Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have?
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
@aetataureate You’re gonna want a ballroom for security of course
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
In Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_ the Qeng Ho fleets have a millennia-long tradition of always having public parks on ships, even if the parks have to be teeny tiny and zero-G. People who design them are revered, because it takes huge arts and sciences ability to do this.
I love this concept.
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@aetataureate an actual small forest area - not holodeck - but *real*. I dont want to risk being stuck inside a computer sim every time I want to rest among trees.
@Myotis_cuniculus @aetataureate yeah, trees. Even a grove of BIG trees.
Living in a fully artificial environment could warp the human mind, make you feel like everything is fungible. Big trees are an anchor to reality. Something real. An other that feels dependable. Peaceful.
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
You probably can't have pets running rampant in a ship or habitat, so something like a pet cafe could be nice.
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@Myotis_cuniculus @aetataureate yeah, trees. Even a grove of BIG trees.
Living in a fully artificial environment could warp the human mind, make you feel like everything is fungible. Big trees are an anchor to reality. Something real. An other that feels dependable. Peaceful.
@Urban_Hermit @Myotis_cuniculus trees also exchange oxygen!
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@Myotis_cuniculus @aetataureate yeah, trees. Even a grove of BIG trees.
Living in a fully artificial environment could warp the human mind, make you feel like everything is fungible. Big trees are an anchor to reality. Something real. An other that feels dependable. Peaceful.
@Urban_Hermit @Myotis_cuniculus @aetataureate
and then upgrade to treeships
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
@aetataureate A haunted-house attraction, with animatronic ghouls of long-dead space-men and aliens.
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
Maybe not so much in Star Trek or Orville type universes, but generally, everywhere in space you have to be so careful all the time not to get injured or break some equipment or whatever.
People need a place and time to roughouse, get all rowdy and not be careful. So some kind of sports capsule or wrestling arena or playground...? Bouncy castle? Bumper cars?
I used to have a much more creative imagination. Having trouble thinking up more examples of this theme.
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
@aetataureate Outdoor roller coaster with sealed and unsealed pods. An arcade mode with an on-rails arcade shooter.
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Maybe not so much in Star Trek or Orville type universes, but generally, everywhere in space you have to be so careful all the time not to get injured or break some equipment or whatever.
People need a place and time to roughouse, get all rowdy and not be careful. So some kind of sports capsule or wrestling arena or playground...? Bouncy castle? Bumper cars?
I used to have a much more creative imagination. Having trouble thinking up more examples of this theme.
@springdiesel this is such a good one!!! they're also so whimsical about just refashioning atoms into entire new things hahaha and i think that's one of the least feasible things.
i think this topic benefits from thinking about it on a low level over a longer time, so it seems like you're doing great tbh.
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Need a garden, for sure.@dillyd
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Were you envisioning a "walking" garden or a more food/agricultural one, or something else?My mind went to walking garden, but no reason it can grow some food to pick as well, right?
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@aetataureate A haunted-house attraction, with animatronic ghouls of long-dead space-men and aliens.
The starship Enterprise appears to have had a bowling alley below the shuttle bay, but it never appeared in the show. I suspect maybe it was haunted.
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@dillyd
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Were you envisioning a "walking" garden or a more food/agricultural one, or something else?My mind went to walking garden, but no reason it can grow some food to pick as well, right?
@Brett_E_Carlock @aetataureate
I was thinking of walking, but yes, also an excellent idea to grow food there -
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I was thinking of walking, but yes, also an excellent idea to grow food there@Brett_E_Carlock @aetataureate
What I was really imagining was something like a botanical garden, with different walking and sitting areas, different environments. But then I thought that was asking too much. In a theoretical thought exercise! Asking too much! My brain is weird, always thinking of constraints instead of more possibilities. -
Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
@aetataureate Becky Chambers has a series of novels that detail space colonies with parks and wooded areas as well as recycling graveyards where bodies are interred in a reverent manner and composted to return them to the colony in the form of fertilizer.
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
@aetataureate If it's a Culture GSV, then you sure can build a national park!
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@Brett_E_Carlock @aetataureate
What I was really imagining was something like a botanical garden, with different walking and sitting areas, different environments. But then I thought that was asking too much. In a theoretical thought exercise! Asking too much! My brain is weird, always thinking of constraints instead of more possibilities.@dillyd @Brett_E_Carlock porque no los dos, as they say! (ftr, NASA studies psychological effects of gardening, of eating even small amounts of freshly grown food, and of course the nutrition part)
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Let's say you lived on a big spaceship or station like those in "Star Trek" or "The Expanse" etc. You can't just build a football field or national park or anything, but what feasible stuff would you want to have? Is there stuff you wouldn't care about having?
Very open ended prompt here haha, just curious if others have thought about this while watching space stuff. Boost for me please?
eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately
@aetataureate community distillery so people can make their own homemade spirits safely, with guidance, and also pay the government liquor tax as a use tax, if the government has liquor taxes, rather than making the production of traditional spirits illegal. (Thinking of some places in Eastern Europe and in China which have these sorts of facilities.)
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@aetataureate community distillery so people can make their own homemade spirits safely, with guidance, and also pay the government liquor tax as a use tax, if the government has liquor taxes, rather than making the production of traditional spirits illegal. (Thinking of some places in Eastern Europe and in China which have these sorts of facilities.)
@coreo this is such a cool idea!! esp because spirits can also be used to preserve or accentuate other foods, including many cultural ones people would want for happiness
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@coreo this is such a cool idea!! esp because spirits can also be used to preserve or accentuate other foods, including many cultural ones people would want for happiness
@aetataureate yup! I wrote it into a space station in some fiction I wrote for a zine many, many years ago, and now that we're talking about it I want to go back and write about that space again somehow. But other people should use this idea as well! Oh, and also karaoke rooms/nights!
