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Waste systems
knnn:
--- Quote from: Brightbane on October 21, 2015, 01:49:30 AM ---And I guess I just assumed that their waste got converted into the vatsand.
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Sure, but in the absence of "just dump it in the soil" you need a not insignificant amount of machinery (tanks/pipes/etc. ) to do this correctly.
--- Quote from: Arjan on October 21, 2015, 11:44:42 AM ---They just use the old method. In a bucket out of the window. There is a reason all those creatures living beneath the spires are so angry.
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;D
jb3435:
--- Quote ---They get their water from the mists. They filter it out of the air somehow.
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hey look...starwars reference where is Luke?
Aminar:
--- Quote from: jb3435 on October 21, 2015, 01:50:42 PM ---hey look...starwars reference where is Luke?
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That's your Star Wars reference from Jim? :p
crusher_bob:
I don't remember anything about lack of water. For example, nothing about bathing as a signifier of social class. So I guess it's possible that the spire is pretty efficient at just recycling the waste. The waste gets the water drawn out and recirculated and the solid matter gets sterilized and used as fertilizer (vatsand). There appears to be enough available electrical power and, presumably, previously available biological knowledge to set up such a reclamation system. How much it runs without intervention and how muc hthe spires inhabitants maintain it isn't mentioned anywhere.
That would explain where (most) of the water comes from and where (most) of the poop goes. Both very important things to cove when any large population gets discussed.
Of course, without rain, I'd guess that street cleaning / garbage removal / etc has got to be a pretty big deal. No mention of how lower class sections of the Habble constantly smell of poop, rotting garbage, etc. One good outbreak of Cholera or something and you can't just wait for the rain to come and clean things up a bit. You have to go and scrub all that down by hand.
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Of course, if the Predator is self aware, what about the spires themselves? Do they live in the self aware colony?
knnn:
--- Quote from: crusher_bob on October 22, 2015, 08:38:12 AM ---I don't remember anything about lack of water. For example, nothing about bathing as a signifier of social class. So I guess it's possible that the spire is pretty efficient at just recycling the waste. The waste gets the water drawn out and recirculated and the solid matter gets sterilized and used as fertilizer (vatsand). There appears to be enough available electrical power and, presumably, previously available biological knowledge to set up such a reclamation system. How much it runs without intervention and how muc hthe spires inhabitants maintain it isn't mentioned anywhere.
That would explain where (most) of the water comes from and where (most) of the poop goes. Both very important things to cove when any large population gets discussed.
Of course, without rain, I'd guess that street cleaning / garbage removal / etc has got to be a pretty big deal. No mention of how lower class sections of the Habble constantly smell of poop, rotting garbage, etc. One good outbreak of Cholera or something and you can't just wait for the rain to come and clean things up a bit. You have to go and scrub all that down by hand.
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Good points on the whole shower/bathing thing. Indeed, the outbreak of something like Cholera would be quite devastating to a habble.
--- Quote from: crusher_bob on October 22, 2015, 08:38:12 AM ---Of course, if the Predator is self aware, what about the spires themselves? Do they live in the self aware colony?
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I guess that depends if a spire has it's own power crystal at the heart of it. Or perhaps if the spirestone itself works as power crystal itself. We don't see Folly trying to communicate with the spire (as she does with the library and the ship), so that's a mark against that possibility.
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