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"I think crypto will slowly percolate its way up and people will adopt it gradually as user friendly, cheap products, become available."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Atmospherics Switchboard | ||
| Make sure each hotel room has the right atmosphere from the right planet. |
When your hotel serves guests from different planets, you'll need more than just a thermostat.
| In the dream as in actuality the great dampness of Venus poured chokingly into his lungs.
Almost instantly the urgent buzzing of a televisor signal brought him struggling upright, coughing thick, humid air from congested bronchial tubes. Half drunken from the high oxygen content of the surface atmosphere, Frederic Ward slipped from his bed and reeled over to shut the port-like window. Damn these Venusians anyhow, he thought, meanwhile wheezing, coughing and spitting. Probably thought one of their clique was sleeping here instead of a decently-evolved native of Pittsburgh, Earth. That froglike brute down in Air Control probably had the atmospherics switchboard all awry. Well, I'll buzz him when I get this telecall answered. I'll tell him off proper. He has my temperature and humidity chart. Of all the nerve! |
| Technovelgy from Lie on the Beam,
by John Victor Peterson. Published by Comet in 1941 Additional resources -
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