Would you go to IO?
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GWhizYMe — 13 years ago(August 25, 2012 03:21 PM)
Technically, wouldn't the contract be for three years? The Paul character (Connery's son) asked him if it was true about having to sleep for a year to get the Earth. So, one year sleeping to get to Io, work a one year contract, then sleep for another year to get home.
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pezoids — 13 years ago(January 20, 2013 09:55 PM)
No, I wouldn't. IO is one of the most violent places in the solar system. The moon is being constantly squeezed like a rubber stress ball by Jupiter's gravity, causing immense eruptions, lava flows and massive moon-quakes I would pass.
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KobiyashiMauru — 13 years ago(February 17, 2013 06:12 PM)
Not only is the moon of Io seriously affected by Jupiter's gravity but the orbit of the moon lies within the massive radiation belt of the planet. Io recieves 3,600 rem of radiation per day. You would be dead in a matter of a couple of days. I would definitely pass on going to work on Io.
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Kuato_and_George — 12 years ago(October 30, 2013 11:53 AM)
Depends on how much I knew going into it. If I knew it was "anything goes" the way it is on the colony, I likely wouldn't go. An unregulated party sounds great (especially when you get paid for it), but I don't have enough faith in humanity to believe people would control themselves in that situation.
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zap644 — 12 years ago(November 03, 2013 02:43 PM)
If the accommodations were a little better, I would. When Sean Connery was chasing that guy it looked like a prison. The sleeping spaces for people were small and cage-like and the cafeteria looked like crap. It's quite different from the bar scenes.
Upgrade the rooms and food service to at least the level of a decent hotel (not necessarily a luxury hotel, just maybe a Marriot Courtyard or even a Fairfield) and I'd do it.
It's no wonder people spent their downtime in the bar and sought out drugs.
They need 3 changes:- Better sleeping quarters
- Better food service
- Convert enough of the greenhouse to growing marijuana
If they did that, my only question would be 'where do I apply?'
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Kuato_and_George — 12 years ago(November 07, 2013 06:26 PM)
The people spent their downtime getting drunk and high because that's what people are. It had nothing to do with accommodations. It could have been the nicest facilities you could find and people would still ruin it.
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kaskait — 9 years ago(August 26, 2016 10:48 AM)
- Better sleeping quarters
This outpost depends on everything being shipped to them, including their air. No way they would give people larger living spaces, the air costs alone would make it unfeasible. Hence the reason why everyone is living on top of one another in the smallest living space possible. - Better food service
See above. They survive on shipments. If the shipments don't come, they run out of air and food. Everyone eats what the company sloppy joints give them. - Convert enough of the greenhouse to growing marijuana
Not going to happen. The greenhouse only feeds the bigwigs with executive jobs at the station with real food and possibly some regular people with black market clout.
- Better sleeping quarters
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eolloe — 11 years ago(November 16, 2014 12:32 AM)
I wouldn't myself, but some people have been doing this sort of thing since forever.
For the right money, people will move to frigid Alaska & the northwestern US/Canada, or to Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East deserts to work in oil industry.
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!!!deleted!!! (59864133) — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 01:12 PM)
I work within a specialist law enforcement role now and the idea of being a patrolman In an off world mining facility sounds rather interesting if somewhat mundane (realistically you'd be dealing with drunks, petty theft and breach of station Byelaws I imagine.)
Still easy for a young man without any commitments.