Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

At present UnderMars is pushing out 26mb/s of data and climbing fast. To put that into context, that's approaching three hundred gig a day or nine terabytes a month of transfer. Expensive! I've cut the resolution and quality of the images slightly so they're about a third the size, which I hope will halve my bandwidth. If anyone has 100+ mb/s of bandwidth they are able to donate for this (about $5k a month), please contact me. I will keep the site online as long as possible but if the bandwidth continues to climb I will not be able to afford to.

Warning: Site is extremely graphic.

It's rather disturbing reading what people have to say about me and the site. It's interesting that I've rarely gotten flack about posting pictures like this if they're accompanied by an over-the-top paranoid antiwar rant (nor does antiwar.com, which posts such images centrally on a daily basis), but if I post them sans-politics, to show them as is without politicizing, suddenly I'm a bad guy… People need to see these scenes as they are seen at the time, not as tools of one set of pundits or another.

One of the biggest problems with war is that it's hidden behind a thick political and media filter where each “side” twists it to broadcast their own message. However, war is not fought by the media or the politicians or even the corporate CEOs that profit from it — war is fought by the commoner, and it is the commoner that suffers through war. It is the common man's story that must be told if the uninitiated populace is ever to see war for what it is.

The Aztecs believed that when the sun dies, as it eventually must, the world falls into chaos and is destroyed and reborn, with this cycle repeating five times. We currently living under the fifth and final sun Naollin — Tonatiub — the Sun God. During this era the inhabitants of the Earth are to be tested under increasing hardships, with each returning to the sun as they inevitably perish.

Eventually this sun will die as well, and the planet we live on will be destroyed by an immense earthquake that will tear the world apart forever. Some versions of the mythos allow us redemption, but only if we cast away the sins that are destroying the world. I wonder if we would take the opportunity?