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Dear Corinthia,
Yes, some people live above the toxin line, on top of mountains, but it’s
not like every sufficiently tall mountain is inhabited, because not every
one is habitable. The really tall ones are too high and too steep.
I mean, you might find a cavern to survive in with your family somewhere lower
down on a given mountain, but you couldn’t build a civilization there. I
should clarify too that the air on top of Mauna Kea isn’t great either, it’s
just not fogged enough to stop them from using the telescopes. They don’t
have domes, since that would interfere with the views from the telescopes,
so they built compartmentalized vestibules to keep the fumes from getting
inside the buildings, always keep the doors closed, and only go outside in
hazmat suits. All told, I think there are about forty mountain top safe
zones, which take varying degrees of precautions. Some of them still require
that people wear filtered masks, and on some of the higher ones, they wear
oxygen masks because it would be hard to breathe whether the
apocalypse had happened or not. Yes, we had a number of jobs that took us to
these mountaintops. In fact, earlier ones involved us transporting people to
ones at lower elevations, then later having to evacuate those same people,
because the toxins started rising. No one really knew how the gases would
settle, since the poisoning of our air was a gradual development, not a
sudden burst. There was a lot of chaos in those days. I’m sorry to say that
we lost people because there wasn’t enough room, nor enough time. Or we just
weren’t there, because we were busy somewhere else. I would say that we
settled into some stability about five years ago? It’s not perfect, and
obviously things are always changing—as we’ve talked about, we just picked
up some new friends from Australia—but it wasn’t an urgent need. We’re now
in a place where we’ve mostly accepted how things are, and are doing our
best with the cards that we’ve been dealt. Observatory access is one aspect
of that. Earlier this decade, there was no registering for viewing. No one
was concerned with granting people access to information. It was only about
survival. That’s all anyone had the bandwidth for. I wouldn’t say that
things are great nowadays, but they have certainly been worse. Anyway, I
don’t want to get too depressing here. Attached is the file for the outfit
that we could wear for our imaginary joint birthday party. Well, it’s a
collection with a few options. We can keep talking about it, but we don’t
have much time before the date rolls around. Let me know when you’ll have
access to your telescope so we know when to schedule our own festivities.
Trying to find Vacuus through the smog,
Condor
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