Over Venus, as in any enclosed system, humans must consider boredom and interpersonal strain. [UPDATE 1/15] They'll have to figure this out even before anybody wants to go there. [3/20] And the best-case scenario runs into Ibn Khaldun's three-generation-rule.
The floating farms, I hope, will be larger than the site of that 1990s-era "Biosphere Two" experiment. I've been expecting that the permanent flotilla will limit liveable space. Both will do some interpersonal harpoon crossover between vessels - a lifesaver for the flotilla. And all the vessels get new arrivals every 584-day synodic year. These newbies can't all be boring.
I have also insisted on cultural options for Venus' floating citizens: among them, waterfront, safari, and the Maya bubbles. As a last resort as doesn't involve other consenting human adults, we have more Internet now than the Biosphereans had. Venus' vessels will enjoy something similar, beamed across planes or bubbles. The better vessels shall even bear cables inbetwixt.
I expect social conditions here, at their worst (read: the eight "Advent" weeks following Conjunction... and at night), will affect people like Antarctic stations do, especially winter. Still not ideal - as they've found with brain atrophy, which would necessitate a read of that "dementia" chapter in Koboldt's book - but survivable. Especially if there be exit-avenues to other bubbles.
Besides Antarctica, whose denizens are Different; for the average resident, one might also look at Whitter in Alaska.
No comments:
Post a Comment