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Dear Corinthia,
Yeah, there was an idea fairly early on, after the gases settled over the
surface, to build massive aerostats. Their reasoning was that, if the
atmosphere was going to be toxic, we might as well take advantage of the
density that we didn’t have before. I’m pretty sure I heard that they have a
couple of them on Venus, because the atmosphere is already really dense, and
I believe they’re building more. So we know how to make them. The idea to
make them here was ultimately abandoned because too many people felt like it
was giving in. The air shouldn’t be toxic, and we shouldn’t be satisfied
with it staying that way. We’re supposed to be fixing it, and if we
start treating the bug as a feature, we’ll either not work hard on cleaning
it up, or we will, and people will have to leave the aerostats before too
long anyway. Neither plan seemed reasonable or rational. Now on to the party
discussion. The time you propose is totally fine with us. We both requested
the entire day off, and the way the department is designed, there should be
no problem. A lot of people would have to call in sick, or have some other
emergency, before we would be called back in. They take work-life balance
very seriously these days. I was telling you that we settled into a stable
society a few years back, and that was part of it. If all we’re worried
about is survival, then we’re not really living, and if that’s the case, is
there really any point in working so hard to continue? People don’t seem to
think so, and as terrible as it is that the atmosphere has been poisoned, at
least it happened in our time period, instead of a couple hundred years ago.
Most of the grunt work is automated, so it’s not like things will fall apart
if people stop working. A lot of scholars believe that we’re only not living
in a post-scarcity society right now because of the bad air. The
domes have forced us to do more work than we should really have to worry
about. So yeah, that was another big tangent just to say that we’ll start
our party at 20:00 on the day of our birthday. I wanted to ask, and should
have asked before, are you really going to have to be there alone? There’s
no one else you could invite? By the time we receive your response, the day
will have already passed, but you will receive my letter by then, so
I hope you think about whether there’s anyone else, now that your mom is
gone.
Really hoping you don’t have to be alone,
Condor
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