For those of you who weren't already away, Winchell Chung, the author of the website Atomic Rockets, is suffering from metastatic cancer and the prognosis is poor.
@RedactedRedacted listen. I don't know how serious you are being with some of the questions/answers/comments you put up on here. But many of the people do, indeed, take this hobby seriously. They enjoy doing this stuff and enjoy helping others. So if someone drops by that just seems to roll for the giggles, people will eventually get upset. If you're trolling, then fine, there's the door (marked with a friendly x) - show yourself out and go bother someone else.
And Amazon ads follow you forever. Listen Amazon, I just ordered a blender from you. I do not need to see blenders on every website I go to for the next few months.
@Gryphon No no no, just look at it logically. While it is in the box the cat is both alive and dead. You're just collapsing the wave function wrong and the cat is coming out both alive and dead, AKA a zombie.
@PatJ yes, and you still don't want a question changing out from under people who are trying to answer, so some questions will need to be put on hold quickly and then fixed and reopened (ideally quickly). So fixing and reopening needs to be part of our culture, along with guiding the new person whose question has issues.
"Worldbuilding" isn't just speculative science, it's about making setting choices which serve a metanarrative purpose beyond diegetic consistency. Most wb.se questions ignore that and get along okay, but for something this broad and deep, it'd be useful to go into the situation's narrative imperatives.
