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Everyday life in the Earth-Luna system microgravity habitats

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Thu, 2011-06-09 07:42

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Everyday life in the Earth-Luna system microgravity habitats

In the good old tradition of http://www.eclipsephase.com/how-different-environments-look-and-feel-sme... and http://www.eclipsephase.com/building-extropia , and as per the request in http://www.eclipsephase.com/transhumanep-setting-elements , maybe it is time for some general brainstorming about some location to get more detail and sense of place? So what about this topic: everyday life in the Earth-Luna system microgravity habitats. A lot of it will apply elsewhere, of course, but it is good to start out concrete. A few things off the top of my head: The mold problem - molds grow everywhere there is the slightest moisture and organic matter. They will find a way to grow behind wall panels, at tiny leaks of nanofeedstuff and in places nobody ever considered, like inside some bots. Cleaning nanoswarms are not always suitable (oops, it cleaned away the surface of my original paintings!) or cheap enough. Local biohackers have modified or mutated molds for lots of strange purposes - from the perfumed Aspergillus that now makes many parts of Fresh Kills smell cloyingly of orange to the psychoactive blue mold sold as spores at the bazaars of MVCPR to the "art molds" that infect certain plants in complex iridiscent fractal patterns that some swear are actually basilisk hacks. The Docking Cabal: there is a rumour that the various traffic control authorities and docking stations are in cahoots with criminals to squeeze extra money from anybody trying to dock. You need the right connections or bribes to get good orbits, approaches or docks. Cross them, and you will suddenly have "bad luck" with launch windows and the quality of docking. A trainspotter guy on Selene who was collecting statistics on dockings had an "airlock accident" recently. There is a rumour that those interdiction machines guarding Earth, they are manufactured in a secret installation on Luna near the north pole. A lot of amateur skywatchers are now directing their telescopes there. It is easy and cheap to nanofacture a decent telescope or microsatelite, and many do - their mixed sousveillance records contain all sorts of interesting things. When they are not salted by people perpetuating hoaxes. The latest fad in personal transportation is the flysuit: a slightly bulkier smart suit with a few extra flaps and microscale impellers that suck up air on one side and jet it out on the other side. Just tell it where to go and you can sit and read while it makes you drift there. You don't need to touch the handholds others have touched, and can stay perfectly clearn. Others try to get them up to high speed, jetting around, making noise and generally annoying the serious citizens. Red Puzzle, an Argonaut medical charity, is giving away free medichines and nanophages. They claim it is to maintain herd immunity and because nobody should be without open source health care. Others think they want to force the price down for proprietary medichines or to shame habitats into providing them as part of the citizen package. The usual paranoids think they are in the mind control game. Some enterprising hackers have discovered that their design has a few unintended exploits, allowing the user to insert new code into their medichines: the potential is now being explored. The noisiness of many habitats (thin internal walls, too much old air conditioning, the vibrations from docking, ultrasound interference from those old-fashioned repairbots communicating) make many people to use various 'earplugs', from literal blobject earplugs filtering out noise to software filtering the hearing of the morph. This means that many people cannot hear certain things. Some people are experimenting with vacuum cooking. There is nothing quite like a zero gravity meringue that has been expanded by true space vacuum and cooked by pure sunlight. Of course, getting proper eggs is not always easy - so many habitats are biophobic. But at some reclaimer habitats you can get *real* farm food.

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Thu, 2011-06-09 08:39

The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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A new AR game "Slapping Iron" has become popular in several habitats. Players appear to wear either black or white cowboy hats, dusters, and revolvers. They engage in 'shootouts' and/or quick draw contests with other players for points, which can be traded in for prizes. At least one panic was started by a bystander thinking that a real (optically camouflaged) gun had been drawn.

Thu, 2011-06-09 19:42

The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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Old O'Neill cylinders have rings of modules floating around one end of them. Originally, meant for agriculture, they have become obsolete with the introduction of makers and interior farm-spaces. Many now serve as living space for synthmorph vacworkers, zero-gee manufacturing facilities, or simple storage; though some still produce high end luxury foods. 'Vintage' bars modeled after those found in classic old earth movies and television shows are popular in many habitats. Themes range from the 'bar at the end of the world' found in westerns to the Officer's club of MASH to Moe's Tavern to the Mos Eisley Cantina. Many of these bars ban synthmorphs on the excuse that they don't by drinks, though with the transitional economy the purpose of the bars is primarily social. The Corpus corporation's recent line of neotenic pleasure pods has sparked protest in the conservative Earth-Luna system which still equates neotenics with children. Corpus has responded with data showing the advantages of the neotenic design, primary the decreased resource usage.

Fri, 2011-06-10 10:38

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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To travel between nearby habitat "buses", small OTVs, are used. While trips to other orbits require a full OTV habitats flying in formation can use extremely small and flimsy buses with a minimum of reaction mass. Since the fall the security margins have been stretched fairly thin - especially around the poorer habitats - and there are regular cases of minor accidents requiring tug help to bring in a bus that missed its target, lacked sufficient reaction mass or had a leak. Travellers should ask their muses to check the safety record and not just the price for the different bus companies. The interior of Ville Lumière habitat is decorated by a world-famous AR artwork by Ardeshir Menon: tuning into the public art channel with your ectos and endos will show his fantastic abstract/space romantic rendering of Indian mythology in an underwater setting. The habitat makes some much needed credits from tourism. It is also fighting a lawsuit in LLA courts against Kalam Foundation, an argonaut outfit, which has been trying to place renderings of the art in the public domain. AcroTransfer is the new docking and transfer port around Luna. Due to restrictions on antimatter crafts and general LLA dislike of big fusion, such long-range or fast ships either have to send shuttles or dock here. The port is a mixture of new and very up-to-date docking systems and a crusty (but very robust) core built from two older habitats. The port is owned by a LLA consortium dominated by Erato and Nectaris. People at Selene grumble that it is mostly an attempt to force traffic away from them into the hands of friends of the consortium. The Pyramid is a bit of a local landmark in High Earth Orbit: Zone Weston, a sensor and communications company built a relay station in the shape of a big black octahedron. It housed a large number of laser and microwave relays, and farcasters. It shows up very clearly on all scans, and its high inclination eccentric orbit keeps it visible to most HEO habitats most of the time. During the Fall it was the first thing that went silent. Generally believed to have been sabotaged by one of the sides it is now regarded as a sinister monument, with plenty of ghost stories about what is inside. Running In Place is the new big semi-interactive soap opera in the LLA. It is a romantic comedy set in a cartoonified pre-Fall city mixing Shanghai, Melbourne and Paris. Viewers participate as minor characters watching the antics of the main cast, who are all in endlessly troubled relationships, humorous misunderstandings and mad dashes to truly reveal their emotions. People everywhere talk about how Jin chased down Angel Sue in a hovertank, or whether Yves will ever notice the couple who have secretly moved into his too big apartment. A batch of gravy (a common buy for microgravity people going down to the high gravity of Luna) from Virginia Vitals was misprogrammed, producing a whole host of bizarre effects (everything from imitating Schizo to growing flowers under the skin).

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Fri, 2011-06-10 06:36

The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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Criminals seeking to destroy evidence usually reduce it to its constituent atoms using disassembler nanomachines. However, in many conservative habitats access to dissembler nanotechnology is strictly regulated and, even if access is obtained, most dissemblers won't work on certain materials. To hide their crimes, some foolish and desperate criminals may attempt to space the evidence, not realizing that the mass of the habitat may cause the material to fall back to the habitat's surface where it can be discovered.

Fri, 2011-06-10 16:59

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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The lovable space roach is under threat in some habitats around Luna: a mutated or perhaps modified form of the Comperia merceti wasp has appeared that is cutting into the population. The tiny wasps (1.5 to 2.5 millimeters) lay their eggs in the ootechae of the roaches, having their larvae eat the roach larvae before they mature. Wandering troubadours are fairly common among the LLA habitats. They cater to various ethnic groups who want to have live authentic music from their culture (some troubadours are cultural chameleons, very able to pretend to be real Albanians, Swiss, Indians or Canadians as needed) and the looser economies that border on the new economy. Some have interesting or problematic ties to scum, criminal groups or autonomists. Of particular note are the regular jams at certain locations - Deck Fünf on Selene, the Songs of Earth arena on Vo Nguyen, Café Dépaysement on Fresh Kills, and the Radio Argosy sponsored "Songs of Saudade" events in Lunar orbit. When arriving in a new habitat, it might be useful to meet 'Decoders' helping you fit in. Not just guides, they help understand the social environment, norms and way things work. This is especially important on ethnic, closed or very specialized habitats where outsiders would be very lost. A Japanese word for such people, 'Kokusaijin' ("an international person"), is sometimes used for those people who seem to thrive at the interface between different and incompatible cultures. The new petal xuBilitaMpash is spreading like a wildfire. An intense, blissful dreamstate where everything in everyday life is seen as wonderous and beautiful, it appeals heavily to anybody tired of the overcrowded habitats and economic downturns. The petal allows sharing of dream objects between users, and a fledgling market for favourite hallucinations is emerging. 'Salading' means getting things using unofficial contacts and friends. This term has spread on habitats with strict economic controls, where informal or grey market activity is necessary. The term is a mishearing of the old Polish term 'Zalatwic'. 'L’appel du vide' - the call of the void. Originally a term for the urge to jump from tall places, but now used for the creeping urge some feel to jump into the endless darkness outside. The number of people who sleepwalk towards airlocks is truly surprising, and deeply worrying to mental health authorities. There is a new XP making the rounds among people who like to give each other a dare or just shock themselves, Litost/Fish. The XP is a snuff recording of a person (the XP maps the person onto the viewer so it is experienced as if the viewer was there) partially paralysed through some neural means, kept inside a small but apparently luxurious compartment in microgravity. A bizarre emerald insect enters, investigates the person and then proceeds to inject eggs into the stomach. It retreats on top of a cabinet where it apparently dies. Over the span of days the eggs hatch into larvae that begin to consume the body. Slowly they digest tissue without disrupting any essential organs, digging themselves through the tissue with sharp teeth and dissolving saliva. The victim experiences the whole thing without feeling any fear or desire to escape, continuing to live in the compartment. Eventually the larvae dig themselves into the brain and the XP dissolves into a chaotic jumble as the mind is eaten. Needless to say, playing through the full recording is not good for anybody's sanity. Firewall operatives and others might be very curious about its origin. The strangest thing is the link to the Comperia wasp affecting the roaches: it is genome there is a sequence spelling out LITOSTFISH several times, and the insect in the XP does look like an emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa).

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Fri, 2011-06-10 19:48

Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture

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The habitats are a mosaic of colours and shapes, mixed festivals of old Earth cultures clinging to survival against reality of the Fall, where you can see a Dragon Festival right next to a recruitment booths of former USA Marine cores led by disgruntled post-evac general hoping to reclaim America's cultural relics. It's a mix of naive hope and numb desperation where people and reclaimer activists debate plans on how to retake Earth island by island and where masses lay on the streets in their drugged out state. You can see mass gatherings of people studying displays of Auckland Island or Marquesas Islands projected on walls. with public speakers proudly stating lack of Exsurgent and Titan activity and urging people to return there. The bazaars of the habitats offer genuine unmodified rice, apples, carrots and supposedly unmodified chicken to those refugees who will never touch anything in common with nanotechnology and to connoisseurs from richer places of the Sol System who believe that original food is of superior taste(of course they are searching for more...exotic and original foodstuffs). For the more adventurous types shady characters offer an authentic paintings, posters, coins, books straight back from Earth, or at least straight out of desperate refugee families who sold their hairloom in order to pay up to the Triads. In clubs and better-off places for the rich and privileged as in the seedy alleys where vices are bought rumours fly high of hidden station within the belt, disguised as ruined, but in reality having gardens and farms, factories and labs where one of the exile governments of Earth fled(which, depends on who you ask, and some even claim that no government at all but rather a Argonaut base is what is hidden in the belt). The many abandoned stations, labs and debris gives also rumours to hidden revolutionaries and criminals,and despicable scientists who plot their return. In short it is a mix of refugee camp, science conference, revolutionary base, and trading bazaar of dozens of dozens of different cultures often in denial of the change that happened in the rest of the system. This is how I see the life in the habitats of Earth-Luna system that are near to Earth.

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Fri, 2011-06-10 21:18

The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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The fashion industry exists in a symbiotic relationship with pirates. Cutting edge designs are sold for exorbitant sums to the wealthy who desire to stand out from the crowd. The masses are exposed to the newest fashions through the media and, they too desiring to stand out, turn to the pirates. The pirates quickly crack the copy protection on the designs and soon everyone is wearing the latest fashion. The cutting edge has become mainstream. New cutting edge designs are then sold for exorbitant sums to the wealthy who desire to stand out from the crowd and the cycle repeats itself. Recently, a collation of Buddhist leaders has begun preaching against this endless cycle of desire, but so far they have had little effect.

Sat, 2011-06-11 09:45

The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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Feeling wacky: [i]Those robots were Kung Fu fighting, synths as fast as lightning...[/i] Triad Engineers have developed a deadly new martial art, Robot Style Kung Fu! Based on numerous simulations this deadly new art utilizes the standard humanoid synthmorph (the case, synth, and steel series) to devastating effect. At first utilized only in habitats that ban ranged weapons, this art is now being secretly taught to triad soldiers throughout the Earth-Luna System. Worse, the Steel Liberators have expressed a desire to obtain this art and there are rumors of attempted skillsoft production. As an upstanding member of society you have no choice but to prove the inferiority of this new art (and clanks in general) through violent confrontation, thus curbing its spread. And one of the best places to do that is the upcoming Annual Triad Martial Arts Tournament! Disclaimer: this post was paid for by Steel Liberators PAC, Gladiator Robotics, and Admiral Ackbar Cereal. ;) Author is not responsible for damage or loss of morphs. Edit: Added a sponsor and then edited again to indicate that the post had been altered. Apparently this forum doesn't do that automatically. :(

Sat, 2011-06-11 07:52

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Everyday life in the Earth-Luna system microgravity habitats

Martial arts have had to evolve radically in space. In Earth martial arts gravity was a given, automatically providing traction and help in toppling opponents. In microgravity all that exists is momentum, velocity and position. A kick will send you backwards from your opponent, a jump might place you on a trajectory that is easily predicted and cannot be changed. This means that the space martial arts put much more emphasis on maintaining contact with walls so you can brace yourself, avoiding open spaces and developing better grips and holds. Much of the Fray skill comes from the new emphasis on situational awareness, predicting where things and people will be and using the environment for protection. People from traditional dojos on Mars or Venus often find themselves completely outclassed in microgravity - and microgravity fighters rarely venture down into gravity wells. The appearance of nonstandard bodies and enhancements have further complicated things. Grappling a synthmorph is fundamentally different from grappling a biomorph, since joints and muscles work slightly different ways. Things get even worse with novacrabs and reapers. Some people find training to fight such targets a fascinating problem, but most serious martial artists know that flexibility wins over knowing putative secret weaknesses.

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Sat, 2011-06-11 09:03

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The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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Exploring martial arts a little further: Martial arts training has also changed radically. Anyone with enough money can have the body of their dreams and synthmorphs are unable to become stronger through exercise. Time and effort are no longer spent on physical conditioning. Simulspace allows artists to compare their skills with zero-risk of injuries. Anyone making a 'My martial arts is better than yours' argument is quickly asked to step up or face immense ridicule and loss of rep. Challenges often occur using identical or otherwise matched simulmorphs to take out any factor, save skill. Real life tournaments have become brutal death matches. With the inability to permanently kill or cripple an opponent, modern contestants feel no need to hold back. Every tournament is recorded and many winners (along with some losers) produce XPs of their victories. Skillsofts based on favorite or highly skilled fighters of the present and past are popular. Now you too can fight like query:favorite fighter. Buy today! Instructors feel immense pressure for their students to perform well in both real life and simulspace matches. Every loss negatively affects the instructors rep and an instructor without any students in the win column quickly finds themselves teaching no-one.

Sat, 2011-06-11 13:32

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Generally, moving around in microgravity requires 'climbing' along walls, handrails, transport hooks that slide in tracks or the use of taxis-galleries (walls covered with cilia/gecko surfaces that drag you along). This means touching things other people have touched. In the justifiably paranoid aftermath of the Fall (and actually long before) spaces have tended to wear gloves. Some jsut use spray-on disposable nanogloves that are discarded after use, others have more upscale tailored gloves or clever nanomaterial gloves with fun extra features - animated patterns, germ sterilization, electroshocks, perfume or music, to name just a few.

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Sat, 2011-06-11 16:09

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Axel the Chimeric Axel the Chimeric's picture

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Spray-on gloves come in a variety of flavours, to encourage your pet space-roach to clean up after they've worn off; no-one wants their home covered in hand-prints! Boxpartments are a common sight. Because the clanking masses are frequently the poorest of the poor, few can afford to waste money on large, expensive homes, resorting to living in boxpartments. These apartment living spaces are build vertically or sideways inside a building, and usually measure little more than 1.5m*1.5m*2.2m, and lack all utilities (including breathable atmosphere) save power. Flesh mobs are terms for what happens when the tensions between habitat security and synth groups boil over. Whenever a security officer goes too far, or a synth is abused, word spreads like wildfire amongst synthetic liberation groups, who proceed to take out their anger on anything and they deem worthy of reprisal. This includes security officers, the extremely wealthy, and, of course, people with synthetic masks. The results of these riots are usually few casualties (habitat security tends to pick up on them quickly), but those that there are inevitably need resleeving and make for horrific news vids. Raelians enjoy a very, very tiny resurgence in number. Though most people dismiss them as kooks, a handful of them exist who point out that there was alien visitation to the solar system, that transhumans now can change bodies easily, and that cloning is now longer considered insane by most transhumans. Most people just consider them sort of crazy, though. [i]It Came From Luna![/i] is a popular XP going around, done in the style of an old Earth black and white movie. The film follows a plot involving a charmingly retro 1950s American styled vision of the modern day, with a small Lunar mining settlement being plagued by monsters that are hiding in hollowed lava tubes beneath the surface. The XP mixes cheesey silver screen acting, badly made monster props on visible wires, and incredibly flat acting with bombastic Bollywood-esque musical numbers, to the point that no-one can tell if it is a brilliant parody or just extremely badly made. The film's creator is only known by his mesh ID, No-Man.

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Sun, 2011-06-12 09:30

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The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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Many of the re-instantiated who are resleeved into the synthmorphs are not psychologically equipped to handle the change. Though most eventually adjust, some do not and these people are at a high risk for developing a mental illness. One common illness is a type of depression popularly known as the 'clank blues' (not to be confused with the popular musical group). This condition is characterized by an extreme disregard for the safety of self and others, robot like thoughts and actions, and withdrawal from society. The recommended treatment is to resleeve into a biomorph, an option that few of the afflicted can afford. [i]Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga...[/i] People who resleeve into a biomorph after spending an extended period in a synthmorph find that certain activities make them feel extremely 'alive', an experience which is somewhat addictive. Local business are aware of this and resleeving facilities are surrounded by bars, restaurants, bordellos, clubs, and gyms. While most people are fairly responsible with their new morphs, some go on 'Benders' to the determinant of their finances, or even their health.

Wed, 2011-06-15 16:22

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The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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Music has begun incorporating elements above and below normal human hearing range. While some feel that this adds to the music, many more feel that this is just a marketing gimmick for enhanced hearing augmentations. A quite cultural war is being waged. On one side are the stodgy defenders of the orthodoxy, on the other are people who prefer bouncer morphs . The issue... whether good table manners preclude eating with ones feet :).

Wed, 2011-06-15 18:43

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Reclaimers have begun exploring and settling in the HEO cluster Rebekkah Heights. The cluster was abandoned during the Fall, but appears fairly undamaged. While not officially endorsed from Vo Nguyen the reclaimer groups are believed to have support in turning the habitat into a staging base. Desoto-AMW Industries has filed a suit in LLA courts against the settlers, claiming they are unlawfully trespassing on corporate property. This has been interpreted as more of a PC protest than a serious lawsuit, since DAI had previously not shown any interest in their putative assets in the cluster or contacted salvage companies. A more serious worry is the possibility of remnant TITAN infestations and other dangers; the cluster was hit by at least one weapon of unknown type during the Fall.

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Thu, 2011-06-16 18:15

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The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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...which began at lunar sunrise when several biomorphs suddenly suffered radical transformations and begin attacking citizens. The transformations are characterized by sudden growth of muzzles, claw like fingers, and body hair. The nanovirus appears to only affect biomorphs and is believed to be transmitted only through direct fluid contact. Once again citizens are urged to stay indoors while Direct Action and Gorgon Defense System forces deal with the threat...

Wed, 2011-06-22 12:25

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Like in most microgravity environments, people tend to move slowly and deliberately. It is certainly possible to go fast, but after childhood and enough visits to the healing vat most people learn that it is rarely wise.

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Wed, 2011-06-22 16:31

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petros

Re: Everyday life in the Earth-Luna system microgravity habitats

Arenamontanus wrote:
Like in most microgravity environments, people tend to move slowly and deliberately. It is certainly possible to go fast, but after childhood and enough visits to the healing vat most people learn that it is rarely wise.

People who are raised in, or very accustomed to, microgravity habitats, would tend to be very reserved. They always think before they act, to the point of second-guessing and waffling on making a decision to the last possible second. In the station, opening the wrong hatch could result in a painful decompresson, flinging yourself too fast results in, at best, a longer trip overall as you overshoot your mark, at worst, a few broken bones. Compared to a Martian or Venusian, they are positively neurotic. Wait and see. Measure n times, cut once (at most). Trying to arrange a date with one can be mindbogglingly annoying. They may not even leave their bunk until everyone else is there already, just in case they waste a trip.

Wed, 2011-06-22 17:32

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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This caution was extra prominent in the old days before serious biotechnology, when many spacers were also physically fragile. They tended to be careful or downright nervous around newcomers and the later genefixed colonists who both had too much muscles and the wrong reflexes - a flailing arm could break weakened bones or send you flying. These days this exaggerated caution is rarely seen outside caricature characters in fiction (the birdlike, anxious and overly cautious oldtimer spacer is a stock character in many stories), but spacers respect caution in ways people from downwell don't. In space, things usually go wrong too fast to do anything about it or slowly enough that you can plan the right course of action.

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Wed, 2011-06-22 18:16

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The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture

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Luna lacks large deposits of many of the elements necessary for fusion (notably deuterium and helium-3). Therefore, solar is an important source of power for many habitats. However, the Lunar day/night cycle is approximately 29 earth days long so even with improved energy storage options, solar cannot totally replace fusion. Various solutions have been suggested, the most popular being to run power cables along the subshuttle tunnels to create a moon wide power grid that would provided power from the day side to the night side (or from the parts of the lunar poles that are always in the light). However, neither the LLA or the PC have any current plans to implement such a grid.

Mon, 2011-07-04 17:31

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BOMherren

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It is generally conceded that all accounts of and knowledge pertaining to Old-Earth, no matter how obscure or apocryphal, is going to be of some interest to some transhuman at some point in the future. To this end, Reclaimers regularly mass-upload any recovered archives en masse, with little thought to popular appeal or relevance. Chat logs, private journals, governmental records, financial accounts, newspaper clippings, For Dummies manuals, compilations of old videogames - it's all there, for anyone patient enough to look for it. One such mass-upload is discovered to contain verifiable patent documents, issued by a source previously recognized as valid and enforced by the Planetary Consortium. These patent documents outline the basic technology used in modern medical nanomachines, and predate the currently recognized patent on that technology by some years. Investigations on the matter have commenced, and were followed by wild public speculation. Some fear their hard-earned Morphs might soon be confiscated for patent violation, others hope the technology will soon enter public domain and see competitive mass-production, and yet others believe these new records will simply be dismissed regardless of their authenticity. Another such upload has come to the attention of Firewall. The unpublished writings of a 1930's cosmic horror writer contain descriptions which Firewall agents swear approximate those of a known strain of Exsurgent.

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Wed, 2011-07-06 20:37

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Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture

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I just could see a bunch of datamining endentures sorting through media file archives [center]Informorph #1 "hey, I found some F-something-X News footage in 2D! how do I flag it?" Infomorphs #2, #3 and #4 (together) "Exsurgent!" [/center] TIGHT on INFOMORPH #1's confused simulmorph's face [center]Informorph #1 (hesitantly) But, Chief, the file is from 100 years before the Fall. how can it be Exsurgent? Informoph #2 It's still existential risk! the most toxic memes in television history! [/center]

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