Mercury Is A Small, Airless World In The Deep Inner Sol System, The Closest Planet To Its Sun And Consequently

Mercury is a small, airless world in the deep inner Sol system, the closest planet to its sun and consequently a world of thermal extremes. Its solar day is over 1400 metric hours long, meaning that any point of the surface is exposed to sunlight for 700 hours or more. Because of this Mercury isn't an especially populated world –just under twenty million souls live and work almost entirely beneath its rocky crust– but the surface facilities shine brightly because there is no atmosphere to dull their light.

Much of Mercury’s 19.4 million inhabitants are concentrated in the capital city of Lóng Cháo, embedded into and under the surface of Rachmaninoff Crater (seen here on the terminator line, in the northern hemisphere). Its orbital space, however, is busier, serving as a hub for the ore traders hauling raw materials from one side of the solar system to the other.

Mercury is an autonomous territory of the United Sol System, as part of the Inner System Territories. Its flag, an inverted monochrome depiction of its penumbra, is shown below the main image.

more worldbuilding stuff! photobash of a future human-inhabited Mercury, plus its flag, created for my hard science fiction setting Astra Planeta. done using assets from Space Engine.

did tumblr seriously just try to slip ads into TAG SEARCHES like we wouldn't notice???

how many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man? you can't commodify tumblr. it's the most venomously anti-capitalist platform I'm aware of. so take your obnoxiously intrusive Netflix posts and your pointless Amazon ads and fuck off.

yeah. as a part time zookeeper myself? yeah. my brother, who also works at the zoo, once overheard a guest remark with maximum confidence that our polar bear was an animatronic. when asked why the hell he thought as much, this guy.

oh my god this fucking guy.

without HESITATING he replied that "polar bears are made up by the government for global warming propaganda."

I just can't stand how stupid some people are.

So this comment section on a tiktok about insane things people ask at aquariums is a goldmine

Saying that life is meaningless is like stepping into a wilderness and saying there is no shelter.

The fact that we have the ability and inclination to build shelter, to make meaning, is a message from the universe.

It says, "what you are will provide what you need."

OP I just started following you and I’m already invested, I need to know more

i have a skyrim based story idea that ive been sitting on for actual years at this point and its just be combining a bunch of my save files into one comprehensive story

INCLUDING the save file where i made choices i think irl me would actually make (like becoming a werewolf (yes i would ive given this a lot of thought)) which would be the dragonborn bc, yes- 

This is it this is my magnum opus audio design is my passion