What if I try...

Humanity’s insanity is only helped by its imagination. If you give a hundred humans one wooden block each, several will try spinning it, several will try carving it, several will try breaking things with it, some will ask what type of wood it is, a dozen will try setting it on fire, and at least one will try to swallow it.

Imataq kunan?

Since the first human figured out how to hold things with its thumb, the species has been obsessed with art. They find it near-impossible to look at the universe around them and not change it to be either more beautiful or amusing.

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Ok, hear me out...

A human placed in a vacuum will figure out how to nearly die, how to find beauty in the vacuum, and (more likely than not) how to draw a phallus on it.

Manchay

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The war ended when governments agreed to remove their mirror splitting bans. They implemented new bans, but these were lax.

Everyone was happy.

On Mirror Station 07396, a new sport called “star trawling” was invented. Two humans would put on space suits, split themselves, tie a rope around their waists, and see who could get closest to the star without dying. With two of them still safely in the station, there was no risk of permanent death.

The sport quickly caught on, and soon all the mirror stations had a trawler team. Within weeks it was being televised, with brands using it for promotion.

Working on a mirror station was now a privileged position, instead of a good out-of-the-way place to put lazy people with no career goals.

Life went on.