concept: when zarkon came to destroy altea, alfor ordered civilians to leave with the paladins in order to protect them. blaytz took a group to earth with the blue lion, and the alteans shapeshifted so that they looked like the planetary inhabitants homo sapiens so that the galra couldn’t find them. they joined human civilizations across the planet and became indistinguishable from them.
so all the alteans allura wants so desperately to find are right under her nose, in her ship, piloting voltron. and there are billions more living on earth.
allura was never alone, she just didn’t know what to look for.
Yes! Yes, OP! I agree! I’ve had a variant of this knocking around in my head since season 1. It’s been refined and tweaked as we’ve gotten more information. So here’s where I’m at:
Someone had to go with the Paladins to deliver the three lions (Blue, Green, and Yellow – Alfor locked Black in the Castle of Lions and apparently kept Red, or at least didn’t get a chance to hide it before Zarkon showed up, which is why the Galra already had the Red Lion) to their hidey-holes, because the Paladins obviously didn’t stay near them. The Lions were dropped off and then the Paladins went as far away from them as possible so that Zarkon finding them wouldn’t mean he also found the Lions. It was Alfor’s plan to hide the Lions, so it’s likely that he sent Altean forces with them (especially since we’re told the Alteans were kind of the last holdouts against the Galra conquest – at least up to that point).
So Blaytz dropped the Blue Lion off on Earth in a nice watery (at the time) area. It was a primitive planet, far, far, far away from Zarkon; it shouldn’t attract his attention. Some of the Alteans that went with him then took him back out into space to draw Zarkon away from Blue’s hiding place, but some of them stayed, and some of them were likely alchemists.
I say this because of the symbols that glow in the presence of a potential paladin. All three planets we see Lions on had symbols in the same style and they all light up the same color as their associated Lion when their soon-to-be paladin approaches. (This likely all has to do with the prophecy, too; Keith mentions a prophecy he deciphered out in what is now a desert. That prophecy literally foretold Shiro’s “homecoming” as it were, so there’s gotta be something to it.)
And there had to be SOMEONE associated with Voltron on each planet because when Pidge & Shiro go to get the Green Lion, it’s the Voltron symbol on Pidge’s little tracker thing that gets the dire-sloth (or whatever) to take them straight to the Green Lion.
So, yeah. There were Alteans on Earth around 10,000 years ago. And here’s my favorite part: it’s around 10,000 years ago that we see the first anatomically-modern humans. So just as H. sapiens was developing to what we think of as human, here come the Alteans. It’s possible that our Mitochondrial Eve could be Altean – that is, that everyone’s lineages can be ultimately traced back to some Altean woman (possibly an alchemist).
So, yeah. All the paladins are, to some extent or another, Altean. I like this for a lot of reasons, but primarily because it gives the humans a deeper link to this fight.
I still have hope to see more Altean diaspora out in the universe, because surely not everyone was on the planet when it blew. Some people would have fled beforehand; some people might have been fighting the Galra elsewhere in the galaxy or what-have-you. I want to see what “modern” Alteans look like after 10,000 years of evolution, as well as what their society would be like.
But the idea that some of that diaspora, at least genetically, are the inhabitants of Earth? YES, SIGN ME UP.
Seize the Day was a calendar program made by in 1994 by Buena Vista software. It features graphics that at the time, were revolutionary because of the way they handled color cycling. These images were static bitmaps, but by changing color values, they appear animated. What is also impressive about these images is that they had full day night cycles built in, rendered also through color cycling. A few years ago, a html5 version was made. A copy was uncovered online and there is a way to use the program through DOSbox. As well, one of the original programmers for the project, Iam Gilman, has thought of the idea of remaking it, open sourced, for modern machines.
The Star Wars AU in which a former Jedi!Gabriel is now your local SithLord!Reaper. Enjoy both versions and wait for his former companion to appear very soon…
Samus Aran amiibos can open the ticket barriers of Moscow Vyacheslav train station, without needing a ticket.
This is due to an oddly specific RFID in the amiibo that just syncs up correctly enough to the train station’s own reader. But what I like to say the real reason for this is
Samus don’t need no fucking authorisation so FUCK YOU ADAM
FUCK YOU AND YOUR DEAD MILITARY ASS BITCH I DON’T NEED NO AUTHORISATION
I’M FUCKING SAMUS
“Any objections, Putin?”
Can’t believe that Samus’ scan visor does unlock irl stuff.
how did someone even find this out. ‘fuck no ticket, let me in samus’
did they just like take all their amiibos to the train station and try them all on the scanners?
getting chased as a mccree is a nightmare like… he moves so slowly… once a winston tried to solo ult me and chased me, fast and glowing red and roaring down a corridor and it was just me combat rolling backwards. i killed him but i was. so fucking scared.
“mccree that winston is headed right for you! get the fuck over here!”
“im power walkin’ as fast as these chaps’ll take me lena.”
We
should be loud and clear in the coming weeks like we’ve been before: net
neutrality is crucial to helping everyone, regardless of where they
live or how much money they make, get online.
But there’s another way we can fight for an open internet.
Last week, 19 towns across Colorado voted to allow the exploration of creating a local, public alternative to expensive private providers.
Fort
Collins voters went the furthest, passing a measure to finance an
assessment of starting a city-owned broadband utility, which would aim
to provide faster service at a cheaper price. That means residents could
have a say in whether a new public network maintains the principle of
net neutrality, whatever the FCC decides in the future.
“People
who don’t normally get excited or vote actually turned out this time
and actually got energized,” said one resident who had campaigned for
the measure.
Not everyone was excited. Industry groups spent more than $450,000
campaigning against the measure. In fact, the very reason Colorado
towns had to vote “yes” before even exploring public broadband is
because of an industry-backed state law requiring municipalities to jump
through hoops to take control of their internet infrastructure. (The
industry has successfully pushed similar legislation in over 20 states.)
Comcast
and the like are quaking in their boots about a public option, and they
should be. Cities like Chattanooga, Tennessee, which became the first
U.S. city to offer gigabit internet speed after going public, are
outperforming private providers and even forcing them to innovate to
play catch up.
Why
shouldn’t internet access be a public good? The web should be like the
Postal Service, which, because it’s public, provides affordable mail
service to everyone, rich or poor, in all areas of the country.
And why
should a handful of corporate executives and investors get rich while
providing expensive, slow access and unbearable customer service?
Comcast’s CEO, billionaire Brian Roberts, pocketed $33 million last year alone while running America’s most hated corporation.
People
need the internet for life in the 21st century, to communicate, apply
for jobs, and access crucial resources. Everyone should have affordable
access.
(17th Nov, 2017 – Donald Cohen)
I would completely support the internet being a public service; there’s no reason that it isn’t considered a fundamental use in this modern day and age, it touches every aspect of our lives just like public roads, education, and government- there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a non-privately owned option!
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