Comments on: Strange New Worlds

Strange New Worlds

The Whelk — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:53:04 -0800

Let's take another look at Chris Wayan's PLANETOCOPIA (previously): A series of detailed conceptions and paintings of vastly different Earths based on differing climates and land mass position. A planet designed to speed up East-West cvilization development! A life-bearing super hot world! An Earth with most of the seas missing! Forever Ice Age Earth!

Related XKCD What-If: What if The Earth's surface as rotated 90 degrees?

By: Renoroc

Renoroc — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:39:08 -0800

Food for thought! Great post. I wish they could incorporate these maps into Sid Meier's Civilization.

By: pencroft

pencroft — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:46:25 -0800

Cool. Those Wayans brothers are into everything.

By: curious nu

curious nu — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:03:15 -0800

Related.

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:19:41 -0800

Well. I think that ate a good hour or two. Neat!

By: threeants

threeants — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:25:42 -0800

Really cool stuff. Love that there are people out there doing this kind of thing. Extra points for the I-don't-give-a-fuck late-90s-style web design.

By: Behemoth

Behemoth — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:23:42 -0800

What's with the furries?

By: dubold

dubold — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:01:38 -0800

What's with the furries? well, they're a "subculture interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics". My guess is too many Disney movies at a young age, but who knows?

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:18:01 -0800

He gets a little whoo at the end with the bare breasted centaurs, but 99% of these essays are fascinating. As in "I think I'll just read a couple of sections, holy crap the afternoon disappeared!" fascinating. There's endless room for speculation and imagination in those maps...

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:30:50 -0800

Metafilter: little whoo at the end with the bare breasted centaurs

By: Mezentian

Mezentian — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:43:12 -0800

Does anyone have a link to the really odd hand-drawn Warlord of Mars comic (I am sure I read about it here, but cannot find it). This thread could really do with more big-breasted hermaphrodite centaurs.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:31:17 -0800

Darn it, now I want to hear the song about fat, stupid otters of the Ganges Plateau.