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Jun07
on 2018-06-07
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Columbia’s a little out of touch. With all the new ship construction, interstellar tourism is becoming more affordable. Uttu-isten is being billed as the Orion Hawaii, even if it does take a few deci-cycles to get there and back.
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Columbia
I’m from Uttu-isten, so I can handle much warmer.
Kimi
That place is warm? Not a station?
Columbia
It’s a planet. The first one orbiting Uttu, a red dwarf just beyond The Orion Nebula. I don’t think it’s been identified from Earth yet. The only significant landmass is tidally locked facing the sun, so it’s always daytime. And always hot, especially the Central Region.
But that’s where are farms are, too. The only other place to live is under the ice sheet on the dark side where the space lift is anchored. Just about everything else is ocean or bare rock.
Our beaches are pretty awesome, though. Even with the storms brought on by the conjunctions with Uttu-sina. Which is the second planet, a gas giant.
Kimi
Clothing optional, I am sure?
Columbia
The whole sunside. It’s the only way we get enough natural Vitamin D, and it’s almost impossible to get a sunburn anyway.
Kimi
Sounds like fun.
Columbia
It has its drawbacks.. The main landmass is one huge volcano that’s been oozing lava from one vent or another, almost non-stop, since before Orions settled there The system itself is remote enough that the colony was lost for a time. The gravity’s higher than most Orions are comfortable with. And we have no tourist industry.
But the soil’s rich and fertile. It’s location makes it ideal for a frontier outpost and fleet base. Because it’s a planet and so remote, families don’t have to disperse like they do elsewhere. No one has a problem with low-grav illnesses. And system resources are cheap and easy to collect.
Carver
It’s a nice place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit there.
Columbia
We get a lot of new residents. You’d sure be welcome. And my family would love you. Just watch out for my sisters, Peru and Aruba. They’re all hands.
I’m from Uttu-isten, so I can handle much warmer.
Kimi
That place is warm? Not a station?
Columbia
It’s a planet. The first one orbiting Uttu, a red dwarf just beyond The Orion Nebula. I don’t think it’s been identified from Earth yet. The only significant landmass is tidally locked facing the sun, so it’s always daytime. And always hot, especially the Central Region.
But that’s where are farms are, too. The only other place to live is under the ice sheet on the dark side where the space lift is anchored. Just about everything else is ocean or bare rock.
Our beaches are pretty awesome, though. Even with the storms brought on by the conjunctions with Uttu-sina. Which is the second planet, a gas giant.
Kimi
Clothing optional, I am sure?
Columbia
The whole sunside. It’s the only way we get enough natural Vitamin D, and it’s almost impossible to get a sunburn anyway.
Kimi
Sounds like fun.
Columbia
It has its drawbacks.. The main landmass is one huge volcano that’s been oozing lava from one vent or another, almost non-stop, since before Orions settled there The system itself is remote enough that the colony was lost for a time. The gravity’s higher than most Orions are comfortable with. And we have no tourist industry.
But the soil’s rich and fertile. It’s location makes it ideal for a frontier outpost and fleet base. Because it’s a planet and so remote, families don’t have to disperse like they do elsewhere. No one has a problem with low-grav illnesses. And system resources are cheap and easy to collect.
Carver
It’s a nice place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit there.
Columbia
We get a lot of new residents. You’d sure be welcome. And my family would love you. Just watch out for my sisters, Peru and Aruba. They’re all hands.
Columbia, Peru, and Aruba…. It’s the little gags like this that keep me in giggles.
Thanks. On first reading, that went completely over my head. I don’t LOL much, nor GOL, but I’m smiling widely.
When your children arrive from multiple ovulation names tend to take on themes.
Her other sister, Chile (or Chi as she prefers to be called) is also uninterested in women (and happily group-bonded). They have a brother named Brazil (he’s a father of healthy children, ladies) and a hansib (hanyo sibling) named Ecuador.
Smiling very widely. 😉
And his children are called…?
Bill and Ted 😛
Excellent!
(groan)
Time for an adventure! 😉
San Dimas High School Football Rules!
giant volcano that’s constantly erupting..Isn’t something like that the source of Venus’s current atmosphere
Venus averages at a 890 Fahrenheit. I bake bread at 350 and cook chicken at 425.
that’s kinda my point. It sounds like Uttu-isten is either (realitively) really early in the process and is on the extreme edge of the Inhabitable zone if it’s even habitable much less “nearly impossible to get a sunburn” on the sun side of a tidally locked planet.
Uttu-isten just has a single volcano, plus plenty of water
And ‘oozing lava from one vent or another, almost non-stop’ is not the same thing as ‘constantly erupting’
Right, and even if it WAS erupting that would not be that big of a problem. During the past 10,000 years, there are about 1500 volcanoes on land that are known to have have been active, and an even larger but unknown number of submarine volcanoes. At present, there are about 600 volcanoes that have had known eruptions during recorded history, while about 50-70 volcanoes are active (erupting) each year. At any given time, there is an average of about 20 volcanoes that are erupting on Earth and you don’t see us going the way of Venus do you?
Plenty of water, that’s the key. Venus was too close to the sun, it either never had oceans or lost them early. Without oceans a planet can’t have plate tectonics, subduction zones and rock weathering to remove gases from the atmosphere in equal amounts to the volcanoes putting them in.
“Nearly impossible to get a suntan” is likely from the lack of ultraviolet light.
Not necessarily. Yellowstone is a giant volcano that’s constantly erupting and it has almost no impact on our atmosphere.
The volcano at Yellowstone isn’t erupting, it vents and it has geysers that erupt, but the volcano itself is not currently erupting. I know it sounds like I’m nitpicking, but the distinction is important when dealing with volcanic activity.
You’re right that the distinction is important. When Yellowstone erupts it’s going to be bad for just about the whole US.
Yellowstone is a supercolder, when it goes the northern hemisphere will know it, and if it’s bad the whole world.
There’s a series that has vampiers coming out of hiding when Yellowstone blows, because it blocks enough sunlight that they can go out in the day.
Sounds, comfy, kinda, almost like Gulf Coast TX.
A remote planet with awesome beaches, plenty of vitamin D, a lack of low-G illnesses, and it has no tourism?
Sorry, the story just lost all suspension of disbelief for me. 😛
Think Hawaii when canvas was still high tech propulsion.
Planet not found by Earth … yet???
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/researchers-find-three-earth-sized-planets-orbiting-a-red-dwarf/vi-AAymN8k?ocid=mailsignout
We are keeping our eyes (and telescopes) open to find things.
Just beyond the Orion Nebula. So obscured from Earth-based instruments.
Why? Take a look – the Orion Nebula is naked-eye visible (under dark skies), and amazing when viewed with binoculars or a telescope. Rather like trying to see what’s behind the headlights of an oncoming car on a foggy night.
Sounds like Columbia hasn’t given up on Kimi just yet 😉
Are any of the Terran’s going to be returning? Or Just Ace 😛
I think we want an new, and green, vote incentive!
Green, White and Orange would be nice 😛 (wait, is Ready orange, brown or red?)
There’s a few purple crewmembers…
Purple you say? Orions get their green color from pills that add chlorophyll to their skin so I’m guessing purple crewmen would be taking anthocyanin pills.
Maybe purples are what happens when Orions and Greys reproduce?
Who said they were Orion crewmembers? o_O
Was just thinking of a ‘fun’ invotive with Columbia, Kimi and Ready 😀
French maid costumes all around?
Excellent! 😀
This was supposed to have been a reply to anifreik above 🙁