• muzzle@lemm.ee
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    Actually, it’s a lot better to dig, free radiation shield!

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          Mood debuff from the game Rimworld where if you spend too long without going outside, you get a severe penalty.

          In other words, being underground for long (or indefinite) periods would probably have a profoundly negative effect on people’s moods.

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            That’s why it is important to do sociological testing on earth first. Putting groups of humans in, let’s call them vaults, to test reactions to isolation and lack of surface contact.

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              Yes, yes and then we do experiments on them without their knowledge to gauge how they react as opposed to control vaults. We should also name this department something fitting. Since they’re working on new technologies with vaults maybe something like… Vault-tec

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            I see, what’s the mood debuf for radiation poisoning? :)

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      My plan is to use concentrated sunlight to tunnel directly through an asteroid and use the material to build a small O’Neill cylinder inside. The rest of the rock would provide radiation shielding so the cylinder would be cheaper to construct, and we can send sunlight into the cylinder from either end using the same mirrors we carved the asteroid with.