<![CDATA[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?]]>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? πŸ”„

eta: uh oh . . . the men who think they're funny have arrived unfortunately

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/b3b0cf3d-b1f1-488d-81ee-d477f9e67df8/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-haveRSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 05:05:46 GMTWed, 29 Apr 2026 14:11:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:40:40 GMT]]>@aetataureate I bet a space bowling alley could be pretty wild

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://idlethumbs.social/users/karobit/statuses/116489220283418992https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://idlethumbs.social/users/karobit/statuses/116489220283418992Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:40:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:15:30 GMT]]>@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!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/coreo/statuses/116489121332130070https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/coreo/statuses/116489121332130070Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:15:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:45:23 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116489002912393255https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116489002912393255Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:45:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:40:03 GMT]]>@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.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/coreo/statuses/116488981905621387https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/coreo/statuses/116488981905621387Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:40:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:24:11 GMT]]>@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)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116488919545929632https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116488919545929632Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:24:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:23:23 GMT]]>@aetataureate If it's a Culture GSV, then you sure can build a national park! Β πŸ™‚

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://s.djehuti.com/users/ben/statuses/01KQD0TRW9VY2RGT28KRB6R2M3https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://s.djehuti.com/users/ben/statuses/01KQD0TRW9VY2RGT28KRB6R2M3Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:23:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:23:21 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115644838665801827/statuses/116488916271029724https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115644838665801827/statuses/116488916271029724Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:23:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:20:31 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://turtleisland.social/users/dillyd/statuses/116488905139238269https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://turtleisland.social/users/dillyd/statuses/116488905139238269Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:20:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:18:21 GMT]]>@Brett_E_Carlock @aetataureate
I was thinking of walking, but yes, also an excellent idea to grow food there

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://turtleisland.social/users/dillyd/statuses/116488896612026990https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://turtleisland.social/users/dillyd/statuses/116488896612026990Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:18:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:16:30 GMT]]>@hakona @aetataureate

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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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/johnlogic/statuses/116488889326574192https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/johnlogic/statuses/116488889326574192Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:16:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:16:12 GMT]]>@dillyd
@aetataureate
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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Brett_E_Carlock/statuses/116488888158554412https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Brett_E_Carlock/statuses/116488888158554412Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:16:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:12:07 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116488872125872805https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116488872125872805Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:12:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:04:40 GMT]]>@aetataureate Outdoor roller coaster with sealed and unsealed pods. An arcade mode with an on-rails arcade shooter.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pwl.farted.net/users/pwloftus/statuses/116488842784600389https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pwl.farted.net/users/pwloftus/statuses/116488842784600389Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:04:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:00:54 GMT]]>@aetataureate

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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spore.social/users/springdiesel/statuses/116488827987250281https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spore.social/users/springdiesel/statuses/116488827987250281Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:00:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:54:02 GMT]]>@aetataureate A haunted-house attraction, with animatronic ghouls of long-dead space-men and aliens.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://im.alstadheim.no/users/hakona/statuses/116488801021264715https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://im.alstadheim.no/users/hakona/statuses/116488801021264715Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:54:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:42 GMT]]>@Urban_Hermit @Myotis_cuniculus @aetataureate

and then upgrade to treeships

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.targaryen.house/users/cerement/statuses/116488783978710295https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.targaryen.house/users/cerement/statuses/116488783978710295Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:48:24 GMT]]>@Urban_Hermit @Myotis_cuniculus trees also exchange oxygen!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116488778855226306https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aetataureate/statuses/116488778855226306Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:48:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:46:33 GMT]]>@aetataureate

You probably can't have pets running rampant in a ship or habitat, so something like a pet cafe could be nice.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spore.social/users/springdiesel/statuses/116488771538645210https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spore.social/users/springdiesel/statuses/116488771538645210Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:46:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:46:15 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Urban_Hermit/statuses/116488770407132724https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Urban_Hermit/statuses/116488770407132724Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:46:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:45:07 GMT]]>@aetataureate

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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spore.social/users/springdiesel/statuses/116488765951227836https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spore.social/users/springdiesel/statuses/116488765951227836Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:45:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:39:46 GMT]]>@aetataureate You’re gonna want a ballroom for security of course πŸ˜†

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davew/statuses/116488744877232782https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/davew/statuses/116488744877232782Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:39:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:34:05 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/Myotis_cuniculus/statuses/116488722526824897https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/Myotis_cuniculus/statuses/116488722526824897Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:34:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:31:26 GMT]]>@aetataureate
Second the garden!

A pool would be sick, as well, especailly if it was an infinity pool in a glass observation pod.

The immersion room from Sunshine seems sad/quaint, but likely very necessary.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Brett_E_Carlock/statuses/116488712131430124https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Brett_E_Carlock/statuses/116488712131430124Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:31:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:27:01 GMT]]>@dillyd @aetataureate yes, this!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blorbo.social/users/croptopjin/statuses/116488694746124062https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://blorbo.social/users/croptopjin/statuses/116488694746124062Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:27:01 GMT