Howard Johnson.

January 24, 2024 10:07 PM

'One Revolution Per Minute'. A short film by Erik Wernquist. (slyt. 6:23)
posted by clavdivs (10 comments total)

I wonder if on a ship that’s constantly rotating instead of fore, aft, port, and starboard it would make more sense to use north, south, east, and west. (I kind of hope not, as I really like port and starboard. Fore and aft I could take or leave though)
posted by aubilenon at 1:54 AM on January 25 [1 favorite]

That's very pretty. How would you get the water for the swimming pool into space in the first place?
posted by chavenet at 1:59 AM on January 25 [1 favorite]

Airmail it in dehydrated form and reconstitute on site.
posted by flabdablet at 3:09 AM on January 25 [2 favorites]

Well. I was screaming the whole time about safety issues, physics errors, bad rocket design, bad botany and ecosystem design, but it sure was pretty. I'm mentally going to go back to my fully pressurised gravity well with thick soupy atmosphere of meteorite shielding and shudder for a while.
posted by seanmpuckett at 6:47 AM on January 25 [1 favorite]

I want the Dramamine concession rights...
posted by jim in austin at 6:56 AM on January 25 [2 favorites]

Given that there's only the one passenger on the whole thing, that concession probably isn't worth much.
posted by flabdablet at 7:24 AM on January 25

I liked the wine towards the end. I felt I would need wine.
posted by rongorongo at 7:50 AM on January 25 [1 favorite]

Too much wine, the room is already spinning.
posted by aubilenon at 9:58 AM on January 25 [3 favorites]

I'm with Jim in Austin, but since the Dramamine rights are taken I'll have to console myself with my IG account: "Chunder lilies of the main concourse"
posted by BCMagee at 12:50 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]

How would you get the water for the swimming pool into space in the first place?

I guess the same way you'd get anything else? Lots of cargo rocket launches, a launch loop, a space elevator.

Though for the beyond advanced tech needed for this kind of thing, asteroid and comet mining will be a thing, and we can get plenty of raw materials that way. Water, precious metals, etc. Once that can commence, materials from earth will no longer be necessary and we would truly begin our spacefaring phase.
posted by zardoz at 11:30 PM on January 25