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Mehr Quizzes für Metadatenmenschen, um spielerisch #Metadatenㅤㅤㅤ-dienste und ihre Möglichkeiten kennenzulernen! Ich habe mal mit einer Frage zu #lobid-gnd angefangen:

Today:
⁃ Re-exporting some promos at 4K for a client to use in broadcast ads, uploading them to the drive folder that is our Press Kit placeholder until website redesign goes live
⁃ Exporting some clips from a May gig in Greece of the local horn section (who killed it) which I had promised them
⁃ Reprogramming and optimizing my MorningStar MC6 midi footswitch to better suit my current workflow
⁃ Removed the tremolo blocker on my Floyd so that it's fully floating, for…

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
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