appreciated

hear me out. it was nice easy listening. i found the characters interesting. the drama between the planets and the belt was fascinating, i love this sort of sociopolitical commentary.

i even enjoyed the characters. holdens naive the truth must always be revealed vs millers rogue-like approach.

but i first started getting disinterested when it came to the random alien superweapon being introduced. which obviously ended up being the major plot of the book. i know its a book about space and space travel but in the context of what had been introduced so far, it just felt like it came out of left field, and not in a fun twist way. but sure ok i'll continue...

and then it was millers realization that julie was "alive". give me a break lmao, we know nothing about this superweapon that turns people into this weird fungating mass of tendrils and slime but this guys weird obsession with julie makes him have some confidence that she is alive and is the one who is actually driving the whole thing? and then we trust him to be able to convince this weird life form to not go to earth? and then she actually talks and can be reasoned with?

god that ending was so dumb.

so my question is, if i really enjoyed the worldbuilding and the interplanetary dynamics and most of the characters but thought the main plotline of the alien weapon and julie being alive was ridiculous, should i continue reading? i honestly don't want some other dumb shit ending like that

EDIT: ok the protoweapon itself was fine. bad take there. i was still interested in the book at that time, how it was central to the power struggles between earth, mars and the opa, etc.

still think the ending with julie was dumb as hell

1. The Walking Dead

2. 28 Days Later

3. The Last of Us

4. Dying Light

5. A Quiet Place

6. Crossed

7. SCP - 001 “When Day Breaks”

I was thinking the other day, if humanity ever wants to travel to another star or galaxy, we would be bored out of our skulls along the way. So cryosleep is often presented as an option for these travels, but then again, imagine arriving there and the conditions are so extreme, life there is boring as hell again, living in domes, space suits etc. Not being able to actually live in a decent way. So what if we ditch the idea that we should remain human to become a space faring civilisation? I know I’m not the first one to come up with this, so my question is: are there any books, series or movies, that go deeper on this approach? I know the Hyperion cantos has the Ousters, but I’m looking for something with more focus and detail on this. Like, it’s the main thread in the story. Thanks.

I prefer reading short stories, especially if they are very short.

What I remember:

• Set billions/trillions of years in the future.
• Humanity/posthumanity no longer lives in physical bodies or on planets.
• Civilizations exist more like distributed minds/colonies in space.
• Because of the expansion of the universe, colonies are slowly moving beyond each other’s observable universes and losing the ability to communicate forever.
• The story involves what may be the last conversation between two such colonies.
• Minds within a colony are gradually merged together into a single consciousness.
• This may or may not be true but I vaguely remember a reveal near the end that the narrator had already merged/absorbed all the other minds in the colony and was effectively speaking as the colony itself.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

I and other people often complain about aliens being too much like humans.

I watched half of Proj3ct hail Mary yesterday and there the character is not human like.

And the authors point from what i understand is that they would look different because of different environment.

It is just that... to be intelligent and have use of that intelligence you need to be able to interact with the world. Perhaps a human like body is simply universally fairly optimal for that?

I dont see how the character Rocky in the movie could actually build a spaceship like that with his limited dog like body.

The thing I’ve always loved about science fiction is that it asks big questions about society, and the nature of reality. It seems like there’s this trend in modern sci-fi (last 15 years or so) where the big questions take the back burner, and plots mainly focus on petty personal issues. For example, you might see a movie about first contact with an alien race, but instead, most of the focus will be on some guys marriage, or like an individual’s journey of self fulfillment. This is fine in moderation, and, in fact, sci-fi would be lesser without these aspects, but to make these things the main focus I think kind of takes away the wonder and mystique of it all.

I want it to be 2018. Is there any way that backwards time travel could be realised?