Michael Whelan, TV Tropes #weightlessness
Oh, @MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art is on Mastodon! If you like this, you'll want to read what the artist has to say about it.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
34 points (100.0% liked)
Floating Is Fun
1 readers
2 users here now
Banners by ke-ta and by neko
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.
Filter by Floating Type
#balloons #bubbles #windpower #levitation #weightlessness #microgravity #airswimming #underwater #illusion #multipletypes
Read the old wiki for tag descriptions
Floaty Friends
๐ญ !touhou@lemmy.world
๐ช !paramotor@lemmy.world
๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ !imaginarywitches@lemmy.dbzer0.com
๐๏ธ !imaginary@reddthat.com
๐งโ๐คโ๐ง !skychildrenoflight@lemmy.world
๐ !ghibli@lemmy.world
๐
!anime_art@ani.social
๐ฉโ๐ค !hatsunemiku@lemmy.world
๐งโโ๏ธ !imaginaryfairies@lemmings.world
๐ !dreaming@lemmy.world
Rules
- Title must credit creator
- Your post title must include its creator's name, even if it's you
- Link to the source
- Posts must include a link to the source in either the article body or a top-level comment. Tools like SauceNAO and Google Image Search can help you find the source
- No reposts within 180 days
- No reposting anything that was already posted on this magazine in the past 180 days
- Subject must be floaty
- If left alone, it would continue to float around with little effort
- No littering
- If something floats out of reach, it should be recovered
- No distress
- Don't float any living creature against their will or make anyone panic
- No NSFW content
- Keep NSFW content to their own magazines, but labeled NSFW links are allowed in comments
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
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.
If someone's makin' a Niven movie, they're doin' Ringworld.
But the Integral Trees would make a better spectacle on the big screen.
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.
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.
That reminds me of Baxter's The Raft.
...i always wondered whether belly's feed the tree was a reference to this book...