LJIdol S11 - Week 4 - Impossible
Throughout history, we have achieved what which had previously been thought impossible. We learned to fly. We put people on the moon. We reintroduced the triceratops into the wild. We domesticated the triceratops. We created a pumpkin spice version of every consumable substance in existence. We built a hundred foot tall tower out of human skulls.
I guess that last one wasn't actually something we thought was impossible. Like, most people probably didn't think about building one at all. It did turn out to be pretty hard, though, since human skulls aren't exactly ideal building materials, and it took about 5.6 million skulls to construct, so it wasn't the sort of thing the average person could just throw together on a whim. Also, ancient tomes of forbidden knowledge might feature the occasional illustration that can shatter all but the most warped of minds, but they are really short on architectural blueprints.
So, yeah, it was the largest and most ambitious occult project ever attempted. Why turn to the occult in the first place? Well, the fact is that we really enjoyed doing the impossible, and science had finally failed us. Oh, sure, it had given us some pretty cool stuff - light bulbs, flying cars, the sum of all knowledge at our beck and call at every moment of our lives, that sort of thing. But it couldn't give us everything. There were things you just couldn't do no matter how much science you poured into them, like have giant ants. I'm talking, like, triceratops-sized ants. But the square-cube law means that as objects change in size their volume increases a cube of the change as the surface area increases by the square of the change, and so you just can't have giant ants because at a certain point they're crushed under the weight of their own exoskeletons, because science is a quitter.
Then we thought, hey, what about that alien space jellyfish that predates all of history? That's pretty impossible. Just think of all the stuff we might be able to do if we release it from its prison outside of space and time with this tower described in this evil book we found. And so, 5.6 million human skulls later, here we are.
Alas, the unfathomable alien space jellyfish turned out to really hate pumpkin spice.
I guess that last one wasn't actually something we thought was impossible. Like, most people probably didn't think about building one at all. It did turn out to be pretty hard, though, since human skulls aren't exactly ideal building materials, and it took about 5.6 million skulls to construct, so it wasn't the sort of thing the average person could just throw together on a whim. Also, ancient tomes of forbidden knowledge might feature the occasional illustration that can shatter all but the most warped of minds, but they are really short on architectural blueprints.
So, yeah, it was the largest and most ambitious occult project ever attempted. Why turn to the occult in the first place? Well, the fact is that we really enjoyed doing the impossible, and science had finally failed us. Oh, sure, it had given us some pretty cool stuff - light bulbs, flying cars, the sum of all knowledge at our beck and call at every moment of our lives, that sort of thing. But it couldn't give us everything. There were things you just couldn't do no matter how much science you poured into them, like have giant ants. I'm talking, like, triceratops-sized ants. But the square-cube law means that as objects change in size their volume increases a cube of the change as the surface area increases by the square of the change, and so you just can't have giant ants because at a certain point they're crushed under the weight of their own exoskeletons, because science is a quitter.
Then we thought, hey, what about that alien space jellyfish that predates all of history? That's pretty impossible. Just think of all the stuff we might be able to do if we release it from its prison outside of space and time with this tower described in this evil book we found. And so, 5.6 million human skulls later, here we are.
Alas, the unfathomable alien space jellyfish turned out to really hate pumpkin spice.