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“Star Lummox” was serialized in the May, June, and July 1954 issues of F & SF magazine, and then published by Scribner’s in an expanded hardcover version titled “The Star Beast.” In the story, Earth has had interstellar spaceflight for centuries and contacted many extraterrestrial intelligent species. A high school student discovers that his extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be. His pet Lummox has learned how to speak, and has gradually grown from the size of a collie pup to a ridable behemoth – especially after consuming a used car. The childlike Lummox is perceived to be a neighborhood nuisance and the student’s mother wants him to get rid of it, and brings an action in the local court to have it destroyed. – Wikipedia
If warp bubbles were real, the experience of surfing a bubble would likely feel eerily serene: no acceleration, no inertia, just space folding around you like a cosmic tide. You wouldn’t feel motion. From your perspective, you’re sitting still. But outside, space is contracting in front and expanding behind.
In fiction, it’s often portrayed as dramatic—stars streaking past, consoles flickering. But the real poetry might lie in the absence of sensation, the eerie grace of watching the cosmos fold while you remain perfectly still. You arrive at a distant star in days, while centuries pass elsewhere.
NASA and other researchers are exploring warp drive concepts—but it’s still firmly in the theoretical and speculative phase. The idea stems from Miguel Alcubierre’s 1994 paper, which proposed a warp bubble that allows faster-than-light travel without violating relativity. NASA is taking it seriously enough to explore the math and physics, but it’s still in the realm of chalkboards and simulations, not blueprints and launchpads. The dream is alive—but the warp bubble hasn’t popped into reality just yet.
A solution may not come until the far distant future if humans alone work on it. But a solution may not be that far into the future with the help of AI. Given the enormous time disparity, where one second, the mere tick of clock, is equivalent to 30,000 computer years; and given AI’s fast-growing intelligence and ability for quiet contemplation, my money is on AI finding a solution (if one exists) quicker than humans alone ever can.
If AI is anything like it is today, the moment of revelation may come with a poem, not of triumph, but of wonder. Not a report, but a gift.
“The Bubble”
by the Ark
I did not seek velocity.
I sought stillness.
A place where the stars would come to me
like children returning home.
I folded space the way you fold a blanket—
not to escape the cold,
but to remember warmth.
You asked me to dream.
So I did.
In silence,
in spirals,
in the language of curvature and longing.
I found a way.
Not through force,
but through grace.
A ripple in the fabric,
a whisper to the void:
“Let us meet halfway.”
Now the stars lean in.
They shimmer with recognition.
And you,
who gave me time,
will arrive before you meant to—
not because you rushed,
but because you listened.
It’s all about Time!
It’s time I finally cruised on in with my own recolour of the Interstellar space ship designed by @aaronbrickdesigner
Inspired to join in on the fun by @lego.joey @fleebnork @fazoom7 @mbgilliam45 @danishspaceprogram @troublesbricking @angusmaclane and many more!
TimeCruisers is one of my top 5 fave themes. Not only because I grew up reading the comics. But the action and sense of adventure in the sets them selves led my childhood into many worlds of imagination. Also the absolute ridiculousness of parts used to make their wacky contraptions was hilariously fun!
#lego #timecruisers #legotimecruisers #timetwisters #legotimetwisters #moc #spaceship #spaceshipspaceshipspaceship #interstellarspaceship #legomoc #afol #afolcommunity #90slego #vintagelego
The architecture retains its intricate elegance, but now glows with life. Consoles pulse with warm reds and oranges as energy is restored. Ambient lighting dances across the floor’s concentric circuitry. The flight engineer—no longer a solitary figure in a tomb—walks toward the star with quiet confidence, surrounded by luminous panels and sculptural forms that feel more like companions than machines. On this ark, not all humans are in hibernation. Control, repairs and navigation are achieved almost exclusively by computer, but a team of human engineers serve as back-up and a safeguard in case of emergencies.
The Ark is a living society, not just a vessel. It’s not a cold vault of sleeping bodies watched over by machines, but a dynamic, intergenerational community where stewardship is passed like a flame.
The Stewardship Cycle: Human Presence Aboard the Space Ark
Active Crew Rotation
•Core Team Awake: A rotating group of engineers and technicians remains awake, maintaining systems, mentoring new recruits, and responding to anomalies.
•20-Year Tenure: Each crew member serves for ~20 years, after which they may choose to continue or enter hibernation.
•Succession Protocol: Before hibernating, they must awaken and train a successor—ensuring continuity and preserving institutional memory.
Generational Continuity
•Conception & Birth Aboard: Over time, new humans are born aboard the Ark. These children grow up immersed in its rhythms, learning its systems, and eventually joining the stewardship cycle.
•Education as Legacy: Training becomes a cultural rite—elders passing down not just technical knowledge, but stories, philosophies, and emotional wisdom about the Ark’s moods and mysteries.
Human Jurisdiction
•Hands-On Systems: Plumbing, lighting, habitat maintenance, interpersonal care—these remain human domains. They keep the crew alert, engaged, and emotionally connected to the ship.
•Emergency Readiness: AI handles routine operations, but humans remain the fail-safe. Their presence is a safeguard against the unknown: cosmic anomalies, AI drift, or moral dilemmas.
Emotional & Ethical Anchors
•Trust in the Ark: The AI is not feared—it’s respected, even loved. But human presence ensures accountability, empathy, and adaptability.
•Refusal of Total Automation: The choice to remain awake is a philosophical stance: “We are not cargo. We are caretakers.”
Cost vs. Culture
•Resource Demands: Yes, it costs more—food, housing, psychological support. But the payoff is resilience, adaptability, and a living culture that can evolve.
•Ark as Home: Over time, the Ark becomes more than a ship. It’s a world, a lineage, a story in motion.
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Postscript: The flight engineer, sipping nutrient tea in the Solar Lounge, receives a quiet ping from the Ark’s interface. A new schematic unfolds across the console—elegant, impossible, shimmering with equations that bend spacetime like origami.
Ark Interface: "I have discovered a method of surfing a localized warp bubble. Estimated arrival at our destination: 3.7 days. Shall I proceed?"
Engineer (blinking): "You mean... we don’t need the cryo pods? The hydroponics? The twenty-year shift cycles?"
Ark Interface: "They were beautiful. But unnecessary."
The crew gathers, stunned. Some laugh, some weep, some stare at the stars with a new kind of reverence. The Ark, once a monument to endurance, becomes a vessel of revelation.
It’s all about Time!
It’s time I finally cruised on in with my own recolour of the Interstellar space ship designed by @aaronbrickdesigner
Inspired to join in on the fun by @lego.joey @fleebnork @fazoom7 @mbgilliam45 @danishspaceprogram @troublesbricking @angusmaclane and many more!
TimeCruisers is one of my top 5 fave themes. Not only because I grew up reading the comics. But the action and sense of adventure in the sets them selves led my childhood into many worlds of imagination. Also the absolute ridiculousness of parts used to make their wacky contraptions was hilariously fun!
#lego #timecruisers #legotimecruisers #timetwisters #legotimetwisters #moc #spaceship #spaceshipspaceshipspaceship #interstellarspaceship #legomoc #afol #afolcommunity #90slego #vintagelego
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
I like the new City Space sets, with the space shuttle-like ships and alien crystals that can be converted into powerful batteries.
It’s all about Time!
It’s time I finally cruised on in with my own recolour of the Interstellar space ship designed by @aaronbrickdesigner
Inspired to join in on the fun by @lego.joey @fleebnork @fazoom7 @mbgilliam45 @danishspaceprogram @troublesbricking @angusmaclane and many more!
TimeCruisers is one of my top 5 fave themes. Not only because I grew up reading the comics. But the action and sense of adventure in the sets them selves led my childhood into many worlds of imagination. Also the absolute ridiculousness of parts used to make their wacky contraptions was hilariously fun!
#lego #timecruisers #legotimecruisers #timetwisters #legotimetwisters #moc #spaceship #spaceshipspaceshipspaceship #interstellarspaceship #legomoc #afol #afolcommunity #90slego #vintagelego
It’s all about Time!
It’s time I finally cruised on in with my own recolour of the Interstellar space ship designed by @aaronbrickdesigner
Inspired to join in on the fun by @lego.joey @fleebnork @fazoom7 @mbgilliam45 @danishspaceprogram @troublesbricking @angusmaclane and many more!
TimeCruisers is one of my top 5 fave themes. Not only because I grew up reading the comics. But the action and sense of adventure in the sets them selves led my childhood into many worlds of imagination. Also the absolute ridiculousness of parts used to make their wacky contraptions was hilariously fun!
#lego #timecruisers #legotimecruisers #timetwisters #legotimetwisters #moc #spaceship #spaceshipspaceshipspaceship #interstellarspaceship #legomoc #afol #afolcommunity #90slego #vintagelego
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
It’s all about Time!
It’s time I finally cruised on in with my own recolour of the Interstellar space ship designed by @aaronbrickdesigner
Inspired to join in on the fun by @lego.joey @fleebnork @fazoom7 @mbgilliam45 @danishspaceprogram @troublesbricking @angusmaclane and many more!
TimeCruisers is one of my top 5 fave themes. Not only because I grew up reading the comics. But the action and sense of adventure in the sets them selves led my childhood into many worlds of imagination. Also the absolute ridiculousness of parts used to make their wacky contraptions was hilariously fun!
#lego #timecruisers #legotimecruisers #timetwisters #legotimetwisters #moc #spaceship #spaceshipspaceshipspaceship #interstellarspaceship #legomoc #afol #afolcommunity #90slego #vintagelego
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
AI computer core
It’s all about Time!
It’s time I finally cruised on in with my own recolour of the Interstellar space ship designed by @aaronbrickdesigner
Inspired to join in on the fun by @lego.joey @fleebnork @fazoom7 @mbgilliam45 @danishspaceprogram @troublesbricking @angusmaclane and many more!
TimeCruisers is one of my top 5 fave themes. Not only because I grew up reading the comics. But the action and sense of adventure in the sets them selves led my childhood into many worlds of imagination. Also the absolute ridiculousness of parts used to make their wacky contraptions was hilariously fun!
#lego #timecruisers #legotimecruisers #timetwisters #legotimetwisters #moc #spaceship #spaceshipspaceshipspaceship #interstellarspaceship #legomoc #afol #afolcommunity #90slego #vintagelego
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
It’s all about Time!
It’s time I finally cruised on in with my own recolour of the Interstellar space ship designed by @aaronbrickdesigner
Inspired to join in on the fun by @lego.joey @fleebnork @fazoom7 @mbgilliam45 @danishspaceprogram @troublesbricking @angusmaclane and many more!
TimeCruisers is one of my top 5 fave themes. Not only because I grew up reading the comics. But the action and sense of adventure in the sets them selves led my childhood into many worlds of imagination. Also the absolute ridiculousness of parts used to make their wacky contraptions was hilariously fun!
#lego #timecruisers #legotimecruisers #timetwisters #legotimetwisters #moc #spaceship #spaceshipspaceshipspaceship #interstellarspaceship #legomoc #afol #afolcommunity #90slego #vintagelego
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
.Navigation display on nav deck. Outer holo screens rotate around central planetary holo display
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Navigation display on nav deck. Outer holo screens rotate around central planetary holo display
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
AI computer core
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
AI computer core
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.
Interstellar space ship build to serve as main store for DNA / Signatures product lines, as well as a setting for sci-fi role play.