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Comments on Steam Infrastructure-Powered Music
What happens when city steam infrastructure is dedicated to the production of music? (Read
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| "I can't seem to find it right now, (I had thought it was part of the "The Menace From Earth" short-story collection) but I'm pretty sure it was one of Heinlein's stories that had a concept like this, but significantly more advanced. The "Environmentalists" (the engineers who ran the life-support and environmental equipment in the lunar colonies) would use that equipment to perform music/light/etc shows. In "environmental" craters (the domed-over park-craters, instead of the living/working craters) they would control the entire environment to produce music/etc. Thunder and lightning, rain and wind, light and shadow, all would be brought forth in such a way as to produce a show that would be very impressive to experience." (Ashley 1/30/2010 10:41:28 PM) |
| "Hmm... your description makes me think of the lunar disneylands in John Varley's 1976 story The Phantom Of Kansas." (Bill Christensen 1/31/2010 8:18:57 AM) |
| "Ah. Yeah, that does sound more like it. (I was sure it was Heinlein, but I guess I was wrong)" (Ashley 1/31/2010 10:10:08 AM) |
| "The concept is cool, but I was hoping to hear a real calliope tune. All I hear is the bass whistles." (Joey1058 1/31/2010 1:21:42 PM) |
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