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Space colony.
Never before have I done so many construction lines and gone through so many drafts of a drawing.
I can't add any more detail, I'm at the limit of the width of the pencil, so I declare it done. :)
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I wanted to show that these people don't perceive time the same way we do.
This particular colony said to hell with the day-night cycle. There are all sorts of elaborate schemes for keeping artificial night on space colonies, and I wonder if it's entirely possible the actual people who are born and have to live in them, will find them a nuisance and just make a "city that never sleeps" instead. Simpler, at least.
That particular business owner keeps a 6-"day" week. It has been noted that the number of hours in a week is divisible by 6, I learned this from one crackpot Trekkie on an early episode of The Daily Show. He was trying to persuade the world to shift to a single "Stardate" calendar with a universal 6-day week running on GMT as the universal Time Zone.
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Hah. I suppose it is divisible by six, but that doesn't mean it should be... and that doesn't really work when everyone (sans the six people on the ISS) lives on a constantly rotating planet. Just because we can doesn't mean we should :P
Anyway, interesting way of looking at it. Of course, this shows that the facility is run by a living being and not just an automated machine. Still room for actual shopkeepers and such in the future?
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of course! I don't see everything going totally automated, if you look at history, there have often been steps towards LESS automation in the service industry. For example, the rise and fall of "automats." I do forsee there may be some interesting symbiotic human-AI relationships in the works, mainly in cities and the business world.
But anyway, in my setting here, yup, check out the fry cook on the left. The other shopkeepers are IN their shops, though there is a hand visible in the service window on the middle right. Your question would actually seem strange to the sensibilities of these people, drones are typically used mainly for tasks human bodies can't easily handle such as station maintenence and EVA, and most AIs have better things to be doing with their lives (unless it's some sociable fuzzy logic process that wanted to open up a small business...)
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I suppose that's fair enough. I guess also if someone wants to make money, why build a machine to do it when they can just sit there and do it themselves?
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hahaha... Point taken, but, I think there's a need for social skills in certain jobs. The easiest way to get that is just to use a human. AI is coming along, but not so advanced yet, for example, if I use an automated checkout, the person monitoring the machines will have to intervene most of the time. You can argue the technology is getting better, but, it's been this way for YEARS and sometimes I'll take the manned traditional checkout just because I know I'm going to end up dealing with a person, and it'll go smoother at the workstation that's set-up for it. Where is my biometric payment that just deducts my account, no need for checkout? I think someone left it in their flying car :P
I debated, but rejected, making The Ring more exotic socially. There's enough weird shit going on in this setting as it is, I wanted there to be one anchoring point you could look at and feel a little familiar. I figured the colony with live humans was it.
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http://abstrusegoose.com/559 - every fuckin' time, yo
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I suppose so! Plus, may even be cheaper to do it yourself. Or tradition, viruses, EMPs, power requirements... who knows what the future may hold, eh?
Sounds good, though :3
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Some very strange opening times for the recycling facility. There any reasoning behind that?