Caz

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adventures in the plausible midfuture art-only account of @timberwind.bsky.social

A flag with a black background and a highly stylized 3/4 cutaway of a cylindrical space habitat. In the center is a white structure with a green interior, representing lighting systems and microgee parkland. To the right is the inner wall of the cylinder, showing green parkland and the glinting blue band of a circumferential river. Surrounding the cylinder is a white outline, symbolizing the glacis of shielding material - be it sandbags, glass, concrete, or steel - that every permanent space hab shelters from cosmic radiation under.
A Bluey episode title card, depicting the slightly wine-bottle shaped Kistler "K-1" RLV flying through the clouds. A subtitle says "[Bluey] This episode of Bluey is called Launch!"
We see here a view from a dirigible cargo robot, taken in the far northern regions of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. In the foreground, a peninsula of ice-and-tar 'wetland' terrain stretches off into the distance. On it, a settlement made up of habitat modules of varying sizes - from longhouse-like parks to long twisting arcades, all raised on stilts like the old research bases of Antarctica (most of these stilts are obscured under the bulk of their structure, from this angle), curves off along the more orderly lake-facing shoreline. Looking further afield, past the jumble of braided rivers that makes up the inland side of the peninsula, we see a far shore occupied by a sprawling industrial city - pale plumes of steam rise from the cooling towers of nuclear fusion reactors, chemical plants, and water refineries. The sun, smeared into an orange blur by storied layers of photochemical haze - drifts of complex organics formed from unfiltered sunlight smashing into methane molecules at the top of the Titanian atmosphere - sits low on the horizon at this time of the Saturnian year, casting a ruddy glow comparable in brightness to a bedside lamp.
dog-like transhuman and the Saturn system, viewed from a vantage point of high Iapetus orbit
On the left, a young dog-like transhuman named Riley holding an orca plushy. On the top right a drawing of Riley's four parents stuck down with a fridge magnet. On the bottom right a postcard with a map of the north polar lake-seas of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, with a pin stuck in the location of Lunine Beach - the small seaside city where they all live.
Tumblr ask from anonymous user: text reads "the "relativistic correction not applied" on the DOB on the ID gave me an idea: the issuing agency could make the ID contain a clock so that it tracks proper time so long as the holder keeps it on them. the clock could be something nondigital, like an ampule of tritium embedded in the ID (which could be used to make it glow for easier locating, though keeping radiologicals on something that's meant to stay on your person most of the time is a bad idea.) or some slow diffusion process (e.g. a labyrinthine lead wire with a tip of gold - you sample the age by using x-ray fluorescence to check for how far the gold has diffused along the wire. or merely characterizing the process of outgassing that the plastic exhibits. or tagging a region of the plastic by deuterating it. a lot of these techniques unfortunately have a substantial temperature coefficient)"
In the foreground is a magnetic sail spacecraft - on one end the polygonal coils of the sail generation machinery, on the other a small nuclear fission plant and its attendant heat-rejection radiators, and in the middle a habitat and tankage for maneuvering propellant. In the background are two planets, orbiting one another much like Pluto and Charon do in the Solar System. Largest in our field of view is a world somewhat like Mars' big sister, with seas and lakes and a partially-oxygenated atmosphere through extensive terraforming efforts. Behind it is a world more like the Mars we know, although it's been partially terraformed - deep glassy canals have been excavated by orbital lens, with significant habitation on their floors. Both worlds have bands of solar power satellites, factories, habitats, and depots in orbit around them, and in the far distance an asteroidal moon roughly Cybele-sized can be just about resolved as a speck flanked on both sides by habitats and infrastructure.
On the left, a dog-like transhuman woman standing in a neutral pose, wearing a t-shirt with the logo of a large space mirror company on it. To the top right, a short comic snippet - the aforementioned character pointing out her birthplace in the sky, a starship currently in orbit. To the bottom center, an immigration ID card for the governance of the binary planet system she currently lives on - it's old, and she doesn't look particularly happy in the photograph. To the bottom right, a topographic map of a great outflow valley system, split by rivers. A red star marks the largest city of the region, and two flags - regional and planetary - are visible.