Reads like an early SCP exploration log.

Although, I'm not sure if I get it. They end up making a religion out of it, but does that have a deeper meaning?

mapontosevenths 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's a metaphor for life, like most fiction. Does life have any deeper meaning, or is life just waking up one day in a seemingly infinite and hostile cosmos long abandoned by it's creator?

It's meant to evoke that feeling in an adult man whose long since stopped being aware of his own smallness.

I think it does a remarkable job of it.

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throwaway173738 3 days ago | parent [-]

The journey through nihilism to existentialism.

	▲	mapontosevenths 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. The religious references are there for the same reason they are in real life... That's how some people cope with a vast, cold universe that just doesn't care. You gotta believe something, even if that means making it up youself... right?

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m4rtink 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It is a missed opportunity really - they had an exit and and infinite space station.

Imagine the economic possibilities - asteroid mining is for loosers, chair mining and bulkhead disassembly is what it is at!

Not to mention endless free power as long as you can get low resistance (or best super conductive) cables from all the power sockets and light fixtures.

And its already in the form of electricity, no need for steam engines or turbines like when you burn down the Infinite Castle or furniture from Infinite IKEA (SCP-3008)!