Video: Wednesday

[steamosaurus]

[Darwin looks uncharacteristically somber.]

I do hate to be the one to announce this, but not as much as I hate that it needs to be announced at all.

Wing is no longer among us. He's back on the ship, shut down or... unresponsive. Like we are when we're in the pods. I know he had many friends here, and was awake before many of us were. He will be missed. I...

I will miss him.

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[standsentinel]

Mine too, if that's any comfort.

[Kaidan's expression says that he rather suspects not, tugged into a rueful smile.]

You holding up all right?

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[steamosaurus]

I... I will be okay. Missing home a bit. At least then people didn't disappear on me.

[She sighs and shakes out her feathers]

Is there anything I can be doing to help, in there?

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[standsentinel]

The pods would be Stark's or Sato's area, now that Dr. Banner's ended up back in one. I'm just a soldier who knows a little tech. My own projects...

[He looks thoughtful, as if considering what an intelligent dinosaur with a history of airship design may or may not have skills at.]

Briar was hoping to see the hydroponics project expanded. Do you know anything about heating systems?

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[steamosaurus]

Don't remind me that Bruce is gone, too. What I wouldn't give to have some of my contacts back home... I run in some very eccentric circles. Someone would have ideas I couldn't begin to imagine.

[She smiles more easily now, though she still looks tired.]

Well, you can't very well work with steam power without knowing about heating and cooling, now can you?

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[standsentinel]

Hah, fair point there.

[Sticking with the subject change, and interpreting the smile as a smile, rather than a display of very sharp teeth, Kaidan offers one in turn.]

I was thinking heating with geothermal energy -- run pipes down deep enough to catch the warmth of the rock and feed it back up to keep the plants happy. Pair that with Stark's collector dishes for the sunlight and it would run a lot more easily unattended and take a lot less resources, once built, than trying to keep some sort of generator fueled.

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[steamosaurus]

Hmmm, yes that could certainly work. [Distracting her with an engineering problem? Good idea!] Of course, it'll need to be insulated to prevent it from outright cooking the plants. And anybody nearby. Might even be able to harness some of the excess heat as a power source, on its own.

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[standsentinel]

Well, no need to go that deep. With no volcanos around the Old City, we'd probably just be using a heat differential of maybe ten or fifteen degrees anyway... but if it's stable, that's enough.

Although if we can find some bit of volcanic activity or a hot spring or something that could work for electricity. Want to pick out a couple test sites? What would you need?"

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[steamosaurus]

Geological surveys? Do you know if there's any contemporary equipment for such things? Some tips from the locals would be a good start - they'll know the best spots to look, I'm sure.

[standsentinel]

Ah... I'd say probably not here -- the city I just got back from visiting probably would've had some, but I didn't think to bring any back with me.

Edmund or the Vault might have information on just what's used locally, or if they don't do any local prospecting where in the world they might.