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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)
  • I think, there for i am
  • Death comes for us all
  • You're not welcome here
  • Attacking the person (not the arguments)
  • Seize the day
  • All togther, we are one
  • to the stars (through suffering? New one for me)
  • god in the machine (saved by forces beyond mortal understanding)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

to the stars (through suffering? New one for me)

"Through adversity" is the translation I've heard.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Suffering, adversity, difficulty, hardship, seem to be what different institutions commonly translate it to.

Fun fact, it's also the motto of Kansas, where the artist lives.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Might have gotten more publicity as it was used in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a Starfleet motto. Boimler in Lower Decks also has a poster with the motto on it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I know it from the tribute plaque to the Apollo 1 astronauts who sadly passed in a tragic fire during ground tests.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Where I live it's translated as Through the thorns to the stars.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For the record, Deus ex Machina is more a specific literary device- literally a crane lowering a god to save the protagonist in Roman and Greek dramas.

To be fair they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story. But the whole hanging-actor thing was meant to say they were a god and could just wave problems away. (Apparently literally.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story

So.. Literally Netflix

[–] brbposting 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't say you've never heard of Per aspera ad astra?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nope, didn't ring any bells off hand like the others.

Had to look it up.