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1. アズラ: 大キツネ (azure@tailswish.industries)'s status on Friday, 17-Jun-2022 19:02:04 UTC アズラ: 大キツネ
   While there is a tragic pathos in the idea of aquatic creatures wanting to go to space but being stymied by the need to bring GIANT CHUNKS OF OCEAN with them, watching all the land-folk who only need highly compressible and relatively light air head off to the stars while leaving them behind…
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   • アズラ: 大キツネ (azure@tailswish.industries)'s status on Friday, 17-Jun-2022 19:02:04 UTC アズラ: 大キツネ

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     And if you jump to "Astronauts don't need their bodies and the chunks of home environment that goes with them." then you get to skip right past all the problems of how to keep bones and eyes from degrading in zero G, having enough space for people not to hate each other, etc. etc. so it might well be that marine life goes to the stars further and better than terrestrial life, at least until terrestrial life gets the memo.
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   • アズラ: 大キツネ (azure@tailswish.industries)'s status on Friday, 17-Jun-2022 19:02:05 UTC アズラ: 大キツネ

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     I rather suspect that this kind of pressure would just inspire aquatic people to make the jump to saying to their bodies "Well, if this is the kind of high-maintenance annoyance you're going to be, I'm not TAKING YOU to space."
     
     And just leading to a tiny ship of computer cores and memory loaded with a pod of virtualized dolphins swimming in a simulated sea heading out on adventures.
   • Goz 🕹📺 (goz@oldbytes.space)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jun-2022 01:16:54 UTC Goz 🕹📺

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     @feoh @Azure Has breathing liquids become more commonplace since The Abyss?

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   • Feoh (feoh@cybre.space)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jun-2022 01:16:55 UTC Feoh

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     @Azure I love this kind of thought experiment!

     You have me thinking about those rigs for when people want to dive REALLY deep where they actually ARE breathing gas infused liquid...