Liminal Return - A Highly Important Post

[pearlyspirit]

 I-is there really a blanket around the earth that eats energy???



[........Pearl may have gotten slightly confused by information she got on walkabout.]

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Not helpful.

[starshaper]

Wait, what...? Really??!!!

[pearlyspirit]

Yes!! It eats the energy and makes the world hot so there won't be any snow!

[starshaper]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?? No, let me keep my snow and hot chocolates while it's cold outside! Destroying things by eating is like mocking all the energetic people on Earth, who love eating.

[otomechapilot]

Does the air around Earth count?

[pearlyspirit]

...I don't think so... Air doesn't make everything hot, does it?

[otomechapilot]

Uh... I think it can but I forget when?

I think we went over this is school before...

[...Pearl doesn't know about Sara's world - and Sara's unwilling to inflict that knowledge on her.]

Before.

[reallymean]

Why would you think that?

[Shielding tech is her first thought, ill-explained and misunderstood by a young child.

But the multiverse has probably seen stranger things than a literal energy-eating giant blanket, so it seems worth asking.]

[pearlyspirit]

Mr. Juho said there was one around the world we were at!

[Casper was old, she wouldn't be able to place the man as his overlay.]

[reallymean]

I don't think he meant a literal blanket. It might have been a metaphor for the atmosphere.

[forcechanic]

I've never heard of any planet that has that...

[pearlyspirit]

The one were just at had one! It was making it snow less!

[forcechanic]

That's... strange. Was it changing the temperature of the planet?

[tillweseethesunlight]

That would be quite astonishing if true.

[pearlyspirit]

There was one around the world we went to! [she thinks.]

[tillweseethesunlight]

Goodness. Do tell, darling.

[finalizes]

[Laughs at least has a slight idea of what this might be about.

Primarily because of what Saffron told him, not because he understands global warming.]

No, it's a protective shield that is wrapped around Earth that humanity is destroying with its energy.

[At least that is his understanding of it.]

Like when there is a roof that would keep rain out of your den, but someone puts holes in it so the den floods.

[pearlyspirit]

Oh...

[That... does kind of sound like what Mr. Juho told her.] W-well, why are they doing that? They should stop!

[finalizes]

Because they don't have instincts and thus nothing to guide their minds.

[reincarnatedprince]

That would be the Ozone Layer, but it doesn't really eat energy. It protects us from the sun's scary rays and it's actually we who are destroying the layer with our actions.

[pearlyspirit]

I-I knew it was because people were using too much energy... if we stop using so much, will it get better?

[reincarnatedprince]

A lot of people would have to stop using it to count... but every little thing you do helps, of course.

[flatteries]

Eats energy?

[ He's not sure whether to take this as fact or not when it's Pearl saying it, but not like Inigo knows anything about science. ]

So it's something bad?

[pearlyspirit]

Yes! It's making the world too hot!

[helborn]

[Why this.]

He was just using that as a... a metaphor. To try to get the point across. It's not really a blanket.

[pearlyspirit]

[Because she wants to help! It seems important!.]

Oh. Then what is it?