Guest Feature: Cosmic Ark

This column is a guest author feature, written by a friend of the site whose work I am thrilled to host at Retro XP. This entry is from Garrett Martin. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link.Eventually the world's going to die. The goal is to not be on it when that happens.That's the message of so much entertainment that's been made over the last few years. Everywhere you look people are dying to get off Earth. You see it in games like Aphelion and MIO: Memories In Orbit, in immersive experiences like Vegas's Interstellar Arc, and in the fetid dreams of K-holing billionaire white supremacists like… well, you know who. It's like we've collectively decided the environmental problems facing our planet aren't fixable, or at least aren't worth fixing, and so we've gotta plan to fuck off to outer space instead. Concerning. Subscribe to Retro XP It might be ramping up, but none of this is new, of course. All this end-of-everything anxiety recalls any amount of sci-fi…