Totally Tubular, Wickedly Radical Writing Blog

     I wouldn't exactly call dystopia a "trending" genre, they've been around for quite awhile. I've read most of hunger games, as well as one and a half books from the maze runner series. Brain scientists seem to attribute the popularity to the developing brain, specifically the rise of emotional complexity/exploration.     Looks to be about some sort of flu that wipes out practically everyone.     My best guess is that the "The bright side of the planet moves towards darkness" line connects to how dystopias are often set in the future? I have no idea what "There is too much world" could mean, it sounds like the person wants  the world to end, but that doesn't really fit with dystopia since that word has a negative connotation. If they want the world to end, and then the world ends, it would be a utopia (for them, at least.)     As I write this, I'm on page 6. My main thought right now is how bad plastic snow would be for your long-ter...

Part 1:  1:      " Where am I? What's happening? "      "Hello Vladivir. To answer your first question, you're nowhere, existing only in the minds eye of the reader. To answer your second, you have been called into existence as a hypothetical narrative being, for the purposes of a college writing assignment. Shall we begin?"      "...Sure?"      "Very good then. You see, Vladivir, I have stumbled upon an issue that bothers me. Viruses do not fall under our current definition of 'alive', I find this odd considering they do various activities one might associated with something living, they mutate, they reproduce, they even evolve and adapt to their environments. The reason they aren't considered alive is that they do not grow, they cannot reproduce on their own (requiring a host-cell to do it for them), and they do not produce or use their own energy (they mooch off of the host cell's), and all of those things are required ...

     Here are the two sources I selected for this discussion:     1:  https://www.space.com/15830-light-speed.html     2:  https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-monty-hall-problem/      Now, let's go through the CARS for each of them.     The speed of light one doesn't fail the credibility check, but it doesn't exactly pass it, either. The author is not anonymous, and has a background in science, but it's ecology, not physics. The Monty Hall one, I think, fails the credibility check, as I could not find an author.     Both are fairly accurate, the Monty Hall one even having a minigame where you yourself play through the scenario. The light-speed one was posted only one year ago, though the Monty Hall one was posted six years ago (though, I don't think fundamental aspects of statistics tend to change over time).      Both are also reliable, being internally consistent, and spea...