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We're chasing that dream-like feeling of floating free in the air and playing around, be it real or fantasy. Any post type that conveys this feeling is welcome. Check the post flairs for examples.

What qualifies for Floating Is Fun is open to interpretation. I encourage everyone to post what they like to see. Give us a gentle push and we'll float pretty far.

We started on Reddit /r/FloatingIsFun in 2021 and moved here in 2023. All 400+ posts from the original from the original subreddit have been reposted here, so you're not missing anything.

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Integral Trees book cover by Michael Whelan (fedia.io)

submitted 4 months ago by hitstun@fedia.io to c/FloatingIsFun@fedia.io

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Michael Whelan, TV Tropes #weightlessness

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[–] hitstun@fedia.io 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Larry Niven's 80s sci-fi adventures The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring take place not on a planet, but in a stable torus of gas orbiting a star. These colossal trees and their inhabitants are in constant weightlessness and no sense of up or down. I could see these getting the CG movie treatment someday. It'd be fun to see in motion.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If someone's makin' a Niven movie, they're doin' Ringworld.

But the Integral Trees would make a better spectacle on the big screen.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If someone's makin' a Niven movie, they're doin' Ringworld.

Wouldn't that just be Halo, lol

I don't follow sci-fi novels, but it seems this Larry Niven guy has a knack for well-realized worlds in interesting situations. They're good thought experiments. If a movie is made of one of his novels, they had better get the physics perfect.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Niven didn't even get the physics perfect. He had to write a sequel to Ringworld because of how many fans pointed out how it wasn't stable.

[–] FLP22012005@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

That reminds me of Baxter's The Raft.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 months ago

...i always wondered whether belly's feed the tree was a reference to this book...

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, @MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art is on Mastodon! If you like this, you'll want to read what the artist has to say about it.

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